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The full setup, one step at a time, with the exact line to paste The safety settings to check before you leave it alone My favorite ways to use it, each with a full copy-paste prompt
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Close The Lid. Your AI Keeps Working.
Free guide from the video: set up Insomnia, the free open-source Mac app that keeps your AI working with the lid shut, plus my favorite ways to use it.
- The full setup, one step at a time, with the exact line to paste
- The battery, heat and safety settings to check first
- How to run your first session with the lid closed
- My favorite ways to use it, each with a full copy-paste prompt
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How to set up Insomnia on an Apple Silicon Mac with one line pasted into Claude Code, the battery and heat settings to check, how to run a timed session with the lid closed, the optional iPhone hotspot backup, and four full copy-paste prompts for overnight jobs: a refactor, fixing failing tests, a research run and a batch content job.
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- Install it with one lineOpen Claude Code (or Codex) in any folder.
- Check the safety settingsDo this once, before your first real session.
- Run your first sessionStart a short test.
- Optional: iPhone hotspot backupIf your Wi-Fi drops during a session, Insomnia can jump onto your iPhone's hotspot so your agent stays online.
- My favorite ways to use itInsomnia only keeps your Mac awake.
- The overnight refactorBig cleanups that take hours of small edits: renaming things across a codebase, splitting giant files, moving to a new library.
- Fix every failing testRun the whole test suite and grind through the failures one by one, the boring work nobody wants to do by hand.
- The overnight research runDeep research that needs lots of reading: competitors, tools, a market, a question you keep putting off.
- The batch content jobTurn a pile of raw material into finished drafts: transcripts into posts, notes into emails, one long piece into many short ones.
- If you want to remove itPaste this into Claude Code.
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