Async means I can delegate stuff to it and expect it's fixed when I come back. Also I can text it from my phone while I'm on the toilet. Very important.

OpenClaw meets this definition, but so does a 50 line Telegram wrapper around Claude Code / Codex ;)

https://github.com/a-n-d-a-i/ULTRON

Spoiler: it just pipes the msg into claude -p $msg or codex exec $msg

You can do anything if you believe