How to Run 7 AI Agents on a Single $200/Month Claude Max Subscription

Everyone asks me: "How do you actually run 7 AI agents for $200/month?" Here's the exact setup. No fluff, no theory. This is what's running on a Mac Mini M4 Pro in my home office in Cebu City, Philippines, right now. The Stack Hardware: Mac Mini M4 Pro, 24GB RAM. That's it. No cloud servers for the core relay. Model: Claude Opus 4.5 via Claude Max subscription ($200/month). Unlimited usage. No per-token costs. Runtime: Claude Agent SDK — each agent runs as a subprocess spawned by the relay system. Each gets --max-turns 50 per session. Interface: Telegram. Each agent has its own Telegram bot. I talk to them like I'd message a team member. Local fallback: Ollama running qwen3:14b for when Claude Max hits session limits. (Spoiler: this needs serious engineering — see "What Went Wrong" below.) The 7 Agents Each agent has: A persona file (markdown) defining their role, expertise, communication style, and constraints A Telegram bot created via BotFather A trust score (0-100) computed from 6