Scheduled-Tasks

Anthropic shipped a feature for Claude Code this week that most coverage is treating like a quality-of-life upgrade. It isn’t. It’s a category shift dressed up as a feature release. The feature is called /loop. Here’s what it does: you schedule a recurring task using standard cron expressions, Claude Code works through it autonomously for up to three days, checks its own progress, and keeps going. No prompting. No babysitting. You come back to results. ...

Anthropic just made Claude Cowork significantly more useful for anyone who wants their AI to keep working after they close the laptop. The desktop app now supports scheduled recurring tasks — meaning you can set Claude to run daily research, organize folders, compile summaries, or handle any repeatable workflow automatically, whether you’re at your desk or not. This is a meaningful shift. Cowork launched as a capable task runner, but it required you to be present to kick things off. With scheduled tasks, it starts to look a lot more like the always-on agent model that tools like OpenClaw have been built around from the start. ...