Run recurring coding tasks with Claude Code across both your local desktop and / or cloud. Set repos, schedules, and prompts once, and let tasks execute automatically wherever they’re set to run (locally or on cloud). Ideal for continuous workflows, automation, and agent-like development.
I’m excited to hunt this because Claude Code is moving from a tool you open to an agent that actually works for you on a schedule.
What it is: Scheduled Tasks in Claude Code now across both local desktop and remote execution.
Problem → Solution: Repetitive coding and ops tasks require manual effort or complex setups (cron, scripts). Now you just write a prompt, set a schedule, and Claude handles it automatically.
What’s different: It works both on your local machine (while it’s awake) and remotely on cloud so tasks can run continuously without you needing to keep things open.
Key features:
Set repos, prompts, and schedules
Recurring task automation
Runs locally or cloud-based
Access to your code, workflows, and tools
Use cases:
Automated reports & updates
Log monitoring + PR creation
Research and data collection
File cleanup & workflow automation
Who it’s for: Devs, founders, and teams who want agent-like automation without infra overhead.
Bridging the gap between local cron jobs and cloud environments usually requires maintaining entirely different setup scripts. I would definitely use this to manage my automated database backups so I can test the intervals locally before pushing them directly to production. The unified syntax alone will save developers a lot of unnecessary debugging time.
@rohanrecommends@brooke_dewitt1@scott_white_sf Im keen to understand this. Is this essentially an AI agent that will independently go and complete tasks? Im currently on Max plan and have Co-Work enabled. How is scheduled tasks different?
been wanting this for a while - I've got a few repos where I manually kick off the same Claude Code prompts like 3x a week. setting schedules once and forgetting it is exactly how it should work. curious how the cloud piece handles auth - does it need separate Claude API keys per environment or does it pick up from local config somehow?
I asked Claude himself to give me a summary of the feature :
Recurring Tasks (Cron) in Claude Code:
Schedule prompts on a recurring interval or as one-shot reminders
Works in both CLI and VS Code
Limits: session-only (nothing persisted to disk), auto-expires after 7 days, only fires when Claude is idle
Use cases: CI polling, one-off reminders, temporary monitoring
Verdict: session convenience tool, not a real scheduler
Setting up cron jobs for AI tasks was genuinely painful before this. Write a prompt once, set the schedule, and let it run — locally or in the cloud. This is what "agentic" actually looks like in practice 🔥
this is useful, especially for recurring workflows. i’ve seen though that once tasks start stacking up, visibility and prioritization become the bigger issue. are you doing anything around that
I’m excited to hunt this because Claude Code is moving from a tool you open to an agent that actually works for you on a schedule.
What it is: Scheduled Tasks in Claude Code now across both local desktop and remote execution.
Problem → Solution: Repetitive coding and ops tasks require manual effort or complex setups (cron, scripts). Now you just write a prompt, set a schedule, and Claude handles it automatically.
What’s different: It works both on your local machine (while it’s awake) and remotely on cloud so tasks can run continuously without you needing to keep things open.
Key features:
Set repos, prompts, and schedules
Recurring task automation
Runs locally or cloud-based
Access to your code, workflows, and tools
Use cases:
Automated reports & updates
Log monitoring + PR creation
Research and data collection
File cleanup & workflow automation
Who it’s for: Devs, founders, and teams who want agent-like automation without infra overhead.
To get started:
https://claude.ai/code/scheduled
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop#schedule-recurring-tasks
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