Scheduling Tasks on the Web (5 minutes)

Claude Code supports Scheduled tasks, which run recurring prompts using infrastructure managed by Anthropic. This feature lets you automate repetitive development work—such as PR reviews, CI failure analysis, and documentation syncing—even while your computer is turned off.

Users can choose from three methods depending on their working environment:

• Cloud: Runs on Anthropic's cloud, operating reliably regardless of your computer's power state. However, it clones a fresh copy of the repository instead of using local files.
• Desktop: Runs on your own device, useful when you need direct access to local files and tools.
• /loop: Used for quick polling tasks within the current session.

Tasks can be created via the web, the desktop app, or the /schedule command in the CLI. Timing is based on your local timezone, and in addition to hourly/daily/weekday/weekly presets, fine-grained intervals can be set using cron expressions.

Security and integration features have also been strengthened. GitHub integration allows you to clone repositories, and by default, pushes are restricted to branches prefixed with claude/ to prevent accidental modification of important branches. Additionally, MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors can be used to exchange data with external services like Slack or Linear while performing tasks.