Claude Code Scheduled Tasks
Schedule recurring tasks locally and in the cloud easily
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Schedule recurring tasks locally and in the cloud easily
712 followers
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.
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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@rohanrecommends Love the local/cloud flexibility. And congrats. Just a quick q: how do you handle prompt drift or context loss in long-running remote schedules, like for ongoing log monitoring or PR automation?
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?
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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?
Okan
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.
How is this different than the Github action and a scheduled workflow a part from the obviously much easier to setup?
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 🔥