Claude Clue #29: Let Claude Work the Night Shift

Claude Code can run without you. Routines are saved Claude Code setups (a prompt, the repositories it needs, and any connectors) that run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, which means they keep working even when your laptop is closed. You create one with the new /schedule command and point it at a recurring cadence like hourly, daily, weekdays, or weekly, or a one-off like "tomorrow at 9 am." The minimum interval is one hour. The whole idea is that the work runs off your machine on a timer while you're busy with something else.

During the day, I'll line up a job I don't want to sit and watch, say, a nightly pass over a repo's open pull requests, and run /schedule daily PR review at 9am. Claude asks the same handful of questions the web form does, saves them to my account, and then fires on its own. I can run /schedule run to test it right away or /schedule update to change it later, and every run shows up as a full session I can open and read with my coffee. For more details, see the documentation.

Two things worth knowing. Routines run autonomously with no approval prompts, so scope the repos and connectors to exactly what the task needs and nothing more. And they treat your usage like any normal session; this is automation, not extra capacity. If you liked Clue #19 on AutoMode, this is the same don't-babysit-it idea, moved off your laptop completely. It's in research preview, so expect a rough edge or two.

Claude helped write this one. The scheduling jokes wrote themselves.

HT: Roscoe Rawson