Claude Code launches Routines, allowing programming agents to automatically run on the cloud according to schedules or events

ME News Report, April 15 (UTC+8), according to 1M AI News monitoring, Anthropic has launched the Routines feature (research preview) for Claude Code. Users can configure once (prompt, code repository, connector) to enable Claude Code to automatically run on cloud infrastructure without keeping their computer on. Routines support three trigger methods: 1. Scheduled trigger: run hourly, nightly, or weekly; the /schedule command in CLI has now been automatically converted to a scheduled Routine. 2. API trigger: each Routine generates a separate endpoint and authentication token, which can be started via HTTP POST; it can connect to deployment pipelines, monitoring alerts, or internal tools. 3. GitHub event trigger: subscribe to repository events (PR creation, merging, release publishing, issue creation, etc.); Claude creates a separate session to execute tasks for each matching PR and continuously receives subsequent updates for that PR (such as comments and CI failures). Anthropic listed typical use cases for internal and early users: automatically sorting bugs in Linear every night and opening fix PRs; running smoke tests after deployment and reporting to the release channel; automatically porting changes to the Go SDK after each PR merge using the Python SDK and opening a PR; automatically running team-defined security and performance checklists when creating PRs. Claude Code product manager Noah Zweben said this feature is already used internally at Anthropic for document maintenance and backlog task cleanup. Available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, requiring enabling Claude Code on the web. Daily run limits are 5 for Pro, 15 for Max, and 25 for Team and Enterprise; exceeding usage is billed additionally. (Source: BlockBeats)