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

ME News, April 15 (UTC+8): According to monitoring by 1M AI News, Anthropic has introduced a Routines feature (research preview) for Claude Code. Users can configure it once (prompt, code repository, and connector), allowing Claude Code to automatically run on cloud infrastructure without having to keep their computer turned on.

Routines supports three trigger methods:

1. Scheduled trigger: Run hourly, nightly, or weekly. In the CLI, the /schedule command has now been automatically converted into a scheduled Routine.
2. API trigger: Each Routine generates an independent endpoint and an authentication token. It can be started via HTTP POST, and can be integrated into deployment pipelines, monitoring alerts, or internal tools.
3. GitHub event trigger: Subscribe to repository events (such as PR creation, merging, release publishing, issue creation, etc.). For each matching PR, Claude creates a separate session to execute tasks and continuously receives subsequent updates for that PR (such as comments and CI failures).

Anthropic listed typical use cases among its internal team and early users: Automatically sorting bugs in Linear every night and opening fix PRs; automatically running smoke tests after deployment and reporting them to the release channel; with the Python SDK, after each PR is merged, automatically porting changes to the Go SDK and opening PRs; and automatically running the team’s customized security and performance checklist when creating PRs. Claude Code’s product manager Noah Zweben said the feature is already being used internally at Anthropic for document maintenance and backlog task cleanup.

Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users can all use it, but it requires enabling Claude Code on the web. Daily run limits are 5 for Pro, 15 for Max, and 25 for Team and Enterprise; any usage beyond that is billed as additional usage.

(Source: BlockBeats)