Routines in Claude

I am thoroughly enjoying using Routines in Claude Code. Routines at their most basic level are simply scheduled tasks that you've asked Claude to run on your behalf. In fact if you use Claude Cowork they actually call them Scheduled tasks. I'm using the Claude Desktop application instead of other tools such a Open Code or Cursor for this testing but each of these have similar steps. If you are using the Desktop version of Claude, you can build out a skill or repeatable outcome and then ask Claude to schedule it.

Use-Cases

I've used it in 2 main ways as I've been playing around with it.

First, I have some work that I like to do right away in the morning. One example is to run a check of recent vulnerabilities (CVEs) that have been published, cross-referenced with a list of applications and tools we and our clients use. It then sends a message to me via Teams about anything it finds. Pretty basic, but it saves me a lot of time in reading up on the latest vulnerabilities.

Second, I've used it to schedule tasks after I've hit my token limit. Since tokens reset about every 5 hours, I can ask it to run a specific task on that cadence and go until it runs out of tokens. After 5 hours, it will pick up where it loft off and keep going. This is great to minimize costs and still get a lot of bandwidth out of AI.

There are a whole slew of other ways to use Routines and its mostly limited to your imagination.

Key Takeaway:

Find the things that you do repeatedly and see if you can schedule Claude to do it for you.

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