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Scheduled Tasks in Claude Code Desktop

Anthropic has added scheduled tasks to Claude Code Desktop for regularly executing tasks.

🔄 Anthropic has added scheduled tasks to Claude Code Desktop.

Now you can set a schedule for tasks that need to run regularly. Tasks are executed while the computer is not asleep.

It looks nice, but it's not entirely clear why this is needed. Claude Code CLI has long been able to run via cron with the -p flag, and it works on any server 24/7, not just while the laptop is open. Perhaps the target audience is users who do not work in the terminal and want automation through the GUI.