Automate Resilient Background Tasks with Durable Loops
Keep automated tasks running across sessions without manual restarts.
Utilize the durable /loop command to schedule long-running background tasks that survive system restarts and automatically perform catch-up cycles.
The Scenario
You need to monitor server logs or run a periodic cleanup script, but you don't want to lose your automation if your IDE or terminal crashes.
Before & after
You would need to keep a terminal window open indefinitely or manually re-run your monitoring scripts every morning, costing 5-10 minutes of manual overhead daily.
Use the /loop command to schedule your recurring scripts or monitoring tasks; the system now saves these to file, so they resume automatically even if your computer or terminal restarts. This setup takes 1 minute.
The Prompt
/loop "Every 2 hours, check the [LOG_FILE_PATH] for 'ERROR' strings and summarize the last 5 occurrences."
The 'Durable /loop' update ensures that periodic tasks perform a catch-up cycle if they were missed during a system downtime.
Source
Qwen Code Blog: AI Coding Updates and Guides | Qwen Code Docs"Durable /loop persists scheduled tasks to files, automatically recovering on next launch, with missed periodic tasks running one catch-up cycle."