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Automate Your Weekly Routine with Scheduled Tasks in Cowork
Automate your routine workflows by scheduling recurring tasks.
Use the 'Scheduled Tasks' feature in Claude Cowork to handle recurring data pulls, summaries, or reports automatically.
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The Scenario
You have a repetitive weekly task like summarizing market news or pulling specific metrics that you often forget to do.
Before & after
The old way
Manually sitting down at 9 AM every Monday to pull report data and summarize it takes 30–45 minutes of recurring labor.
With AI
In Claude Cowork, you can set the schedule once, and the AI will reliably run the process at that time in seconds.
The Prompt
I want to schedule a recurring task. Every [DAY/TIME], please [DESCRIBE_TASK, E.G., SUMMARIZE_MY_EMAILS_FROM_THE_DAY] and provide a report.
Scheduled tasks allow you to move from 'chatting with AI' to 'programming a routine' that happens in the background.
Source
Release notes | Claude Help Center"We introduced the ability to create and schedule both recurring and on-demand tasks in Cowork."