Set AI Agents on Autopilot with Native Cron Scheduling
Use built-in cron schedules to automate Claude Agents without external servers.
Automate recurring AI tasks by scheduling Claude Managed Agents to run on a cron schedule natively within the Anthropic platform.
The Scenario
You need to automate a recurring business process, like a weekly summary of CRM leads or a daily code review of a specific repository, but you don't want to build and manage a separate backend server just to trigger the AI.
Before & after
Developers previously had to set up external servers, AWS Lambda functions, or GitHub Actions to trigger agent runs via API calls. This manual orchestration often took 45–60 minutes to configure and maintain.
You can now configure Claude Managed Agents to run on a 'cron' schedule directly within the platform. Setting up a recurring agent task takes roughly 2 minutes of configuration.
The Prompt
I want to set up a Claude Managed Agent to run on a schedule. Here is my current agent task: [DESCRIBE_TASK]. Please generate the cron expression for running this [INTERVAL, e.g., every Monday at 9 AM] and provide the JSON configuration to enable this scheduled deployment.
Claude Managed Agents now supports scheduled deployments via cron jobs. This is ideal for tasks that need to run at regular intervals—such as generating weekly reports, performing daily data sanitization, or conducting nightly security audits—without requiring you to manage any external triggering infrastructure.
Source
Claude Platform - Claude API Docs"New feature for running sessions on a cron schedule without manual management."