Cowork Scheduled Task Pattern
The only way to get Claude to complete work autonomously without you being present.
Use /schedule in any Cowork task to create automated recurring workflows — competitor briefings, weekly reports, file organisation. Runs on hourly, daily, weekly, or weekday cadences.
- Schedule a weekly competitor monitoring report every Monday morning
- Automate daily file organization in your downloads folder
- Set up a recurring summary of your team's project progress
The only way to get Claude to complete work autonomously without you being present. Transforms one-off prompts into standing operating procedures that run while you focus elsewhere.
Anyone with recurring research, reporting, or file-organisation tasks that follow a predictable schedule.
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-rec...
By Anthropic
How to Get It
In Claude Cowork: Open the Customize panel in the sidebar → Folder Instructions, and paste the instructions below. Claude will follow them automatically in that folder.
In Claude Code: Add these instructions to your project's CLAUDE.md file, or paste them into your conversation and ask Claude to save them.
## Scheduled Tasks In Claude Cowork, you can schedule recurring tasks: 1. Open a Cowork conversation 2. Describe the task and schedule: "Every Monday at 7am, research [topic] and write a summary" 3. Claude will create a scheduled task that runs automatically Important limitations: - Tasks only run while your computer is awake and the Claude Desktop app is open - Tasks run in Cowork mode with access to your designated folder - You'll see results in your Cowork conversation history Example prompts: - "Every weekday at 8am, check my inbox folder for new files and summarize them" - "Every Friday at 3pm, compile this week's notes into a weekly summary"
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After installing, paste this into Claude:
Help me schedule a weekly competitor monitoring report every Monday morning
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Official Anthropic feature. Reliability docked to 3 — tasks only run while computer is awake and app open (significant limitation for unattended automation). High value for weekly briefings, reports, file organisation on a predictable schedule.
2026-03-29: Key limitation: tasks only run while computer is awake and app is open. Example prompt: 'Every Monday at 7am, research [competitor names] for news and product updates. Save summary to /weekly-briefings/YYYY-MM-DD-brief.md.' Access: type /schedule in any task, OR click Scheduled in left sidebar > + New task. Full docs: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-cowork Masterclass: https://x.com/coreyganim/status/2028470330247803361
Things to check
- Scheduling granularity limited to hourly/daily/weekly/weekday; no minute-level precision or complex conditional logic. Task execution depends on Cowork availability and may have latency during high load.
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Evaluation
Official Anthropic feature. Reliability docked to 3 — tasks only run while computer is awake and app open (significant limitation for unattended automation). High value for weekly briefings, reports, file organisation on a predictable schedule.