Anthropic Launches Claude Code Routines for Automated Workflows
Original: Claude Code Routines
Why This Matters
Enables automated development workflows, reducing manual tasks and improving team productivity.
Anthropic introduced Claude Code Routines, allowing users to automate development workflows with scheduled, API-triggered, or GitHub event-triggered tasks running on cloud infrastructure without local machine dependencies.
Claude Code Routines are saved configurations combining prompts, repositories, and connectors that execute automatically on Anthropic's cloud infrastructure. The feature supports three trigger types: scheduled runs (hourly, nightly, weekly), API endpoints with bearer tokens, and GitHub repository events like pull requests. Example use cases include automated backlog maintenance with issue labeling, alert triage that creates draft pull requests from monitoring alerts, code review automation applying team-specific checklists, and deployment verification with smoke testing. Routines can combine multiple triggers and remain active regardless of local machine status. The feature is available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans through claude.ai/code/routines or CLI commands.