Claude Code Routines

minimaxir

Given the alleged recent extreme reduction in Claude Code usage limits ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260 ), how do these more autonomous tools work within that constraint? Are they effectively only usable with a 20x Max plan? EDIT: This comment is apparently [dead] and idk why.

matthieu_bl

Blog post https://claude.com/blog/introducing-routines-in-claude-code

bpodgursky

OpenClawd had about a two week moat... Feature delivery rate by Anthropic is basically a fast takeoff in miniature. Pushing out multiple features each week that used to take enterprises quarters to deliver.

summarity

If you’re trying this for automating things on GitHub, also take a look at Agentic Workflows: https://github.github.com/gh-aw/ They support much of the same triggers and come with many additional security controls out of the box

ctoth

You'd think that if they were compute-limited ... Trying to get people to use it less ... The rational thing to do would be to not ship features that will use more compute automatedly? Or does this use extra usage?

vessenes

This is one of the best features of OpenClaw - makes sense to swipe it into Claude Code directly. I wonder if Anthropic wants to just make claude a full stand-in replacement for openclaw, or just chip away at what they think the best features are, now that oAI has acquired.

ale

So MCP servers all over again? I mean at the end of the day this is yet another way of injecting data into a prompt that’s fed to a model and returned back to you.

airstrike

Still no moat. The reason someone would use this vs. third-party alternatives is still the fact that the $200/mo subscription is markedly cheaper than per-token API billing. Not sure how this works out in the long term when switching costs are virtually zero.

netdur

didn’t we have several antitrust cases where a vendor used its monopoly to disadvantage rivals? did not anthropic block openclaw?

nico

Nice, could this enable n8n-style workflows that run fully automatically then?

andai

I'm a little confused on the ToS here. From what I gathered, running `claude -p <prompt>` on cron is fine, but putting it in my Telegram bot is a ToS violation (unless I use per-token billing) because it's a 3rd party harness, right? (`claude -p` being a trivial workaround for the "no 3rd party stuff on the subscription" rule) This Routines feature notably works with the subscription, and it also has API callbacks. So if my Telegram bot calls that API... do I get my Anthropic account nuked or not?

mellosouls

Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events... We ought to come up with a term for this new discipline, eg "software engineering" or "programming"

watermelon0

Seems like it only supports x86_64. It would be nice if they offered a way to bring your own compute, to be able to work on projects targeting arm64.

crooked-v

The obvious functionality that seems to be missing here is any way to organize and control these at an organization rather than individual level.

varispeed

Why would you use it if you don't know whether the model will be nerfed at that run?

desireco42

I think they are using Claude to come up with these and they will bringing one every second day... In fact, this is probably routine they set.

consumer451

meta: Sorry, but I just have to ask. Why is u/minimaxir's comment dead? Is this somehow an error, an attack, or what? This is a respected user, with a sane question, no? I vouched, but not enough. edit: His comment has arisen now. Leaving this up for reference.

theodorewiles

How does this deal with stop hooks? Can it run https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

Eldodi

Anthropic is really good at releasing features that are almost the same but not exactly the same as other features they released the week before

eranation

I've been using it for a while (it was just called "Scheduled", so I assume this is an attempt to rebrand it?) It was a bit buggy, but it seems to work better now. Some use cases that worked for me: 1. Go over a slack channel used for feedback for an internal tool, triage, open issues, fix obvious ones, reply with the PR link. Some devs liked it, some freaked out. I kept it. 2. Surprisingly non code related - give me a daily rundown (GitHub activity, slack messages, emails) - tried it with non Claude Code scheduled tasks (CoWork) not as good, as it seems the GitHub connector only works in Claude Code. Really good correlation between threads that start on slack, related to email (outlook), or even my personal gmail. I can share the markdowns if anyone is interested, but it's pretty basic. Very useful, (when it works).