Claude introduces Routines in Claude Code in the research preview; Available for Claude Code users on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans

By Estuti Bajpai Published on April 15, 2026, 10:14 IST

Yesterday, Claude officially introduced routines in Claude Code in the research preview. Routines run on Claude’s web infrastructure, so you don’t have to keep your laptop open.

Now in research preview: routines in Claude Code.

Configure a routine once (a prompt, a repo, and your connectors), and it can run on a schedule, from an API call, or in response to an event.

Routines run on our web infrastructure, so you don't have to keep your laptop open. pic.twitter.com/m2XJWYqkf8

— Claude (@claudeai) April 14, 2026

Routines in Claude Code

A routine is a Claude Code automation you configure once, including a prompt, repo, and connectors, and then run on a schedule, from an API call, or in response to an event. Routines ship with access to your repos and your connectors, so you can package up automations and set them to run on a schedule or trigger.

How does it work?

Scheduled routines

Give Claude Code a prompt and a cadence (hourly, nightly, or weekly), and it runs on that schedule. If you’re using /schedule in the CLI, those tasks are now scheduled routines.

API routines

You can also configure routines to be triggered by API calls. Every routine gets its own endpoint and an auth token. POST a message, get back a session URL. Wire Claude Code into your alerting, your deploy hooks, your internal tools- anywhere you can make an HTTP request.

Webhook routines, starting with GitHub

Subscribe to a routine to automatically kick off in response to GitHub repository events. Claude will create a new session for every PR matching your filters and run your routine. Claude opens one session per PR and will continue to feed updates from that PR to the session, so it can address follow-ups like comments and CI failures.

What teams are building with these routines?

Early users have created scheduled routines for backlog management (triage new issues nightly, label, assign, and post a summary to Slack) and Docs drift (scan merged PRs weekly, flag docs that reference changed APIs, and open update PRs).

With API routines, early users have created routines for deploy verification, alert triage and feedback resolution. With GitHub routines, users have created routines for library port and bespoke code review.

Availability

Routines are available for Claude Code users on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans with Claude Code on the web enabled. Head to claude.ai/code to create your first routine or type /schedule in the CLI.

Routines draw down subscription usage limits in the same way as interactive sessions. Routines have daily limits:

Pro users can run up to 5 routines per day
Max users can run up to 15 routines per day
Team and Enterprise users can run up to 25 routines per day

You can run extra routines beyond these limits with extra usage.

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