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2121* A task with only an API trigger runs when you call its endpoint.
2222* A task with only a GitHub trigger runs when a matching repository event occurs.
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24Scheduled tasks are available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Create and manage them at [claude.ai/code/routines](https://claude.ai/code/routines), or from the CLI with `/schedule`. The earlier name, routines, [still appears](#where-the-name-routines-still-appears) in the web address, the CLI, and the API.
24Scheduled tasks are available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Create and manage them at [claude.ai/code/routines](https://claude.ai/code/routines), or from the CLI with `/schedule`. The earlier name, routines, [still appears](#where-the-name-routines-still-appears).
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6363**1. Open the creation dialog**
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65Go to [claude.ai/code/routines](https://claude.ai/code/routines) and click **New task**. If a menu opens first, select **Set up manually**. The **New scheduled task** dialog opens. The menu's other option, **Create with Claude**, lets you describe the task in a chat and have Claude create it instead.
65Go to [claude.ai/code/routines](https://claude.ai/code/routines) and click **New task** to open the **New scheduled task** dialog. Check for these screens before you continue:
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67* If the button reads **New routine** instead of **New task**, click **New routine** and continue with [Full-page form](#full-page-form).
68* In the Desktop app, if a menu with **Local** and **Cloud** opens, go to [Full-page form](#full-page-form).
69* If a menu opens with **Create with Claude** and **Set up manually**, select **Set up manually** to open the dialog. **Create with Claude** lets you describe the task in a chat and have Claude create it instead.
70* If a full page opens in place of the dialog, go to [Full-page form](#full-page-form).
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6772If **Repositories** and **Environment** are already showing when the dialog opens, see [how that dialog differs](#dialog-with-repositories-and-environment-in-the-main-view). Otherwise, this dialog also creates scheduled tasks for claude.ai chat. To make yours what the dialog calls a Claude Code task, select a repository or add a GitHub event or API trigger in the steps that follow. That kind of task runs Claude Code in a cloud session.
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6974**2. Name the task and write the prompt**
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123128Select the repository before you add a GitHub event trigger, because that trigger is unavailable until a repository is selected.
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130#### Full-page form
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132In the Desktop app, if a menu with **Local** and **Cloud** opens, select **Cloud**. A page titled **New routine** or **New scheduled task** opens. Fill in its fields:
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134* **Name**: enter one.
135* **Instructions**: enter the prompt. In the same box, select the model, the repositories, and the environment. For what each one controls, see the steps under [Create from the web](#create-from-the-web).
136* **Select a trigger**: select **Schedule**, **GitHub event**, or **API**. For a schedule, see [Add a schedule trigger](#add-a-schedule-trigger). For a [GitHub event](#add-a-github-trigger), select a repository. For an [API trigger](#add-an-api-trigger), copy the token from the **API token** dialog that opens after you click **Create**, because it is shown once. To combine several triggers, click **Add another trigger**.
137* **Connectors**: all of your connected connectors are included by default, so remove the ones the task doesn't need.
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139If **Create** is unavailable, hover over it to see what the form still needs. Click **Create**, and the task's detail page opens.
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125141### Create from the CLI
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127143Run `/schedule` in any session to create a scheduled task conversationally. You can also pass a description directly, for a recurring task like `/schedule daily PR review at 9am` or a one-off like `/schedule clean up feature flag in one week`. Claude walks through the same information the web dialog collects, then saves the task to your account. The command is also available under the alias `/routines`.
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148164* **Runs on the hour**: if you schedule a run exactly on the hour, such as 9:00, it can start several minutes late. To start close to the scheduled time, pick a few minutes past the hour, for example 9:07.
149165* **Custom intervals**: for a cadence the presets lack, create the task and select **Custom** in its [edit dialog](#edit-and-control-scheduled-tasks). Then enter a cron expression, such as `0 */2 * * *` for every two hours. To set one from the CLI, run [`/schedule update`](#manage-scheduled-tasks-from-the-cli). Expressions that run more often than once per hour are rejected.
150166* **Time zone**: when you pick a preset frequency, enter the time in your local time zone.
167* **Cron expression time zone**: when the expression is five fields alone, write the hours in UTC, so `0 9 * * 1-5` runs at 9:00 AM UTC on weekdays. If the field opens with a `CRON_TZ=` prefix, keep it and write the hours in its zone, or delete it and write them in UTC.
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152169#### Schedule a one-off run
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452469Scheduled tasks were previously called routines, and these places keep the earlier name. Each one refers to the same feature:
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471* **App**: in some accounts the sidebar entry and page title read **Routines**, the button reads **New routine**, and other labels say routine. To create a task there, see [Full-page form](#full-page-form).
454472* **Web address**: `claude.ai/code/routines`
455473* **CLI**: the `/routines` alias for `/schedule`, the command's description, and Claude's replies while it sets up a task
456474* **API**: the `/fire` endpoint path, its beta header, its response `type`, the `<routine-fire-payload>` tag, and the [Trigger a routine through the API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/claude-code/routines-fire) reference page
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