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Unclear What decides when the "only thing Claude does" wording is used is not settled.
What
When Claude schedules its next wakeup with the ScheduleWakeup tool (used by /loop to run work on a repeating timer), the text Claude gets back from the tool changed. It used to say there was nothing more to do this turn. It now tells Claude that if it owes you a status update this round, it should give it and then end its turn.
When scheduling the wakeup is the only thing Claude does in that step, it is told the turn ends as soon as the tool returns, so any update must come before the call.
In brief mode, updates must go through the message tool, because plain reply text counts as unread there.
The messages for a stopped loop and for a loop reaching its maximum duration now also tell Claude to end the turn.
The tool's own description is unchanged in this release; only the text it returns after a call is different.
Why
If you use /loop, Claude should post its per-round updates more reliably, where before they could go missing.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /loop, on Hooks reference.* A [scheduled task](/docs/en/scheduled-tasks) firing, including a `/loop` iterationhookssee the edit
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Run prompts on a schedule touched a line naming /loop after this was published.* When you resume a session with `claude --resume` or `claude --continue`, Claude Code restores the tasks scheduled with `CronCreate`, except recurring tasks that have [expired](#seven-day-expiry) and one-shot tasks whose scheduled time ha…scheduled-taskssee the edit
How sure we are
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The writer flagged doubtWhat decides when the "only thing Claude does" wording is used is not settled.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Run prompts on a schedule touched a line naming /loop after this was published.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed /loop status updates in self-paced mode often not being shown because Claude wrote them only in its reasoning; Claude now writes each…
