Claude Code Adds Scheduled Tasks and Cron Loops

Anthropic added session-scoped scheduled tasks to Claude Code, letting developers set recurring prompts or one-shot reminders that fire in the background while they work. The /loop command takes a natural language interval — “/loop 5m check if the deployment finished” – and converts it to a cron job that runs between turns. Tasks auto-expire after three days, cap at 50 per session, and disappear when you close the terminal. The practical sweet spot is babysitting builds, polling deploys, and monitoring PRs without switching context. Cursor just shipped its own always-on Automations with persistent cloud execution, so the two products are converging on the same idea from opposite directions: Cursor going cloud-first and durable, Claude Code staying local and session-bound.