Anthropic has launched a /loop command for Claude Code, enabling cron-style scheduling that turns the AI coding assistant into an autonomous background worker.

We have a process we run using cron every 3 minutes. This process basically processes a queue. Sometimes lots of items appear in the queue and we want to stop the process, empty the queue and restart ...

Cron jobs are usually considered to be boring automation for backups, log rotation, and cleanup. I firmly believe that undersells what they are capable of, as with a little creativity, cron can easily ...