AUTOMATION

Goal, loop, routine. Three verbs, two tools, one hard part. A complete field guide to running agentic loops in Claude Code and Codex, the real commands, the patterns people actually run, and the two failure modes that burn money.

Claude Code Routines and Managed Agents scheduled deployments both run Claude on a schedule - here is how the triggers, pricing, and limits differ, and which one fits your recurring agent work.

Workflow automation platform with native AI agent building. Visual editor plus JavaScript/Python code nodes, 500+ integrations, self-hostable under a fair-code license.

codex exec is OpenAI's non-interactive mode for running Codex agents from scripts, CI pipelines, and GitHub Actions - here is how to set it up safely with real flags and working YAML.

Codex automations are useful when recurring engineering work has clear inputs, reviewable outputs, and safe boundaries. Here is the practical playbook.

OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding assistant into a broader agent workspace for files, apps, browser QA, images, automations, and repeatable knowledge work.

Boris Cherny's loop-heavy Claude Code workflow points at the next Codex content lane: recurring agents that babysit PRs, CI, deploys, and feedback streams.

Modern browser automation from Microsoft. Auto-wait, role-based selectors, cross-browser, fast in CI.

Self-healing browser automation harness that lets LLMs complete any browser task. 5,000+ stars in under a week.

Event-driven automation with 20+ lifecycle events.

Install Ollama and LM Studio, pull your first model, and run AI locally for coding, chat, and automation - with zero cloud dependency.

Hooks give you deterministic control over Claude Code. Auto-format on save, block dangerous commands, run tests before commits, fire desktop notifications. Here's how to set them up.

Claude Code now has a native Loop feature for scheduling recurring prompts - from one-minute intervals to three-day windows. Fix builds on repeat, summarize Slack channels, email yourself pull request digests. All from the CLI.

Anthropic dropped a batch of updates across Claude Code and Cowork - remote control from your phone, scheduled tasks, plugin repos, auto memory, and stats showing 4% of GitHub public commits now come from Claude Code.

Claude Opus 4.5 ran autonomously for 4 hours 49 minutes using stop hooks and the Ralph Loop pattern. Walk away, come back to completed work. Here's how it works.