CRON

An agent CLI plus a cron schedule turns recurring dev chores into background work: dependency bumps, doc freshness checks, morning briefs. The pattern, the guardrails, and where to run it - your own hardware or a cloud host.

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 Hacker News digests. All from the CLI.