AI Glossary / Workflows
Scheduled tasks.
Also known as: routines, scheduled task, /schedule
Scheduled tasks are recurring agent runs that fire on a timer instead of you kicking them off. Hourly, daily, weekly, whatever you set. Morning briefings, reports, inbox cleanup, that kind of thing. You set it once and it runs itself from then on.
Most of my workflows are Claude Skills that I either run manually or set up as scheduled tasks. They're available in Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Codex.
The catch worth knowing: they only run while your computer is on. If you want something firing at 7am whether your laptop's open or not, you put it on a VPS, which is a cheap always-on machine in the cloud that keeps the agent running around the clock.