Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork

Scheduled tasks allow you to delegate work to Cowork by creating tasks that run automatically on a recurring basis, or on demand. Instead of starting each task from scratch, you describe it once and Claude handles it on your schedule—delivering finished outputs like reports, briefings, and summaries every time.

What scheduled tasks can do

Scheduled tasks have access to the same capabilities as regular Cowork tasks, including connected tools, skills, and installed plugins. Common uses include:

How scheduled tasks work

When you create a scheduled task, Claude saves your prompt as the task's instructions and runs them at the cadence you choose. Tasks can search Slack, query files, run web research, generate reports, and more—using any connectors and plugins you've set up in Cowork.

Each scheduled task runs as its own Cowork session. You can review the results when they're ready, just like any other task.

For Team and Enterprise organizations, admins control Cowork access through the admin toggle. For more details, see Cowork for Team and Enterprise plans.

Create a scheduled task

There are two ways to create a scheduled task:

From any task using the /schedule Skill

From the “Scheduled tasks” page

Manage your scheduled tasks

To view and manage all your scheduled tasks, click “Scheduled” in the left sidebar. From here you can: