Build a proactive agent workflow with Claude Code

Claude Code’s new "Routines" feature transforms coding agents from reactive tools into proactive teammates by automating workflows without requiring manual infrastructure management. By handling hosting, session state, and authentication, Routines allow developers to trigger agents based on time-based schedules or specific events like GitHub activity. This automation streamlines repetitive tasks, such as updating documentation or verifying deployments, while maintaining human oversight through interactive, steerable sessions. Users can monitor, guide, or resume these sessions via the web, CLI, or desktop, ensuring quality control through mechanisms like agent-on-agent review. By offloading the burden of maintaining cron jobs and custom infrastructure, this feature enables engineers to focus on domain-specific logic and process expertise, effectively bridging the gap between manual coding assistance and autonomous, event-driven development workflows.