Repetitive Tasks Eating Your Time? Get a Daily Auto-Briefing with Cowork Scheduled Tasks

Do you start every morning at work with the same tidying up? "Check today's to-dos, skim new mail, look at yesterday's sales..." Once or twice is fine, but repeated daily it eats time, and if you forget, it gets skipped entirely. With Cowork's "scheduled tasks," you can run such repetition automatically. Set it once and it runs on its own at set times, daily or weekly.

Definition

Cowork's "scheduled task" is a feature that makes work run automatically at a set time. (Cowork is a workspace that connects your folders or external services to the AI to have it do work. It is still a trial-stage research preview feature.)

There are two key points.

• Auto-repeat: Set a time like "every morning at 8" or "every Monday" and it runs on its own each time.
• Cloud execution: This work runs not on your computer but in the cloud (a server across the internet). So it runs at the set time even with your PC off, even while you are out.

Put simply, it is "an automatic alarm + work instructions you set for the AI."

How to Use (by difficulty)

Basics — Daily Repeat

Say this in the chat box.

매일 아침 8시에 오늘 할 일 브리핑해줘

When you say it, a confirmation like "Scheduled to run every morning at 8 AM" appears. After that, it runs automatically at that time every day, so the briefing is ready in the morning.

Advanced — Weekly Repeat

매주 월요일에 지난주 매출 요약해줘

For work that repeats weekly, just set the day. A sales summary is made automatically every Monday, so you do not have to dig through the numbers yourself each week.

Deeper — A One-Time Scheduled Run

한 시간 뒤에 그 메일 보내라고 알려줘

Beyond repetition, schedules that run just once at a specific future time, like "an hour from now" or "tomorrow at 3 PM," are also possible. It is good for delegating easy-to-forget one-off schedules.

Common Pitfall — It Runs in the Cloud, Not on Your PC

This is where many get confused. A scheduled task runs not on your computer but on a cloud server. This is both an advantage and a caution.

• Advantage: It runs at the set time even with your PC off, even while you sleep.
• Caution: Files that exist only inside your computer may not be directly visible to a cloud task. So scheduled tasks are especially suited to work that handles external services, like sending mail, summarizing web searches, or organizing connected sheets.

If you also set where to receive the work result (e.g., "send it to me by mail"), the result arrives on its own at the set time.

Real-World Example

Every morning I spent time checking the day's to-dos and the new mail that came overnight myself. So I scheduled this.

매일 아침 8시에 오늘 할 일과 새로 온 메일을 정리해서 브리핑해줘

After that, the briefing was already organized when I arrived at work. The time I used to spend every morning checking here and there, wondering "what do I have to do today," disappeared entirely. Scheduling it once and forgetting reduced my work every day.

Using It Further

• Daily/weekly repeat: Freely set the cycle, like "every morning at 8" or "every Monday."
• One-time schedule: Schedules that run just once, like "tell me an hour from now," are also possible.
• Specify where to receive results: It is convenient to also set the channel to receive results, like "send it by mail."
• Delegate repetitive work entirely: Fully automating routine work like a morning briefing or weekly sales summary takes almost no effort.

Tip: At first, test it once with a one-time schedule like "do ~ an hour from now." Seeing it actually run on schedule with your own eyes makes delegating daily and weekly repeats much more comfortable.

Summary

The core fits in one sentence. Schedule the repetitive work you used to handle by hand every time, and forget it. Work a person handles each time gets skipped someday, but a scheduled task runs on its own in the cloud even with your PC off. Just remember it is especially suited to external-service work like mail and sheets rather than files inside your PC.

Based on: Claude Code v2.1.154 (2026.05)