Anthropic has launched a /loop command for Claude Code, enabling cron-style scheduling that turns the AI coding assistant into an autonomous background worker.

Claude Code loop skill runs prompts on a schedule but auto-expires after 3 days, limiting long-term automation for ongoing ...

New Claude Code features inlcude /loop a short-term automation with a three-day expiry; tasks stop when the session closes, limiting background repeats.

When thinking about loops in programming languages, they often get simplified down to a conditions section and a body, but this belies the dizzying complexity that emerges when considering loop edge ...