Routines — Claude as a proactive teammate

Area: Automation · Level: Intermediate

Until now, Claude works when you work. Routines change that: they turn Claude into a proactive teammate that runs in the background — checking, reporting, and executing recurring tasks while you do something else. This video shows how to design routines that run on their own without losing control, built around the three decisions that define each one: trigger, context, and steerability.

What you'll learn

• What a Routine is and how it differs from a normal interactive session
• Decision 1 — the trigger: when it runs, how often, and what wakes it up
• Decision 2 — the context: which repos and connectors the routine needs to see to do its job well
• Decision 3 — steerability: how to verify the result, from checking it yourself to setting up an agent-to-agent review
• Examples of proactive background teammates: which tasks to delegate to a routine first

For whom

For anyone who has mastered interactive sessions and wants recurring work — checks, reports, maintenance — to run itself, without giving up oversight.

After this video

Continue with the written lesson Career tracks: pick your track and assemble the arsenal of MCP connectors and skills your routines will need.