# GitHub

- [Claude Code Routines: The AI Cron Job That Actually Understands Your Codebase](https://sdd.sh/2026/04/claude-code-routines-the-ai-cron-job-that-actually-understands-your-codebase.md): Claude Code's new Routines feature — launched April 14 as a research preview — turns your AI agent into a cloud-native automation engine. Schedule it, trigger it via API, or fire it on GitHub events. Here is what routines are, how each trigger type works, and why this is a bigger architectural shift than it looks.