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Wake up to a morning brief Claude wrote overnight

Set up a scheduled task so Claude scans your calendar, inbox and the news while you sleep — and has a prioritised brief waiting for you at 7am.

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Wake up to a morning brief Claude wrote overnight

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Understand what a scheduled task is

A scheduled task is a saved prompt Claude runs on a timetable — daily at 7am, every Monday at 8, whatever you choose. Each run is a full Claude session: it can search the web, read your conn

Checkpoint

You can explain it: a scheduled task is a prompt that runs itself on a schedule.

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Before you begin

Tick these off as you sort them. Stopping halfway to create an account is how a fifteen-minute build becomes an hour.

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Ticks are saved on this device, so you can come back to them.

  • Account

    Scheduled tasks run on Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise. The free tier can't run anything while you're away.

  • Credential

    The brief gets genuinely useful when it can see your calendar and inbox. Have the login handy — you'll connect them as connectors in step 2.

  • Know-how

    What do you actually need at 7am? Meetings today, urgent emails, numbers that moved, industry news? Your answer becomes the brief's template.

The basics — ticked once, remembered everywhere

  • Account

    Either the hosted version or a self-hosted install. Everything here works the same on both — the only visible difference is the shape of your webhook URLs.

    Create a workspace
  • Know-how

    Adding a node, connecting two of them, and pressing Execute. If any of that is new, the free primer covers it in about ten minutes.

  • Credential

    You will paste at least one secret during setup. A password manager beats a notes app, and it stops you pasting a live key into a chat window by accident.

The shape of the setup

The Claude features you will touch, left to right, in the order you use them.

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What you will build

Jump straight to any step, or print the list and tick it off beside your Claude tab.

If something goes wrong

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