According to @claudeai on Twitter, Anthropic launched a research preview of routines in Claude Code that let users configure a prompt, a repository, and connectors once, then run automations on a schedule, via API calls, or in response to events (source: Claude on Twitter, April 14, 2026). As reported by Claude, these routines execute on Anthropic’s web infrastructure, removing the need to keep a local machine running, which enables continuous CI style code maintenance, data pulls, and integration workflows for engineering and ops teams. According to the post, the combination of prompt plus repo context and connectors suggests practical use cases like scheduled code refactoring, dependency updates, log triage, and ETL-style pipelines triggered by webhooks, offering clear business impact in developer productivity and reduced DevOps overhead.