Everything so far runs when you type, which means it runs when you remember. In this lesson we stop typing. Using Claude Cowork scheduled tasks, we set up three jobs: hourly, check the inbox and process anything waiting; daily, write the report; weekly, write the weekly report. Nothing in the skills folder changes, and that's the point. The schedule holds three short prompts and three times; the process lives in the repo. Then we drop in the last day of inbound and let the hourly run pick it up, watch a deal close on the board without touching it, and open a weekly report nobody asked for. This is where the agent employee pattern first shows up.
What's covered:
- Setting up hourly, daily, and weekly scheduled tasks in Claude Cowork
- The task prompts, read out and pasted
- Why the skills didn't change, and what that buys you if the scheduler changes
- Letting the hourly run process new inbound
- Watching a deal move on the board unattended
- Reading a weekly report that wrote itself
- The first look at the agent employee pattern