automation

Automating the bottleneck means finding the constraint that sets your pace and pointing Claude at it: four working rules distilled from Anthropic's own engineers.

A routine is a saved instruction Claude runs on its own, on a schedule or an incoming signal. What it replaces, and why an unattended run has to be written tighter than one you watch.

When an agent hits the same problem twice, encode the fix as a lint rule, CI check, or steering-file instruction that every future session inherits.

A rerun loop makes the agent redo its own work until a check passes. Script the repetitive half of a skill, end it with a pass or fail verdict, wrap both in a loop, and keep a human at the checkpoints where errors are expensive.