{"slug": "routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live", "title": "Routines vs Managed Agents: where recurring Claude work should live", "summary": "Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines in April and Managed Agents scheduled deployments in June 2026, both enabling recurring Claude tasks but with different billing, identity, and schedule granularity. A developer compared the two approaches for solo developers, covering when to use personal Routines versus platform cron and when external orchestration is still needed for multi-step workflows with human gates.", "body_md": "Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines in April and Managed Agents scheduled deployments in June 2026. Same question — \"run this on a cron\" — but different billing (subscription vs $0.08/session-hour + tokens), identity (you vs service account), and schedule granularity.\n\nI wrote a side-by-side for solo devs choosing between personal Routines and platform cron, plus when you still need external orchestration for multi-step workflows with human gates.\n\nFull comparison table and decision matrix on [the canonical post.](https://outofcontext.dev/blog/routines-vs-managed-agents-schedules/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/dzhuneyt/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live-cgn", "published_at": "2026-06-16 16:17:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 16:47:26.234459+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Code Routines", "Managed Agents"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/routines-vs-managed-agents-where-recurring-claude-work-should-live.jsonld"}}