7 Claude Code Routines That Actually Save Me Hours Each Week

For a long time, Claude Code felt like a power tool you had to pick up and put down. You opened the terminal, did the work, and closed it. If you wanted Claude to do something while your laptop was asleep, like review a pull request, scan new issues, or summarise the week, you needed a separate setup. A cron job, a GitHub Action, some glue code, and a way to keep your credentials safe. Routines remove all of that. A routine is a saved Claude Code configuration. A prompt, one or more repositori...