Lead · Scheduled Tasks
Not all Cowork scheduled tasks care whether your computer sleeps — cloud tasks run regardless; only tasks tied to a local folder need your machine awake.
Derek Finch
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August 31, 2026
The question of whether Claude Cowork scheduled tasks still run while your computer sleeps actually has two different answers online — an old one and a current one — and a lot of existing articles describe the old behavior, which can lead you astray. Anthropic's current help documentation is explicit: most scheduled tasks run remotely, so they fire on schedule even when your computer is asleep...