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March 20, 2026
The feature nobody covered this week just turned your AI memory system into an autonomous agent + the guide to wire it up
Anthropic shipped a feature earlier this month called /loop. It’s a command inside Claude Code that lets an agent run a task on a schedule, every five minutes, every hour, every morning at 9am, without you sitting there prompting it. The coverage so far has been about developer convenience. Automated monitoring and background polling.
TL;DR
- The /loop feature allows AI agents to run tasks on a schedule, providing a 'heartbeat' for autonomous operation.
- Combining memory, proactivity, and tools creates a functional, controlled autonomous agent ('OpenClaw').
- The article promises to detail use cases, explain the 'OpenClaw' stack without security risks, and provide guides for building the agent.
- Using Claude Code with these primitives is presented as a way to get ahead of future UI-based AI agent tools.
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