Claude's New Monitor Tool Lets Agents Sleep Until the World Changes
Anthropic shipped a Monitor tool that allows Claude agents to create persistent background scripts that wake the agent when specific conditions are met — a meaningful step toward always-on, event-driven AI workflows.
Anthropic quietly shipped one of the more architecturally interesting agent features of the year: a Monitor tool that lets Claude create background scripts which wake the agent up when triggered by external conditions. As @noahzweben described, these are "background scripts that wake the agent up when needed" — effectively giving Claude the ability to set its own alarms and respond to the world asynchronously.
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