Give your AI a 7 am job.

Rung 1 gave your AI a name. Rung 2 gives it a job that runs every morning while you sleep, and is waiting when you wake up.

• A paid Claude plan. Scheduled tasks are on all paid plans; on the web and the phone, Pro and Max have them, Team is in beta, and Enterprise has them when an owner turns them on. [1]
• Gmail and Google Calendar connected to Claude. On Team and Enterprise, an owner has to enable the Google connectors for the organisation first. [2]
• The name from rung 1. Each run is a fresh session, so the name has to be in the prompt.

1. 1In Claude, open the left sidebar, then Customize, then Connectors. [2] (The older Settings page now points you there.)
2. 2Find Gmail and Google Calendar under Top connectors and click the + on each. Google asks you to sign in and to allow Claude to read them. A green tick means it is already connected.
3. 3Good to know: these connectors can do more than read (send, reply, create and change events). By default Claude asks for your approval before each of those actions. [2] The prompt below tells it to read only.

Replace NAME at the end with the name you gave your AI on rung 1, or delete that last sentence.

Every day at 7 am, write me a short morning brief. Use my Google Calendar and my Gmail. Read only: do not send, reply, delete, archive or change anything.

1. TODAY: list my calendar events for today in time order, one line each: time, title, and who else is on it. Flag any two events that overlap, and any event with no location or link.
2. NEEDS ME: from email received in the last 24 hours, list up to five messages that look like they need a reply or a decision from me. One line each: who, what they want, and by when if they say. Skip newsletters, receipts and automatic notifications.
3. HEADS UP: anything in my calendar for tomorrow that needs preparation today.
4. ONE THING: end with the single most important thing for me to do first today, in one sentence.

Keep the whole brief under 200 words. If a tool cannot be reached, say which one at the top and carry on with the other. Sign the brief as NAME.

This is the path that was run; it takes about two minutes.

1. 1In the left sidebar open Scheduled, then New task, then Set up manually. [1]
2. 2Name: Morning brief. In the big box, paste the prompt from Step 2.
3. 3Under the box, leave the permission on Auto(“Runs without asking”). The other choices are Manual, which pauses to ask you and so cannot finish while you sleep, and Skip all approvals, which you do not need for a read-only brief.
4. 4Trigger: leave Schedule and Daily, and set the time field. It is your computer's local time; there is no time-zone picker. Pick a few minutes before the hour, for example 6:52 AM: the form warns that tasks set for :00 can start several minutes late.
5. 5Advanced settings can stay as they are. Its Notifications tab has “Notify me when this task finishes”, on by default.
6. 6Click Create. The task appears at the top of the list as Active with its time. Open its ⋮ menu and click Run now to see the first brief straight away.

From any chat also works: paste the prompt, add “Run this every day at 7 am”, and check the name, schedule and instructions Claude shows you before you confirm. [1]The manual form above is the one that was run for this page.

Each run is its own chat. Open Scheduled in the left sidebar, then the task: its page shows the next run time, an Active switch, a Run now button and a History of runs; click a run to read that morning's brief. The task's ⋮ menu has Run now, Pause, Edit and Delete. [1]

A task like this one, which needs no files or apps on your computer, runs remotely, so your computer can be asleep. [1] [4] Tasks that need local files or apps run on the computer.

• Read only, in the prompt. The connectors can send mail and change events, and on Auto the task uses them without asking, so the words “Read only: do not send, reply, delete, archive or change anything” are the guard. Keep them. Do not pick Skip all approvals. [3]
• Read the brief; do not just trust it. The help page's own advice: review results after each run and pause tasks you no longer use. [3]
• If the brief says it cannot reach Gmail or Calendar, reconnect it under Customize, then Connectors. [2]

It is the first time your AI works when you are not there. That is also the first time you need to know what it did, which is where rung 4 (keep it going) comes in.