Claude 2 0 FOR REVIEWWake Up to a Done Day: Claude Code's 4 New Automation Features

Claude Code now has four features that let you build automations that run without you — email triage, calendar checks, progress logging, and self-improving skill sets. This tutorial walks through all four and shows you how to stack them into one system. What's covered: • Google Workspace CLI: connecting Claude Code to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and YouTube Data API • How to set up credentials in Google Cloud Console and secure your API keys • Loop function: session-based recurring tasks (check email every hour, log progress, monitor agent status) • Schedule Tasks: permanent background automation inside Claude Code and Claude Cowork desktop • Daily email briefing setup — sorted, flagged, and draft responses ready at 9am • Skills 2.0: reusable instruction sets that run evaluations on themselves and self-improve • Full Donna agent stack demo: how all four features work together as one autonomous system #ClaudeCode #AIAutomation #ClaudeAI #GoogleCLI #AIAgents Timestamps: 0:00 Your agent did the work while you slept — here's how 0:47 Claude Chat vs. Cowork vs. Claude Code — which does what 1:51 What is Google Workspace CLI and why you need it 2:00 Installing Google CLI in VS Code terminal (npm install) 2:27 Connecting Claude Code to Google CLI 3:07 Google Cloud Console: creating a project and enabling APIs 3:39 Enabling Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and YouTube APIs 4:16 Creating OAuth credentials and downloading the JSON file 4:42 Securing API keys in your .gitignore (CLAUDE.md method) 5:09 Donna now has Google CLI — first live test 5:25 Gmail triage demo: 20 emails sorted, flagged, and color-coded in a Google Sheet 6:32 Loop explained: session-only, cron-based, runs any prompt on repeat 7:22 Loop use cases: email checks, agent monitoring, error log scanning, progress notes 8:02 Live demo: loop every 1 hour — log progress to session-log.md 8:42 How to stop a loop (trash can method vs. verbal command) 9:09 Running multiple loops acro