Is this the same as an agent loop?

No. An agent loop is one agent managing other agents. A Loop is a schedule. They work together: a Loop can start your orchestrator every morning.

Does my computer have to stay on?

Yes. Pane needs to be running, on your laptop or on an always-on machine you reach with Remote Pane.

Can it run a script instead of an agent?

Yes. Pick Command and enter something like ./scripts/nightly-report.sh.

What happens when a run fails?

The run shows failed or needs attention in the list. Open its Pane to see the terminal.

Can my agents create loops?

Yes, with runpane loops or the MCP loops tools.

Pane Loops

Run your coding agents on a schedule

Set it once. Every night at 3, Claude picks a bug, fixes it on its own branch and opens a PR. You review it in the morning.

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2:59 am

02:59

Nightly bug sweep

Daily at 03:00 · next in 1m

Your loop waits for its time.

3:00 am

+ Pane loop-nightly-bug-sweep-0300

claude › Pick one bug from yesterday's issues, fix it, and open a PR.

● 18 tests pass

A run starts in its own Pane, on a fresh branch.

8:40 am

ok · 41m

PR #482 opened

You open the run, read the diff and merge.

What it looks like in Pane

The Loops page in Pane: a list of loops, and one loop's schedule, next run and recent runs. — The Loops pageEvery loop across your projects, with each one's schedule and runs.
1.Loops: Loops sits near the top of the sidebar.
2.Schedule: The schedule in words, the next run and your last 10 runs.
3.Runs: Every run is its own Pane. Click Open to review it.
Pane 2.4.204 on macOS. Real capture, sample repos.

Set one up

Click Loops in the sidebar, then New.
Pick what runs: Claude, Codex, Cursor or a command. Add the first message it gets.
Pick when: hourly, daily, every weekday, weekly, monthly or your own cron. Pane shows the next three runs before you save.
Click Save. Each run opens its own Pane on a branch named loop-<name>-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.

Or from the terminal. Your agents can run this too:

runpane loops create --repo active --name nightly-bug-sweep \
  --cron "0 3 * * *" --agent claude \
  --prompt "Pick one bug from yesterday's issues, fix it, and open a PR." --yes

A new Pane each run, or one Session

	Project loop	Session loop
Each run	Gets a new Pane, worktree and branch	Sends the prompt to one Session's agent
Runs	Claude, Codex, Cursor or a command	Claude, Codex or Cursor
Good for	A nightly bug sweep, a weekly docs audit, a Monday dependency check	A morning summary across all your projects

Good to know

Pane has to be running. Loops run on the machine running Pane. A run up to 15 minutes late still starts. Later than that, it's skipped, not caught up.
At most once an hour. Times use that machine's time zone.
Runs are unattended. Permission prompts are skipped, so write the prompt like you'd brief someone working alone.
Pane keeps the last 10 runs. Older run Panes are archived unless they have work you haven't committed or pushed.

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