# How to Automate Your Daily Social Media Posting with Claude Cowork's Scheduled Tasks
Author: Davis Baer
Author URL: https://www.oneupapp.io/blog/author/davis-baer
Published: 2026-09-24
Meta Description: How to automate daily social media posting with Claude Cowork's Scheduled Tasks, using OneUp's MCP server to handle scheduling.
URL: https://www.oneupapp.io/blog/how-to-automate-your-daily-social-media-posting-with-claude-coworks-scheduled-tasks

Prompting Claude manually every time you want a post scheduled still requires you to remember to do it. Claude Cowork's Scheduled Tasks removes that last manual step — set it up once, and it runs on a recurring basis in the cloud, connected to OneUp through the same MCP server used for one-off prompts.

## How this differs from a normal Claude prompt

A regular Claude conversation only runs when you're actively prompting it. A Scheduled Task in Claude Cowork runs on its own, on a schedule you define — daily, weekdays, weekly — without you opening the app or sending anything. It's the difference between asking Claude to schedule a post right now versus telling it to handle this every day going forward.

## Setting it up

1. Make sure OneUp is already connected as a custom connector in Claude, authenticated with your OneUp API key (gear icon → **API and MCP** in OneUp, then **Settings → Connectors** in Claude).
2. Open **Cowork** in the Claude Desktop app, or select Cowork from the message box.
3. Set up a scheduled task, describing what you want done — for example: "Every weekday at 9am, generate and schedule one post about \[topic\] to my \[Account Name\] profile, sourcing an image from Pexels."
4. Set the recurrence and save.

## What runs in the background

Because this specifically uses connectors (not local file access or browser use), the task runs in the cloud — it fires on schedule even if your computer is off. This matters for anyone who wants a genuinely hands-off daily posting habit rather than something that depends on remembering to open Claude each morning.

## Worth building in as a safeguard

For anything public-facing, it's worth having the scheduled task draft content rather than auto-publish immediately, at least until you've watched it run for a couple of weeks and trust the output consistently matches what you'd approve manually.

## Requirements

Claude Cowork's scheduled tasks require a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise) — free accounts don't include this feature.

Ready to set up a truly hands-off posting schedule? [Get started with OneUp's MCP setup](https://docs.oneupapp.io/).


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