How Long a Fixed-Interval /loop Task Keeps Running
You start /loop 30m check the deploy and then never touch the
session again — you don't stop it, and Claude never judges the work
done.
What eventually happens to the recurring task?
The correct answer is "It fires once more and auto-expires after 7 days."
Fixed-interval loops run until you stop them or seven days elapse — recurring tasks auto-expire after 7 days, firing once more as a final run before deleting themselves. Nothing about leaving the session open indefinitely keeps a fixed-interval loop going past that window.
The distractors invent limits that don't exist: there's no indefinite-until-Esc behavior for a loop nobody is watching; the expiry window is seven days, not 24 hours; and nothing about token usage pauses or cancels a loop on its own.
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