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Scheduled tasks are a key aspect of agent autonomy. Instead of waiting for you to send a message or for an external event to occur, your agent can wake itself up at specific times and take action proactively.
The Scheduled Tasks tab showing a recurring weekly sentiment report task

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Two types of scheduled tasks

Recurring tasks run on a regular schedule—daily, weekly, monthly, or any pattern you define.
  • “Every Monday at 9am, generate a weekly sales summary and post it to Slack”
  • “Every weekday at 7am, scan for AI news and send me a digest”
  • “On the first of each month, compile expense reports and email them to finance”
One-off tasks run once at a specific time, then disappear.
  • “Remind me to call the client at 3pm today”
  • “Send the proposal to the investor tomorrow morning at 9am”
  • “In 2 hours, check if the deployment succeeded and message me”
  • “Post the product announcement to Slack at 5pm today”

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How it works

Think of it like your agent has an alarm clock. When you ask it to do something at a specific time, it sets an alarm for itself. When the alarm goes off, the agent wakes up and executes the task—just like it would wake up when receiving an email or other event.

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Recurring tasks

Recurring tasks are defined in the agent’s instructions. When you save the instructions, the agent automatically creates or updates scheduled tasks as needed. You can also ask the agent to schedule a recurring task via chat—it will update its instructions for you:
Chat conversation where the user asks the agent to schedule a weekly sentiment report, and the agent confirms it will update its instructions

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One-off tasks

One-off tasks are scheduled through the chat. Since they only run once, they don’t appear in the instructions (which are meant to be persistent).

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Viewing and managing scheduled tasks

Go to Settings → Scheduled Tasks to see all scheduled tasks for an agent. From this tab you can:
  • Enable or disable scheduled tasks — Disabling doesn’t remove the tasks, it just prevents them from running. Useful if you want to temporarily pause an agent’s autonomous work.
  • See task details — View the schedule and description for each task.
To edit or reschedule a recurring task, update the agent’s instructions or ask the agent in the chat. To remove a recurring task, simply remove it from the instructions—the scheduled task will be deleted automatically.
An agent that is stopped will not execute any scheduled tasks, even if they are enabled.

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Context when a task runs

When the agent wakes up for a scheduled task, it has access to:
  • Its instructions and capabilities
  • The task description (what you asked it to do)
  • Any agent documents it has access to
This means you can structure complex tasks flexibly. For example, if your agent does a daily competitor analysis, you could:
  1. Put brief instructions in the task: “Run the daily competitor analysis”
  2. Keep detailed guidance in an agent document: list of competitors, what to look for, where to save the report
This keeps your instructions clean while giving the agent all the context it needs.
Test before you wait. Ask the agent to execute a scheduled task immediately: “Pretend it’s 7am on Monday morning and execute the weekly news update task.” This lets you verify everything works without waiting for the actual schedule.

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Example use cases

With Email and Document capabilities:
  • “Every Monday morning, summarize last week’s support tickets and email the report to the team”
  • “At 6pm today, send me a reminder to prepare for tomorrow’s presentation”
With Slack and Research capabilities:
  • “Every weekday at 8am, check for AI news and post a summary to #ai-updates”
  • “In 1 hour, search for updates on the competitor’s product launch and message me”
With Google Drive and Analytics:
  • “On the first of each month, generate a performance report and save it to the Reports folder”
  • “Tomorrow at 9am, check if the Q4 data is ready and notify the finance team”

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FAQ

Yes. If you specify a time zone (e.g., “every day at 9am EST”), the agent will use that. Otherwise, it assumes your current time zone.

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Learn more

Instructions

Define what your agent should do and how it should behave

Agent Documents

Give your agent reference materials and templates

Communication

How agents communicate through email, Slack, and more