Scheduled tasks

A schedule starts a task for you at the times you choose: every morning, on weekdays at five, every 30 minutes, or on a cron expression. Each run is a new task with its own record, so one run’s result never crowds the next.

Making one

There are two ways in:

• From a task: “Repeat…” in its menu, in the navigator or in the task header. The schedule repeats what you typed in that task’s brief, not its title.
• From the New task page: “Schedule…” beside “Start task” schedules the brief you are writing, with its Done when checks, instead of starting it now.

The dialog (“Repeat task” or “Schedule task”) sets:

Field	Choices
“Repeat”	“Daily” at a time, “Weekly” on the days you tick, “Every” so many minutes, or “Cron” (min hour day month weekday)
“Mode”	“Agent” or “Ask”
“Model”	The workspace’s model, or another one for this schedule
“Run each time in a new worktree”	Each run works in a worktree of its own (Workspaces)

The dialog says when it will run next. A cron expression that can never fire says “It never runs again”.

Seeing and changing them

“Scheduled tasks…” in the navigator’s view menu lists every schedule in the workspace: its brief, when it runs next and how its last run went. Each row has a switch to pause or resume it, “Run now”, “Edit” and “Delete”.

Home’s “Coming up” lists the next few runs across your open workspaces, with a “Scheduled tasks” link.

When they run

Schedules run inside Agent V, so they fire while the app is open and the computer is awake. Times missed while the app was closed or the computer slept are made up once when the app starts or the computer wakes, not once per missed time, and that run’s record says “Catching up a missed run from …”.

A scheduled run asks for approvals like any task. To let it run without anyone watching, see Approvals, or keep the app in the tray (Settings, “General”, “Closing”) so it keeps going when the window is closed.

Scheduled tasks or /loop

/loop and schedules both repeat work, with different rules:

	/loop	A schedule
Where each run goes	The same task, one turn after another	A new task each time
How you set it	/loop 30m … in an open task	“Repeat…” or “Schedule…”
When	Every 30 seconds to 24 hours	Daily, weekly, every N minutes, or cron
Missed while closed	Not made up	Made up once on start or wake
Good for	Watching something within one conversation	Routine work that should start fresh

Related

• Goals and loops
• Headless runs for running a task from a script or CI instead