Running an agent on a schedule

Running an agent on a schedule#

A job is a prompt an agent runs without anybody asking: a few words every weekday morning, or a report every Monday.

Takes

5 minutes

Needs

an agent that is on

For

the person who runs this workspace

What a job is#

A job belongs to one agent, so it answers as itself and reports in the thread you tell it to. A job that is off runs nothing, and the agent's own switch still decides whether it answers at all.

Make one#

1. Open the agent, and the part called Jobs.
2. Give the job a name, and write the prompt it should run.
3. Choose when it runs: every morning, every weekday, once a week.
4. Save it, then turn it on.

A schedule of your own#

When the choices do not fit, write the schedule as five fields: minute, hour, day of the month, month, day of the week. Every weekday at nine is 0 9 * * 1-5, and the block below is yours to copy.

0 9 * * 1-5

A job's runs are written in the thread it names, and each run counts against the workspace's allowance. A job whose agent is switched off waits instead of failing.