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# Cron Jobs

> Schedule your agent to work autonomously

Tell your agent what to do and when — it sets up a recurring job and runs it
without any user interaction. Each run is a full agent turn with access to your
workspace, files, and connections.

## Setting up a cron job

Just describe the schedule in natural language:

> Every weekday at 8am, pull yesterday's revenue from Stripe, generate a summary,
> and email it to the team.

or

> Every 15 minutes, check if there are new sign-ups in our database and post them
> to the #growth Slack channel.

The agent translates this to a cron schedule and sets it up. You never need to write
cron expressions.

## What happens on each run

Each scheduled job gets its own dedicated chat thread (named `Scheduled: {job name}`)
that appears alongside your regular chats. When a job fires:

* The agent runs with **full access** to your workspace, files, and connections — the
  same as if you had typed the message yourself
* **Context accumulates** across runs — the agent remembers what it did last time, can
  compare against previous results, and builds up a history of its work
* Results can be emailed, posted to Slack, saved to files, or published to a live dashboard

<Info>
  Cron jobs are reliable — they're backed by Cloudflare Durable Object alarms and
  survive even when your workspace container is idle.
</Info>

## Example use cases

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Daily reports" icon="chart-line">
    Pull data from your warehouse every morning, generate a formatted report, and
    email it to stakeholders
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitoring & alerts" icon="bell">
    Check metrics hourly, flag anomalies, and page your team when something looks off
  </Card>

  <Card title="Data syncing" icon="arrows-rotate">
    Keep two systems in sync — new Stripe customers automatically become HubSpot
    contacts every 15 minutes
  </Card>

  <Card title="Content generation" icon="pen-nib">
    Generate weekly newsletter drafts, daily social media posts, or morning news
    roundups on a schedule
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Managing cron jobs

Everything is managed through chat. Ask the agent:

* **"List my scheduled jobs"** — see all active cron jobs
* **"Update the daily report to run at 9am instead"** — modify a schedule or prompt
* **"Delete the Stripe sync job"** — remove a scheduled job
* **"Run the daily report now"** — trigger a job immediately without waiting for the next scheduled time

<Tip>
  You can view the execution history of any cron job by opening its dedicated thread
  in your chat history. Each run is logged as a message in the thread.
</Tip>