Scheduled tasks

Scheduled task

A prompt plus a schedule: how often, at what time, and where it runs. Belongs to your account, so it runs while you are away.

Run

One execution of a task. Every run becomes a chat: the task as the question, the result as the answer.

Planning one

Open Scheduled in the sidebar. Type what should happen, pick how often, the time, where it runs and, for a chat task, which model answers, then press the arrow. Or take one of the suggested tasks. A line under the form says when the first run will be. Tasks belong to your account, so you need to be logged in.

The model is the same choice as in the chat bar: Auto lets us pick, or name a Claude model or GPT-6 Astra; see Models and effort. Every run of the task uses that model at Medium effort. To change it, delete the task and plan it again.

Where a task runs

• In chat: it runs on our servers at the set time, even while you are away and your computer is off. It can search the web, read, write and work things out; it cannot touch your computer. A task about markets also gets the rules of your saved strategies, but a run has none of the chat's tools, so it cannot check them: with web search on, it can look up the latest values and give each beside its rule with the page it came from, and it is told never to say whether a rule is met. The check itself runs in a chat: ask in the run's own chat, or press Check in chat in Settings › Trading.
• On my computer: you cannot choose this one yet. The button is there but switched off, and a task sent to it anyway is refused rather than put in a queue, so every task you can plan today runs in chat.

Where the result appears

Each run becomes a new chat in your sidebar, marked with a small clock and shown in bold until you open it. When you come back after a run, a short note tells you what ran. The chat is an ordinary chat: read the result, then carry on from there with follow-up questions. When the switch Email me when it runs is on, as it is for a new task, a run the clock starts also emails you the first lines of its result and a link to its chat. When it cannot run for a reason you can fix, such as credit that has run out or a full account, the email says why instead. Run now sends no email.

Times

A time is kept in its own time zone, named beside it: the zone of the browser you plan in, unless you pick another. A task set for 09:00 in Zurich runs at 09:00 Zurich time wherever you are later, and a task in another zone says which one on the Scheduled page. A run can start up to a minute after the set time and takes a little while to finish. Daylight-saving changes are handled; the wall-clock time stays the same.

Run now

Every chat task has a Run now button: it runs once right away without moving the schedule. Use it to see whether the task does what you meant before you leave it alone. A handful of Run now presses in a row is fine; more than that, and you are asked to wait a few minutes.

Writing a good task

Nobody is there to answer questions when it runs, so say everything in the prompt: what, how long, in which language, with links or not. The model knows the date and time of the run.

Give me a short morning brief: the five biggest tech stories and anything important in Swiss news, one line each with a link. In English.

Limits

• Up to 20 tasks per account, each up to 2,000 characters
• One run per task per set time; a run that failed says why in its chat
• A run's chat is saved to your account, so it is waiting on every computer you log in on; the same run never makes two chats

Ideas

• A morning brief of the news that matters to you, every weekday
• The exchange rates you care about, every morning
• One useful thing to learn a day