Can Claude run tasks on a schedule?

1. 01Create the agent356 ms wall timeOct 26, 2026, 12:43 UTC
   → callagnt_agents_writecopy

   {
     "action": "create",
     "name": "Weekday signup digest",
     "description": "Reads the signups table every weekday morning and reports what came in.",
     "system_prompt": "You run on a schedule. Each run, read the signups table in the workspace database with agnt_db_read and reply in two lines: how many signups the table holds, and the newest one (name, company, date). No other text."
   }

   ← result

   {
     "id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "name": "Weekday signup digest",
     "description": "Reads the signups table every weekday morning and reports what came in.",
     "draft": true,
     "disabled": false,
     "archived": false,
     "model": "claude-sonnet-5",
     "default_channel": null,
     "tool_count": 0,
     "updated_at": "2026-10-26T12:43:52.353694+00:00",
     "next_step": "Draft saved. It does not run until `agnt_agents_write(action: \"deploy\")` is called. Configure it first with `agnt_agents_write(action: \"update_config\")`."
   }

2. 02Let it read the workspace database617 ms wall timeOct 26, 2026, 12:44 UTC
   → callagnt_agents_writecopy

   {
     "action": "update_config",
     "agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "patch": {
       "workspace_db": {
         "enabled": true
       }
     }
   }

   ← result

   {
     "id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "name": "Weekday signup digest",
     "description": "Reads the signups table every weekday morning and reports what came in.",
     "draft": true,
     "disabled": false,
     "archived": false,
     "model": "claude-sonnet-5",
     "default_channel": null,
     "tool_count": 0,
     "updated_at": "2026-10-26T12:44:02.276+00:00",
     "applied": true,
     "patch_summary": [
       "workspace_db=merge"
     ],
     "note": "Applied to the draft. Deploy it to make the change live."
   }

3. 03Deploy it3.0 s wall timeOct 26, 2026, 12:44 UTC
   → callagnt_agents_writecopy

   {
     "action": "deploy",
     "agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00"
   }

   ← result

   {
     "id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "name": "Weekday signup digest",
     "description": "Reads the signups table every weekday morning and reports what came in.",
     "draft": false,
     "disabled": false,
     "archived": false,
     "model": "claude-sonnet-5",
     "default_channel": null,
     "tool_count": 0,
     "updated_at": "2026-10-26T12:44:08.978+00:00",
   …
     "already_deployed": false,
     "note": "Deployed and live. It now consumes workspace credits when it runs."
   }

   » Trimmed: the agent's gateway address on staging.

4. 04Schedule it for weekdays at 9:00 New York time967 ms wall timeOct 26, 2026, 12:44 UTC
   → callagnt_schedules_writecopy

   {
     "action": "create",
     "agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "name": "Weekday 9am signup digest",
     "cron_expression": "0 9 * * 1-5",
     "timezone": "America/New_York",
     "input_text": "Good morning. Read the signups table and report how many signups it holds and the newest one."
   }

   ← result

   {
     "schedule": {
       "schedule_id": "202553e0-3726-4212-bd1f-dec4884f9a2d",
       "deployed_agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
       "name": "Weekday 9am signup digest",
       "cron_expression": "0 9 * * 1-5",
       "timezone": "America/New_York",
       "input_text": "Good morning. Read the signups table and report how many signups it holds and the newest one.",
       "enabled": true,
       "next_run_at": "2026-10-26T13:00:00+00:00",
       "last_run_at": null
     },
     …
   }

   » Trimmed: the closing note, which repeats the next run time and says each firing is a billed agent run.

5. 05After 9:00: Check that it fired370 ms wall timeOct 26, 2026, 13:00 UTC
   → callagnt_observability_readcopy

   {
     "action": "list_trigger_runs",
     "agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "limit": 5
   }

   ← result

   {
     "agent_id": "61291d32-4664-4dce-97dd-98867ebe6c00",
     "trigger_runs": [
       {
         "trigger_type": "schedule",
         "schedule_id": "202553e0-3726-4212-bd1f-dec4884f9a2d",
         "agent_session_id": "95dc6dcc-a9af-4ab3-ac7e-8aa2b3ffd2b7",
         "status": "dispatched",
         "error": null,
         "created_at": "2026-10-26T13:00:04.876767+00:00"
       }
     ]
   }

   » Trimmed: internal ids on the run record.

6. 06After 9:00: Read what the run said686 ms wall timeOct 26, 2026, 13:01 UTC
   → callagnt_observability_readcopy

   {
     "action": "read_session",
     "session_id": "95dc6dcc-a9af-4ab3-ac7e-8aa2b3ffd2b7",
     "event_ids": [
       "sevt_01TZc7Fs2iWGY2iy1kkJkzQA",
       "sevt_01DNwPYZxYuvi1toAnzHPRnq",
       "sevt_018TAR7gSJi5zgUfjSkyuLq8",
       "sevt_01NFc15K1Pmo99KvY3Vpdxp9",
       "sevt_01PwW3e9StjPFJbPwAw1rhNs",
       "sevt_01AtfsHDEQqMxC5GA8YwQ6cU",
       "sevt_015R3bTiGPrdfQkKAjfmZKa6"
     ]
   }

   ← result

   {
   …
       {
         "index_position": 19,
         "type": "agent.message",
         "processed_at": "2026-10-26T13:00:17.305255Z",
         "text": "The signups table holds 7 records.\nThe newest signup is Gus Hale (COO, Proseware) on 2026-10-25.",
   …

   » Trimmed: the run's other 23 events, its four tool calls among them.

The schedule fired at 13:00:04 UTC, 9:00 in New York, with nothing of ours connected. The run took 11 seconds and four tool calls (the first guessed a column that doesn't exist; the agent looked again and carried on), and agnt_observability_read shows every firing, each tool call and the reply. A scheduled run is a background session, so its reply goes nowhere on its own: to hear about it, add notify_human to the agent's tools and have it send the result (it lands in your Slack, iMessage or superagnt_ app conversation with the agent), or have it write the result to a table.