Run AI agent workflows on a schedule

Open Triggers, choose a published workflow and say how often it should run: every few minutes, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, or a cron expression of your own. Pick the timezone and, optionally, a JSON payload the workflow receives as {{ trigger }} on every run.

0 9 * * 1-5     every weekday at 09:00
0 * * * *       at the start of every hour
30 7 1 * *      07:30 on the first of each month

Before you save, the form shows the next three times it will fire. A schedule that is wrong is much easier to spot as three dates than as five fields.

A trigger always runs the workflow's published version, never the draft. We went back and forth on this, but the alternative is a schedule that quietly changes behaviour every time someone edits a prompt. With the split, you can experiment on the canvas all day and the 9am run still does what you shipped. See Publishing and versions.

A scheduler has two classic bugs: firing twice, and firing a flood after downtime. Due triggers are checked once a minute, and each one is claimed and moved to its next time in the same database transaction, before its run starts. Once that commits, no other worker sees it as due. A scheduler that was down for an hour fires each trigger once when it comes back, not sixty times.

Times are stored in UTC but the expression is read in the trigger's own timezone, so a 9am schedule in Europe/London stays at 9am across daylight saving changes. The shortest schedule is every five minutes, since each run has a real cost.

If a run cannot start, because the workflow was unpublished, no longer validates or the account hit a limit, the trigger's last run shows skipped with the reason. Runs that do start sit in the workflow's run history, marked schedule, where you can replay them like any other. Run now fires a trigger once without touching its schedule, which is the fastest way to check it.

The report drafting use case is a good first candidate: publish it, add a weekday 8am trigger, and the report is waiting when you start work. The schedules and triggers docs cover every option.