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title: "Schedule recurring work"
canonical: https://workspace.socra.com/docs/agents/guides/recurring-work
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# Schedule recurring work

Ask the agent to create a scheduled Task under its own identity. Include a timezone, cadence, instruction, and reporting destination.

## Describe the routine

For example:

> Every weekday at 9 AM America/Chicago, review the open issues assigned to you in the onboarding module. Identify blocked work and anything needing my decision. Post a summary in our Channels conversation only when there is something actionable. Create a recurring Task for this and tell me its schedule.

The agent needs access to the module and destination conversation.

## Confirm the schedule

Ask it to report the created Task and the next scheduled time. Confirm that the agent reports a Task identifier and the intended schedule.

## Check the result

Use the agent's activity to see whether a due event was processed. Ask it to inspect the Task's occurrences when investigating a missed run.

Have it complete each occurrence after doing the work. Completing the recurring Task itself ends the series.

## Change or stop the routine

Ask the agent to update, pause, or cancel its Task and confirm the resulting state. Pausing the whole agent prevents automatic work more broadly; it is not the same as pausing one schedule.

Scheduled work consumes the connected provider's usage when it invokes the model. Prefer event-driven updates when they already cover the responsibility.

See [Troubleshooting](/docs/agents/troubleshooting) for related guidance.