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Scheduled Triggers

Run agents and Personal Assistant skills automatically on a schedule — daily digests, recurring reports, periodic cleanup, and more.

What Is a Scheduled Trigger?

Not every task needs to wait for an incoming event. Some work is recurring: a morning briefing, a weekly report, a nightly inbox sweep, a quarterly review summary. Symbi's Scheduled Triggers let you set agents and Personal Assistant skills to run on their own schedule.

Scheduled triggers work for:

  • Company agents — for example, an Ops agent that produces a weekly KPI summary every Monday at 9 AM
  • Personal Assistant skills — for example, a personal skill that prepares your daily email digest every weekday at 8 AM

Scheduling an Agent

On an agent's detail page, open the Triggers tab. You'll see three trigger types:

  • Event — the agent runs when an external system sends a webhook (e.g., new ticket)
  • Scheduled — the agent runs on a time schedule
  • Manual — the agent only runs when you click Run Now

Pick Scheduled and choose:

  • Frequency — daily, weekly, or a custom cron-style schedule
  • Time of day and timezone
  • Day-of-week (for weekly schedules)

Save, and the agent will start running on that schedule. You can always trigger it manually with Run Now in between.

Scheduling a Personal Skill

From the /personal page or Settings → Personal → Skills, pick a skill and open its trigger settings. Personal skills offer the same schedule options as company agents.

A common pattern is a morning briefing skill that checks your inbox and calendar each weekday morning and produces a short summary for you to review.

Run Now

Every scheduled agent and skill also has a Run Now button. Use it to:

  • Test a new schedule before waiting for the next firing
  • Generate an ad-hoc run outside the normal cadence
  • Validate that a changed configuration produces the expected output

Reviewing Scheduled Runs

Scheduled runs behave like any other task:

  • If the agent is in Always Review or Confidence-based mode, its actions land in the Operation Center for review
  • If the agent is Autonomous, its actions are delivered automatically
  • All runs appear in the Activity tab for auditing

Timezones

Schedules respect your selected timezone. If your team is distributed, schedule each agent in the most relevant region's timezone (e.g., your support agent runs in the customer's business hours, not the company's).

Tip

Start scheduled agents in Always Review mode for a week or two before switching to Autonomous. Unlike event-driven agents, scheduled agents can silently drift if you don't look at the output regularly.

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