So far, you have looked at how to create an agent. You looked at the system prompt, tools, and skills.

Those pieces give the agent an identity, capabilities, and a way of working.

A useful next step is giving the agent a routine. A scheduled task tells the agent when to do something.

It might check a report every morning. It might send a reminder every Friday. It might summarize new updates at the end of each day.

In technical terms, this can be done with tasks and cron jobs. A cron job is a scheduled instruction that runs at a specific time or interval.

Instead of waiting for a new prompt every time, the agent can keep up with the routine.