Create Scheduled Jobs

The Create Scheduled Jobs agent skill lets you set up a Scheduled Job just by talking to the agent — no need to open Settings > Scheduled Jobs and fill out the form yourself. Describe what you want done and when, and the agent will create the job for you.

This is the conversational counterpart to the Scheduled Jobs settings page. Anything you can build by hand in that form — a name, a prompt, a schedule, and a set of allowed tools — the agent can create from a single natural-language request.

Enabling the skill

Create Scheduled Jobs is an opt-in default agent skill. To turn it on:

1. Open Settings > Agent Skills
2. Find Create Scheduled Jobs in the skills list and enable it.

Once enabled, the skill is available to the agent in any workspace on that instance.

How to use it

Just ask the agent to schedule something, in plain language. Be clear about three things:

• What the job should do (the task/prompt)
• When it should run (the frequency and time)
• Which tools it needs, if any

Example: @agent every weekday at 9am, summarize my inbox and email me a digest

Example: @agent schedule a job to check anythingllm.com every Monday at 8am and note anything new

Example: @agent create a job that runs every 6 hours and pulls the latest numbers into a report

When you describe a time, give it in your local time. AnythingLLM converts your local schedule to the correct UTC cron expression deterministically, so you don't need to do any timezone math — "9am" means 9am where you are.

The agent will only let a job use tools that are actually configured and ready on your instance, mirroring the tool list you'd see in the manual job form. You can also create a job with no tools at all, in which case it runs against the LLM alone.

After the job is created

When the agent successfully creates a job, it returns a clickable card in the conversation. Click it to jump straight to that job in Settings > Scheduled Jobs, where you can review, edit the prompt or schedule, run it now, or disable it.