Scheduled Jobs

Scheduled Jobs let you run an AI agent on a recurring schedule — unattended, with access to your agent tools, and with every result saved for you to review later.

Pick a prompt, pick a schedule, pick which tools the agent is allowed to use, and let it run. Every time a job runs, AnythingLLM records what the agent thought, which tools it called, any files it produced, and its final response — a complete trace of the run that you can inspect later or carry forward into a new conversation thread.

What you can do with Scheduled Jobs

Scheduled Jobs are useful any time you want an agent to do the same kind of work on a regular cadence. A few examples:

• Daily digests — "Every morning at 8 AM, search my inbox for overnight messages and summarize anything that needs a response."
• Weekly reports — "Every Monday at 9 AM, pull this week's numbers and write a status report."
• Routine data pulls — "Every 6 hours, check this site and note anything new."
• Scheduled reminders — "Every Friday at 4 PM, draft a recap of what I worked on this week."
• Long-running research — "Once a week, run a deep-dive research task using the web search tool and save the results."

Anything you can do by talking to an agent in a chat, you can schedule — with the added benefit that results are archived and can be continued as a normal workspace thread whenever you want to follow up.

Key concepts

• Job — A saved task with a name, prompt, schedule, and list of allowed tools. A job can be enabled or disabled at any time.
• Run — A single execution of a job. Every run has a status (queued, running, completed, failed, or timed out), a start time, a duration, and — once it finishes — a full result including the agent's thoughts, tool calls, and final response.
• Schedule — A cron expression that tells AnythingLLM when to run the job. You can build it visually or enter it directly.
• Tools — The subset of agent skills, plugins, flows, and MCP servers the job is allowed to use when it runs. See the Creating Your First Job guide for details.
• Generated files — Any files the agent creates while running (charts, documents, exports) are saved with the run and can be downloaded later.
• Scheduled Jobs workspace — A workspace that AnythingLLM creates automatically the first time a job runs. It stores job results and backs the "Continue in Thread" button.
• Push notifications — Optional browser notifications sent when a job finishes, so you don't have to keep the AnythingLLM tab open to know a result is ready. See Push notifications on job completion for setup.

Where to find it

Open Settings and look for Scheduled Jobs in the sidebar. From there you can:

• See all your jobs at a glance, including their schedule and next run time
• Create, edit, enable, disable, or delete jobs
• Trigger a job immediately with Run Now
• Open a job's run history to see past results

Next steps

Start with Creating Your First Job, then dig into Scheduling & The Cron Builder for everything you can do with cron expressions. When you're ready to look at results, see Viewing Runs & Results.