> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.babbily.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Scheduled Tasks

> Run recurring prompts automatically in a personal or team workspace on a paid plan.

Scheduled Tasks let Babbily run a saved prompt on its own and leave the answer in a new chat. Use them for recurring briefings, inbox or calendar summaries, weekly reviews, and topic monitoring.

<Note>
  Scheduled Tasks are available on paid plans. Each run uses the API usage budget of the workspace where the task is saved.
</Note>

## Create a Scheduled Task

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose a workspace">
    Switch to **Personal** or the team workspace where the task should run. Tasks do not move between workspaces.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Scheduled">
    Choose **Scheduled** in the sidebar, then select **New task** or start from a template.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Write the prompt">
    Give the task a clear name and include everything Babbily should know when nobody is present to answer a follow-up question.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the model and frequency">
    Select a supported model, schedule, time, and time zone.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose Plugin access">
    Select the connected Plugins the task may read from. Save the task when the summary matches what you expect.
  </Step>
</Steps>

A workspace can contain up to 10 personal Scheduled Tasks or 25 team Scheduled Tasks.

## Choose a schedule

| Frequency | Behavior                                                                    |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Manual    | Runs only when you choose **Run now**.                                      |
| Hourly    | Runs every hour at `:00`, `:15`, `:30`, or `:45`.                           |
| Daily     | Runs every day at the selected local time.                                  |
| Weekdays  | Runs Monday through Friday at the selected local time.                      |
| Weekly    | Runs on the selected weekday and local time.                                |
| Monthly   | Runs on the selected day and local time. Shorter months use their last day. |

Babbily stores the task's time zone and shows its next run using that zone. Daylight-saving changes are handled from the selected local schedule.

## Run, pause, and review a task

Choose **Run now** to start an extra run without waiting for the next scheduled time. Babbily prevents the same task from starting a second run while one is already active.

Use the task switch to pause or resume future runs. Expand **Recent runs** to review queued, running, completed, skipped, failed, or canceled runs and open the chat created by a completed run.

Scheduled run chats do not appear in the normal Library or recent-chat list. Open them from the task's latest result or **Recent runs**. Deleting a task removes that run history from **Scheduled**, so open or save anything you need before deleting it.

If a task's selected model is retired, Babbily can use an available replacement and labels the run accordingly. Edit the task to choose a replacement yourself.

## Use Plugins safely

Scheduled runs are unattended. A selected Plugin can read authorized context, but it cannot perform a write action that would normally pause for your approval.

Scheduled Tasks cannot run Deep Research or artifact actions. If the task needs to send a message, update a record, change a document, or perform another approval-required action, use an attended chat instead.

<Warning>
  A prompt can still be saved when no suitable Plugin is selected. Review any capability warning before saving, especially for calendar, email, or workspace requests.
</Warning>

## Reconnect older Plugin selections

Tasks created with a retired Smithery connection cannot run until you make an explicit current selection.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Reconnect the app">
    Open **Settings > Plugins** and connect the current Plugin through the Composio authorization flow.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Edit the task">
    Open the task showing **Plugin reselection required**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save current access">
    Choose the connected Plugins it may use now—even if the correct choice is none—and save the task.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Former credentials were not transferred from Smithery to Composio.

## Team Scheduled Tasks

Accepted team members can view, edit, run, pause, and delete tasks in their team workspace. Editing a task changes its **Runs as** identity to the editor, so future runs use that member's connected Plugins.

Everyone in the team can read a run's result. Only the member shown in **Runs as** can continue that generated chat.

If the team plan becomes inactive, members can still pause or delete retained tasks, but new runs do not proceed until plan access is restored.

## Usage and failed runs

Every run checks the workspace plan and available API usage budget before generating. A run can be skipped or fail when:

* The paid plan is no longer active or cannot be verified.
* The workspace API usage budget is exhausted.
* The selected Plugin needs reconnection or reselection.
* The task is already running.
* The selected model is unavailable and no replacement can be used.

Open **Recent runs** for the result and try the suggested action before running the task again.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Plugins" icon="plug" href="/features/plugins">
    Connect apps and choose the context a task may read.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Plugin troubleshooting" icon="plug-zap" href="/troubleshooting/plugin-troubleshooting">
    Fix authorization, reconnection, and Plugin reselection issues.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API usage budget" icon="wallet" href="/features/usage-budget">
    Understand how each run uses the selected workspace's budget.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Teams" icon="users" href="/features/teams">
    Understand workspace membership and team-plan access.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>