Scheduling: agents that run themselves

Running agents manually is fine for one-off tasks. But the real value shows up when agents run themselves.

Svortie supports two trigger types.

Cron schedules

Standard cron expressions. Every weekday at 9am, every hour, first Monday of the month. Set the expression, pick an agent or workflow, done.

Common patterns:

• 0 9 * * 1-5 runs weekdays at 9am
• 0 */6 * * * runs every 6 hours
• 0 0 1 * * runs on the 1st of each month

Go to Schedules, click New schedule, select Cron as the trigger type, and enter your expression.

Heartbeat checks

This one's different. Instead of running the full agent on a timer, Svortie does a lightweight AI pre-check first.

Write a condition like "Has the competitor's pricing page changed?" A cheap, fast model checks it. If the condition passes, the full agent runs. If not, nothing happens.

Monitoring without burning credits on no-ops.

Notifications

Every schedule has a notification preference: always, on failure only, or never. When a run completes (or fails), you get an email with status, duration, and a result summary.

Scheduling from Create with AI

Go to Create and include timing language: "check competitors every morning" or "send a weekly report on Fridays." Svortie picks up on it and creates the agent (or workflow), plus the schedule, in one shot.

Or from any agent's detail page, click Schedule to set up a trigger for that specific agent.

Schedules + workflows

Schedules work with workflows too. Set a daily cron trigger on a 3-step research workflow, and it runs the full pipeline automatically. Combine with email notifications and you get automated reporting delivered to your inbox.

Try it

Pick an agent you run frequently. Go to Schedules, set up a cron trigger, enable email notifications. Let it run for a few days and check the results.