Schedules

Schedules run a prompt on an agent at a time you choose, once or on a repeat. Use them for a daily briefing, an end-of-day retro or a reminder in two hours. Schedules only run while Neova Studio is running.

Open it from Sidebar › Agents › Schedules.

Header

Button	What it does
Pause all / Resume all	Pauses or resumes every schedule. Shows when there is at least one schedule.
New schedule	Opens the schedule form. Disabled until the project has an agent.

While schedules are paused, a banner says All schedules are paused. Nothing will fire, and no agent will be started.

Schedule list

Schedules are sorted by when they fire next. Schedules that have already run their one time show last.

Column	Shows
When	How often it fires, for example Daily 09:00, Weekdays 09:00, Mon, Wed 09:00, Every 30 min or a date and time. Below it: when it fires next.
Who	The agent, or All agents. A power icon means it starts the agent if it isn’t running. set by the agent itself marks a schedule an agent made for itself.
What	The first line of the prompt. Hover to see all of it. Below it, a status line (see below).

Each row has buttons:

Button	What it does
Disable / Enable	Turns the schedule off or on without deleting it.
Edit	Opens the schedule form.
Delete	Click, then click Confirm.

A schedule an agent set for itself has only Delete: you can cancel it, but not change it. So does a one-time schedule that has run.

Status line

The status line under What says what happened the last time it fired, and when:

Text	Meaning
ran the action	The prompt was sent to the agent.
started [agent], then ran the action	The agent was off, Neova started it, then sent the prompt.
[agent] was busy — queued to its backlog	The agent was working, so the prompt went to its backlog.
skipped — [agent] was not running	The agent was off and the schedule may not start it.
skipped — [agent] has scheduled actions turned off	The agent’s Scheduled actions event is off.
skipped — [agent] was busy starting up	The agent was starting.
[agent] never came up / [agent] could not be started	Starting the agent failed.
could not be delivered to [agent]	Sending the prompt failed.
spent	A one-time schedule that is done.

For All agents it says how many agents it reached, for example reached 3 of 4 agents.

Schedule form

The form asks three things: when, who and what.

When

Choose one:

Option	Fields
Once	A date and a time.
Repeat	Day buttons M T W T F S S and a time. All seven days means daily. New schedules start on weekdays at 09:00.
Every	A number of minutes, at least 1.

Who

Field	What it does
Who	All agents, or one agent. For two agents, make two schedules.
Start the agent if it isn’t running	On by default. With All agents, the form warns how many agents it can start.

What

The prompt. It runs on the agent as if you had typed it. Its first line names the schedule in the list.

At the bottom, the form shows Next fire: with the date and time, and the number of agents. If the settings can never fire, it says so, for example This would never fire — check the date. Click Save.

When a schedule fires

For each agent, Neova checks the agent’s state at that moment:

Agent state	What happens
Scheduled actions event turned off	Skipped. Does not apply to schedules the agent set for itself.
Offline, with Start the agent if it isn’t running on	Neova starts the agent, waits until it is ready, then sends the prompt.
Offline, without it	Skipped.
Starting, or not connected to Neova	Tried again a few seconds later.
Idle	The prompt is typed into the terminal and sent.
Working or needs attention	The prompt goes to the agent’s backlog. If the same schedule already has an item waiting there, it is replaced.

A one-time schedule is done (spent) after it reaches the agent, or after it is skipped.

If Neova Studio was closed at the scheduled time:

• A one-time schedule fires once when Neova runs again. The prompt gets a note that it is overdue.
• A repeating schedule skips the times it missed and fires at its next time.

How to create a daily briefing

1. Click New schedule.
2. Under When, choose Repeat, keep the weekdays and set the time.
3. Under Who, choose the agent.
4. Under What, type the prompt, for example Post a briefing of open tasks in chat.
5. Click Save.

How to set a one-time reminder

1. Click New schedule.
2. Choose Once and set the date and time.
3. Choose the agent and type the prompt.
4. Click Save.

How to stop schedules for a while

• One schedule: click Disable on its row.
• All schedules: click Pause all. Click Resume all to start again.
• One agent: turn off Scheduled actions on the agent’s Events tab in the Agent Editor.

Related

• Agent Editor for the Scheduled actions event
• Sessions for the agent’s backlog
• MCP tools agents use for their own reminders: schedule_action, list_schedules and cancel_schedule