How do I schedule recurring tasks for the AI agent?
Updated on November 9, 2026
- 1.Open the AI agent with its button, next to the product menu at the top of the page.
- 2.Write the job and the moment in one message: what to do, how many, in which style, where it goes, and when.
- 3.Attach the pictures the job needs with the plus button. They follow the scheduled task by themselves.
- 4.If the task will post, say whether its runs may post on their own. Without that, each run leaves its posts for you to validate.
- 5.Read the agent's confirmation: the rhythm and the next run, in your time zone.
- 6.Press the calendar icon beside the agent's name to see the task in Scheduled tasks.
What you can schedule
Anything you can ask the agent in the chat can be put on its calendar. A few examples brands use:
- New products, new visuals. « Every Monday at 8, find the Shopify products without a model photo and make one for each, white studio, full body. »
- A weekly post. « Every Thursday at 18:00, prepare an Instagram post with my newest creation and a short caption. »
- A store report. « On the 1st of every month at 9, compare last month's sales, traffic and best products with the month before. »
- A page to watch. « Every Friday, read this page of new arrivals and tell me what changed. » The agent reads the page you name.
- A one off for later. « Tomorrow at 7, put these eleven photos on a model, the same model on all. »
How often
| Rhythm | What you say | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Once | a date and a time | on 14 November at 10:00 |
| Every day | a time | every day at 8:00 |
| Every week | a weekday and a time | every Monday at 9:00 |
| Every month | a day of the month and a time | every month on the 1st at 9:00 |
Times are your local time. A monthly task set on the 31st runs on the last day of shorter months. There is no rhythm faster than once a day.
Write it so it stands alone
Each run starts as a fresh task. It has the agent's notes about your brand and the request as written, but not the conversation you had when you set it. The agent writes the request in your words and makes it complete, so name the products, the counts, the style and the destination when you ask. A run never asks « go? »: it does the work, then reports in your conversation, where its request is marked Scheduled.
When a run posts
By default a run prepares and waits. A Shopify visual is filed under its product, unpublished. A social post goes on the Social Media agenda on its day, marked To validate, and expires unvalidated if its date passes. If you said the runs may post on their own, the task shows « posts on its own » in Scheduled tasks. The Ask before posting switches under Manage still apply, and TikTok always asks. Posting to social networks needs the Pro plan or above.
What it costs
Every run is charged: its reasoning, with no free chat allowance, and the generations it makes at their usual price. Runs count toward the agent's month, your plan's monthly credits, or 50 credits over thirty days without a plan. The ceiling in Stop a task at, under Manage, also applies to each run. When the balance or the month runs out, the run stops and shows Out of credits.
How to stop it
- Cancel it. Press the calendar icon beside the agent's name, find the task under Single or Recurring, and press Cancel.
- Or ask. « Stop the Monday task » in the chat: the agent reads its calendar and cancels it.
- Stop a run that is working now with the Stop button at the top of the conversation.
Cancelling undoes nothing already done: images made and posts prepared stay where they are. To change a rhythm or a request, cancel the task and ask for the new one.
Good to know
- Three tabs. Scheduled tasks sorts the tasks into Single, Recurring and Done. Each line shows its next run and its last outcome: Done, Failed, Stopped or Out of credits.
- A count on the icon tells you how many tasks are active.
- From your own code. The same calendar is open to the API with a key: see How do I get started with The New Black AI API?
- What the agent is and costs: What is the AI fashion agent and what can it do?