Scheduled Tasks

Tasks let Krater run a prompt for you on a recurring schedule — every hour, day, week, or month — and post the result into a chat. Use them for daily news digests, weekly reports, standing check in...

Open them from Tasks in the sidebar or at /tasks. Scheduled Tasks require a Pro, Ultra, or Max plan.

What a task is

Each task is a name, a prompt, a schedule, and a chat to post into. When it fires, Krater runs your prompt as a full agent run — the same agent you talk to in chat, with web search, your connected apps, and file tools available. The answer lands in the task’s chat as a normal assistant message, tagged From scheduled task.

Two things to know:

A scheduled run cannot create or modify other tasks — that’s deliberate, so tasks can’t spawn loops.
Runs bill like a normal chat turn at the model’s real usage, up to the standard 2,500-credit ceiling per agent run.

Create a task

There are three ways in:

On /tasks — click the + button, or pick a template tile. Six starters ship built in: Daily news digest, Morning brief, Weekly AI roundup, Weekend planner, Market recap, and Weekly check-in. Templates pre-fill the name, prompt, and schedule; everything is editable before you save.
From a chat — open the chat’s header menu and choose Schedule as task. The dialog pre-fills the current chat as the target and inherits the chat’s model.
By asking Krater — in any chat, just say what you want: “Every weekday at 8am, summarize the top tech news.” The assistant creates, edits, pauses, or deletes tasks for you.

The dialog asks for:

Name — what the task is called in your list.
Prompt — what Krater should do each run. Write it as a standalone instruction; see tips below.
Schedule — how often it fires.
Timezone — which timezone the schedule follows. Defaults to your device’s.
Where the result goes — this chat, a new chat created on first run, or any existing chat you pick.
Delivery — in-app notification (on by default) and email summary (off by default).

Before you save, the dialog previews the next three fire times so you can confirm the schedule is what you meant.

Schedules and timezones

Every hour — at a chosen minute past the hour.
Every day — at a chosen time.
Every week — at a chosen time on one or more days (e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
Every month — at a chosen time on a day of the month. If a month has fewer days, it runs on the last day.

Times are interpreted in the task’s timezone and respect daylight-saving changes, so a 9:00 task fires at 9:00 local all year.

Where results go

Every task posts into one chat:

This chat or Pick an existing chat — results append to a conversation you already have.
Start a new chat on first run — Krater opens a fresh thread the first time the task fires and keeps posting there.

Tasks waiting on their first chat show a Pending badge on /tasks until the first run. One task, one continuous thread — each run adds to it, so the chat doubles as the task’s archive. Clicking a task row opens its chat.

Delivery

In-app notification — on by default; you get pinged when a run completes.
Email summary — off by default; turn it on per task. Task emails are capped at one per hour per account, so an hourly task won’t flood your inbox.

Manage tasks

Each row on /tasks shows the task’s cadence, its next run in its own timezone, and when it last ran. From the row you can:

Pause / resume — the toggle switch. Resuming recomputes the next run from now; nothing fires while paused.
Run now — the play icon or menu item fires the task immediately, outside the schedule. Manual runs are marked Manual in the run history.
Open chat — jump to the task’s thread.
Edit — same dialog as create; change the prompt, schedule, timezone, target chat, or delivery.
Delete — removes the schedule. The chat with all past results stays.

The Runs tab

The Runs tab is the health dashboard across all your tasks:

Stat cards for the last 7 days: total runs, success rate, credits used, average duration.
An activity chart showing successful vs. failed runs per day.
The full run history, filterable by All / Success / Failed / Manual, with the error reason on failed runs. Clicking a run opens the task’s chat.

If billing lapses

If a scheduled run can’t bill — subscription ended or payment past due — Krater pauses all your enabled tasks automatically and emails you. The task row shows Paused: subscription required or Paused: payment past due with a link straight to billing. Re-enable your tasks once the plan is back in good standing.

Plan limits

Plan	Scheduled tasks
Pro	3
Ultra	20
Max	50

The counter on /tasks shows how many you’ve used. Paused tasks count toward the limit, so delete ones you don’t need. Team members work under the workspace owner’s plan. Free accounts and signed-out visitors can’t create tasks.

Writing a good task prompt

Write the prompt as a standalone instruction. The run starts fresh — it doesn’t remember your chat.
If the output depends on a place, name it: “Give me today’s weather in Lisbon”, not “today’s weather”.
Phrase it for repetition: “Summarize the most important AI news from the last 24 hours” works every day; “do that again” doesn’t.

Tasks — your task list and run history
Additions — connect the apps your tasks can use
Pricing — compare plan limits
Keep — where generated files and outputs live

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