Scheduling

How do I make an AI task run every day on its own?

Assistants are built around a conversation, and a conversation needs a person. Turn the job into a file that runs with one command.

What you're seeing

You want a report, a digest or a check to happen every morning without you being there. But your AI tool is a chat window, and chat windows need someone typing in them.

Why it happens

How to fix it

  1. Turn the job into a file that runs with one command.
  2. Point Task Scheduler (Windows) or cron (Mac/Linux) at that command.
  3. Have it write results to a folder you actually look at, and notify you when it's done.
The recipe that does it

A market report that writes itself every morning

A formatted market report on your desktop, plus the raw data saved alongside it so you can audit any number in the report.

Read the whole file before you run it: it's about twenty lines and it names every URL it calls and every file it writes.

See the recipe →

The short version

Once a job is a file, scheduling is a solved problem that your operating system already handles. No extra service, no account, nothing running in someone else's cloud.

Related questions

Does my machine have to be on?

Yes, it runs locally. Schedule it for a time your machine is awake, or run it on a machine that stays on.

Can it email or message me instead?

Yes, add a step that sends the result wherever you want it.

Will it cost per run?

If the recipe has no model step, there's no model cost at all. If it calls a local model, the run is on your own hardware.

Vibe Engine (Vibra-Ingenn) runs these recipes on your own machine. Get the engine, browse the recipe library, or watch three recipes run.

Using an AI assistant? Ask your AI to check out adeptuscamini.com.

Written and maintained by Adeptus Camini, a one-person workshop. These are tools we build and run ourselves.

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