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A schedule trigger fires your script on a recurring basis without any manual action. You define when it should run — daily, weekly, monthly, or on a custom cadence — and Script.it creates a new session and runs the script each time the schedule fires. Schedule triggers are well-suited for reports, digests, data syncs, and any routine task that belongs on a fixed cadence.

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Setting up a schedule trigger

1

Open the Triggers tab

Open the script you want to schedule. Click the Triggers tab, then click Add Trigger.
2

Name the trigger and choose Schedule

Enter a name for the trigger — something descriptive like “Daily sales report”. In the Trigger Type dropdown, select Schedule.
3

Choose a frequency

Use the How often? dropdown to pick a preset or write a custom cron expression:
  • Every 30 minutes — runs twice an hour
  • Every hour — runs at the start of each hour
  • Every few hours — choose an interval of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours
  • Every day at… — runs once a day at the time you select
  • Every weekday at… — runs Monday through Friday at the time you select
  • Every week on… — runs once a week on the day and time you select
  • Every month on… — runs once a month on the day (1–28) and time you select
  • Advanced (custom cron) — enter a cron expression directly
The UI shows a plain-English summary of your schedule as you build it (for example, “At 9:00 AM, every day”).
The minimum allowed interval is every 30 minutes. Schedules that would fire more frequently than that are not accepted.
4

Set the timezone

Use the Timezone picker to choose the timezone your schedule should be interpreted in. By default, this is set to your browser’s timezone. If you share a trigger with a team member in another timezone, make sure the timezone is set explicitly so the schedule fires when you expect.
5

Choose an action

Under Action, choose what happens when the trigger fires:
  • Send Prompt — sends a message to the AI agent in a new session.
  • Run Script — runs a specific script directly, with optional input values.
6

Create the trigger

Click Create Trigger. The trigger activates immediately and will fire on its next scheduled time.

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Cron expression format

When you select Advanced (custom cron), you write a standard five-field cron expression: 
minute  hour  day-of-month  month  day-of-week
Each field accepts a specific set of values:
FieldAllowed valuesSpecial characters
Minute0–59* , /
Hour0–23* , /
Day of month1–31* , /
Month1–12* , /
Day of week0–6 (0 = Sunday)* , / -

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Common examples

Cron expressionWhen it runs
0 9 * * *Every day at 9:00 AM
0 9 * * 1Every Monday at 9:00 AM
0 9 * * 1-5Every weekday (Mon–Fri) at 9:00 AM
0 */6 * * *Every 6 hours
0 9 1 * *The 1st of every month at 9:00 AM
*/30 * * * *Every 30 minutes
All cron expressions are evaluated in the timezone you selected. 0 9 * * 1 means Monday at 9:00 AM in your chosen timezone, not UTC — unless you explicitly choose UTC as the timezone.

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Pausing, resuming, and deleting

From the Triggers tab on any script:
  • Pause — click the toggle next to a trigger to disable it without deleting it. Paused triggers do not fire until you re-enable them.
  • Resume — click the same toggle to re-enable a paused trigger.
  • Delete — open the trigger’s actions menu and select Delete. Deleting a trigger is permanent.

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What happens when a schedule fires

When a scheduled trigger fires, Script.it creates a new session and runs the configured action — either sending a prompt to the agent or executing a script directly. The session appears in your session history like any other run. If the script produces output files, they are available in that session’s file panel. If a scheduled run fails — for example, because a script has an error — the trigger remains active and will try again at the next scheduled time.