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# Overview

Schedule agentic workflows and agents to run automatically at specific times or intervals. Create schedules through natural language in the Chat UI.

## Understanding scheduling

Scheduling enables automation of recurring tasks such as:

* Daily reports and data syncs
* Weekly team workflows
* Monthly business processes
* Hourly monitoring and alerts

After you enable scheduling for your agentic workflows or agents, create and manage schedules through natural language in the Chat UI. You can rely on the system to handle all scheduling complexity including cron patterns, timezones, and execution limits.

## How scheduling works

1. **Enable scheduling** - Set `schedulable=True` for agentic workflows or `is_schedulable=True` for agents
2. **Create schedules** - Use natural language in Chat UI to create schedules
3. **Automatic execution** - Your schedules run at specified times without manual intervention

## What to do next

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Enabling scheduling" icon="calendar" href="./enabling">
    Learn how to enable scheduling for your agentic workflows and agents
  </Card>

  <Card title="Migrating schedules" icon="calendar" href="./migrating">
    Migrate from the old scheduling method to the new approach
  </Card>
</CardGroup>