Repeat and watch

Give a Space's agent something to do every morning, every hour or every week, or ask it to watch a page and tell you only when something changes, such as a price drop or a new listing.

Ask the agent

The quickest way is to ask in words.

1. Open the agent.Press ⌘J in the Space the task belongs to.
2. Say what and when.For example: every weekday at 08:00, sum up my unread mail. Or: watch this flight and tell me if the price drops.
3. Check the card.The agent shows what it will do each time and when. Click Repeat it for a repeating task or Watch it for a watch, or Not now to leave it.

Setting one up always asks first, because every run uses your Claude key. To watch the page you're on, right-click it and choose Watch This Page for Changes. The agent sets up a watch that checks every day at 09:00 unless you ask for another time.

Add one in Settings

1. Open Settings › Agents.Find Repeating tasks and click New Task….
2. Fill it in.Choose the Space, give it a name, and write what the agent does each time.
3. Choose when.Pick Every hour, Every day, Weekdays or Every week, then the day and time.
4. Make it a watch, if you like.Turn on Only tell me when something changes.
5. Click Add Task.It shows in the list with when it runs next.

How runs work

• In the Space's conversation. Each run is sent to the Space's agent as if you'd typed it, so you can see what it did and it can compare with the last run.
• Approvals as always. If a run needs to send, buy, book or pay, it asks first, just as when you ask by hand. See Approvals.
• While Tern is open. Tasks run only while Tern is open. One missed while Tern was closed or your Mac was asleep runs once, as soon as it can, not once for every time it missed.
• A notification when it's done, with the task's name, its Space and when it repeats.

Watches

A watch is a repeating task that only speaks up when something is new. Each check is told how things stood last time, and says whether anything changed. When nothing has, there's no notification. When something has, the notification says Something changed.

In Settings › Agents, a watch is marked Watch and shows when it last found a change, with a line on how things stand now.

Pause, run or remove a task

Each task in Settings › Agents › Repeating tasks has a switch to pause it and turn it back on, Run Now to run it straight away, and Remove… to delete it. Deleting a Space removes its tasks too.