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Scheduled tasks

Requests you set up once that ChatGPT then runs later or on a repeating schedule, without you present.

Which capability it is

The same thing at other vendors

Claude
scheduled tasks (formerly routines)
Gemini
Schedules — not "Scheduled actions"schedules (for tasks)
Grok
Automations · routines (Grok Bot)
Meta AI and Muse
scheduled tasks (Muse) · daily briefing (Meta AI, rolling out)

Details

Status
not labelled on the page
Part of
ChatGPT
Plans
includes Free, which allows up to three active tasks. Event-triggered tasks aren't available on Free, Go or FedRAMP workspaces.
Former names
Pulse is being shut down, and its proactive updates are moving into scheduled tasks (date not stated).
Learn

Where we teach it

Set it to run without you: you set a recurring task to run on a schedule, and say what happens when it fails, who finds out, and what breaks it. It's in the longer class, along with Triage the queue.

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