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Scheduled Tasks in Computer

Repeating jobs that Computer runs in the background on a schedule you set, as often as every 15 minutes. Each run uses credits.

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
Where you find it
Automations dashboard (perplexity.ai/computer/automations)
Part of
Computer
Plans
wherever Computer is available
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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