Scheduled Tasks

Scheduled tasks let Silk do recurring work on its own: a morning digest, a weekly report, a monthly invoice run. Each one runs as a background agent at the time you choose.

Caution

Scheduled tasks only run while Silk is open. If your computer is off or Silk isn’t running at the scheduled time, that run is skipped. Turn on Start Silk at login (in the Scheduled Tasks window) so Silk is always running when it should be.

Creating a schedule

1. Open the Silk panel and choose Scheduled tasks from the menu.
2. Click New schedule.
3. Under When, describe the timing in plain words, for example “every weekday at 9am” or “on the 1st of each month at 9am”. Silk fills in the timing for you, or you can set it by hand.
4. Under What Silk should do, write the task as if you were asking a person who wasn’t there when you set it up: “Summarise yesterday’s orders and email them to me.”
5. Optionally give it a Name, and tick Send the results to my Telegram chat if you use the Telegram Bridge.
6. Click Schedule it.

Repeat options

Repeat	Example
Daily	Every day at 8:00
Weekly	Every Monday and Thursday at 17:30 (pick the days)
Monthly	The 1st of each month at 9:00. Months without that day run on their last day.
Every N	Every 90 minutes. 15 minutes is the minimum, and spacing counts from the previous run.
Once	A single run at a date and time you pick

Times use your computer’s time zone, shown under the timing when you create the schedule.

Managing schedules

In the Scheduled Tasks window, each schedule has buttons to:

• Run now: run it immediately, without changing its schedule. A good way to test a new one.
• Pause / Resume: stop it temporarily without deleting it.
• Edit or Delete.

Scheduling from Telegram

If you’ve connected the Telegram Bridge, you can manage schedules from your phone:

Command	What it does
/schedule every weekday at 9am, email me the orders	Create a schedule: the timing, a comma, then the task
/schedules	List your schedules with their numbers
/pause 1 / /resume 1	Pause or resume schedule number 1
/unschedule 1	Delete schedule number 1
/startup on	Start Silk at login, so schedules always fire

Plan limits

The Basic plan includes one active schedule at a time. Higher plans have no limit.

Tips

• Write instructions that stand on their own. A scheduled run doesn’t see your earlier conversation, so include everything it needs: which inbox, which folder, where to send the result.
• Test with Run now before relying on a new schedule.
• Unattended jobs suit careful models. If accuracy matters more than speed, see Choosing an AI Model.