8 min
Put a workflow on a schedule
Turn a working prompt into a standing task. Describe the cadence the way you would say it out loud. Helios writes the cron expression.
5,000 free credits to start.
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Start from a prompt that already works
Run the workflow by hand until the output is what you want. A schedule repeats whatever the prompt does. A task that is 80% right becomes 80% right every morning.
- 02
Add a schedule trigger
Open the workflow's triggers and add a schedule. Describe the cadence in plain words. `Every weekday at 7am`, `the first of every month`, `every four hours`. Helios turns it into a cron expression you can inspect and edit.
- 03
Schedules run in UTC
Convert your local time before you save. A standup digest meant for 9am in California is 16:00 UTC in winter and 17:00 UTC in summer.
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Give each run a window
Tell the agent what period it covers. `The last 24 hours`, `the last hour`, `since Monday`. Each run starts fresh, so the window in the prompt is what keeps runs from overlapping.
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Say what to skip
Runs should not send the same email twice or post an empty report. Put the rule in the prompt. `When nothing changed, post one line saying so.`
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Watch the first few scheduled runs
Open the run history after the first two or three runs. Read what the agent did on a quiet day and on a busy one. Each run has a 30 minute limit, and there are no failure alerts yet, so check the history in the first week.
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10 min
Run your first workflow
Describe a task in plain words, give the agent one tool, and read the run. Ten minutes from an empty workspace to a transcript you can read end to end.
12 min
React to GitHub events
Start a run the moment a pull request opens, a build finishes, or a tag lands. Filter down to exactly the events you want.
10 min
Connect a database
Give a workflow Postgres, MySQL, or ClickHouse. It reads the schema, writes real SQL, and checks the results in its own sandbox.
Templates
Put it to work
Templates that use what this guide covers.
Engineering
Standup without the meeting
Reads yesterday's commits, merges, and review queue, then posts a standup to Slack every weekday morning.
Operations
Weekly metrics report
Queries your warehouse, computes the metrics your team argues about, and posts a report with the outliers called out.
Sales & RevOps
Nightly CRM hygiene
Merges duplicates, fills missing company fields, and flags deals that have gone quiet. Every night.
Try it in your workspace.
Start free, connect a tool, and write the first prompt in plain words.