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A Task is a prompt Foundry runs for you without you sitting in the chat. Set it up once, get answers on a cadence.
Scheduled Tasks page — Scheduled / Completed tabs, Triggers and New schedule buttons, empty state.

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Two flavors

FlavorWhat it isStatus
Scheduled tasksRun on a cron — hourly, daily, weekly, or custom.Live
Event-based tasksRun when something happens (a webhook, a Zap, a connector event).Coming soon
Each task lands in your chat history under Recent, with an unread badge so you spot it the moment you next open Foundry.

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What a task does

Every task is essentially: “run this prompt, with these connectors, on this schedule, and notify me.” You configure:
  • Name and description — what this task is for.
  • System prompt (optional) — extra context that always applies.
  • Prompt — what the assistant should do each run.
  • Connectors — which connected services it can use.
  • Schedule — cron or preset.
  • Lifetime cap — max number of runs (default: 10).

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Why people use tasks

  • Daily brief — “summarize the top 10 X posts about AI infra from the last 24 hours”, every morning at 8am.
  • Monitoring — “check competitor X’s pricing page and tell me if it changed”, every Monday.
  • Lead enrichment — “for each new row in this Notion DB, look up the company and append a one-line summary” (via a connector).

Scheduled tasks

The cron workflow.

Event-based tasks

Coming soon.

Tutorial: Automate

Build a daily brief.