> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ironlabs.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Tasks
> Run prompts automatically — on a schedule today, on events soon.
A **Task** is a prompt Foundry runs for you without you sitting in the chat. Set it up once, get answers on a cadence.
## Two flavors
| Flavor | What it is | Status |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| **[Scheduled tasks](/foundry/tasks/scheduled)** | Run on a cron — hourly, daily, weekly, or custom. | Live |
| **[Event-based tasks](/foundry/tasks/event-based)** | Run 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.
## 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).
## 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).
## Related
The cron workflow.
Coming soon.
Build a daily brief.