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POST
/
v1
/
agents
/
{agent_id}
/
scheduled-tasks
Create Scheduled Task
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.xpander.ai/v1/agents/{agent_id}/scheduled-tasks \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "cron": "<string>",
  "prompt": "<string>",
  "title": "<string>",
  "enabled": true
}
'
{
  "id": "<string>",
  "cron": "<string>",
  "prompt": "<string>",
  "title": "<string>",
  "enabled": true
}
Create a recurring scheduled task. The change takes effect immediately — the agent runs the given prompt on every cron match.

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Request Body

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cron
string
required
Cron expression (5-field crontab, UTC). Example: 0 9 * * * runs daily at 09:00 UTC.
​
prompt
string
required
Instruction the agent runs on each fire.
​
title
string
Optional human-readable label for the task.
​
enabled
boolean
default:true
Create the task active (default) or paused.

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Example Request

curl -X POST -H "x-api-key: <your-api-key>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  "https://api.xpander.ai/v1/agents/<agent-id>/scheduled-tasks" \
  -d '{
    "cron": "0 9 * * *",
    "prompt": "Summarize yesterday'\''s support tickets and post to #ops.",
    "title": "Daily ticket digest"
  }'

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Example Response

{
  "id": "<task-id>",
  "title": "Daily ticket digest",
  "cron": "0 9 * * *",
  "prompt": "Summarize yesterday's support tickets and post to #ops.",
  "enabled": true
}

Authorizations

​
x-api-key
string
header
required

API Key for authentication

Path Parameters

​
agent_id
string
required

Body

application/json

Create a recurring scheduled task for an agent.

​
cron
string
required

Cron expression (5-field crontab, UTC), e.g. '0 9 * * *'.

​
prompt
string
required

Instruction the agent runs on each fire.

​
title
string | null

Optional human-readable label.

​
enabled
boolean
default:true

Create the task active (default) or paused.

Response

Successful Response

A recurring scheduled task — the simplified view of one cron task source node.

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id
string
required

Source-node id. Pass it to update/remove/run the task.

​
cron
string
required

Cron expression (5-field crontab, UTC), e.g. '0 9 * * *'.

​
prompt
string
required

Instruction the agent runs on each fire.

​
title
string | null

Human-readable label for the task.

​
enabled
boolean
default:true

Whether the task is active. Disabled tasks keep their config but do not fire.