Cron Scheduler
Run your agents on a recurring schedule using standard cron expressions. Perfect for automated reports, monitoring, and periodic tasks.
Inbound Mode
Cron connectors operate in inbound mode only. They trigger your agents on a schedule and immediately queue the run. Agents process in the background.
Setup Instructions
Create the connector
Open your agent, click Add inbound connector in the Connector Flow, then Create New Connector and select Cron Scheduler.
Set the schedule
Enter a cron expression (e.g. 0 9 * * 1-5 for weekdays at 9 AM).
Optionally set a prompt and click Create
The agent receives this text as input on each trigger. Set a timezone if you need something other than UTC. Click Create and the agent runs automatically on schedule.
How Cron Works
Cron connectors trigger your linked agents automatically based on a schedule you define. When the scheduled time arrives, Connic dispatches a run to all agents linked to the connector. Best for daily/weekly reports, periodic data syncing, scheduled monitoring, and automated notifications.
Schedule
The schedule uses standard cron expression format with 5 fields:
┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday = 0)
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * *Common Schedules
0 * * * *Every hour0 0 * * *Every day at midnight0 9 * * 1-5Weekdays at 9 AM0 0 * * 0Every Sunday at midnight*/15 * * * *Every 15 minutes0 0 1 * *First of every monthMore Examples
# Every day at midnight
0 0 * * *
# Every hour
0 * * * *
# Every Monday at 9 AM
0 9 * * 1
# Every weekday at 9 AM
0 9 * * 1-5
# Every 15 minutes
*/15 * * * *
# First day of every month at midnight
0 0 1 * *Prompt (Optional)
You can optionally configure a prompt that will be included in the payload sent to your agent on each scheduled run. For example: "Generate the daily sales report for yesterday".
Payload Format
{
"trigger": "cron",
"schedule": "0 9 * * 1-5",
"triggered_at": "2024-01-15T09:00:00.000Z",
"prompt": "Generate the daily report"
}Includes trigger ("cron"), schedule,triggered_at (ISO timestamp), and your configured prompt.
All cron schedules are evaluated in UTC timezone. To run at 9 AM Eastern Time, set the schedule to run at 14:00 UTC (during standard time).