Anything an agent does — whether you asked it in chat or it fired on a schedule — is a run.
Chatting with an agent
Open an agent and chat with it the way you would Copilot. It draws on its instructions, memory, skills, and connections to do the work, and keeps the thread of the conversation as you go.
Scheduled runs
Want it to work on its own? Ask the agent in chat to do something on a schedule — for example, "summarize new documents every Monday morning" — and it sets up a recurring task. Each agent's schedules are listed on its panel, with the next run time, and you can enable, disable, or delete them.
Runs happen one at a time for a given agent, so a scheduled run never collides with a chat. And each scheduled run builds on what came before, so the agent keeps its context instead of starting cold every time.
Activity & run states
The Activity tab lists every run — chat and scheduled — newest first, showing the prompt, the output, and how many steps it took. A run moves through:
Queued → waiting to start
Running → in progress
Completed → finished successfully
A run can also end as Failed, Canceled, or Timed out.
Pausing
Pause an agent to stop all its scheduled runs without uninstalling it — the panel tells you how many runs won't fire while it's paused. Resume turns it back on.