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Overview

Cron jobs

There are many situations in which it is useful to run an assistant on a schedule.

For example, say that you're building an assistant that runs daily and sends an email summary of the day's news. You could use a cron job to run the assistant every day at 8:00 PM.

LangGraph Platform supports cron jobs, which run on a user-defined schedule. The user specifies a schedule, an assistant, and some input. After that, on the specified schedule, the server will:

  • Create a new thread with the specified assistant
  • Send the specified input to that thread

Note that this sends the same input to the thread every time. See the how-to guide for creating cron jobs.

The LangGraph Platform API provides several endpoints for creating and managing cron jobs. See the API reference for more details.