# Right on Schedule

> Source: <https://ampcode.com/news/schedule>
> Published: 2026-07-21 00:00:00+00:00

Agents in Amp can now set their own schedules and wake themselves up. When a schedule fires,
the agent wakes up with its saved prompt and continues right where it left off, with all of its
context and history. Works great with [Slack](https://ampcode.com/news/slack-integration),
[Puck](https://ampcode.com/news/meet-puck), and [spawning other agents](https://ampcode.com/news/from-agent-to-agent), too.

You can now say things like:

- "Every morning, dig up the five slowest database queries of the past 24 hours, investigate
with an orb in ultra mode, and DM me the list on Slack."
- "Merge this, and remind me on Slack in two days to clean up the feature flag and roll it out
to everyone."
- "My recent backfill job thread, check on it every ten minutes and ping me if it stalls or
starts outputting errors. Let me know when it's done."
- "Every hour, use the inference-error-triage skill to inspect errors from the last hour and
group related ones. For each newly discovered group, spin up a new thread to fix the errors
and report back in the #bugs Slack channel."

Here's a real schedule at work: [a thread watching a long-running job until it's done](https://ampcode.com/threads/T-019f6d8e-844f-73c2-a73a-1fc2e5e63a39).