Scheduled agent runs — briefings, reports, and recurring work that fires without you asking.

Routines flip the chat loop around. Instead of you asking and the agent answering, a routine is a saved prompt that fires on a schedule: a morning briefing at 7:30, a Friday retro, an inbox sweep every half hour. Schedules can be one-off, every N minutes, daily, weekly, or a cron expression. Froots ships a library of about seventy-five presets to start from. Pick one, edit the prompt, set the schedule, and save.

Separately, each agent has an optional heartbeat: a background check-in every 15 minutes to 2 hours that decides whether anything is worth telling you, and only notifies you when it is. It's off by default. Turn it on per agent under Edit agent → Heartbeat.

To find routines, press ⌘K and search for "routines", or "new routine" to make one.

This page is an outline — the full guide is being written. It will cover:

Creating a routine: schedule, prompt, and where its output goes
How the heartbeat decides what surfaces
Reading routine output and run history
Three routines worth setting up on day one

For how the scheduler works, see the Routines overview.