tota can schedule tasks to run at specific times or on a recurring cron schedule. Tasks run in the background and survive daemon restarts.
Create a task
Ask tota naturally:
Remind me every morning at 9am to check GitHub issues
Run a web search for AI news every day at 8am and send the summary to my Telegram
Or use the schedule_task tool directly:
schedule_task: { "name": "daily-news", "cron": "0 8 * * *", "prompt": "Search for top AI news today and send me a summary" }
For a one-shot task:
schedule_task: { "name": "remind-me", "runAt": "2025-01-20T09:00:00Z", "prompt": "Tell me to submit the report" }
Manage tasks
/tasks # list all scheduled tasks
cancel_task: <id> # cancel by ID
Cron examples
| Schedule | Cron expression |
|---|---|
| Every day at 9am | 0 9 * * * |
| Every Monday at 8am | 0 8 * * 1 |
| Every hour | 0 * * * * |
| Every 30 minutes | */30 * * * * |
Tasks are persisted in ~/.tota/tasks.json and reloaded when the daemon restarts.