Some questions come back every week. Which deals have a commitment due. What moved on the reorg since Friday. Who has gone quiet. Asking them by hand means remembering to ask.
A scheduled agent is that question, written once and answered on a schedule. You give Brief the question and the time; it does the work while you are not there and reports back in your daily brief.
This is different from asking Brief something in chat. Chat answers you now. A scheduled agent answers you every Monday at seven, whether or not you opened the app.
Set one up
Open Agents from the navigation and choose Create agent. Brief opens a chat and walks you through it.
Describe what you want in your own words. "Every Monday at 7am, summarize every active deal where a commitment is due this week." Brief turns that into an agent: the question it asks, the schedule it runs on, the sources it reads, and what it is allowed to do.
Say which timezone you mean if it is not the one you work in. A schedule without a timezone is the commonest way an agent reports at the wrong hour.
Where the answers arrive
By default an agent's output folds into your daily brief. In the brief email it appears under Agent insights. On the Today page each agent gets its own section, titled with the agent's name, below the day's content.
Each brief carries what your agents produced since the previous one. An agent that runs at six in the morning reports in the next brief after that, not the one that already went out.
You can also have an agent send its output as its own email or a push notification instead, and an agent can use more than one of these at once. The Agents screen shows which each of yours uses, under Delivery.
Check on a running agent
Open Agents and choose one to see its schedule, its next run, and its recent runs with the output each produced. If a run failed, the reason is there.
Run now runs it immediately without waiting for the schedule, which is the fastest way to see whether the question you wrote produces the answer you wanted.
If several runs fail in a row, Brief stops the agent rather than leaving it to fail quietly. The Agents screen says so, and Resume starts it again once the cause is fixed.
Pause, change, or remove one
Pause stops an agent running without deleting it. Its history stays, and Resume picks the schedule back up.
Delete removes an agent. Open it from Agents and choose Delete. It stops running and no longer reports into your brief. Changed your mind? Choose Undo before you leave the page.
To change what an agent asks or when it runs, tell Brief in chat. Ask it to change the agent by name and say what you want different.
How many you can have
The Agents screen shows how many agents you have and how many you can run, next to the heading. It also sets how often an agent may run; Brief tells you in chat if the schedule you asked for is more frequent than your account allows.
What an agent can do
An agent reads the sources you gave it and reports what it finds. Acting on your behalf is separate: anything Brief drafts or sends still goes through the same approval you set under Settings → Briefing & Actions. What Brief can do on your behalf covers those controls.
An agent only ever sees your data. It cannot read another person's mail or calendar, whatever the question asks for.