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Triggers are how agents and workflows get invoked without a user typing anything. Schedule a daily summary, fire an agent when a GitHub PR opens, kick off a workflow at a specific future time — each one is a trigger.
Triggers

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Trigger types

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Creating a trigger

  1. Open Agent Framework → Triggers.
  2. Click Add Trigger.
  3. Choose:
  1. Save.
The trigger appears in the list with its status (Active / Disabled / Last fired at …).

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Connector triggers

When you pick Connector as the type, you also pick which event from which connector you want to listen for. Currently supported: The agent/workflow receives the full event payload as input, so it can read the PR number, the comment body, etc.

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Agent-scheduled triggers

Triggers can also be created by an agent at runtime, via the Schedule Task tool (Provider Tools). This lets an agent set itself a reminder (“check in with the user tomorrow”) or kick off recurring runs (“every Monday at 9am, summarize last week’s tickets”) without leaving the conversation.

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Common patterns

  • Daily standup — Cron at 09:00 weekdays → agent that reads Jira and posts a summary to Slack.
  • PR triage — GitHub “PR opened” → workflow that runs an AI code-review agent and posts the review.
  • Calendar follow-up — Schedule Once 24h after a meeting → agent that drafts a follow-up email referencing the meeting transcript.
  • Self-rescheduling agent — agent uses the Schedule Task tool to set its own next run based on conversation outcome.