By Peter Cho —

Scheduled Tasks: Cast Prompts + MCP on Autopilot

Tome's Tasks interface lets you pick an LLM, prompt, and MCP servers to run hourly or daily

When we first released Tome, we knew chat was only a starting point. Many problems are time-based rather than question-based: checking prices, collecting and summarizing large datasets, etc. Today's feature release takes us a step further towards our vision with Scheduled Tasks.

Introduced in v0.9, Scheduled Tasks lets you set any prompt to run every hour or at a specific time each day - no scripting, cron jobs, or agent framework required.

Why It Matters

LLMs are powerful researchers, summarizers, and organizers, but we primarily interact by sitting in front of them and guiding them via chat. By putting prompts on a schedule you can:

  • Watch inventory or prices: Automatically query a retailer's site and alert yourself when an item is back in stock
  • Track ticket drops: Ping Ticketmaster or StubHub every hour and get a message when new seats appear
  • Digest channels: Summarize a Slack or Discord channel at the end of the day and send action items to Notion or Todoist
  • Prep the inbox: Every morning classify and categorize unread mail, todos, or open issues on GitHub or Linear

Anything you can do in Tome with a model and one or more MCP servers can now happen in the background, no babysitting required!

How to Get Started

  1. Write a prompt: Try running your prompts in our chat interface first to make sure the output is something you're happy with, calling tools as explicitly as possible to make sure you have a consistent outcome
  2. Choose cadence: Hourly or a specific daily time depending on your use-case
  3. Select MCP servers: Search, browser automation, file management, whatever MCP can do is what your scheduled task will be able to do
  4. Save and Sit Back: Tome will store the task and execute it on schedule. Currently Tome has to be open, but we're working on making Tome into a menubar app so you can have it running subtly in the background.

That's it, no container orchestration or YAML, just pick a time and let Tome handle the rest.

What's Next?

Based on user feedback, we'd like to add custom intervals, event triggers, multi-step workflows, a menubar app, and more advanced integrations for inputs and outputs. Let us know what you're interested in!

Download the latest release and give Scheduled Tasks a go, we're eager to hear what you automate and how we can make the product better! Don't hesitate to join us on Discord.