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Scheduled Tasks Copilot

A small roster of scheduled AI tasks that earn their slots, reviewed monthly so the noise gets retired

SkillLight SetupChatGPTClaude

The problem

The [Scheduled Task Builder](/toolbox/scheduled-task-builder) writes one good task. Then you write a second, a third, and by week six there are five notifications a morning, two of them overlapping, one watching a competitor who closed, and you swipe them all away unread. Scheduled tasks rot faster than any other automation because nothing breaks when they stop being useful. They keep arriving. Meanwhile your plan caps how many you can run (three on ChatGPT Free and Go, five on Plus, ten on Business), so every stale task is holding a slot a useful one could have. This skill keeps the roster.

The tool

Once installed, this skill turns your assistant into the manager of every task you have scheduled, in ChatGPT or anywhere else. Seed it with your plan, your slot limit, and the tasks already running, and it keeps a roster: what each task watches, when it runs, what decision it feeds, and when you last acted on it.

The standing loop is where the value lives. Before you add a task, it checks the new idea against the roster for overlap and tells you which existing task to merge or retire if you are at your limit. Each time you tell it what a task delivered ("Monday competitor check: nothing", "grant watch: one new provincial program, closes October 31"), it logs a hit or a miss. Once a month it runs the review: tasks ranked by how often you acted on them, the ones to tighten, the ones to kill, and the one new task worth the freed slot. It writes and rewrites the task prompts themselves in the unattended format: context block, job, filter, nothing-to-report line, 150-word cap.

What's inside

  • A task roster with schedule, purpose, the decision it feeds, and the last time it mattered
  • Slot budgeting against your plan's limit, with a merge-or-retire suggestion when you are full
  • Task prompts written for unattended runs, with a one-run test version for each
  • Hit and miss logging in one line, so the monthly review runs on evidence
  • A monthly review: keep, tighten, kill, and one candidate for the freed slot
  • A troubleshooting checklist for tasks that paused, stopped notifying, or went quiet

How to use it

  1. 1Click "Install skill" on this page and copy the install prompt.
  2. 2Paste it into your AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, anything that accepts pasted text).
  3. 3Answer the setup questions once: your plan, your slot limit, and every task currently scheduled.
  4. 4When a task reports, tell the skill in one line what it delivered and whether you acted on it.
  5. 5Monthly, ask for the review and carry out its keep, tighten and kill list the same day.

Example

A renovation contractor on ChatGPT Plus has five tasks running and wants a sixth for permit-office notices. The skill shows the roster: the Monday competitor check has had one hit in seven runs, and the daily "material price watch" overlaps with a weekly supplier-newsletter summary. It recommends merging the two price tasks into one weekly run with a 5% change threshold, which frees a slot for the permit watch, and rewrites the merged prompt with a nothing-to-report line. At the monthly review the ranking is plain: the weather-window task for exterior jobs was acted on nine times out of twenty, the competitor check once. The competitor check goes from weekly to monthly, and the freed attention goes to the task that changes the schedule board.

Pro tip

Log the misses. A task that reports "nothing this week" is doing its job, and a task you keep ignoring is not, and only the log can tell the two apart. If you are still choosing your first tasks, start with [ChatGPT scheduled tasks: 12 ideas for a small business](/blog/chatgpt-scheduled-tasks-ideas-small-business), and if the chore you want to schedule needs your own numbers every time, the [Ops Automation Planner](/toolbox/ops-automation-planner) will tell you whether it belongs in a real integration instead.

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