Autonomous Tasks

Schedule goals that run in the background and notify you on completion.

The task engine lets you define goals that Omnideck runs autonomously — on a schedule, at a specific time, or triggered manually. Tasks use the same agent loop and tool access as interactive conversations.

Creating a task

Go to Goals in the sidebar and click New Goal. Configure:

Name — human-readable label
Agent — which agent profile to use
Goal — the instruction the agent receives at the start of each run
Schedule — cron expression, one-off datetime, or manual only

Example goal:

Search for the top 5 AI news stories from the last 24 hours.
Summarize each in 2-3 sentences.
Write the digest to ~/Omnideck/digests/{date}.md

Scheduling

Omnideck supports standard cron expressions:

Expression	Meaning
`@daily`	Once a day at midnight
`@hourly`	Once an hour
`0 9 * * 1`	Every Monday at 09:00
`0 /4 * *`	Every 4 hours

Leave the schedule blank to create a manual-only task you trigger yourself.

Task history

Every run is recorded: start time, end time, status, the agent's full output, and any files written. Drill into a run in the Goals view to see the agent's full activity log — thinking, tool calls, and output — exactly as you'd see it in a live conversation.

Output files

Files the agent writes to ~/Omnideck during a task run are available on your host filesystem immediately. They also appear in the file preview panel if the task is open in the UI.

Crash safety: If Omnideck restarts while a task is running, the task is automatically reset to pending on the next start. It will run again at its next scheduled time.

Stopping a running task

Open the task in the Goals view and click Stop. The agent receives a stop signal and wraps up gracefully — it finishes its current step and then exits cleanly rather than being killed mid-tool-call.