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Tasks & agents

Lumnic doesn't only answer questions on demand. With Tasks, you can hand it recurring and multi-step work to run on your behalf. A Task is an agentic workflow: Lumnic carries out a sequence of steps on a schedule you set, then delivers the result.

What a Task can do​

A Task combines Lumnic's core capabilities (query, create, and act) into a repeatable job. For example, you can set Lumnic to:

  • Send you a daily reminder of all pending tasks and emails that need your review.
  • Compile a recurring summary from a connected source, such as a weekly digest of unread messages or new tickets.
  • Watch for something across your sources and notify you when it appears.
  • Run a multi-step workflow that retrieves information, generates an artifact from it, and delivers it, without you running each step manually.

Because a Task runs the same query-create-act pipeline you'd use interactively, anything you can ask Lumnic to do in a single session can become a scheduled, repeatable job.

How Tasks run on a schedule​

Each Task has a schedule that controls when it runs. Schedules can be:

  • One-time: runs once at a specific date and time.
  • Recurring on an interval: for example, every 30 minutes.
  • Recurring on a calendar schedule: for example, every day at 8 AM, or every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 2:30 PM.

Lumnic shows each Task's schedule in plain language (for example, "Daily at 8 AM") alongside its next scheduled run time, so you always know when it will run next.

Approving and managing Tasks​

You stay in control of what Lumnic runs automatically:

  • Approval. When a Task is created, it waits for your approval before it becomes active. Review what it will do, then approve it to schedule it or reject it to discard it.
  • Enable / disable. Active Tasks can be disabled to pause them and re-enabled later, without recreating them.
  • Confirmation for sensitive actions. Some Tasks may pause and ask you to confirm before carrying out an action. You can confirm to proceed or cancel the pending action.

You can see all your Tasks, their status (pending approval, enabled, disabled, completed), and their schedules on the Tasks page in the Lumnic app.

Creating a Task​

Tasks are created through chat. Describe the job you want Lumnic to do and how often it should run, and Lumnic will set it up for your approval. For example:

Every day at 8am, check for unread messages from the past 24 hours, summarize them, and send me a summary email.

Once you approve it, the Task runs automatically on its schedule. You'll find it listed on the Tasks page, where you can manage it at any time.

tip

Be specific about the schedule and the outcome when you create a Task. "Every weekday at 9am, send me a list of my open Jira tickets due this week" gives Lumnic everything it needs; "remind me about my tickets" does not.