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Schedules

DevOps & Security
schedules

Schedules is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the windmill-labs/windmill repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

MUST use when configuring schedules.

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Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/HEAD/system_prompts/auto-generated/skills/schedules/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/schedules, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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Windmill Schedules

Schedules run scripts and flows automatically on a cron schedule.

File Naming

Schedule files use the pattern: {path}.schedule.yaml

Example: f/folder/daily_sync.schedule.yaml

Note: The path is derived from the filename, not stored in the file content.

Cron Expression Format

Windmill uses 6-field cron expressions (includes seconds):

 ┌───────────── second (0-59)
 │ ┌───────────── minute (0-59)
 │ │ ┌───────────── hour (0-23)
 │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1-31)
 │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1-12 or jan-dec)
 │ │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0-6, 0=Sunday, or sun-sat)
 │ │ │ │ │ │
 * * * * * *

Common Examples:

  • 0 0 0 * * * - Daily at midnight
  • 0 0 12 * * * - Daily at noon
  • 0 */5 * * * * - Every 5 minutes
  • 0 0 9 * * 1-5 - Weekdays at 9 AM
  • 0 0 0 1 * * - First day of each month

CLI Commands

wmill sync push deploys local changes to the workspace and can be destructive to remote state — only suggest/run it when the user explicitly asks to deploy/publish/push, not when they say "run", "try", or "test". The commands below never mutate remote state, so they're safe to run yourself — note that sync pull does overwrite local files to match the remote (use sync pull --dry-run to only preview), while schedule just lists.

# Push schedules to Windmill — only when the user explicitly asks to deploy
wmill sync push

# Pull schedules from Windmill
wmill sync pull

# List schedules
wmill schedule