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This example demonstrates: - Setting scheduler=True on AgentOS to enable cron polling - Using ScheduleManager to create schedules directly (no curl needed) - The poller starts automatically on app startup and executes due schedules 
"""Running the scheduler inside AgentOS with programmatic schedule creation.

This example demonstrates:
- Setting scheduler=True on AgentOS to enable cron polling
- Using ScheduleManager to create schedules directly (no curl needed)
- The poller starts automatically on app startup and executes due schedules

Run with:
    .venvs/demo/bin/python cookbook/05_agent_os/scheduler/demo.py
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import SqliteDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.os import AgentOS
from agno.scheduler import ScheduleManager

# --- Setup ---

db = SqliteDb(id="scheduler-os-demo", db_file="tmp/scheduler_os_demo.db")

greeter = Agent(
    name="Greeter",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o-mini"),
    instructions=["You are a friendly greeter."],
    db=db,
)

reporter = Agent(
    name="Reporter",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o-mini"),
    instructions=["You summarize news headlines in 2-3 sentences."],
    db=db,
)

# --- Create schedules programmatically ---

mgr = ScheduleManager(db)

# Create a schedule for the greeter agent (every 5 minutes)
greet_schedule = mgr.create(
    name="greet-every-5-min",
    cron="* * * * *",
    endpoint="/agents/greeter/runs",
    payload={"message": "Say hello!"},
    description="Greet every 5 minutes",
    if_exists="update",
)
print(f"Schedule ready: {greet_schedule.name} (next run: {greet_schedule.next_run_at})")

# Create a schedule for the reporter agent (daily at 9 AM)
report_schedule = mgr.create(
    name="daily-news-report",
    cron="* * * * *",
    endpoint="/agents/reporter/runs",
    payload={"message": "Summarize today's top headlines."},
    description="Daily news summary at 9 AM UTC",
    if_exists="update",
)
print(
    f"Schedule ready: {report_schedule.name} (next run: {report_schedule.next_run_at})"
)

# --- Create AgentOS with scheduler enabled ---

agent_os = AgentOS(
    name="Scheduled OS",
    agents=[greeter, reporter],
    db=db,
    scheduler=True,
    scheduler_poll_interval=15,
)

# --- Run the server ---
# The poller will automatically pick up the schedules created above.

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import uvicorn

    uvicorn.run(agent_os.get_app(), host="0.0.0.0", port=7777)

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Run the Example

# Clone and setup repo
git clone https://github.com/agno-agi/agno.git
cd agno/cookbook/05_agent_os/scheduler

# Create and activate virtual environment
./scripts/demo_setup.sh
source .venvs/demo/bin/activate

python demo.py