Support for recurring workflows #246

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1. gsxdsm

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   on Feb 4, 2026
2. jamescmartinez commented on Feb 4, 2026

   

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   agreed on both fronts.

   run once at a particular time and date

   brb, going to make a PR and ship an update. I didn't realize we didn't expose the timestamp in the new API.

   recurring on a cron schedule

   we don't have the cron scheduler built yet, but in the meantime, you can use a library like node-cron (or even GitHub Actions or AWS EventBridge) to trigger the workflow.

   something like this:

   import { CronJob } from "cron";
   import { myWorkflow } from "./openworkflow/my-workflow";
   
   CronJob.from({
     cronTime: "* * * * *", // every minute
     start: true, // run immediately
     onTick: async function () {
       await myWorkflow.run({ ... }); // start your workflow
     },
   });
3. jamescmartinez commented on Feb 4, 2026

   

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   scheduling just shipped in openworkflow v0.6.4

   • docs: https://openworkflow.dev/docs/workflows#scheduling-a-workflow-run
   • PR: Schedule workflow runs with Date or duration string #248
4. jamescmartinez

   changed the title [-]Support for scheduled (one shot) and recurring workflows[/-] [+]Support for recurring workflows[/+] on Feb 4, 2026
5. jamescmartinez commented on Feb 4, 2026

   

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   going to keep this issue open, so I updated the issue title to reflect what's not yet implemented
6. gsxdsm commented on Feb 4, 2026

   

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   Thanks! Can't wait for built-in cron support!
7. thomasjiangcy commented on Feb 21, 2026

   

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   Just checking in to see if any help is required for the recurring piece! Would love to have this implemented.

   👍React with 👍2Reacted by Marc Mogdanz and Subaan Qasim
8. lecramr commented on May 11, 2026

   

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   Same for me, too! If there is already a plan how to achieve the implementation, I'd love to contribute :)
9. jamescmartinez commented on May 11, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the bump @lecramr, and sorry @thomasjiangcy for missing your previous comment.

   Schedules will be in the upcoming OpenWorkflow server. Cron really needs a coordinator and I don’t want to ship a version on raw SQLite/Postgres that makes workflow/other DB usage performance worse.

   For now, I’d recommend an external cron (Node cron, GitHub actions, Vercel cron, k8s job, etc) -> hit your api -> ow.runWorkflow().
10. jamescmartinez commented on Oct 12, 2026

    

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    quick update: I changed the approach since my last comment. This is shipping in openworkflow@0.11 later today without a server required.

    Schedules are stored in SQLite/Postgres, and your existing workers coordinate through the database to create runs.

    The implementation is in #892

    thanks @gsxdsm @thomasjiangcy @lecramr for your patience!
11. jamescmartinez

    closed this as completedin #892on Oct 12, 2026
12. jamescmartinez commented on Oct 12, 2026

    

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    @gsxdsm @thomasjiangcy @lecramr live now in openworkflow@0.11!

    docs: https://openworkflow.dev/docs/schedules

    thanks again for your patience. would love to hear how it works for you