When agents work

An agent does not run on a clock of its own. It runs when something starts it: a watcher whose check comes due, an arriving message, a person handing it a card, or a rule you wrote. Each watcher carries its own cadence, and the agent page shows the source, its health and when it is next due.

That is why two agents in the same workspace can be busy at completely different rates, and why pausing a watcher stops only that watcher — the others keep running, and anything already in flight finishes.

Active hours

Separately, you choose when agents work at all: always, on a daily window, or on a custom cadence measured in minutes. The custom range runs from every minute to once a week.

Queue priority is different

Your plan carries a queue priority — low, standard, fast track or high priority. That governs how your runs are scheduled against everyone else's under load. It is not a measure of how fast a model responds, and it does not change your agent's interval.