Eigent: Phone and schedules

This page covers the two ways Eigent can work while you are not at the keyboard: schedules, and a link you open on your phone. Then it weighs what each Eigent setting gains against what it risks. It is the fourth of eight pages, so finish the first safe job on page 2 before you set any of this up.

Later: schedules and chat

Schedules

Eigent calls these Automations. Only set one up after a job has worked safely by hand.

The docs give these steps, with the labels the v1.0.7 app uses:

1. In the sidebar, select Automations.
2. Select Create automation.
3. Give it a name and pick the Session it belongs to.
4. Type the job.
5. Choose Schedule and set the time. It can repeat Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
6. Save it.

Before you save, use the limits the app offers: Max Failure Count, Max Per Hour, Max Per Day, and an Expiration Date for repeating jobs. Those cap how many times it runs, but they do not cap dollars.

Keep Ask me first on. "Scheduled runs require Eigent to remain open on this computer," say the version 1.0.6 release notes, so plan on leaving the computer on and Eigent open. This guide could not confirm what happens when an Automation stops for an approval while you are away. It also could not confirm whether Automations run while the computer is asleep.

Chat from your phone

WhatsApp does not work yet. Eigent's home page lists WhatsApp. But the Dispatch docs say Telegram, Lark, and WhatsApp are shown as "Coming soon" and should not be treated as available yet. "Coming soon" is also how the app code for version 1.0.7 marks them.

The one way that works today is Remote Control, which makes a web link you open on your phone. Commands you type there become jobs on your computer. The docs give these steps:

1. Open your Space.
2. In the Space sidebar, select Dispatch.
3. Find Remote Control and select Start.
4. Select Copy link, and open it on your phone.
5. When you are done, go back to Dispatch and select Revoke link (the docs call it Stop). Each link also shows when it expires.

Treat that link like a house key, because anyone who has it can send commands. Never share it, stop it every time, and do not type passwords or keys into it. Your computer has to be on, with Eigent open, for the link to work.

If texting your agent from your phone matters a lot, the main guide's phone and autopilot step uses Agent Zero.

Trade-offs: safety versus capability

Approval mode. Each Space uses one of four modes from the chat box picker: Read only, Ask me first, Approve for me, or Full access. The buttons on each request make the same trade on a smaller scale. Approve once covers one action, while Always allow stops the questions about that action in this Space for future jobs too.

• You gain: looser modes and Always allow mean fewer interruptions, so a long job can keep going without you clicking yes at every step.
• You risk: approvals are not a wall, so anything Eigent approves for you runs as you and can reach any file your account can reach. These choices also keep working until you change them, so one click shapes later jobs too.
• Makes sense when: you are still new, which calls for Ask me first with Approve once, or when a job only reads, which suits Read only. Approve for me fits later, when you are watching a big, boring job on a backed-up folder. Full access does not make sense for a beginner, because the app itself warns that it acts without asking.

The folder your Space is connected to. A Space can be connected to one folder on your computer, and that folder is where Eigent works.

• You gain: connecting a real folder lets Eigent work on your own files directly, instead of on copies you moved in by hand.
• You risk: the folder is not a lock, because an approved command can reach every file your account can reach. Connecting your whole home folder, Documents, or Desktop points every job at your most personal files.
• Makes sense when: the folder is an empty tryout folder, or later one real folder you have backed up, such as photos to rename. It never makes sense for your whole home folder, Documents, or Desktop.

Single Agent or Workforce. When you start a session, you choose who does the job. One agent can do it, or a Workforce of agents splits it and works on the parts at the same time.

• You gain: a Workforce can take on a bigger job by working on several parts at once.
• You risk: with several agents working at once, approval requests may be harder to follow. Free or small models may also struggle with long, many-step jobs, especially with a Workforce.
• Makes sense when: single jobs have already gone well, your model is strong enough for long jobs, and Ask me first is still on. Until then, use Single Agent while you learn.

Automations. An Automation runs a job by itself on a schedule, once, daily, weekly, or monthly, with optional run limits and an end date.

• You gain: repeating jobs happen on time without you remembering to start them.
• You risk: nobody may be watching when it runs. This guide could not confirm what happens when an Automation stops for an approval while you are away, and the run limits cap how many times it runs, not how much it spends.
• Makes sense when: the job has already worked safely by hand and reads and writes only its own notes in the Space's folder. It should also have Ask me first, a Max Failure Count, run limits, and an Expiration Date set.

Remote Control. Starting Remote Control in Dispatch makes a web link that turns anything typed into it into a job on your computer.

• You gain: you can send Eigent jobs from your phone while you are away from your desk.
• You risk: anyone who has the link can send commands to your computer, so a link that leaks gives a stranger the same power you have.
• Makes sense when: jobs have already worked safely at the desk and no email, bank, or store accounts are connected. You should also start the link and Revoke it yourself. It does not make sense in your first hour, or if you might forget to stop it.

For the three questions behind these choices, see Safety versus capability.

Sources

Checked 14 November 2026.

• Eigent research notes
• First-hour safety checklist
• Eigent Automation docs (steps, run limits, end date)
• Eigent releases (version 1.0.6: "Scheduled runs require Eigent to remain open on this computer")
• Eigent Dispatch docs (Remote Control steps; WhatsApp "Coming soon")
• Dispatch channels in the v1.0.7 app code (Telegram, Lark, and WhatsApp marked "Coming soon"; Start, Copy link, and Revoke link)
• Automation labels in the v1.0.7 app code (Create automation, Schedule, Max Failure Count, Max Per Hour, Max Per Day, Expiration Date) and layout text (Automations, link expiry)
• Eigent home page (WhatsApp named under Remote control)
• Eigent quick start (Single Agent or Workforce)
• Eigent security policy ("not an operating-system sandbox")
• Approval mode picker in the v1.0.7 app code (the four modes and what each one says)
• Approval button labels in the v1.0.7 app code (Approve once and Always allow)

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