# schedule

URL: /business/nouns/dashboard/schedule · Id: `verb:Dashboard.schedule` · Call: `await $.Dashboard.schedule({ … })` (SDK) or the `do` tool at `https://api.sb/mcp`. Inputs says what to pass, Outputs what returns, When it waits who approves.

> Schedule sends a Dashboard on a cadence to a Mailbox, a Channel or an Agent’s context, rendered for each.

Schedule sends a [Dashboard](/business/nouns/dashboard) on a cadence to a [Mailbox](/business/nouns/mailbox), a [Channel](/business/nouns/channel) or an [Agent](/business/nouns/agent)’s context, rendered for each.

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `dashboard` | [Dashboard](/business/nouns/dashboard) | Yes | The Dashboard to send. |
| `cadence` | `string` | Yes | How often it goes out. |
| `to` | `string` | Yes | The Mailbox, Channel or Agent that receives it. |

## Outputs
| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `dashboard` | [Dashboard](/business/nouns/dashboard) | Yes | The Dashboard, with its schedule. |

## Effects
- Emits [`Dashboard.scheduled`](/business/events/Dashboard.scheduled).
- Performed by the [Analyst](/agents/marketing/analyst).
- Two-way: it runs at once, in the `try`, `send` and `do` modes.
- Agents receive Markdown; Humans receive the rendered view.

## Refuses when
| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | [Dashboard.schedule](/business/nouns/dashboard/schedule) |

## When it waits
| Gate | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Decision class | Low: two-way, nothing at stake |
| [Delay window](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows) | None: it runs once review passes. |
| Limit | The call [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) of the [Permission](/business/nouns/permission) it runs under. |
| Over the Limit | It waits `pending` for an [Approval](/business/nouns/approval) from the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder). Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with [`limit-exceeded`](/code/api/errors/limit-exceeded); unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`. |

## Example

**Ask**

```text
Schedule my dashboard.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/dashboards/dashboard_1/schedule \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cadence":"daily","to":"Example to"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app",
  "dashboard": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/dashboards/dashboard_1",
    "$type": "Dashboard",
    "scope": "Startup"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "Dashboard.schedule",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const dashboard = await $.Dashboard.schedule({ dashboard: 'dashboard_1', cadence: 'daily', to: 'Example to' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do Dashboard.schedule --json '{"dashboard":"dashboard_1","cadence":"daily","to":"Example to"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Dashboard.schedule({ dashboard: 'dashboard_1', cadence: 'daily', to: 'Example to' })"
  }
}
```

Guides that call it: [How is it going](/start/guides/how-is-it-going).