ai agents / agent scheduling / event driven agents
How To Trigger An AI Agent (5 Different Ways)
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AI Agents from Scratch
All lessons in this series
- 1I'll Teach You How To Build AI Agents From Scratch (10 Billion Tokens Proof)
- 2What Is An AI Agent? (ChatGPT Doesn't Count)
- 3The ONE Trick That Turns ChatGPT Into An AI Agent (Tools)
- 4The ReAct Loop: How Cursor & Claude Code Actually Work
- 5The System Prompt That Changes Everything (Prompt Engineering For AI Agents)
- 6How To Make Your AI Agent Truly Autonomous (Without It Going Rogue)
- 7How To Trigger An AI Agent (5 Different Ways)
- 8Subagents Explained: How AI Agents Launch Other AI Agents
- 9Simple Memory: How AI Agents Remember Between Runs
- 10How AI Agents Actually Remember (Memory + RAG Explained)
- 11How To Actually Tell If Your AI Agent Is Good (Evaluation)
- 12The Complete Guide To Building AI Agents (10 Lesson Recap)
Most tutorials focus on how an AI agent thinks — but how does it START in the first place? In this short but important lesson, I cover the different ways to trigger an AI agent: from manual user messages to scheduled cron jobs to event-driven triggers.
You'll learn: → The simplest way to trigger an AI agent (manual user message) → Scheduled triggers: running agents on a cron schedule → Event-driven triggers: agents that react to webhooks, file changes, market events → How professional AI products combine multiple trigger types → When to use which trigger pattern
This is Lesson 7 of "How To Build AI Agents From Scratch" — a free 11-lesson masterclass on building production-ready AI agents.
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Transcript
0:05In this next video I'm going to be talking about how do you actually start or create an AI agent This will be a relatively short video but it is important so please pay attention
0:21So when you're starting an AI agent you can start it in a number of key ways The easiest most simplest and most intuitive way is literally to start it like this Just go to your agent UI and just
0:33send a message and get the ball rolling This is the easiest and standard way to start AI agents but depending on your use cases it might not be the right way
0:46And in this dashboard you basically want the AI to monitor your costs When the cost you spend in a day exceeds a certain amount the AI is going to try to dig into the logs
0:59explain why and send you an email so you're on top of things before things get really bad So here's an example of a dashboard Now you might have an AI agent
1:12like this that literally just pulls the dashboard Every minute it just looks at this dashboard looks at the costs and then it repeats looks at the costs does the loop repeats and it does it
1:27over and over again That is actually a great way of starting an AI agent You can start an AI agent in some more complicated ways like via an API
1:39call or using a web hook or on a cron schedule Within Nexus Trade you can literally create trading strategies and within the strategies
1:52it creates AI agents that have this launch agent strategy right here and what it does is it launches this agent when these conditions are true
2:07And so there are a number of ways to start AI agents You can have a scheduler an API call manually but you have to at least be aware How do you start your AI agent is
2:20overlooked but it is important
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