# Bots

Twent agents with a specific task, triggered manually, on a schedule, by webhook, or by MCP events.

Bots are essentially [AI agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent) that are given a specific task — and they keep doing it without you having to ask each time. You can create a bot yourself, or your Twent agent can create one on your behalf.

## [Triggers](/content/docs/features/bots/#triggers/index.html)

Each bot runs on one of four trigger types:

- **Manual** — no automatic firing; you (or the chat agent) trigger it whenever you want
- **Scheduled** — fires automatically on a [cron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron) schedule you set
- **Webhook** — fires when Twent’s local HTTP server receives a matching POST request
- **MCP event** — fires when a subscribed [MCP server](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro) emits a matching event

Any bot can also be fired manually at any time — via the calendar page button or by asking the chat agent. Bots can be created by you directly in the bot form, or by the chat agent itself.

## [Managing bots](/content/docs/features/bots/#managing-bots/index.html)

All of your bots appear in the app alongside the agent’s work — see the **“Bots & Tasks”** page for the bird’s-eye overview (covered in [Subagents](/content/docs/features/subagents/index.html)).