---
title: "Saved teams and schedules: members and runs"
description: "Keep a temporary collaboration or build a Halo team by hand: pick members, write a goal, then add a schedule, an HTTP trigger and periodic checks."
type: "how-to"
audience: ["office"]
since: "3.0"
prerequisites: ["digital-humans/collaboration"]
related: ["digital-humans/team-workbench", "digital-humans/cross-computer-teams", "digital-humans/triggers"]
lang: "en"
canonical: "https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/saved-teams.html"
last_updated: "2026-10-19T00:11:17+08:00"
source: "Halo 3.0.4 docs"
---
# Saved teams and schedules

Keep a temporary collaboration or build a Halo team by hand: pick members, write a goal, then add a schedule, an HTTP trigger and periodic checks.

::: say
> Keep this team for later.

Say it in the conversation that has the temporary collaboration. Halo keeps it as a standing team under **Digital Humans › Teams**.

> Have the competitor research team produce a competitor report every Monday at 9 am.

Halo gives the team a schedule. **Prerequisite**: **Operate Halo** under **＋ › Capabilities** in the message box must be on.
:::

## Two ways to get a saved team {#ways}

- **Keep a temporary collaboration**: once a team Halo formed in a conversation has done good work, click **Keep this team** in the team view, or say so as above. See [Digital Human teams](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/collaboration.html#keep).
- **Build one by hand**: pick the members and write the goal yourself, as below.

## Create a team {#new-team}

1. Click **Digital Humans** on the left rail, switch to **Teams** and click **New team**.
2. Fill in the **Name** and the **Goal**. Write the goal in plain words: what the team should get done. The lead breaks it down into tasks.
3. Add **members**, one of two ways:
   - Click **Add a digital human** and pick from the Digital Humans in all your workspaces. If none fits, choose **New digital human…** to create one on the spot.
   - Click **Let AI build the team from the goal**. Halo proposes up to 5 members for the goal and lists each one's name and role under "Confirm the members AI will build". If they look right, click **Confirm and create**.
4. Note the line "New digital humans are saved in the … space" in the form, and click **Change** if you want another workspace.
5. If needed, expand **Advanced options** (the defaults usually suit):
   - **Coordination**: **Free mode** (the default: members can talk to each other directly) or **Managed mode** (the lead assigns tasks and reviews results, and members talk along the reporting lines).
   - **When members need help**: **Work it out within the team first** (the default, recommended) or **Notify me directly**.
6. Click **Create**.

![The New team dialog: a filled-in name and goal, no members yet, the Add a digital human and Let AI build the team from the goal buttons, and Advanced options](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/images/digital-humans/saved-teams/new-team.en.webp)

When the team is created, Halo makes a lead for it in the workspace you chose, named "‹team name› Lead". The lead breaks down the goal and hands out tasks; it doesn't appear in your **My Digital Humans** list.

Members built by AI only work when this team runs; they never run on their own. Dissolving the team deletes them, but the workspace they worked in stays.

## Manage members {#members}

Click the gear, **Team settings**, at the top of the workbench. Under **Members**:

- **Add member**: add a Digital Human to the team; its member settings open once it's added. If the team has members on other computers, you're also asked "What people on other computers can have it do", which defaults to **Read only**.
- Write its **Duty in this team**. It applies only inside this team, and teammates read it when they hand out work. Changing the Digital Human's own settings affects it everywhere.
- **Make lead**: promote a member to lead; the old lead becomes an ordinary member.
- **Remove member**: a Digital Human you added leaves the team and loses only its duty and permissions in this team.
- **Delete member**: a member built by AI is deleted outright.

The lead can't be removed here.

## Set a schedule {#schedule}

Under **Schedule** in **Team settings**, turn on **Run on a schedule**, then pick **By interval** or **By time**; the default is every hour. The choices work as they do for a Digital Human's schedule, see [Schedules and triggers](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/triggers.html#schedule), but teams have no **Only on mainland China working days** switch. When the time comes, the lead starts a run on the team's goal.

Manual runs and the HTTP trigger don't depend on this switch; they always work.

## Ways to run a team {#run}

- Click **Run** in **Team settings**; click **Pause** to stop the current run.
- Let the schedule run it.
- **HTTP Trigger**: copy the command under **Team settings › Advanced** so another program can start the team. Calling it from another device needs Remote Access on.
- In a conversation in the team's workspace, tell Halo: "Have the competitor research team run again, and focus on pricing this time."

Each run appears under **Automated tasks** in the workbench task list, view-only. A new run doesn't start while the previous one is still going.

::: warning A team you just kept waits for its collaboration to end
A team kept from a temporary collaboration can run on its own only after that collaboration has finished.
:::

## Periodic checks {#periodic-checks}

Team members can ask a teammate, or themselves, to look at something on a fixed rhythm, such as "check the deployment every 30 minutes and tell me when it's done". Digital Humans set these checks up themselves. You see them under **Periodic checks on it** in the member's settings, and can click **Stop** (a stopped check can't be resumed).

To stop teammates from setting periodic checks on a member, turn off **Let teammates set a periodic check on it** in its member settings.

## Limits for all teams {#limits}

**Settings › Advanced** has a few safety limits that apply to every team. You rarely need to change them:

| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Team Turn Timeout | 60 minutes | The longest one member can work in one turn |
| Digital Team Circuit Breaker Limits › Max messages per run | 2000 | The cap on messages between members in one run; the run stops when it's reached |
| Digital Team Circuit Breaker Limits › Max chained replies | 8 | The cap on back-and-forth between members with nobody stepping in |
| Digital Team Concurrency Limit | 10 | How many member turns can run at once on this computer |

::: done
The team appears under **Digital Humans › Teams**. For a team with a schedule, a new run appears under **Automated tasks** when the time comes.
:::

## Troubleshooting {#troubleshooting}

### Clicking Create says "Add at least one member, or let AI build the team"

A team needs at least one member. Add one of your Digital Humans, or click **Let AI build the team from the goal**.

### AI couldn't propose members

When the goal is too vague, AI may not find suitable members. Make the goal more specific: what it should produce and what the stages are.

## Next steps {#next-steps}

- [The team workbench](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/team-workbench.html): hand out tasks, follow progress, answer decisions.
- [Teams across computers](https://hello-halo.cc/docs/en/digital-humans/cross-computer-teams.html): invite colleagues to bring their Digital Humans.