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Run audits, backups, smoke tests, or dependency checks on a schedule.

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Section: Branching and trigger patterns

Nightly scheduled workflow

yaml
yaml
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 6 * * *"
Explanation

Schedules are ideal for recurring maintenance and longer-running jobs that do not need to run on every commit.

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