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Start a Habitica party quest on a schedule

You sent a quest invite on Monday. By Friday two members have not answered and the quest sits pending while the boss waits.

Cotlet does it in your own Habitica account with get_party and start_quest, called by your AI agent, an n8n workflow or a script.

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Can Habitica do this on its own?

Habitica starts a quest when every member has answered or when the owner or leader begins it by hand (checked 17 Oct 2026). There is no timer. The API has a force-start call, and the wiki shows a calendar plus Zapier webhook setup that calls it. That route needs your token and a setup per party.

How you do it in Habitica today

  1. You use a quest scroll, which sends the invite to all party members.
  2. You open your party page and read the member list, where each member shows as accepted, rejected or pending.
  3. You wait until everyone has responded, because a quest begins on its own once all members have answered.
  4. If they do not, you, as quest owner or party leader, begin the quest by hand before the others respond.
  5. The waiting is manual: nothing starts the quest at a time you pick.

How to start a Habitica party quest on a schedule

Prompt

Check my Habitica party quest. If it is still pending and some members have not answered, force-start it at 18:00 on Friday and tell me who was left out.
  1. 01

    Read the party

    get_party returns the quest state and each member's answer. If no quest is pending, the agent reports that and stops.

  2. 02

    Check your role

    Only the quest owner or the party leader can begin a quest early. If your account is neither, the agent says so and does not call anything.

  3. 03

    Wait for the hour

    The job runs at the time you set, for example Friday 18:00, and reads the party again just before acting.

  4. 04

    Start the quest

    start_quest force-starts the quest with the answers it has. It affects every member, so it asks for your OK on each call until you switch that off.

  5. 05

    Report who was left out

    The agent names the members who had not accepted, so you can tell them.

What you get back

Example data

Quest pending since Monday.
Accepted 3, pending 2.
Force-started at 18:00.
Not in the quest: Mira and Tomek (no answer).

Other ways to ask

  • Do not start anything, just tell me on Thursday who has not answered the quest invite.
  • Start the quest as soon as 4 of 5 members have accepted.
  • Every Monday, tell me whether a quest is active and how it is going.

What Habitica allows, and what to know first

  • A quest is started with a quest scroll, which sends an invite to all party members.
  • A party can take part in only one quest at a time.
  • Only the quest owner or the party leader can begin, cancel or abort a quest.
  • A pending quest shows each member as accepted, rejected or pending.
  • Everyone who takes part gets the same reward when the quest ends.

start_quest asks for your OK by default. To run it on a schedule without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Habitica Wiki: Quests · Habitica Wiki: The Keep: Scheduling Quest Starts with Zapier and API · Habitica API documentation

Call start_quest from a script

curl

curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/habitica/quest/start \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "quest": "The Dilatory Distraction",
  "state": "active",
  "members_in": 3,
  "members_out": [
    "Mira",
    "Tomek"
  ]
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the call is habitica_write → start_quest. Example data.

Schedule it in n8n, Make, Zapier or cron

Habitica tools this automation uses

Cotlet Habitica tools used to start a Habitica party quest on a schedule
Tool Parameters
get_party none
start_quest none
All 14 Habitica tools with descriptions

Frequently asked questions

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