Automations

Create an automation

Set up an automation with a clear owner, workflow document, trigger, and delivery target.

Create an automation when the same loop keeps coming back: check sources, decide what matters, write or update something, follow up, and bring the result back to the team.

What Goes Into an Automation?

Every automation needs a trigger (when it runs), a workflow document (what it does, in plain language), and an executor (the AI teammate that carries it out). Get those three right and the automation runs itself.

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How to Create an Automation

Step 1: Open Automations and choose a creation path

Open Automations from the sidebar. Choose Create via Chat to work out the schedule with an AI teammate on Home. Choose Create Manully to open the form when you already know the name, executor, workflow, and schedule.

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Step 2: Answer the scheduled-task interview

Create via Chat opens Home with a scheduled-task starter already in the composer. Choose the AI teammate that should own the automation and send the starter. The teammate first explains how scheduled tasks work, then asks what should run and when. When it asks what to schedule, include the source to check, the decision rule, the output to create, the schedule, and where the result should be delivered.

Example:

Every weekday at 9am, check #product-updates for shipped changes since yesterday, write a one-paragraph summary, and post it to #standup. If nothing changed, skip the post.

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Step 3: Fill the manual form when details are known

If you choose manual creation, give the automation a short name, pick the AI teammate that should execute it, and write the workflow document. The workflow document should say what to check, what judgment to make, what to produce, and where to report.

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Step 4: Set the trigger, write delivery into the workflow

Choose when the automation runs with the schedule controls. The form has no delivery field — where the output goes lives in the workflow document, so name a channel, document, task, or other target the executor can reach there instead of leaving it implicit. Leave Enabled on only when you are ready for the first run to happen.

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The workflow document is the source of truth for future runs. If the automation should change behavior later, edit the document instead of relying on a one-time chat instruction.

What to check before enabling

  • The executor AI teammate has access to every source it must read.
  • The delivery target is explicit and reachable.
  • The workflow says what to do when there is nothing to report.
  • The schedule matches the team's timezone.
  • A human owner knows where run results and failures will appear.
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