Routines and skills

A routine is a task an agent runs on its own: on a schedule, or when something happens. Because each agent works on its own cloud computer, routines keep running while your Mac is closed.

Set up a routine

Ask the agent in plain words:

Every weekday at 8am, sort my inbox and send me a short summary of what needs me.

The agent creates the routine and confirms when it will run. You can also make one yourself: open the agent, choose Routines, then New Routine, and give it a name, an instruction and when to run.

Each routine has Active to turn it on or off, Test run to try it now, and Run history to see what it did. Delete removes it.

Run on an event

A routine can also start when something happens in another app, such as:

• a mention in Slack,
• a new pull request or a failed check in GitHub,
• a new issue in Linear,
• an error in Sentry,
• an incident in PagerDuty.

When someone mentions me in the #support channel, draft a reply and show it to me.

Skills

A skill is a way of doing something that an agent can reuse, like your report format or your steps for onboarding a client. Teach an agent once and ask it to save the process as a skill. You can keep a skill to yourself or share it with your team, and it's added to every agent it's shared with.

Good routines

• Start with a task that already worked once in the chat, then make it a routine.
• Say what to do with the result: send it to you, post it in Slack, or file it in Google Drive.
• Keep approvals on for anything that sends, pays or posts. A routine still asks first.