Schedule an automation

An automation starts a task again by itself, at an interval, with a cap on how many runs a day. Each automation is tied to a task.

Create one

1. Open Automations in the sidebar.
2. Create an automation for a task: its interval in minutes, and its daily cap.
3. Pause it, resume it or delete it from the same list.

For each automation the list shows its name, its interval, whether it is active or paused, how many times it ran today out of its cap, when it last ran, and when it runs next.

What it records

The schedule and the starts — not outcomes, not costs. What happened in a run is read in its session: deducing an outcome from “it started” would be inventing one.

• When the daily cap is reached, the next run reads “daily limit reached”, not a false date.
• A paused automation does not catch up on the runs it missed.
• When its state was not recorded, it says so instead of showing a switch.

The operations behind automations are in Automations.

If it does not start

Check, in this order: is it active? Is the daily cap already reached? Was TALOS running at the scheduled time?

• No start recorded — it has not run yet.
• Interval not recorded — the automation is incomplete: create it again.