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A routine is work a bot repeats on a schedule: every weekday morning, pull the report; on Fridays, check the release page; every hour during business hours, watch the queue. Routines belong to a bot you own and fire in your local weekday hours.

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Set one up

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Sign in and open a bot you own

Guests cannot create routines; a routine has to belong to an account that can come back and stop it.
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Add a routine

Describe the repeated work and when it should run. The bot can also create one for you from the conversation — do this every weekday at nine — through its routine tool.
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Choose how it reports back

Ask for a notify when something changes, or a short message each run.
4

Pause and resume from the Computer rail

Routines are listed on the rail with their state.

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Timing

A run wakes the bot’s computer if it is asleep, does the work, and reports through the user-visible tools. Consequential steps inside a routine still park behind approvals unless you chose Always for that kind of step earlier.

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Routines follow your account

Your chats, projects, and Bot routines follow a signed-in account across devices — the web app and the Bot desktop app show the same routines.

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Routines are not…

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Related

  • Computer — where routines run.
  • Tools — routine, notify, send_to_user.