automations

# Automations An automation is a scheduled task. When due it runs in one of two modes: agent Spawn a thread or re-prompt a target thread with a configured prompt. script Run a stored server-side script and capture stdout/stderr/exit. Use the top-level `bb automation` command. The CLI routes it to this plugin. Pass `--project` explicitly for every automation command. Inside a thread, automations are stamped origin `agent` and record the creating thread automatically. Automation-spawned threads cannot create automations. Personal supports automations with `--project proj_personal`. Use `bb project list --include-personal --json` to include it in discovery; an empty default project list does not mean Personal is unavailable. Choosing a mode: Use `script` when the output is fully determined by code: watchdogs, threshold alerts, health checks, heartbeats, and API pollers with a fixed output shape. Scripts run on the bb server. New standard-project scripts use the server-host project source when one exists; Personal and projects without one run in the plugin's shared script storage directory. Existing scripts without a saved policy also run there. Use `--working-directory automation-storage|project|<absolute-server-path>` to select the policy. Script automations do not have an environment field and do not accept environment flags. Design the script to print nothing when there is nothing to report: an exit-0 run with empty stdout/stderr, or a last non-empty line of `{"wakeAgent": false}`, is recorded as a skipped silent tick. Any other output is captured; non-zero exit or timeout is recorded as a failed run. Use `agent` when the run needs reasoning: summarize a feed, pick interesting items, draft a human-friendly message, or branch on content. Creating: ```bash bb automation create --project <id> --name "..." [schedule flags] [mode flags] ``` For creation flags and mode-specific defaults, read [references/creation.md](references/creation.md). Read `references/script-runtime.md` before you use a script file, depend on injected variables, or diagnose retries, timeouts, restarts, and silent runs. Managing: ```bash bb automation list --project <id> bb automation list --target-thread <threadId> bb automation show <automationId> --project <id> bb automation update <automationId> --project <id> [--name <name>] [schedule flags] [partial agent or script flags | complete execution flags] bb automation pause <automationId> --project <id> bb automation resume <automationId> --project <id> bb automation run <automationId> --project <id> [--idempotency-key <key>] bb automation runs <automationId> --project <id> [--limit <count>] [--output <runId>] bb automation delete <automationId> --project <id> --yes ``` `list --target-thread` returns automations in any project that re-prompt that thread; the thread's Info tab shows the same list. It does not include automations the thread merely created. For partial updates, mode replacement, execution targets, or damaged records, read [references/updates.md](references/updates.md). Every command supports `--json`. `bb automation <command> --help` prints that command's exact arguments, options, accepted values, and rules. Unknown commands, unknown options, and stray arguments are rejected rather than ignored, and a failure under `--json` also prints a `{"ok":false,"error":{"code","message","hint"}}` envelope on stdout.