01 / Routines
Describe it — it gets built — it runs on schedule — you wake up to the result. It is the same idea as running an AI agent on your Mac without the terminal.
Step 01
Create a routine
Create a routine
Describe what you want — we'll handle the rest.
Morning briefing
Weekday at 8am with inbox & calendar
When my Mac wakes up
Quick agenda from calendar
Step 02
Designing your routine
Set it once
Pick when it runs — every morning, on a webhook, when your Mac wakes — and which tools it can reach: Gmail, Calendar, Slack, the browser. Flip the switches, save, and never touch it again.
Schedule or event · pick your tools · save once
Step 03
Every routine you've set lives in one place, each with its schedule and last run. Morning Briefing at 8 AM, a Slack digest in the evening, a weekly reflection on Friday — all firing on their own, all on your Mac.
Every routine · its schedule · its last run
Step 04
Ask how your site did overnight and wake up to a dashboard, not a paragraph: visitors and conversions with their trend, a seven-day traffic chart, the pages pulling their weight — generated by the routine as native widgets. Open it, ask a follow-up, and the whole thread stays on your Mac.
Ask in plain English · Widgets out · Runs locally
Scheduled to-dos
Twice an hour, on the hour and on the half hour, a check-in sweeps the to-dos whose time has arrived. Each prompt goes through your assistant with your connectors attached, the answer lands as a new chat conversation, and a notification tells you it is waiting. It is the same live model call chat makes, on the same API key, started by a clock instead of a click.
Edit to-do
Check-ins fire on one Mac, with Routines open. Run Routines on more than one and they fire on the Mac you pick as your Main Mac. Run check-in now works from any Mac. A run that hangs past ten minutes is recorded as failed, and a time you missed by more than a day is skipped with a notice instead of answering on stale context.
Tasks page
Tasks sits under Home in the sidebar, with two tabs and a third way for to-dos to arrive.
Every to-do grouped by overdue, today, scheduled, upcoming, no date, and done today. The schedule row sits on each one: one-tap presets that follow the time of day (Later today, This evening, Tomorrow morning, This weekend), or an exact date and time you pick.
Run check-in now when you would rather not wait for the next sweep, a history of recent check-ins that opens the conversation each one produced, and a behavior file (HEARTBEAT.md) the sweep re-reads before every run, so you can tell it how to work.
After a meeting is summarized, Routines sorts the action items by owner and adds the ones assigned to you. Items owned by someone else, or too vague to attribute, stay off the list instead of being guessed onto it.
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Schedule routines with standard 5-part cron expressions or simple presets — daily at 8am, weekday mornings, hourly. The Rust scheduler fires jobs at the exact second and enqueues them for execution.
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Fire routines on real-world events: Mac wake from sleep, app launch or focus, file-system changes, incoming webhooks, global hotkeys, or the completion of another routine — chaining unlimited automation.
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Describe what you want — "Send me a morning briefing at 8am with my calendar and emails" — and the AI parses it into a full config: name, schedule, connectors, and system prompt. No cron syntax required.
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15 pre-built, ready-to-customize templates across 8 categories: Morning Briefing, Email Digest, Competitor Watch, Slack Digest, Weekly Report, News Scanner, and more — each with sensible default schedules.
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Run any routine on demand with one click, regardless of its schedule. Perfect for testing before automating or grabbing a report this instant — no waiting for the next scheduled run.
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Routines run through a single queue with up to 4 executing in parallel, governed by a semaphore. Network-dependent failures auto-retry after five minutes — your automations finish even when the network stumbles.
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On app startup and Mac wake, Routines checks whether any scheduled runs were missed while closed or asleep — and runs them retroactively, flagged so you know they ran late. Your 8am briefing still arrives.
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Every run produces a result record with status, content, errors, and timestamps — rendered as rich, specialized cards: summaries, weather, calendars, email digests, news, and charts, organized by date.
Routines schedules, triggers, and runs every automation on your own Mac, with no server fees and no per-run charge. The model call is the one step that leaves: through Routines AI, which never stores it, or straight from your Mac to your provider on your own key. When you want to change how one behaves, here is how to customize a routine on your Mac.
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