> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Routines

> Schedule work in an existing session or a new session each run.

Open **Settings → Routines** to create scheduled work, search routines, and filter
by **Active**, **Paused**, or **Completed**.

The page uses the same title, compact search, and create toolbar as Skills and
Plugins. Select a routine to open its editor as a named tab in the shared side panel,
just like skill files. Resize the panel, expand it for more space, or restore it
without losing your edits. Close the panel to return to the list.

## Create a routine

Give the routine a title and instructions. Under **Details**, choose where it
runs and select an existing session or **New session each run**. Available devices
must be connected to your workspace and support the selected execution target.

Choose an interval, daily, weekday, weekly, custom cron, or one-time schedule.
Daily and weekly schedules follow the selected time zone. Interval schedules
repeat after the chosen number of minutes.

Choose **Important updates** or **Failed runs only** for notifications, then
select **Create**. You can also ask for a routine in a conversation; the resulting
widget shows its schedule and links to its settings and session.

## Read results and manage schedules

Routine results are conversations. Select **Open session** to read an execution;
there is no separate run viewer. A routine assigned to an existing session
continues that conversation. A routine configured for a new session starts a
separate conversation each time, and its settings link opens the latest one.

Pause a routine to stop future scheduled executions. Resume it when you want the
schedule to continue. You can edit its instructions and schedule or delete it
from its menu. Completed one-time routines appear under **Completed**.