Outborn Agent Platform · Step-by-step guide
Automations
Run scheduled, recurring, or conditional agent work while preserving permissions, approvals, notifications, and failure handling.
Before you begin
- Choose an agent that already works interactively with the required sources.
Follow the workflow
- 01
Choose a trigger
Select the supported schedule, condition, or connected trigger that matches the work.
- 02
Set scope and audience
Review the agent's tools, source grants, notification destination, and owner.
- 03
Run a small trial
Inspect the first execution, status, output, and any pending approval before relying on repeat runs.
The recurring work has an owner, observable run history, and the same approval boundary as interactive work.
Check trigger configuration, expired connections, quotas, and the latest execution error.
Applied guidance
Best practices for automations
Recommended
- Prove the agent works interactively before scheduling it.
- Name an owner, notification audience, failure response, and approval boundary.
Avoid
- Do not let a repeat trigger silently turn a read workflow into an unreviewed external write.
01
Scheduled agents
Run an agent at a defined time or cadence using its configured sources and permissions.
02
Recurring tasks
Use recurring tasks for work that should repeat predictably rather than relying on a person to restart the same flow.
03
Conditional monitoring
Condition-based automations can check for a state change and notify or continue only when the condition is met.
04
Approvals
Scheduling does not remove approval requirements for consequential external writes.
05
Notifications
Send outcome or exception notifications through configured channels according to the automation's audience.
06
Failure and retry behavior
Retries should be bounded and observable. Authentication failures, provider outages, permission changes, and exhausted quotas should remain distinguishable.
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