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

# Routines

> Have Stella do a task on a schedule and send you the answer.

A **routine** is something you'd ask Stella, on a schedule. "Every Monday at 9, list the deals that went quiet." "Each weekday at 5, show the website chats nobody answered." Stella, your AI teammate, runs it at that time, as you, and sends you the answer.

Each routine has:

* **Ask Stella**: the prompt, written the way you'd type it into chat.
* **Run as**: plain Stella, or one of your workspace's [Chat Agents](/ai/chat-agents/overview).
* **When**: daily, weekdays, weekly or monthly, at a time you pick, in your time zone.
* **Send the result to**: an email to you, a Stella chat in your history, or both.

## Make a routine

1. Go to **Settings → AI → Agents → Routines**.
2. Click **New routine**.
3. Give it a name and write what Stella should do.
4. Pick when it runs and where the answer goes.
5. Click **Create routine**, then **Run now** to see what it sends.

The first scheduled run is the next time that matches. A routine made on Sunday for "Mondays at 9:00" first runs on Monday.

## What a run can do

A routine can **read** your workspace and can't change anything in it. It sees only what you can see. Nobody is there to approve a change while it runs, so it gets no tools that edit records, send messages or create things.

If a routine's task asks for a change, Stella describes what it would change instead.

## Nothing to report

With **Send nothing when there's nothing to report** on (the default), a run that finds nothing sends nothing. It shows as "Nothing to report" under **Recent runs**, so you can still see it ran.

## Recent runs

Open a routine to see its last runs: when each ran, whether it was sent, and the start of the answer. **Open in Stella** opens the full answer as a chat, so you can ask a follow-up.

If a run fails, the reason shows on the run. A routine keeps its schedule after a failure, and the next run tries again.

<Note>
  Each run is one Stella conversation and uses AI credits like any other. Routines are personal: only you can see, edit or run yours. Each person can have up to 25.
</Note>

## See also

* [Chat Agents](/ai/chat-agents/overview)


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