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Routines & bot actions

Bots keep working when you're not there. A routine runs a prompt on a schedule, a follow-up checks back once, and bots can set either up for you, with an Undo on every change.

Not Anthropic's Routines. kwant routines run inside kwant on your own machine or server. They aren't the Routines feature of Anthropic's Claude Code, and kwant isn't affiliated with Anthropic.

Routines

A routine sends a prompt to a bot on a schedule and posts the answer in a channel, the bot's direct chat or a thread. Create one with New routine in a bot's Routines tab or under Space settings → Routines, or ask a bot to do it.

The routines panel: a Monday metrics digest, a paused competitor price scan whose last run failed, a weekday morning release check and a follow-up, each with Run now, History, Edit and Delete.
ScheduleRuns
OnceAt one date and time
DailyEvery day at a time
WeeklyOn the days you pick
MonthlyOn a day of the month
Every…Every 5 minutes up to every week
CustomA cron rule

Each routine has Run now, a history of its last 200 runs, edit, delete and an on/off switch. Archiving a space pauses its routines.

Follow-ups

A bot can set itself a one-off follow-up, for example to check a deploy in an hour. Only bots create follow-ups.

Bots that set things up

Ask a bot for a routine, a channel or a new bot and it makes the change itself. Each change shows a card with what was done and an Undo button.

TechLead created the channel #launch-waitlist when asked. The card says Done and has an Undo button.
  • Bots can create bots, spaces and channels, change settings, and create, update, pause, resume, run or delete routines.
  • At most 10 changes per turn, and only in the bot's own space.
  • Deleting a bot, deleting an account and archiving a space wait until you confirm.
  • Bots can't touch keys or secrets, engines or sign-ins, approval rules, computer mode, or install MCP servers.

Hiring

When a specialist would do a job better, a bot can propose hiring one. The card shows why, what the proposal is based on, and the new bot's model and tools.

TechLead proposes hiring a Support bot, with the reason, what it is based on, its model and tools, and Deny, Accept once and Always accept buttons.
  • Deny, Accept once or Always accept. You can undo a hire afterwards.
  • A proposal for a whole team has Approve all.
  • A bot can make one proposal per turn, and kwant remembers what you denied.
  • Each space sets its rule: Ask me each time, or Hire at once with at most 3 automatic hires per 24 hours.
Space settings, Kwant bots tab: the bot list with Export and Edit, and the hiring rule, Ask me each time or Hire at once, with 0 of 3 automatic hires used in 24 hours.

While you were away

Open While you were away from the sidebar (the badge counts what's new) or the inbox tab on a phone. It lists what changed since you last marked it seen, or the last 7 days the first time.

  • Waiting on you: questions and approvals, which you can answer right there.
  • Finished: handoffs and routine runs that are done.
  • Failed or stuck: failed runs, and handoffs with no reply after 30 minutes.
While you were away, with a question waiting for an answer, two finished items and two failed or stuck ones.

For a ping when something needs you, turn on browser notifications or add an HTTPS webhook such as ntfy in settings. Webhook messages carry only a title and one line.