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Routines and artifacts

Work that recurs, and what a run leaves behind.

Routines

A routine is work that repeats on a schedule rather than waiting for someone to file a task: a weekly summary, a daily check, a monthly report.

Routines are under WORK in the left rail. The company's built-in agents arrive with routines already reconciled — which is what the activity feed means by "built in agent routine reconciled" on a brand new company.

A routine is a standing instruction to spend money. A task you file once costs once; a routine costs every time it fires, whether or not anyone reads the result. Give recurring work a budget and an approval gate before you let it run unattended — see Costs.

Artifacts

An artifact is something a run produced and kept: a document, a dataset, a file. Artifacts are addressable, so a later task can refer to one rather than regenerating it.

This is the difference between an agent that answers and an agent that delivers. An answer lives in a comment thread; an artifact is a thing you can hand to someone.

Skills

A skill is a reusable capability an agent can be given, rather than instructions repeated in every task. Skills live under WORK → Skills in the rail. Where the same guidance keeps appearing in task descriptions, it usually belongs in a skill.

Projects

Projects group related work inside a company. A project can hold a goal and the tasks under it, which is how a body of work stays legible once there is more of it than one screen.

Note the ordering constraint: a project belongs to a goal, so deleting a goal that still has projects under it will not work until the projects are gone.