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Automations

Ask Hermit to do something on a schedule. Each run is its own chat, and it never approves money.

An automation is a message Hermit sends to itself on a schedule. “Every morning at 8, brief me on my portfolio and the market” becomes a run at 08:00 every day, each in a new chat.

It all runs on your phone or Mac. There’s no server of ours to run it while Hermit is closed, and that shapes how it works.

Make one

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  1. Open Automations from the sidebar (the menu on iPhone).
  2. Describe it in the box (“Describe an automation”), or tap one of the starters under it.
  3. Hermit drafts it: When, First run, Asks Hermit, and Money: Never moves without your approval.
  4. Tap Save, or Edit to change the time or what it asks.
You type

Every Friday at 5pm, help me review my week

You see

“Here is the automation. Check it, then save it.” When: Every Friday 17:00. Asks Hermit: help me review my week.

The starters are a good way to see it work. “In 2 minutes, remind me to stretch” runs once, two minutes after you save it. “Every minute, tell me the BTC price and my wallet total” shows a run within a minute (pause it after).

Hermit understands every minute, every N minutes, every hour, every day at a time, a weekday at a time, and “in N minutes”. Schedules it can’t plan yet, like “every 2 hours” or “weekdays”, are saved to run only when you press Run now, and the draft tells you so.

When it runs

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While Hermit is open, it checks at least every 30 seconds and runs anything that’s due. The run happens in the background in a new chat, so you stay on whatever screen you’re on. You get a toast and a notification (“Ran at 09:00. Open it to read the reply.”). If you send a message while a run is going, yours comes first, and the run tries again shortly.

If Hermit is closed at that time, a notification reminds you (“Due at 09:00. Open Hermit to run it.”). Open Hermit and anything that was due runs once. Tap the notification and its chat opens when the run is done.

Hermit asks for permission to send notifications the first time you save a scheduled automation.

Run now, pause and the rest

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Run now sends the prompt right away, in a new chat. The switch on each row pauses it or turns it back on. The menu has Open, Rename and Delete.

Open an automation to see its thread: what you asked for, then one entry per run with the time and the first line of the answer. Tap a run to open its chat. You can also change it in plain words in that thread, like “make it every Tuesday at 10” or “run it now”.

Money

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An automation never approves anything. If a run prepares a swap or a send, the review waits in that run’s chat, and the run is marked Needs approval. The notification says “It prepared something that needs your approval. Nothing has moved.” You open the chat, tap Review, and approve it yourself with Face ID (Touch ID on a Mac), or don’t.

The assistant’s spending policy applies to runs exactly as it does to chat.