Chain steps into a recipe
A recipe is a list of steps your agents work through in order, such as gather, check, then report. Save it once and run it whenever you like, or on a schedule.
A recipe saves a multi-step job so you can run it again with one click: for example, summarize the urgent emails, list the open pull requests, then write a morning briefing. Each step is a prompt an agent works through, in order.
Make a recipe#
In the sidebar, open Automation, then Recipes.
Click + New Recipe.
Pick a starting point under Start a new recipe, such as Morning standup, or Roll your own for a blank one.
Give it a name, then change each step's Step name and prompt.
Click + Add step for more steps.
Click Save.
Most steps are Prompt steps. Pick Approval as the Step kind to make the run stop and wait for your OK at that point, for example before anything is changed or sent.
Set a spending limit#
Run it#
Open the recipe and click Run.
Pick the Project it works in. You can add an Additional message for this run only.
Click Run.
The run starts straight away. Watch, approve and resume a run explains what happens next.
If another recipe is already running, Yardmaster warns you first, because both share your Claude account's capacity and can hit its limits sooner. Click Run anyway to go ahead.
Run it on a schedule#
Click Schedule in the editor, pick a Frequency and Time and the Project, and save. The recipe then runs by itself, whether or not you are at your computer, and spends each time. Its schedule appears in My Automations, where you can pause it.
Patterns. Patterns opens a library of ready-made recipes for bigger jobs, such as audits and draft, critique, revise. See Make a recipe from a pattern.
Agents can run recipes. With Allow agent triggering on, an agent can start this recipe for you, within its own Per-run cost cap (USD). It is off until you turn it on for a recipe.
More step kinds. Sub-recipe runs another recipe as one step; Pipeline runs a step over a list of items in parallel.
Turning it off stops it. Turning off Enable Recipes in Settings hides the Recipes row and stops scheduled recipes from running, including recipe jobs in Cron Jobs. Turn it back on and each schedule runs again at its next scheduled time; runs missed while it was off are skipped.
Learn Yardmaster, Let it run itself: lesson 1 of 3
Make a recipe
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