Let auto-replies answer your agents
Auto-replies answer or tidy up a session when its agent says something you expect, so work keeps moving while you are away.
Auto-replies keep your agents moving while you are away. You pick a phrase, like "Should I continue?", and what to do when an agent ends its turn with it: answer for you, rename or archive the session, start a new one, or leave yourself a note. This is what used to be called Away Mode; it now lives in Automations.
Create an auto-reply#
In the sidebar, open Automation, then Automations.
Click + New auto-reply.
Under Condition type, pick Keyword match and type the exact phrase to look for, for example
Should I continue?.Under When it matches, pick Reply to the agent.
Type the reply (for example "Yes, continue"), or switch Response source to Use quick reply and pick one of your quick replies.
Click Add Rule.
If Automations is not in the sidebar, turn on Enable Channel Filters in Settings > Automations first.
Your auto-replies are listed under Auto-replies, with how many times each has fired. A rule marked off does not run.
What an auto-reply can do#
Besides answering, When it matches offers:
Rename the session, for example to "Done, needs review".
Archive the session: closes it and stops it.
Start a new session with a prompt you write.
Add an inbox note to remind yourself.
Organize the session: give it a new title, a tag and an Inbox color, in any combination.
A session's color shows as a thin bar on its row. You can also set one by hand: right-click a session and choose Set color (or No color to clear it).
Choose when it matches#
Condition type decides what the rule looks for:
Keyword match: a whole phrase in what the agent just wrote.
Tag / text match: a tag or some text.
Project match: sessions in one project.
Time-based: a time range, like
22:00-08:00.
Text inside code blocks or quotes is ignored, so an agent that only mentions your phrase does not set off the rule. To limit any rule to one project, fill in Only in project.
It will not loop forever#
If an auto-reply keeps answering a session that makes no progress, Yardmaster stops after 3 tries in a row and shows the session in your Inbox. It starts again once the agent does real work.
Replies to the most recent turn only. A rule looks only at what the agent wrote in the turn that just ended, not at older messages.
Make a rule from a message. Select text in an agent's message, right-click it and choose Create Auto-Run Rule to start a rule with that text.
More automations. Rules that act on email and other events, and their history, are in Automations.
Related
- Act on messages with rulesA rule watches your incoming texts and Gmail, or your sessions, and acts when its condition matches: archive, notify you, reply, forward, or start a session.
- See everything that runs on its ownMy Automations lists every scheduled job, recipe schedule, sweep, rule, drip, alarm and scheduled message in one place, so you can spot what is broken and pause anything.
- Run a cron job on a scheduleA cron job runs a command, a recipe or an agent session at the times you choose, such as every weekday at 9am, as long as Yardmaster is open.