Automations

1. Press “+ New”. One box opens: “What should happen?”
2. Say it in a sentence, then press “Draft it”. For example:

   “Every Friday, recap this week's gigs for the crew and draft it to Benny.”

3. Nirvaana drafts its name, what it does and when it runs. Its steps, what it makes and what it asks for are folded under “Details”, for when you want to change them.
4. “Try it” runs it once on your own things, so you see what it makes. Then press “Save”.

“+ New” opens a builder. On the left are tiles: “Ask Nirvaana” for a step in your own words, the apps you have connected and what each can do (such as “Read new emails”), your other automations, and “When” it starts. In the middle is the flow, from what starts it to what it makes.

1. Drag a tile onto the flow, or press it to add it at the end. A flow has up to eight steps.
2. Drag a step to move it, or drag it off the flow to take it out; “Undo” puts it back. Press a step to see its “Details” and change its words.
3. Name it at the top, press “Test run” to see what it makes on your own things, then “Save”.

Rather type it? “Describe it instead” and say what should happen; Nirvaana lays the steps out on the flow for you to change. Another automation that has steps of its own is added as a copy of its steps, and one can never use itself. If something can't be saved together, such as reading your email on a schedule, the builder says so straight away. With no apps connected yet, the palette says “Connect apps to use them here” and opens Connections.

Every drag has another way: “+ Add a step” lists every tile, and each step has “Up”, “Down” and “Remove”. With a keyboard, press Space on a step's handle to pick it up, the arrow keys to move it, and Space to put it down. On a phone the flow is a plain list with the same buttons.

Under the list, “Try:” offers six ready-made ones: a weekly recap, what's due and what you're waiting on, meeting decisions, a promise check, a research brief and next steps. One press adds your own copy, yours to change. If you have a bank or your business books connected, a money one takes a place in the row. A starter you already have isn't offered again.

Press “Run” on a row. If it asks for something, such as the meeting notes, a box says what to hand it; otherwise leave it empty and press “Run” again. What it made shows under the row. A message or something for a world that it makes is a draft: it waits for you to send it or approve it, and nothing is sent by itself.

Open a row's menu and press “When it runs” to have it ready at times you choose: every day, every weekday, every week on a day you choose, or once a month, in your own time zone, between 7 am and 9:30 pm.

A schedule doesn't run anything by itself. At its time a card in your day says it's ready, and your phone or browser tells you too. “Run it” opens it here, where it runs when you press it.

A card you don't run goes when the next one comes, or after a day. At most six are ready in a day, across all of yours. “Only when I ask” takes the schedule away.

In a row's menu, “Share with a world” lets you pick a world you build in. Before you press “Share” it says exactly who will see it. Its name, what it does and its steps go with it, and it runs on each person's own things; whom its messages are for stays with you. “Stop sharing” takes it back from everyone at once.

One someone shared into one of your worlds says where it came from, and only they can change it. Make my own copy in its menu gives you one to change or schedule.

“Rename” takes up to 40 letters. “Delete” asks once more first; a chat that already uses it can still call it, and nothing it made is lost.

With Nirvaana connected to Claude (“Connect Claude” in Help), ask for one by its name and Claude runs it inside Nirvaana, on what you have kept, and shows you what it made:

“Run my Weekly recap.”

Ask Claude what automations you have, and it lists them. Ask it for a new one, and it hands you a link that opens “+ New” here with your words in the box, for you to draft, try and save. A draft it leaves for someone still waits for your approval in Nirvaana.

These are different from an automation's “When it runs”. They are asks you set in the chat, such as “every Friday at 9, send Kim this week's invoices”, and they are listed at the foot of Automations once you have one, where you can pause or delete them. When one comes round it asks in your day first, and runs only if you say yes then.

Once you have done something this week, one quiet line sits above Reminders and Blockers, such as “This week: 6 things done · helped Maya”. Someone is named only if you share a world with them. When you press “Done” on something a teammate was waiting on, one line says so by name, then fades.

An automation doesn't go off on its own. It does something when you run it, or when Nirvaana calls on it in a conversation you are in. One on a schedule is only made ready at its time; it runs when you press Run.

It is also not a second assistant with its own opinions. It is the same Nirvaana, doing one job the way you saved it. What Nirvaana would not do, no automation does. What needs your yes still needs your yes.