Document Fern Agent automations - #6776
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Avoid time-relative terms like 'now' that become outdated
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📝 [vale] <FernStyles.We> reported by reviewdog 🐶
Try to avoid using first-person plural like 'our'.
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Try to avoid using first-person plural like 'our'.
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Summary
Documents Fern Agent automations — a saved prompt Fern Agent works on a schedule with nobody present — as a
## Automationssection on the existing Fern Agent page, with a changelog entry and a pointer from the Docs AI overview.Behavior is taken from the fern-platform stack: #14259 (backend), #14260 (agent tools), #14261 (dashboard Automations page), and #14039 (Slack reports of finished runs). Written as live per the request.
What the section covers: creating an automation in the dashboard or conversationally; the 2,000-character prompt limit; delegated authorization (a run acts with its creator's Fern permissions, one authorization per person); daily/weekly schedules with a timezone and the 20-hour minimum interval; Run now; Past runs and where the report and any pull request live; Slack reports of each finished run (DM to the creator when their Slack account is linked to
@Fern, otherwise the automation's Slack notifications channel); org-wide visibility with creator-only mutation; pause vs. delete; the 10-automation limit and 30-day run history.Not documented: internal storage details (50-record page size, cron field format accepted by the API beyond what the dashboard exposes).
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