Your First Duty

A duty is a scheduled job you attach to a specialist — set it in plain language, run it once manually to check the output, then let it repeat on its own with external actions held for your approval by default.

What a duty is

A duty is a specific piece of work — usually the same prompt or job you already ran once by hand — tied to a specialist and a trigger. Instead of asking a specialist to check something “every so often,” a duty makes that check actually happen without you starting it.

Setting a schedule

Schedules are set in plain language, not cron syntax: daily at a time you choose, weekly on a given day, or every N hours. The shortest interval available is every 15 minutes — nothing runs more often than that, regardless of how the schedule is phrased. Duties can also be manual-only, with no recurring schedule at all, if you would rather trigger them yourself or from an email or webhook trigger.

Run now

Before trusting a schedule, use Run now to fire the duty immediately and check the result. This is the fastest way to confirm a duty behaves the way you expect — the same as testing a prompt manually — without waiting for the next scheduled trigger.

Tip: Run a duty manually at least once before turning on a recurring schedule. It is easier to fix a prompt after one bad run than after a week of them.

Where results are delivered

Each duty's results land in the chat thread and your workspace files by default, plus your notifications. You can additionally have a duty deliver by email or WhatsApp if you want results to reach you without opening CloudAxis at all.

Autonomy: Ask me first by default

Any duty step that takes an external action — sending an email, posting to social media, sending a WhatsApp message, changing a calendar — defaults to Ask me first. You get an approval request on WhatsApp or in the dashboard Approvals inbox, and the action only goes out once you approve it with one tap. Approvals left unanswered expire; a step marked Watch only never acts at all, and one switched to Act on its own runs without asking — worth doing only once you trust the output.

Next step

You have now completed the first-hour path — free signup, Cloudia, a first task, a specialist, and a duty. Revisit Getting Started for the full sequence, or check the FAQ for plan limits and troubleshooting.