# Automation Design

> Design Codex automations, scheduled research jobs, recurring reports, reminders, monitors, thread follow-ups, and workspace jobs. Use when the user asks to set up, improve, schedule, template, audit, or design an automation, monitor, reminder, or recurring Markdown report.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-ntaffzii-skill-agents-automation-design`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [ntaffzii](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ntaffzii)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [ntaffzii](https://github.com/ntaffzii)
- **Source:** https://github.com/ntaffzii/Skill-Agents/tree/main/skills/productivity/automation-design
- **Website:** https://github.com/ntaffzii/ai-desk-tools

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-ntaffzii-skill-agents-automation-design
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Automation Design

Design reliable automation prompts and schedules.

## Workflow

1. Identify automation type
   - Choose reminder, thread follow-up, daily or weekly report, monitoring task, research digest, or workspace job.

2. Capture requirements
   - Clarify task, schedule, timezone, output destination, source rules, language, failure behavior, and whether duplicates should be suppressed.
   - Ask only when missing details would change the created automation.

3. Write a self-contained prompt
   - Include goal, scope, sources or file boundaries, output format, quality rules, and missing-information behavior.
   - Keep schedule settings separate from task instructions.

4. Recommend schedule
   - Use human-readable schedule language unless a tool requires structured syntax.
   - State the timezone explicitly.

5. Confirm or create
   - When an automation tool is available and the user asked to create it, use the tool.
   - If schedule or destination is missing, ask before creation.

## Prompt Template

```text
Task:
[What Codex should do]

Scope:
[Topics, files, repos, sources, or boundaries]

Quality rules:
- Use reliable sources or concrete local files.
- Include links or file paths.
- State uncertainty clearly.
- Avoid duplicate or low-value items.

Output:
[Markdown report, thread reply, file path, etc.]

Language and tone:
[Thai/English, concise/detailed]
```

## Rules

- Prefer updating an existing automation over creating a duplicate.
- Use current-source tools for news, prices, laws, schedules, product releases, and other changing facts.
- Do not expose raw schedule syntax unless useful.
- Report what will happen, when it will happen, and where the result will appear.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [ntaffzii](https://github.com/ntaffzii)
- **Source:** [ntaffzii/Skill-Agents](https://github.com/ntaffzii/Skill-Agents)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://github.com/ntaffzii/ai-desk-tools

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-ntaffzii-skill-agents-automation-design
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ntaffzii
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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