Managing Automations

List, update, enable, disable, and delete your automations.

Beta Feature: Automations is currently in beta and available for OpenHands Cloud and OpenHands Enterprise users only.

You can manage your automations by asking OpenHands directly—just like you created them.

Viewing Your Automations

List my automations

Show me the details of the "Daily Report" automation

Enabling and Disabling

Pause an automation without deleting it:

Disable the "Daily Report" automation

Turn it back on:

Enable the "Daily Report" automation

Disabling an automation keeps all its settings intact. Use this when you want to temporarily stop runs without losing your configuration.

Changing the Schedule

Change the "Daily Report" automation to run at 10 AM instead of 9 AM

Update the "Weekly Cleanup" automation to run on Sundays at 2 AM UTC

Running Manually

Test an automation or run it outside its normal schedule:

Trigger the "Daily Report" automation now

Run the "Health Check" automation immediately

This is useful for:

• Testing a newly created automation
• Running a report on-demand
• Debugging issues

Viewing Past Runs

Show me recent runs of the "Daily Report" automation

Each run creates a conversation that automatically appears in your conversations list. You can:

• View in the OpenHands UI to see what happened
• Continue if you want to interact with the sandbox
• Debug if something went wrong

Automations are user-scoped, so all your automation runs appear alongside your regular conversations. Look for them in your conversations list after each scheduled run.

Run Statuses

• Pending: Scheduled, waiting to start
• Running: Currently executing
• Completed: Finished successfully
• Failed: Something went wrong—check the run details

Deleting Automations

Delete the "Old Report" automation

Deleting an automation is permanent. Consider disabling it instead if you might need it later.

Next Steps

• Automations overview & examples
• Create new automations