Wake Up to a Finished Audit

The Idea

Automations run an agent session on a schedule, and the output is a real workspace you can open, review, and continue. Schedule the boring sweep for 3 AM; your morning job is just reviewing a diff.

Steps

1. Go to Automations → New automation.
2. Pick the project, this device, an agent, and a daily schedule: FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0.
3. Write a prompt that produces a reviewable diff and is safe to re-run:

Audit this repo's dependencies. Find outdated packages with known
vulnerabilities or major-version lag. Apply the safe minor/patch updates,
run the test suite, and revert anything that breaks it. Write a summary
of what you updated and what needs a human decision to AUDIT.md.
If a previous audit branch already covered today's findings, stop.

4. In the morning, open the run from the automation's detail page. Each run in "new workspace" mode gets a fresh workspace from the project's repo.
5. Review the diff, read AUDIT.md, commit and open a PR, or discard by deleting the workspace.

Prompt Rules for Unattended Runs

• Idempotent: delivery is at-least-once, so a rare double-dispatch must be harmless. "Stop if already done" costs one sentence.
• Self-verifying: "run the tests, revert what breaks" is the difference between a reviewable diff and a mess
• Escalate, don't guess: anything requiring judgment goes in the summary file, not the diff

Variations

• Weekly instead of nightly: FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0 for lower-churn repos
• Rotate the sweep: separate automations for deps (Monday), dead code (Wednesday), TODO triage (Friday); one prompt per automation
• Test it now: use Run now on the detail page instead of waiting for 3 AM

superset automations create --name "Nightly audit" \
  --rrule "FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0" \
  --project <projectId> --prompt-file prompt.md --agent claude
superset automations run <id>

Or create it and fire the first run in one pipe:

superset automations create --name "Nightly audit" \
  --rrule "FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=3;BYMINUTE=0" \
  --project <projectId> --prompt-file prompt.md --agent claude \
  --json | jq -r '.id' | xargs -I{} superset automations run {}