Routines

How a routine runs

A routine is an immutable, versioned piece of work with a schedule. Each time it fires, scheduled or by hand, it creates an occurrence that runs the same routine version under the same database lease. A unique key per day means a routine cannot run twice by accident.

The morning briefing

Ghillie ships with a daily-briefing routine set for 07:00 Europe/London. It starts in shadow delivery mode, which means it runs and records its output but does not send it anywhere until you switch delivery on. That lets you read a few mornings' worth before you trust it to interrupt you.

/briefing     run the current briefing version now
/routines     schedule, delivery mode and the latest occurrence

Delivery

Routine output, call recaps and results from remote devices go through one durable delivery queue. Whichever Mac currently holds the Telegram route claims the queue, so a briefing is delivered once even when Ghillie is running on two machines.

Digests and hand-offs

Email digests and hand-offs follow the same shape: a scheduled read of your mail, a summary you can act on from the message itself, and a record of every action you took from it.