Agent skill

Automations

by BuilderIO in BuilderIO/agent-native

Event-triggered and schedule-triggered automations with natural-language conditions.

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Install Automations

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill automations -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BuilderIO/agent-native automations --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuilderIO/agent-native.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/automations .claude/skills/automations && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
automations
GitHub stars
7.1k
Token cost
~4.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,815 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
102
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Event-triggered and schedule-triggered automations with natural-language conditions.

  • Works in 7 steps: User asks the agent to create an… → Agent calls manage-automations with… → Agent calls manage-automations with… → …
  • Creating automations
  • SKILL.md covers Rule, The Two Trigger Types, How It Works and Markdown Format, plus 10 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Automations is an agent skill from BuilderIO/agent-native. Event-triggered and schedule-triggered automations with natural-language conditions. Use when creating automations, wiring events, or understanding how triggers fire.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A framework for building agentic apps.

When your agent uses it

  • Creating automations
  • Understanding how triggers fire

Example prompts

  • “/automations”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. User asks the agent to create an automation (or uses the app's Automations page in Settings, /settings/automations; open it with…
  2. Agent calls manage-automations with action=list-events to discover available events.
  3. Agent calls manage-automations with action=define to write a jobs/.md resource.
  4. The trigger dispatcher subscribes to the event on the bus.
  5. When the event fires, the dispatcher loads all matching triggers, enforces
  6. Event and cron acquisition converge on the shared background-automation
  7. Status (lastRun, lastStatus, lastError) is written back to the resource frontmatter.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e16da0c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml and typescript).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Automations loads about 4.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 45 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,815 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~45
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,815 words (~4,440 tokens).

“Automations are the user-facing umbrella for agent-executed tasks that fire in response to events or on a cron schedule. Scheduled and Event are the two trigger types. Each automation is a markdown resource under jobs/ with YAML frontmatter describing when…”

— opening of SKILL.md by BuilderIO
name
automations
metadata.internal
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/automations of BuilderIO/agent-native.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e16da0c

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Scheduleasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks69k—~597Automated safety check: PassCC0-1.0
Recipe Schedule Recurring Eventgoogleworkspace/cli31k—~231Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Automations

What does Automations do?

Event-triggered and schedule-triggered automations with natural-language conditions. Automations is an agent skill from BuilderIO/agent-native. Event-triggered and schedule-triggered automations with natural-language conditions.

When should I use Automations?

Automations fits situations like: creating automations; understanding how triggers fire.

How do I install Automations in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill automations -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/automations in BuilderIO/agent-native) into .claude/skills/automations in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Automations in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill automations -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/automations in BuilderIO/agent-native) into .agents/skills/automations in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Automations in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BuilderIO/agent-native --skill automations -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/automations, .gemini/skills/automations, .github/skills/automations and .opencode/skills/automations in your project.

What does Automations need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Automations is instructions for the agent only.

Does Automations access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Automations safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Automations use?

No licence was found for Automations or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Automations use?

About 4.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 18k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Automations?

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Who maintains Automations?

BuilderIO (a GitHub organization) maintains it in BuilderIO/agent-native, which has 7,087 GitHub stars. The repository holds 102 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: BuilderIO/agent-native on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.