Talo Guide

Automatic weekly report and reviewed

How to schedule a weekly summary of the project that generates on its own but never reaches your real folder without your approval.

You want to have a draft progress report every Monday without having to ask for it manually. Talo can do it, but with a rule it never breaks: what an automation writes stays in a copy until you decide to apply it.

Steps

1. In a project conversation, ask the assistant something like "every Monday at 9 create

a progress report". The assistant creates the task with Talo's automations skill, but it's born paused: it's marked "Created by assistant · pending activation" and won't run on its own. The assistant itself can't activate it even if it tries.

1. You'll see the "pending activation" notice in the sidebar (Automations), in Home, and on

the Settings main card. Go into the task detail and review what prompt it will use and how often.

1. If everything looks good, tap "Activate". From then the task is active and leaves pending.

The schedule shows in plain text ("Every Monday at 09:00"), not as a cron expression.

1. You can test it right now with "Run now" instead of waiting until Monday: you'll see a run

that finishes "Completed" with its cost in a few seconds (in Codex the cost might show "unknown", never 0).

1. When the automation runs (scheduled, manual, or chained), its agent works on a copy of

the project, not on your real folder, and without auto-approve mode. If it tries to write outside that copy, it gets denied.

1. If the run changed any files, the Executions panel marks it "Changes pending review", Home

warns you, and you get a notification. If nothing changed, the copy deletes itself and there's nothing to review.

1. If you leave a review unresolved, it doesn't expire suddenly: Talo warns you when less

than 24 hours remain, and after 7 days with no decision, it marks it "Expired" and deletes the copy.