How to get a report from an AI agent every morning

1. Decide what the report should hold

Start with the two or three things you want to see first thing in the morning: for example, yesterday's emails you have not answered, today's meetings and how many inquiries came in yesterday.

Ara can only read your inbox or calendar once that app is connected. To put email and meetings in the report, connect apps such as Gmail and Google Calendar first.

Connecting your mail or calendar can also add a ready-made job: Ara writes on weekday mornings with what needs you that day, and says nothing on days when nothing does. It is added switched off, and it starts once a workspace admin turns it on in Runs on its own. You can try it before writing your own.

• What Ara does in each connected app, and its limits

2. What you need

• Add Ara to your Slack. Press Add to Slack, then type /invite @Ara in the channel that should get the report. It never joins a channel on its own.
• You need to be a workspace admin. Only an admin can set up a new standing job, whether from Slack or on the dashboard. If you are not one, ask an admin to set it up.
• Connect the apps the report needs. A standing job runs with the apps connected by the person who made it.

• How to add Ara to Slack

3. Set it up from Slack in one message

1. Where the report should arrive, mention @Ara and say when and what in one message. If the report holds your own email, say it in your DM with Ara. For example: "@Ara every weekday at 8 a.m., list yesterday's emails I haven't answered and today's meetings."
2. Once Ara has set up the standing job, each report arrives as a new message in that channel at the time you chose. If you asked inside a thread, the report still comes as a new message in the channel. If you asked in a DM, it comes to that DM.
3. On the dashboard, open Runs on its own and check the next run time and the time zone it uses. If the time zone is wrong, fix it under Edit.

In a Telegram or Discord group you cannot set one up by asking. Create it on the dashboard and choose that group under Send the result to.

If you ask for the same job by hand on the same weekday, or the same day of the month, about three times, Ara may offer to set it up for you. Press Yes, set it up and the job is created. A member who is not an admin can accept an offer for their own AI employee; an offer for a workspace agent needs an admin. It only offers weekly or monthly jobs, so set up a daily report yourself.

4. Or set it up on the dashboard

1. On the dashboard, open Runs on its own and press New recurring job. You can also start from a ready-made job under Start from one of these, such as Morning inbox triage (weekdays at 08:30), and change it.
2. Under When it runs, choose Every weekday and set the time to 08:00. Every day, Every week and Every month are there too. Times are read in the time zone shown on the form, so check that it is yours.
3. Write the instructions under What Ara should do, and choose the Slack channel under Send the result to. To get it in a Slack DM instead, set it up by asking Ara in a DM. Wherever it goes, each result also stays in the run record.
4. Press Start this job. Before you do, the form shows about how many times a month it will run and about how many credits that takes.

5. Write the instructions for someone on their first day

Each run cannot see the conversation you set it up in; it starts from the instructions. So write down what to look at, in what order, and what a good report looks like.

If you only want a report, write "don't send anything, just summarize." Say what it should do on a day with nothing new, too.

For example: "List the emails that came in since 8 a.m. yesterday that I have not answered, with the sender, the subject and a one-line summary. Then add today's meetings in time order, with one line on anything to prepare for each. Don't send anything. If no new email came in, say so in one line."

Once it is set up, press Run it now on Runs on its own to see a result right away. If it is not right yet, change the instructions and run it again.

6. How a standing job runs

A standing job runs as the person who made it, with the apps they connected. If the report reads your inbox, have it sent to your DM rather than to a channel many people read.

Unless you chose your own PC under Runs on, it runs where the workspace works: the cloud computer, or a workspace PC if an admin chose one. So you do not need to keep your own PC on. Your own PC only takes the job once Runs as is set to your own AI employee.

If it runs on a workspace PC and that PC is off, the run moves to the cloud computer. But if Stay on its PC is on, or an admin set the workspace not to move work to the cloud, it waits for the PC and does not run if the PC stays off.

Standing jobs are done by Ara, not by Claude Code, even if you chose to have your own Claude Code answer you in Slack.

A workspace admin can Pause, Resume or Delete a standing job on Runs on its own at any time. If the person who made it leaves the workspace, it stops, and once an admin presses Take over it runs as that admin from the next run.

If it fails three times in a row, Ara tells the person who made it and the workspace admins on the dashboard's Today screen. In the first few days, check that each report arrives on time.

7. What it costs

Each finished run of a standing job uses credits: usually one, plus a little for any data lookups (Ara pulling information from a paid outside data source). Every weekday comes to about 22 runs a month. A failed run has no task cost, though the data lookups it made still count.

If the workspace runs out of credits, that run is skipped and a notice appears on the dashboard. Once credits are topped up, it runs again at its next scheduled time. If an admin set a daily credit cap, runs left on a day that hits the cap are skipped too. Runs skipped for the cap are not made up later; each job runs again at its next scheduled time after midnight, Korea time.

Every Ara account starts on the Free plan: free credits and no card, so nothing can charge on its own.