Automations

by get-bb

Automations is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by get-bb in bb.

2.3K stars253 forkson get-bb/bbAdded 2026/08/18+27% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install Automations

Copy Automations into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/get-bb/bb/tree/main/plugins/automations/skills/automations ~/.claude/skills/automations

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/get-bb/bb.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/automations/skills/automations/SKILL.md in get-bb/bb
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/automations
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Automations does

Automations creates and manages scheduled tasks for bb that run either agent prompts or server-side scripts. Use it to schedule recurring or one-shot work with bb automation commands.

Automations is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Automations comes from a repository tagged ade, agent-ide, claude-code, codex and devtools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Automations

An automation is a scheduled task. When due it runs in one of two modes:

agent Spawn a thread or re-prompt a target thread with a configured prompt. script Run a stored server-side script and capture stdout/stderr/exit.

Use bb plugin run automations ... while the kernel bb automation command still exists; once the kernel command is removed, bb automation ... will route to this plugin command.

Pass --project explicitly for every automation command. Inside a thread, automations are stamped origin agent and record the creating thread automatically. Automation-spawned threads cannot create automations.

Choosing a mode:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Automations

What else does get-bb publish alongside Automations?
Automations is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from get-bb/bb, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BB Plugin Authoring, Bb Cli and CLI Guide and Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Automations does, and is maintained by get-bb in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the get-bb/bb page.
How does Automations compare to other Automation skills?
Automations ranks #482 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Automations against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.