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Explain a schedule, write a no-code recipe, and turn a sample webhook into a contract you can trust.

How Automation agents work

Automation breaks when the schedule is a rune and the recipe lives in someone's head. A cron line, a GitHub Actions schedule, or a chain of no-code steps will run at the wrong time for months because nobody wanted to be the person who decoded it. This shelf turns those artifacts into sentences and steps you can rebuild.

The schedule translator explains a cron expression, a systemd OnCalendar, or a workflow schedule, including the timezone trap, and it writes the expression you meant if you describe it in English. The recipe writer takes a repetitive job and returns a trigger, filters, actions, and a failure step you can recreate in n8n, Make, or Zapier. The webhook contract turns a sample payload into required fields, an idempotency key, retry behavior, and a signature check described as a defense, not as an attack.

These agents do not log into your automation account and do not store credentials. If a step would need a secret, the recipe names the secret's slot and tells you to set it in the tool, not in the chat.

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  1. Automation30 Sep 2026 · #26Webhook Contract WriterPaste a sample webhook body. Get required fields, the idempotency key, retry behavior, and how you will verify the signature.InSample POST body from the form vendor, sent to us:OutThe checkAdvanced
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    1. 0:00 The sampleevt_1844, type refund.requested, order 1844, amount 40. Signature header documented as HMAC-SHA256 of the raw body. Retries for 24 hours.
    2. 0:08 Requiredid, type, data.order_id, data.amount, data.currency. created is optional for the side effect.
    3. 0:16 IdempotencyStore evt_1844. A second delivery with the same id returns 200 and does not refund again.
    4. 0:24 The checkCompute HMAC-SHA256 over the raw body with the stored secret and compare to X-Signature. Mismatch is 401 and no side effect. No bypass is described.

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  2. Automation27 Sep 2026 · #23Automation Recipe WriterDescribe a repetitive job. Get a trigger, filters, actions, and a failure step you can rebuild in n8n, Make, or Zapier.InJob: when a refund is requested in our form tool, post a summary to the #billing channel…OutThe slotEasy
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    1. 0:00 The habitA form webhook creates a billing post and a sheet row. Amounts under 1 EUR are tests. Email stays out of the channel.
    2. 0:08 The recipeTrigger: webhook. Filter: amount >= 1. Actions: sheet append with email, channel post without email. Failure: one FAILED message, stop after two tries.
    3. 0:16 The testA 0.50 payload stops at the filter. A 40 EUR payload reaches both actions and the channel text has the order id, not the email.
    4. 0:24 The slotThe sheet credential is named as a slot. The recipe does not contain a key.

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  3. Automation15 Sep 2026 · #11Cron to Plain EnglishPaste a cron line, a systemd OnCalendar, or a GitHub schedule. Get plain English, the timezone trap, and the line you meant.InHost timezone: America/New_York.OutThe fixMedium
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    1. 0:00 Two linesCrontab 30 2 * * 1-5 in New York, and a GitHub cron at 18:30 UTC on weekdays.
    2. 0:08 The readingThe crontab is 02:30 local, Monday through Friday. That is early morning, not afternoon.
    3. 0:16 The other hostGitHub's 18:30 UTC is 14:30 in New York on a winter clock and 14:30 minus an hour when daylight saving applies. The agent says to name the season.
    4. 0:24 The fixFor 14:30 New York weekdays on the crontab: 30 14 * * 1-5. The GitHub line stays, with a UTC comment.

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Questions about Automation

Which automation tools are the recipes for?

The steps are tool-shaped but plain: trigger, filter, action, failure. You can rebuild them in n8n, Make, Zapier, or a small script. The prompt does not emit a vendor-only binary.

Will it explain a cron I already deployed?

Yes. Paste the line and the timezone the host uses. The agent says what the line does and the next runs in that zone, and it flags a line that is ambiguous.

Does the webhook agent show how to forge a signature?

No. It tells you how to verify a signature you receive, using the signing secret stored in your tool. It does not write a bypass.

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