Three checks to make right after your Bot saves a routine
When you ask a Bot for a routine in plain words, it turns your sentence into a saved schedule. Most of the time that's exactly what you meant. These three checks catch the times it isn't.
Read the schedule back
Click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then pick the new routine from the Routines list on the Details tab. Look under When to run, where the Bot writes out, in a plain sentence, the timing it actually stored. Read it the way a stranger would. "Every day" and "every weekday" are different routines, and so are 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Wrong? Hit Edit and describe the change you want in your own words.
Check the clock it follows
Your routines run on the clock you pick in Settings, under Bot, in the Timezone setting. Auto-detect uses the time zone of the computer you're on. If the routine belongs to an office or a person somewhere else, pick that zone instead, or a trip will quietly shift your morning summary.
Don't wait for tomorrow to find out
Saving a routine doesn't set it off. Its first run comes at the next slot on the calendar. Set up a Monday 4 p.m. report on a Monday at 4:30, and you won't see it for a week. Want to see it work today? On desktop, open the routine and press Test, then watch the Bot's chat for what it did.
Test is a real run. It can change files, use your connected apps and spend usage, so try it on a routine that's safe to run, or give the Bot a harmless sample first.
One more habit
If a run ever fails with a rate limit error, it won't try again by itself. Run it again yourself with Test from the desktop app.
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