Automate the routine work in your space

Running a space means making a lot of small, repetitive decisions — granting an achievement when someone solves their first problem, reacting when a contest wraps up, keeping an eye on questions while a round is live. Automation lets you hand those off to rules that run on their own.

A rule works in a simple way: something happens in your space, and the rule reacts to it. It can watch for submissions finishing, contests being finalized, new members joining, participants registering, scores changing, and questions being asked or answered. You can narrow things down with conditions — only accepted submissions, only participants who placed near the top, only tickets in a certain state — so a rule fires exactly when you want it to and stays quiet the rest of the time.

When a rule fires, it can do one of two things. You can write a short script, in a small Python-like language, that talks to the platform directly — grant an achievement, look something up, make a change. Or you can hand the job to an AI agent: describe what you want in plain language, give it a set of tools to work with, and let it work out the steps. Right now the agent can do things like grant achievements, pull up details about a member, contest, problem or submission, and read and reply to contest questions.

Every run is recorded in a log you can open and inspect, down to each tool an AI action called and what it returned. And while you are still setting a rule up, you can switch on dry run to watch it work without it actually changing anything.

You'll find automation in the console, under Automation — that's where you create rules and review their logs. For a full walkthrough of triggers, conditions, and actions, see the automation guide.