Stock Routines

Stock routines are tested, ready-to-use routines Town includes out of the box, for work that should happen on a trigger, on a schedule, or whenever a team needs the same assistant behavior more than once. Enable them from the dashboard, then customize to fit your needs.

Ready to use

Additional stock routines currently available:

• Weekly Briefing — a preview of the week ahead, and the one automated routine the Free plan runs (see Plans & Pricing)
• Newsletter Digest
• Meeting Briefing
• Schedule Optimizer
• Deal Spotter
• Competitive Intel Briefing
• Contact Research Dossier
• GitHub Reports
• Relationship Reconnect
• Meeting Action Hand-Off — once a recorded meeting finishes transcribing, separates what was agreed from what was only discussed and files just the work that isn’t already tracked
• Direct-Report Feedback Prep — a weekly, private set of source-linked talking points for each person you manage
• Loose-Ends Sweep — late each weekday, one private list of every open loop you owe: what cannot wait tonight first, then the replies, action items, and promises still open in your name
• Decline Cold Outreach

With X connected, nine more become available: X Daily Digest, Mentions & Reply Brief, Bookmark Butler, Save-to-Action, Topic Radar, Competitor Pulse, Engage Assist, X Post Ideas, and Your Week on X.

Every routine lists the connection it needs — most just need a connected email account, Gmail or Outlook either way, while GitHub Reports needs GitHub and the X routines need X. Until that connection is in place, the routine’s setup screen says “Connect … first to enable this routine” (it labels the email requirement “Google”) and it can’t be turned on.

Sharing and discovery

You can share routines with teammates, preview shared routines before install, and add shared routines to your own workspace. Team Routines extend this to shared team spaces, so a group can standardize useful automations without copying setup by hand.

How routines work

Each routine has four components:

1. Trigger — When the routine runs (new email, on a schedule, when a meeting starts, and more)
2. Instructions — What the routine does (written in plain language or as a series of steps)
3. Tools — What actions are available (read email, add label, send message, etc.)
4. Mode — How much autonomy (autonomous, approval-required, or read-only)

When a trigger fires, your assistant executes the routine logic using the available tools. Actions are logged so you can see exactly what happened.

Team Routines use the same model, but the routine can be discovered, installed, and reviewed from a shared team context.

Customizing routines

After enabling a routine, you can:

• Edit settings — Adjust the schedule, filters, and preferences the routine exposes (for example, the Morning Briefing’s delivery time, days, calendars, and extra topics)
• Change mode — Switch between autonomous and approval-required
• Add instructions — Some routines include an Additional instructions field to steer their focus with your own words

What you can’t do is rewrite a stock routine’s underlying logic or splice in new data sources: each one is a program Town builds, tests, and ships, so its steps and inputs are fixed beyond the settings it exposes. If you need a routine that works differently — say, a briefing that also pulls from a source the stock version doesn’t offer — create a custom routine instead.

Creating your own

Don’t see what you need? Create a custom routine.

• Tell your assistant what you want and build it together
• Or just email your assistant: “Create a routine that…”