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Automation

Event in → match → conditions → actions or step graph.

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Purpose

The orchestrating brain. Event-driven rules that call Tracker, Workflow, Notification, and AI — without importing application modules. Boots last so peers exist.

In a product

When a tracker record closes, start a workflow and notify the owner — configured as a rule, not a one-off script.

How it works

  1. Automation subscribes broadly to platform events (ignoring its own echo).
  2. Matching rules filter by event type, wildcards, scope, and field keys.
  3. Conditions evaluate; then v1 action lists or v2 step graphs run.
  4. Runs are logged; success and failure events publish for observability.

Capabilities

  • Subscribe-pattern matching across platform events
  • Condition evaluation before side effects
  • v1 action lists and v2 step graphs
  • Platform handlers for Tracker, Workflow, and Notification
  • AI handler wired to @keystone/engine-ai in the API runtime
  • Run history with matched / executed / failed events
  • Dry-run and blocks catalog on the API
  • Boots last in the runtime registry

Related

Event · Tracker · Workflow · Trigger · Notification · Billing · Document · AI · Report

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