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You can manage your automations by asking OpenHands directly—just like you created them.

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Viewing Your Automations

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Enabling and Disabling

Pause an automation without deleting it:
Turn it back on:
Disabling an automation keeps all its settings intact. Use this when you want to temporarily stop runs without losing your configuration.

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Changing the Schedule

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Changing the Run Timeout

The maximum timeout depends on your deployment. Runs that exceed their timeout fail automatically.

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Running Manually

Test an automation or run it outside its normal schedule:
This is useful for:
  • Testing a newly created automation
  • Running a report on-demand
  • Debugging issues

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Viewing Past Runs

Each run creates a conversation that automatically appears in your conversations list. You can:
  • View in the OpenHands UI to see what happened
  • Continue if you want to interact with the sandbox
  • Debug if something went wrong
In an automation’s Activity Log, use Export JSON or Export CSV to download its complete run history.
Automations are user-scoped, so all your automation runs appear alongside your regular conversations. Look for them in your conversations list after each scheduled run.
On OpenHands Cloud, organization members can open a link to an automation-run conversation owned by another member and view it read-only. Start from the run link in the automation’s activity log or a conversation URL of the form /conversations/<id>. Read-only viewers can follow the full history but cannot send messages or change the agent configuration.

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Run Statuses

  • Pending: Scheduled, waiting to start
  • Running: Currently executing
  • Completed: Finished successfully
  • Failed: Something went wrong—check the run details

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Deleting Automations

Deleting an automation is permanent. Consider disabling it instead if you might need it later.

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Next Steps