Give your assistant a standing job
Release notes for Give your assistant a standing job.
August 7, 2026
Until now, everything you handed Perisclaw had an end: a message to send, a meeting to book, a thread to chase. Some jobs don't end. Somebody has to keep an eye on the community group. Somebody has to chase the daily numbers into the sheet. Agents are that somebody.
Agents
There's a new Agents page in your dashboard. Describe a standing job in plain words — "watch the residents' group, log every maintenance complaint to my Issues sheet, and flag anything about water or lifts to me immediately" — and Perisclaw writes the full brief for you to check before it goes live.
An agent watches the chats you give it, runs the check-ins you schedule, and keeps a running record of what it saw, one day at a time. That record is why it doesn't forget what happened on Tuesday: it wrote Tuesday down. You can run any check on demand, pause the whole thing with one switch, and cap what it's allowed to spend in a day.
A workspace you can actually open
Skills is now the workspace behind your assistant, not just a list of skills. Everything that steers it is in one place and editable: the procedures you've taught it, what it knows about you, your standing rules, your activation rules, and your agents' briefs.
Every file keeps a full version history — every change, when it happened, and whether it was you or your assistant that made it, with a line-by-line diff. So you can edit freely; nothing you write over is gone. And if your assistant changes a file while you have it open, you're shown both versions and you choose. It can't quietly overwrite you.
Long work you can see and stop
Big jobs — a sweep across months of messages, a bulk tidy-up, a research run — now happen properly in the background, saving their place after each step so a restart never loses the work. They show up on the Agents page with what they're doing and how far along, and Cancel stops them cleanly at the next step rather than mid-action.