Missions
How Missions work, how to follow their progress, and how to change or stop one.
A Mission is an outcome you want Perisclaw to own from start to finish. It suits work that takes several steps, may move across chats, and should keep going without you remembering each follow-up.
You don't need to choose “Mission” or set anything up. Ask naturally in WhatsApp and Perisclaw decides when a request needs ongoing follow-through.
Make sure Kabra has an airport cab for Tuesday. Get the flight details, arrange it, confirm with him, and tell me if anything fails.
Other requests that work the same way:
- “Coordinate the family dinner for Saturday. Find a time everyone can make, book within ₹8,000, and check with me before changing the budget.”
- “Get the signed agreement from the vendor by Friday. Follow up when useful and escalate if they refuse the latest terms.”
Perisclaw confirms it has taken the Mission on, then works quietly. It can gather facts from the relevant conversations, complete steps, wait for replies, and revise the plan as things change. If a decision goes beyond what you allowed, it comes back to you as a question.
Follow progress
Missions appear in your Today list in the web app, beside your tasks, and in Work with everything else Perisclaw is running for you. A Mission that is blocked on you is marked as needing you.
Open one to see what it is after and what it needs from you, with a conversation with Perisclaw about it in the middle. Its latest update, next action, plan, and evidence sit on the right. A finished Mission stays under Done in Today for a week.
Change or stop one
Most changes are easiest to make by talking to Perisclaw in your self-chat:
- “For the cab mission, use a larger car.”
- “Stop, Kabra has arranged it himself.”
Perisclaw applies the correction to the live plan. If the Mission is partway through a long job, like reviewing a list, the change reaches the work under way and what is already done is kept. When you open a Mission in the web app, the conversation beside it is about that Mission only, so a question like “Why was this archived?” cannot land on the wrong one. A Mission that reaches its end date without finishing is archived, not left running forever.
Missions, tasks, and automations
These have different owners, and you rarely have to pick between them:
- A task is one item on your plate.
- An Automation says when something should happen or repeat.
- A Mission owns a goal end to end and decides the next step as things change.
A Mission may schedule its own check-ins, but you never set up reminders or workflows for it. Perisclaw handles that.
When you want something to repeat (every morning, or whenever a matching message arrives), use an Automation instead.