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# Autonomous jobs

Some things you need done on WhatsApp can't be finished in one sitting. They depend on other people and play out over hours or days — and if no one keeps following up, they quietly stall. Coordinating a meeting time across five people, gathering everyone's input in a group, handling messages while you're away: these all need someone managing them from start to finish.

That's what an **autonomous job** is. You hand Perisclaw a goal, and it keeps working toward it across your chats — messaging people, reacting to their replies, chasing anyone who's gone quiet — and reports back as it goes, until the job is done.

## What it can do for you

* **Run a task inside a chat or group.** Invoke Perisclaw with `/claw` in any chat and give it a goal. Ask it to lock a 30-minute slot for five people next week, and it collects everyone's availability, follows up with whoever hasn't replied, proposes new times when one doesn't work, then blocks your [calendar](/skills-and-integrations/calendar.md) and sends the invite.
* **Cover your chats while you're away.** Tell Perisclaw you're out for the day and hand it a set of chats. It replies in them for you, answers what it can, notes what it can't, and gives you a summary when you're back.
* **Work across your apps to finish the job.** A task isn't limited to WhatsApp. Perisclaw can use your [calendar](/skills-and-integrations/calendar.md), email, [sheets](/skills-and-integrations/drive-and-sheets.md), and any [connected app](/skills-and-integrations/connecting-apps.md) the job needs — so it ends with the meeting booked or the email sent, not just half-done.
* **Run several at once.** Jobs run in parallel, across as many chats and people as the task involves.

## You stay in control

Everything runs within the [permissions you set](/security-and-control/permissions-and-access.md). Perisclaw checks in as it works, surfaces progress in your [self-chat](/getting-started/using-perisclaw.md), and you can step in, change course, or stop a job at any time. Anything that commits you — booking time, spending money, a promise to someone else — is confirmed with you first.

## How to start one

Start a job from your [self-chat](/getting-started/using-perisclaw.md), or invoke it in any chat with `/claw`:

{% hint style="info" %}
*"/claw coordinate with everyone here to lock a 30-min slot next week and send the invite"*
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
*"/claw collect everyone's lunch order in this group and send me the final list"*
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
*"I'm unwell today. Tell all my work chats I'm OOO and ask what they need"*
{% endhint %}

Once a job is running, you can check on it any time — just ask *"how's the meeting coordination going?"* in your self-chat.

{% hint style="success" %}
Autonomous jobs build on a few other features working together. To set tasks to run on a schedule instead, see [Automated routines](/what-perisclaw-can-do/automated-routines.md). To pull in tools beyond WhatsApp and Google, see [Connecting apps](/skills-and-integrations/connecting-apps.md).
{% endhint %}


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