# Type Alias: AutomationAction

```ts
type AutomationAction = 
  | {
  kind: "notify";
  text: string;
}
  | {
  collection: string;
  kind: "add";
  links?: ReadonlyArray<AutomationLink>;
  text: string;
}
  | {
  field: string;
  kind: "set";
  value: string | number | boolean;
}
  | {
  kind: "ask";
  text: string;
};
```

Defined in: [packages/core/src/schemas/automations.ts:56](https://github.com/leifriksheim/minca/blob/main/core/src/schemas/automations.ts#L56)

What an automation does. In text, `{title}` is what the record is called,
`{<include>}` how many an include found. `add` makes a record in any
collection one line of text can make one of (`quickAddBody`): a message, a
comment, a task, or one someone defined yesterday, with the links it names.
`ask` gives its text, in the maker's words, to an agent that runs automations.