# Automations and bots

Things that happen by themselves: when records look a certain way, at set times, or when someone asks a bot.

## What it enables

- Close a poll once it has ten votes
- A bot that answers in chat and works on your GitHub
- Reminders at set times
- Every node operation as a CLI command, an MCP tool and a WebMCP tool

## In this section

- [Automations](https://minca.dev/automations/automations.md): An automation does something when records in a space look a certain way. "When a poll has 10 votes, close it." "When someone mentions the bot, answer them." "When a channel passes 100 messages,…
- [Bots and their connectors](https://minca.dev/automations/bots.md): A bot is an account of its own, added to a space like a member. A host can run it, or a member can, with minca agent --bot. What a bot does is decided by the space's automations that name it in by.
- [Node actions](https://minca.dev/automations/actions.md): Actions are the node's operations written down as data: a name, a description and an input schema for each. The CLI, MCP and WebMCP all build their tools from this one list, so an agent sees the…