productivity-automation

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you automate recurring work reliably so jobs don’t silently fail and backups, file operations, and transformations stay auditable and repeatable.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Unattended scheduling with guardrails: Choose cron or Task Scheduler, and use system-level patterns for interval jobs with failure handling.
• Reliable file operations and bulk processing: Dry-run and planning before renames/moves/deletes, plus tooling selection by file type to avoid fragile custom parsers.
• Backup + alerting that you can trust: Use rsync for incremental local backups or restic for encrypted/offsite needs, then trigger failure alerts via webhook or log markers.

Quick Start

Use the productivity-automation skill to set up a daily job that backs up a folder with rsync, logs every run with timestamps, prunes old backups, and sends an alert if the job fails.