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Most of the Agent works in a conversation — you ask, it does. Tasks is the other half: the work the Agent does on its own, between sessions, so your account keeps moving when you’re not in the app. It’s the Tasks item in the left sidebar, at app.adstellar.ai/tasks.
Everything a task does is recorded in the app — the Activity feed is the source of truth. Slack is an additive push: if you’ve connected Slack, the Agent can message you there too, but it never has to.

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Two kinds of tasks

Under one surface there are two engines, and the Agent picks the right one for what you ask:
  • Agent tasks — open-ended work on a schedule, run by the full Agent (the same AI as the chat). Great for recaps, scans, and “check on X and tell me if Y.” Because they run the Agent, they use credits like any other turn.
  • Auto rules — deterministic if-this-then-that rules that watch your live ads and act: pause underperformers, scale winners, rotate creative, archive, or just alert. They’re re-checked continuously and run for free.
You don’t pick the engine yourself — just describe what you want and the Agent sets up the right kind. Auto rules are authored in plain English through chat rather than a manual rule builder.

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What runs out of the box

As soon as your team connects Slack, AdStellar seeds a few system tasks so you get value before configuring anything:
System tasks are marked System and can be paused or retimed, but not deleted. They only run once Slack is connected, since that’s where their updates land.

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Create your own

You don’t need a form — just tell the Agent what you want and when.
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Describe the task

In the chat (or in Slack), say something like “Every Monday at 8:30am, summarize last week’s results,” or “Watch my campaigns and pause any ad set spending over $50 with no conversions.”
2

Review what it proposes

The Agent turns your request into a task and shows you exactly what it will do and when, before anything is saved.
3

Confirm

Once you approve, the task appears on the Tasks page and starts running on its schedule. You can also create a task from scratch with New task.
Ask in a Slack channel and updates post there; ask in a DM and they stay private to you.

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Suggest-first, by default

Tasks are cautious about taking action on your behalf:
  • Ask in Slack (default) — the task does its analysis, then proposes any action as a Confirm / Cancel card and waits for your tap. Nothing changes your account until you approve it.
  • Run Auto — for tasks you trust, an Auto rule can run automatically and report back after it acts, so routine optimizations happen without you in the loop.
You’ll see the current mode as a badge on each task, and you can change it anytime.

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The Activity feed

The Activity tab (top of the Tasks page) is the running log of everything your Agent did on its own. Each run shows:
  • A status — Success, Skipped, Blocked, or Failed
  • The trigger — scheduled, an anomaly, or “Ran now”
  • A one-line preview of the result, plus a Sent to Slack tag if it was pushed there
  • View result to open the full thread for runs that produced one
Quiet scans that found nothing worth reporting show up as “Scanned — nothing to report,” so you can always confirm the Agent is watching even on a slow day.

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Managing tasks

On the Tasks page you can filter by All / Mine / System, and for each task:
  • Pause or resume it with the toggle
  • Run now to fire an agent task immediately
  • Open History to jump to that task’s runs in Activity
  • Edit an agent task’s prompt and schedule, or Delete tasks you created (system tasks can’t be deleted)

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Credits

Agent tasks run the Agent, so each run is metered in credits just like a chat turn — and any action it would take is confirmed first, so there are no silent charges. Auto rules are deterministic checks and don’t use credits. See Modes & Credits for how metering works.

AdStellar Agent

How the Agent works, conversations, and confirmations.

Use the Agent in Slack

Connect Slack so tasks can reach you where your team works.