enable creating single-use automations
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 8, 2026 by cheulyop Closed May 2, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
Currently new automations can be created only at daily or hourly intervals.
But there are scenarios where one-off automations can be useful.
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By single-use, do you mean an automation that is literally run only once, or one that can be run at arbitrary times of your choosing?
For a single-use task, why not just use a regular prompt within a project?
For multi-use automations, you may find it useful to create a skill, which can be invoked any time you need it.
The use case I had in mind is an asynchronous task that should run later, not immediately.
For example, I may want Codex to check something after a future event or time window, run once, report the result, and then stop automatically.
That is different from:
In my case, the current workaround is to create a recurring hourly automation and let it poll until the condition is met, but that is a poor fit. What I really want is a one-shot automation that can be scheduled for the future, or triggered once when a condition is expected to become relevant, and then automatically retire itself after running.
So the feature request is less “single-use template” and more “scheduled one-shot automation” or “deferred run automation.”
This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so I'm closing it.