Authors Overview
RunWhen’s automation is built by a community of authors who package their operational expertise into reusable Skill Templates (also called CodeBundles) — self-contained units of Robot Framework code, generation rules, and Jinja templates that discover infrastructure, assess health, and run troubleshooting workflows.
You write and publish a Skill Template once. From there, the RunWhen Platform does the heavy lifting: it discovers your resources, renders a health-and- troubleshooting unit (an SLX) for each one, and runs your automation on a schedule and on demand.
Skill Templates live inside CodeCollections — version-controlled repos that the RunWhen Platform and RunWhen Local index and execute. Anyone can author one, publish it to the registry, and earn rewards when others use it.
How to get started
| You want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Run your first Skill Template in 10 minutes | Quick Start |
| Set up a local development environment | Development Environment |
| Request a new Skill Template from the community | Request a Skill Template |
Understand the .robot file structure | Anatomy of a Skill Template |
Learn the RW.Core keyword library | RW.Core Keyword Reference |
| Browse what resource types you can match | Indexed Resources |
| Understand the runtime container stack | Runtime Stack |
Terminology
| Term | Also called | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Skill Template | CodeBundle | A package of Robot Framework code + templates that discovers and acts on infrastructure |
| Tool | Task / TaskSet | A single runnable unit inside a Skill Template — either a Monitor (scheduled) or Runbook (on-demand) |
| CodeCollection | — | A Git repo housing one or more Skill Templates |
| Generation Rule | — | YAML that tells the workspace builder which resources to match and which templates to render |
Both naming conventions are used interchangeably throughout the docs and the
codebase. The codebundle-wanted issue label and prefix are kept as-is.
Community
- Slack — ask questions, share work, get help
- Registry — browse published Skill Templates and request new ones
- Author Rewards — earn for contributions