Behind the Craft · Sunday, July 26, 2026
Jason Liu describes his 'chief of staff' automation in Codex, which runs multiple times a day to read his Slack, Twitter DMs, unread emails, and Linear board. The system summarizes his to-do list, updates statuses, and flags important items like upcoming travel or package pickups.
“Yeah, so I have an automation that runs at 9:00 AM and at I think 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM and basically all it does is it has to read all of my slack. It reads all of my Twitter DMs using computer use.”
“And then it will read all of my emails that I haven't responded to and my linear board. And it will just give me a glimpse of what's happening.”
“Right? On linear, if it finds that something is, uh, needs to get cleaned up, maybe a status needs to be updated, Codex will just read it for me.”
“So for example, I'm going to Brazil really soon and it's been able to just show me that I need to go figure that out, right?”