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title: Jobs
description: A Malini job is agent work you reuse by name - instructions, a model, an effort, and a skill preset - run in a workstream or a new one, with a draft or a merge at the end if you like.
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You never wanted skills.
What you wanted was the outcome: checks green, branch up to date, review answered.
A job is an outcome you ask for by name.

## What a job is

A job has:

- a **name**,
- **instructions**, the prompt the agent runs,
- a **model** and an **effort**,
- a **skill preset**, so the job loads only the skills it needs,
- where it **runs**: in this workstream, or in a new one,
- what happens when it **finishes**: nothing, a draft pull request, or a queued merge.

Jobs live on the **Jobs** page.

## Run a job

- Type **/** in the composer to run a job from a chat.
  Its result lands in that chat.
- Run it from the Jobs page, in a workstream or a new one.
- Let a [routine](/malini/docs/routines.md) run it when something happens.
- Ask the agent: in a Malini chat it can list, save, and run jobs with its [tools](/malini/docs/agent-tools.md).

The **Job center** shows what is running and what just finished.
Settings decides how many jobs run at once.

## Built-in jobs

| Job                     | What it does                                                                                                  |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name chats**          | Names a chat from its first message.                                                                          |
| **Fix checks**          | Fixes a pull request's failing checks. The merge queue runs it.                                               |
| **Update from main**    | Brings the branch up to date with its base. The merge queue runs it.                                          |
| **Address review**      | Answers review comments. The merge queue runs it.                                                             |
| **Check compatibility** | After an update, fixes jobs and routines that rely on changed events. See [Updates](/malini/docs/updates.md). |
| **Update docs**         | Brings a repository's user-facing docs up to date with its code, in a new workstream, as a draft.             |

The built-in jobs are yours to edit.
**Reset** brings back the original.

## Suggested jobs

Malini notices the prompts you keep repeating and offers to turn them into a job and a routine.