Autonomous Daily Cap
The autonomous daily cap is a separate per-day credit budget for background actions — heartbeats, hooks, and workflows — so they can never drain your interactive credit balance.
In depth
By default, autonomous actions get 10% of your monthly base allotment as a daily cap. When the cap is hit, scheduled skills and workflows pause for the day instead of falling back on your interactive credits, and you get a notification.
Combined with per-skill credit guards and consecutive-skip auto-pause, the cap is what makes proactive Theo safe to leave running.
Examples
- Daily cap = 5K credits on the Free plan
- Cap reset every 24h
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Heartbeat
Heartbeat is Theo’s background loop that periodically evaluates your installed scheduled skills and workflows — checking their schedule, your quiet hours, and credit availability before running.
Hook
A hook is an event-driven trigger that runs Theo automatically when something happens — a project is created, a share is accepted, a task goes overdue, a forum reply lands.
Workflow
A workflow is a multi-step automation — tool calls, AI transforms, conditions, delays, and notifications wired together with branching logic and credit checkpoints.
AI Credits
AI Credits are the unit OpenCharts uses to meter Theo usage — every chat reply, image, video, or autonomous skill run consumes a credit amount based on the engine and tools involved.