# Automation Automation delegates repeatable actions to a technical system so they can be executed consistently with less direct intervention. It can increase scale, reliability, and speed, but it also amplifies mistakes when goals, inputs, or safeguards are poorly specified. In publishing systems, automation may transform source documents, generate assets, update indexes, publish feeds, schedule distribution, or collect measurements. The durable design principle is to keep the canonical source inspectable and make generated outputs rebuildable. Related: [[wiki/Publishing Automation|Publishing Automation]], [[wiki/Deterministic Transformation|Deterministic Transformation]], [[wiki/Rebuildable Projection|Rebuildable Projection]], [[wiki/Agentic Workflow|Agentic Workflow]].