Nobody checks until it breaks
Update backlogs, overdue cron, growing autoload tables and swelling error logs are all invisible until they cause an outage.
Run your site on autopilot.
Keep your hands on the controls.
Most WordPress maintenance is the same handful of checks, done badly because nobody has time to do them weekly. Talos turns each one into a workflow with a locked permission scope, a schedule, and an emailed report — so the work happens whether or not you remember it.
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The work you keep meaning to do
Automation you cannot trust
Blind auto-updates fix one problem and create another. You want the work done, but not without a record and a way back.
Checklists do not scale
A monthly maintenance checklist works for one site. Across ten, it quietly becomes fiction.
What actually happens.
Describe the routine in plain language
Tell Talos what to check and what to report. It drafts a workflow from your prompt — no trigger configuration, no YAML.
Lock the permissions before it ever runs
Each enabled workflow stores pre-authorized action scopes. A scheduled run cannot widen them, and cannot change who the report goes to.
Choose a schedule or a WordPress hook
Daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly or once, in your site timezone. Or trigger on a curated WordPress hook when something actually happens.
Read the report, not the dashboard
Workflows run as durable background jobs and email a concise report to a fixed recipient list when they finish.
The exact tools it uses.
Talos does not improvise. Each of these is a defined tool with validated inputs, a declared risk level and its own policy setting.
Drafts never run until you enable them. A workflow you have not switched on has no scopes and no schedule.
See the full tool catalogmanage_agent_workflow
ReadDraft and inspect scheduled or hook-triggered workflows. Drafting counts as a write.
get_job_status
ReadDurable job status, result and history.
send_workflow_email_report
WriteEmail a workflow report to its fixed recipients. The agent cannot change the To list.
inspect_cron
ReadWP-Cron events, overdue items, schedules and unusually frequent hooks.
get_site_context
ReadCompact site summary: versions, active theme, plugins, content counts and the current admin screen.
create_report
ReadInline structured report cards for security, SEO, health and other audits, with file and line evidence.
Or set it once and forget it.
Any of this can become a workflow. You write the prompt, choose the trigger, and lock the permissions before it ever runs.
How workflows workMonday morning site check
WorkflowTrigger
Weekly · Mondays at 09:00 · site timezone
Prompt
“Check Site Health, overdue cron events, error log volume since last week, and autoload pressure. Summarize anything that changed for the worse and email me the report.”
Pre-authorized scopes
- site:read
- plugins:read
- email:send
Delivery
Emailed to a fixed recipient list. The agent cannot edit the To field.
The outcome.
Recurring checks happen on time, without you in the loop
Read-only routines need no approval and can run unattended safely
Overlapping cron ticks cannot double-run a workflow
Every run leaves durable job history you can inspect
Before you rely on it.
Can a scheduled workflow do something I did not authorize?
No. Each enabled workflow stores its pre-authorized action scopes when you enable it. A scheduled run executes inside those scopes and cannot expand them, add tools, or change the fixed email recipients.
What happens if WP-Cron is unreliable on my site?
Workflows are queued by WP-Cron, so a workflow due at 09:00 runs on the first cron tick at or after 09:00. On low-traffic or time-sensitive sites, disable request-driven WP-Cron and point your server scheduler at wp-cron.php every minute. The queue deduplicates occurrences, so overlapping requests never cause a double run.
Do workflows keep running if I close the browser?
Yes. Workflows execute as durable background jobs with token-based leases, heartbeats and checkpoints. They are not tied to your session.
Can a workflow publish content or update plugins unattended?
Only if you grant that scope when enabling it. Scopes are granular — for example content:create without publish, or plugins:update limited to a single named plugin file.
Keep reading
Use case
Update plugins safely
Talos reviews what an update changes, applies it inside a tracked change set with checksums, verifies the site afterwards, and rolls back if it went wrong.
Read moreUse case
Publish on a schedule
Talos researches your niche on a schedule, writes a post grounded in what it found, and saves it as a WordPress draft. You approve before anything publishes.
Read moreUse case
Client reporting
Show clients what you actually did. Talos compiles maintenance reports from real site data and emails them to a fixed recipient list on a schedule.
Read morePut an agent to work in WordPress.
Spend less time clicking through admin and more time moving your site forward.