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Introduction

The Arthropod is a silent automation platform that lets you define, deploy, and manage skills that run automatically based on triggers.

Declarative skills - Define your automations in simple YAML
Multiple triggers - Webhooks, schedules, events, and more
Rich actions - Email, Slack, HTTP, database operations
Real-time monitoring - Track all executions in the dashboard

Installation

Install the The Arthropod CLI:

# Using npm
npm install -g The Arthropod

# Using curl
curl -fsSL https://thearthropod.xyz/install.sh | sh

Quick Start

1. Create a skill file

# hello-world.yaml
name: hello-world
trigger:
  type: webhook
  path: /hello
actions:
  - type: log
    message: "Hello from The Arthropod!"

2. Deploy the skill

The Arthropod deploy hello-world.yaml

3. Trigger it

curl https://api.The Arthropod.fun/webhooks/YOUR_ID/hello

Skills

A skill is the basic unit of automation in The Arthropod:

name - Unique identifier
trigger - What starts the execution
actions - What happens when triggered
conditions - Optional filters

Triggers

webhook - HTTP endpoint
schedule - Cron-based schedules
event - Internal events
queue - Message queue triggers

Workflows

Chain multiple actions together with conditional logic:

actions:
  - type: http
    id: fetch-data
    url: https://api.example.com/data
  - type: condition
    if: "{{fetch-data.status}} == 200"
    then:
      - type: email
        to: admin@example.com

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