Skye is the AI manager inside SMTasker. You can ask it to explain your accounts, investigate a problem, or prepare an automation in everyday language—without first learning where every setting lives.

This tutorial follows one practical example: prepare a Comment automation for a fitness account, check the proposed setup, and apply it while keeping the automation stopped. Along the way, you will learn how to ask follow-up questions and use Skye for other tasks.

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Before you start

• Sign in to the SMTasker app. Skye is inside the app, not on this Knowledge Base page.
• Connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic (Claude) API key. Follow the AI configuration guide if you have not connected a provider.
• For the hands-on example: have an account added to SMTasker and identify the Comment automation you want to work on. You can still follow the first three steps if you are not ready to configure an automation.

Step 1: Click the purple Skye button

Open the SMTasker Home screen. In the bottom-right corner, click the purple button with white sparkles highlighted below.

You should now see the Skye chat window. If a previous conversation is open, click New chat on the left. Keep related questions in one chat; start a new one when you move to a different task.

Step 2: Find the message box and check permissions

1. Check the provider and model near the top. Use an available model from your connected provider. Your model names may differ from the screenshot.
2. Keep Permissions on Ask for permission. Skye can inspect the setup, but proposed configuration changes are presented for your review before you apply them.
3. Click the message box at the bottom. Type your request, then click the up-arrow Send button in its lower-right corner. The interface also shows Ctrl + Enter to send.

The welcome screen also offers starting points such as Audit growth setup, Diagnose a device, Schedule a daily report, and Plan & implement a starter stack. You do not have to use a preset: typing your own request works too.

Step 3: Ask Skye to check your setup

Before changing anything, see how Skye uses your workspace information. Send this first message:

Check my workspace without changing anything. Tell me which devices or automations need attention. Explain the most important issue in simple terms and tell me what to check first.

Skye inspects relevant workspace data and replies in the conversation. In the example below, it identifies inactive automations and empty sources.

What does that mean? An inactive automation is stopped. An empty source means it has no items in that source to work from. For example, a Comment automation configured to use specific users needs an appropriate list of those users.

You do not need to understand the whole response at once. Reply in the same chat:

Explain the empty-source issue for my Comment automation. Which source is empty, and what would I need to add? Do not change it yet.

What you have learned: Skye is not only a help chatbot giving general advice. It can investigate the relevant setup in your workspace, then explain its findings. If several accounts could match, give it the exact account or automation name.

Step 4: Describe the automation you want

Now move from “explain my setup” to “help me configure it.” Our example uses an existing Instagram Comment automation for a fitness account. A Comment automation controls how SMTasker comments on posts; its settings determine when and how often it operates, while its sources determine which posts or users it works from.

Send a request like this, replacing the bracketed names with your own:

Help me configure [automation name] for [account name]. This is a fitness account aimed at people interested in home workouts and everyday fitness. Suggest relevant sources, a gradual starting schedule, and natural comments that respond to each post. Keep the automation stopped while I review it. Explain what you propose before applying anything.

If you do not know the automation’s name, ask Skye to list the Comment automations for your account first. If you have not created one, use the Add Automations guide, then return here.

Notice what you gave Skye: the account, the task, the audience, the desired writing style, and the instruction to keep it stopped. You described an outcome instead of entering every setting yourself.

In the demo, the proposed setup includes:

• Status: keep the automation inactive while it is reviewed.
• Schedule: operate on weekdays within a defined time window.
• Limits: use small hourly and daily ranges rather than unrestricted activity.
• Sources: choose fitness-related accounts as starting points for finding posts.
• Comment instructions: write a short, relevant reply using the post’s caption as context, instead of repeating one fixed comment.

Step 5: Refine the plan, then approve the right changes

You can keep talking before approving anything. For example, if the audience is too broad, reply:

Focus more on home workouts and mobility. Avoid bodybuilding-focused sources. Keep the automation stopped and show me the revised proposal.

Or refine the comment style:

Make the comments conversational and specific to the post. Avoid hashtags, generic praise and medical advice. Return only the comment text.

Read the resulting Review proposed change sets section. A “change set” is simply a group of changes you can approve together. Check the account, automation, settings, and any existing source list that will be replaced.

Choose the button that matches your decision:

• Dismiss: do not apply this proposal. Use this if it is wrong or you decide not to proceed.
• Apply: approve the displayed changes.
• Apply and Continue: approve the changes and continue the related workflow. Read any further proposals before approving them.

For this walkthrough, choose Apply only after you understand the proposal. You do not need to approve a change just because Skye suggested it.

Step 6: Check what changed in the actual automation

Wait for a completion message. “Proposed” means Skye prepared a plan; “applied” means the approved changes were saved. If anything failed, ask what completed before repeating the request.

Now check the actual setup, not just the chat response:

1. Close Skye with the X at the top-right of its window. Open Automations from the app’s sidebar and open the automation named in the proposal.
2. Open Settings. Confirm its status is Stopped. Check its hourly and daily limits, execution interval, and active days. In the demo, those limits are 1–2 comments per hour and 5–8 per day, with Monday through Friday selected.
3. Find the Comment field further down Settings. The demo uses AI instructions that take the post caption as context. This is how the comment can respond to the post instead of repeating identical text.
4. Open Sources. Check the users or other targeting inputs that were actually saved. Are they relevant to the audience you described?

If a source is missing or the setup is not what you wanted, reopen Skye and describe the difference. For example: “The Sources tab is still showing the old list. Check what was saved and propose a correction; keep it stopped.” The source-list revision pictured in Step 5 demonstrates that follow-up workflow.

You have now used Skye to turn a plain-language goal into an actual SMTasker configuration. Keep it stopped until you are satisfied. Starting the automation is a separate decision; execution still depends on the connected phone, account state, schedule and platform support.

Use the same approach for other tasks

The fitness example teaches the pattern, not a command you have to memorize. Give Skye a clear target, explain the result you want, and ask it to show its plan. Here are practical next tasks.

Find out why something stopped

Why is [automation name] on [account name] not running? Check the device, account status, schedule and sources. Explain the cause you can identify without changing anything.

Use the answer to narrow down the problem. Ask “What should I check first?” if the response contains several findings. If a fix requires configuration changes, request a proposal and review it.

Prepare another supported automation

Help me prepare a [supported automation] for [account]. My audience is [description]. Explain suitable sources and settings, and keep it stopped until I review the setup.

Skye can help with supported Like, Follow, Story Viewer, messaging, publishing and other workflows. Availability depends on the platform and the tools supported in your workspace; do not assume every action works on every social network.

Make a consistent change across selected accounts

For [account A] and [account B] only, propose weekday operating hours for their [automation type]. Show me exactly which automations would change. Leave every other account alone and preserve each automation’s active or stopped status.

This is useful when you manage several accounts and want to avoid repeating the same edit manually. Check the full list of affected accounts before applying it.

Prepare a recurring report

Prepare a weekday account-health report for 8 a.m. Include device availability, errors and automations that need attention. Show me the time zone, schedule and configured reports email before I approve the recurring task. Do not send an email now.

Review when it will run, which accounts it covers, and where it will be delivered. A saved schedule does not confirm delivery: check the report or delivery result after it runs.

If you are unsure or something goes wrong

• You do not understand a setting: ask “What does this mean, and why are you proposing it?” before clicking Apply.
• Skye selected the wrong account: dismiss the proposal and name the exact target.
• No provider or model is usable: check your connected API key and provider configuration.
• Something failed after Apply: ask what succeeded, inspect the affected automation, and avoid approving the same action again without checking.
• You deleted an automation through Skye: the documented assisted-deletion flow provides a private seven-day restore point. Ask Skye to list available restore points and review the correct restore proposal. This is not a universal undo for sent messages, social actions or manual edits.

For additional help, contact SMTasker support with the request, error and a screenshot. Do not include API keys or passwords.