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Usage Without UI

AI Assistants can run without showing the chat window. This is useful for shortcuts, scheduled reports, text transformations, and background automations.

Invisible Assistant​

In the assistant action, provide an initial user message and enable:

  • Stop & Close After Processing Initial User Message
  • Invisible Operation / Don't Show UI

This uses the same assistant configuration, skills, context, and model as the visible chat.

Run AI Task In Background​

The predefined action h@llo.ai - Run AI Task In Background runs a prompt silently from any BTT trigger.

It can:

  • use a selected AI assistant
  • send a fixed or variable-based user message
  • attach a screenshot or file
  • reuse an existing conversation
  • temporarily disable selected skills
  • write the result to BTTLastAIResult

Use BTTLastAIResult in later actions to show a HUD, paste text, run a script, or update a variable.

Scheduled AI Trigger​

The Scheduled AI Trigger runs an AI task on an interval or CRON-like schedule.

Use it for:

  • daily briefings
  • periodic status checks
  • recurring summaries
  • automated reports

External Clients​

For headless control from tools such as Codex or Claude Code, enable BTT as MCP Provider.