Using Tabruns

How to ask for what you want

What Tabruns can act on, and the shape of an ask that works.

Tabruns acts on what the page shows: boxes, buttons, menus, links, checkboxes. If you can point at it, it can usually reach it.

Name the outcome, not the mechanics

“Fill this in with my details” works better than “click the first box, then type…”. Tabruns plans the steps; you describe the destination.

Put the details in the sentence

Values you want used should be in the ask: “Set up a new campaign — $50 a day” gives it the budget. Where a value has to come from somewhere else, attach that tab as context — see Using another tab as context.

What it cannot do

  • Anything only the site's own backend knows — “what did I earn last quarter?” on a page that does not show it.
  • Anything behind a password or payment field. Those are skipped where the page is read, before any data could leave it.
  • Reading a page it has no access to. See Which sites Tabruns can see.

If a request comes back as “We couldn't turn that into a plan we're confident running”, it is telling you it would rather do nothing than guess. Rephrase it as a smaller, more concrete step.