# 5 January 2026

#### Overview

This release strengthens DE Core’s enterprise readiness with **proactive automation**, **human oversight**, and **auditability**. Digital Employees can now run scheduled work, escalate unresolved issues to a human supervisor, record immutable audit trails, and generate and email PDF reports from Markdown.

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#### What’s new

**Scheduled automation (recurring jobs)**

Digital Employees can be configured with a scheduler that triggers tasks, instructions, skills, or workflows automatically at predefined times.

* Supports **interval-based triggers** (e.g., every N hours/days/weeks).
* Supports **calendar-based triggers**, including **monthly** and **annual** schedules.
* Scheduled runs enforce the DE’s configured rules and governance context.
* Failures (e.g., missing credentials, tool timeouts, upstream API issues) are handled gracefully and can be escalated to the supervisor.
* Schedules can be enabled/disabled without removing them.

**Escalation to a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) supervisor**

When a Digital Employee encounters a roadblock it cannot resolve (e.g., tool errors, user unresponsiveness on urgent tasks, or out-of-scope complexity), it can escalate via **email** to a designated supervisor.

* Escalations include a structured incident summary (requester, requested action, tools/resources used, and reason for escalation).
* Escalation conditions are configurable per Digital Employee, including the option to disable escalation entirely.

**Immutable audit logging (tamper-evident)**

All DE actions can be recorded in an **append-only, tamper-evident** audit trail to support compliance, debugging, and accountability.

* Captures key traceability details including prompts/outputs (where applicable), tool/agent invocation order, parameters, and results.
* Logs are queryable (e.g., by user, date range, action type, tool, success/failure).
* Logs are exportable (e.g., JSON/CSV) and support retention policies (minimum 2 years).

**Supervisor assignment (reporting & oversight)**

Each Digital Employee can be configured with an assigned supervisor (name and email) who becomes the destination for:

* Escalations and error notifications.
* HITL approval requests (where enabled in your setup).

**PDF report generation from Markdown + email delivery**

DE Core can now generate a **PDF from a Markdown input** and send it via email as an attachment.

* The Markdown-to-PDF conversion preserves the main content structure.
* Email sending returns per-recipient delivery status (**sent/failed**).