# Start from an automation template

> Templates are ready-made automations you can adopt in a couple of clicks — the fastest way to see what automations can do without designing one from scratch.

Source: https://infranest.io/docs/automation-templates
Last updated: 2026-09-14

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Automation templates let you set up a working automation in a couple of clicks, without designing one from scratch. This article is for anyone who wants to try automations quickly or reuse a rule they've already built.

## Overview
- Templates are ready-made automations covering common tasks.
- Each one shows its trigger, conditions and actions in plain language before you commit.
- You can adjust anything after adopting a template — it becomes your own independent rule.

## Use a template
1. Go to **Automations**.
2. Open the **Templates** gallery.
3. Pick a template to see what it does — its trigger, its conditions and the actions it will run, written in plain language.
4. Select it to create a rule from it.
5. Adjust anything you want, then save.

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> [!NOTE]
> The rule is yours from the moment you create it. Editing it later doesn't affect the template, and the template never changes your rule.

## Check it before you trust it
Every rule — whether it came from a template or not — can be tried before it runs for real.

1. Open the rule you want to check.
2. Use **Test run** to see exactly what would happen, without doing any of it.
3. Use **Would have run** to replay the rule against events that already happened, so you can see how often it would have fired.

> [!TIP]
> Both checks are worth a minute, especially for a rule that changes something at a provider.

## Save your own template
1. Open the rule you want to reuse.
2. Save it as a template from the rule itself.
3. Find it in the **Templates** gallery alongside the built-in ones, ready to use again — for this organization or another one.

## Good to know
- A template only fills in the rule itself. Anything it needs — a connected integration, a destination for notifications — still has to exist for the rule to work.
- Templates you save belong to your organization; nobody outside it sees them.