Jobs, providers and logs
The Jobs & providers page and the Activity log: which services each step uses, the AI quality check, and how to read a failed job.
Jobs & providers (in the sidebar) is Larvabot's engine room. Larvabot works in the background about once an hour, whether or not you're signed in. It shows which services each job can use and whether each one is working, in tabs: AI, Search, Reading & contacts, Communities and Sending & replies. What the background runs have been doing is in the Activity log. When something seems stuck, look at both.
#Providers by job
Each tab lists the services for one kind of job, in the order they're tried:
| Group | Covers |
|---|---|
| AI | Research, drafts and comments |
| Web search | Finding leads, directories and threads |
| Reading pages | Fetching lead pages (no keys needed) |
| Finding contacts | Scraping first, email finders after |
| The routes into Reddit | |
| Other conversations | Hacker News, Stack Exchange, YouTube, GitHub, Bluesky, Lemmy, Firehose, forums, the web |
| Sending & replies | SMTP and IMAP |
Each row shows its free allowance, a cost badge (free, free tier or paid) and whether it's on (set up) or off. Every chain, explained
#The AI quality check
Free models vary a lot. Some write fine emails; some produce broken JSON or gibberish under load. So every AI provider has a Check button that runs a small, fixed exam (about 20 seconds): one research task, scoring a sample page into structured data, and one real email draft. Both have to come back complete and sensible.
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quality ✓ | Passed. Used in the chain. |
| failed quality check | Failed, with the reasons. Left out of the chain until it passes a new check. |
Run Check after adding an AI key or changing its model.
#Test search + AI
The Test search + AI button at the top runs one real search and one AI call through the chains, and shows which provider answered and what came back. It's the quickest way to confirm new keys work.
#Activity log
Activity log in the sidebar lists the last 150 background runs, newest first. Each row has a green or red dot, the job name, what it did, how long it took and when. Failed only shows just the red ones. A second tab lists the account and billing emails Larvabot sent you.
| Job | What it does |
|---|---|
inbox | Reads replies, bounces and F5Bot alerts |
send | Sends approved emails and follow-ups that are due |
research | Reads and scores found leads, finds contacts |
draft | Writes emails for leads with a contact |
score | Scores new conversations and drafts replies |
discover | Runs the next search for email campaigns |
reddit | Checks Reddit, Hacker News and the other conversation sources |
telegram | Reads your Telegram groups |
directories | Finds more directories and writes their copy |
subrules | Looks up subreddit self-promotion rules |
links | Checks contacted pages for links back to you |
tracking | Checks each project's tracking snippet |
#Reading a run
Details like skipped (time budget) or not due are normal: each tick only has a few minutes, and some jobs only run every few hours. What to look for:
- A red dot means the job failed. The detail says why, often a provider error like
429(rate limit) or401(bad key). - "No AI provider" / "no search provider available" means every provider in that chain is missing, out of quota or failing its check.
- Nothing new for several hours means the background runs have stalled on our side. Contact support.