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title: "SOPs and runs"
description: "Create SOP checklists with steps, variables and approval gates, assign steps to teams or AI agents, and start, complete, schedule and share runs."
url: "https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs"
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# SOPs and runs

Create SOP checklists with steps, variables and approval gates, assign steps to teams or AI agents, and start, complete, schedule and share runs.

- [Create an SOP template](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/create-an-sop-template.md): Create an SOP checklist in a Playbook process, add its steps and publish a version your team can run.
- [Add checklists, files and variables to steps](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/add-checklists-files-and-variables.md): Give the steps of an SOP checklist items, files and linked documents, and add variables that people fill in during a run.
- [Add an approval gate to a step](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/add-an-approval-gate.md): Make a step of an SOP wait for approval from the people you choose before the run can go on.
- [Assign steps to teams and AI agents](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/assign-steps-to-teams-and-agents.md): Decide who does each step of an SOP: a team, or an AI agent that carries the step out on its own.
- [Start a run](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/start-a-run.md): Start a run from an SOP template with its own name, priority and due date, and fill in its variables right away.
- [Complete the steps of a run](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/complete-run-steps.md): Work through a run step by step: fill in its fields, tick its checklist and mark each step complete.
- [Approve a step in a run](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/approve-a-run-step.md): Approve, reject or request changes on a run step that waits for your approval, so the run can go on.
- [Track and manage runs](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/track-and-manage-runs.md): Find runs by status, change a run's status or priority, and cancel or delete runs you no longer need.
- [Schedule a recurring run](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/schedule-a-recurring-run.md): Let runs of an SOP start by themselves on a schedule, such as every Monday.
- [Share a run with a customer](https://okido.io/en/docs/sops-runs/share-a-run-with-a-customer.md): Give people outside your organization a link to follow and complete a run, with an optional password and end date.