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# Manage autonomous playbooks
While autonomous playbooks execute complex security operations, they provide a streamlined user experience. Autonomous playbooks are automatically updated and cannot be edited, duplicated, deleted, or downloaded. You can view the high-level structure of the playbook and enable or disable it.
Autonomous playbooks appear in the **Playbooks** page with the autonomous playbooks 
icon. You can filter the Org repository table to view only autonomous playbooks.
Autonomous playbooks do not appear in the **Playbook Catalog**, and you cannot execute autonomous playbooks via the command line, run them as sub-playbooks, or assign them to be triggered by custom automation rules. Autonomous playbooks are only triggered by autonomous automation rules.
To view the high-level visual structure of an autonomous playbook, click the playbook name in the **Playbooks** page. You can view the automation rules that trigger the playbook as well as the **Potential Response,** which lists the important commands and scripts. Tasks that require manual user approval have a dedicated flag 
. If a command or script is associated with an automation exclusion policy, the playbook provides a direct link to the policy in the **Automation Exclusion Center**.
If you need to temporarily stop a specific autonomous playbook from running, you can disable it. On the **Playbooks** page, right-click the autonomous playbook in the Org repository table and select **Disable**. To turn it back on, right-click it again and select **Enable**.
As new autonomous playbooks related to Cortex Analytics are released, they automatically appear in the **Playbooks** page. By default, they are enabled.
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