Eve Mining Bot - drones do nothing

I was playing about with this bot today and I noticed that while it releases the drones when it gets on station, it does nothing with them (they are set to auto aggro). Thus the rats chew on the boat until 60pc shield and it warps home. Noticed this multiple times.
This is in a Venture with a new alt created today, 2 Hornet I’s in lowsec.

If you set the drones to auto aggro, should they not automatically attack those rats?

If not, what does the “auto aggro” setting mean?

I should not have posted this here. It was clearly a game thing and not a bot thing. Which has now resolved itself .. sigh.
BTW any pointers on how to change the bot to orbit a rock rather than approach? This would be better for speed tanking.

You can use the orbit-object-name setting with a label as it appears in the Name column in the overview window.
You can use this setting multiple times to select multiple objects.