| name | automation |
| description | Meta-skill for durable and wall-clock automation. Routes to heartbeats and crons for recurring execution control. |
automation
Use this meta-skill when the user wants recurring automation, scheduled execution, or scheduler diagnostics.
Subskills
heartbeats — durable wake-loop programs that run one bounded pass per tick.crons — wall-clock scheduling (at, every, cron expressions) and lifecycle control.
Selection guide
- Use
heartbeats for state-driven wake loops and short recurring supervision.
- Use
crons for explicit wall-clock schedules and calendar-style timing.
- Pair automation with
subagents stack skills (protocol, execution, etc.) when the workload is issue-DAG driven.
Common patterns
- Durable Orchestration: Create a heartbeat (
heartbeats) that runs one bounded execution pass per tick to supervise a subagents DAG over time, keeping the main chat clear.
- Scheduled Maintenance / Memory Update: Set up a cron job (
crons) to periodically invoke memory to rebuild indexes, fetch new docs, or clean up obsolete logs on a schedule.
- Continuous Diagnostics: A heartbeat that periodically tails application logs or runs bounded check scripts locally. If a failure condition is met, the wake loop exits cleanly and notifies the user via the active channel.
