automation

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

1. Use heartbeats for state-driven wake loops and short recurring supervision.
2. Use crons for explicit wall-clock schedules and calendar-style timing.
3. 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.