Scheduled Tasks (Cron)
Schedule tasks to run automatically with natural language or cron expressions. Hermes exposes cron management through a single tool with action style operations
Schedule tasks to run automatically with natural language or cron expressions. Hermes exposes cron management through a single tool with action-style operations instead of separate schedule/list/remove tools. …
What this page covers
- What cron can do now
- Creating scheduled tasks
- In chat with /cron
- From the standalone CLI
- Through natural conversation
- Skill-backed cron jobs
- Single skill
- Multiple skills
- Running a job inside a project directory
- Editing jobs
- Chat
- Standalone CLI
- Lifecycle actions
- Chat
- Standalone CLI
- How it works
- Gateway scheduler behavior
- Delivery options
- Routing intent (all)
- Telegram cron topic (TELEGRAMCRONTHREADID)
- Response wrapping
- Silent suppression
- Script timeout
- No-agent mode (script-only jobs)
- The agent sets these up for you
- Chaining jobs with contextfrom
- Provider recovery
- Schedule formats
- Relative delays (one-shot)
- Intervals (recurring)
- Cron expressions
- ISO timestamps
- Repeat behavior
- Managing jobs programmatically
- Toolsets available to cron jobs
- Skipping the agent entirely: wakeAgent
- Chaining jobs: contextfrom
- Job storage
- Self-contained prompts still matter
- Security
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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