How-To Series · Episode 36 / 59 · Module 6: Working While You Sleep
Hermes · Cron
Say it in plain English. It runs on its own, on schedule.
After this videoYou can now schedule Hermes recurring or one-time.
Schedule tasks in plain language (the cronjob tool wires it) or with /cron add. Three schedule formats: one-shot (30m), interval (every 2h), or a cron expression (0 9 * * * = 9am daily). The dispatcher runs inside the gateway, ticks every 60s, and runs each job in a fresh isolated session, so keep the gateway running and make prompts self-contained. Deliver to origin, local, any platform, or all; the final response is delivered automatically. End a response with [SILENT] for watchdogs that only speak up when something is wrong. Attach skills with --skill, or run pure scripts with no-agent mode for zero tokens.
About these resources. Every command in this video comes from the Scheduled Tasks (Cron) doc.
Sources · What this video distills
1 docs page · every command below traces to one of themCommands shown · Copy and paste
each shows the source doc it came from/cron add 30m "check the build" · /cron add "every 2h" "check server status"hermes cron create "0 9 * * *" "Morning digest" --deliver telegramhermes cron create "every 5m" --no-agent --script memory-watchdog.sh --deliver telegramhermes cron list · pause · resume · run · removeGoing deeper · Related Hermes docs
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