Heartbeat Governor

What it does

Cron skills run autonomously. A skill with a bug — an infinite retry, an unexpectedly large context, a model call inside a loop — can silently consume hundreds of dollars before you notice.

Heartbeat Governor tracks cumulative execution cost and wall-clock time per scheduled skill on a rolling 30-day basis. When a skill exceeds its budget, the governor pauses it and sends an alert. The skill won't fire again until you explicitly review and resume it.

It runs every hour to catch budget overruns within one cron cycle.

When to invoke

• Automatically, every hour (cron)
• Manually after noticing an unexpected API bill spike
• When a cron skill has been running unusually long

Budget types

| Budget type | Default | Configurable |