Agent Self-Scheduling

When to Use

• Use when the user asks for recurring, scheduled, heartbeat, or looped agent work.
• Use when you need to choose between cron, external schedulers, hooks, or built-in agent scheduling.

First question: does the agent have a built-in scheduler (Hermes → Camp B), or do you own the clock (everything else → Camp A)?

Universal floor: cron is 1 minute minimum (5-field expr, no seconds) — every camp. For sub-minute you MUST use a while ...; sleep N; done loop, a TS extension, or an event hook. Never put an LLM on a tight timer.

Camp A — one-shot agents, you own the clock

These run once and exit (amnesiac unless resumed). Schedule them externally.