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witcheer's Wingtips #47: cron prompts

Republished in his own words, with credit.

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#47 · cron prompts

· Scheduling & automation · CLI / Desktop / Gateway

Hermes Wingtips #47: cron prompts

your agent nails a task in chat, you schedule the same thing with /cron, and the scheduled runs come back wrong.

the reason is simple: a cron job runs in a fresh session, with none of the chat context that made the task work. a prompt leaning on what you discussed earlier has nothing to lean on at run time.

so write the prompt like the agent has never met you: every url, every command, every rule spelled out inside the prompt itself.

this is also why a scheduled job cannot ask you clarifying questions, it answers with what the prompt gave it!

SourcesHermes docs: Cron

All tips are written by witcheer and collected here with credit. Card images stay on his X posts.

witcheer says each tip ran on a real Hermes box before it shipped. Hermes changes fast, so check your version and the linked doc.