# witcheer's Wingtips #47: cron prompts

Written by [witcheer](https://x.com/witcheer) at Nous Research. Republished with credit.

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/wingtips/47  
Published: 2026-08-17  
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Sources: [Hermes docs: Cron](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/cron)


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!