What problem does it solve? Recurring tasks like monitoring deployments, checking CI status, or re-running prompts on an interval require the agent to wake up repeatedly on a schedule, which is easy to misconfigure with duplicate loops, missed wakeups, or unsupported shell hacks. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Host Automation Scheduling: Creates recurring tasks, reminders, and monitors through the host's automation capability, inspecting existing automations first to avoid duplicates. - Interval and Stop-Condition Preservation: Honors the requested interval, runs the prompt immediately when asked, and notifies only on meaningful changes, failures, or required user action. - Legacy Monitored-Shell Fallback: Supports sentinel-based background shell loops (fixed and dynamic schedules) only when explicitly requested and the tool schema supports notify_on_output. - Use Case: Ask the agent to check a deployment status every 5 minutes until it succeeds; it schedules the recurring check, runs once immediately, and reports only when the status changes. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to run a check every 5 minutes, such as monitoring a deploy or CI pipeline, and it will schedule the recurring task and notify you on meaningful changes.
