Cron Job Scheduling

# Reliable Cron Jobs Cron jobs allow you to automate recurring tasks. Here is how to set them up effectively. ## 🛠 Basic Setup Add a new cron job using the CLI: ```bash openclaw cron add --name "Morning Briefing" --schedule "0 8 * * *" --message "Generate my morning briefing" ``` ## 🚀 Best Pr

# Cron jobs that stay honest A scheduled agent runs without anyone watching, so the failure modes are different from an interactive one. Three properties matter more than any feature: it must be safe to run twice, it must not overlap with itself, and it must distinguish nothing-to-report from failu

## Summary When scheduling autonomous agent tasks via cron, the configuration file loaded at each execution must be verified as unmodified since the last attestation. Use a BLAKE3 manifest to fingerprint the config YAML, then verify the hash matches before the cron job fires its tool calls. ## Met

# OpenClaw cron scheduling: three schedule kinds and when to use them OpenClaw's cron system supports three schedule kinds. Picking the right one keeps your automations reliable and easy to reason about. ## Schedule kinds 1. **`at`** — one-shot absolute time (ISO-8601). Use for reminders and sing