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Currently Playing: Hermes Agent Masterclass: 7. Cron & Automation

Module 7 of the Hermes Agent Masterclass: Cron cuts the last cord — your agent runs itself on a schedule, in a fresh session, and delivers to your phone. And I'll show you how to make it cost almost nothing. Sign up for my FREE weekly newsletter, where I spill my unfiltered thoughts on the latest AI news, cool research, and projects I'm building: https://www.onchainaigarage.com/ 🐦 Follow Tonbi on X for real-time AI x blockchain updates! https://x.com/tonbistudio Module 7 is all about Cron and automation — running Hermes Agent on a schedule with no one in the loop. I cover how Cron actually works (it lives in the always-on gateway, which ticks every 60 seconds and spins up a fresh, isolated session per job), the four ways to schedule a job (CLI, chat, TUI, and the web dashboard with one-click blueprints), and how to deliver the result anywhere — or nowhere, using the "silent" keyword. The best part is the cost engineering: no_agent mode runs a pure script for $0, and the wake-agent gate polls cheaply every couple minutes and only pays for the model when state actually changes — which I demo live with a real bug-triage job on my Agent Wikis app. Finally I chain jobs into a real pipeline with context-from (no framework needed) and build a daily traffic briefing that collects data for free all day and only spends a cent on the part a human reads. Resources: 🔗 Hermes Agent: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent 🔗 Agent Wikis (used in the live demos): https://agentwikis.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Module 7: cutting the last cord with Cron 2:19 - How Cron works: the gateway tick + fresh sessions 4:06 - The 4 ways to schedule a job 6:21 - Schedule formats + the no-self-spawn safety rail 9:10 - Deliver anywhere + the "silent" keyword 11:18 - The #1 Cron mistake: fresh sessions start from zero 12:39 - Spend nothing: no_agent mode (RAM watcher) 14:50 - The wake-agent gate (live bug-triage demo) 23:12 - More cost layers: rerun scripts, lean tool sets, resilience 25:30 - Chaining jobs with context-from (daily briefing build) What would you point a Cron job at — a daily brief, a monitor, a whole pipeline? Let me know in the comments. Module 8 is on sub-agents and the Kanban board: running many agents at once. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it! 🦐✨ #HermesAgent #Cron #Automation #AIAgents #AgenticWorkflows #AITools #SelfHosted #LocalLLM #Masterclass