Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills --skill agent-self-schedulinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humaisali/Awesome-AI-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-self-scheduling)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-self-scheduling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-self-scheduling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-self-scheduling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/humaisali/awesome-ai-skills/agent-self-scheduling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.01193 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00596 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00239 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00119 |
Grade A, and why
agent-self-scheduling scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
92% identical to agent-self-scheduling — 33 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Self-Scheduling
When to Use
- Use when the user asks for recurring, scheduled, heartbeat, or looped agent work.
- Use when you need to choose between cron, external schedulers, hooks, or built-in agent scheduling.
First question: does the agent have a built-in scheduler (Hermes → Camp B), or do you own the clock (everything else → Camp A)?
Universal floor: cron is 1 minute minimum (5-field expr, no seconds) — every camp. For sub-minute you MUST use a while ...; sleep N; done loop, a TS extension, or an event hook. Never put an LLM on a tight timer.
Camp A — one-shot agents, you own the clock
These run once and exit (amnesiac unless resumed). Schedule them externally.
claude -p "PROMPT" --output-format json --allowedTools "Read,Edit,Bash" # Claude Code
codex exec --json "PROMPT" # Codex
pi run "PROMPT" # Pi
Wrap in a clock:
# 1. cron (>= 1 min floor)
*/10 * * * * cd /path/to/project && pi run "check X and report" >> ~/agent.log 2>&1
# 2. systemd timer (Linux, survives reboot, better logging) — OnUnitActiveSec=10min
# 3. dumb loop (sub-minute, or no cron available)
while true; do pi run "check X"; sleep 30; done
Gotchas (each breaks unattended runs if ignored):
- Permissions hang forever. Pass
--allowedTools(Claude) or sandbox/auto-approve flags (Codex), or the run blocks on a prompt. - Use JSON output (
--output-format json/--json) so the wrapper parses results deterministically. - Runs are amnesiac. Resume (
codex exec resume --last) or persist state to a file the next run reads.
Pi has NO built-in scheduler/loop/heartbeat by design — external clock only (or a TS extension for agent-side timers).
cmux — orchestration only, NO scheduler
cmux has no timer/watch/cron. Three ways to loop it: orchestrator-driven (send → sleep → read-screen on your own clock), a dumb while-sleep wrapper, or — preferred — event-driven via cmux notify + OSC terminal hooks, which is cheaper and more responsive than polling. read-screen is non-interruptive, safe to poll.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 90 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A c352bb6add9f
agent-self-scheduling is a skill published in the GitHub repository humaisali/Awesome-AI-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,193 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to agent-self-scheduling, differing in 33 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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