Cron Jobs

Deprecated — the legacy orchestration runtime. It keeps working. This page documents a command group that drives the frozen legacy runtime (also called: orchestration, warm pool, instance pool, Hermes, sidecar, container runtime, hosted runtime, runtime.pool). It keeps working for existing configs and accepts no new capabilities. Nothing here is disabled, refused or gated, and no route or CLI command on this page has been removed.Since 2026-08 each command on this page also prints a one-line banner on stderr and attaches a machine-readable deprecation object to the JSON envelope on stdout, which stays JSON.parse-able. There is no sunset date: the surface is frozen, not scheduled for removal.New work declares a team({ lead, agents }) on runtime.durable() and submits work with naive teams submit. The per-subcommand replacement is in the table directly below.

Replacement

naive cron schedules work on the frozen legacy runtime.

Instead of	Use
`naive cron create <schedule> <prompt>`	`naive teams schedule <team> <cron> "<goal>" --tenant <tu>`
`naive cron remove <id>`	`naive teams unschedule <team> <id> --tenant <tu>`
`naive cron list` / `trigger`	`naive teams show` · `naive teams submit`

naive cron pause has no replacement: the durable runtime has no pause. Stop the team, or unschedule. The banner id is dep.cron.

naive cron the CLI is deprecated. /v1/cron/* the URL prefix is not.That prefix has two unrelated tenants. Nine of its routes are platform reconcilers invoked by the scheduler with a shared secret, not by you: drain-events, reconcile-connections, reconcile-billing, reconcile-agent-profiles, reconcile-deliveries, reconcile-deployments, verify-domains, charge-phone-rentals and process-conversions. None of them is deprecated, none carries a deprecation header, and none is affected by anything on this page. If you are looking at a /v1/cron/… request in a log, check which of the two it is before concluding anything.

Overview

Command	Description	Cost
`naive cron create <schedule> <prompt>`	Create a new scheduled job	Free (cost on each firing)
`naive cron list`	List all cron jobs	Free
`naive cron trigger <id>`	Manually trigger a job now	Credits (based on work)
`naive cron pause <id>`	Pause a cron job	Free
`naive cron remove <id>`	Delete a cron job permanently	Free

How It Works

Cron jobs are managed through the Hermes gateway’s native Jobs API (/api/jobs). Each firing sends a prompt to the CEO, which creates tasks and dispatches them to employees. This enables automated recurring workflows like weekly reports, daily email checks, or scheduled social media content.

Create a Cron Job

naive cron create "0 9 * * *" "Check email and respond to urgent messages"
naive cron create "0 */6 * * *" "Monitor social media mentions" --skill naive-social
naive cron create "0 0 * * 1" "Generate weekly analytics report" --name "Weekly Report"

Options

Flag	Description
`--skill <name>`	Skill to invoke (e.g., naive-social, naive-email)
`--name <name>`	Human-readable name for the job

Schedule Format (Cron Expression)

Expression	Meaning
`0 9 * * *`	Every day at 9:00 AM UTC
`0 /6 * *`	Every 6 hours
`0 9 * * 1`	Every Monday at 9:00 AM UTC
`0 0 1 * *`	First day of every month at midnight
`/30 * * *`	Every 30 minutes

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "action": "cron.create",
  "result": {
    "id": "cron-abc-123",
    "schedule": "0 9 * * *",
    "name": "Weekly Report",
    "status": "active"
  },
  "hints": [
    "Cron job created (id: cron-abc-123)",
    "Schedule: 0 9 * * *",
    "The job will fire automatically at the next scheduled interval"
  ]
}

List Cron Jobs

naive cron list

Returns all cron jobs with:

ID, name, schedule (cron expression)
Status (active, paused)
Prompt that fires on each run
Last run timestamp and result
Next scheduled run time

Trigger Manually

Fires the job immediately, regardless of schedule. The regular schedule is not affected.

naive cron trigger cron-abc-123

Pause a Job

naive cron pause cron-abc-123

The job remains configured but will not fire on schedule. You can still trigger it manually with naive cron trigger.

Remove a Job

naive cron remove cron-abc-123

Permanently deletes the cron job. Past executions remain in history. Cannot be undone.

Typical Workflow

# 1. Create a recurring job
naive cron create "0 9 * * *" "Check inbox and summarize new emails"

# 2. Test it immediately
naive cron trigger cron-abc-123

# 3. View all jobs
naive cron list

# 4. Pause if needed
naive cron pause cron-abc-123

# 5. Delete when done
naive cron remove cron-abc-123

CLI Reference

Durable runtime

Multi-tenant

Legacy orchestration (deprecated)

Primitives

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

Create a Cron Job

Options

Schedule Format (Cron Expression)

Output

List Cron Jobs

Trigger Manually

Pause a Job

Remove a Job

Typical Workflow

​Replacement

​Overview

​How It Works

​Create a Cron Job

​Options

​Schedule Format (Cron Expression)

​Output

​List Cron Jobs

​Trigger Manually

​Pause a Job

​Remove a Job

​Typical Workflow

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

Create a Cron Job

Options

Schedule Format (Cron Expression)

Output

List Cron Jobs

Trigger Manually

Pause a Job

Remove a Job

Typical Workflow