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How I Schedule AI Agent Tasks Without Managing Cron Infrastructure

DEV Community·clawtick·26 days ago
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The Problem I run AI agents that need to fire on a schedule — daily reports, periodic data checks, automated follow-ups. The standard options: Self-hosted cron — SSH into a VPS, edit crontab, pray it doesn't silently fail at 3am Cloud glue — Wire up EventBridge + Lambda + CloudWatch Alarms + SNS notifications yourself Generic schedulers — Built for web apps, not agents. No concept of tokens, context, or agent-specific delivery All three share the same problem: too much infrastructure for what should be simple. What I Wanted # This. That's it. clawtick jobs create \ --cron "0 9 * * *" \ --message "Generate daily sales report and send to #reports" \ --name "Daily Report" Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode One command. Job runs every day at 9am. If it fails, I get an alert. If it fails 3 times in a row, it auto-disables and emails me. Execution history, logs, and monitoring included. How It Works ClawTick is a cloud scheduler I built specifically for this use case.…

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