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Route recurring work to a provider-native scheduler or an explicitly external host scheduler

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$ npx -y skills add jmagly/aiwg --skill schedule --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/schedule

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Route recurring work to a provider-native scheduler or an explicitly external host scheduler

SKILL.md

schedule.SKILL.md
namespace: aiwg
name: schedule
platforms: [all]
description: Route recurring work to a provider-native scheduler or an explicitly external host scheduler
commandHint:
  argumentHint: "create|list|delete [provider-native options]"
  allowedTools: CronCreate, CronDelete, CronList
  model: haiku
  category: scheduling
  modelRole: efficiency
  modelTier: economy

Schedule

Route scheduling requests without inventing an AIWG scheduler backend.

Capability boundary

AIWG's production CLI does **not** expose `aiwg schedule`, `aiwg daemon`, or `aiwg daemon schedule`. Never recommend or execute those commands.

There are three distinct states:

1. **Provider native** — use the provider's scheduling tools directly. In a Claude Code agent session these are `CronCreate`, `CronList`, and `CronDelete`. 2. **AIWG implemented** — no production scheduler implementation currently exists. Do not label this state as emulated. 3. **External trigger** — system cron, a systemd timer, or CI owns time and launches a reviewed, non-interactive provider command. AIWG may document the contract, but it does not own the clock.

Routing

  • When `CronCreate`/`CronList`/`CronDelete` are available, use them.
  • Otherwise, explain that scheduling is external and ask which host mechanism

the operator controls.

  • Do not create a cron entry or CI workflow without explicit authorization.
  • Keep prompts and reviewed configuration in files; do not place credentials,

session material, or sensitive prompt text in process arguments.

Provider-native operations

For Claude Code inside an agent session:

CronCreate({ name: "daily-sync", schedule: "0 9 * * *", prompt: "Run the reviewed daily sync" })
CronList()
CronDelete({ name: "daily-sync" })

Outside that tool surface, report:

No provider-native scheduler is available in this session.
Use an external scheduler (system cron, systemd timer, or CI) to launch a
reviewed provider command. AIWG does not provide a resident scheduler command.

Safety

  • Treat external scheduler configuration as an operator-owned deployment.
  • Use absolute, reviewed workspace and prompt paths.
  • Never embed tokens, cookies, browser profiles, or session data.
  • Prefer stdin for provider prompts and use the platform's approved secret

store or file-backed reference mechanism.

  • Require an idempotency strategy and lock for mutation-capable jobs.

Discovery terms

scheduled recurring task, cron, systemd timer, external trigger, provider-native scheduler

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