Cron

Built-in scheduler for recurring, unattended automations.

Synapse ships a built-in cron scheduler. Jobs run unattended and deliver results to any connected platform — the agent wakes up, does the work, and reports to wherever you want the output.

What people schedule

Daily reports delivered to Telegram or Discord
Nightly backups
Weekly audits
Recurring maintenance defined in natural language

Defining a job

Jobs are defined in natural language with a schedule. The agent turns the instruction into a repeatable run — each execution gets its own session, so results land in memory like any other work.

text

> every weekday at 09:00, check the repo for open CI failures
> and post a summary to Telegram

Requirements

Scheduled jobs need a long-running host: a VPS, server box, Docker container, or Railway deployment with the gateway or daemon active. On a laptop they only run while the machine is on.

Blueprints

Blueprint catalogs (cron/blueprint_catalog.py) provide prebuilt job templates — see docs/chronos-managed-cron-contract.md in the repository for the scheduler contract.