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The Hermes Agent Gateway and Scheduler: An Unattended Agent's Biggest Risk Is Spending Your Money

One gateway process fronts 30-plus chat platforms and denies every user not on an allowlist or paired by DM. The scheduler adds two unusual guards: pre-dispatch validation marks a misconfigured job `blocked_config` without making a single LLM call, and the model drift guard makes unpinned jobs fail closed when the global model changes — protecting you from an hourly job quietly following you onto a paid model.

Claude Code Routines: Complete Guide to Cloud Automation — Setup, Triggers, and Real-World Examples

Routines is Claude Code's cloud automation system (formerly Cloud Scheduled Tasks). Beyond cron scheduling, you can trigger runs via API endpoint or GitHub events — scan issues, review PRs, run checks, open PRs — all while your computer is off.

OpenClaw Automation, Part 1: Choosing Among Six Mechanisms, and Why 'Exactly on Time' and 'Check on It' Are Different Jobs

Cron is now called Automations (openclaw cron remains an alias), and automation spans six mechanisms. The core trade-off is one line: Automations give you exact timing and isolated execution, Heartbeat gives you full main-session context on a roughly-every-30-minutes cadence.