Agent cron has been breaking whenever the machine sleeps 7 open-source GitHub repos that turn an agent into a team that works on a schedule: 731,336 stars combined, 6 of 7 pushed within 4 days, all permissive, stars checked Oct 23 WAKE ON A CLOCK 01. hermes-agent ★254,427: -> cron + Telegram + auto-retry (README claim) 02. openclaw ★392,196: -> local assistant for Telegram, Slack and more RUN AND PAUSE 03. ★16,559: -> durable cron + queues + human waitpoints (README claim) 04. temporal ★23,756: -> durable execution across crashes 05. dbos-transact-py ★1,635: -> Postgres cron + durable sleep (README claim) DELIVER THE RESULT 06. apprise ★17,597: -> one call to Telegram, email or anywhere REMEMBER BETWEEN RUNS 07. letta ★25,166: -> persistent memory that learns between runs (README claim) clock -> background run -> human approval -> durable resume -> chat delivery -> memory curl -fsSL | bash Only and hermes-agent name a human approval step; start read-only before cron touches anything irreversible Not a smarter model, a cron that stays alive when you walk away ↓