When your agent stack runs 24/7, “good enough” scheduling isn’t good enough. I built the Smart Scheduler because cron alone can’t express dependencies, retries, or failure recovery.
Hard‑won lessons
- Jobs fail for boring reasons—network hiccups, API slowdowns, timeouts.
- Retries need backoff, not brute‑force loops.
- Dependencies matter: downstream jobs should pause when upstream fails.
The architecture
Smart Scheduler wraps cron syntax with state tracking, job metadata, and dependency chains. It logs every run and reports failures cleanly, so you’re not guessing at 3 AM.
What’s next
- Job health dashboard
- Per‑job error budgets
- Self‑healing routines for flaky tasks