Cron Design Workflow — Setup Guide¶
Source: lovenps85/hermes-cron-design-workflow-skill Category: Operations / DevOps
A reusable Hermes Agent skill for designing and improving cron jobs, scheduled automations, recurring alerts, and personal operations workflows. Adapts patterns from Superpowers (brainstorming, writing-plans), Matt Pocock (grill-me, grill-with-docs, domain-modeling), and GSTACK (office-hours) into a structured cron design pipeline.
Installation¶
Option A: Clone/copy (recommended — preserves references)¶
git clone https://github.com/lovenps85/hermes-cron-design-workflow-skill.git
mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/devops
cp -a hermes-cron-design-workflow-skill/cron-design-workflow ~/.hermes/skills/devops/
Then start a Hermes session and load:
hermes -s cron-design-workflow
Or inside Hermes:
/skill cron-design-workflow
Option B: Direct SKILL.md install¶
hermes skills install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lovenps85/hermes-cron-design-workflow-skill/main/cron-design-workflow/SKILL.md
Prerequisites¶
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Hermes Agent | v0.14.0+ (skill loading support) |
| Git | For clone install (Option A) |
Key Capabilities¶
Workflow Pipeline¶
Context → Office Hour → Brainstorming → Grill Me → Docs → Execute / Verify
| Phase | What Happens | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Context | Gather existing crons, schedules, and requirements | Structured requirements doc |
| Office Hour | Open Q&A session — explore edge cases, constraints | Clarified scope |
| Brainstorming | Generate multiple approaches, evaluate trade-offs | Ranked options |
| Grill Me | Stress-test the chosen approach — find failure modes | Hardened design |
| Docs | Write the cron spec, schedule, monitoring plan | Deployable documentation |
| Execute / Verify | Deploy and validate the cron job | Running automation |
Core Features¶
| Capability | How to Trigger | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Design New Cron | "Design a cron for [purpose]" | Full 6-phase pipeline |
| Improve Existing Cron | "Review my [name] cron" | Skips straight to Grill Me phase |
| Cron Audit | "Audit all my crons" | Context phase gathers all existing jobs |
| Documentation | "Write docs for my crons" | Docs phase with monitoring plan |
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
| Use Case | How |
|---|---|
| New Automation Design | "Design a cron to monitor MCP server uptime every hour" |
| Existing Cron Optimization | "Review the skills-sweep cron — it's running slow" |
| Scheduled Report Generation | "Design a daily HTML report cron for growth metrics" |
| Watchdog Design | "Design a watchdog for email inbox monitoring" |
| Cron Consolidation | "Audit all crons and suggest consolidation" |
Troubleshooting¶
| Issue | Fix |
|---|---|
| Skill not found | Verify clone path: ls ~/.hermes/skills/devops/cron-design-workflow/ |
| References missing | Use Option A (clone) — Option B may only install SKILL.md |
| Pipeline stalls | Each phase builds on the last — ensure Context is complete before Office Hour |
Verification¶
# Verify skill installed
hermes skills list | grep cron-design-workflow
# Check references
ls ~/.hermes/skills/devops/cron-design-workflow/references/
# Should show: source-research.md
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