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The world runs on cron jobs

A cron job runs a command on a computer on a schedule. Banks use cron jobs to settle transactions overnight via SFTP. Cron jobs renew TLS certs before they expire. It's the simplest idea in computing, and one of the most effective.

The world will run on agentic cron jobs

Agentic cron jobs are a new kind of cron job that runs a task with an agent on a schedule (every 5 min, once a day). They can do the work you'd do yourself but also work no person could do, like scouring the internet for your next engineering hire all night.

Agentic cron jobs are agents

An agentic cron job that answers tickets, refunds clear cases, and escalates the rest is a "Support Agent". One that sources candidates nightly is a "Hiring Agent", one that buys ads is a "Marketing Agent", etc. Agentic cron jobs are agents.

OpenClaw and Hermes have agentic cron jobs

They're called "scheduled tasks" or "cron jobs", but they're not standardized or shareable. They each implement them differently, which means you can't share an OpenClaw cron job with your friend running Hermes.

A good name for agentic cron jobs is "claws"

Agent Skills gave agent prompts a standard, shareable format with SKILL.md. And for the same reasons, we need a shareable format for Agent Claws with CLAW.md. https://agentclaws.io

Give your agent /claws

Clor runs claws from the agents you already use. Install the Clor CLI, then create and run claws with the /claws command in Claude Code or Codex. Your claws run agentic tasks locally or remotely. https://clor.com/

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