#+TITLE - Cron Scheduler Skill #+AUTHOR - org-agent #+SKILL_NAME - skill-cron This skill hooks into the background heartbeat to provide autonomous temporal action, like checking for missed deadlines. * Trigger Triggers on every background heartbeat pulse. #+begin_src lisp (defun trigger-skill-cron (context) (let ((type (getf context :type)) (payload (getf context :payload))) (and (eq type :EVENT) (eq (getf payload :sensor) :heartbeat)))) #+end_src * Symbolic Pre-Processing & Neuro Prompt System 2 parses deadlines and only wakes up the LLM if a task is actually overdue according to the current universal time. #+begin_src lisp (defun parse-org-timestamp (ts-str) "Extract year, month, and day from an Org timestamp (e.g. <2026-03-24 Tue>) and return its universal-time representation." (let ((match (nth-value 1 (cl-ppcre:scan-to-strings "<(\\d{4})-(\\d{2})-(\\d{2}).*>" ts-str)))) (if match (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 (parse-integer (aref match 2)) (parse-integer (aref match 1)) (parse-integer (aref match 0))) nil))) (defun neuro-skill-cron (context) "Checks for deadlines and only wakes the LLM if action is needed." (let* ((all-tasks (org-agent:context-query-store :todo-state "TODO" :type :HEADLINE)) (now (get-universal-time)) (overdue-tasks nil)) (dolist (task all-tasks) (let* ((attrs (org-agent:org-object-attributes task)) (deadline-str (getf attrs :DEADLINE)) (title (getf attrs :TITLE))) (when deadline-str (let ((deadline-time (parse-org-timestamp deadline-str))) ;; Only consider it overdue if the deadline has actually passed (when (and deadline-time (<= deadline-time now)) (push (format nil "[~a] Was due - ~a" title deadline-str) overdue-tasks)))))) (if overdue-tasks (let* ((all-delivery (mapcar (lambda (task) (getf (org-agent:org-object-attributes task) :DELIVERY)) all-tasks)) ;; Check if any overdue task specifically requested external delivery (target (if (cl:some (lambda (d) (not (null d))) all-delivery) :delivery :emacs))) (format nil " You are the user's Executive Assistant. The heartbeat monitor just woke you up. The following tasks are officially OVERDUE: ~a Draft a very short, polite alert message to the user warning them about these deadlines. Return a Lisp plist - (:target ~a :action :message :text \"your alert\") If target is :delivery, make the message extra concise for a phone notification. " overdue-tasks (if (eq target :delivery) ":delivery" ":emacs"))) nil))) #+end_src * Symbolic Verification Standard pass-through. #+begin_src lisp (defun verify-skill-cron (proposed-action context) proposed-action) #+end_src * Registration #+begin_src lisp (defskill :skill-cron :priority 60 :trigger #'trigger-skill-cron :neuro #'neuro-skill-cron :symbolic #'verify-skill-cron) #+end_src