Scheduled Jobs

Housecat can be configured to do work automatically for you any time of the day.

How It Works

Chat with your agent, or browse to the jobs page, to set up a scheduled job.

Under the hood, your VM is running 24/7 and every minute it checks the jobs database to see if there is something configured to do. When there is something to do, Housecat either starts a conversation through the AI Agent, or runs the script or program.

Conversation starts a conversation with the agent. This is extremely flexible but not very deterministic due to lack of “context”.

Conversation examples: “tell me a cat fact”, “send me a slack DM with my daily briefing”

Doc follows instructions in a Markdown file. This also is extremely flexible, and provides a lot of context and guidance to the agent to perform the job.

Doc examples: imogen/morning-briefing/JOB.md

Script runs a script. This is a rigid set of instructions that orchestrates its own LLM calls if needed.

Script examples: imogen/morning-briefing/job.py, shared/daily-backups/backup.py

Program runs a program. Similar to a script but with a few extra mechanics to build and/or install a full program.

Program examples: shared/rclone/cmd/backup

Job Activity

You can view recent job runs, conversations, and their outputs on the jobs page.