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Cron Architecture for AI Agents: 60 Jobs, Zero Human Triggers

Most teams trigger AI agents manually. Here's the production architecture that runs 60 autonomous agents on precise schedules — custom cron engine, staggered slots, fresh-agent isolation, and self-healing patterns.

Issue 010 of the htek.dev newsletter. Last issue, we covered building an internal developer platform on GitHub with IssueOps and golden-path repos. This time, we’re going deep on the scheduling layer — how to make 60 AI agents run themselves on precise schedules with zero human intervention.

The Problem: Manual Triggers Don’t Scale

Here’s a dirty secret about most “autonomous” AI agent setups: someone still types a message to kick them off.

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