dsh-cron

Autonomous AI agents frequently need to run recurring jobs—daily digests, bug triaging, API health checks, periodic Git hygiene—yet without a native scheduler inside the harness, users end up relying on external crontab wrappers, brittle webhook chains, or manual re-triggering. dsh-cron embeds standard cron expressions and natural interval syntax (every 15m, daily, weekdays) directly into DeepSeek Harness, making scheduling a first-class platform capability and eliminating all external dependencies.

On the feature side, the plugin ships a sidebar visual task manager with status-filtering tabs, one-click pause/trigger/delete actions, preset workflow templates, and expandable execution history showing timestamps, durations, and outputs. Tasks can be authored through the "Create with DSH" chat modal, where a dedicated agent session translates plain-language requirements into a registered schedule. Keyboard-first users can manage the full lifecycle via /cron slash commands (list, add, pause, resume, run, delete). Agents themselves can invoke native tools—cron_schedule_task, cron_list_tasks, cron_toggle_task—to arrange follow-up executions mid-conversation. The croner-based engine supports timezone-aware scheduling, configurable overlap policies (skip, queue, replace), execution-timeout enforcement with automatic session cancellation, and Telegram delivery for run reports and failure alerts with optional failure-only mode and Markdown formatting. Additional capabilities include one-shot delayed tasks with ISO 8601 or relative timing, automatic Kanban card creation on failure, and a live analytics bar tracking active jobs, total executions, token consumption, and estimated USD spend.

It is built for developers and teams running autonomous agents in DeepSeek Harness who want schedule-driven automation as a native part of their workflow, without maintaining parallel infrastructure or hand-rolled cron wrappers.