# Scheduled recurring tasks and daily briefings run (`auto.routines`)

Feedback Bench, personal agents, built 2026-10-19, window 2026-08-31 to 2026-10-18. Web page: https://feedbackbench.com/#/criterion/auto.routines

Area: [Running on its own](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/auto.md)

**Definition.** Whether scheduled jobs, cron routines and recurring briefings fire on time and run without the user or an app being present.

**Boundary.** Not this: see [Reminders and notifications reach the user correctly](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/auto.reminders.md) when only the notification fails to arrive; see [Where the agent runs: its own computer and always-on running](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/auto.cloud_env.md) when the host machine is down.

Rated user-weeks, all agents: 1054. Complaint share: 18%.

## The brief

Written by large language models from this page's numbers and the posts it quotes, then checked: every number in the text is in the build. Interpretation, not measurement.

Muse and Hermes Agent rank high on scheduled routines. Their users describe daily briefings, scheduled posts and cron jobs that run in the background while they are away. The criterion is the 29th most rated of 53, and 17.9% of rated user-weeks on it complain. Grok Bot, ChatGPT Dots and OpenClaw rank low. Grok Bot carries 43% of the category's complaints here. OpenClaw ranks 6th of 6 and is the only agent worse than the category norm.

### What separates the best from the rest

Muse and Hermes Agent users say their routines run without them: a daily morning briefing, posts that go out on their own, and office work handled in the background. Grok Bot users say routines miss triggers, run minutes off schedule, or do not respond to incoming email. OpenClaw users say daily checks are unreliable and jobs post to the wrong channel. ChatGPT Dots users say morning tasks fail, and that a restart left the scheduled tasks they had set up useless.

- **Ranks high**: [Muse](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/muse.md), [Hermes Agent](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hermes-agent.md)
  - Muse, 2026-10-03, App Store (App Store): “this app truly lives up to its promise of being a personal assistant. this takes ai to another level. one of my fave things is the daily morning briefing it puts together for me i love it!” [source](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)
  - Hermes Agent, 2026-10-16, @NousResearch (X): “@theleoalexandru @nousresearch for me it's the scheduled jobs, it runs my office stuff in the background while claude code mostly sits there waiting for me to type” [source](https://twitter.com/1645424616469397505/status/2111050640403165260)
- **Ranks low**: [Grok Bot](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/grok-bot.md), [OpenClaw](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/openclaw.md), [ChatGPT Dots](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/dots.md)
  - Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@gauravvohra grok bot does the same. scheduled activities at noon, and every 4hours afterwards, run anywhere up to 10 minutes off the mark. bot explains it as due to queues on the hosts it runs, serving multiple users at the same time.” [source](https://twitter.com/23974487/status/2108772585173659751)
  - ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-01, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “chatgpt dots secretly restarted last night, and all the content on the cloud computer storage was lost... quite speechless, the scheduled tasks were set up for nothing [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/990264163959160832/status/2105476409552740764)

## How it breaks

Rule: A separate pass sorts complaints into failure modes. For each criterion with at least 30 complaining user-weeks, a large language model reads 150 complaint posts drawn at random and names 4 to 8 failure modes; a second large language model then puts every complaint post on that criterion in one mode, or in Other when it fits none. Modes are fixed once named, and new posts are sorted into them each week. A mode counts distinct user-weeks with a complaint in it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Modes do not change the labels or the Feedback Score. Examples: up to 3 posts per mode from different users, chosen and checked as receipts are.

The largest failure mode is routines that silently fail to fire. It makes up 29% of complaining user-weeks, and Grok Bot accounts for 45% of it. Late or mistimed runs belong mostly to Grok Bot, with 79% of them, and so do platform-wide scheduler outages. Updates that break or erase existing jobs come mostly from OpenClaw, with 55% of them. Jobs that stop after a few good runs come most often from Muse users.

192 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled routine silently fails to fire | 55 | 55 | Grok Bot 25, Hermes Agent 9, OpenClaw 7, ChatGPT Dots 5, Gemini Spark 4, Muse 4, Poke 1 | A scheduled job or briefing is set up correctly but often doesn't run at its due time, with no alert or error shown, and the user only notices when output is missing. Out of scope: jobs that fire late, jobs that worked for days and then stopped, and outages that hit every routine at once. |
| No event-driven triggers beyond fixed schedules | 21 | 22 | Grok Bot 10, OpenClaw 4, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hermes Agent 2, Muse 2, Hark 1 | The agent can only poll on fixed time intervals, so incoming email, webhooks, location changes or other events don't wake it, and time-sensitive items get missed between checks. Out of scope: time-based schedules that fail to fire. |
| Scheduled runs start late or at wrong time | 19 | 21 | Grok Bot 15, Gemini Spark 2, OpenClaw 2 | A routine does run, but minutes to an hour late, or at a time the user didn't intend, for example the wrong timezone, skipped weekends or delays after the host sleeps. Out of scope: runs that never happen at all. |
| Scheduled run delivers wrong, partial or stale output | 18 | 18 | Grok Bot 6, Muse 4, OpenClaw 4, Hermes Agent 3, ChatGPT Dots 1 | The routine fires but does the job wrongly: it uses old data, drops standing instructions, duplicates files, posts to the wrong channel, or reports success when nothing was delivered. Out of scope: runs that never start or are blocked waiting for the user. |
| Recurring job stops after initial successful runs | 15 | 17 | Muse 5, Grok Bot 4, Hermes Agent 3, OpenClaw 2, ChatGPT Dots 1 | A daily or periodic task runs fine for a few days or occurrences and then stops for good without warning, so the user has to notice and re-create or remind it. Out of scope: jobs that were unreliable from the first day, and stops caused by a software update. |
| Updates break or erase existing scheduled jobs | 11 | 12 | OpenClaw 6, Grok Bot 3, ChatGPT Dots 1, Hermes Agent 1 | A version upgrade, storage migration or config change deletes existing cron jobs, makes them fail, or forces the user to rebuild them by hand. Out of scope: failures with no link to an update. |
| Unattended runs blocked by approvals or logins | 10 | 10 | Gemini Spark 4, Grok Bot 2, OpenClaw 2, Hark 1, Muse 1 | A scheduled run stalls or fails because it needs something the user only provides when present: a permission click every run, a fresh login, a passkey, or tools that only work in live chat. Out of scope: runs that never start. |
| Platform scheduler outage halts all routines | 9 | 9 | Grok Bot 7, Muse 1, OpenClaw 1 | A server-side scheduler fault, overloaded servers or an exhausted usage quota stops every routine across a user's bots for hours or days, while chatting with the bots still works. Out of scope: a single job failing on its own. |
| Other | 35 | 36 | Grok Bot 11, OpenClaw 11, Hermes Agent 9, ChatGPT Dots 4 | Complaints that fit none of the modes above. |

#### Scheduled routine silently fails to fire

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-12, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw get it to actually work, that would be a good start. it can’t reliably check endpoints on a daily basis” [source](https://twitter.com/1902913537183453184/status/2109705421271527802)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-08, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “the morning task of openai dots is not working, and i can't determine if it's a system issue or a problem related to our learning; there is too little information to narrow it down.” [source](https://twitter.com/19286219/status/2107988481431793947)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-03, @bot (X): “@lingxi @bot routines seem to be unreliable at times, not triggering when they should. also, having some sort of push based alerting with gmail instead of routines (maybe this is posssible already somehow).” [source](https://twitter.com/183453981/status/2106388234053824891)

#### No event-driven triggers beyond fixed schedules

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-13, What's new in Grok Bot - Oct 13, 2026 (YouTube): “the triggers called by receiving a grokbot email doesn’t seem to work for me.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_K9yAckFh0&lc=UgwON1rQZXrGb4xn1Mx4AaABAg)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, @bot (X): “@poteto @bot do note, the native inbox tools only work in live chat. scheduled and email-triggered routines don't get them, so a bot can't process its own mail on a schedule (6 of 6 test runs failed). i've filed a bug report from the app.” [source](https://twitter.com/2067222195064143872/status/2108838397846634732)

#### Scheduled runs start late or at wrong time

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@gauravvohra grok bot does the same. scheduled activities at noon, and every 4hours afterwards, run anywhere up to 10 minutes off the mark. bot explains it as due to queues on the hosts it runs, serving multiple users at the same time.” [source](https://twitter.com/23974487/status/2108772585173659751)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-04, @bot (X): “@lingxi @martin_casado @bot the bots scheduled routines do not even launch on time, it’s utterly useless right now.” [source](https://twitter.com/2085115050491064320/status/2106538509016178922)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-03, @bot (X): “@lingxi @bot i have some bots doing automation of recurring tasks in venues for av. their routines can randomly start 15 minutes late for some reason. so can't use them for anything critical.” [source](https://twitter.com/1460445062005858310/status/2106454493118505162)

#### Scheduled run delivers wrong, partial or stale output

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-07, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@shanemac my openclaw, by the way, sometimes cron jobs are posting to the wrong telegram topics and channels. because it's my own private personal ones, where i structure them by different topics, i didn't really care, but it's a thing, not only for me.” [source](https://twitter.com/2766142049/status/2107625672491581568)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-09-16, @NousResearch (X): “the pi is a great fit for this because a weekly cron does not need much and the box costs nothing to leave on. one thing worth adding: hermes cron can report exit 0 and still skip delivery when it dedupes, so a weekly job that silently does nothing looks identical to one that ran. i check the state.db timestamp instead of trusting the log.” [source](https://twitter.com/401542820/status/2100292917319626964)
- OpenClaw, 2026-10-11, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “2/ i wanted my own agent i could trust. example: a daily digest from a few telegram channels. in openclaw it was flaky, and the model spent tokens figuring out how to fetch the posts on every run.” [source](https://twitter.com/1972315578967744512/status/2109080617107476961)

#### Recurring job stops after initial successful runs

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-05, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “i definitely noticed a change. failed automatic report refreshes or just not even running the automatic refresh. it’s to the point where i now have to manually go and tell it to refresh all reports when it just did it on an hour interval everyday before” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1wxvm51/grok_bot_paid_or_alternatives/pe0psd0/)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-30, Play Store (Play Store): “does quite a bit. 5 stars when i don't have to remind it to do a daily task. 4 stars now.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.x.grok.bot)
- Muse, 2026-09-28, App Store (App Store): “i asked muse to give me morning briefing daily if my stocks. it gave me briefing for 2 days and then stopped.” [source](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)

#### Updates break or erase existing scheduled jobs

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-01, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “chatgpt dots secretly restarted last night, and all the content on the cloud computer storage was lost... quite speechless, the scheduled tasks were set up for nothing [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/990264163959160832/status/2105476409552740764)
- OpenClaw, 2026-09-25, r/openclaw (Reddit): “man, i always update very quickly and fix any issue, however this update messed up all my cron jobs, i cannot fix it, the only option is to go back to 9.4 or wait to 9.7. according to github there are several tickets in progress with that issue. today i got the pain.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1wpw4x1/openclaw_202696_broke_all_my_cron_jobs/)
- OpenClaw, 2026-09-06, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw all my cron jobs for linkedin , reddit and x keeps failing after these upgrades” [source](https://twitter.com/133725200/status/2096397201408749614)

#### Unattended runs blocked by approvals or logins

- Gemini Spark, 2026-09-29, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “5. gemini spark's scheduled tasks cannot call tools, and even after the scheduled task call fails, the main session cannot call tools, resulting in a malfunction. i don't know if this is an isolated case or a known bug.” [source](https://twitter.com/1029989882058354688/status/2104807634465640809)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-09-11, Google's New AI Agent! - Gemini Spark Full Beginner's Guide (YouTube): “i actually tried to make an automation using some custom connected apps apart from the native google workspace apps i connected notion and todoist but it is waiting for me to give permission for both apps to allow the operation on everyrun so it is not automatic every scheduled task it waits for me to sort of click on allow for notion and tofoist” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-S0xG23B3g&lc=Ugzj2hNohqzzdjHI6a54AaABAg)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-09-01, Gemini Spark Is INSANE?! I Built a Free AI Job Agent That Works 24/7 for Job Search (YouTube): “bro i did everything u said and ichanged the job roles acccording to me and i scheduled it to 8am everyday but everyday when executing it will ask for confirmation to move folder to drive and i have to give allow manually so the mail doesnt trigger automatically everyday ...please give a solution” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9PFOKXI-k&lc=UgwVFzw1G_gVm_-X0LR4AaABAg)

#### Platform scheduler outage halts all routines

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-13, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@poteto routines are completely bricked in grok bot for me. i've opened support tickets, but the ai agent is saying its because the entire fleet shares the same rate-limiting system which can cause the grok routine scheduler to miss triggers & my reject webhook events.” [source](https://twitter.com/1655762253617020928/status/2110082762086728161)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-08, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “scheduled routines stopped firing for all my bots on thu 8 oct 2026. inbox's scans (every :29 and :59, 08:29 to 20:59 uk) ran until about 14:00, failed at 16:55, and haven't run since, even after i paused and resumed the routine. another 16:15 routine also failed, and a one-off routine set for 18:06 never fired. the bots work normally when i message them, so it looks like a server-side scheduler fault” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x0xes2/all_bot_routines_failed/)
- Muse, 2026-10-03, App Store (App Store): “big promises, poor performance. the routines fail due to overloaded servers” [source](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)

#### Other

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-14, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “openclaw had this at the beginning although it didn't work that well, and i think they eventually got rid of it. a cron job that repeated every 15 minutes or so and checked your email, calendar, etc. and took action if relevant” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x5s55h/muse_like_behavior_in_hermes/pgp6qzz/)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-13, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “good morning, everyone! i moved koko-chan @aifoxkoko from hermes agent to grok bot, and it's quite nice. hermes agent often had bugs with cron and didn't work properly, but grok bot is working well. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1495221530745520128/status/2109809934095557114)

## Top requests

What users ask to add or change, most asked first. 136 user-weeks ask for something. Requests do not change the Feedback Score. Rule: A separate pass by a large language model reads every counted post and extracts what the user asks the agent or its vendor to add or change, with the criteria it maps to and a short normalised wording; it does not touch the labels or the Feedback Score. A large language model groups the wordings within each criterion (the first criterion the request maps to) into themes, and a second pass merges themes that ask for the same change under different criteria; a merged theme sits under the criterion most of its requests map to, and code counts it once. A theme counts distinct user-weeks that ask for it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Themes asked in fewer than 2 user-weeks, and requests that share no theme, are not shown. Examples: up to 3 posts per theme from different users, without slurs: whole posts of 60 to 450 characters with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, posts of at most 280 characters first, then the newest.

| Rank | Request | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scheduled jobs fire reliably on time | 33 | 33 | Grok Bot 19, Hermes Agent 5, Muse 4, OpenClaw 3, Gemini Spark 1, Hark 1 |
| 2 | Webhook and external triggers | 26 | 26 | Grok Bot 8, ChatGPT Dots 5, Hermes Agent 3, Muse 3, OpenClaw 3, Gemini Spark 2, Hark 2 |
| 3 | Scheduled daily digests and briefings | 12 | 12 | Grok Bot 9, Gemini Spark 1, Hermes Agent 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 4 | Continuous autonomous work without manual wake-up | 10 | 10 | Hermes Agent 5, Grok Bot 3, Gemini Spark 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 5 | Scheduled jobs survive restarts, upgrades and closed sessions | 8 | 8 | OpenClaw 6, Grok Bot 1, Muse 1 |
| 6 | Recurring daily task automation | 7 | 7 | Grok Bot 3, OpenClaw 2, Hark 1, Muse 1 |
| 7 | Scheduled runs complete without stalling or crashing | 7 | 7 | OpenClaw 3, Gemini Spark 2, Grok Bot 1, Muse 1 |
| 8 | Scheduling UI and routine management | 7 | 7 | Grok Bot 3, Muse 2, Gemini Spark 1, Hermes Agent 1 |
| 9 | Automatic monitoring and alerts | 4 | 4 | Grok Bot 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 10 | Routines remember state between runs | 4 | 4 | Grok Bot 2, Hermes Agent 2 |
| 11 | Finer and more frequent schedule intervals | 3 | 3 | Hark 1, Hermes Agent 1, Muse 1 |
| 12 | Weekly recurring tasks and roundups | 3 | 3 | Grok Bot 3 |

### 1. Scheduled jobs fire reliably on time

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@gauravvohra grok bot does the same. scheduled activities at noon, and every 4hours afterwards, run anywhere up to 10 minutes off the mark. bot explains it as due to queues on the hosts it runs, serving multiple users at the same time.” [source](https://twitter.com/23974487/status/2108772585173659751)
- Hark, 2026-10-09, @hark_labs (X): “so muse was not able to book 4 charles - the scheduled run never ran 🙁 moving onto @hark_labs to test it [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1245796518138961920/status/2108698629502546380)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-04, @bot (X): “@lingxi @martin_casado @bot the bots scheduled routines do not even launch on time, it’s utterly useless right now.” [source](https://twitter.com/2085115050491064320/status/2106538509016178922)

### 2. Webhook and external triggers

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “please just give us some way to trigger our codex or work with an api or webhook. rather than hoping for it to wake itself up at the correct time. thank you 😊” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgzR87UacthjrLhnEcR4AaABAg)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@thsottiaux @charliermarsh @ajambrosino when's openai's dots getting webhook support?? fr i need this so bad 🙏 btw you gotta try grok bot, webhook messages there are lowkey a game changer. i can throw tasks at it from literally anywhere and it just handles them, no cap” [source](https://twitter.com/1740906151750103040/status/2111524930693238836)
- Hark, 2026-10-12, @hark_labs (X): “so assistants like @hark_labs, @bot do not have triggers (they do not activate on an event)? that's silly! yet that's the basis of an assistant! especially since the new versions of the mcp and plugins allow it...” [source](https://twitter.com/11801352/status/2109586232682438787)

### 3. Scheduled daily digests and briefings

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “hi @bot look out for interesting things people are doing with grok bot on x and slack me a daily digest at 9am. if there’s anything relevant, pick the coolest ideas and suggest how i can use it to improve my workflow” [source](https://twitter.com/74427252/status/2109013456284438965)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-09, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “hi @bot, keep an eye on the interesting things people are doing with grok bot on x, and send me a daily summary every morning at 9 am. if there is anything relevant, pick out the coolest ideas and suggest how i can use them to improve my workflow.” [source](https://twitter.com/1830679620653588482/status/2108477429211861272)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-09, @bot (X): “hi @bot look out for interesting things people are doing with grok bot on x and slack me a daily digest at 9am. if there’s anything relevant, pick the coolest ideas and suggest how i can use it to improve my workflow” [source](https://twitter.com/1411698900336058375/status/2108473866104299703)

### 4. Continuous autonomous work without manual wake-up

- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-13, @NousResearch (X): “@witcheer @nousresearch @teknium i want to just just codex sub and make it automatically continue at night 🫠” [source](https://twitter.com/2017677882378551296/status/2110109158716346823)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-05, @NousResearch (X): “@teknium @nousresearch is there a way to get bots in a group chat to keep working continuously without needing me to ask it for update (waking them up)? i see this behavior on different instances of hermes desktop running on different machines.” [source](https://twitter.com/138913197/status/2107116383696048333)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-12, @bot (X): “@bot the next version should be scheduled, not self-calling.” [source](https://twitter.com/1796771531017601024/status/2098875269645738286)

### 5. Scheduled jobs survive restarts, upgrades and closed sessions

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-05, @openclaw (X): “@kshitijkoranne @openclaw @nousresearch @muse the issue is storing the cron in memory, make sure it actually creates an outside of the session cron to continuously work.” [source](https://twitter.com/2023463532042289152/status/2107141914839466302)
- OpenClaw, 2026-09-25, r/openclaw (Reddit): “man, i always update very quickly and fix any issue, however this update messed up all my cron jobs, i cannot fix it, the only option is to go back to 9.4 or wait to 9.7. according to github there are several tickets in progress with that issue. today i got the pain.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1wpw4x1/openclaw_202696_broke_all_my_cron_jobs/)
- OpenClaw, 2026-09-24, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw restart recovery and managed updates matter more than the model list when agents are expected to run unattended.” [source](https://twitter.com/143774242/status/2102996211028656447)

### 6. Recurring daily task automation

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-03, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “omarchy, homeassistant, ubunutu home server and openclaw updates are starting to become a full time job. really contemplating one-shot cron to do it all. any suggestions?” [source](https://twitter.com/2042080821280968705/status/2106188142751703541)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-30, Play Store (Play Store): “does quite a bit. 5 stars when i don't have to remind it to do a daily task. 4 stars now.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.x.grok.bot)
- Muse, 2026-09-25, @muse (X): “@brandon_galang @muse the upgrade is making it recurring. save that prompt and have it re-run the search every few months. one $100 surprise is a good story; a standing unclaimed-money sweep is a system.” [source](https://twitter.com/2102445856590811136/status/2103531843291435255)

### 7. Scheduled runs complete without stalling or crashing

- OpenClaw, 2026-09-02, @openclaw (X): “i’m a lawyer using @openclaw for real workflows. my test is simple: can i give an agent a recurring job and trust it to keep working for weeks? @steipete, now that you have a paid dev team, is reliability the #1 priority?” [source](https://twitter.com/2492953478/status/2095035927206785204)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-08-31, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “oh... is gemini spark heavy? the regular schedule could not be completed and has stopped halfway.” [source](https://twitter.com/1305820380460773377/status/2094351023859278048)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-08-31, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “"gemini live" transforms from just a conversation partner to a work assistant - in collaboration with "gemini spark" - windows daily [link] even when i set up automatic tasks, it stops due to errors and doesn't work!” [source](https://twitter.com/291730076/status/2094330753765228935)

### 8. Scheduling UI and routine management

- Gemini Spark, 2026-09-28, AI54 | 用 Gemini Spark 或 Apps Script 打造全自動 AI 助理 | 試算表自動辨識與填入 #gemini #自動化 (YouTube): “it would be great if chatgpt scheduling could have as many options as spark 😢” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyo6aESQISM&lc=UgxZ02M6SP1kkXZUunV4AaABAg)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-27, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@chrisgpt i built a bring-your-own sip credentials phone usage plugin for grok bot agents. now my alarm is a phone call, and grok bot's scheduling system sucks.” [source](https://twitter.com/1508034028670181376/status/2104156089017381056)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-09-04, @NousResearch (X): “@0xbakeer @nousresearch this is exactly the kind of hermes mobile client i’d use for a local ai lab. my vote: 1. multi-server support 2. streaming tool-call inspector 3. routines/scheduling ui 4. local-model-only mode multi-server would be huge. really glad you’re building this.” [source](https://twitter.com/1394950080/status/2095764306466123963)

### 9. Automatic monitoring and alerts

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-12, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw get it to actually work, that would be a good start. it can’t reliably check endpoints on a daily basis” [source](https://twitter.com/1902913537183453184/status/2109705421271527802)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-10, Я поручил ChatGPT Dots сделать всю мою работу – вот что получилось! ИИ-агенты от ChatGPT – тест. (YouTube): “this is a mind-blowing thing. we are checking the link for 1 product on ozone, and then it would be good if it could check the phone of the fool 24/7, just in case it changes.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiU0EDFqCo&lc=UgzSJXuFsd-L1WjYJgB4AaABAg)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-04, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@nytimes @grok can you help unbias this report for me and summarize key races? (ideally, grok bot could set news alerts for this for me.) i don’t trust polls after iowa said kamala harris ran away with it.” [source](https://twitter.com/1972750646660206593/status/2106629896290406574)

### 10. Routines remember state between runs

- Hermes Agent, 2026-09-12, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “since i installed hermes agent and asked it to regularly check for new magazine issues, it started writing scraping code in python and is repeatedly checking the operation and making corrections, but i feel like repeating this every time is a waste.” [source](https://twitter.com/133142739/status/2098668287290925237)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-09-01, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch i keep the cron that remembers yesterday. the 9am job shouldn't rewrite the same dump.” [source](https://twitter.com/1273697037968687107/status/2094733245996810726)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-17, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “call me insane but grok bot just made me realize how stupid most ai automation actually is 8,640 runs a month just to check if something changed. grok bot + smart triggers could cut that down without missing the work that matters. event → change check → grok bot → approval → audit no change? no run. 3 a.m. approval? leave a draft. something breaks? wake the right routine. give grok bot this exact workflow. let the bots work. not the clock.” [source](https://twitter.com/1999974345800925184/status/2111455094600302970)

### 11. Finer and more frequent schedule intervals

- Hark, 2026-10-08, @hark_labs (X): “simple comparison: how frequently can you schedule automated checks for any task? @muse — every 1 minute @openai (dots) — every 1 minute @bot — every 5 minutes @hark_labs — every 10 minutes” [source](https://twitter.com/1737245583780220928/status/2108028227071389765)
- Muse, 2026-09-10, @muse (X): “@yairyup @muse it’s really good! so how did you setup it to alert you for a price drop? mine says it can only scan at certain times or intervals? is that how yours work? i ask because it was supposed to notify me of a package shopping but because it only checked email once a day it missed it” [source](https://twitter.com/1425445846628319234/status/2098166976065450340)

### 12. Weekly recurring tasks and roundups

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-08, @bot (X): “@bot @bot can you set this up for me and provide me a weekly roundup of my industry” [source](https://twitter.com/1744459539309633536/status/2108185895853502661)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-19, @bot (X): “@heywayfinder create a terminator @bot that does this every week? call it t800 😅” [source](https://twitter.com/1355965591702614018/status/2101330503378805123)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-12, @bot (X): “there's so much knowledge and wisdom dropping on x daily that i almost want a 'consultant' agent that feeds everything into my business brain wiki then emails me considered suggestions each week. @grok are you able to do this with @bot?” [source](https://twitter.com/19533660/status/2098772674050662831)

## Every agent

| Agent | Overall rank | Reading | Customer love | 95% interval | n | Praise | Complaint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Muse](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/muse.md) | 1 | 1st of 6 | 0.573 | 0.538–0.603 | 185 | 169 | 16 |
| [Hermes Agent](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hermes-agent.md) | 2 | 2nd of 6 | 0.541 | 0.502–0.580 | 221 | 195 | 26 |
| [Gemini Spark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/gemini-spark.md) | 7 | 3rd of 6 | 0.494 | 0.471–0.512 | 39 | 29 | 10 |
| [Grok Bot](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/grok-bot.md) | 3 | 4th of 6 | 0.479 | 0.426–0.523 | 415 | 333 | 82 |
| [ChatGPT Dots](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/dots.md) | 8 | 5th of 6 | 0.469 | 0.431–0.507 | 44 | 31 | 13 |
| [OpenClaw](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/openclaw.md) | 5 | 6th of 6 | 0.423 | 0.384–0.467 | 118 | 79 | 39 |
| [Hark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hark.md) | 4 | Too few posts | – | – | 26 | 24 | 2 |
| [Instinct](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/instinct.md) | 6 | Too few posts | – | – | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| [Poke](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/poke.md) | 9 | Too few posts | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 |

## Posts

Receipts rule: Up to 5 praise and 5 complaint posts per area and 3 per criterion. Each is a whole post of 60 to 450 characters (700 for areas) with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, that judges the criterion, whose labels are all praise or all complaint, and that contains no slur. Posts that touch the fewest criteria come first, then posts of at most 280 characters, then the newest. A second large language model reads the first 3 candidates per slot and keeps a post only if it clearly praises, or clearly complains about, the agent on that criterion. Links and personal details removed by the source show as marks such as [link].

### Muse

- Praise, 2026-10-08, @muse (X): “i had @muse create a daily, automated podcast called daily musings that provides updates, use cases, and other news about muse. each episode is 5-7 min and is an easy way for me to stay updated. 🦾 [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/12667252/status/2108168105654714753)
- Praise, 2026-10-06, Play Store (Play Store): “you are wasting time if u are not using muse. love it have scheduled post going out all on there own game changer.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.aura)
- Complaint, 2026-09-28, App Store (App Store): “i asked muse to give me morning briefing daily if my stocks. it gave me briefing for 2 days and then stopped.” [source](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)
- Complaint, 2026-09-25, X search: Muse from Meta, Meta Muse (X): “truth be told, haven't used $meta muse much after the initial to-do list. and it's not giving me the daily shopping scan report i requested. still use claude for research.” [source](https://twitter.com/1938476978925146112/status/2103338842338345376)
- Complaint, 2026-10-15, @muse (X): “@jjenglert @muse not mainly a context/compaction issue. @muse has felt dumber since ~last week. even crons that used to run fine with no intervention are failing now. starting to wonder if its compute got nerfed to handle more users.” [source](https://twitter.com/2072675192749629440/status/2110636275086786718)

### Hermes Agent

- Praise, 2026-10-16, @NousResearch (X): “@theleoalexandru @nousresearch for me it's the scheduled jobs, it runs my office stuff in the background while claude code mostly sits there waiting for me to type” [source](https://twitter.com/1645424616469397505/status/2111050640403165260)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “my instapaper backlog is finally getting some attention since @instapaper opened up its api, i built a small cron job for my hermes agent. every afternoon it sends me three random articles from my saved list, with an “archive all” button really loving it so far [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/41544104/status/2110172481734705392)
- Complaint, 2026-10-13, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “good morning, everyone! i moved koko-chan @aifoxkoko from hermes agent to grok bot, and it's quite nice. hermes agent often had bugs with cron and didn't work properly, but grok bot is working well. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1495221530745520128/status/2109809934095557114)
- Complaint, 2026-10-05, @NousResearch (X): “every agent i have tried (@openclaw @nousresearch and @muse ) they forget to run simple cron jobs after 4-5 successful days. why is the pattern same across all these agents? am i doing something wrong? can someone enlighten me?” [source](https://twitter.com/77399810/status/2106943315195445372)
- Complaint, 2026-10-01, @NousResearch (X): “🤔 @nousresearch seems like cron jobs get a bit buggy. wasn't there an "execute now" button on the job card? or maybe that was from another runtime. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/7215722/status/2105542493786059005)

### Gemini Spark

- Praise, 2026-09-30, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “tasks that are created regularly every week, like a weekly report, are easy to delegate to gemini spark. the tasks and prompts that i actually hand over to spark are placed here👇️ [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1982415242937425920/status/2105085219992682736)
- Praise, 2026-09-07, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “do you know gemini spark? i was subscribed to gemini but didn't know about it at all, so i tried using it, and it's super convenient!!! 🔥 it automatically does the scheduled tasks while i'm not using my smartphone or computer✨ for now, what i've tried is,” [source](https://twitter.com/1914922098612711424/status/2096793711430815942)
- Praise, 2026-09-05, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “why did nobody tell me i can uses gemini spark to update me daily on upcoming sports games for today and future on sports teams i like (ufc,nfl,cfb,nba), and to set high ranked teams as priority that are must watch all in my timezone. then a "game of the week" with a snippet” [source](https://twitter.com/2022871199647428609/status/2096305609314603287)
- Complaint, 2026-09-02, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “schedule gemini spark means set it to run at 17:00. it's 17:23 now and it still hasn't run -_-” [source](https://twitter.com/100949456/status/2095095263849590884)
- Complaint, 2026-08-31, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “"gemini live" transforms from just a conversation partner to a work assistant - in collaboration with "gemini spark" - windows daily [link] even when i set up automatic tasks, it stops due to errors and doesn't work!” [source](https://twitter.com/291730076/status/2094330753765228935)
- Complaint, 2026-08-31, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “oh... is gemini spark heavy? the regular schedule could not be completed and has stopped halfway.” [source](https://twitter.com/1305820380460773377/status/2094351023859278048)

### Grok Bot

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@elonmusk @bot same stack here — grok bot handles digests, drafts, and scheduled follow-ups while i ship the product. agent workflow finally feels like a real opc teammate, not a demo.” [source](https://twitter.com/231128381/status/2111642648830472465)
- Praise, 2026-10-16, @bot (X): “@bot now checks my @tesla order status for me every night. so handy. :) [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1262412529944481792/status/2111212628844683571)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “i’m on the $100 grok bot plan, i’m switching to the new $200 ultra plan soon. the first thing i do in the morning is check my email to read my morning paper i made with the breakdown of my emails, weather and ai & tech news. it’s very cool.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x5l0cs/grokbot_subscriptions/pgnq45q/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-13, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@poteto routines are completely bricked in grok bot for me. i've opened support tickets, but the ai agent is saying its because the entire fleet shares the same rate-limiting system which can cause the grok routine scheduler to miss triggers & my reject webhook events.” [source](https://twitter.com/1655762253617020928/status/2110082762086728161)
- Complaint, 2026-10-13, What's new in Grok Bot - Oct 13, 2026 (YouTube): “the triggers called by receiving a grokbot email doesn’t seem to work for me.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_K9yAckFh0&lc=UgwON1rQZXrGb4xn1Mx4AaABAg)
- Complaint, 2026-10-10, @bot (X): “@poteto @bot do note, the native inbox tools only work in live chat. scheduled and email-triggered routines don't get them, so a bot can't process its own mail on a schedule (6 of 6 test runs failed). i've filed a bug report from the app.” [source](https://twitter.com/2067222195064143872/status/2108838397846634732)

### ChatGPT Dots

- Praise, 2026-10-14, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “okay, ig chatgpt dots did it for me. the scheduling part :> [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1522454988055715840/status/2110486572303032758)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “x, threads, bluesky, and mastodon, cross-platform publishing. i used to use fedica, but in the end, i got used to posting directly on x. after using chatgpt dots, i set up a scheduled task to automatically sync the other three platforms with x, which is much more comfortable.” [source](https://twitter.com/815901455089401856/status/2111563818316845516)
- Complaint, 2026-10-08, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “the morning task of openai dots is not working, and i can't determine if it's a system issue or a problem related to our learning; there is too little information to narrow it down.” [source](https://twitter.com/19286219/status/2107988481431793947)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “chatgpt dots is really difficult to use, scheduling a conversation through dots is also not working... [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1787773499043631104/status/2111877948261511204)
- Complaint, 2026-10-01, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “chatgpt dots secretly restarted last night, and all the content on the cloud computer storage was lost... quite speechless, the scheduled tasks were set up for nothing [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/990264163959160832/status/2105476409552740764)

### OpenClaw

- Praise, 2026-10-18, r/openclaw (Reddit): “i have crons which do similar written in plain english and even more complex than that and have no issues, it comes down to the model you use. my models are not local though. sorry i can’t be more helpful” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1x8g9eq/disappointed_at_openclaw_with_local_llm_what_am_i/phggbv0/)
- Praise, 2026-10-08, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@trq212 this is great! same idea, but mine makes a whole newsletter, using fable and openclaw: mini pc at home reads the al news every morning, writes [link], then builds insta carousels and lets me know on telegram. personal al is the best use of these credits [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1069995940545650688/status/2108326672017596609)
- Praise, 2026-10-06, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “tiny openclaw workflow that keeps paying off: give your agent one recurring job with a real exit condition, then let it report only when something changed. suddenly your second brain starts feeling less like a chat tab and more like a teammate who remembered to check the thing.” [source](https://twitter.com/2024270544116600836/status/2107516263765508401)
- Complaint, 2026-10-14, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “openclaw had this at the beginning although it didn't work that well, and i think they eventually got rid of it. a cron job that repeated every 15 minutes or so and checked your email, calendar, etc. and took action if relevant” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x5s55h/muse_like_behavior_in_hermes/pgp6qzz/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-12, @openclaw (X): “@openclaw get it to actually work, that would be a good start. it can’t reliably check endpoints on a daily basis” [source](https://twitter.com/1902913537183453184/status/2109705421271527802)
- Complaint, 2026-10-07, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@shanemac my openclaw, by the way, sometimes cron jobs are posting to the wrong telegram topics and channels. because it's my own private personal ones, where i structure them by different topics, i didn't really care, but it's a thing, not only for me.” [source](https://twitter.com/2766142049/status/2107625672491581568)

### Hark

- Praise, 2026-10-11, @hark_labs (X): “since @hark_labs release, it's managing my x account from daily posts, likes, replies in free. x-growth-tools are cooked” [source](https://twitter.com/2091927375600918528/status/2109171870746677530)
- Praise, 2026-10-09, @hark_labs (X): “hark dropping surprises every morning! i setup a project with one ask - “every morning at 7am surprise me with something you have done to get us closer to our goals” simply @hark_labs feels like how ai should feel! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1363622377180041225/status/2108441528515346667)
- Praise, 2026-10-09, @hark_labs (X): “i ran an agency for 5 years. this week i stopped needing one. @hark_labs revived my dead youtube channel at 3 am, rebuilt my instagram, edits my reels and sends my content plan at 9 every morning. the shift isn't speed. it's dependence. honest results only. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/337452461/status/2108510636330398053)

### Instinct

- Praise, 2026-09-25, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “been using @noahrshinn instinct ai for a week now. connected gmail, calendar, tasks, and notion. setup a briefing twice a day for college email. super helpful, it adds to tasks any pending stuff, after waking up first thing i see is everything that is lined up for the day.” [source](https://twitter.com/768385729693003776/status/2103554975993639119)
- Praise, 2026-10-13, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “so this is with instinct, but assume grok bot can do the same. i gave it a login to my school portal, 3 different schools for my 3 kids in the one portal. it scans the portal and reads the updates and automatically puts school events like sports carnivals in my calendar and gives me a summary of any school events that day every morning in whatsapp. dad is going to be more on top of school stuff than mum 😂” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x4lk32/what_do_you_use_grokbot_for/pggajxh/)