Scheduled Tasks
Scheduled tasks are background jobs that run without direct user input. The public bundle only includes infrastructure jobs that keep Octo healthy or maintained.
Feature-specific reminders, briefs, personal nudges, and other user-facing automations are intentionally excluded from the public bundle and from this page.
Octo currently publishes 8 infrastructure tasks.
Infrastructure Tasks
| Task | Schedule | What it does |
|---|---|---|
config-backup | Every 24 hours | Runs the config-backup plugin to commit OpenClaw configuration changes to git and report failures. |
plugin-health-check | 0 9 * * * (America/Los_Angeles) | Daily smoke test that calls one tool from every configured plugin and reports pass/fail to Discord. |
Lobster changelog weekly scan | 0 9 * * 1 (America/Los_Angeles) | Scans the Lobster changelog for new ideas worth adopting and reports only when something changed. |
Log rotation - openclaw.log | 0 3 * * * (America/Los_Angeles) | Runs copy-truncate rotation for the main OpenClaw log and keeps a bounded archive set. |
Nightly browser recycle | 0 4 * * * (America/Los_Angeles) | Restarts the headless Camoufox browser instance overnight to reclaim memory and clear stale sessions. |
openclaw-upgrade-readiness-check | 0 10 * * * (America/Los_Angeles) | Checks for new OpenClaw releases and evaluates whether an upgrade is safe based on changelog and config compatibility. |
usage-summary-weekly | 0 9 * * 1 (America/Los_Angeles) | Aggregates weekly LLM usage metrics across all providers into a summary report. |
weekly-cost-report | 0 5 * * 1 (America/Los_Angeles) | Generates a weekly LLM API cost report, renders it to PDF, posts to Discord, and commits the artifacts. |