Automation Blueprint

This is a Hermes-native automation-blueprint workflow skill.

Why This Exists

automation-blueprint exists so Hermes can make recurring operational work feel native and scheduled without OMH becoming a hidden cron runner, transport bot, source retriever, or executor.

Do Not Use When

• An undecided lifecycle journey or growth experiment needs audience, consent, and measurement design before any schedule; use lifecycle-growth first.
• The user needs a one-off report or deck; use report-package or materials-package.
• The user asks to review incident metrics once; use reliability-review.
• The user needs actual code changes; prepare a selected executor/runtime handoff after the blueprint or plan is accepted.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: automation-blueprint every weekday run an uptime check and send a Slack digest only if status changes.
• Expected behavior: Prepare hermes_ops_blueprint/v1 with schedule intent, Slack delivery policy, silence rule, research/report skills, missing evidence, and next confirmation.
• Why: The request is recurring, delivery-shaped, and must stay prepared until host automation and gateway delivery are observed.

Bad example:

• Prompt: automation-blueprint prove the Slack digest was delivered this morning.
• Expected behavior: Ask for observed Hermes/gateway delivery evidence or report the delivery as not_observed instead of claiming it happened.
• Why: A blueprint can prepare the scheduled operation, but it cannot prove runtime execution or delivery.

Completion Checklist

• Confirm the workflow target, evidence boundary, and stop condition are named.
• Report which outputs are prepared, observed, blocked, or missing.
• Name the smallest next verification or handoff instead of claiming completion from narration.

Recovery Notes

• If required context is missing, ask one blocking question or route back to the narrower workflow.
• If runtime or wrapper evidence is unavailable, keep the status as not_observed and expose the next observable action.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, live-incident-response, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, github-issue-intake, buzz, +39 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use when Hermes should turn a natural recurring/cron-like request into a scheduled ops blueprint without claiming host automation, platform delivery, source retrieval, or no-agent execution.

Strong routing signals: `automation-blueprint`, `scheduled ops`, `scheduled operation`, `scheduled operations`, `automation blueprint`, `cron blueprint`, `cron-ready`, `recurring ops`, `recurring workflow`, `keep watching`, `keep monitoring`, `watch continuously`, `monitor continuously`, `every morning`, `every day`, `daily digest`, `weekly digest`, `automate this`, `automate workflow`, `send to slack`, `send to discord`, `post to telegram`, `only if changed`, `silent if nothing changed`, `schedule this`, `ずっと監視`, `監視し続け`, `継続的に監視`, `매일`, `매주`, `정기`, `예약`, `반복`, `자동화`, `자동화해줘`, `스케줄`, `슬랙`, `디스코드`, `텔레그램`, `보내`, `공유`, `변화 없으면`, `조용히`, `계속 감시`, `계속 모니터링`, `계속 지켜봐`, `持续监控`, `持續監控`, `一直监控`

Catalog Metadata

Category: operations Phase: scheduled-ops-blueprint Hermes role: operator Quality tier: ops-blueprint-gated Reasoning demand: light

Quality bar:

• Recommend one of cron, heartbeat, loop, and native goal, say why the other three lost, and carry its stop condition; a recommendation with no stop condition is not an answer, because what ends it is the only thing that separates the four — load references/recurring-surface-choice.md for the comparison, retry, and delivery rules.
• Name cadence/timezone uncertainty, delivery target, silence/no-change rule, selected skills, and context chain.
• When the recurring work is saved, say it is paused and name what activation needs: explicit overlap, missed-run, retry, backfill, and failure-pause decisions, an approval reference, and an observer from the approved runtime surface.
• Before activation, say what the policy does when a prior run is still active, when a window is missed, and when failures repeat; after a safety pause, report the applied policy and that resuming needs a policy revision.
• Expose whether a no-agent watchdog is a candidate without claiming it exists or ran.
• List host automation, gateway delivery, source retrieval, and no-agent execution as not evidence until observed.

Handoff policy:

Keep schedule intent, delivery policy, silence rules, context-chain selection, and status narration in Hermes; prepare host automation or no-agent follow-up only after an operator/wrapper records observed runtime evidence.

Required inputs:

• recurring request
• schedule or cadence hint
• delivery target or current-thread default
• silence/no-change preference

Expected outputs:

• hermes_ops_blueprint/v1 projection
• recurring_surface_comparison/v1 naming the recommended surface and why the other three lost
• hermes_recurring_intent/v1 paused lifecycle record when the user wants the recurring work saved
• schedule/delivery/silence confirmation needs
• status-card boundary
• not-evidence list

Artifact expectations:

• hermes_ops_blueprint/v1 under .omh/hermes-ops/blueprints when a wrapper or CLI records it
• recurring_surface_comparison/v1 with the recommended surface among cron, heartbeat, loop, and native goal, its stop condition, and a per-surface reason the other three were not chosen
• hermes_recurring_intent/v1 under .omh/hermes-ops/recurring-intents when the user asks to save the recurring work

Safety rules:

• Do not claim host cron, Hermes automation, gateway delivery, source retrieval, no-agent execution, plugin load, or connector work from a prepared blueprint.
• Keep scheduled operations as projection metadata until the host runtime supplies observed evidence.
• A saved recurring intent is paused; never report that an occurrence ran without a runtime run reference recorded against that exact intent revision.
• A prepared failure policy is not enforcement: OMH never starts, skips, queues, retries, or backfills an occurrence, and a policy decision is not proof the runtime honoured it.
• Route later coding, material generation, or report delivery into separate accepted handoffs when needed.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: scheduled-ops-blueprint.

omh runtime record --skill automation-blueprint --harness scheduled-ops-blueprint --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes. Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion. Reply in the user's own words and the host's own voice: OMH's record terms (surface, lane, wrapper, handoff, evidence boundary, not_observed) stay in records and tool calls, never in the sentence the user reads unless they ask about one; and when a stop condition or a decision the user owns ends the turn, offer the next action as a question rather than declaring what will not be done.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.