OpenAI's Scheduled Agent Automations Are Not Cron Jobs: The Delivery Gap Matters
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A scheduled agent task sounds simple: pick a time, save an instruction, and expect the work to happen. But the moment an agent can act on a schedule, the important question is no longer just when it starts. It is what happens if the session is busy, an approval is needed, a tool call fails, or the…
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- 2026-10-24 16:04 · DEV Community — AI
OpenAI's Scheduled Agent Automations Are Not Cron Jobs: The Delivery Gap Matters