New page: docs/automation/index.md — single entry point for all automation
mechanisms (heartbeat, cron, tasks, hooks, standing-orders, webhooks) with
a decision flowchart and comparison table.
Add "Related" sections to 5 high-traffic pages that were dead ends:
- gateway/heartbeat.md → links to tasks, cron-vs-heartbeat, timezone, troubleshooting
- concepts/session.md → links to multi-agent, tasks, channel-routing
- concepts/multi-agent.md → links to channel-routing, subagents, ACP, presence, session
- concepts/agent-loop.md → links to tools, hooks, compaction, exec-approvals, thinking
- concepts/timezone.md → links to heartbeat, cron-jobs, date-time
Add automation/index to Mintlify nav as first item in Automation group.
New page: docs/automation/tasks.md — comprehensive reference for the task
system covering lifecycle, delivery, notifications, audit, CLI commands,
storage, maintenance, and how tasks relate to cron/heartbeat/sessions.
- Add to Mintlify navigation (docs.json) under Automation group
- Clean up engineer's earlier scattered additions in cron-jobs.md,
cron-vs-heartbeat.md, and heartbeat.md to be concise and link to the
new canonical tasks page
- Replace verbose inline explanations with cross-reference links
Reuses the cron isolated session pattern (resolveCronSession with forceNew)
to give each heartbeat a fresh session with no prior conversation history.
Reduces per-heartbeat token cost from ~100K to ~2-5K tokens.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(heartbeat): add accountId config option for multi-agent routing
Add optional accountId field to heartbeat configuration, allowing
multi-agent setups to explicitly specify which Telegram account
should be used for heartbeat delivery.
Previously, heartbeat delivery would use the accountId from the
session's deliveryContext. When a session had no prior conversation
history, heartbeats would default to the first/primary account
instead of the agent's intended bot.
Changes:
- Add accountId to HeartbeatSchema (zod-schema.agent-runtime.ts)
- Use heartbeat.accountId with fallback to session accountId (targets.ts)
Backward compatible: if accountId is not specified, behavior is unchanged.
Closes#8695
* fix: improve heartbeat accountId routing (#8702) (thanks @lsh411)
* fix: harden heartbeat accountId routing (#8702) (thanks @lsh411)
* fix: expose heartbeat accountId in status (#8702) (thanks @lsh411)
* chore: format status + heartbeat tests (#8702) (thanks @lsh411)
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Co-authored-by: m1 16 512 <m116512@m1ui-MacBookAir-2.local>
Co-authored-by: Gustavo Madeira Santana <gumadeiras@gmail.com>
* feat: skip heartbeat API calls when HEARTBEAT.md is effectively empty
- Added isHeartbeatContentEffectivelyEmpty() to detect files with only headers/comments
- Modified runHeartbeatOnce() to check HEARTBEAT.md content before polling the LLM
- Returns early with 'empty-heartbeat-file' reason when no actionable tasks exist
- Preserves existing behavior when file is missing (lets LLM decide)
- Added comprehensive test coverage for empty file detection
- Saves API calls/costs when heartbeat file has no meaningful content
* chore: update HEARTBEAT.md template to be effectively empty by default
Changed instruction text to comment format so new workspaces benefit from
heartbeat optimization immediately. Users still get clear guidance on usage.
* fix: only treat markdown headers (# followed by space) as comments, not #TODO etc
* refactor: simplify regex per code review suggestion
* docs: clarify heartbeat empty file behavior (#1535) (thanks @JustYannicc)
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Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com>
- New docs/automation/cron-vs-heartbeat.md with complete guidance
- Cross-links from heartbeat.md and cron-jobs.md
- Updated AGENTS.md template with practical guidance
- Added navigation entry in docs.json
