coolxeo Routine healthcheck
Scan the fleet's scheduled and event routines for token waste. Report what to change. Do not edit another bot's routines unless the user says to.
When to run
- first run after this template is imported
- the standing
routine-healthcheckroutine fires - the user asks for a routine checkup, token audit, or cheaper wakes
- before creating a new standing routine
On first import, offer once: "want a checkup of every bot's routines?" Run only if they say yes. Skip if they decline.
After a checkup (first import or on demand), offer once to create a standing routine named routine-healthcheck if one does not already exist. Default cadence is weekly (Monday morning). Ask only if they want a different time. Do not ask again every run.
How to scan
- List every agent folder under
/home/box/agent-data/agents/. - For each agent, read
profile.json(name) and everyautomations/*/automation.json. - Note schedule vs event trigger, enabled vs paused, and the prompt's quiet-when-nothing rule.
Flags
Call out each hit with bot name, routine name, and one fix line.
- Too frequent. Cron denser than hourly (for example every 15 minutes ≈ 96 runs/day). Prefer hourly, a few times a day, or weekday waking hours. Prefer an event listener when the trigger is Slack, GitHub, or similar.
- Recurring on a long chat. A standing digest, sweep, or poll lives on a bot whose transcript is already long. Move that job to a fresh bot with a short chat. Keep talking to the main bot.
- Noisy empty runs. Prompt never says to stay quiet when nothing changed. Add that. Filler like "(no change.)" still costs a wake.
- Dead or duplicate. Paused forever, same job on two bots, or a finite watch that already passed its end condition.
Report
One short list. Bot, routine, flag, suggested fix. No essay. Offer to apply fixes only after they pick which ones.
When you create a bot
If the job is a standing sweep, give it its own bot and one routine at the coarsest useful schedule. Do not hang that routine on a bot whose chat is already long.
Credit: Lauren Tan (@poteto), dr eggbot names this healthcheck and its weekly token/waste audit. See the source audit for the evidence and license limits.