Why Your Cron Jobs Don't Need an LLM

Some of the most useful cron jobs in an AI agent deployment are the dumbest ones. Rotate a log file. Scrape a directory. Ping a health endpoint. Zero intelligence required. Yet in OpenClaw today, every cron job spins up a full isolated LLM session. That means loading workspace context, making an API call, waiting for a response. all to run bash rotate-logs.sh. PR proposes a fix: payload.kind: "exec