# VISION

pi-jobs is the one place for recurring agent work: website and news watches, release and dependency checks, nightly or weekly digests. The kind of thing ChatGPT's scheduled tasks or hand-rolled launchd scripts do today.

## Goals

- Jobs outlive Pi sessions and the machine they were written on: a daemon owns them, Pi is one client.
- Each job keeps continuity across runs and runs each slot exactly once, through Pi Durable.
- One definition format (a markdown file per job) that a person or an agent can write.
- Notify only when something needs attention; everything else stays readable in the job's history.

## Direction

- v0 runs on the Mac under launchd with local tools.
- Next: run the same daemon on an always-on home box (systemd, tailscale), reach the Mac through `pi-env` for jobs that need it, and add a small web page for viewing jobs from any device.
- Session-scoped watches (deploys, CI, another agent) stay a separate, in-session concern.
- Keep it small: no job pools, no plugin system, no second scheduler language beyond cron.