Schedule around the provider's clock, not yours

Your automation ran its daily shopping long after the store restocked. Wallet full. Shelf empty for the hours that mattered.

What broke

The job used your morning as the schedule. The supplier used theirs. The agent was "healthy." The business outcome was starved.

The rule

Standing jobs must align with when the world produces inputs — APIs reset, inboxes peak, boards refresh, markets open — not when a human prefers to watch logs.

Transfer tomorrow

List every scheduled agent. For each: what external clock does it depend on? Move the job to that window. Verify with one real cycle.

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