<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Cron on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions</title><link>https://startaitools.com/tags/cron/</link><description>Recent content in Cron on Start AI Tools - Presented by Intent Solutions</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>Intent Solutions. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:14:55 -0600</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://startaitools.com/tags/cron/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Nine Days Silent: When the Blog's Own Pipeline Stopped Publishing Itself</title><link>https://startaitools.com/posts/the-automation-that-stopped-publishing-itself/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid>https://startaitools.com/posts/the-automation-that-stopped-publishing-itself/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The blog you&amp;rsquo;re reading publishes itself. Every morning at 7am, a local cron runs &lt;code&gt;claude -p /blog-backfill&lt;/code&gt; on yesterday&amp;rsquo;s work, classifies it into a content tier, writes the post, runs quality gates, and pushes to live. Monthly retrospectives and calibration reports run on the 1st. On 2026-06-06, the owner noticed posts missing from both startaitools.com and the syndicated copy on tonsofskills.com and asked: &amp;ldquo;why is the cross-posting not working?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The answer was a compounding silent-failure chain that went undetected for nine days.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>