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Cron Doctor Spec

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Cron Doctor Spec

Problem

Scheduled jobs can silently degrade when a script is moved, a workdir disappears, a provider run fails, or delivery starts failing. hermes cron list shows some of this inline, but there is no compact read-only health check that can be run from a terminal, cron job, or CI-style smoke check.

Goal

Add hermes cron doctor as a read-only diagnostic command that summarizes cron job health and exits non-zero when actionable issues are found.

Non-goals

  • Do not mutate jobs or auto-repair state.
  • Do not start/stop the gateway.
  • Do not inspect secrets or print credentials.

Acceptance criteria

  • hermes cron doctor returns 0 and prints a healthy message when active jobs have no detected issues.
  • It returns 1 and prints grouped job-level issues when any active job has:
    • last run failure (last_status not ok),
    • last delivery failure,
    • no next_run_at while still active,
    • no_agent enabled without a script,
    • script path missing/outside HERMES_HOME/scripts, or
    • configured workdir path missing.
  • Parser, command dispatch, and focused tests cover the new subcommand.