golem-schedule-future-call-moonbit

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Scheduling a future agent invocation from within MoonBit agent code. Use when the user asks to schedule, delay, or set a timer for calling another agent at a future time.

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Scheduling a Future Agent Invocation (MoonBit)

Overview

A scheduled invocation enqueues a method call on the target agent to be executed at a specific future time. The call returns immediately; the target agent processes it when the scheduled time arrives.

This is for agent-to-agent scheduled calls from code. To schedule an invocation from the CLI, see the golem-schedule-agent-moonbit skill instead.

Usage

Every method on the generated AgentClient has a corresponding schedule_ variant. Use AgentClient::scoped to obtain a client and call the schedule method with a scheduled_at datetime and the method arguments:

AgentClient::scoped("param", fn(client) raise @common.AgentError {
  client.schedule_increment(scheduled_at)
})

Full Example

AgentClient::scoped("my-counter", fn(client) raise @common.AgentError {
  // Schedule increment to run 60 seconds from now
  let now = @wallClock.now()
  let scheduled_at = @wallClock.Datetime::{
    seconds: now.seconds + 60,
    nanoseconds: 0,
  }
  client.schedule_increment(scheduled_at)
})

Schedule with arguments

ReportAgentClient::scoped("daily", fn(client) raise @common.AgentError {
  let scheduled_at = @wallClock.Datetime::{
    seconds: tomorrow_midnight,
    nanoseconds: 0,
  }
  client.schedule_generate_report(scheduled_at, "summary")
})

Datetime Type

The scheduled_at parameter is a @wallClock.Datetime value representing a point in time as seconds + nanoseconds since the Unix epoch:

let scheduled_at = @wallClock.Datetime::{
  seconds: 1700000000,  // Unix timestamp in seconds
  nanoseconds: 0,       // Sub-second precision
}

Cancelable Variant

Every method also has a schedule_cancelable_ variant that returns a CancellationToken. Call .cancel() on the token to prevent the scheduled invocation from firing:

AgentClient::scoped("my-counter", fn(client) raise @common.AgentError {
  let now = @wallClock.now()
  let scheduled_at = @wallClock.Datetime::{
    seconds: now.seconds + 60,
    nanoseconds: 0,
  }
  let token = client.schedule_cancelable_increment(scheduled_at)
  // Later, to cancel: token.cancel()
  // If not cancelling, release with: token.drop()
})

Use Cases

Periodic tasks: Schedule the next run at the end of each invocation
Delayed processing: Process an order after a cooling-off period
Reminders and notifications: Send a reminder at a specific time
Retry with backoff: Schedule a retry after a delay on failure