reload — herdr agent self-reload

Wake yourself (or any agent in the current pane) after a delay by typing a prompt back into the pane and pressing Enter. Useful for polling, timed follow-ups, "check again in 5 minutes", or resuming a paused workflow without a human in the loop.

How it works

1. Resolve the current pane from $HERDRPANEID (fallback: herdr pane current).
2. Launch a detached background timer (nohup, or setsid on Linux) that

outlives the current agent turn.

1. After the delay it runs herdr pane send-text <pane> "<prompt>" then

herdr pane send-keys <pane> enter — the prompt lands in the pane's input and submits, re-prompting the idle agent.

The heavy lifting is in scripts/reload.sh, which handles pane resolution, delay parsing, and cross-platform detaching (Linux + macOS).

Usage

Run the bundled script (use the Base directory for this skill value injected when this skill loads as $SKILL):

bash "$SKILL/scripts/reload.sh" <delay> <prompt...>

Examples:

bash "$SKILL/scripts/reload.sh" 4m  "continue where you left off"
bash "$SKILL/scripts/reload.sh" 30s "re-run the tests and report results"
bash "$SKILL/scripts/reload.sh" 2h  "check if the deploy finished"
bash "$SKILL/scripts/reload.sh" 09:30 "start the morning standup summary"

Run it in the foreground (not a background Bash call) — the script returns immediately after arming the detached timer and prints a confirmation line. Then end your turn. When the timer fires it re-prompts you automatically.

Delay formats

Important

• Single-line prompts only. A newline in the prompt submits early. Keep the

reload prompt to one line.

• The pane must stay open. If the user closes the pane or the herdr session,

the timer has nowhere to deliver the prompt (it fails silently; see the log at $TMPDIR/herdr-reload.log).

• One timer per call. Call the script again to schedule additional reloads.
• Only works inside a herdr pane. Outside herdr the script errors out with a

clear message.