The heartbeat. An instrument that emits the ticks of time.
A scheduler and trigger primitive — fires actions on time-based intervals or event-based triggers. Every Automaton's sense of when; also usable standalone by any service that needs disciplined scheduling without the rest of the agent stack.
Khronoton is one of the three Constructors — the chain-agnostic primitives every entity in the ecosystem composes:
| Constructor | Question it answers | This repo |
|---|---|---|
| Pythia | What is the state of the world? | AncientPantheon/Pythia |
| Codex | Who am I, and how do I sign? | AncientPantheon/Codex |
| Khronoton | When do I act? | ✅ |
In the entity taxonomy, Khronoton is precisely what separates an Automaton from a Daimon: an Automaton's actions are triggered by Khronoton (autonomous, on rails); a Daimon's actions are triggered by a human. Same composition otherwise.
The hub's existing inline scheduler ("Cronoton") fires StoicPower
mints, pool payments, and other operator jobs today. This repo is its
extraction and generalisation: the schedule-firing API surface becomes
@ancientpantheon/khronoton-core; hub-specific glue (persistence,
admin UI) stays in the hub, which imports this package for the actual
scheduling logic.
| Package | Purpose |
|---|---|
@ancientpantheon/khronoton-core |
Interval + event-trigger scheduling, staleness caps, tick auditing |
Scaffold. Migration from the AncientHoldings hub's inline scheduler is Phase 4 of the AncientPantheon kickstart plan.
Proprietary — all rights reserved. See LICENSE. No rights are granted to any third party; the software is for the exclusive use of AncientHoldings (ancientholdings.eu). Not open source.
