cloudflare / cloudflare/workerd

Support scheduled / cron triggers in standalone workerd

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Description

It would be useful if standalone workerd could natively schedule scheduled() handlers, similar to Cloudflare Workers Cron Triggers.

For example, allowing cron expressions to be configured in config.capnp:

```
scheduled = [
(
service = "worker",
cron = "*/5 * * * *"
)
]
```

This would make self-hosted Workers with periodic background jobs possible without requiring an external cron/systemd/Kubernetes scheduler.

Would this be something workerd could support?

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Research direction

Start by reading config.capnp and tracing how standalone workerd handles scheduled() handlers. Define how the example cron configuration should be represented and loaded, then verify that configured schedules invoke the worker periodically without an external scheduler.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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