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When a cron job has a pre-run script that runs successfully but produces no output (e.g. email checker with no new mail), the scheduler previously injected "[Script ran successfully but produced no output.]" into the prompt and still called the AI model. This wastes tokens on every cycle. Now _build_job_prompt() returns None when script output is empty, and run_job() short-circuits with a SILENT response - zero API calls when there is nothing to report.
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Problem
When a cron job has a pre-run script that runs successfully but produces no output (e.g., an email checker with an empty inbox), the scheduler injects
[Script ran successfully but produced no output.]into the prompt and still calls the AI model. For jobs running every 5 minutes, that's 288 API calls/day of pure waste — burning tokens even when there is genuinely nothing to report.Fix
_build_job_prompt()now returnsNonewhen the script succeeds with empty outputrun_job()checks forNoneand short-circuits with(True, "", SILENT_MARKER, None)— returning the standard 4-tuple with a silent response[SILENT]delivery suppression path handles the restExample
An email checker script that prints nothing when there are no new emails:
[SILENT]→ delivery suppressed (but tokens already spent)Edge Cases
wakeAgent=false) already had its own early-return; this is separateFixes: N/A (new issue discovered in production use)