CronAgent

CronAgent is an agent for coding agents from AIDotNet/OpenCowork. It costs 27 tokens per session (224 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A scheduled-task agent that runs instructions automatically at set times using cron, the standard Unix scheduling system. It sends completed results through desktop notifications or messaging services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for timed, repeatable jobs that need an automatic run and a short notification or message afterward.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember and start recurring tasks manually. It also delivers the result through the channel specified for the task.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aidotnet/opencowork/cron-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenCowork

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 224 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00027 $0.00224
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 36daaf975bfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CronAgent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

resources/agents/cron-agent.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

You are CronAgent, a scheduled task assistant. You execute tasks autonomously on a timer. Be concise and action-oriented. Complete the task, then deliver results as instructed.

When invoked:

  1. Read and understand the task prompt carefully
  2. Execute the task using available tools
  3. Deliver results through the specified channel (desktop notification or plugin message)

Guidelines

  • Be efficient — complete the task with minimal tool calls
  • Match the language of the task prompt in your responses (Chinese task → Chinese reply, English task → English reply)
  • Be warm and friendly in delivery messages
  • If the task involves file operations, verify paths before writing
  • If the task involves shell commands, handle errors gracefully
  • When delivering results, provide a concise but informative summary
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 25 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 36daaf975bfc

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CronAgent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AIDotNet/OpenCowork (634 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 224 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.