cron

cron is a command for Claude Code from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 18 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reports scheduled jobs, such as cron tasks, systemd services, and Docker jobs, including their health and upcoming runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check job status, find recent errors, see runs planned for the next 12 hours, and verify the watchdog that keeps a Claudex session alive.
Why use it?
It gives a single view of what ran, what failed, and what is due, making broken or stale automation easier to spot.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to check job status, find recent errors, see runs planned for the next 12 hours, and verify the watchdog that keeps a Claudex session alive.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jansenanalytics/claudex/cron
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 416 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00416
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00166
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ad56c5368d57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cron 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 1mo 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.

commands/cron.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Report the state of Claudex's scheduled jobs. Run the commands, then summarize. No fluff.

  1. Gather — run the cron-dash binary, falling back to the script if absent:

    • cron-dash status — full dashboard (cron + systemd + docker)
    • cron-dash health — problems only, with suggestions
    • cron-dash errors — recent errors across all jobs
    • cron-dash next 12 — runs due in the next 12 hours
    • If ~/bin/cron-dash is missing, invoke each as node ${CLAUDE_SKILLS_DIR:-$HOME/.claude-agent/.claude/skills}/cron-dashboard/scripts/dashboard.cjs <args>.
  2. Summarize — one Telegram-friendly message, bullets only, no markdown tables. Lead with an overall verdict line (✅ all green / ⚠️ degraded / ❌ something broken). Cover:

    • Scheduled — count of active cron jobs + systemd services, all healthy?
    • Failures — any ❌/⚠️ jobs, stale logs (log older than 2.5× interval), or recent errors. Name the job + the symptom.
    • Upcoming — next few runs from next 12 with their times.
  3. Watchdog — explicitly confirm the watchdog cron (watchdog-claudex.sh, every 5 min) that keeps Claudex's tmux session alive is present and not stale. Flag loudly if it's missing or its log hasn't moved.

  4. Action items — only if something is broken or stale. One line each: job name + the fix (e.g. cron-dash diagnose <name>). Omit this section entirely if everything is green. Don't pad. Don't congratulate.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 23 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ad56c5368d57

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cron is a command published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.