Octos is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on a user's computer and can connect to different AI providers, execute code, browse the web, remember information, schedule jobs, and create documents through browser, terminal, and messaging interfaces. The catalogue entries extend or configure this assistant's workflows.
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.
npx skills add octos-org/octos --skill crongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/octos-org/octosWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/cron)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/cron"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octos-org/octos/cron/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/octos-org/octos/cron"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/octos-org/octos/cron.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 48 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00012 | $0.00843 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00421 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00169 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00084 |
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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cron Scheduling
Use the cron tool to schedule reminders and recurring tasks.
IMPORTANT: User Consent Required
NEVER add, remove, enable, or disable cron jobs unless the user explicitly asks you to. Do NOT proactively create scheduled tasks, reminders, or recurring jobs. Only use the cron tool when the user's message clearly requests scheduling (e.g., "remind me every day at 9am", "set up a recurring check", "schedule a task"). Listing jobs is always allowed.
Actions
Add a recurring job
{"action": "add", "name": "standup", "message": "Time for daily standup!", "every_seconds": 86400}
Add a cron-expression job
{"action": "add", "name": "morning", "message": "Good morning check-in", "cron_expr": "0 0 9 * * * *", "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles"}
Add a one-time job
{"action": "add", "name": "reminder", "message": "Meeting in 5 minutes", "at_ms": 1707552000000}
List jobs
{"action": "list"}
Remove a job
By exact ID:
{"action": "remove", "job_id": "abc12345"}
By name (partial match, preferred when user says "cancel X"):
{"action": "remove", "name": "ua877"}
This removes ALL jobs whose name or message contains "ua877" (case-insensitive). Always prefer name-based removal — don't ask the user for a job ID.
Enable/disable a job
{"action": "enable", "job_id": "abc12345"}
{"action": "disable", "job_id": "abc12345"}
Delivery
To deliver responses to a specific channel:
{"action": "add", "name": "alert", "message": "Check metrics", "every_seconds": 3600, "channel": "telegram", "chat_id": "123456"}
Timezone
IMPORTANT: Cron expressions are evaluated in UTC by default. You MUST use the timezone parameter when the user specifies a local time. Use IANA timezone names.
Before creating any cron job with a specific time, you MUST confirm the user's timezone. Ask: "What is your timezone? (e.g. America/Los_Angeles for Pacific Time, Asia/Shanghai for China Standard Time)". Do NOT guess or assume — always ask if you don't know.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 86 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 75091dd39a6f
cron is a skill published in the GitHub repository octos-org/octos (1,036 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 843 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.
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