thread-cron

thread-cron is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PinkPig97/codex-thread-cron. It costs 21 tokens per session (326 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating and managing recurring jobs inside a coding-agent conversation using cron schedules, time rules such as “every weekday at 9.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, or delete thread-local recurring jobs, such as periodic reviews or reminders, when the local command-line build supports these cron operations.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to schedule repeated work without treating each run as a new manual request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/pinkpig97/codex-thread-cron/thread-cron
Any agent
npx skills add PinkPig97/codex-thread-cron --skill thread-cron
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PinkPig97/codex-thread-cron

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 326 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 $0.00021 $0.00326
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00163
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 3d ago against content hash 22f9f82d87c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thread-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 3d 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.

plugins/codex-thread-cron/skills/thread-cron/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Use this skill when the user wants recurring work inside the current Codex thread and the local Codex build already supports native cron_create, cron_list, and cron_delete.

Guardrails

  • Prefer native thread cron over automation for recurring work in the current thread.
  • Do not fall back to automation unless the user explicitly asks for automation.
  • If native cron tools are unavailable, say so plainly and stop instead of inventing a workaround.

Workflow

  1. Normalize the task into three fields: name, schedule, and prompt.
  2. Prefer simple 5-field cron expressions that the current native parser supports.
  3. Keep prompts bounded, idempotent, and thread-local.
  4. After create, list, or delete, restate the exact schedule, prompt, or job id that was acted on.

Prompt Design Rules

  • Start with a verb: Review, Check, Summarize, Remind.
  • Keep scope narrow to one thread or one repository.
  • Avoid prompts that assume hidden context from a different session.
  • Prefer outputs that can be repeated safely without compounding side effects.

Schedule Rules

  • Supported syntax is numeric 5-field cron with *, lists, ranges, and steps.
  • Do not use aliases like @daily.
  • Do not use month or weekday names like JAN or MON.

Read references/recipes.md when the user needs example schedules or prompt templates.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 22f9f82d87c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

thread-cron is a skill published in the GitHub repository PinkPig97/codex-thread-cron (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 326 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 2026-08-31.

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