cron-scheduler

cron-scheduler is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A schedule manager for recurring agent jobs, such as tasks written in cron format. It spaces jobs apart, checks for conflicts, and handles periods when the user should not be disturbed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define, validate, and register recurring jobs with time limits and specific skills to run. It also saves each job's results for later review.
Why use it?
It prevents scheduled jobs from overlapping or creating duplicate effects. It also holds results during quiet hours and releases them when the user is active again.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define, validate, and register recurring jobs with time limits and specific skills to run. It also saves each job's results for later review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timurgaleev/memex/cron-scheduler
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add timurgaleev/memex --skill cron-scheduler
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,051 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high YARA Match · line 80
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00031 $0.01051
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 8d ago against content hash d96f0d41822e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cron-scheduler 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 8d 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.

deploy/skills/cron-scheduler/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cron Scheduler

Convention: See conventions/test-before-bulk.md (via get_skill conventions/test-before-bulk) — test every scheduled job on 3-5 items first.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Schedule staggering: max 1 job per 5-minute slot, no collisions
  • Quiet hours gating: timezone-aware, with user-awake override
  • Thin job prompts: jobs say "Read skills/X/SKILL.md and run it" (no inline 3000-word prompts)
  • Idempotency: jobs can run twice without duplicate side effects
  • Results saved as brain pages: reports/{job-name}/{YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM}.md (via page_put)

Phases

  1. Define job. Name, schedule (cron expression), skill to run, timeout.
  2. Validate schedule. Check no collision with existing jobs (5-minute offset rule).
    • Slots: :05, :10, :15, :20, :25, :30, :35, :40, :45, :50
    • If collision detected, suggest the next available slot
  3. Check quiet hours. Default: 11 PM - 8 AM local time.
    • Override: user-awake flag (if the operator is active, quiet hours suspended)
    • During quiet hours: save output to a held queue (a brain page under reports/held/)
    • Morning contact releases the backlog
  4. Register with host scheduler. Systemd timers on the host, the agent harness's own scheduler, or crontab. Each registered entry should execute server-side work via durable jobs (jobs_submit), not an inline agent turn — submit with an idempotency key derived from the schedule slot, then check completion with jobs_get/jobs_logs. See conventions/scheduled-work.md (via get_skill conventions/scheduled-work) for the rewrite pattern. Note the brain's own background cycle already runs routine maintenance — do not schedule a job that duplicates it.
  5. Write thin prompt. Job prompt is one line: "Read skills/{name}/SKILL.md and run it."

Idempotency Requirement

Every scheduled job MUST be idempotent:

  • Running the same job twice produces the same result (no duplicate pages, no duplicate timeline entries)
  • Use a checkpoint state page (reports/{job-name}/_checkpoint.md) to track progress and resume interrupted runs
  • Check for existing output (page_get) before creating new output

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 102 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A d96f0d41822e

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cron-scheduler is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,051 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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