Cron Scheduling

SkillProductivity

Schedule and manage recurring tasks using cron.

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Cron Scheduling skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bidewio/better-openclaw in skills/cron-schedule/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Schedule recurring tasks using cron syntax.

Cron Syntax

# ┌───────── minute (0-59)
# │ ┌─────── hour (0-23)
# │ │ ┌───── day of month (1-31)
# │ │ │ ┌─── month (1-12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌─ day of week (0-7, 0 and 7 are Sunday)
# * * * * * command

Examples

# Every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * /scripts/health-check.sh

# Daily at midnight
0 0 * * * /scripts/backup.sh

# Every Monday at 9 AM
0 9 * * 1 /scripts/weekly-report.sh

Tips for AI Agents

Use crontab -l to list scheduled jobs.
Use crontab -e to edit the crontab.
Redirect output to log files: command >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1.

Signals

GitHub stars: 58
Forks: 6
Last commit: Aug 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: cron-schedule
Source: github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw

github.com/bidewio/better-openclaw