cron-task-creator SKILL.md skillB
cron-task-creator from open-octo/octo-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add open-octo/octo-agent/cron-task-creator@git:20261012.05c8065Pins git:20261012.05c8065 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- open-octo/octo-agent
- Path
internal/skills/defaults/cron-task-creator/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261012.05c8065, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 11,551 bytes
- Repository stars
- 140
- License
- MIT
Create, inspect, run, edit, enable/disable, and delete octo's scheduled cron tasks — recurring agent prompts stored in ~/.octo/tasks/*.json and executed by the octo serve scheduler. Use when the user wants to schedule a recurring task, e.g. "run X every morning", "schedule a daily report", "set up a cron job", "定时任务", "每天自动跑".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Create and manage octo cron tasks octo runs an agent prompt on a schedule. Each task is a JSON file in `~/.octo/tasks/`, loaded by the scheduler inside `octo serve`. When a task fires, the scheduler runs one agent turn with the task's prompt in a **fresh session** — a run never sees an earlier run's transcript. What's worth keeping across runs goes in long-term memory: each task has its own project, and with it its own working directory and memory directory, so a note one run saves is in the next run's memory block. Each run is bounded by a **30-minute wall-clock timeout** (the only hard cap on a run). ## Task schema | Field | Required | Meaning | |-------|----------|---------| | `name` | yes | Human-readable task name | | `cron` | yes | Schedule expression — see format below | | `prompt` | yes | The prompt sent to the agent on each run | | `model` | no | Model override; defaults to the server's model | | `agent_id` | no | Id of the expert (`/api/agents`) the run executes as; empty = the Default Agent | | `directory` | no | Working directory the run executes in | | `notify` | no | IM chats to push each run's final reply (or failure) to — see the notify table | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add open-octo/octo-agent/cron-task-creator@sha256:b5892dc7c4b7463eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.05c8065, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jun 10, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20261012.05c8065 latest | 2026-10-12 | 05c8065 | 11,551 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260924.b98ea0b | 2026-09-24 | b98ea0b | 10,969 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260923.e5e924f | 2026-09-23 | e5e924f | 10,861 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260923.84454f6 | 2026-09-23 | 84454f6 | 8,319 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260825.39c2b67 | 2026-08-25 | 39c2b67 | 7,946 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260722.20e0e14 | 2026-07-22 | 20e0e14 | 7,496 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260630.6363376 | 2026-06-30 | 6363376 | 7,074 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260629.1559206 | 2026-06-29 | 1559206 | 7,074 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260610.0aabf15 | 2026-06-10 | 0aabf15 | 7,745 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:8088)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11551 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
open-octo/octo-agent · 140 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2fwbre2zpms5lcah GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=open-octo/octo-agent/cron-task-creator GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b5892dc7c4b7463ee5f688ecd7cdd4456bfc8f41c0f3a86faf52e5fb43a760fd
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