cron-scheduler SKILL.md skillA

cron-scheduler from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/cron-scheduler@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gbrain
Path
plugin/skills/cron-scheduler/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Nov 6, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 16, 2026
Size
10,971 bytes
Repository stars
31,587
License
MIT

Schedule management with staggering, quiet hours, and wake-up override. Validates schedules, prevents collisions, and gates delivery during quiet hours.

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

# Cron Scheduler

> **Convention:** See `skills/conventions/test-before-bulk.md` — test every cron 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 reports: `reports/{job-name}/{YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM}.md`
- One entry point: every job, workspace script and hook calls gbrain through
  one wrapper that sets `GBRAIN_HOME` and keeps stderr and the exit code
  ([the wrapper](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain/blob/master/docs/guides/cron-schedule.md#calling-gbrain-unattended))

## 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.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/cron-scheduler@sha256:5c2a689a182e9750

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 10 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 9 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-11-06 c7ff976 10,971 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-24 579b6a7 10,856 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-24 4b26a98 10,508 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-16 7e11d1e 7,458 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-10 47d0faf 7,328 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 258e2f6 7,175 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-07 590bb9a 4,932 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-05 6509f9b 4,931 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-10-04 739e5cc 4,818 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-16 df4feda 4,180 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10971 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 link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2kjzdgiajf354cnf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/cron-scheduler
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c2a689a182e9750de68e289d41171f25d7f421a9cacd51f7d3e1d751f772adf

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