cron-task-creator

Scheduling recurring agent prompts involves converting natural-language schedules into six-field seconds-first cron expressions and validating them to ensure reliable automated task execution. This Skill creates and manages those scheduled octo agent tasks with self-contained prompts.

Automated repository monitoring and notifications are supported by creating scheduled agent tasks that review issues and send results to a configured chat. You define the schedule, prompt, and notification destination to trigger runs while octo serve is active.

The six-field seconds-first cron format is a scheduling syntax that includes seconds as the first field before the standard five fields. This Skill uses this specific format to validate task schedules and explain the resulting execution timing.

Managing scheduled agent tasks includes inspecting, editing, enabling, disabling, running, and deleting them through the octo server API. API changes are verified through task listing to confirm successful updates.

An active octo serve connection is not strictly required to create scheduled tasks. When the server is unavailable, this Skill falls back to task JSON files to maintain task creation and management capabilities.

Scheduled cron tasks may fail due to invalid six-field schedule expressions or incomplete prompt context. This Skill prevents these issues by validating schedules, ensuring self-contained prompts, and verifying API changes through task listing.