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Schedule reminders and recurring tasks.

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$ npx -y skills add volcengine/openviking --skill cron --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/cron

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Schedule reminders and recurring tasks.

SKILL.md

cron.SKILL.md
name: cron
description: Schedule reminders and recurring tasks.

Cron

Use the `cron` tool to schedule reminders or recurring tasks.

Three Modes

1. **Reminder** - message is sent directly to user 2. **Task** - message is a task description, agent executes and sends result 3. **One-time** - runs once at a specific time, then auto-deletes

Examples

Fixed reminder:

cron(action="add", message="Time to take a break!", every_seconds=1200)

Dynamic task (agent executes each time):

cron(action="add", message="Check HKUDS/vikingbot GitHub stars and report", every_seconds=600)

One-time scheduled task (compute ISO datetime from current time):

cron(action="add", message="Remind me about the meeting", at="<ISO datetime>")

List/remove:

cron(action="list")
cron(action="remove", job_id="abc123")

Time Expressions

| User says | Parameters | |-----------|------------| | every 20 minutes | every_seconds: 1200 | | every hour | every_seconds: 3600 | | every day at 8am | cron_expr: "0 8 * * *" | | weekdays at 5pm | cron_expr: "0 17 * * 1-5" | | at a specific time | at: ISO datetime string (compute from current time) |

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