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Casual Cron

by @gostlightai

Create Clawdbot cron jobs from natural language with strict run-guard rules. Use when: users ask to schedule reminders or messages (recurring or one-shot), especially via Telegram, or when they use /at or /every. Examples: 'Create a daily reminder at 8am', 'Remind me in 20 minutes', 'Send me a Telegram message at 3pm', '/every 2h'.

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TERMINAL
clawhub install casual-cron

πŸ“– About This Skill

name: casual-cron description: "Create Clawdbot cron jobs from natural language with strict run-guard rules. Use when: users ask to schedule reminders or messages (recurring or one-shot), especially via Telegram, or when they use /at or /every. Examples: 'Create a daily reminder at 8am', 'Remind me in 20 minutes', 'Send me a Telegram message at 3pm', '/every 2h'." metadata: {"openclaw":{"emoji":"⏰","requires":{"bins":["python3","openclaw"],"env":["CRON_DEFAULT_CHANNEL"]}}}

Casual Cron

Create Clawdbot cron jobs from natural language. Supports one-shot and repeating schedules with safe run-guard rules.

Cron Run Guard (Hard Rules)

  • When running inside a cron job: do NOT troubleshoot, do NOT restart gateway, and do NOT check time.
  • Do NOT send acknowledgements or explanations.
  • Output ONLY the exact message payload and then stop.

    • How It Works

    1. Agent detects scheduling intent from user message (or /at / /every command) 2. Parses: time, frequency, channel, destination, message 3. Builds openclaw cron add command with correct flags 4. Confirms parsed time, job name, and job id with user before executing

    Scheduling Rules

    When a message starts with /at or /every, schedule via the CLI (NOT the cron tool API).

    Use: openclaw cron add

    /at (one-shot)

  • If user gives a clock time (e.g., "3pm"), convert to ISO with offset computed for America/New_York on that date (DST-safe).
  • Prefer relative times for near-term reminders (e.g., --at "20m").
  • Use --session isolated --message "Output exactly: ".
  • Always include --delete-after-run.
  • Always include --deliver --channel --to .

    • /every (repeating)

  • If interval: use --every "" (no timezone needed).
  • If clock time: use --cron "" --tz "America/New_York".
  • Use --session isolated --message "Output exactly: ".
  • Always include --deliver --channel --to .

    • Confirmation

  • Always confirm parsed time, job name, and job id with the user before finalizing.

    • Command Reference

    One-shot (clock time, DST-aware): 

    openclaw cron add \
  --name "Reminder example" \
  --at "2026-01-28T15:00:00-05:00" \
  --session isolated \
  --message "Output exactly: " \
  --deliver --channel telegram --to  \
  --delete-after-run

    One-shot (relative time): 

    openclaw cron add \
  --name "Reminder in 20m" \
  --at "20m" \
  --session isolated \
  --message "Output exactly: " \
  --deliver --channel telegram --to  \
  --delete-after-run

    Repeating (clock time, DST-aware): 

    openclaw cron add \
  --name "Daily 3pm reminder" \
  --cron "0 15 * * *" --tz "America/New_York" \
  --session isolated \
  --message "Output exactly: " \
  --deliver --channel telegram --to

    Repeating (interval): 

    openclaw cron add \
  --name "Every 2 hours" \
  --every "2h" \
  --session isolated \
  --message "Output exactly: " \
  --deliver --channel telegram --to

    Configuration

    | Setting | Value | |---------|-------| | Default timezone | America/New_York (DST-aware) | | Default channel | telegram (override via CRON_DEFAULT_CHANNEL env var) | | Supported channels | telegram, whatsapp, slack, discord, signal |

    Supported Patterns

    Time Formats

    | Input | Cron | |-------|------| | 8am | 0 8 * * * | | 8:45pm | 45 20 * * * | | noon | 0 12 * * * | | midnight | 0 0 * * * | | 14:30 | 30 14 * * * |

    Frequencies

    | Input | Behavior | |-------|----------| | daily / every day | Daily at specified time | | weekdays / mon-fri | Mon-Fri at specified time | | mondays / every monday | Weekly on Monday | | hourly / every hour | Every hour at :00 | | every 2 hours | 0 */2 * * * | | weekly | Weekly (defaults to Monday) | | monthly | Monthly (1st of month) |

    βš™οΈ Configuration

    | Setting | Value | |---------|-------| | Default timezone | America/New_York (DST-aware) | | Default channel | telegram (override via CRON_DEFAULT_CHANNEL env var) | | Supported channels | telegram, whatsapp, slack, discord, signal |