Cron
Schedule recurring tasks and one-off jobs. Run agent workflows on a schedule.
Details
Cron skill adds scheduling to your agent—run tasks daily, hourly, or at custom intervals. For standups, reminders, and periodic reports.
When to use
Use when you need the agent to run on a schedule (daily digest, reminders). Depends on host cron or a scheduler; pairs with Proactive Agent.
How Cron fits into your OpenClaw setup
Skills like Cron are infrastructure. They do not produce the headline moments — they make the headline moments possible, by handling the file moves, conversions, lookups, and shell work that other skills depend on. A surprising amount of what feels like intelligence in a mature OpenClaw setup is really a well-stocked utility layer doing unglamorous work reliably.
How it works in practice
You will rarely invoke Cron by name. Instead, you ask for an outcome, and the assistant chains the right utilities to get there — fetching, converting, filtering, and handing results between steps. The skill earns its keep quietly, in the middle of tasks you would otherwise script by hand.
Installing Cron
Getting it running is straightforward: run the command below from the OpenClaw directory and restart your assistant. The one step people skip — and regret — is reading the README first. If the skill needs an API key, a token, or account permissions, sorting that before the first request saves a confusing debugging session.
Once the assistant is back online, test it with a simple, low-stakes request that exercises the skill. A quick verification now saves confusion later, because you will know the difference between a skill that is not installed and one that is misconfigured.
clawhub install cronGetting the most out of it
Skills compound. Cron on its own is useful; combined with the rest of a well-chosen toolkit, it becomes part of workflows the assistant strings together without being told. Browse the rest of the ClawHub catalogue with that in mind — the best setups are built around how you actually work, not around individual features.
And if you would rather not assemble this yourself, we do it for a living: OpenClaw installation, a skill set chosen and configured around how you work — including Cron where it fits — and custom skills built where the catalogue stops short.