cron-creator_skill

Overview

This skill turns natural-language requests into Clawdbot cron jobs for recurring messages, reminders, and check-ins. It parses timing, frequency, channel, and message content, then creates and confirms the cron entry automatically. Use it to schedule habits, notifications, or routine prompts without writing cron expressions or using the terminal.

How this skill works

You write a simple instruction like "Remind me to drink water every 2 hours" and the skill extracts the time, recurrence pattern, destination channel, and message. It maps natural phrases (daily, weekdays, every 2 hours, Mondays, noon, midnight) to cron expressions, generates the appropriate Clawdbot cron command, and submits it to create the job. The skill returns a confirmation and the parsed cron schedule for verification.

When to use it

• Schedule daily or weekly reminders without crafting cron syntax
• Set recurring health or habit nudges (water, stretch, stand up)
• Create team check-ins or status prompts on Slack, Discord, Telegram, or WhatsApp
• Automate morning/evening journaling or weekly review prompts
• Rapidly add repetitive notifications without opening a terminal

Best practices

• Be explicit about frequency and time (e.g., "every weekday at 9am") to avoid ambiguity
• Specify the channel in your request ("on Slack", "on WhatsApp") if you need non-default routing
• Use clear message intents (Ikigai, water, morning) to let the skill pick a sensible default message
• Confirm the parsed schedule shown by the skill before relying on critical alerts
• Keep timezone expectations consistent with your Clawdbot gateway configuration

Example use cases

• Create a daily Ikigai journal reminder at 8:45am
• Remind me to drink water every 2 hours during my workday
• Set up a weekly team check-in on Mondays at 9am in Slack
• Send a motivational quote every morning at 6:30 on WhatsApp
• Schedule a monthly billing reminder on the 1st at 10am