cron-and-intervals
Skill from val-town/plugins
Install
npx skills add val-town/plugins --skill cron-and-intervals
Runs the open skills CLI and installs the skill for your agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor …). Alternatively copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ or upload it in Claude.ai under Settings → Skills.
As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install valtown@valtown
This skill is part of the plugin “valtown”. In Claude Code the plugin installs it together with the plugin’s other skills, commands and hooks.
What does the cron-and-intervals skill do?
Description from the SKILL.md in the source repository.
Questions about cron-and-intervals
What does the cron-and-intervals skill do?
Use when building a val that runs on a schedule — periodic jobs, recurring tasks, polling, cron jobs, monitoring, alerting. Covers the interval handler signature, cron expressions, the UTC timezone constraint, and the `lastRunAt` pattern for detecting new items since the previous run.
How do I install cron-and-intervals?
In a terminal: npx skills add val-town/plugins --skill cron-and-intervals. The skills CLI asks which agents to install it for. In Claude.ai you can upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Settings → Skills.
Which agents can use cron-and-intervals?
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, which Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude API, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents support.
Is cron-and-intervals safe to use?
Our automatic check found no risky patterns (piped shell scripts, hidden characters, secret access, prompt overrides). It is not a full audit – read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.
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