Cron & Scheduling

Schedule and manage recurring tasks with cron and systemd timers. Use when setting up cron jobs, writing systemd timer units, handling timezone-aware scheduling, monitoring failed jobs, implementing retry patterns, or debugging why a scheduled task didn't run.

Installers should treat this as a useful but powerful scheduling guide. Before following examples, back up existing crontabs, confirm which user or service account will run the job, avoid `crontab -r` unless you intentionally want to remove all jobs, and periodically review or disable persistent timers and queued jobs you no longer need.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: cron-scheduling Version: 1.0.0 The skill bundle is classified as suspicious due to its provision of extensive capabilities for arbitrary command execution and system configuration modification, which, while plausibly needed for a 'cron-scheduling' skill, represent significant high-risk behaviors. Specifically, the `SKILL.md` demonstrates commands like `crontab -e` (editing user crontabs), `sudo crontab -u` (editing other users' crontabs), `crontab -r` (removing all cron jobs), and includes a `cron-wrapper.sh` script that explicitly executes arbitrary commands provided as arguments. While there is no clear evidence of intentional malicious behavior by the skill's author, these broad permissions and execution capabilities could be leveraged for harmful actions if misused by a malicious user interacting with the AI agent.