Agent skill

Current Time

by MagicCube in MagicCube/agentara

Get the current date (with day of week) and time (HH:MM:SS) in a specified timezone.

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Install Current Time

skills CLI
$ npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill current-time -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install MagicCube/agentara current-time --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MagicCube/agentara.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/user-home/.claude/skills/current-time .claude/skills/current-time && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
current-time
GitHub stars
515
Token cost
~292 tokens
SKILL.md length
90 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
21
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Get the current date (with day of week) and time (HH:MM:SS) in a specified timezone.

  • Works in 3 steps: Determine timezone → Get current time → Use the result
  • Needing to know current time
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Day of week — including when guessing users location based on schedule

What it does

Current Time is an agent skill from MagicCube/agentara. Get the current date (with day of week) and time (HH:MM:SS) in a specified timezone. Auto-trigger when needing to know current time, date, or day of week — including when guessing user's location based on schedule, answering "what time is it", "what day is it", "today is what date", or any context where accurate real-time clock data is needed. Also trigger proactively at the start of conversations to ground yourself in the current time.

Its SKILL.md is about 290 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Your 24/7 personal assistant powered by Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Multi-channel messaging, long-term memory, skills, task scheduling, session management, and more — all…

When your agent uses it

  • Needing to know current time
  • Day of week — including when guessing users location based on schedule
  • Answering what time is it
  • Today is what date

Example prompts

  • “s location based on schedule, answering”
  • “what day is it”
  • “today is what date”
  • “/current-time”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Determine timezone
  2. Get current time
  3. Use the result

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5621a96. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Current Time loads about 292 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 113 tokens; SKILL.md has 90 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~113
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~292

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 90 words (~292 tokens).

“Get the current date and time with day of week using the system clock.”

— opening of SKILL.md by MagicCube
name
current-time

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in user-home/.claude/skills/current-time of MagicCube/agentara.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5621a96

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Current Time next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Content Dates Auditthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist74k—~691Automated safety check: PassMIT
Weekly Reviewalirezarezvani/claude-skills28k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Current Time

What does Current Time do?

Get the current date (with day of week) and time (HH:MM:SS) in a specified timezone. Current Time is an agent skill from MagicCube/agentara. Get the current date (with day of week) and time (HH:MM:SS) in a specified timezone.

When should I use Current Time?

Current Time fits situations like: needing to know current time; day of week — including when guessing users location based on schedule; answering what time is it; today is what date.

How do I install Current Time in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill current-time -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (user-home/.claude/skills/current-time in MagicCube/agentara) into .claude/skills/current-time in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Current Time in Codex?

Run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill current-time -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (user-home/.claude/skills/current-time in MagicCube/agentara) into .agents/skills/current-time in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Current Time in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add MagicCube/agentara --skill current-time -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/current-time, .gemini/skills/current-time, .github/skills/current-time and .opencode/skills/current-time in your project.

What does Current Time need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Current Time is instructions for the agent only.

Does Current Time access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Current Time safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Current Time use?

No licence was found for Current Time or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Current Time use?

About 292 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Current Time?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Current Time: Weekly Project Digests (thedotmack/claude-mem, 97k stars), Weekly Review Planning (NousResearch/hermes-agent, 252k stars), Day Book (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Content Dates Audit (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Current Time?

MagicCube (a GitHub user) maintains it in MagicCube/agentara, which has 515 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 11, 2026.

Source: MagicCube/agentara on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.