Schedule

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to: schedule a recurring task for an agent
• Set up a one-time future task
• List existing scheduled tasks
• Remove a scheduled task

Example prompts

• “/schedule”

Requirements

• A Bash shell

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Confirm the target agent ID exists (check settings.json or ask the user).
2. 2Determine recurring vs one-time
3. 3Compose a clear task message — this is the prompt the agent will receive.
4. 4Run scripts/schedule.sh create (recurring) or use the API (one-time) with the parameters.
5. 5Verify with scripts/schedule.sh list.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2db3a03. 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

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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

Schedule loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 488 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~84

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.8k

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from TinyAGI/tinyagi at commit 2db3a03, republished under its MIT licence (© TinyAGI). 488 words, ~1,438 tokens.

name

schedule

description

Create, list, and delete scheduled tasks (recurring or one-time) that send messages to agents. Use when the user wants to: schedule a recurring task for an agent, set up a one-time future task, list existing scheduled tasks, delete or remove a scheduled task, or automate periodic agent work (reports, checks, reminders, syncs).

scripts/schedule.sh create \
  --cron "EXPR" \
  --agent AGENT_ID \
  --message "Task context for the agent" \
  [--channel CHANNEL] \
  [--sender SENDER] \
  [--label LABEL]

curl -X POST http://localhost:3777/api/schedules \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "runAt": "2026-03-20T09:00:00.000Z",
    "agentId": "coder",
    "message": "Deploy the staging build",
    "label": "staging-deploy"
  }'

scripts/schedule.sh list [--agent AGENT_ID]

scripts/schedule.sh delete --label LABEL
scripts/schedule.sh delete --all

┌───────────── minute (0-59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0-23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1-31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1-12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0-7, 0 and 7 = Sunday)
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * *

scripts/schedule.sh create \
  --cron "0 9 * * *" \
  --agent analyst \
  --message "Generate the daily metrics report and post a summary" \
  --label daily-report

scripts/schedule.sh create \
  --cron "*/30 * * * *" \
  --agent devops \
  --message "Run health checks on all services and report any issues" \
  --label health-check

curl -X POST http://localhost:3777/api/schedules \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"runAt":"2026-03-20T14:00:00.000Z","agentId":"devops","message":"Deploy v2.1 to production","label":"prod-deploy-v21"}'

# See all schedules
scripts/schedule.sh list

# See only schedules for @coder
scripts/schedule.sh list --agent coder

# Remove one
scripts/schedule.sh delete --label health-check

# Remove all
scripts/schedule.sh delete --all

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Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts, references) in .agents/skills/schedule of TinyAGI/tinyagi.

• SKILL.md
• references/queue-format.md
• scripts/schedule.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2db3a03