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Crontab Ref

@crontab: context references that explain a cron expression for the model: @crontab:"0 9 * * 1-5" (or a shortcut such as @crontab:@daily) attaches a plain-words reading ("At 09:00 on Monday through Friday."), each field on its own row, whether Hermes's /cron takes it as a cron expression (shortcuts, ? and 5#3 are not), its next five runs in Hermes's timezone setting worked out the way cron/jobs.py computes next runs, and notes on day of month OR day of week, * in the minute field, steps that do not divide the hour or day, days 29-31 and 7 as Sunday; the TUI and Desktop composer suggest examples and preview an expression as you type it. The reading comes from croniter, the library Hermes's scheduler uses.

Good to know before installing

Reads only the text of the reference itself, the system clock and Hermes's timezone setting (HERMES_TIMEZONE, else timezone from the loaded config through hermes_cli.config), using croniter (already installed with Hermes) and Python's standard library; no network, no files read or written, no subprocess, no credentials read, no cron job created, changed or run; the @crontab: reference and its explanation become part of the message sent to your model provider and saved in the session history; register() only adds the @crontab: reference provider.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

How to install

  1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.
    hermes plugins install crontab-ref
  2. Said no? Turn it on later:
    hermes plugins enable crontab-ref
  3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see Full setup & settings. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide (opens in a new tab).

Category
Automation & multi-agent
Maintained by
olric3015 (Community)
Needs
No API keys declared
Needs Hermes
0.21.5 or newer
Version
1.0.0
In the catalog
2026-10-24

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