# Cron And Intervals

> 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.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-val-town-cron-and-intervals
- tashan id: skill:val-town/cron-and-intervals
- Source: https://github.com/val-town/plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r cron-and-intervals ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-15 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.