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Show HN: Crondex - All the Cron Jobs

Crondex is an open-source tool that allows users to create cron jobs compatible with various platforms and workflows, including Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude, and Codex.

Background

- The author is referring to a set of AI coding tools: **Claude** (Anthropic's AI assistant), **Codex** (likely OpenAI's code-generation model, or possibly Cursor's Codex), **Hermes** (an open-source fine-tuned AI model family), and **OpenCLAW** (an open-source CLI tool for AI agent workflows). - **Cron jobs** are scheduled, automated tasks that run at set times (e.g., "every 5 minutes" or "every Monday at 3am"). They are a standard Unix/Linux concept. - This project, **Crondex**, is an open-source tool that generates *all possible* cron job schedules (the time expressions). It then outputs them in formats usable by various workflow tools and AI agent frameworks. - Why it matters: As AI coding agents become more common, they need a way to run recurring tasks (e.g., "summarize my inbox daily"). Crondex standardizes how those schedules can be generated and fed into different agent systems, so developers don't have to manually craft cron expressions for each AI tool.

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