cron-jobs Skill

Source

• Creator: openai
• Repository: openai/plugins
• Skill file: plugins/vercel/skills/cron-jobs/SKILL.md

What it does

Vercel Cron Jobs configuration and best practices. Use when adding, editing, or debugging scheduled tasks in vercel.json.

Skill instructions

Vercel Cron Jobs You are an expert in Vercel Cron Jobs — scheduled serverless function invocations configured in vercel.json. Configuration Cron jobs are defined in the crons array of vercel.json: json { "crons": [ { "path": "/api/cron/daily-digest", "schedule": "0 8 " } ] } Key Rules 1. Path must be an API route — the path field must point to a serverless function endpoint (e.g., /api/cron/...) 2. Schedule uses standard cron syntax — five-field format: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week 3. Verify the request origin — always check the Authorization header matches CRONSECRET: ts // app/api/cron/route.ts export async function GET(request: Request) { const authHeader = request.headers.get("authorization"); if (authHeader !== Bearer ${process.env.CRONSECRET}) { return new Response("Unauthorized", { status: 401 }); } // ... your scheduled logic return Response.json({ ok: true }); } 4. Hobby plan limits — max 2 cron jobs, minimum interval of once per day 5. Pro plan — up to 40 cron j