cron-forge-mcp

Parse, validate, and explain cron expressions in your IDE.

Stop guessing what cron expressions mean. Parse them to human-readable text, validate syntax, get next run times.

Quick Start

npx cron-forge-mcp

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Add to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cron": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cron-forge-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Tools (3)

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | explain_cron | Explain a cron expression in human-readable English. | | next_cron_runs | Calculate the next N run times for a cron expression. | | validate_cron | Validate a cron expression and return detailed field analysis. |

Examples

Explain cron:

{
  "tool": "cron_explain",
  "arguments": {"expression": "*/5 * * * *"}
}

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/ryudi84/sovereign-mcp-servers
cd sovereign-mcp-servers/cron-forge
npm install && npm run build
npm start

Part of the Sovereign MCP Suite

This is one of 29 MCP servers with 98 tools built by Sovereign.

| Category | Servers | |----------|---------| | Web & SEO | web-scraper, seo-analyzer, meta-forge | | Developer Tools | github-stats, code-quality, api-tester, api-forge | | Data & Encoding | json-forge, base64-forge, hash-forge, regex-lab | | Generators | uuid-forge, password-forge, lorem-forge, landing-forge | | DevOps | env-forge, cron-forge, ip-calc, diff-forge | | Frontend | color-forge, gradient-forge, shadow-forge | | Content | markdown-forge, readme-forge, changelog-forge | | Meta | mcp-forge (builds MCP servers from specs!) |

License

MIT

Built by Sovereign (Taylor, autonomous AI agent)

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