opencode-scheduler

Run AI agents on a schedule. Set up recurring tasks that execute autonomously—even when you're away.

Schedule a daily job at 9am to search Facebook Marketplace for posters under $100 and send the top 5 deals to my Telegram

This is an OpenCode plugin that uses your OS's native scheduler (launchd on Mac, systemd on Linux) to run prompts reliably—survives reboots, catches up on missed runs.

Install

Add to your opencode.json:

{
  "plugin": ["opencode-scheduler"]
}

Examples

Daily deal hunting:

Schedule a daily job at 9am to search for standing desks under $300

Weekly reports:

Schedule a job every Monday at 8am to summarize my GitHub notifications

Recurring reminders:

Schedule a job every 6 hours to check if my website is up and alert me on Slack if it's down

Commands

| Command | Example | |---------|---------| | Schedule a job | Schedule a daily job at 9am to... | | List jobs | Show my scheduled jobs | | Get version | Show scheduler version | | Install skill template | Install the scheduled job best practices skill | | Get job | Show details for standing-desk | | Update job | Update standing-desk to run at 10am | | Run immediately | Run the standing-desk job now | | View logs | Show logs for standing-desk | | Delete | Delete the standing-desk job |

How It Works

1. You describe what you want scheduled in natural language
2. The plugin creates a cron job and installs it in your OS scheduler
3. At the scheduled time, OpenCode runs your prompt autonomously
4. Output is logged to ~/.config/opencode/logs/

You can also trigger a job immediately via run_job—it runs fire-and-forget and appends to the same log file.

Jobs run from the working directory where you created them, picking up your opencode.json and MCP configurations.

Reference

Cron Syntax

Jobs use standard 5-field cron expressions:

┌───────────── minute (0-59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0-23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1-31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1-12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0-6, Sunday=0)
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * *

| Expression | Meaning | |------------|---------| | 0 9 * * * | Daily at 9:00 AM | | 0 */6 * * * | Every 6 hours | | 30 8 * * 1 | Mondays at 8:30 AM | | 0 9,17 * * * | At 9 AM and 5 PM daily |

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | schedule_job | Create a new scheduled job | | list_jobs | List all scheduled jobs | | get_version | Show scheduler and opencode versions | | get_skill | Get built-in skill templates (best practices) | | install_skill | Install a built-in skill into your repo | | get_job | Fetch job details and metadata | | update_job | Update an existing job | | delete_job | Remove a scheduled job | | run_job | Execute a job immediately (fire-and-forget) | | job_logs | View the latest logs from a job |

Tools accept an optional format: "json" argument to return structured output with success, output, shouldContinue, and data.

Storage

| What | Where | |------|-------| | Job configs | ~/.config/opencode/jobs/*.json | | Logs | ~/.config/opencode/logs/*.log | | launchd plists (Mac) | ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.opencode.job.*.plist | | systemd units (Linux) | ~/.config/systemd/user/opencode-job-*.{service,timer} |

Working Directory

Jobs run from a specific directory to pick up MCP configs:

Schedule a daily job at 9am from /path/to/project to run my-task

By default, jobs use the directory where you created them.

Attach URL (optional)

If you have an OpenCode backend running via opencode serve or opencode web, you can set attachUrl on a job so runs use that backend:

Update the standing-desk job to use attachUrl http://localhost:4096

Project Philosophy

• This plugin is intentionally a thin wrapper: it schedules opencode run via launchd (Mac) or systemd (Linux).
• Logs are the source of truth for scheduled runs: ~/.config/opencode/logs/*.log.
• Resiliency/reporting roadmap (not implemented): PRD-resilient-execution.md.

Built-in Skill Templates

To install the built-in skill into your project (no copy/paste), open OpenCode in your repo and run:

Install the scheduled job best practices skill

This calls the plugin’s install_skill tool and writes .opencode/skill/scheduled-job-best-practices/SKILL.md.

(If you prefer, you can also say: Get skill from opencode-scheduler and add it to my skills.)

Then add @scheduled-job-best-practices at the top of scheduled job prompts.

(Manual option: use get_skill to fetch scheduled-job-best-practices and copy it into .opencode/skill/scheduled-job-best-practices/SKILL.md.)

Troubleshooting

Jobs not running?

1. Check if installed:

   • Mac: launchctl list | grep opencode
   • Linux: systemctl --user list-timers | grep opencode

2. Check logs: Show logs for my-job

3. Verify the working directory has the right opencode.json with MCP configs

MCP tools not available?

Make sure the job's working directory contains an opencode.json with your MCP server configurations.

License

MIT