cron-agent

Convert a schedule in natural language to a cron schedule using agentic programming.

The Cron Agent is built on Pydantic AI.

Setup

Set up the project

1. Clone the clone-agent repository

2. Install uv

3. Create venv and install dependencies

cd cron-agent
uv sync

3. Activate the virtual environment

source .venv/bin/activate

Configure API keys

1. Create .env file with your API keys

OPENAI_API_KEY=...

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...

2. Run the following command to load the API keys

set -a; source .env; set +a

Try it out

Convert a schedule in natural language to a cron schedule

python main.py

Testing

The following script will test two cron agents using LLMs from Anthropic and OpenAI.

PYTHONPATH=. pytest -vs tests/test_cron_agent.py