Create cron

Reads a schedule said in words — "every 5 minutes", "weekdays at 8:30", "every monday at 9am", "tomorrow at 7pm", "in 20 minutes", or a five-field cron expression — in your time zone, and answers the schedule an automation takes, said back in plain words, with when it would first run.

POST /v1/auto/cron

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Address	`https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/auto/cron`
Method	`POST`
Operation	`post_auto_cron`
Auth	`Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY`

Reads a schedule said in words — "every 5 minutes", "weekdays at 8:30", "every monday at 9am", "tomorrow at 7pm", "in 20 minutes", or a five-field cron expression — in your time zone, and answers the schedule an automation takes, said back in plain words, with when it would first run. Nothing is created: send the schedule to POST /v1/auto/automations. A phrase that no rule reads is read by a model; a phrase that names no schedule answers 422.

Request

2 fields, body application/json (required).

Field	In	Type	Required	Description
`text`	body	string	—	Text is when it runs, as a person says it: "every monday at 9am".
`tz`	body	string	—	TZ is the IANA zone the words are read in.

Response

Status	Body	Meaning
`200`	auto.whenOut	ok
`default`	problem-details	refused

200 body — 8 fields.

Field	In	Type	Always	Description
`next`	body	string	—	Next is when it would first run, RFC 3339 UTC; null when it runs only on demand.
`says`	body	string	—	Says is the schedule said back in plain words.
`schedule`	body	auto.Schedule	—
`schedule.at`	body	string	—	At is the local time, HH:MM on a 24-hour clock, for daily, weekdays and weekly.
`schedule.cron`	body	string	—	Cron is a five-field cron expression (minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week), for kind cron only, read in TZ.
`schedule.day`	body	string	—	Day is the weekday a weekly schedule runs on: mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat or sun.
`schedule.kind`	body	string	—	Kind is manual, hourly, daily, weekdays, weekly, cron or once.
`schedule.tz`	body	string	—	TZ is the IANA time zone every time here is read in.

Failure carries the platform error shape — see Errors.

Examples

CLI

SDK

HTTP

MCP

hanzo auto cron

.ts

.py

.go

.rs

.java

import { Configuration, AutoApi } from 'hanzoai';

const api = new AutoApi(new Configuration({ accessToken: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY }));
const { data } = await api.postAutoCron({ text: "<text>", tz: "<tz>" });

from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration
from hanzoai.cloud.api import AutoApi

client = ApiClient(Configuration(access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"]))
result = AutoApi(client).post_auto_cron(text="<text>", tz="<tz>")

cfg := hanzoai.NewConfiguration()
cfg.AddDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
client := hanzoai.NewAPIClient(cfg)

resp, _, err := client.AutoAPI.PostAutoCron(context.Background()).Execute()
if err != nil {
	return err
}

use hanzo_client::apis::{configuration::Configuration, auto_api};

let mut cfg = Configuration::new();
cfg.bearer_access_token = std::env::var("HANZO_API_KEY").ok();

let result = auto_api::post_auto_cron(&cfg, Default::default()).await?;

import ai.hanzo.cloud.ApiClient;
import ai.hanzo.cloud.api.AutoApi;

ApiClient client = new ApiClient();
client.setBearerToken(System.getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"));

var result = new AutoApi(client).postAutoCron();

curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/auto/cron \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "text": "<text>",
       "tz": "<tz>"
     }'

MCP reaches auto through the auto tool, which names its 26 operations with its own verbs — this one among them, under a name only MCP declares. describe explains any of them:

curl -X POST https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
       "jsonrpc": "2.0",
       "id": 1,
       "method": "tools/call",
       "params": {
         "name": "describe",
         "arguments": {
           "op": "list_auto_automations"
         }
       }
     }'

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