What
The description of jitter for CronCreate, Claude Code's tool for scheduling tasks to run at set times, was changed. Jitter is a small random offset added to a scheduled time.
Why
This is a wording change to a description; nothing here shows a change to when scheduled tasks run.
Names in the bundleCronCreate
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up CronCreate, on Use the mods API.
| [`$.tool.call`](/docs/en/plugins/mods/reference#mods-api-methods) of Bash with `run_in_background: true`, Monitor, or CronCreate | Resolves with `{ deny: '<tool> was not run: it starts background work, a schedule or a goal, and <reason>'…plugins/mods/api see the edit
Added since
A small documentation edit on Error reference touched a line naming CronCreate after this was published.
* For a tool that [background subagents drop](/docs/en/sub-agents#available-tools), such as `CronCreate`, remove the entryerrors see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
A small documentation edit on Error reference touched a line naming CronCreate after this was published.