What
The description of CronCreate, the tool Claude uses to schedule tasks for later, was rewritten in this release in the prompt used by the /init command in the SDK. The description advises that choosing a less common minute for a scheduled task matters more than anything else for spreading out when it runs.
Why
This wording guides which times Claude picks when it schedules something, so it can affect when your scheduled tasks actually fire.
Names in the bundleCronCreate/init
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 /init, on Best practices for Claude Code.
> Run `/init` to generate a starter CLAUDE.md file based on your current project structure, then refine over time.best-practices see the edit
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.