# CoCo Cron Expression Lookup

> CoCo Cron Expression Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from cocoeatsai.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns a parsed cron expression with its human-readable description and next scheduled run times

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://cocoeatsai.com/area4/agent/tools/cron?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/coco-cron-expression-lookup-a6d436ac
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8tjjl2mymH_cEH6W-irXW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability coco-cron-expression-lookup-a6d436ac
```

Example prompt: Can you explain what the cron expression '0 12 * * *' means in plain English and show me the next few times it will run?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs to interpret, explain, or validate a cron expression — particularly useful for debugging scheduled jobs, confirming automation timing, or surfacing next-run datetimes without setting up a local parser. It is lightweight and returns both machine-readable timestamps and a human-friendly description in one call.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed cron expression returns an error
- Missing required cron query parameter results in a bad request response
- Ambiguous or non-standard cron syntax (e.g. 6-field vs 5-field) may be misinterpreted

## How this service works

Zach Riehn's lab: an about-me and portfolio, a news desk, The Atelier for AI experiments, Launch Lab for XRP research, and Fracture for games.

## Output

Returns the original cron expression string, the timezone (e.g. UTC), a list of the next 5 scheduled run datetimes in ISO 8601 format, and a plain English description of the schedule (e.g. 'At 12:00').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input",
  "output"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "example"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "cron"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "cron": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cron": "0 12 * * *",
  "timezone": "UTC",
  "next_runs": [
   "2026-10-18T12:00:00+00:00",
   "2026-10-19T12:00:00+00:00",
   "2026-10-20T12:00:00+00:00",
   "2026-10-21T12:00:00+00:00",
   "2026-10-22T12:00:00+00:00"
  ],
  "plain_english": "At 12:00"
 },
 "exampleNote": "Computed offline with demonstration inputs; time/random values are illustrative."
}
```

## More

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