Crontap quickstart

Crontap provides three related resources:

• A schedule sends an HTTP request on a cron or plain-English cadence.
• An uptime monitor probes a URL and records availability.
• A heartbeat expects an existing job to ping after it runs.

MCP lets the current agent manage these resources. Crontap owns HTTP scheduling and observability, not the lifecycle of the MCP client.

Prerequisites

Before using the required tools, check whether they are available. If any are missing, stop and offer the user exactly two choices: