Minimum-interval guard for cron jobs and recurring commands.
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flock solves overlap. It does not solve cadence.
Many recurring jobs should not run more than once every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 6 hours even if a scheduler, human, or repair loop keeps asking. cooldown-guard is a small Rust CLI that keeps a SQLite ledger of past runs and decides whether the next invocation should execute or skip.
The v0.1 rule is intentionally simple: cooldown is based on the last completed attempt, regardless of whether that attempt exited successfully.
git clone https://github.com/GreyforgeLabs/cooldown-guard.git
cd cooldown-guard
./scripts/setup.shOr run it directly with Cargo:
cargo run -- run --name backup --min-interval 30m -- ./backup.sh- Minimum interval enforcement - run a command only when its cooldown window has elapsed
- SQLite state ledger - durable run history with no daemon and no background service
- Human and JSON output - useful in shells, cron logs, and automation wrappers
- Explicit subcommands -
run,status, andclear - Direct execution - commands are spawned directly, not interpolated through an internal shell
# Run a job if 30 minutes have elapsed since the last completed attempt
cooldown-guard run --name backup --min-interval 30m -- ./backup.sh
# Inspect current cooldown state
cooldown-guard status --name backup --min-interval 30m
# Machine-readable output
cooldown-guard --json status --name backup --min-interval 30m
# Clear stored history for a key
cooldown-guard clear --name backupExample output:
name=backup action=run exit_code=0 finished_at=2026-04-07T15:16:39Z
name=backup action=status state=cooling-down last_exit_code=0 last_finished_at=2026-04-07T15:16:39Z remaining=29m 58s
name=backup action=skip reason=cooldown last_exit_code=0 remaining=29m 41s
0when a run is skipped because the cooldown is active- Child process exit code when a command is executed
2oncooldown-guardusage or runtime errors
- STARTHERE.md - coding client bootstrap
- CONTRIBUTING.md - contribution workflow
- CHANGELOG.md - version history
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