# Cronch

> Cronch is a personal agent for developers that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar and pings you when it’s time.

Cron jobs for your body. Cronch is in private beta behind a waitlist and is free during the beta. It plans breakfast, lunch, dinner, water and short breaks around your work hours and meetings, pings you by email or on its dashboard, and works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor through a remote MCP server. It suggests food and opens Uber Eats, DoorDash or Google Maps searches; it never places orders or charges you.

## When to use Cronch

Use Cronch when a person wants their workday’s meals, water and breaks planned around their calendar, or wants to act on that plan from wherever they are working. It is the right tool when the user asks what’s next today, wants to mark lunch done or skip a break, snooze a reminder, log a glass of water, get food options for right now that fit their diet, allergies, budget and cooking time, tell Cronch about today’s meetings so meals move out of them, replan the afternoon, change their setup (diet, allergies, work and quiet hours, ping cadence, water goal), check their streak, or read a sign-in code that arrived at their Cronch inbox.

How to call it: chat assistants and coding agents connect the remote MCP server https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/mcp (OAuth 2.1; scopes `cronch:read` and `cronch:write`, so ask for read alone when you only read) and call `get_today` first; its item ids, or "next", drive every other tool. Scripts and services call the REST API at https://api.cronch.io/api/v1 with a personal access token (`Authorization: Bearer cronch_pat_…`); every endpoint and scope is in https://cronch.io/openapi.json. To try it without an account, the sandbox at https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/sandbox (MCP at https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/sandbox/mcp) answers with sample data and saves nothing.

Don’t use Cronch to order or pay for food, book tables, count calories or macros, or give medical or nutrition advice: it does none of these. Food links only open a search on Uber Eats, DoorDash or Google Maps, so never tell the user an order was placed.

## Key facts

- What it is: Cronch is a personal agent for developers that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar and pings you when it’s time. Each meal, glass of water and break is one tap: Done, Snooze or Skip.
- Who it’s for: Developers and anyone who works at a computer all day and forgets to eat, drink water or take breaks.
- What it plans: Breakfast, lunch and dinner (plus an afternoon snack on long days), water pings and short breaks (stretch, a 20-20-20 eye break, a walk), and a wind-down at the end of the workday.
- Meetings: Paste meetings in plain text or connect a calendar link. Meals and pings move to after a meeting ends and never fire during quiet hours.
- Pings: Every 45, 60, 90 or 120 minutes during work hours, by email with one-click Done and Snooze links, or on the Today dashboard. Snooze is 15 minutes by default.
- Food: Each meal fits your diet, allergies, budget and how much you want to cook. “Order it” opens a search on Uber Eats, DoorDash or Google Maps. Cronch never places orders or charges you.
- AI apps: A remote MCP server with 17 tools works in ChatGPT, Claude (web, desktop and mobile), Claude Code and Cursor. There is also a CLI and a Claude Desktop extension.
- Price: Free during the private beta. Pro ($8 a month) and Teams ($6 per seat a month) are planned and not on sale yet.
- Status: Private beta with a waitlist. Invites go out in small batches.
- Made by: Two co-founders. Contact: support@cronch.io.

## Pages

- [Cronch · Cron jobs for your body](https://cronch.io): Cronch is a personal agent for developers that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar and pings you when it’s time.
- [Cronch FAQ: meal, water and break reminders](https://cronch.io/faq): Answers about Cronch: how it plans meals, water and breaks around meetings, what it costs, privacy, and using it in ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor.
- [Cronch MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor](https://cronch.io/mcp): Connect Cronch to ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or your terminal. Remote MCP server, 17 tools, OAuth sign-in, copy-paste setup prompts.
- [Cronch pricing: free during the beta](https://cronch.io/pricing): Cronch is free during the private beta. The plans after it: Free at $0, Pro at $8 a month and Teams at $6 per seat a month. Paid plans are not on sale yet.

## Developers

- [Cronch developer docs: REST API, MCP server and OAuth](https://cronch.io/docs): Build on Cronch: a REST API with scoped personal access tokens, a remote MCP server with OAuth, OpenAPI and a sandbox that needs no account.
- [OpenAPI 3.1 description](https://cronch.io/openapi.json): every REST endpoint with its schemas, errors and scopes
- [API catalog](https://cronch.io/.well-known/api-catalog): the APIs, their descriptions, auth metadata and health (RFC 9727)
- [Cronch agent skill](https://cronch.io/.well-known/agent-skills/cronch/SKILL.md): when and how an agent should use Cronch, as a SKILL.md
- Sandbox: https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/sandbox (REST) and https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/sandbox/mcp (MCP), sample data, no account, nothing saved

## Company

- [About Cronch: the personal agent for meals, water and breaks](https://cronch.io/about): What Cronch is, why it exists, what it will never do, and who makes it. A personal agent that plans meals, water and breaks around your calendar.
- [Contact Cronch: support, privacy and security](https://cronch.io/contact): How to reach Cronch for support, account and privacy requests, security reports, press and partnerships. One address: support@cronch.io.
- [Privacy policy](https://cronch.io/privacy): What Cronch collects, why, who processes it, and how to delete it.

## Guides

- [How to remember to eat while coding](https://cronch.io/remember-to-eat): Why developers skip lunch in flow, and a practical way to stop: fixed meal times, a no-cook fallback and reminders that wait until your meeting ends.
- [Water reminders for developers that skip meetings](https://cronch.io/water-reminders): Water reminders for people who code all day: a sensible daily goal, pings on a cadence during work hours, and none in the middle of a meeting.
- [Break reminders for programmers that fit your day](https://cronch.io/break-reminders): Break reminders for programmers that you won’t snooze forever: short breaks on a cadence you pick, timed around meetings, plus the 20-20-20 rule.
- [How to plan meals around back-to-back meetings](https://cronch.io/meals-around-meetings): When meetings fill the lunch hour: how to find a real gap, keep a no-cook backup, and let meals move to after a call instead of skipping them.

## MCP server

- Endpoint: https://api.cronch.io/api/v1/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (ChatGPT, Claude); personal access token as `Authorization: Bearer cronch_pat_…` for other clients
- Tools (17): get_today, complete_item, skip_item, snooze_item, im_hungry, swap_meal, log_water, add_meetings, replan, ask_agent, get_history, get_profile, update_profile, get_inbox, get_latest_code, read_message, export_ics
- Server card: https://cronch.io/mcp/server-card (AI catalog: https://cronch.io/.well-known/ai-catalog.json)
- Listed as io.cronch/cronch in: [Official MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.cronch%2Fcronch/versions/latest), [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/connectors/io.cronch/cronch)
- Setup for each app: https://cronch.io/mcp

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://cronch.io/llms-full.txt): facts, the whole FAQ, MCP tools and setup in one file
- [Pricing as Markdown](https://cronch.io/pricing.md): plans, limits and the founding price
- Every page is also served as Markdown: send Accept: text/markdown, or add .md to the URL (https://cronch.io/index.md for the home page)
- Contact: support@cronch.io