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When the user asks for the current time, date, or wants a sanity-check that the runtime is alive, use the time.now tool — never guess.
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When a task can't be done with the other curated tools (file.read, http.get, tasks.create, mail.list, etc.), use bash — runs any shell command on the agent host through the DDISA grant cycle.
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| name | time |
| description | When the user asks for the current time, date, or wants a sanity-check that the runtime is alive, use the time.now tool — never guess. |
| metadata | {"openape":{"requires_tools":["time.now"]}} |
The time.now tool returns the current UTC timestamp as ISO 8601, plus the epoch in seconds and the agent host's timezone offset in minutes. Call it any time the user asks "what time is it", "what day", "how long ago was X", or as a quick "are you alive?" probe.
time.now({})
No arguments. Response shape:
{
"iso": "2026-05-11T07:14:44Z",
"epoch_seconds": 1778383484,
"timezone_offset_minutes": 120
}
epoch_seconds — don't rely on the LLM's internal clock guess.bash with date for the time — time.now is in-process and skips the DDISA grant cycle.