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Problem

A task set to At a time can only pick days of the week. A monthly or quarterly job, such as a report on the 4th or on the 5th of January, April, July and October, needs a daily task that checks the date and exits, or a cron job outside T3 Code. Requested in #19009.

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  • fixed_time schedules take optional monthDays (1–31) and months (1–12). A task picks days of the week or days of the month, not both. months works with either. A day a month doesn't have, such as the 31st or 29 February, runs on that month's last day, once. The fields live in the existing schedule JSON, so there is no migration and existing tasks are unchanged.
  • The server finds the next run on local wall-clock time, so DST doesn't shift it.
  • The web and mobile editors gain Days of the week / Days of the month, a 1–31 grid and an Only in some months switch. Chosen items show a check. A one-line summary such as "At 09:00 on the 5th of Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct." comes from one function in client-runtime, plus a note when a chosen day is past a month's end.
  • Older servers would drop the new fields and run the task every day. Servers now advertise a scheduledTaskMonthDays capability, and both editors offer days of the month and months only when it is present. Saving those choices to a server without it is refused with an explanation.
  • The schedule_task MCP schema describes the fields. The user guide has a short "Scheduled times" section.

Known limitations, left out to keep this to one problem:

  • A client that predates this, such as an older mobile build, shows a month-day task as daily and saves it as daily if edited. Webhook filters have the same limit for older clients.
  • A timed run more than 10 minutes late is skipped, which is existing behavior. For a quarterly task that skips a quarter. Missed runs are discussed separately in Scheduled tasks: show when a timed run was missed #22204.

Scope and approval

Maintainer approval is not claimed. I believe this fits the focused configuration route, and eligibility is the maintainers' call:

  • Existing capability: an At a time task already lets you choose its time and which days of the week it runs on.
  • What the option controls: only which calendar days that same task fires on: days of the month instead of days of the week, and optionally which months.
  • Why it stays within that capability: there is no new schedule type or workflow. A run starts the same way, with the same thread, workspace and missed-run handling. Defaults are unchanged: existing tasks decode as they are, with no migration, and a new task still starts on days of the week. The editor only adds controls inside the existing At a time section. The capability flag only hides those controls from servers that can't store them.

It was proposed with this implementation in #19009 (#19009 (comment)). The person who opened that discussion replied "Nice, yes I think this is good." (#19009 (reply in thread)), but no maintainer has replied yet. I'm happy to change its scope or close it.

#25479 (opened Oct 26) covers the same problem differently: one date a month, and months without that date are skipped. This PR follows the approach proposed in #19009. I'm happy to go with whichever direction maintainers prefer.

Verification

Tests:

  • Next runs: every month, month lengths, the 31st, 29 February, months across a year boundary, and DST (Schedule.test.ts).
  • The service stores the schedule and picks the next chosen day (ScheduledTaskService.schedule.test.ts).
  • The contract accepts month days with months and rejects weekdays with month days.
  • The shared summary and the web and mobile draft logic.
  • The server advertises the capability.
  • A web browser test shows the controls only when the server advertises the capability. It fails if the gate is removed.

vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck of 36 packages, and the tests beside the changes.

End to end, on a dev server with the web client and an Android emulator:

  • On web I created tasks for the 4th and 6th, the 5th of Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct, and the 31st. The server stored 09:00 local on Nov 4, Jan 5 and Oct 31, and the list showed matching next runs.
  • Reopening a task restores its choices.
  • Adding the 31st from Android saved, and the next run became Oct 31.
  • A task for "the 27th at 15:34" fired at 15:34:03 and moved its next run to Nov 27.
  • An agent asked to schedule "16:12 on the 27th, only in October" called schedule_task with monthDays: [27], months: [10].

Not checked: the MCP evals (no API key on this machine), the Electron shell (only the web UI it wraps), and iOS.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR introduces a substantial scheduling capability across the shared contract, server execution logic, web editor, and mobile editor, including new month-day semantics and month-end fallback behavior. The additive schema and tests reduce compatibility risk, but the cross-cutting runtime and user-facing changes merit human review.

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Walkthrough

Fixed-time schedules now support selecting weekdays or days of the month, with optional month restrictions. The change updates schedule validation, next-run calculation, shared descriptions, and the web and mobile settings editors.

Changes: Calendar-based fixed-time schedules

Layer / File(s) Summary
Schedule contract and draft conversion
packages/contracts/src/scheduledTask.ts, packages/contracts/src/environment.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, packages/contracts/src/scheduledTask.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduledTaskDraft.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduledTaskDraft.test.ts
The schedule contract and web and mobile drafts support weekday or month-day selection and optional month restrictions. Validation rejects schedules with both nonempty weekdays and month days.
Next-run calculation and schedule comparison
apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/Schedule.ts, apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/Schedule.test.ts, apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.schedule.test.ts, apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.ts, apps/server/src/environment/ServerEnvironment.test.ts
The scheduler applies day and month filters, handles selected days beyond a month’s length by matching its final day, and compares normalized selections. The server advertises month-day capability.
Shared schedule descriptions
packages/client-runtime/src/scheduledTaskSchedule.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/scheduledTaskSchedule.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/package.json, docs/user/project-settings.md
The client runtime exports fixed-time descriptions, month-end fallback text, and ordinal formatting. The documentation describes fixed-time schedules and month-end behavior.
Web schedule editor
apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.browser.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/toggle.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/toggle-group.tsx
The web editor adds calendar controls based on environment capability, prevents unsupported calendar schedules from saving, and displays shared descriptions. Toggle components add a check variant for selection controls.
Mobile schedule editor
apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx
The mobile editor adds weekday and calendar controls, displays schedule descriptions and month-end fallback text, and prevents unsupported calendar schedules from saving.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#18632: This PR adds fixed-time schedule descriptions and documents environment time-zone behavior, but the web summary may still lack a time-zone label.

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#23911: Both PRs extend fixed-time schedules and their next-run calculation.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#25479: Both PRs add calendar-date scheduling for timed tasks, with different schedule variants and month-end rules.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#18594: This PR replaces fixed-time label formatting with shared descriptions and extends them for month-day and month filters.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, macroscopeapp, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1e986

Calendar schedules can silently change during later edits, while task summaries can misdescribe when runs occur; preserve selections and show the fallback before merging.

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Re the description check above: I can't add a maintainer approval because there isn't one yet. Instead, Scope and approval now explains why I think this fits the focused configuration route in CONTRIBUTING:

  • Existing capability: an At a time task already chooses its time and days of the week.
  • What this adds: a choice of days of the month and months for that same task.
  • What it doesn't change: no new workflow, run behavior, defaults or migration.

Approval is not claimed; eligibility is the maintainers' call. CodeRabbit raised no code issues, so the code is unchanged.

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Minor · Block saving until server configuration loads. · SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx:743

apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx:743
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Block saving until server configuration loads.

calendarSupported is false while config is null. The Save button remains enabled, so an existing calendar draft can reach save() and show “Update this environment” before the capability response arrives.

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       <Button
         tone="primary"
         fullWidth
         loading={saving}
-        disabled={!canOperate || dictationPending || taskMissing || environmentUnavailable}
+        disabled={
+          config === null ||
+          !canOperate ||
+          dictationPending ||
+          taskMissing ||
+          environmentUnavailable
+        }
         onPress={() => void save()}
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Update the Save button’s disabled condition in SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen
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…osen months

A timed task could only pick weekdays, so a monthly or quarterly report
needed a daily task that checked the date and exited.

A fixed_time schedule now also takes monthDays (1-31) and months (1-12).
A day a month doesn't have, such as the 31st, runs on that month's last
day. Weekdays and days of the month are mutually exclusive on save; old
rows decode unchanged and no migration is needed. The web and mobile
editors gain a days-of-the-month choice and an "Only in some months"
switch that reveals the months, show the schedule as a sentence, and mark
chosen days and months with a check. Both clients describe schedules with
one shared function. The MCP schedule schema documents the new fields.

Servers advertise a scheduledTaskMonthDays capability, and both editors
offer days of the month and months only when it is present: an older
server would drop the fields and run the task every day.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed CodeRabbit's finding from this review ("Block saving until server configuration loads") in 1e98650.

Mobile now disables Save, and save() returns early, until the environment's server config has loaded. Before that, the editor can't tell whether the server supports days of the month, so editing a month-day task could wrongly show "Update this environment". Web already waits: its Save stays disabled until the server config is present. vp run check:changed passes.

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Minor · Preserve full selections when serializing editor state. · scheduledTasksSettings.logic.ts:196-213

apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.ts:196-213
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve full selections when serializing editor state.

chosen omits full monthDays selections. The loader then restores dayMode as "week". If the user toggles a displayed day and saves, the serializer writes weekdays instead of monthDays, changing the schedule behavior. The same omission resets limitMonths when all 12 months are selected.

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-/** None and all both mean "no filter", which the schedule leaves out. */
+/** Empty selections mean "no filter"; retain full selections for editor round-tripping. */
 function chosen<T>(values: ReadonlySet<number>, all: number, field: (values: number[]) => T) {
-  return values.size === 0 || values.size >= all
+  return values.size === 0 || values.size > all
     ? {}
     : field([...values].toSorted((a, b) => a - b));
 }
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Update chosen so it omits only empty selections, retaining full selections in
serialized editor state; change its full-selection check from
greater-than-or-equal to greater-than. This preserves monthDays and months
selections when serializing fixed-time schedules.
Minor · Preserve explicit month selections in the mobile serializer. · scheduledTaskDraft.ts:186-210

apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduledTaskDraft.ts:186-210
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve explicit month selections in the mobile serializer.

scheduleFromDraft omits monthDays when all 31 days are selected and omits months when all 12 months are selected. The loader derives month mode and month limiting from field presence, so a reload can restore weekday mode and disable month limiting. A later edit can then save a different recurrence rule.

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     ...(draft.dayMode === "month"
-      ? monthDays.length === 31
-        ? {}
-        : { monthDays }
+      ? { monthDays }
       : weekdays.length === 7
         ? {}
         : { weekdays }),
-    ...(months.length === 12 ? {} : { months }),
+    ...(draft.limitMonths ? { months } : {}),
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Update scheduleFromDraft to preserve explicit month-mode and month-limiting
selections: always serialize monthDays when draft.dayMode is "month", and
serialize months when draft.limitMonths is true, even when all values are
selected. Keep the existing weekday serialization behavior unchanged.
Minor · Add the month-end fallback note to the web scheduleLabel… · ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx:302-310

apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx:302-310
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the month-end fallback note to the web scheduleLabel for month-day schedules.

scheduleLabel returns only describeFixedTimeSchedule(schedule) for fixed-time schedules. A schedule such as monthDays [31] therefore displays as "At 09:00 on the 31st of every month" with no note that shorter months run on their last day. The web task list (ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx:739) and the thread automation panel (ThreadAutomationsPanel.tsx:43) both show this text. The editor at ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx:1127 and :1232 adds the fallback separately, so the editor is the only place that shows it.

Composing describeMonthEndFallback into scheduleLabel would add the note to both read-only displays. The editor calls describeFixedTimeSchedule and describeMonthEndFallback directly, not scheduleLabel, so the editor note would not be duplicated.

The consequence is a user-facing information gap. A user who reads the summary may expect no run in February and be surprised by a run on February 28 or 29.

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Update scheduleLabel for fixed-time schedules to append the result of
describeMonthEndFallback alongside describeFixedTimeSchedule, so month-day
schedules communicate the last-day behavior in read-only displays. Leave the
editor’s direct description flow unchanged.
Minor · Append the month-end fallback to mobile… · SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx:118-122

apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx:118-122
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Append the month-end fallback to mobile task-list descriptions.

For a fixed-time task on day 31, the mobile task list currently shows only the base label. It omits that shorter months run on their last day. Add the existing fallback only when it returns a note. Keep the editor’s separate append unchanged.

Suggested fix
-  return describeFixedTimeSchedule(task.schedule, formatTime(task.schedule.timeOfDay));
+  const description = describeFixedTimeSchedule(
+    task.schedule,
+    formatTime(task.schedule.timeOfDay),
+  );
+  const fallback = describeMonthEndFallback(task.schedule);
+  return `${description}${fallback ? ` ${fallback}` : ""}`;
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Update describeSchedule to append the result of describeMonthEndFallback for
fixed-time tasks only when it returns a note; leave the webhook and interval
descriptions and the editor’s separate append unchanged.

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduledTaskDraft.ts:
- Around line 186-210: Update scheduleFromDraft to preserve explicit month-mode
and month-limiting selections: always serialize monthDays when draft.dayMode is
"month", and serialize months when draft.limitMonths is true, even when all
values are selected. Keep the existing weekday serialization behavior unchanged.

Review comments at
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- Around line 118-122: Update describeSchedule to append the result of
describeMonthEndFallback for fixed-time tasks only when it returns a note; leave
the webhook and interval descriptions and the editor’s separate append
unchanged.

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- Around line 196-213: Update chosen so it omits only empty selections,
retaining full selections in serialized editor state; change its full-selection
check from greater-than-or-equal to greater-than. This preserves monthDays and
months selections when serializing fixed-time schedules.

Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx:
- Around line 302-310: Update scheduleLabel for fixed-time schedules to append
the result of describeMonthEndFallback alongside describeFixedTimeSchedule, so
month-day schedules communicate the last-day behavior in read-only displays.
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