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Scheduled tasks could not run at a specific date and time. The only options were an interval, a daily or weekday time, or a webhook. So "run this Friday at 3pm" had to become a daily task that you delete later.

Now a task can run Once at a date and time:

• New schedule type { type: "once", runAt }. runAt is an ISO time with an offset, stored in UTC. The task runs at that time, then has no next run. If the server is offline at that time, it runs when it is back, like intervals.
• Saving an enabled one-time task with a past time, or turning one back on after its time passed, fails with "The run time has passed. Pick a time in the future." Editing the title or prompt of a task that already ran still works and does not run it again.
• Web: a Once mode with a date and time field in your local time zone. Mobile: a Once mode with Date and Time rows.
• schedule_task (MCP) lists the new type, so agents can schedule one-off work.
• Older servers reject once, so a new oneTimeSchedules environment capability gates the option on web and mobile.
• A run's completion now reads the task and writes its result in one transaction. A save that races a finishing run keeps the run's next time, so a one-time task cannot run twice.

Form	Before it runs	After it runs

Mobile form	Mobile list

Related

Open, fully covered by this PR (close after merge):

• Discussion #20863: Support one-time scheduled tasks

Already closed, same request (one-time or later-date runs):

• Issue #3624: Scheduled Prompts
• Discussion #6748: Scheduled Prompts
• Issue #1390: Schedule prompts (after and in recurring intervals)
• Issue #7966: Server-side scheduled tasks (one-shot + recurring)
• Issue #20865: T3 Code scheduler is not fully compatible with Codex scheduled tasks (one-time Codex tasks)
• Discussion #12257: Scheduled follow-ups (one-time or recurring)
• PR #7986: server-side scheduled tasks with a one-shot at schedule
• PR #14618: agents can schedule prompts in their threads (one-time timestamp)
• PR #20538: send messages after a short delay

Open, related but not covered:

• Issue #13439 and PR #23636: Claude CronCreate one-shots die with the Claude process. Agents can now use a once task instead, but Claude's own crons are still lost.
• Discussion #23309: bound a schedule with an end time or run limit. once covers a single run, not bounded intervals.
• Discussion #21660: far-future runs should start in a fresh thread. It assumes a once type, which now exists.

Proof: service tests cover one run, no second run, past-time rejection, a manual run that overlaps the run time, restart recovery, saves that race a finishing run or a concurrent pause, a row replaced mid-run, and a webhook redelivery after a failed start. Web logic tests cover the date-time round trip and a time skipped by daylight saving. Contract tests reject missing offsets, impossible days, and out-of-range years. In a dev server, a task made in the web form fired from the real scheduler at the set minute, started one thread, and then had no next run. New mcp-tool-use eval case schedule-one-time-date: 0/2 on main's text, 3/3 on the final text, on GPT-6.1 Sol. On an iOS simulator, a task made in the mobile form for 5:00 AM on Nov 1 saved as 13:00 UTC, which is correct because daylight saving ends that morning.

The MCP tool list grows by 54 bytes (the once enum value, the runAt field, and the trigger hint). That needs the agent-context-increase label.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 2 passes with GPT-6.1 Sol. Sol verdict: approved

Council review

Rounds: 9

Delegate	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
Claude Opus 5.5	8/10	9/10	9/10	9/10	9.5/10	9.5/10	9.5/10	9.5/10	9.5/10
Codex GPT-6.1 Sol	8/10	8/10	8/10	10/10	9.5/10	8.5/10	9.5/10	9.5/10	9.5/10

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Verdict: Approved at 41e36ce

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds explicitly selected one-time tasks with local-time controls, server capability checks, and future-time validation. Existing scheduling defaults remain unchanged, and shared completion updates include safeguards for concurrent edits.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−6 B (−0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.2 KiB	−6 B (−0.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 955e2bf · PR result: 41e36ce · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Scheduled tasks now support one-time schedules across contracts, server behavior, and web and mobile settings. Editors provide date and time controls. The server normalizes run times and rejects enabled schedules whose run time has passed.

Changes: One-time scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schedule contract and draft conversion packages/contracts/src/scheduledTask.ts, packages/contracts/src/scheduledTask.test.ts, packages/contracts/src/orchestratorMcp.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/scheduledTaskDraft.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/scheduledTasksSettings.logic.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/tools.ts, packages/shared/src/t3McpToolPresentation.ts, apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json, evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/pull-requests.ndjson	Schedule schemas and client drafts support one-time run times. MCP descriptions and tool labels are updated, and the evaluation case covers a one-time schedule request.
Server run-time calculation and validation apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/Schedule.ts, apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/Schedule.test.ts, apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.ts, apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.interval.test.ts	The server calculates the next run time for one-time schedules, normalizes run times to ISO format, and rejects enabled schedules whose run time has passed. Tests cover manual runs, recovery, and past run times.
Web and mobile settings editors apps/web/src/components/settings/ScheduledTasksSettings.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/SettingsScheduledTasksRouteScreen.tsx, docs/user/project-settings.md	The settings editors display one-time schedules and provide date and time inputs. The mobile guidance describes the selected time zone and offline behavior.

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Change: Feature

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apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/ScheduledTaskService.interval.test.ts: 1

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Test the automatic due run, not a second manual run.

The call to runNow does not establish that the scheduler fires at runAt or that it avoids a second automatic run. Drive the registered scheduler past the due time and assert the resulting run count and cleared next run.

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Use the interrupted run's start time during one-time recovery.

19-22: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Use the interrupted run's start time during one-time recovery.

When a manual run starts before runAt, startup recovery uses the restart time in nextRunAt(decoded.success, now). If restart occurs after runAt, Schedule.ts returns null, so the pending scheduled occurrence is lost.

Use the persisted lastRunAt for once schedules. A scheduled run starts at or after runAt, so this does not replay an already-consumed scheduled occurrence.

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             const decoded = yield* Effect.result(decodeRow(row));
             if (Result.isSuccess(decoded)) {
+              const recoveryFrom =
+                decoded.success.schedule.type === "once" && decoded.success.lastRunAt !== null
+                  ? DateTime.make(decoded.success.lastRunAt)
+                  : Option.none();
+              const from = Option.isSome(recoveryFrom) ? recoveryFrom.value : now;
               yield* sql`
                 UPDATE scheduled_tasks
                 SET last_run_status = 'failed',
                     last_run_error = 'Run was interrupted by a server restart.',
-                    next_run_at = ${nextRunAt(decoded.success, now)},
+                    next_run_at = ${nextRunAt(decoded.success, from)},

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/scheduledTasks/Schedule.ts around lines 19 -
22:
Update startup recovery’s call to nextRunAt so one-time schedules use the
persisted lastRunAt as the recovery reference when available, falling back to
now otherwise. Keep the existing recovery reference for other schedule types so
an interrupted pending occurrence is retained without replaying a consumed
scheduled run.

Cover automatic one-time dispatch.

157-164: Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover automatic one-time dispatch.

The test parks the scheduler with ServerActivation, Effect.never and calls service.runNow twice. It therefore does not exercise the registered runDueTasks path. Its assertions check only nextRunAt; they do not prove one automatic launch or prevent a second scheduled launch.

Add a focused test that activates the scheduler, advances the clock to runAt, and asserts runCount is 1 after dispatch and remains 1 after another scheduler pass.

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Add a focused test around the scheduled-task dispatch flow instead of relying
only on service.runNow: activate the scheduler, advance the clock to runAt, and
assert runCount is 1 after dispatch and remains 1 after another runDueTasks
pass.

Cover editing a completed one-time task.

172-175: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover editing a completed one-time task.

The fixture has no id. The final upsert clears commandId, so it creates a new task and tests past-time creation. It does not test editing created.task after completion. Add an edit with id: created.task.id and assert that nextRunAt stays null and runCount does not change. Keep the existing past-time creation assertion.

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       expect((yield* service.list()).tasks[0]?.nextRunAt).toBeNull();

+      const edited = yield* service.upsert({
+        ...decoded,
+        id: created.task.id,
+        title: "Edited",
+      });
+      expect(edited.task.nextRunAt).toBeNull();
+      expect(edited.task.runCount).toBe(due.task.runCount);
+
       yield* service.setEnabled({ id: created.task.id, enabled: false });

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Extend the completed one-time task test to cover editing the existing task: call
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

The reservation gap found in this PR's review is fixed in #28474, merged as ce9e016. runTask and the pending webhook dispatch now take and release their in-memory reservations in Effect.acquireUseRelease, so an interrupt can no longer leave a task marked busy. The start-time read from this PR stays before the reservation.

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