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Replaces the container-only supercronic cron (merged in #6) with a native, in-process scheduler built into odek. It runs inside odek telegram (or a standalone odek schedule daemon), so a scheduled task sees the same resolved config (API key, model, bot token, default chat) an interactive run does — no environment-inheritance games, no external cron daemon, no container-only behaviour. Jobs deliver their result to Telegram, stdout, or a log file.

odek schedule add --cron "0 9 * * 1-5" --deliver telegram "Summarize today's calendar"
odek schedule daemon          # or just run `odek telegram` — it hosts one too

…and the same jobs can now be managed from inside Telegram with /schedules and /schedule add|rm|enable|disable|run|next|view.

What's included

Area Highlights
Engine (internal/schedule) Stdlib-only 5-field Vixie cron parser (ranges, steps, lists, names, macros) with correct day-of-month/day-of-week union semantics; Scheduler with bounded concurrency, overlap guard, per-job timezones, missed-run catchup, graceful drain, and hot-reload of schedules.json. File-backed Store (atomic writes, flock, 0600).
CLI odek schedule list/add/rm/enable/disable/run/next/daemon; headless agent runner + stdout/log/telegram deliverers.
Embedded in the bot The Telegram bot hosts the scheduler in-process; a shared ~/.odek/schedule.pid lock coordinates with a standalone daemon so jobs never double-fire (bot defers silently; daemon refuses to start).
Manage from Telegram /schedules + /schedule … slash commands. add needs no quoting (cron's fixed arity), delivery defaults to the originating chat, and edits reconcile immediately via a new Scheduler.Reload(). Gated by schedules.allow_telegram_management (default true; read-only listing always works) and the bot's existing allowlist.
Config New schedules section — enabled, max_concurrent, timezone, catchup, allow_telegram_management — each with an ODEK_SCHEDULES_* env override.
Docker Retires supercronic + crontab + cron-entrypoint.sh; the bot's native scheduler replaces it (smaller image, no pinned external binary, ENTRYPOINT ["odek"]).
Docs New docs/SCHEDULES.md (incl. "Managing from Telegram"); README/CONFIG/TELEGRAM/CLI/CHEATSHEET/DAILY-WORKER and docs/index.html updated for consistency.

Safety: unattended tasks

A scheduled task runs with no human to approve actions, so the headless runner applies a deny floor when dangerous.non_interactive is unset (matching sub-agent hardening). An explicit allow/deny (godmode / restricted) is honoured unchanged. Definitions in schedules.json are owner-authored (same trust as config.json, written 0600). In-chat management is bounded by the bot allowlist and can be disabled with schedules.allow_telegram_management=false.

Tests

  • internal/schedule at 99.6% statement coverage (the only gap is the best-effort flock syscall-error fallback); cron, scheduler lifecycle, missed-run policy, store error paths, and the Reload() trigger all covered, incl. -race.
  • Telegram command layer: parser, every subcommand, the management gate, defaults-to-this-chat, and nil-store handling.
  • Config: resolver + env overrides for every field.

The exact CI gate (go build + go vet ./... + go test ./... -short -race -count=1 with ODEK_BINARY set) passes green locally across all 21 packages.

Note for reviewers

/schedule run executes the job's task in the chat through the normal agent pipeline (progress + approvals visible) — a deliberate "test it safely here" choice, rather than firing headless through the job's configured delivery. Easy to switch if you'd prefer it to honour deliver exactly.

https://claude.ai/code/session_0195JdKk8zNKkqwffPnyst7r


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jkyberneees and others added 10 commits June 4, 2026 20:59
Introduce internal/schedule — the engine for odek's native cron capability,
replacing the Docker + supercronic approach. Running in-process means the host
already has resolved config (API key, model, bot token, default chat) in
memory, so a scheduled task sees exactly what an interactive one does — no
environment-inheritance games, no external cron daemon, no container-only
behaviour.

This phase is the standalone core only — no CLI or bot wiring yet.

- types.go: Job / Delivery / RunState. Definitions and runtime state persist
  to separate files so a hand-edit never races a state write.
- cronexpr.go: stdlib-only 5-field cron parser (ranges, steps, lists, names,
  @macros) with correct Vixie dom/dow union semantics, timezone-aware Next()
  via coarse unit-stepping, and a horizon that clears the leap-century gap.
- store.go: atomic (temp+rename, 0600) CRUD for schedules.json and
  schedule-state.json, mirroring session.Store; validates jobs on write.
- scheduler.go: firing engine decoupled from the agent/telegram via Runner and
  Deliverer interfaces. Earliest-fire timer (no per-minute polling), bounded
  concurrency, per-job overlap guard, missed-run skip/catchup policy, mtime
  hot-reload, and graceful drain on context cancellation.

Tests: 39 cases, 87.9% coverage, green under -race. Parser table tests
(ranges/steps/lists/names/macros/dom-dow union/leap day/timezone/errors);
engine tests drive reconcile/fireDue directly with explicit clocks plus one
real-clock lifecycle test — deterministic, no flaky sleeps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire the scheduler core into the CLI and give it a way to actually run tasks.

- cmd/odek/schedule.go: `odek schedule <list|add|rm|enable|disable|run|next|daemon>`.
  * add: flag-parsed (--name/--cron/--deliver/--tz/--catchup/--disabled) with
    a trailing task; validates and shows the next fire.
  * list: tabular view with computed next-fire (local time) and last status.
  * next: previews upcoming fires for a job ID or a raw expression.
  * run: fires one job immediately and delivers (test a job).
  * daemon: foreground scheduler with a singleton pid lock (refuses a second
    instance rather than usurping a live one) and graceful SIGINT/SIGTERM drain.
- runTaskHeadless: builds a fresh agent with a silent (io.Discard) renderer,
  interaction off, and no approver — the resolved danger policy governs what an
  unattended task may do, mirroring non-interactive `odek run`.
- agentRunner / cliDeliverer implement the schedule.Runner / schedule.Deliverer
  interfaces; delivery routes to stdout, ~/.odek/schedule.log, or Telegram
  (honouring a per-job chat ID, falling back to default_chat_id).
- dispatch + printUsage wired for the new command.

Tests cover parseDeliver, deliverString, firstWords, jobSchedule, and the
deliverer branches (log append, telegram misconfig errors, unknown kind).
Smoke-tested end to end: add/list/next/enable/disable/rm, schedules.json at
0600, and daemon start → second-instance refused → clean SIGINT drain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Telegram bot now hosts the scheduler in-process, so reminders and the bot
share one runtime — the whole reason to go native. No separate cron daemon, no
environment-inheritance problem.

- startSchedulerForBot: launched after the poller, stopped on ctx cancel. It
  acquires the shared schedule pid-lock; if an external `odek schedule daemon`
  already holds it, the bot defers (logs and skips) rather than double-firing.
- telegramRunner: runs each job headless and accounts token usage against the
  bot's daily budget — pre-flight refuse when exhausted, bill the run after.
- telegramDeliverer: delivers via the LIVE bot for telegram jobs (sharing its
  client and 429 backoff) and falls back to the CLI deliverer for stdout/log.
- runTaskHeadless now captures cumulative tokens via an IterationCallback, so
  the Runner's token count is real (engine logs it; bot bills it).
- Graceful restart releases the schedule lock before os.Exit, mirroring the
  Telegram instance lock, so the restarted child's scheduler re-acquires cleanly.

Tests: embedded deliverer routing — live-bot send, default-chat fallback,
no-chat error, and stdout/log fallback — via the recording test bot. Full
cmd/odek suite green under -race; whole module suite green, vet + fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make the scheduler configurable and documented.

- internal/config: new `schedules` section (enabled, max_concurrent, timezone,
  catchup) with the same file→env→default layering as every other section.
  resolveSchedules + ODEK_SCHEDULES_* env overrides + overlayFile handling.
  Defaults: enabled=true, max_concurrent=2, timezone=UTC, catchup=false.
- cmd/odek: the daemon and the embedded (bot) scheduler now build their engine
  Options from resolved.Schedules via a shared schedulerOptions helper
  (max-concurrent, default timezone, catchup). The embedded scheduler is gated
  on schedules.enabled so it can be turned off in favour of a standalone daemon.
- docs: new docs/SCHEDULES.md (canonical guide — runtime models, CLI, cron
  syntax incl. Vixie dom/dow coupling, delivery, the unattended-safety policy,
  config, missed-run behaviour); a Schedules section in CONFIG.md; a feature
  bullet in README.

Tests: resolveSchedules defaults/overrides/partial, and LoadConfig wiring for
defaults and ODEK_SCHEDULES_* env. Full config + schedule + cmd suites green,
vet + fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bot now hosts the in-process scheduler (phase 3), so the container needs no
external cron at all. Remove the supercronic scaffolding entirely.

- Dockerfile: drop the supercronic download (and its ARG TARGETARCH/SHA pin),
  the ~/.crontabs dir, and the cron-entrypoint.sh wrapper. ENTRYPOINT is back to
  ["odek"]. The image no longer needs --build-arg TARGETARCH.
- docker-compose: remove the ./crontab bind mounts from both telegram services.
  Keep init: true (now justified generally — reap agent-spawned children and
  forward SIGTERM), with an honest comment.
- Delete docker/cron-entrypoint.sh and docker/crontab.
- spawnChild: remove the now-dead ODEK_ENTRYPOINT re-exec branch (it only
  existed to restart supercronic via the wrapper). A restarted `odek telegram`
  starts its own embedded scheduler goroutine; gracefulRestart still releases
  the schedule lock so the child re-acquires cleanly. Drop the two obsolete
  ODEK_ENTRYPOINT tests.
- docs: docker/README + .env.example now describe the native scheduler
  (`odek schedule`, jobs in ./.odek/schedules.json); TELEGRAM.md points to
  SCHEDULES.md from its OS-cron section.

Validated: image builds without TARGETARCH, supercronic absent from the image,
ENTRYPOINT runs odek, and `odek schedule next` works inside the container.
Compose config valid; full module suite green, vet + fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ten findings from the high-effort review of the native scheduler:

#1 (security) Unattended tasks could silently run dangerous ops: a nil approver
with no TTY falls back to NonInteractiveAction(), which defaults to ALLOW. Set a
"deny" floor in runTaskHeadless when the policy doesn't explicitly choose one
(mirrors sub-agent hardening); explicit allow/deny (godmode/restricted) honoured.

#2 (correctness) cron parseField flagged a dom/dow field as a wildcard whenever
it merely started with "*", so a list like "*/2,15" broke the Vixie union rule
(AND instead of OR). Now star is set only when EVERY comma item is wildcard-based.

#3 (correctness) The Run loop did a blocking `sem <- {}` in fireDue, so
MaxConcurrent hung jobs wedged shutdown/reload. Now the sem acquire selects on
ctx (clearing the overlap guard for undispatched jobs), and each run is bounded
by Options.RunTimeout (default 15m).

#4 (correctness) Budget pre-check used CheckDailyBudget(1), which persists +1 per
fire. Switched to read-only DailyTokenUsage() for the gate; actual cost still
billed after the run.

#5 (robustness) acquireScheduleLock now does a /proc/<pid>/cmdline identity check
so a recycled PID can't make the scheduler refuse to start forever; pid file
tightened to 0600.

#6 (correctness) Missed-run detection trusted a persisted NextRun even after the
cron changed while down. RunState now records the schedule signature; reconcile
ignores NextRun when the sig differs (no spurious catchup/skip).

#7 (efficiency) MCP servers were reconnected per fire. They're now connected once
at daemon/bot startup and shared across fires (the MCP client is mutex-safe);
builtin tools stay fresh per fire.

#8 (efficiency) reconcile re-parsed cron + LoadLocation for unchanged jobs every
reload. The sig short-circuit now runs before compile().

#9 (cleanup) Hoisted the repeated `cfg.Schedules == nil` guard in loader.go.

#10 (cleanup) Daemon reuses telegram.NewFileLogger instead of a hand-rolled
stderrLogger (deleted).

Tests: cron union for step-lists + plain-step-still-wildcard; cron-changed-while-
down (no false catchup); fireDue unblocks on ctx cancel with a full semaphore.
Full suite green under -race, vet + fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nine findings from the cloud multi-agent review.

bug_005 (normal) Impossible cron expressions (e.g. "0 0 30 2 *", Feb 30) passed
Validate but Next() returns the zero time, which the engine treated as
perpetually due → fired every tick forever, burning tokens. Now Validate rejects
them at add time, and reconcile/fireDue defensively skip a zero next-fire (for
hand-edited files).

bug_009 (normal) The embedded scheduler's stop closure tore down shared MCP
connections and the lock without waiting for in-flight jobs to drain, causing
broken-pipe errors persisted as bogus failure state. The closure now waits on a
done channel (20s bound) before cleanup.

bug_013 (normal) gracefulRestart calls os.Exit(0), which skips deferred
stopScheduler → mcpCleanup never ran → MCP child processes (Playwright/Chromium)
leaked on every /restart. Added mcpCleanupRef, invoked before os.Exit like
scheduleUnlockRef.

bug_007 (normal) reconcile reseeded s.runs from disk in the unchanged branch,
clobbering an in-flight fire's increment → lost Runs counts. It now skips the
reseed for unchanged/running jobs. Also moved the missed-fire SaveState out of
the s.mu critical section and stopped swallowing its error.

bug_004 (normal) runTaskHeadless used RunWithMessages with a bare system
message, so RuntimeContext (host/cwd/date) never reached the LLM — date-aware
jobs ("summarize today's calendar") had no notion of "today". Switched to
agent.Run, which prepends the engine's runtime-context-inclusive system message.

bug_014 (nit) Deliverer.Deliver took no context, so a stuck Telegram send blocked
the drain. Added ctx to the interface + bot.SendMessageContext; the scheduler
passes the run ctx through.

bug_015 (nit) Concurrent CLI mutations could lose writes (read-modify-write with
only an in-process mutex). Added an flock on ~/.odek/schedules.lock around the
store's write methods.

bug_006 (nit) scheduleNext swallowed store errors → misleading "bad cron" on a
corrupt store. It now returns the store error.

bug_002 (nit) docker/README + SCHEDULES.md misdescribed the lock as symmetric;
reworded to note the bot defers silently while the daemon refuses to start.

Tests: impossible-cron rejected (Validate) + skipped (reconcile); unchanged
reconcile preserves in-memory Runs. Full suite green under -race, vet + fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add targeted tests for the native scheduler package and its CLI glue,
raising internal/schedule statement coverage from 87.8% to 99.6% (the
only remaining gap is the best-effort flock syscall-error fallback).

internal/schedule/coverage_test.go exercises:
- store error paths: NewStore HOME failure, NewStoreAt mkdir failure,
  corrupt-file loadDoc/loadState propagation across all CRUD methods,
  writeJSONAtomic marshal/write/rename failures, version defaulting,
  null states map, fileLock open failure, and the List ID tiebreak.
- scheduler branches: reload-on-mtime-change, reconcile List/LoadState
  errors, skip- and execute-time SaveState failures, zero next-fire
  drop, timeToNext empty/past/near cases, compile bad-timezone, and
  preview truncation.
- cronexpr branches: nil-location default, empty field, range/empty
  value parse errors, and a month mismatch in Matches.

cmd/odek/schedule_cli_test.go covers the non-LLM CLI surface: list,
add, rm, enable/disable, next, command dispatch, scheduler options,
MCP no-op, schedule lock acquire/release, embedded-scheduler lifecycle,
and the telegram budget gate.
The native scheduler landed with its own docs (SCHEDULES.md, CONFIG.md,
TELEGRAM.md, docker/*) but left a few cross-references stale or missing.
Bring the rest of the docs in line:

- README.md: add the missing Scheduled Tasks row to the docs index
  (the feature section already linked SCHEDULES.md).
- docs/index.html: add a Scheduled Tasks feature card mirroring README.
- docs/CLI.md: list 'odek schedule' (and the previously-omitted
  'odek telegram') in the command table; point '--deliver' at the
  native scheduler for recurring tasks.
- docs/CHEATSHEET.md: add a schedule quick-reference (and telegram).
- docs/DAILY-WORKER.md: correct the comparison table — odek now has
  native, in-process scheduling rather than 'None'.
Add /schedules and /schedule slash commands so an authorized Telegram
user can list, view, preview, add, enable/disable, remove, and test-run
scheduled tasks without leaving the chat — closing the gap where the
native scheduler was CLI/file-only.

Command layer (cmd/odek/schedule_telegram.go):
- /schedules lists jobs; /schedule <sub> dispatches add|view|next|run|
  enable|disable|rm|help.
- add uses cron's fixed arity (an @macro or 5 fields) so no quoting is
  needed; options follow a literal '|' (deliver=, tz=, name=, catchup,
  disabled). Telegram delivery defaults to the originating chat.
- run returns the job's task for the bot to dispatch through the normal
  agent pipeline (progress + approvals visible), test-running it in chat.
- Replies use the existing MarkdownV2 pipeline; cron/IDs are wrapped in
  code spans to stay literal.

Wiring:
- Scheduler gains Reload() (buffered, coalescing) and a select case so
  in-chat edits reconcile immediately instead of waiting for the mtime
  poll; startSchedulerForBot now takes the shared store and publishes
  its Reload via scheduleReloadRef.
- telegram.go creates one schedule.Store, shares it with the embedded
  scheduler, and intercepts the two commands in OnCommand.

Safety/config:
- New schedules.allow_telegram_management (default true, env
  ODEK_SCHEDULES_ALLOW_TELEGRAM_MANAGEMENT) gates the mutating verbs;
  read-only listing/preview always works. Access is already bounded by
  the bot's allowed_chats/allowed_users.

Docs: SCHEDULES.md gains a 'Managing from Telegram' section; TELEGRAM.md,
CONFIG.md, docker/README.md and .env.example updated. Tests cover the
parser, every subcommand, the management gate, and the Reload trigger.
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