claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG] Enabled scheduled tasks no longer surface in available-skills list (Desktop 1.5354.0 / 1.5220.0) [1 comments, 1 participants]

Summary

After this morning's Desktop app auto-update, individual enabled scheduled tasks are no longer included in the available skills list injected at session start. The tasks themselves still execute on cron as expected — only the in-session discoverability/invokability is gone.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 10.0.26200.8246
• Claude Desktop app: app-1.5354.0 (installed 2026-04-29 10:19 local time)
• Previous version on disk: app-1.5220.0 (installed 2026-04-29 00:58 local time)
• Older version still on disk: app-1.4758.0, app-1.3109.0 — under those, scheduled tasks surfaced as skills correctly
• claude --version (CLI in PATH): 2.1.72 (separate install, not used for this session)

What's Wrong

mcp__scheduled-tasks__list_scheduled_tasks returns 6 enabled tasks with valid SKILL.md files at C:\Users\hl4ag\.claude\scheduled-tasks\<id>\SKILL.md:

• sf-fixer, sf-triage, sf-release-manager, sf-security-audit, sf-ai-auditor, sf-repo-health

All have correct frontmatter (name, description) and are firing on schedule (lastRunAt timestamps confirm cron is alive).

But none of them appear in the system-reminder skill list at session start. Only the meta skills schedule and anthropic-skills:schedule show up. Compare to behaviour before today's update, where each enabled task appeared as its own skill entry that the model could see and that Skill could invoke by name.

Expected

Enabled scheduled tasks (those with valid SKILL.md frontmatter under ~/.claude/scheduled-tasks/<id>/) should remain discoverable in the available-skills list, as they were prior to this version.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Have one or more tasks created via the Desktop app's Scheduled Tasks UI (each becomes ~/.claude/scheduled-tasks/<id>/SKILL.md with frontmatter).
2. Mark them enabled: true.
3. Start a new Claude Code session and check the available-skills list.
4. Observe: the per-task entries are missing; only the management skill (schedule) and the management MCP tools (mcp__scheduled-tasks__*) are present.

Likely Cause

Release notes for v2.1.121 mention --dangerously-skip-permissions no longer prompting for writes to .claude/skills/, .claude/agents/, .claude/commands/. Reads as a refactor that consolidated the user-skills loader to those three roots. .claude/scheduled-tasks/ appears to have been dropped from the skill-discovery scan (intentionally or not).

Workaround

Junctioning each enabled task into ~/.claude/skills/:

$skills = "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills"
$tasks  = "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\scheduled-tasks"
foreach ($name in @("sf-fixer","sf-triage")) {
  New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path (Join-Path $skills $name) -Target (Join-Path $tasks $name)
}

Single source of truth — the SKILL.md still lives in scheduled-tasks/ and the MCP server still finds it. New sessions started after the junctions exist do see the tasks again. (Not yet verified end-to-end since this current session's skill list was locked at start time.)

Suggested Fix

Restore .claude/scheduled-tasks/<id>/SKILL.md as a discovered skill source for enabled tasks (the enabled flag is already in the task index, so the loader can filter to only-enabled). If the consolidation is intentional, document it in the release notes and add an automatic migration that creates the junctions.