fix(office): correct cron DOM/DOW OR semantics, DST fire policy, and unsatisfiable expressions - #3514
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Verdict: Ready to merge The three bug classes are fixed correctly and are well-covered:
The timezone backfill migration is narrow ( The acknowledged caveat (robfig/cron's 5-year search horizon may misreport |
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Priority: ⚪ Not assessed Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Rare low-frequency schedules in Australia/Lord_Howe may delay scheduler processing during catch-up. Bounding the transition rescan is recommended before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HTTPClient
participant createTrigger
participant CreateRoutineTrigger
participant NextCronTime
HTTPClient->>createTrigger: POST cron trigger
createTrigger->>CreateRoutineTrigger: create trigger request
CreateRoutineTrigger->>NextCronTime: validate expression and compute next run
NextCronTime-->>CreateRoutineTrigger: fire time or ErrUnsatisfiableCron
CreateRoutineTrigger-->>createTrigger: trigger or ErrInvalidTrigger
createTrigger-->>HTTPClient: HTTP 201 or HTTP 400
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…ble expressions Replaces the hand-rolled 5-field cron parser in office/shared/cron.go with robfig/cron/v3 (already a direct dependency, already used the same way in internal/automation/scheduler.go). Fixes three silent defects: day-of-month and day-of-week were ANDed instead of ORed per crontab(5); a DST fall-back slot fired twice with no suppression; an unsatisfiable expression silently became a wrong daily-at-+24h fallback instead of erroring. Cron triggers with an empty expression or an unsatisfiable one are now rejected at create time (HTTP 400, previously accepted and 500'd later), and an empty timezone is normalized to an explicit "UTC" on write and backfilled for existing rows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…iggers Review round 1 found two blockers in the cron DST fall-back handling and a major in the catch-up dispatch loop: - The fall-back suppression only re-checked a single replacement candidate, so any expression with 2+ matching slots inside the repeated hour still double-fired the later slots. - Ambiguity detection reconstructed the wall clock via time.Date, whose disambiguation is documented as implementation-defined; it silently picked the wrong (second) occurrence in zones with a UTC+0 winter offset (e.g. Europe/London). Replaced with a direct check against the candidate's own DST zone transition (ZoneBounds), which needs no such assumption and loops until every repeated slot in the transition window is skipped. - A cron-advance failure (unsatisfiable legacy trigger) re-armed next_run_at to "now" before dispatching, making the trigger due again on the very next 30s tick — a permanent dispatch loop. ClaimTrigger already clears next_run_at when claiming; on failure the trigger is now left disarmed instead of re-armed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
robfig/cron strips a TZ=/CRON_TZ= prefix in Parse() unconditionally, before any field-mask check, so a prefixed expression was silently accepted despite Office's contract of exactly 5 whitespace-separated fields. With a prefix, the schedule ran in the prefix's zone while the returned candidate carried the trigger's timezone-column location, disabling isAmbiguousFallBack's DST fall-back suppression and letting the expression override the trigger's timezone column outright. NextCronTime now rejects any expression that is not exactly 5 fields before handing it to the parser. Also commits the routine-timezone backfill migration test (previously untracked) and fixes a typographic right-quote in two doc comments that gofmt's doc-comment formatter kept re-introducing from an adjacent '' pair.
robfig/cron's minute loop advances in absolute time, so crossing a sub-hour DST gap (Australia/Lord_Howe, the only IANA zone with a 30-minute shift) can return a fire whose local hour never matched the expression. Guard every candidate against the schedule's own bitmask fields before accepting it. Narrow AC-OFFICE-SCHEDULER-001.10 and scheduler-01.md to document the one known limitation this cannot fix: robfig's day-loop DST correction only nudges by whole hours, so a genuinely-existing slot inside that zone's transition window can still be silently skipped.
The AC-OFFICE-SCHEDULER-001.10 spec text (and the matching system-design paragraph) understated the Australia/Lord_Howe DST limitation: it claimed only slots inside the 30-minute transition window could be skipped, but robfig/cron/v3's day-loop DST correction only nudges by whole hours, so in this single 30-minute-shift IANA zone every fire scheduled anywhere on the transition day is skipped, in both directions (e.g. noon, 9.5 hours from the window). Pin the corrected behaviour with a regression test and a Pacific/Chatham (whole-hour-shift) control that loses no day at all.
…shift robfig/cron/v3's SpecSchedule.Next hour-loop advances by an absolute 1h step, which desynchronizes from Australia/Lord_Howe's 30-minute DST transition (the only IANA zone with a sub-hour shift) and can skip a whole day of otherwise-existing wall-clock slots. Rescan the gap at minute granularity, but only when the interval contains a transition whose offset delta isn't a whole hour, so no other zone's candidate path pays for the scan.
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| Filename | Overview |
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| apps/backend/internal/office/shared/cron.go | Replaces the local cron evaluator with validated robfig scheduling, POSIX DOM/DOW semantics, and explicit DST handling. |
| apps/backend/internal/office/routines/service.go | Adds create-time trigger validation and restores claimed schedules after recoverable catch-up failures. |
| apps/backend/internal/office/routines/handler.go | Maps trigger validation errors to HTTP 400 responses. |
| apps/backend/internal/office/repository/sqlite/base_migrations.go | Backfills empty timezone values for legacy cron triggers. |
| apps/backend/internal/office/repository/sqlite/base.go | Changes the routine-trigger timezone column default to UTC. |
| apps/backend/internal/office/shared/cron_test.go | Adds broad coverage for OR semantics, unsatisfiable expressions, and DST transitions including sub-hour shifts. |
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flowchart TD
A[Create cron trigger] --> B[Normalize empty timezone to UTC]
B --> C[Parse and calculate next wall-clock match]
C -->|Invalid or unsatisfiable| D[Return HTTP 400]
C -->|Valid| E[Persist trigger and next_run_at]
E --> F[Scheduler claims due trigger]
F --> G[Compute missed runs and next fire]
G -->|Unsatisfiable legacy expression| H[Leave trigger disarmed]
G -->|Recoverable calculation failure| I[Restore original next_run_at]
G -->|Success| J[Advance next_run_at and dispatch]
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A catch-up failure that isn't cron-expression unsatisfiability (e.g. a transient timezone lookup error) was permanently disarming the trigger: ClaimTrigger clears next_run_at and it was never restored, so the trigger never became due again even after the underlying issue cleared. Only a genuinely unsatisfiable expression should stay disarmed; anything else re-arms to the original due time so the next tick retries.
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apps/backend/internal/office/shared/cron.go (1)
84-88: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winBound both ends of the sub-hour transition rescan.
findEarlierMatchAcrossSubHourTransitionruns only while processing due triggers, not on every 30-second scheduler pass. However, a due calculation can still scan millions of minutes fromaftertocandidate. A valid leap-day expression can span about 4.2 million minutes while containing a Lord Howe transition, and catch-up can repeatNextCronTimeup toCatchUpMaxtimes. Each scanned minute callsisAmbiguousFallBack, which performsZoneBounds.Return the transition boundary and cap both scan bounds to a fixed local window around that transition. Changing only the lower bound still scans through
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In `@apps/backend/internal/office/shared/cron.go`:
- Around line 84-88: Update findEarlierMatchAcrossSubHourTransition to identify
the relevant sub-hour transition boundary and restrict the rescan to a fixed
local window around it on both sides. Ensure the lower and upper bounds are both
capped, so a missing match near the transition cannot continue scanning through
candidate or across the full after-to-candidate interval.
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…ype mismatch The dayMatches comment inverted the OR/AND condition (said "ANDed when neither is restricted", code ANDs when either is unrestricted). Also stop silently discarding the SpecSchedule type assertion in NextCronTime: a failed assertion degraded matchesWallClock to "everything matches" instead of surfacing the fact that robfig/cron returned an unexpected schedule type.
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Today: A cron routine trigger like
0 0 13 * 5silently ANDs day-of-month and day-of-week instead of ORing them likecrontab(5)does, so "the 13th, or any Friday" quietly becomes "Friday the 13th" — a valid expression that never means what the user wrote. Separately, a schedule that crosses a DST boundary can skip its fire entirely or fire twice, and an impossible expression (e.g. February 30th) silently degrades into "fire every 24h" with no warning anywhere.After this: Day-of-month and day-of-week now OR per POSIX
crontab(5)when both are restricted. DST spring-forward skips the nonexistent local time instead of misfiring; fall-back suppresses the repeated wall-clock hour instead of double-firing. An unsatisfiable cron expression is rejected with a 400 at trigger-create time instead of silently becoming a daily job.Who hits this: Any workspace using a routine cron trigger that restricts both day-of-month and day-of-week, or any trigger whose schedule crosses a DST boundary in its timezone. Blast radius today is nil — the only live expression in the database is
*/5 * * * *(the coordinator heartbeat), which is unaffected by all three fixes.Scope: standalone — backend + docs only, no
apps/web/changes.Not here:
robfig/cron/v3's 5-year search horizon can still falsely report a genuinely valid leap-day expression (0 0 29 2 *) as unsatisfiable once the gap between leap years exceeds 5 years (first occurs in 2096, since 2100 is not a leap year). Filed as a follow-up rather than blocking this PR since it cannot manifest for 70 years and the previous behavior was strictly worse (silent 24h fallback, no error at all).Summary
internal/office/shared/cron.go):matchesSpecnow implements POSIXcrontab(5)OR-when-both-restricted semantics instead of ANDing the two fields.NextCronTimereturnsErrUnsatisfiableCroninstead of a 24h fallback. Trigger creation validates at create-time (internal/office/routines/{handler.go,service.go}) and returns 400, not just at tick time.timezonecolumn settled: the column now defaults to'UTC'at creation, and a migration backfills existing cron-trigger rows wheretimezone = ''(internal/office/repository/sqlite/{base.go,base_migrations.go}).docs/specs/office/{requirements/scheduler.md,system-design/scheduler-01.md,scheduler-02.md}updated to document the DST policy and OR semantics as the spec of record.Testing
Table-driven tests for all three fixes, including both DST boundaries (spring-forward and fall-back) in
Australia/Lord_Howe(a zone with a non-hour-aligned 30-minute shift) and other zones. Full receipts, including a 13-zone × 6-expression full-year monotonicity/no-duplicate/wall-clock-validation sweep, are in the PR description history — summarized:go test -tags fts5 -count=1 ./internal/office/...— all 26 packages pass except one pre-existing failure (TestMigrate_PriorityIdempotent,internal/office/repository/sqlite) reproduced identically atorigin/maintip in a scratch worktree — unrelated to this change.golangci-lint run ./internal/office/...— 0 issues.gofmt -lon all changed files — empty.python3 scripts/lint-spec-files.py --all— all specification files pass.make fmt typecheck test lint lint-format,pnpm run i18n:ratchet) green; broad pre-existinggo test ./...failures outsideinternal/office(worktree, task/service, launcher, agentctl, common/config) proven pre-existing at merge-base in a scratch worktree — a macOS/var→/private/varTMPDIR symlink-guard artifact, not caused by this diff.Design docs
docs/specs/office/requirements/scheduler.mddocs/specs/office/system-design/scheduler-01.mddocs/specs/office/system-design/scheduler-02.mdPreview Environment
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