Routines list shows the normalized task id, not the routine's label/description
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 21, 2026 by ftirelo
Summary
In the Routines / Scheduled-tasks list (Claude desktop app 1.14271.0), the list title is derived from the task id by replacing every - with a space and capitalizing the first letter. A routine whose human label (SKILL.md description) is Auto-improve / lift-api therefore appears in the list as "Auto improve lift api". The intended label shows correctly only in the detail pane.
Steps to reproduce
- Create a scheduled task with id
auto-improve-lift-apiand frontmatterdescription: Auto-improve / lift-api. - Open the Routines list.
Expected
The list shows the human-readable description (the same label shown in the detail pane), or some settable display name.
Actual
- List: "Auto improve lift api"
- Detail pane: "Auto-improve / lift-api" (correct)
Root cause (from the app bundle)
- List title ≈
id.replace(/-/g, " ").replace(/^./, c => c.toUpperCase()). - Task ids are sanitized to
/^[a-z0-9_-]+$/— no/, and every-is flattened to a space at render time. scheduled-tasks.jsonstores no display-name field, so there is nothing to override the list title with. ThedescriptionfromSKILL.mdis read for the detail pane but not used for the list.
The net effect: there is no way to make the list show a /-and-hyphen label, because the only string the list renders is the normalized id.
Suggested fix
Either:
- Have the list prefer the
SKILL.mddescription(already surfaced in the detail pane), or - Add an optional
title/displayNamefield to the scheduled-task schema and render that in the list when present.