Routines sidebar shows only the fixed task name — no way to surface live per-run status

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Activity 0 comments · opened Jul 17, 2026

Context

I have a scheduled task (\mcp__scheduled-tasks__*\ / \"Routines\" in the desktop client) that runs a nightly canary check and updates its own \description\ field via \update_scheduled_task\ to reflect the latest result, e.g.:

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Daily-task slot #6: nightly yt-dlp canary — ✓ PASS 2026-07-17 (yt-dlp 2026.07.04)
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Problem

The Routines sidebar list (left nav, under \"Routines\") only ever shows the task's fixed display name (derived from its \taskId\ slug, e.g. \"Ytdlp canary\"). The \description\ field never surfaces there, and there's no separate editable title/status field on the task — \update_scheduled_task\'s available fields are \prompt\, \description\, \cronExpression\/\fireAt\, \enabled\, \notifyOnCompletion\, none of which affect the sidebar label.

This means the description field — the one place a task is meant to report its own status — is effectively invisible unless you already know to look for it elsewhere (it doesn't appear in a tooltip, hover state, or detail panel that I could find either.

Request

Surface the task's description (or an equivalent short live-status field) somewhere visible in the Routines list — as secondary text under the name, a tooltip, or a status badge — so a task that self-reports "✓ PASS" / "⚠ FAILED" can actually be checked at a glance without opening it.

Environment

Claude Code desktop app, "Routines"/scheduled-tasks feature.
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