[BUG] Schedule Cloud Task starts at scheduled time but doesn't continue to run until I open the scheduled task

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

I have a Scheduled Task that runs in the cloud. (A morning briefing task where it reads my emails and calendars and tells me what's important. Then sends me an email with the briefing.)
It kicks off at the correct time (6:00 AM).
But it sits idle until I turn on my computer, open the scheduled task that's running / sitting idle.
Then it starts to run through the rest of the task and finishes within a few minutes.

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What Should Happen?

It should

• ✅ kick off at 6:00 AM - this is working
• ❌ run through my tasks where it reads my emails, reads my calendar - doesn't run until I open the scheduled task
• ✅ draft and send an email - works fine after I open the scheduled task and it's able to get through the email and calendar tasks

Error Messages/Logs

I asked Claude to look into why this is happening. This is the response:
That matches what I can see in the trigger's run history. The schedule itself fired right on time — 10:09 UTC, which is 6:09am Toronto — but the actual work (the Gmail/Calendar pulls) didn't start until around 12:40 UTC, and the run didn't finish until 12:46 UTC (8:46am). So there's a real ~2.5 hour gap between "the trigger fired" and "the session actually did anything," and it lines up with roughly when you'd have opened your computer.

That's a session-wake issue on the scheduled-task infrastructure, not a problem with how the trigger or the skill is configured — the cron is correctly set to `0 10 * * *` UTC (6am Toronto), and once it actually ran, everything worked normally. But I don't have visibility into why the cloud session sits idle after firing instead of immediately running, and it's not something I can fix from inside this session — it sounds like a platform behavior worth reporting through the feedback/thumbs-down channel so Anthropic's team can look at it, especially since you've now seen it happen more than once.

A couple of things I can do on my end:
- I noted this pattern in your Claude workflow memory so it's tracked if it keeps happening.
- If you want, I can also try nudging the trigger a bit earlier (e.g. set it for 5am instead of 6am) as a workaround so the briefing is more likely to have actually run by the time you're up — though that's a band-aid, not a fix.

Steps to Reproduce

I run this scheduled task every day and it happens everyday where I don't receive the email briefing

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

2.1.247 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Non-interactive/CI environment

Additional Information

_No response_