Codex App automations can disappear or show daily schedules as weekly-all-days

Summary

I observed two automation-related issues in Codex App:

1. Existing recurring automations disappeared from the "Current" automation list.
2. A daily automation appeared to be represented as a weekly RRULE with every day selected.

No private paths, prompts, database contents, account details, or environment-specific configuration are included here.

Observed behavior

• Active automations appeared missing from the Codex App UI.
• The automations were not intentionally deleted.
• Local repair showed that TOML/registry drift could make the UI stop showing them.
• A daily schedule may be stored or displayed as a weekly schedule with all weekdays selected, which is confusing and may look like the cadence changed from daily to weekly.
• The UI did not show a clear error for the broken/mismatched automation state.

Likely failure conditions

The issue may happen when one or more of these are true:

• automation.toml is invalid TOML.
• automation.toml contains a UTF-8 BOM.
• The app-side automation registry is out of sync with the TOML file.
• An active automation has a stale/past next_run_at.
• A local automation folder exists but the app registry row is missing or mismatched.

Expected behavior

• Invalid TOML should be shown as a configuration error, not as a silently missing automation.
• Registry/TOML mismatch should be detected and surfaced.
• Active recurring automations should not disappear from the Current list without an explanation.
• Daily schedules should be displayed as daily schedules, or weekly-all-days representation should be clearly explained.
• The app should provide a resync/repair diagnostic or warning.

Suggested checks

Codex App could validate:

• TOML parse status
• UTF-8 BOM presence
• automation id vs folder name
• registry row existence
• TOML/registry mismatch for status, RRULE, cwd, model, and prompt hash
• stale next_run_at for active recurring automations