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Cron/scheduled agent adoption now rejects overly long prompts

Cron-scheduled agent tasks with overly long prompts are now skipped instead of adopted

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Cron-scheduled agent tasks with overly long prompts are now skipped instead of adopted

What

When Claude Code adopts agent tasks that were scheduled to run via cron (a time-based scheduler), it now checks the length of the prompt. Prompts that exceed a length limit are skipped, with a warning (adopt_cron_prompt_too_long), instead of being adopted and run as before.

Why

This prevents overly long scheduled prompts from being picked up and run, avoiding whatever problem an oversized prompt would otherwise cause.

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