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[BUG] Cowork: Creating a new scheduled task disables MCP connectors in existing scheduled tasks #40835

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  • This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
  • I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

When creating a new Cowork scheduled task that uses different MCP connectors than existing scheduled tasks, the MCP connectors of the already-existing scheduled tasks get disabled. The existing tasks then fail on their next run because their required connectors are no longer available.

This is related to but distinct from #36327 — that issue describes scheduled tasks not inheriting connected MCPs at all. This issue describes a specific trigger: creating a new scheduled task causes previously working MCP connectors to be disabled in other scheduled tasks.

What Should Happen?

Creating a new scheduled task should have no effect on the MCP connector state of existing scheduled tasks. Each scheduled task should persistently retain the connectors it was configured with, regardless of what other tasks are created or modified.

Error Messages/Logs

No explicit error is shown in the UI. The scheduled task silently fails or reports that the required MCP connector is not connected, even though it was previously configured and working.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create scheduled task A that uses MCP connector X. Verify it runs successfully with that connector.
  2. Create a new scheduled task B that uses a different MCP connector Y.
  3. Open scheduled task A and check its connectors — MCP connector X is now disabled.
  4. Run scheduled task A — it fails because connector X is no longer available.

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

1.1.9493

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

This makes Cowork scheduled tasks unreliable in any multi-task setup where different tasks use different MCP connectors. The workaround is to manually re-enable the connectors for each affected task after creating a new one — but this is easy to miss and breaks automation.

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