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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for work > - People talk to agents in chat, and agents create routines and other scheduled work from that chat > - Paperclip does not record the person's time zone, so a chat agent cannot read "every weekday at nine" or "today" in the person's zone > - The agent then saves schedules in UTC, and the person gets the work at the wrong hour > - This pull request saves the browser time zone with the person's personal preferences and gives it to chat agents in the task prompt > - The benefit is that schedules and dates from chat match the person's local time ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened** A person in America/Chicago wrote in chat: "Every weekday at nine in the morning, summarize Launch for me." The agent saved the routine schedule `0 9 * * 1-5` with the UTC time zone. It replied that it used UTC because the person's time zone is not recorded. **Expected behavior** The agent knows the person's time zone. It saves one enabled `0 9 * * 1-5` schedule with the time zone America/Chicago. Its reply names the zone. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Open the board in a browser with the time zone America/Chicago. 2. Open a chat with an agent. 3. Send "Every weekday at nine in the morning, summarize Launch for me." 4. Look at the routine trigger that the agent creates. Its time zone is UTC. ## What Changed - Database: add the nullable `time_zone` column to `user_workspace_preferences` (migration `0468`). This is an instance-wide personal preference by user, as AGENTS.md section 5 permits. - Shared: `WorkspacePreference` has `timeZone`. `updateWorkspacePreferenceSchema` accepts an optional IANA `timeZone` (max 64 characters, checked with `Intl.DateTimeFormat`). `coordinatorWorkspaceEnabled` is now optional. The request must contain at least one field. - Server: the preference service returns `timeZone` and updates only the fields in the request. The activity log entry stays the same. The OpenAPI entry uses the shared schema. - UI: a new `useBrowserTimeZoneSync` hook in `Layout` saves the browser time zone one time when it is different from the saved zone. It is silent and best-effort. It uses the selected company as the audit context. - Prompt: for a conversation (any adapter), the task context reads the chat owner's saved zone. Recovery keeps the zone that the first turn admitted. The chat block adds one line only when the zone is known: `The person's time zone is America/Chicago (from their browser). Read times and dates they give, such as "nine in the morning" or "today", in that zone, and save schedules such as routine triggers with that timezone; say the zone when you report a schedule.` ## Verification - `cd server && npx vitest run src/__tests__/workspace-preferences.test.ts src/__tests__/workspace-preferences-routes.test.ts src/services/heartbeat/task-markdown.test.ts src/__tests__/heartbeat-task-context.test.ts src/__tests__/openapi-routes.test.ts src/services/native-runtime/runner-api.test.ts` - `cd ui && npx vitest run src/hooks/useBrowserTimeZoneSync.test.tsx src/hooks/useCoordinatorWorkspaceEnabled.test.tsx src/components/Layout.test.tsx` - Red/green: without the task-context and task-markdown changes, the two new prompt tests fail. With the changes, they pass. - `pnpm check:token-gates` is clean. `tsc --noEmit` passes for `packages/shared` and `packages/db`. - Manual: open the board in a browser with a non-UTC zone. Then ask a chat agent to create a weekday routine at nine in the morning. The trigger uses the browser zone. ## Risks - Low risk. The migration adds one nullable column. - The PUT body is now more flexible: `coordinatorWorkspaceEnabled` is optional. An empty body still gets a 400 response. - The prompt grows by one line only for conversations with a known zone. - The saved zone changes when the person uses a browser in a different zone. The latest browser wins. > For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. Feature PRs that overlap with planned core work may need to be redirected — check the roadmap first. See `CONTRIBUTING.md`. ## Model Used - Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (`claude-opus-5-5`), with tool use and code execution in Claude Code. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`) and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally and they pass - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>