fix: inject date/time context into all agent prompts#627
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- qwibitai#657: computeNextRun() prevents interval drift on scheduled tasks - qwibitai#655: auto-retry with fresh session when resume fails (breaks infinite loops) - qwibitai#636: update next_run before enqueue to prevent duplicate task runs - qwibitai#651: reduce container stop timeout to 1s for faster restarts - qwibitai#622: add jq to container Dockerfile for safe JSON parsing - qwibitai#627: inject date/time context into all agent prompts
LLMs cannot reliably calculate day-of-week from ISO timestamps. Without explicit date context, agents give wrong answers about scheduling, deadlines, and relative dates. This prepends [Current date and time: ...] with day-of-week to every prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LLMs cannot reliably derive day-of-week from ISO timestamps, so inject an explicit date/time prefix into every prompt sent to the container agent.
This adds a shared datePrefix() utility that prepends "[Current date and time: ...]" with the day-of-week to prompts in:
Without this, agents have no reliable notion of the current day-of-week, leading to incorrect temporal reasoning (e.g. saying "Friday" on Saturday).
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