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jobs-invalid

What you see. loopd does not start. It prints a line naming {home}/jobs/<name>.toml and this entry:

loopd: jobs/mail.toml: unknown field `when`, expected `schedule` or `prompt`; see docs/runbook.md#jobs-invalid

Why. Job files are owner-written. loopd reads them and cannot write them. Unknown keys, a name that is not [a-z0-9-]+, a name so long that job-<name>-<yyyymmdd>t<hhmm> is not a valid session id (64 bytes, [a-z0-9-]), a schedule that is not five UTC fields, or a missing prompt, all refuse start so a misspelt job cannot sit silently.

Confirm.

ls -l "$BOXMAKER_HOME/jobs/"

Fix. Rename or edit the named file so it matches the example in config/jobs/tier.toml.example. Then start loopd again.

Check. loopd serve prints serving on and {home}/jobs/runs.jsonl exists (empty is fine).