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Assistant look-ups crash the whole turn on a bad `days` or `from` value

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Issue type
Bug
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Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start in taskuary/lookups.py with activity_list, errors_list, and calendar_read, comparing their argument handling with tasks_list and calendar_read's sibling behavior. Run the four specified cases in tests/test_lookups.py, then confirm each returns a string without crashing the turn using python -m pytest -q.

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tasks_list and calendar_read clamp their days argument; activity_list and errors_list do not, and calendar_read trusts its from date. Whatever they raise goes up through read_op to the concierge, which logs "the model pass failed" and drops the owner's turn.

Where: taskuary/lookups.py - activity_list, errors_list, calendar_read.

activity_list(store, {'days': -5})     -> cutoff in the future -> "Nothing was recorded"
activity_list(store, {'days': 1e9})    -> OverflowError
activity_list(store, {'days': 'week'}) -> ValueError: could not convert string to float
calendar_read(store, {'from': '2026-02-30'}) -> ValueError: day is out of range for month

Done when days is clamped the way its siblings do it, and a non-number or impossible date comes back as a plain sentence instead of an exception.

Test - tests/test_lookups.py: activity.list with days='week', days=1e9, days=-5, and calendar.read with from='2026-02-30' each return a string.

Getting started: pip install -e ".[dev]", then python -m pytest -q (offline, a few seconds). UI work: cd website && npm ci && npm test. See CONTRIBUTING.md. One small PR with the change and its test is perfect.

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