diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/triggers/schedules/scheduleCfg.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/triggers/schedules/scheduleCfg.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c125e1293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/triggers/schedules/scheduleCfg.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { normalizeScheduleCfg, scheduleCfgOf, scheduleFormOf } from './scheduleCfg'
+
+// A deployed schedule as the API returns it: server fields the form never shows, a short cron.
+const deployed = {
+	path: 'u/me/s',
+	schedule: '0 0 12 * *',
+	timezone: 'UTC',
+	script_path: 'u/me/script',
+	is_flow: false,
+	args: { x: 'a' },
+	enabled: true,
+	on_failure: 'script/hub/1/workspace-or-schedule-error-handler-slack',
+	on_failure_extra_args: { channel: '#alerts' },
+	on_recovery: null,
+	summary: '',
+	extra_perms: {},
+	edited_by: 'me',
+	edited_at: '2026-09-11T00:00:00Z',
+	workspace_id: 'w',
+	email: 'me@example.com'
+}
+
+describe('schedule config normalization', () => {
+	// The deployed side is kept in this shape and compared with what the form hands back: if the
+	// two drift, a schedule reads as edited the moment it is opened.
+	it('is what the form hands back after loading it, and idempotent', () => {
+		const once = normalizeScheduleCfg(deployed)
+		expect(scheduleCfgOf(scheduleFormOf(once))).toEqual(once)
+		expect(JSON.stringify(normalizeScheduleCfg(once))).toBe(JSON.stringify(once))
+		expect(once).toMatchObject({
+			schedule: '0 0 12 * * *',
+			on_failure: 'script/hub/1/workspace-or-schedule-error-handler-slack',
+			on_failure_extra_args: { channel: '#alerts' },
+			on_recovery: undefined,
+			summary: undefined
+		})
+		expect(once).not.toHaveProperty('edited_by')
+	})
+})
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
index 9d5e3db518..220183ac82 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/itemStore.test.ts
@@ -162,6 +162,37 @@ describe('item store: commands', () => {
 		expect(a.writes).toHaveLength(1)
 	})
 
+	it('saves items in turn, all busy from the call, and stops at the first failure', async () => {
+		const rows = fakeRows()
+		const store = createItemStore(rows.port)
+		const written: string[] = []
+		const a = adapter({ deployed: deployedRes }, async (ctx) => {
+			written.push(ctx.workspace)
+			if (ctx.workspace === 'w1') throw new Error('refused')
+		})
+		const acquire = (ws: string) =>
+			store.acquire(
+				{ workspace: ws, kind: 'resource', path: 'u/me/r' },
+				{ workspace: ws, path: 'u/me/r' },
+				a
+			).handle
+		const [first, second] = [acquire('w1'), acquire('w2')]
+		await settle()
+		first.value = { ...deployedRes, description: 'one' }
+		second.value = { ...deployedRes, description: 'two' }
+
+		const saving = store.saveEach([first, second])
+		expect([first.busy, second.busy]).toEqual([true, true])
+		const outcomes = await saving
+
+		expect(outcomes).toEqual([
+			{ ok: false, error: 'refused' },
+			{ ok: false, error: 'Not saved', skipped: true }
+		])
+		expect(written).toEqual(['w1'])
+		expect([first.dirty, second.dirty, second.busy]).toEqual([true, true, false])
+	})
+
 	it('holds a toggle behind a save, and keeps an unrelated edit through the toggle', async () => {
 		type Sched = { path: string; enabled: boolean; summary: string }
 		const rows = fakeRows()