diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index e2fbfd17..0643b2b4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ jobs:
   unlocked-resolution:
     name: Unlocked resolution
     uses: ./.github/workflows/unlocked-resolution.yml
+    # unlocked-resolution.yml's `report-scheduled-failure` job declares
+    # `issues: write` (#1242). It never fires here — it is gated on the schedule
+    # event — but a reusable call must grant every scope the callee declares or
+    # GitHub refuses the run as a `startup_failure` with no log
+    # (check-workflow-calls.yml; same as deploy.yml's call of test.yml, #1241).
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      issues: write
 
   build:
     name: Build sdist + wheel
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unlocked-resolution.yml b/.github/workflows/unlocked-resolution.yml
index bde05ecf..55fe15a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unlocked-resolution.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unlocked-resolution.yml
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ name: Unlocked Resolution
 # The schedule is the point: this break arrives from upstream, not from a commit
 # of ours, so it can appear on a day nobody pushed anything.
 #
-# Known limitation: a red scheduled run notifies via GitHub's normal workflow
-# notifications; it does not open an issue. Deliberate — one moving part.
+# A red scheduled run opens or updates an issue (#1239, #1242) via the shared
+# scheduled-failure-issue.yml job below — the Actions tab alone is not a signal
+# anyone reads on a day nobody pushed.
 
 on:
   schedule:
@@ -80,3 +81,15 @@ jobs:
             tests/adapters/test_sdk_kwargs_guard_614.py \
             tests/adapters/test_model_defaults_guard_1112.py \
             -q
+
+  # Same signal test.yml and web-ui-audit.yml use (#1239): a red scheduled run
+  # has no PR to be red on, so open or update the one issue for this workflow.
+  # `failure()` only, as in the other two callers: a cancelled run is usually a
+  # deliberate cancel, and the next morning's run reports on its own.
+  report-scheduled-failure:
+    name: Report scheduled failure
+    needs: [unlocked-install]
+    if: failure() && github.event_name == 'schedule'
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/scheduled-failure-issue.yml
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 685758ee..79609d56 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ the lock. Before that, the **Unlocked Resolution** workflow
 throwaway env, and runs `cf --help` plus both SDK guards against *that* env. It
 runs daily on a schedule — this break arrives from upstream, so it can appear on
 a day nobody pushed — on PRs touching `pyproject.toml` or the guards, and as a
-required gate on `release.yml`. `tests/ci/test_unlocked_resolution_guard_1169.py`
+required gate on `release.yml`. A red *scheduled* run opens or updates an issue
+via `scheduled-failure-issue.yml` (#1239, #1242), like the other two daily
+checks. `tests/ci/test_unlocked_resolution_guard_1169.py`
 pins those properties.
 
 #1170 moved where the risk lives, so the #614 guard now carries two halves. The
diff --git a/tests/ci/test_scheduled_failure_signal_1239.py b/tests/ci/test_scheduled_failure_signal_1239.py
index b6bceff9..74de83d1 100644
--- a/tests/ci/test_scheduled_failure_signal_1239.py
+++ b/tests/ci/test_scheduled_failure_signal_1239.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 CALLERS = {
     "test.yml": ["test-summary", "e2e-browser-full", "e2e-backend-tests"],
     "web-ui-audit.yml": ["npm-audit"],
+    "unlocked-resolution.yml": ["unlocked-install"],
 }