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+"""Create scheduled_messages, which no committed migration ever created.
+
+Migrations 6–10 were generated outside the repository and never committed, and
+one of them created this table. Deployments that ran them already have it, so
+this is IF NOT EXISTS and a no-op there; fresh databases need it before
+migration 20 alters the table. Aerich cannot generate this file because its
+saved model state already includes the table: the DDL below is Tortoise's
+schema output for the model as of migration 19.
+"""
+
+from tortoise import BaseDBAsyncClient
+
+RUN_IN_TRANSACTION = True
+
+
+async def upgrade(db: BaseDBAsyncClient) -> str:
+    return """
+        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "scheduled_messages" (
+    "id" UUID NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
+    "recipient" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+    "channel" VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
+    "content" TEXT NOT NULL,
+    "subject" VARCHAR(255),
+    "scheduled_at" TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL,
+    "status" VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'pending',
+    "recurrence" VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'none',
+    "use_agent" BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT False,
+    "error_message" TEXT,
+    "created_at" TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+    "updated_at" TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+    "created_by_id" UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES "users" ("id") ON DELETE CASCADE
+);"""
+
+
+async def downgrade(db: BaseDBAsyncClient) -> str:
+    # Existing deployments created this table in an uncommitted migration;
+    # never drop it from under them.
+    return ""