diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
index d8339480..deaa7e71 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/dashboard.css
@@ -1759,60 +1759,112 @@ body.flow-shell .tabbar .tab.active.tab-link {
 }
 .schedule-interval-preview-oneshot { color: var(--muted); font-style: italic; }
 
-.schedules {
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.5em;
-}
-.schedule-row {
-  padding: 0.6em 0.9em;
-  background: rgba(24, 24, 37, 0.55);
-  border: 1px solid var(--border);
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.4em;
-}
-.schedule-row.schedule-cancelled { opacity: 0.55; }
-.schedule-head {
-  display: flex;
-  flex-wrap: wrap;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: 0.4em;
-}
-.schedule-description {
-  color: var(--muted);
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-size: 0.95em;
-}
-.schedule-body {
-  white-space: pre-wrap;
-  word-break: break-word;
-  background: var(--bg);
-  border: 1px solid var(--border);
-  border-radius: 3px;
-  padding: 0.5em 0.7em;
-}
-.schedule-targets-table {
+/* #535 — schedules-as-table. One row per schedule, attribute columns
+   on the left, one ✓/✕ column per agent in the middle, actions
+   column on the right. Agent column headers tilt -45° so a stack of
+   short agent names fits in ~28px each. */
+.schedules-table {
   width: 100%;
   border-collapse: collapse;
   font-size: 0.9em;
 }
-.schedule-targets-table th,
-.schedule-targets-table td {
-  padding: 0.25em 0.6em;
+.schedules-table thead th {
+  vertical-align: bottom;
+  padding: 0.3em 0.5em;
   text-align: left;
-  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
-}
-.schedule-targets-table th {
   color: var(--muted);
   font-weight: normal;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   letter-spacing: 0.05em;
   font-size: 0.8em;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
+}
+.schedules-table-id { width: 3em; }
+.schedules-table-body-th { min-width: 12em; }
+.schedules-table-actions-th { width: 7em; }
+/* Tilted agent column headers (#535). Header cell is narrow (~28px)
+   and tall (~90px); the inner <div> rotates -45° about its bottom-left
+   corner, with a translate to slide the text up alongside the cell
+   border. The inner <span> carries the actual baseline so the
+   underline (border-bottom on the cell) aligns with the rotated text. */
+.schedules-table-agent-th {
+  width: 28px;
+  min-width: 28px;
+  height: 95px;
+  padding: 0 !important;
+  vertical-align: bottom;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  text-transform: none !important;
+  letter-spacing: 0 !important;
+  position: relative;
+}
+.schedules-table-agent-th > div {
+  position: absolute;
+  bottom: 4px;
+  left: 14px;
+  transform-origin: left bottom;
+  transform: rotate(-45deg);
+  font-family: ui-monospace, 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;
+  font-size: 0.9em;
+  color: var(--fg);
+}
+.schedules-table-agent-th > div > span {
+  display: inline-block;
+  padding: 0 4px 1px;
+}
+.schedules-table tbody td {
+  padding: 0.3em 0.5em;
+  border-top: 1px solid var(--border);
+  vertical-align: middle;
+}
+.schedules-table-row-cancelled td { opacity: 0.55; }
+.schedules-table-body-cell {
+  max-width: 30em;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  font-family: ui-monospace, 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;
+  font-size: 0.9em;
+}
+.schedules-table-check {
+  width: 28px;
+  text-align: center;
+  padding: 0.3em 0 !important;
+}
+.schedules-table-check-btn {
+  background: transparent;
+  border: 0;
+  color: var(--green);
+  cursor: pointer;
+  padding: 0.1em 0.3em;
+  font-family: inherit;
+  font-size: 1em;
+}
+.schedules-table-check-btn:hover:not(:disabled) {
+  color: var(--red);
+}
+.schedules-table-check-btn:disabled {
+  cursor: default;
+}
+.schedules-table-check-cancelled {
+  color: var(--muted);
+  font-size: 0.9em;
+}
+.schedules-table-actions {
+  text-align: right;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.schedules-table-actions .btn-inline-small {
+  margin-left: 0.3em;
+}
+/* Edit form expands inline into a colspan'd row underneath the
+   schedule it edits. Wrapper drops the form's normal background so it
+   reads as "an extension of the row above" instead of a free-floating
+   card. */
+.schedules-table-edit-row > td {
+  padding: 0.5em 0.8em 0.8em !important;
+  background: rgba(24, 24, 37, 0.4);
 }
-.schedule-targets-table tr:last-child td { border-bottom: 0; }
-.schedule-target-cancelled td { opacity: 0.5; }
 .btn-inline-small {
   font-size: 0.7em;
   padding: 0.1em 0.45em;
diff --git a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
index d4729cee..e220b423 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/dashboard/src/tabs.js
@@ -2313,6 +2313,11 @@ window.marked = marked;
       if (submitBtn) { submitBtn.disabled = false; submitBtn.innerHTML = originalLabel; }
     }
   }
+  // #535: schedules render as a single table — one row per schedule,
+  // attribute columns + one ✓/✕ column per agent (tilted 45° header
+  // so a row of agents takes ~28px each instead of full word width),
+  // actions column on the right. Edit form expands into a colspan'd
+  // row underneath when its row's `✎` is toggled on.
   function renderSchedulesList() {
     const liveRoot = $('schedules-section');
     if (!liveRoot) return;
@@ -2321,118 +2326,186 @@ window.marked = marked;
         root.append(el('p', { class: 'empty' }, 'no schedules queued'));
         return;
       }
-      const ul = el('ul', { class: 'schedules' });
-      // Active schedules first (still firing), then cancelled tail.
+      const agents = schedulesTableAgentSet();
+      const table = el('table', { class: 'schedules-table' });
+      table.append(renderSchedulesTableHead(agents));
+      const tbody = el('tbody', {});
       const sorted = schedulesState.slice().sort((a, b) => {
         const aDone = a.cancelled_at_unix ? 1 : 0;
         const bDone = b.cancelled_at_unix ? 1 : 0;
         if (aDone !== bDone) return aDone - bDone;
         return a.next_fire_at_unix - b.next_fire_at_unix;
       });
-      for (const s of sorted) ul.append(renderScheduleCard(s));
-      root.append(ul);
-    });
-  }
-  function renderScheduleCard(s) {
-    const cancelled = !!s.cancelled_at_unix;
-    const li = el('li', { class: 'schedule-row' + (cancelled ? ' schedule-cancelled' : '') });
-    const head = el('div', { class: 'schedule-head' });
-    head.append(
-      el('span', { class: 'meta' }, '#' + s.id), ' ',
-      el('span', { class: 'rqe-source rqe-source-' + (s.source && s.source.kind === 'approval' ? 'approval' : 'manual') },
-        s.source && s.source.kind === 'approval' ? 'approval' : 'operator'),
-    );
-    if (cancelled) {
-      head.append(' ', el('span', { class: 'badge badge-muted', title: 'cancelled ' + new Date(s.cancelled_at_unix * 1000).toISOString() }, 'cancelled'));
-    } else {
-      const dueIn = s.next_fire_at_unix - Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
-      const dueLabel = dueIn <= 0
-        ? `overdue ${fmtAgo(s.next_fire_at_unix)}`
-        : `next fire in ${fmtDuration(dueIn)}`;
-      head.append(' ', el('span', {
-        class: 'meta',
-        title: new Date(s.next_fire_at_unix * 1000).toISOString(),
-      }, dueLabel));
-    }
-    if (s.interval_seconds) {
-      head.append(' ', el('span',
-        { class: 'badge badge-muted', title: 'recurring' },
-        `↻ every ${fmtDuration(s.interval_seconds)}`));
-    } else {
-      head.append(' ', el('span', { class: 'badge badge-muted', title: 'one-shot' }, 'one-shot'));
-    }
-    head.append(' ', el('span', { class: 'meta' }, '· owner ' + s.owner));
-    li.append(head);
-
-    if (s.description) {
-      li.append(el('div', { class: 'schedule-description' }, s.description));
-    }
-    const body = el('div', { class: 'schedule-body' });
-    appendLinkified(body, s.body);
-    li.append(body);
-
-    // Targets table — one row per recipient with cancel button +
-    // last-fire metadata.
-    const targets = s.targets || [];
-    if (targets.length) {
-      const table = el('table', { class: 'schedule-targets-table' });
-      const thead = el('thead', {}, el('tr', {},
-        el('th', {}, 'target'),
-        el('th', {}, 'last fire'),
-        el('th', {}, 'last result'),
-        el('th', {}, ''),
-      ));
-      table.append(thead);
-      const tbody = el('tbody', {});
-      for (const t of targets) {
-        const tCancelled = !!t.cancelled_at_unix;
-        const tr = el('tr', { class: tCancelled ? 'schedule-target-cancelled' : '' });
-        tr.append(el('td', {}, t.target));
-        tr.append(el('td', { class: 'meta' },
-          t.last_fired_at_unix
-            ? fmtAgo(t.last_fired_at_unix) + ' ago'
-            : '—'));
-        tr.append(el('td', { class: 'meta' }, t.last_result || '—'));
-        const actionTd = el('td', {});
-        if (!cancelled && !tCancelled) {
-          const btn = el('button', { type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-deny btn-inline-small' }, '✕');
-          btn.title = 'cancel just this target';
-          btn.addEventListener('click', () => cancelScheduleTargets(s.id, [t.target]));
-          actionTd.append(btn);
-        } else if (tCancelled) {
-          actionTd.append(el('span', { class: 'meta' }, '✕ cancelled'));
+      for (const s of sorted) {
+        tbody.append(renderScheduleRow(s, agents));
+        if (editingSchedules.has(s.id) && !s.cancelled_at_unix) {
+          tbody.append(renderScheduleEditRow(s, agents));
         }
-        tr.append(actionTd);
-        tbody.append(tr);
       }
       table.append(tbody);
-      li.append(table);
+      root.append(table);
+    });
+  }
+  // The set of agent columns in the schedules table: operator + manager
+  // first, then live containers (sorted), then any extra names that
+  // appear as a schedule target but aren't in the live container list
+  // (operator typo, container destroyed mid-schedule, etc.) — same
+  // membership rule as `buildTargetChips` so the table and the new-/
+  // edit-form chip boxes agree on what's addressable.
+  function schedulesTableAgentSet() {
+    const seen = new Set();
+    const out = [];
+    const push = (n) => { if (!seen.has(n)) { seen.add(n); out.push(n); } };
+    push('operator');
+    push('manager');
+    const containerNames = Array.from(containersState.values())
+      .map((c) => c.name)
+      .filter((n) => n !== 'manager' && n !== 'operator')
+      .sort();
+    for (const n of containerNames) push(n);
+    for (const s of schedulesState) {
+      for (const t of s.targets || []) push(t.target);
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+  function renderSchedulesTableHead(agents) {
+    const thead = el('thead', {});
+    const headerRow = el('tr', {});
+    headerRow.append(
+      el('th', { class: 'schedules-table-id' }, '#'),
+      el('th', {}, 'src'),
+      el('th', {}, 'next'),
+      el('th', {}, 'every'),
+      el('th', {}, 'owner'),
+      el('th', { class: 'schedules-table-body-th' }, 'body'),
+    );
+    for (const a of agents) {
+      headerRow.append(el('th', { class: 'schedules-table-agent-th', title: a },
+        el('div', {}, el('span', {}, a))));
+    }
+    headerRow.append(el('th', { class: 'schedules-table-actions-th' }, ''));
+    thead.append(headerRow);
+    return thead;
+  }
+  function renderScheduleRow(s, agents) {
+    const cancelled = !!s.cancelled_at_unix;
+    const tr = el('tr', {
+      class: 'schedules-table-row' + (cancelled ? ' schedules-table-row-cancelled' : ''),
+    });
+
+    tr.append(el('td', { class: 'meta schedules-table-id' }, '#' + s.id));
+
+    const srcKind = s.source && s.source.kind === 'approval' ? 'approval' : 'manual';
+    tr.append(el('td', {},
+      el('span', { class: 'rqe-source rqe-source-' + srcKind },
+        srcKind === 'approval' ? 'approval' : 'operator')));
+
+    // "next" cell — relative due-in for active schedules, "cancelled"
+    // for cancelled ones. Both carry the absolute ISO in the title.
+    const nextCell = el('td', { class: 'meta' });
+    if (cancelled) {
+      nextCell.title = 'cancelled ' + new Date(s.cancelled_at_unix * 1000).toISOString();
+      nextCell.textContent = 'cancelled';
+    } else {
+      const dueIn = s.next_fire_at_unix - Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
+      nextCell.title = new Date(s.next_fire_at_unix * 1000).toISOString();
+      nextCell.textContent = dueIn <= 0
+        ? 'overdue ' + fmtAgo(s.next_fire_at_unix)
+        : fmtDuration(dueIn);
+    }
+    tr.append(nextCell);
+
+    tr.append(el('td', { class: 'meta' },
+      s.interval_seconds ? '↻ ' + fmtDuration(s.interval_seconds) : 'one-shot'));
+
+    tr.append(el('td', { class: 'meta' }, s.owner));
+
+    // Body cell — truncates with ellipsis; full body + description (if
+    // any) on hover. Description used to be a separate visible block on
+    // the card layout; the table compresses it into the title to keep
+    // row height tight. Mara nit-flag candidate if she actually wants
+    // it visible in-table.
+    const bodyCell = el('td', { class: 'schedules-table-body-cell' });
+    const bodyText = s.body || '';
+    bodyCell.title = (s.description ? s.description + '\n\n' : '') + bodyText;
+    bodyCell.textContent = bodyText;
+    tr.append(bodyCell);
+
+    // Per-agent target cells. Three states:
+    //   - active target → ✓ button that cancels just that target on
+    //     click (same affordance as the per-row ✕ on the old layout's
+    //     targets table)
+    //   - cancelled target → muted ✕ glyph (no button — backend
+    //     re-add flows through the edit form's targets multi-select)
+    //   - not a target → empty cell
+    const targetByName = new Map();
+    for (const t of s.targets || []) targetByName.set(t.target, t);
+    for (const a of agents) {
+      const t = targetByName.get(a);
+      const td = el('td', { class: 'schedules-table-check' });
+      if (!t) {
+        // empty — no button, no glyph
+      } else if (t.cancelled_at_unix) {
+        td.title = 'cancelled — '
+          + (t.last_fired_at_unix
+            ? 'last fired ' + fmtAgo(t.last_fired_at_unix) + ' ago'
+            : 'never fired')
+          + (t.last_result ? ' · ' + t.last_result : '');
+        td.append(el('span', { class: 'schedules-table-check-cancelled' }, '✕'));
+      } else {
+        const lastFireDesc = t.last_fired_at_unix
+          ? 'last fired ' + fmtAgo(t.last_fired_at_unix) + ' ago'
+          : 'never fired';
+        const lastResultDesc = t.last_result ? ' · ' + t.last_result : '';
+        const checkBtn = el('button', {
+          type: 'button',
+          class: 'schedules-table-check-btn',
+        }, '✓');
+        checkBtn.title = lastFireDesc + lastResultDesc
+          + (cancelled ? '' : '\nclick to cancel this target');
+        if (cancelled) {
+          checkBtn.disabled = true;
+        } else {
+          checkBtn.addEventListener('click', () => cancelScheduleTargets(s.id, [a]));
+        }
+        td.append(checkBtn);
+      }
+      tr.append(td);
     }
 
+    // Actions cell — fire / edit / cancel-all. Glyph-only to fit a
+    // compact column; the buttons keep their existing colour classes
+    // so the visual cue (mauve = fire, yellow = edit, red = cancel)
+    // carries over from the card layout.
+    const actionsCell = el('td', { class: 'schedules-table-actions' });
     if (!cancelled) {
-      const actions = el('div', { class: 'schedule-actions' });
-      // Fire-now (#467): out-of-band manual pulse. Recurring schedules
-      // get an extra fan-out without disturbing `next_fire_at`; one-shots
-      // are consumed (cancelled after fan-out), per damocles's design.
-      // Disabled when every target is cancelled — there's nothing to
-      // fire to. Backend: POST /api/schedules/{id}/fire-now.
       const activeTargets = (s.targets || []).filter((t) => !t.cancelled_at_unix);
-      const fireBtn = el('button', { type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-fire-now' }, '↯ fire now');
       const isOneShot = !s.interval_seconds;
+      const fireBtn = el('button', {
+        type: 'button',
+        class: 'btn btn-fire-now btn-inline-small',
+      }, '↯');
       fireBtn.title = isOneShot
-        ? 'fire this schedule once, immediately (one-shot — schedule is consumed after the manual fire)'
-        : 'fire this schedule once, immediately (recurring — next regularly-scheduled fire is unaffected)';
+        ? 'fire once — one-shot, consumed after the manual fire'
+        : 'fire once now — recurring, next regular fire unaffected';
       if (!activeTargets.length) {
         fireBtn.disabled = true;
         fireBtn.title = 'every target is cancelled — nothing to fire';
       }
-      fireBtn.addEventListener('click', () => fireScheduleNow(s.id, isOneShot, activeTargets.map((t) => t.target), fireBtn));
-      actions.append(fireBtn);
-      const editBtn = el('button', { type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-edit-schedule' },
-        editingSchedules.has(s.id) ? '✎ close edit' : '✎ edit');
-      editBtn.title = 'edit body / description / interval / next-fire (targets stay immutable)';
+      fireBtn.addEventListener('click', () =>
+        fireScheduleNow(s.id, isOneShot, activeTargets.map((t) => t.target), fireBtn));
+      actionsCell.append(fireBtn);
+
+      const editingThis = editingSchedules.has(s.id);
+      const editBtn = el('button', {
+        type: 'button',
+        class: 'btn btn-edit-schedule btn-inline-small',
+      }, editingThis ? '✎×' : '✎');
+      editBtn.title = editingThis
+        ? 'close edit'
+        : 'edit body / description / interval / next-fire / targets';
       editBtn.addEventListener('click', () => {
-        if (editingSchedules.has(s.id)) {
+        if (editingThis) {
           editingSchedules.delete(s.id);
           scheduleEditCarry.delete(s.id);
         } else {
@@ -2440,17 +2513,28 @@ window.marked = marked;
         }
         renderSchedulesList();
       });
-      actions.append(editBtn);
-      const cancelAll = el('button', { type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-deny' }, '✕ cancel all');
-      cancelAll.title = 'cancel the whole schedule';
-      cancelAll.addEventListener('click', () => cancelScheduleAll(s.id));
-      actions.append(cancelAll);
-      li.append(actions);
-      if (editingSchedules.has(s.id)) {
-        li.append(renderScheduleEditForm(s));
-      }
+      actionsCell.append(editBtn);
+
+      const cancelBtn = el('button', {
+        type: 'button',
+        class: 'btn btn-deny btn-inline-small',
+      }, '✕');
+      cancelBtn.title = 'cancel the whole schedule';
+      cancelBtn.addEventListener('click', () => cancelScheduleAll(s.id));
+      actionsCell.append(cancelBtn);
     }
-    return li;
+    tr.append(actionsCell);
+
+    return tr;
+  }
+  function renderScheduleEditRow(s, agents) {
+    // colspan = 6 attribute cols + N agent cols + 1 actions col
+    const colCount = 7 + agents.length;
+    const tr = el('tr', { class: 'schedules-table-edit-row' });
+    const td = el('td', { colspan: String(colCount) });
+    td.append(renderScheduleEditForm(s));
+    tr.append(td);
+    return tr;
   }
 
   // #474 — inline edit form. Renders inside the schedule row when the