audit: fix 9 defects from the 2026-09-04 hidden-bug sweep

None of these touch the signal path. The 12-month M15 book
(2024-03-31..2025-03-30, $0.65, cached Oanda bars) is byte-identical
before and after (md5 c59d3e7e685c3c880b614640adfea74b, 375 trades),
and signal/indicator logging to logs/signals.db is unchanged — verified
end to end: per-TF indicators for all 3 TFs, 14 candles each, MTF and
reasons all still persisted.

agent_panel: the >=2-take quorum guards the CHAIR's synthesizer spend,
  but ran BEFORE the macro branch — so the shipped default
  (verdict_source="macro", which never calls the synthesizer) silently
  dropped a good macro verdict whenever the other three personas were
  slow. Quorum moved below the macro path.
analyze_signal_log: _forward_return clamped to the last available bar
  when the horizon had not elapsed, reporting a near-zero "forward move"
  for every row logged within `hours` of the end of the data — on every
  run, blended into the hit-rate/mean-move aggregate. Now returns None.
analyze_signal_log: persona_scorecard iterated raw rows through an index
  that maps EVERY member row of an event, so a re-logged scan appended
  the same event R twice. One vote per event, matching
  news_outcome_buckets. Measured inflation on the live DB: 1.03x.
signal_log: dedup required a non-negative logged_at gap, but logged_at is
  stamped before the row wins the write lock (busy_timeout 5 s), so two
  processes logging one setup at a boundary can invert timestamp order
  against id order and seed a second event. Now abs(gap); same in
  backfill_seeds. Zero occurrences in the current 366 setup rows.
advisory_outcome: the catch-all turned real evaluator faults into the
  same UNRESOLVABLE used for legitimate weekend gaps, with nothing in the
  log. Still fail-safe, now logged.
llm_client: only the "cap" warn-once flag was ever reset, so in a daemon
  the second and every later network/http/parse outage logged at DEBUG
  only. Cleared on UTC-day roll and re-armed by a recovered call.
dashboard.js: renderCards() redraws the selector for every timeframe but
  was gated on the SELECTED one changing, leaving the other buttons stale
  (up to 4 h on H4) while renderHero's rail already showed the new value.
news_summary.php: atomic_write treated a short write (disk full) as
  success, publishing a truncated body the cache-first branch then served
  forever; and the daily cap was charged before the no-key check and
  before the stampede lock re-checked the cache, so a click burst could
  exhaust the 150/day budget with zero LLM calls.
migrate_signal_log_news: logged_at is ISO with 'T' while SQLite's
  datetime() uses a space, so string-comparing them put the whole cutoff
  calendar day on the wrong side and it never pruned. NOTE: this now
  deletes one day more than before — it only runs when invoked by hand.

Tests 414 -> 422 (new Module 28, one per fix). The existing
"<2 valid takes" test was retargeted at the chair — the case it actually
protects — rather than deleted, with new coverage for macro-alone.

Not fixed, recorded for the owner:
- Gate 6c's boost condition is textually identical to the C-grade
  definition, so every C in a "transitioning" regime is promoted to B
  before gate 6e reads it, making sell_min_quality's exclusion of "C" a
  no-op on M15/H4 (H1 and M5 are immune by other means). The backtester
  runs the same code, so every pinned book already includes this —
  changing it is a rule-1 revalidation event.
- Safe-haven/geopolitical headlines score exactly 0.00 in the keyword
  fallback and are now dropped entirely by the ±0.1 neutral filter,
  contradicting the platform's own gold doctrine. Bites only when
  DeepSeek is capped/disabled/failing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ah5EB1goi5inQmSd37Ne6a

advisory_outcome.py

@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ but its evidence is the cleaned mid-candle snapshots stored in signals.db.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import logging
 import math
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple
 from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 MODEL = "stored-closed-mid-next-open-trail-v1"
 MAX_HOLD_BARS = 300
 REFERENCE_COST = 0.30
@@ -331,6 +334,14 @@ def advance_outcome(
                 return state
         return state
     except Exception as exc:
+        # Still fail-safe (never raises into a scan), but no longer
+        # SILENT: a real defect here used to be indistinguishable from a
+        # legitimate weekend/downtime gap, discoverable only by grepping
+        # advisory_outcome_json. Callers persist the state either way.
+        logger.exception(
+            "advisory outcome evaluator failed for the %s outcome seeded "
+            "at %s — recorded UNRESOLVABLE",
+            state.get("timeframe"), state.get("signal_bar_at"))
         state["status"] = "UNRESOLVABLE"
         state["result"] = None
         state["reason"] = f"outcome evaluator error: {type(exc).__name__}"

agent_panel.py

@@ -758,9 +758,8 @@ def run_panel(report: "SignalReport",
     done, _ = _fwait(futures, timeout=client_timeout + 8.0)
     takes = [f.result() for f in done if not f.exception()]
     takes = [t for t in takes if t is not None]
-    if len(takes) < 2:
+    if not takes:
-        logger.debug("agent panel: %d/4 persona takes — skipping synthesizer",
+        logger.debug("agent panel: 0/4 persona takes — no verdict")
-                     len(takes))
         return None
     order = {"macro": 0, "technical": 1, "risk": 2, "contrarian": 3}
     takes.sort(key=lambda t: order.get(t.persona, 9))
@@ -773,6 +772,15 @@ def run_panel(report: "SignalReport",
                 takes=takes, created_ts=time.time(),
                 payload_hash=payload_hash, source="macro")
         # Macro take missing (timed out / invalid) — fall back to the chair.
+    # Quorum guards the CHAIR only: it weighs several voices, so one lone
+    # take is not worth a synthesizer request. The macro path above needs
+    # only its own take and must never be gated by it — that gate used to
+    # sit before the macro branch and silently dropped a good macro
+    # verdict whenever the other three personas were slow.
+    if len(takes) < 2:
+        logger.debug("agent panel: %d/4 persona takes — skipping synthesizer",
+                     len(takes))
+        return None
     reply = get_llm_client().chat_json(_SYNTH_SYSTEM, {
         "direction": direction,
         "takes": [{"persona": t.persona, "stance": t.stance,

analyze_signal_log.py

@@ -444,6 +444,14 @@ def _forward_return(
     """Close-to-close move from `price` to the last close at ts+hours."""
     target = pd.Timestamp(ts) + pd.Timedelta(hours=hours)
     closes = df["Close"]
+    # The horizon must have ELAPSED. Without this the searchsorted below
+    # clamps to the last available bar, so every row logged within
+    # `hours` of the end of the data reported the latest close as its
+    # "forward" move — a near-zero reading for a trade that has had no
+    # time to develop, blended into the hit-rate/mean-move aggregate on
+    # every run. Not-yet-known is None, the same as insufficient history.
+    if len(df.index) == 0 or df.index[-1] < target:
+        return None
     pos = int(df.index.searchsorted(target, side="right")) - 1
     if pos < 0:
         return None
@@ -753,6 +761,7 @@ def persona_scorecard(rows: Sequence[LogRow], events: Sequence[SignalEvent],
     by_row = _row_index(events)
     con = open_readonly(db_path)
     agg: Dict[Tuple[str, str], List[float]] = {}
+    seen_events: set = set()
     try:
         for rid, takes in con.execute(
                 "SELECT id, panel_takes_json FROM signals"
@@ -760,6 +769,15 @@ def persona_scorecard(rows: Sequence[LogRow], events: Sequence[SignalEvent],
             ev = by_row.get(rid)
             if ev is None or ev.r_headline is None:
                 continue
+            # One vote per EVENT, not per row. A scan re-logged inside the
+            # cluster window carries its own panel takes, and counting
+            # both rows appended the SAME event R twice — inflating n and
+            # the persona means (news_outcome_buckets already iterates
+            # unique events; this is the same rule).
+            ekey = ev.rows[0].id if ev.rows else rid
+            if ekey in seen_events:
+                continue
+            seen_events.add(ekey)
             try:
                 for t in json.loads(takes):
                     agg.setdefault((t.get("persona", "?"),

llm_client.py

@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@ class DeepSeekClient:
             if self._count_day != today:
                 self._count_day = today
                 self._count = 0
-                self._warned.discard("cap")
+                # Clear ALL warn-once kinds, not just "cap": the network/
+                # http_*/parse flags used to be set once and never reset,
+                # so in a daemon that runs for weeks the second and every
+                # later outage logged at DEBUG only.
+                self._warned.clear()
             if self._count >= self._daily_cap:
                 self._warn_once(
                     "cap", "DeepSeek daily request cap (%d) exhausted — "
@@ -149,6 +153,14 @@ class DeepSeekClient:
                             "expected JSON object — ignoring")
         else:
             self.last_ok = time.time()
+            # A recovered call re-arms the failure warnings so the NEXT
+            # outage is visible at WARNING again. "cap" keeps its own
+            # UTC-day reset in _under_cap. (Taken under the lock; safe
+            # here because chat_json holds no lock — _under_cap has
+            # already returned.)
+            if self._warned - {"cap"}:
+                with self._lock:
+                    self._warned = {k for k in self._warned if k == "cap"}
         return parsed
 
     @staticmethod

scripts/migrate_signal_log_news.py

@@ -95,9 +95,15 @@ def prune_orphans(con: sqlite3.Connection) -> int:
 def prune_news_older_than(con: sqlite3.Connection, days: int) -> int:
     """Drop the news reference (not the row) from rows older than N days,
     then delete snapshots nothing references any more."""
+    # logged_at is ISO8601 with a 'T' and a +00:00 offset; SQLite's
+    # datetime() returns 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'. Comparing them as raw
+    # strings put every row from the cutoff CALENDAR DAY on the wrong
+    # side ('T' > ' '), so a full day never pruned. Normalise to the
+    # same shape first — all logged_at values are UTC (see _iso()).
     cur = con.execute(
         "UPDATE signals SET headlines_hash=NULL, events_hash=NULL"
-        " WHERE logged_at < datetime('now', ?)", (f"-{int(days)} days",))
+        " WHERE substr(replace(logged_at, 'T', ' '), 1, 19)"
+        " < datetime('now', ?)", (f"-{int(days)} days",))
     con.commit()
     prune_orphans(con)
     return cur.rowcount

signal_log.py

@@ -748,7 +748,14 @@ class SignalLogger:
                        - datetime.fromisoformat(prior[2])).total_seconds()
             except (TypeError, ValueError):
                 gap = None
-            if gap is not None and 0 <= gap <= OUTCOME_DEDUP_GAP_SECONDS:
+            # abs(), not 0 <= gap: logged_at is stamped in _report_row
+            # BEFORE this row wins the write lock (busy_timeout 5 s), so
+            # two processes logging the same setup at one boundary can
+            # land with their timestamp order inverted against their id
+            # order. A negative gap is that inversion, not a different
+            # trade — treating it as "not a duplicate" seeded a second
+            # event and double-counted its R.
+            if gap is not None and abs(gap) <= OUTCOME_DEDUP_GAP_SECONDS:
                 event_id = int(prior[1] or prior[0])
                 self._conn.execute(
                     "UPDATE signals SET advisory_event_id=?,"
@@ -967,7 +974,7 @@ class SignalLogger:
                     continue
                 prior = last_by_key.get((symbol, key))
                 if (prior is not None
-                        and 0 <= (ts - prior[2]).total_seconds()
+                        and abs((ts - prior[2]).total_seconds())
                         <= OUTCOME_DEDUP_GAP_SECONDS):
                     # Same setup re-logged inside the gap: a duplicate of
                     # the canonical event regardless of its legacy status

static/dashboard.js

@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ async function poll() {
     const priorSnapshot = snapshot;
     let snapChanged = false;
     let selectedChanged = false;
+    let cardsChanged = false;
     let detailChanged = false;
     if (snap.text !== lastSnapText) {
       const incoming = JSON.parse(snap.text);
@@ -827,6 +828,14 @@ async function poll() {
         snapChanged = true;
         selectedChanged = tfFingerprint(priorSnapshot?.timeframes?.[selectedTf]) !==
           tfFingerprint(incoming.timeframes?.[selectedTf]);
+        // renderCards() redraws the selector for EVERY timeframe, so it
+        // must react to any of them changing — not just the selected one.
+        // Gating it on selectedChanged left the other buttons showing a
+        // stale arrow/score (up to 4 h on H4) while renderHero's rail,
+        // which redraws unconditionally, already showed the new value.
+        cardsChanged = TF_ORDER.some(tf =>
+          tfFingerprint(priorSnapshot?.timeframes?.[tf]) !==
+          tfFingerprint(incoming.timeframes?.[tf]));
         detailChanged = detailTf != null && tfFingerprint(priorSnapshot?.timeframes?.[detailTf]) !==
           tfFingerprint(incoming.timeframes?.[detailTf]);
         snapshot = incoming;
@@ -841,7 +850,7 @@ async function poll() {
 
     if (snapChanged) {
       renderHero();
-      if (selectedChanged) renderCards();
+      if (cardsChanged) renderCards();
       if (detailChanged) renderDetail();
       if (selectedChanged) {
         const signal = snapshot.timeframes[selectedTf]?.report?.signal;

static/news_summary.php

@@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ function respond(int $status, array $obj, string $cache = 'no-store'): void
 function atomic_write(string $path, string $data): bool
 {
     $tmp = $path . '.tmp.' . getmypid();
-    if (@file_put_contents($tmp, $data) === false) {
+    $written = @file_put_contents($tmp, $data);
+    // A SHORT write (disk full / quota) returns a byte count, NOT false.
+    // Renaming that into place would publish a truncated JSON body which
+    // the cache-first branch above then serves forever.
+    if ($written === false || $written !== strlen($data)) {
+        @unlink($tmp);
         return false;
     }
     if (!@rename($tmp, $path)) {
@@ -120,44 +125,14 @@ if ($hit === null) {
                   'message' => 'Headline is no longer in the feed.']);
 }
 
-// ── 4. daily cap (fail closed) ──────────────────────────────────────
+// ── 4. API key ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-$dailyCap = (int)(getenv('AI_SUMMARY_DAILY_CAP') ?: 150);
-$capFh = @fopen(CAP_FILE, 'c+');
-if ($capFh === false || !flock($capFh, LOCK_EX)) {
-    respond(503, ['error' => 'cap_io']);
-}
-$today = gmdate('Y-m-d');
-$cap = json_decode((string)stream_get_contents($capFh), true);
-if (!is_array($cap) || ($cap['day'] ?? '') !== $today) {
-    $cap = ['day' => $today, 'count' => 0];
-}
-if ($cap['count'] >= $dailyCap) {
-    flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
-    fclose($capFh);
-    respond(429, ['error' => 'cap_exceeded']);
-}
-// Increment BEFORE the LLM call — attempts count against the cap
-// (same semantics as llm_client._under_cap).
-$cap['count']++;
-rewind($capFh);
-if (ftruncate($capFh, 0) === false
-        || fwrite($capFh, json_encode($cap)) === false) {
-    flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
-    fclose($capFh);
-    respond(503, ['error' => 'cap_io']);
-}
-fflush($capFh);
-flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
-fclose($capFh);
-
-// ── 5. API key ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 $keyFile = getenv('DEEPSEEK_KEY_FILE') ?: '/etc/gold-dashboard/deepseek.key';
 $apiKey = trim((string)@file_get_contents($keyFile));
 if ($apiKey === '') {
     respond(503, ['error' => 'no_key']);
 }
 
-// ── 6. per-id stampede lock, then re-check the cache ────────────────
+// ── 5. per-id stampede lock, then re-check the cache ────────────────
 $lockFh = @fopen(CACHE_DIR . '/.ht_lock_' . $id, 'c');
 if ($lockFh !== false) {
     flock($lockFh, LOCK_EX);   // blocks while a concurrent winner generates
@@ -172,6 +147,51 @@ if ($lockFh !== false) {
         exit;
     }
 }
+$releaseLock = function () use (&$lockFh) {
+    if ($lockFh !== false) {
+        @flock($lockFh, LOCK_UN);
+        @fclose($lockFh);
+        $lockFh = false;
+    }
+};
+
+// ── 6. daily cap (fail closed) ──────────────────────────────────────
+// Counted HERE, not before the lock: a burst of clicks on one headline
+// makes exactly one DeepSeek call, and the losers are served from the
+// re-checked cache above — charging them against the budget (and
+// charging a request that then found no key) could exhaust the whole
+// 150/day allowance with zero LLM calls made.
+$dailyCap = (int)(getenv('AI_SUMMARY_DAILY_CAP') ?: 150);
+$capFh = @fopen(CAP_FILE, 'c+');
+if ($capFh === false || !flock($capFh, LOCK_EX)) {
+    $releaseLock();
+    respond(503, ['error' => 'cap_io']);
+}
+$today = gmdate('Y-m-d');
+$cap = json_decode((string)stream_get_contents($capFh), true);
+if (!is_array($cap) || ($cap['day'] ?? '') !== $today) {
+    $cap = ['day' => $today, 'count' => 0];
+}
+if ($cap['count'] >= $dailyCap) {
+    flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
+    fclose($capFh);
+    $releaseLock();
+    respond(429, ['error' => 'cap_exceeded']);
+}
+// Increment BEFORE the LLM call — attempts count against the cap
+// (same semantics as llm_client._under_cap).
+$cap['count']++;
+rewind($capFh);
+if (ftruncate($capFh, 0) === false
+        || fwrite($capFh, json_encode($cap)) === false) {
+    flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
+    fclose($capFh);
+    $releaseLock();
+    respond(503, ['error' => 'cap_io']);
+}
+fflush($capFh);
+flock($capFh, LOCK_UN);
+fclose($capFh);
 
 // ── 7. DeepSeek call (exact chat_json body shape) ───────────────────
 $userPayload = json_encode([

test_all.py

@@ -6603,12 +6603,12 @@ def _():
     assert v("risk", {"stance": "neutral", "confidence": -3, "note": ""}).confidence == 0.0
 
 
-@test("agent_panel: <2 valid takes → None without spending synthesizer")
+@test("agent_panel: chair with <2 valid takes → None without spending synthesizer")
 def _():
     try:
         stub = _PanelStub({ap._MACRO_SYSTEM: _TAKE_OK})   # others → None
         lc._client = stub
-        assert ap.run_panel(_panel_report()) is None
+        assert ap.run_panel(_panel_report(), verdict_source="chair") is None
         assert ap._SYNTH_SYSTEM not in [s for s, _ in stub.calls], \
             "synthesizer request must not be spent on a failed panel"
         assert len(stub.calls) == 4
@@ -6617,6 +6617,38 @@ def _():
         ap.reset_panel_state()
 
 
+@test("agent_panel: macro mode yields a verdict from the macro take ALONE")
+def _():
+    # The >=2-take quorum exists to protect the SYNTHESIZER spend. Macro
+    # mode never calls the synthesizer and needs only its own take, so a
+    # slow/failed technical+risk+contrarian must NOT discard a good macro
+    # verdict (the quorum used to run before the macro branch).
+    try:
+        stub = _PanelStub({ap._MACRO_SYSTEM: _TAKE_OK})   # others → None
+        lc._client = stub
+        v = ap.run_panel(_panel_report(), verdict_source="macro")
+        assert v is not None, "macro verdict dropped when alone"
+        assert v.source == "macro" and v.verdict == "AGREE"
+        assert len(v.takes) == 1 and v.takes[0].persona == "macro"
+        assert ap._SYNTH_SYSTEM not in [s for s, _ in stub.calls], \
+            "macro mode must never spend a synthesizer request"
+    finally:
+        lc._client = None
+        ap.reset_panel_state()
+
+
+@test("agent_panel: zero valid takes → None in both verdict modes")
+def _():
+    try:
+        for source in ("macro", "chair"):
+            lc._client = _PanelStub({})       # every persona → None
+            assert ap.run_panel(_panel_report(), verdict_source=source) is None, source
+            ap.reset_panel_state()
+    finally:
+        lc._client = None
+        ap.reset_panel_state()
+
+
 @test("agent_panel: synthesizer failure or garbage verdict → None")
 def _():
     try:
@@ -9010,6 +9042,193 @@ def _():
         pass
 
 
+print("\n═══ Module 28: 2026-09-04 audit fixes ═══")
+
+
+@test("signal_log: inverted logged_at (write-lock race) still marks DUPLICATE")
+def _():
+    # logged_at is stamped BEFORE the row wins the SQLite write lock
+    # (busy_timeout 5 s), so two processes logging the same setup at one
+    # candle boundary can land with timestamp order inverted against id
+    # order. That must not be read as a second, independent trade.
+    import signal_log as slog
+    real_dt = slog.datetime
+    stamp = {"v": "2026-08-19T12:00:30+00:00"}
+
+    class _FakeDT:
+        @staticmethod
+        def now(tz=None):
+            return real_dt.fromisoformat(stamp["v"])
+
+        @staticmethod
+        def fromisoformat(s):
+            return real_dt.fromisoformat(s)
+
+    fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".db")
+    os.close(fd)
+    try:
+        lg = slog.SignalLogger(path)
+        slog.datetime = _FakeDT
+        r1 = lg.log(_m27_report(), source="telegram", timeframe="5min")
+        stamp["v"] = "2026-08-19T12:00:00+00:00"      # EARLIER, but higher id
+        r2 = lg.log(_m27_report(), source="dashboard", timeframe="5min")
+        slog.datetime = real_dt
+        rows = {r[0]: r[1:] for r in lg._conn.execute(
+            "SELECT id, advisory_event_id, advisory_outcome_status FROM signals")}
+        assert rows[r2][1] == "DUPLICATE", (
+            f"negative gap is a lock-order inversion, not a new trade: {rows}")
+        assert rows[r2][0] == r1
+        lg.close()
+    finally:
+        slog.datetime = real_dt
+        os.unlink(path)
+
+
+@test("analyze_signal_log: forward return is None until the horizon elapsed")
+def _():
+    import analyze_signal_log as asl
+    idx = pd.date_range("2026-08-19T00:00:00Z", periods=24, freq="1h")
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"Close": [2400.0 + i for i in range(24)]}, index=idx)
+    ts = idx[-3].to_pydatetime()
+    assert asl._forward_return(df, ts, 2400.0, 1) is not None, \
+        "an elapsed horizon must still measure"
+    assert asl._forward_return(df, ts, 2400.0, 24) is None, \
+        "an unreached horizon must be None, not the latest close"
+    assert asl._forward_return(df, idx[-1].to_pydatetime(), 2400.0, 1) is None
+
+
+@test("analyze_signal_log: persona scorecard counts each event once, not per row")
+def _():
+    import sqlite3
+    import types as _types
+    import analyze_signal_log as asl
+    fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".db")
+    os.close(fd)
+    try:
+        con = sqlite3.connect(path)
+        con.execute("CREATE TABLE signals (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,"
+                    " panel_takes_json TEXT)")
+        takes = json.dumps([{"persona": "macro", "stance": "support",
+                             "confidence": 70, "note": "x"}])
+        con.executemany(
+            "INSERT INTO signals (id, panel_takes_json) VALUES (?,?)",
+            [(1, takes), (2, takes)])
+        con.commit()
+        con.close()
+        # ONE event whose two rows both carry panel takes (same scan
+        # re-logged inside the cluster window).
+        ev = _types.SimpleNamespace(
+            rows=[_types.SimpleNamespace(id=1), _types.SimpleNamespace(id=2)],
+            r_headline=2.0)
+        out = asl.persona_scorecard([], [ev], path)
+        assert len(out) == 1, out
+        assert out[0]["n"] == 1, f"two rows of ONE event must count once: {out}"
+        assert out[0]["mean_r"] == 2.0
+    finally:
+        os.unlink(path)
+
+
+@test("llm_client: failure warnings re-arm after a recovered call")
+def _():
+    import requests as _req
+    import llm_client as _lc
+
+    class _Resp:
+        status_code = 200
+
+        def __init__(self, payload):
+            self._p = payload
+
+        def json(self):
+            return self._p
+
+    class _Sess:
+        def __init__(self, seq):
+            self.seq = list(seq)
+
+        def post(self, *a, **k):
+            item = self.seq.pop(0)
+            if isinstance(item, Exception):
+                raise item
+            return item
+
+    c = _lc.DeepSeekClient("key")
+    c._session = _Sess([
+        _req.RequestException("boom"),
+        _Resp({"choices": [{"message": {"content": '{"ok": 1}'}}]}),
+    ])
+    assert c.chat_json("sys", {}) is None
+    assert "network" in c._warned, "first failure must arm the warn-once flag"
+    assert c.chat_json("sys", {}) == {"ok": 1}
+    assert "network" not in c._warned, \
+        "a recovered call must re-arm so the NEXT outage logs at WARNING"
+
+
+@test("advisory_outcome: evaluator errors are logged, not silently UNRESOLVABLE")
+def _():
+    import advisory_outcome as ao
+    records = []
+
+    class _H(logging.Handler):
+        def emit(self, record):
+            records.append(record)
+
+    handler = _H()
+    ao.logger.addHandler(handler)
+    try:
+        # progress={} makes the evaluator raise KeyError internally.
+        out = ao.advance_outcome(
+            {"status": "PENDING", "progress": {}, "setup": {}, "policy": {},
+             "signal_bar_at": "2026-08-19T12:00:00+00:00", "timeframe": "1h"},
+            [])
+    finally:
+        ao.logger.removeHandler(handler)
+    assert out["status"] == "UNRESOLVABLE", "must stay fail-safe"
+    assert out["result"] is None
+    assert records and max(r.levelno for r in records) >= logging.ERROR, \
+        "a real evaluator fault must be visible in the log"
+
+
+@test("migrate: prune_news_older_than prunes the cutoff calendar day")
+def _():
+    import sqlite3
+    import importlib.util
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
+        "_mig_test", os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),
+                                  "scripts", "migrate_signal_log_news.py"))
+    mig = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(mig)
+
+    fd, path = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".db")
+    os.close(fd)
+    try:
+        con = sqlite3.connect(path)
+        con.execute("CREATE TABLE signals (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,"
+                    " logged_at TEXT, headlines_hash TEXT, events_hash TEXT)")
+        con.execute("CREATE TABLE news_snapshots (hash TEXT PRIMARY KEY,"
+                    " body TEXT)")
+        now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        # Genuinely older than the 30-day cutoff, but on the SAME calendar
+        # day as it — the case the raw string compare put on the wrong side
+        # ('T' sorts after ' ').
+        boundary = (now - timedelta(days=30)).replace(
+            hour=0, minute=0, second=1, microsecond=0).isoformat()
+        con.executemany(
+            "INSERT INTO signals VALUES (?,?,?,?)",
+            [(1, boundary, "h1", "e1"), (2, now.isoformat(), "h2", "e2")])
+        con.executemany("INSERT INTO news_snapshots VALUES (?,?)",
+                        [("h1", "{}"), ("e1", "{}"), ("h2", "{}"), ("e2", "{}")])
+        con.commit()
+        n = mig.prune_news_older_than(con, 30)
+        assert n == 1, f"the cutoff-day row must prune, got {n}"
+        kept = con.execute(
+            "SELECT headlines_hash FROM signals ORDER BY id").fetchall()
+        assert kept == [(None,), ("h2",)], kept
+        con.close()
+    finally:
+        os.unlink(path)
+
+
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