[claude] Poka-yoke cron heartbeats — make silent failures impossible (#1096) #1102

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23b63db356 feat(heartbeats): poka-yoke cron heartbeats — make silent failures impossible
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Implements all three acceptance criteria from #1096:

1. **Prevention** — `nexus/cron_heartbeat.py` gives every cron job a
   one-liner to write `/var/run/bezalel/heartbeats/<job>.last` on
   completion (atomic write, fallback to `~/.bezalel/heartbeats/`).
   `nexus_watchdog.py` now writes its own heartbeat after each check.

2. **Detection** — `bin/check_cron_heartbeats.py` is a meta-heartbeat
   checker (run every 15 min via cron) that scans all `.last` files and
   creates/updates/closes a Gitea alert issue if any job has been silent
   for > 2× its declared interval.

3. **Correction** — `bin/night_watch.py` generates the nightly Bezalel
   report and now includes a **Heartbeat Panel** table so stale jobs
   appear in the morning brief.

28 new tests; all 50 tests pass (28 new + 22 existing watchdog tests).

Fixes #1096

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-07 10:35:57 -04:00