Tomorrow's run would have posted four times into the same group: the day
the bot owed from the catch-up, the week that closed inside it, today, and
August's summary. Four notifications in one evening is how a daily tally
becomes something people mute.
They are blocks in a single message now, separated by a rule because Signal
renders no markdown. That also makes the send atomic: the group gets all of
it or none of it, and nothing is marked either way, where before a day was
marked before its own weekly summary had even been attempted -- so a summary
that failed was simply lost.
The composition moved to reporting.py, both because bot.py hit the 250-line
cap and because it is worth having pure: "what would the group be told?" is
now answerable with no transport and no send.
The closing-time caveat reads the clock instead of REPORT_HOUR. The
scheduled run fires at the configured minute and still says exactly that; a
run started by hand at some other hour now tells the truth rather than
repeating a time nobody waited for.
The 0.1.6 entry gains a bullet rather than taking a new version: no group has
been told about 0.1.6 yet -- every one of them is still recorded at 0.1.5 --
so the release it describes has not happened from their side.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017w1HZ3cZ7neL3rFdQ6VMBA
The scheduler fired exactly on time tonight and posted nothing, because
publish_report covered the previous full day and the bot's first recorded
day was today: "no messages in group.WTI5dVptbG... on 2026-08-29". Correct by
code, a day late to everybody reading the group.
So the report covers the day it runs on. The count closes at the report
time and render_day says so, because a total that quietly omits three hours
is worse than one that admits to it. Everything that made a late day
recoverable stays: the per-group marker still prevents a double post, and
days_to_report still yields every day an outage swallowed.
closing_periods keeps taking a day rather than reading a clock, so a week
now closes on the Sunday evening it ends -- off a day that is itself still
running -- and a catch-up on a week-old Sunday still gets it right.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017w1HZ3cZ7neL3rFdQ6VMBA
A Sunday closes a week, a month's last day closes the month, and
31 December closes the year. Keyed off the day being *reported* rather
than off today, which is the only reading that stays right when the bot
has been offline: catching up on a week-old Sunday now also posts that
week's summary, and there is a test asserting the five messages a
three-day outage produces.
One scheduler, a date predicate. Three background tasks firing at the
same wall-clock time into the same group is three independent ways for
an evening to go wrong, for no gain over an if-statement. A failed
period summary is deliberately best-effort and runs after the day has
been marked, so it cannot make the bot re-post the daily one tomorrow.
Also: the quote frame arrived while this was being written, and it
carries a trap. `quote` has its own nested `attachments` array holding
the *quoted* message's media -- so a text reply to somebody's photo has
attachments in the payload that belong to somebody else. Reading them
would credit the replier with a photo they did not post, in a group
where people reply to photos constantly, inflating one number without
ever looking wrong.
The parser already read the top level only and is correct. It is now
pinned by a test built from the exact captured frame, and written up in
DOCS-signal-envelopes.md, because "it happens to be right" and "it
cannot silently stop being right" are different things. This is the same
wrong-nesting-level mistake that once made the bot ignore its own
stickers.
test_bot.py went past the 250-line cap on the way, so the report and
catch-up tests move into files named for what they cover.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015d48t4qsQLBJnDwDeo2Nom
