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