diff --git a/messages/_pending/b.json b/messages/_pending/b.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8a7fa4f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/messages/_pending/b.json
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+{
+  "en": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "Paused",
+        "pausedHint": "Paused after repeated failures for {count} users until {at}. It is tried again automatically then.",
+        "modelNotServed": "The endpoint no longer offers the model {model}. Choose a model it lists in the AI settings."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "de": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "Pausiert",
+        "pausedHint": "Nach wiederholten Fehlern für {count} Nutzer pausiert bis {at}. Danach wird er automatisch wieder versucht.",
+        "modelNotServed": "Der Endpunkt bietet das Modell {model} nicht mehr an. Wähle in den KI-Einstellungen ein Modell, das er anbietet."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "es": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "En pausa",
+        "pausedHint": "En pausa tras fallos repetidos para {count} usuarios hasta {at}. Después se vuelve a intentar automáticamente.",
+        "modelNotServed": "El endpoint ya no ofrece el modelo {model}. Elige en los ajustes de IA un modelo que ofrezca."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "fr": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "En pause",
+        "pausedHint": "En pause après des échecs répétés pour {count} utilisateurs jusqu’au {at}. Il sera ensuite réessayé automatiquement.",
+        "modelNotServed": "Le point d’accès ne propose plus le modèle {model}. Choisissez dans les réglages IA un modèle qu’il propose."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "it": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "In pausa",
+        "pausedHint": "In pausa dopo errori ripetuti per {count} utenti fino al {at}. Poi viene ritentato automaticamente.",
+        "modelNotServed": "L’endpoint non offre più il modello {model}. Scegli nelle impostazioni IA un modello che offre."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "ko": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "일시 중지됨",
+        "pausedHint": "반복된 오류로 사용자 {count}명에 대해 {at}까지 일시 중지되었습니다. 그 후 자동으로 다시 시도합니다.",
+        "modelNotServed": "엔드포인트가 더 이상 {model} 모델을 제공하지 않습니다. AI 설정에서 제공되는 모델을 선택하세요."
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "pl": {
+    "admin": {
+      "providerHealth": {
+        "statusPaused": "Wstrzymany",
+        "pausedHint": "Wstrzymany po powtarzających się błędach dla {count} użytkowników do {at}. Potem zostanie automatycznie ponowiony.",
+        "modelNotServed": "Punkt końcowy nie oferuje już modelu {model}. Wybierz w ustawieniach AI model, który oferuje."
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/__tests__/derived-response-consumer-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/derived-response-consumer-guard.test.ts
index e219c8b9a..8b58f5780 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/derived-response-consumer-guard.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/derived-response-consumer-guard.test.ts
@@ -972,7 +972,15 @@ describe("derived response consumer guard", () => {
         `derived apiSuccess branch ${index + 1} must preserve producer lineage`,
       ).toEqual(expectedLineage);
     }
-    expect(variableCall(ROUTE_FILE, "derived")).toBe("computeDerivedMetric");
+    // v1.42 — the single read goes through the derived cache; the value is
+    // still the compute's, built inside the cache's builder.
+    const derivedProducer = variableCall(ROUTE_FILE, "derived");
+    expect(["computeDerivedMetric", "cachedSwr"]).toContain(derivedProducer);
+    if (derivedProducer === "cachedSwr") {
+      expect(readFileSync(ROUTE_FILE, "utf8")).toMatch(
+        /const derived = await cachedSwr\([\s\S]*?computeDerivedMetric\(/,
+      );
+    }
     expect(variableCall(ROUTE_FILE, "assessment")).toBe(
       "resolveDerivedAssessment",
     );
diff --git a/src/__tests__/error-level-discipline-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/error-level-discipline-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9dd6e6552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/__tests__/error-level-discipline-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
+/**
+ * A caught error in a background job is either reported or explained.
+ *
+ * The failures that cost the most in this codebase were never thrown at
+ * anyone: a nightly pass that caught its error, annotated an `info` line and
+ * carried on, completed in pg-boss every night while doing nothing. The
+ * briefing warm read "all-failed" for a week before anyone could tell which
+ * account and why; the environment fetch threw on every run for the life of
+ * the module. A `catch` that drops what it caught is where that starts.
+ *
+ * Scope: every `catch` clause and every `.catch(handler)` under
+ * `src/lib/jobs/` (tests excluded). A catch passes when its body does one of:
+ *
+ *   - rethrows, rejects, or hands the error to a stream callback;
+ *   - fails the job (`jobFailed`);
+ *   - logs at warn or error: `logCaught` / `caughtAs`, `emitSignal`,
+ *     `reportWorkerError`,
+ *     `addWarning`, `setError`, `elevateLevel`, `workerLog("error", …)`,
+ *     `console.error` / `console.warn`;
+ *   - writes the failure to a ledger an operator surface reads
+ *     (`recordSyncFailure`, `failAiRun`, `markFailed`,
+ *     `recordThumbnailFailure`, `recordBriefingFailure`);
+ *   - counts it into a failure tally (`failed += 1`, `errored++`,
+ *     `failedSubjects.set(…)`) that the job reports in its outcome facts, so a
+ *     systemic failure shows as a count and a partial run as
+ *     `job.run.partial`;
+ *   - hands it back to its caller in the result (`error: err…`), which is
+ *     how every boot-time discovery enqueue reports to the registrar that
+ *     logs it at error.
+ *
+ * Anything else is listed in `ALLOWED` below with the reason it may stay
+ * silent, keyed by file and enclosing function, with how many such catches
+ * that function holds. The reasons are the review: "best effort" is not one;
+ * "the pgboss schema is absent on a web-only deployment and null is the
+ * documented answer" is.
+ *
+ * The list cannot rot quietly in either direction. A new silent catch fails
+ * the second case. An entry whose catches were fixed or removed fails the
+ * third case (stale entry). And the fourth case removes each entry in turn
+ * and asserts the sweep goes red without it, so every entry is shown to be
+ * load-bearing, and the sweep is shown to find what it claims to find.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import ts from "typescript";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { walkSourceFiles } from "./helpers/source-files";
+
+const SRC = join(process.cwd(), "src");
+const SCOPE = "lib/jobs/";
+
+const REPORTS =
+  /\bthrow\b|\breject\(|\bcallback\(\s*err|\bjobFailed\(|\blogCaught\(|\bcaughtAs\(|\bemitSignal\(|\breportWorkerError\(|\.addWarning\(|\.setError\(|\belevateLevel\(|\bworkerLog\(\s*["']error|\bconsole\.(error|warn)\(|\brecordSyncFailure\(|\bfailAiRun\(|\bmarkFailed\(|\brecordThumbnailFailure\(|\brecordBriefingFailure\(|\berror:\s*err\b/;
+
+/** A failure tally: `summary.failed += 1`, `errored++`, `failures += 1`. */
+const COUNTS =
+  /\b[\w.]*(?:failed|failures|errored|Failed|Failures)\w*\s*(?:\+=|\+\+|\.set\(|\.push\()/;
+
+interface Finding {
+  /** `<file under src>::<enclosing function>` */
+  key: string;
+  line: number;
+  body: string;
+}
+
+function scan(file: string, text: string): Finding[] {
+  const sf = ts.createSourceFile(file, text, ts.ScriptTarget.Latest, true);
+  const out: Finding[] = [];
+  const visit = (node: ts.Node, fn: string): void => {
+    let name = fn;
+    if (
+      (ts.isFunctionDeclaration(node) || ts.isMethodDeclaration(node)) &&
+      node.name
+    ) {
+      name = node.name.getText(sf);
+    } else if (
+      ts.isVariableDeclaration(node) &&
+      node.initializer &&
+      (ts.isArrowFunction(node.initializer) ||
+        ts.isFunctionExpression(node.initializer))
+    ) {
+      name = node.name.getText(sf);
+    }
+    let body: string | null = null;
+    if (ts.isCatchClause(node)) body = node.block.getText(sf);
+    if (
+      ts.isCallExpression(node) &&
+      ts.isPropertyAccessExpression(node.expression) &&
+      node.expression.name.getText(sf) === "catch" &&
+      node.arguments[0]
+    ) {
+      body = node.arguments[0].getText(sf);
+    }
+    if (body !== null && !REPORTS.test(body) && !COUNTS.test(body)) {
+      out.push({
+        key: `${file}::${name}`,
+        line: sf.getLineAndCharacterOfPosition(node.getStart(sf)).line + 1,
+        body,
+      });
+    }
+    ts.forEachChild(node, (child) => visit(child, name));
+  };
+  visit(sf, "<module>");
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Catches allowed to stay silent, by file and function: how many, and why.
+ * Keep the reason checkable against the code it names.
+ */
+const ALLOWED: Readonly<Record<string, { count: number; reason: string }>> = {
+  "lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts::reconcileOrphanImportJobs": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "A failed live-state lookup reads as live on purpose: the heartbeat is fresh, flipping a running import would kill it, and the next boot re-evaluates once the heartbeat goes stale.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts::safeUnlink": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Deleting a staged file that a previous step or sweep already removed; ENOENT is the expected case and nothing is lost either way.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts::writeProgress": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "A progress tick for the status poll; the next tick rewrites it and the job's own outcome is recorded by `finish`.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts::runBackupRestoreJob": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Waits out the in-flight progress write before the final state is written; that write's failure is the progress tick's, see writeProgress.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts::sweepInterruptedRestores": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Completing the dead worker's superseded pg-boss delivery; if it fails the delivery expires on its own, and the restore row it belonged to is already failed and counted.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/boss-instance.ts::startProducerAttempts": {
+    count: 2,
+    reason:
+      "The start error is kept and thrown after the last attempt; stopping a boss that never started can only fail for the same reason.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/boss-instance.ts::superviseProducerReconnect": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Stopping the producer whose connection already failed, before reconnecting; the reconnect loop reports its own failures.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/free-text-encryption-backfill.ts::scrubContactAuditDetails": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "A parser: details that are not this action's JSON are left alone by contract (null means 'nothing to scrub'), not an error.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/geo-backfill.ts::runGeoBackfill": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "The row was deleted by the retention sweep between read and update; counted as still unresolved, and the next pass no longer sees it.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler.ts::captureHostMetric": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Disk counters exist only on Linux; elsewhere the sample records null for them by design.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/host-metric-sampler.ts::readLinuxDiskStats": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason: "No /proc/diskstats outside Linux; see captureHostMetric.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readActiveJobsStartedBefore": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "No pgboss schema on a web-only deployment; null is the documented 'no queue to ask', kept apart from an empty list.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readConsecutiveRunFailures": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Called from a failure path that is already logging at error; when the queue cannot be read, 1 (this run) is the only known count.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readFailingQueues": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason: "See readActiveJobsStartedBefore: null means no queue schema.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readLastQueueRun": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason: "See readActiveJobsStartedBefore: null means no queue schema.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readQueueFailureForUser": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason: "See readActiveJobsStartedBefore: null means no queue schema.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts::readQueueRunningSince": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason: "See readActiveJobsStartedBefore: null means no queue schema.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/job-observer.ts::emitJobLine": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "The catch around writing a log line itself; there is nowhere further to log to, and a log line must not break the job.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/offhost-backup.ts::getS3Client": {
+    count: 2,
+    reason:
+      "headObject answers 'absent' for a missing object (its contract), and the lifecycle read maps NoSuchLifecycleConfiguration to 'missing' and anything else to 'unknown', which the status card shows.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/offhost-backup.ts::loadOffhostConfigSafe": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "A malformed key reads as 'not configured' for the status card; the backup pass itself calls the throwing loader and fails loudly.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/offhost-backup.ts::probeOffhostLifecycle": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "The lifecycle probe answers 'unknown', which the admin card renders as such; it is a display read, not a pass.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/offhost-backup.ts::runOffhostRoundtripTest": {
+    count: 2,
+    reason:
+      "The admin's connection test returns its error in the result it shows (ok: false, error), and deleting its own probe object is cleanup.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/offhost-backup.ts::withEachKey": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Trying each key of the ring in turn; the last error is thrown when no key opens the object.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/reminder/medication-reminder-check.ts::cleanupScheduledTelegramDeletions":
+    {
+      count: 1,
+      reason:
+        "Deleting a reminder message the person usually already deleted; the scheduled row is removed either way, and logging every expected 400 would bury the real ones.",
+    },
+  "lib/jobs/reminder/polar-sync.ts::syncUserPolarLegs": {
+    count: 2,
+    reason:
+      "Both legs run, the first error is kept and thrown after the second leg.",
+  },
+  "lib/jobs/restore-drill.ts::runRestoreDrill": {
+    count: 1,
+    reason:
+      "The per-account drill failure is recorded on the account's result (ok: false, error) and counted into the run's restore_drill_accounts_failed fact.",
+  },
+};
+
+function sweep(): Finding[] {
+  return walkSourceFiles(join(SRC, SCOPE), { floor: 100 })
+    .filter((p) => !p.includes("__tests__") && !p.endsWith(".test.ts"))
+    .flatMap((p) =>
+      scan(`${SCOPE}${p}`, readFileSync(join(SRC, SCOPE, p), "utf8")),
+    );
+}
+
+function unallowed(
+  findings: readonly Finding[],
+  allowed: Readonly<Record<string, { count: number }>>,
+): string[] {
+  const byKey = new Map<string, Finding[]>();
+  for (const f of findings) {
+    byKey.set(f.key, [...(byKey.get(f.key) ?? []), f]);
+  }
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  for (const [key, list] of byKey) {
+    const allowance = allowed[key]?.count ?? 0;
+    if (list.length > allowance) {
+      for (const f of list.slice(allowance)) {
+        out.push(
+          `${key} (line ${f.line}): ${f.body.replace(/\s+/g, " ").slice(0, 120)}`,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out.sort();
+}
+
+describe("error-level discipline in background jobs", () => {
+  it("the scanner flags a silent catch and passes a reported one", () => {
+    const planted = scan(
+      "lib/jobs/planted.ts",
+      [
+        "async function quiet() { try { await a(); } catch { /* best effort */ } }",
+        "async function info() { try { await a(); } catch (e) { annotate({ action: { name: 'x.failed' } }); } }",
+        "async function chained() { await a().catch(() => {}); }",
+        "async function loud() { try { await a(); } catch (e) { logCaught('x.y.failed', e); } }",
+        "async function counted() { try { await a(); } catch { summary.failed += 1; } }",
+        "async function rethrown() { try { await a(); } catch (e) { throw e; } }",
+      ].join("\n"),
+    );
+    expect(planted.map((f) => f.key)).toEqual([
+      "lib/jobs/planted.ts::quiet",
+      "lib/jobs/planted.ts::info",
+      "lib/jobs/planted.ts::chained",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("every silent catch in src/lib/jobs is fixed or explained", () => {
+    expect(unallowed(sweep(), ALLOWED)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("no allow-list entry outlives the catches it explains", () => {
+    const counts = new Map<string, number>();
+    for (const f of sweep()) counts.set(f.key, (counts.get(f.key) ?? 0) + 1);
+    const stale = Object.entries(ALLOWED)
+      .filter(([key, { count }]) => (counts.get(key) ?? 0) < count)
+      .map(
+        ([key, { count }]) =>
+          `${key}: allows ${count}, finds ${counts.get(key) ?? 0}`,
+      );
+    expect(stale).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("every allow-list entry is load-bearing: removing it turns the sweep red", () => {
+    const findings = sweep();
+    const notLoadBearing = Object.keys(ALLOWED).filter((key) => {
+      const without = { ...ALLOWED };
+      delete (without as Record<string, unknown>)[key];
+      return unallowed(findings, without).length === 0;
+    });
+    expect(notLoadBearing).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/__tests__/job-retention-floor-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/job-retention-floor-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..52aeedb38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/__tests__/job-retention-floor-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+/**
+ * No queue may forget its failed jobs before the failure readers look.
+ *
+ * `job-failures.ts` reads pg-boss's own `state = 'failed'` rows over a 72-hour
+ * window: the admin status card, the per-account "last run failed" hint and
+ * the repeated-failure count behind the `job.run.failed` alert all rest on
+ * those rows still existing. pg-boss deletes a terminal row
+ * `deleteAfterSeconds` after it finished. v1.42 shortens that option on the
+ * pure-volume queues, and a value under the reader window would make a
+ * failing queue read as healthy, with nothing anywhere saying so.
+ *
+ * The rule: a `deleteAfterSeconds` in the source is either produced by
+ * `failureReaderRetention(hours)` (which throws under the floor) or written as
+ * a plain literal at or above `FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS`. Anything
+ * else, a named constant included, fails here, because a constant's value is
+ * not checkable from the call site and the helper exists to make it so.
+ *
+ * Mutation check, run when this guard was written: a planted
+ * `deleteAfterSeconds: 48 * 60 * 60` in a job file fails the second case, and
+ * `deleteAfterSeconds: VOLUME_SECONDS` fails it too; the matcher self-test
+ * below proves the scan sees both shapes, so an empty sweep is not mistaken
+ * for a clean one.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { walkSourceFiles } from "./helpers/source-files";
+import { FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS } from "@/lib/jobs/job-failures";
+
+const SRC = join(process.cwd(), "src");
+const FLOOR_SECONDS = FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS * 3600;
+
+/** The one file allowed to spell the option out: the helper itself. */
+const HELPER_FILE = "lib/jobs/job-failures.ts";
+
+const OPTION = /\bdeleteAfterSeconds\s*:\s*([^,}\n]+)/g;
+
+/** Evaluate a sum of products of integer literals; null for anything else. */
+function literalSeconds(expression: string): number | null {
+  const cleaned = expression.trim().replace(/_/g, "");
+  if (!/^\d+(\s*[*+]\s*\d+)*$/.test(cleaned)) return null;
+  return cleaned
+    .split("+")
+    .map((term) =>
+      term
+        .split("*")
+        .map((factor) => Number(factor.trim()))
+        .reduce((a, b) => a * b, 1),
+    )
+    .reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+}
+
+interface Finding {
+  file: string;
+  expression: string;
+}
+
+function scan(file: string, text: string): Finding[] {
+  const out: Finding[] = [];
+  for (const match of text.matchAll(OPTION)) {
+    out.push({ file, expression: match[1].trim() });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+function violations(findings: readonly Finding[]): string[] {
+  return findings
+    .filter((f) => {
+      const seconds = literalSeconds(f.expression);
+      return seconds === null || seconds < FLOOR_SECONDS;
+    })
+    .map((f) => `${f.file}: deleteAfterSeconds: ${f.expression}`);
+}
+
+function sourceFindings(): Finding[] {
+  return walkSourceFiles(SRC, { floor: 3000 })
+    .filter((p) => !p.startsWith("generated/"))
+    .filter((p) => !p.includes("__tests__"))
+    .filter((p) => !p.endsWith(".test.ts") && !p.endsWith(".test.tsx"))
+    .filter((p) => p !== HELPER_FILE)
+    .flatMap((p) => scan(p, readFileSync(join(SRC, p), "utf8")));
+}
+
+describe("job retention floor", () => {
+  it("the matcher sees both a short literal and a named constant", () => {
+    const planted = scan(
+      "planted.ts",
+      [
+        "await boss.createQueue(Q, { deleteAfterSeconds: 48 * 60 * 60 });",
+        "await boss.createQueue(R, { deleteAfterSeconds: VOLUME_SECONDS });",
+        "await boss.createQueue(S, { deleteAfterSeconds: 7 * 24 * 3600 });",
+      ].join("\n"),
+    );
+    expect(planted).toHaveLength(3);
+    expect(violations(planted)).toEqual([
+      "planted.ts: deleteAfterSeconds: 48 * 60 * 60",
+      "planted.ts: deleteAfterSeconds: VOLUME_SECONDS",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("every queue retention in the tree keeps failed rows past the reader window", () => {
+    expect(violations(sourceFindings())).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/__tests__/route.test.ts b/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/__tests__/route.test.ts
index 408ba63ea..6735c919b 100644
--- a/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/__tests__/route.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/__tests__/route.test.ts
@@ -17,13 +17,24 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
   prisma: {
     providerHealth: {
       groupBy: vi.fn(),
+      // v1.42 — the paused rows.
+      findMany: vi.fn(async () => []),
     },
     coachUsage: {
       aggregate: vi.fn(),
     },
+    // v1.42 — the operator key's model check reads the admin settings.
+    appSettings: { findUnique: vi.fn(async () => null) },
   },
 }));
 
+// v1.42 — the model check probes the operator endpoint's listing.
+const probeModelListing = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/model-availability", () => ({
+  probeModelListing: (...a: unknown[]) => probeModelListing(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/crypto", () => ({ decrypt: (v: string) => v }));
+
 vi.mock("@/lib/api-handler", async () => {
   const actual =
     await vi.importActual<typeof import("@/lib/api-handler")>(
@@ -115,6 +126,9 @@ describe("GET /api/admin/provider-health", () => {
         lastOkAt: "2026-08-27T07:00:00.000Z",
         lastFailureAt: "2026-08-27T06:00:00.000Z",
         lastFailureStatus: 503,
+        pausedUsers: 0,
+        pausedUntil: null,
+        modelListing: null,
       },
     ]);
   });
@@ -257,3 +271,89 @@ describe("GET /api/admin/provider-health", () => {
     expect(body.data.providers).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("GET /api/admin/provider-health — pause and model check (v1.42)", () => {
+  const findMany = vi.mocked(prisma.providerHealth.findMany);
+  const settings = vi.mocked(prisma.appSettings.findUnique);
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    vi.mocked(requireAdmin).mockResolvedValue({
+      user: { id: "admin" },
+    } as never);
+    aggregate.mockResolvedValue({
+      _sum: { totalTokens: 0, operatorTokens: 0 },
+    } as never);
+    findMany.mockResolvedValue([] as never);
+    settings.mockResolvedValue(null as never);
+  });
+
+  it("counts the users a provider is paused for and when the last pause lifts", async () => {
+    groupBy.mockResolvedValue([
+      group("admin-openai", "hard_failed", 2, {
+        consecutiveFailures: 1766,
+        lastFailureAt: new Date("2026-10-08T04:31:00Z"),
+        lastStatus: 500,
+      }),
+    ] as never);
+    findMany.mockResolvedValue([
+      {
+        providerType: "admin-openai",
+        nextRetryAt: new Date("2026-10-08T05:01:00Z"),
+      },
+      {
+        providerType: "admin-openai",
+        nextRetryAt: new Date("2026-10-09T04:31:00Z"),
+      },
+    ] as never);
+
+    const body = await (await GET()).json();
+    expect(body.data.providers[0]).toMatchObject({
+      pausedUsers: 2,
+      pausedUntil: "2026-10-09T04:31:00.000Z",
+    });
+    // Only rows past the pause threshold, inside their window, are read.
+    expect(findMany.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      where: {
+        lastResult: "hard_failed",
+        consecutiveFailures: { gte: 5 },
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("names a model the operator's endpoint no longer lists", async () => {
+    groupBy.mockResolvedValue([
+      group("admin-openai", "hard_failed", 1, {
+        consecutiveFailures: 9,
+        lastFailureAt: new Date("2026-10-08T04:31:00Z"),
+        lastStatus: 500,
+      }),
+    ] as never);
+    settings.mockResolvedValue({
+      adminAiModel: "gpt-5.4-mini",
+      adminAiBaseUrl: "http://openai-oauth-proxy:10531/v1",
+      adminAiKeyEncrypted: "key",
+    } as never);
+    probeModelListing.mockResolvedValue("not_listed");
+
+    const body = await (await GET()).json();
+    expect(body.data.providers[0].modelListing).toEqual({
+      model: "gpt-5.4-mini",
+      listing: "not_listed",
+    });
+    expect(probeModelListing).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ operatorTrusted: true, model: "gpt-5.4-mini" }),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("does not probe while the operator's key is healthy", async () => {
+    groupBy.mockResolvedValue([
+      group("admin-openai", "ok", 4, {
+        lastOkAt: new Date("2026-10-08T04:31:00Z"),
+      }),
+    ] as never);
+    const body = await (await GET()).json();
+    expect(body.data.providers[0].modelListing).toBeNull();
+    expect(probeModelListing).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/route.ts b/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/route.ts
index 74579d8c3..199d99923 100644
--- a/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/admin/provider-health/route.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { apiSuccess } from "@/lib/api-response";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 import { OPERATOR_HELD_PROVIDER_TYPES } from "@/lib/ai/provider-egress";
+import { PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD } from "@/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger";
+import {
+  probeModelListing,
+  type ModelListing,
+} from "@/lib/ai/model-availability";
+import { decrypt } from "@/lib/crypto";
+import { isAnthropicBaseUrl } from "@/lib/ai/provider";
+import { isCanonicalOpenAIEndpoint } from "@/lib/ai/openai-capabilities";
 
 export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
 
@@ -42,6 +50,20 @@ interface ProviderHealthSummary {
    * success clears the status along with the rest of the failure state.
    */
   lastFailureStatus: number | null;
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — users whose chain has this provider PAUSED right now (a run of
+   * hard failures past the pause threshold, inside its window). The chain
+   * walks a paused provider last and tries it again once the window lifts.
+   */
+  pausedUsers: number;
+  /** When the latest of those pauses lifts. Null when none is paused. */
+  pausedUntil: string | null;
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — for the operator's own key while it is failing: whether its
+   * endpoint still lists the configured model. `not_listed` is the fix the
+   * card names; null when there is nothing to check.
+   */
+  modelListing: { model: string; listing: ModelListing } | null;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -71,6 +93,19 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
     },
   });
 
+  // v1.42 — paused providers: a hard-failure run at or past the threshold,
+  // inside its window. Read as rows (one per user and type, two columns) so
+  // the count and the latest lift time are exact, not folded from a group.
+  const now = new Date();
+  const pausedRows = await prisma.providerHealth.findMany({
+    where: {
+      lastResult: "hard_failed",
+      consecutiveFailures: { gte: PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD },
+      nextRetryAt: { gt: now },
+    },
+    select: { providerType: true, nextRetryAt: true },
+  });
+
   const byType = new Map<string, ProviderHealthSummary>();
   for (const g of groups) {
     const row = byType.get(g.providerType) ?? {
@@ -81,6 +116,9 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
       lastOkAt: null,
       lastFailureAt: null,
       lastFailureStatus: null,
+      pausedUsers: 0,
+      pausedUntil: null,
+      modelListing: null,
     };
     row.tracked += g._count._all;
     if (g.lastResult !== "ok") {
@@ -103,6 +141,21 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
     byType.set(g.providerType, row);
   }
 
+  for (const paused of pausedRows) {
+    const row = byType.get(paused.providerType);
+    if (!row || paused.nextRetryAt === null) continue;
+    row.pausedUsers += 1;
+    const until = paused.nextRetryAt.toISOString();
+    if (!row.pausedUntil || until > row.pausedUntil) row.pausedUntil = until;
+  }
+
+  // The operator's own key, while it is failing: does its endpoint still list
+  // the configured model? A free GET, cached; only on this admin read.
+  const adminRow = byType.get("admin-openai");
+  if (adminRow && adminRow.failing > 0) {
+    adminRow.modelListing = await adminModelListing();
+  }
+
   const providers = [...byType.values()].sort((a, b) => {
     const ca = CENTRAL_TYPES.indexOf(a.providerType);
     const cb = CENTRAL_TYPES.indexOf(b.providerType);
@@ -136,3 +189,42 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
     },
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * The model check for the operator's key. Never fails the readout: a missing
+ * settings row, a key that does not decrypt, or a probe error is simply no
+ * answer.
+ */
+async function adminModelListing(): Promise<{
+  model: string;
+  listing: ModelListing;
+} | null> {
+  try {
+    const settings = await prisma.appSettings.findUnique({
+      where: { id: "singleton" },
+      select: {
+        adminAiModel: true,
+        adminAiBaseUrl: true,
+        adminAiKeyEncrypted: true,
+      },
+    });
+    if (!settings?.adminAiKeyEncrypted) return null;
+    const baseUrl = settings.adminAiBaseUrl ?? "https://api.openai.com/v1";
+    // The same scope as the client's own check: an OpenAI-compatible
+    // endpoint the operator typed. `api.openai.com` names a missing model in
+    // its own error; Anthropic lists models on a different contract.
+    if (isCanonicalOpenAIEndpoint(baseUrl) || isAnthropicBaseUrl(baseUrl)) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    const model = settings.adminAiModel ?? "gpt-4o";
+    const listing = await probeModelListing({
+      baseUrl,
+      apiKey: decrypt(settings.adminAiKeyEncrypted),
+      model,
+      operatorTrusted: true,
+    });
+    return { model, listing };
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/app/api/insights/derived/__tests__/route.test.ts b/src/app/api/insights/derived/__tests__/route.test.ts
index 2a3f56e68..efdb4407d 100644
--- a/src/app/api/insights/derived/__tests__/route.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/insights/derived/__tests__/route.test.ts
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ import { getSession } from "@/lib/auth/session";
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { computeDerivedMetric } from "@/lib/insights/derived";
 import { DERIVED_MAX_WINDOW_DAYS } from "@/lib/insights/derived/types";
+import { __resetAllCachesForTests } from "@/lib/cache/server-cache";
 
 const SESSION_OK = {
   session: { id: "sess-1", expiresAt: new Date(Date.now() + 3_600_000) },
@@ -119,6 +120,8 @@ function makeReqWith(params: Record<string, string>): NextRequest {
 
 beforeEach(() => {
   vi.clearAllMocks();
+  // v1.42 — the route reads through the derived cache now.
+  __resetAllCachesForTests();
   vi.mocked(prisma.appSettings.findUnique).mockResolvedValue(null as never);
   vi.mocked(prisma.user.findUnique).mockResolvedValue({
     dateOfBirth: new Date("1986-01-01"),
@@ -270,3 +273,34 @@ describe("GET /api/insights/derived — windowDays", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+// v1.42 — the single-score read was the one derived surface with no cache:
+// every open of a score's detail recomputed it over the rollup tier.
+describe("GET /api/insights/derived — read-through cache (v1.42)", () => {
+  it("serves a repeat read from the cache, per metric, type and window", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(getSession).mockResolvedValue(SESSION_OK as never);
+    await callGet(makeReq("VITALS_BASELINE", "RESTING_HEART_RATE"));
+    await callGet(makeReq("VITALS_BASELINE", "RESTING_HEART_RATE"));
+    expect(computeDerivedMetric).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    await callGet(makeReq("VITALS_BASELINE", "WEIGHT"));
+    await callGet(
+      makeReqWith({
+        metric: "VITALS_BASELINE",
+        type: "RESTING_HEART_RATE",
+        windowDays: "7",
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(computeDerivedMetric).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
+  });
+
+  it("recomputes after the account's measurements change", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(getSession).mockResolvedValue(SESSION_OK as never);
+    const { invalidateUserMeasurements } =
+      await import("@/lib/cache/invalidate");
+    await callGet(makeReq("VITALS_BASELINE", "RESTING_HEART_RATE"));
+    invalidateUserMeasurements("user-1");
+    await callGet(makeReq("VITALS_BASELINE", "RESTING_HEART_RATE"));
+    expect(computeDerivedMetric).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/api/insights/derived/route.ts b/src/app/api/insights/derived/route.ts
index 2438fd636..ae67d9a22 100644
--- a/src/app/api/insights/derived/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/insights/derived/route.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
  * The `data` payload is the flat `Derived<T>` union so iOS can decode +
  * combine values across metrics: `{ metric, status, value?, coverage,
  * confidence?, provenance, reason? }`. Numbers are pure compute over the
- * rollup tier (Tier-1, no narrative) — no provider call, no cache table.
+ * rollup tier (Tier-1, no narrative) — no provider call, no cache table;
+ * since v1.42 the in-process derived cache, as the batch route uses.
  *
  * Wave 1 implements `VITALS_BASELINE` end-to-end; other registered ids
  * return a `not_implemented` insufficient until their compute lands in a
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ import { DERIVED_MAX_WINDOW_DAYS } from "@/lib/insights/derived/types";
 import { resolveDerivedAssessment } from "@/lib/insights/derived/derived-assessment-ai";
 import { resolveServerLocale } from "@/lib/i18n/server-locale";
 import { aiCapabilityToServe } from "@/lib/ai/capabilities/gate";
+import { cachedSwr, caches, type ServerCache } from "@/lib/cache/server-cache";
 
 export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
 
@@ -122,14 +124,31 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async (request: NextRequest) => {
     if (!gate.enabled) return gate.response;
   }
 
-  const profile = await loadBaselineProfile(prisma, user.id);
-  const derived = await computeDerivedMetric({
-    metric,
-    userId: user.id,
-    profile,
-    type: parsed.data.type ?? null,
-    windowDays: parsed.data.windowDays,
-  });
+  // v1.42 — read-through the per-user derived cache with
+  // stale-while-revalidate, like the batch grid beside it. This single-score
+  // read was the one derived surface that recomputed on every request: the
+  // score detail sheet asks for it on each open, and a composite walks the
+  // rollup tier once per input. Same bucket, so the invalidation the batch
+  // relies on covers it unchanged (measurement writes evict or mark the
+  // `${userId}|` prefix stale, mood writes mark it stale). The module gate
+  // above and the AI assessment below stay per request.
+  const type = parsed.data.type ?? null;
+  const windowDays = parsed.data.windowDays;
+  const derived = await cachedSwr(
+    caches.insightsDerived as ServerCache<
+      Awaited<ReturnType<typeof computeDerivedMetric>>
+    >,
+    `${user.id}|single|${metric}|${type ?? ""}|${windowDays ?? ""}`,
+    async () =>
+      computeDerivedMetric({
+        metric,
+        userId: user.id,
+        profile: await loadBaselineProfile(prisma, user.id),
+        type,
+        windowDays,
+      }),
+    annotate,
+  );
 
   annotate({
     action: { name: "insights.derived" },
diff --git a/src/components/admin/provider-health-section.tsx b/src/components/admin/provider-health-section.tsx
index 273c3559b..c0e0c066e 100644
--- a/src/components/admin/provider-health-section.tsx
+++ b/src/components/admin/provider-health-section.tsx
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ interface ProviderHealthRow {
   lastOkAt: string | null;
   lastFailureAt: string | null;
   lastFailureStatus: number | null;
+  /** v1.42 — users this provider is paused for, and when the last lifts. */
+  pausedUsers?: number;
+  pausedUntil?: string | null;
+  /** v1.42 — the operator key's model check, while it is failing. */
+  modelListing?: {
+    model: string;
+    listing: "listed" | "not_listed" | "unknown";
+  } | null;
 }
 
 export function ProviderHealthSection() {
@@ -151,11 +159,33 @@ export function ProviderHealthSection() {
                       })}`
                     : ""}
                 </span>
+                {p.pausedUsers && p.pausedUntil ? (
+                  <span
+                    className="text-muted-foreground text-xs"
+                    data-slot="provider-paused"
+                  >
+                    {t("admin.providerHealth.pausedHint", {
+                      count: p.pausedUsers,
+                      at: formatDateTime(p.pausedUntil),
+                    })}
+                  </span>
+                ) : null}
+                {p.modelListing?.listing === "not_listed" ? (
+                  <span className="text-sm" data-slot="provider-model-missing">
+                    {t("admin.providerHealth.modelNotServed", {
+                      model: p.modelListing.model,
+                    })}
+                  </span>
+                ) : null}
               </div>
               {p.failing === 0 ? (
                 <Badge variant="secondary">
                   {t("admin.providerHealth.statusHealthy")}
                 </Badge>
+              ) : p.pausedUsers ? (
+                <Badge variant="destructive">
+                  {t("admin.providerHealth.statusPaused")}
+                </Badge>
               ) : (
                 <Badge variant="destructive">
                   {t("admin.providerHealth.statusFailing", {
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/codex-oauth.test.ts b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/codex-oauth.test.ts
index 281efe1be..1092e26af 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/codex-oauth.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/codex-oauth.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import {
   requestDeviceCode,
   pollDeviceCode,
   refreshDeviceTokens,
+  CodexRefreshError,
+  codexReconnectRequired,
   encryptCodexCreds,
   decryptCodexCreds,
   getCodexClientId,
@@ -172,6 +174,76 @@ describe("codex-oauth", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe("refreshDeviceTokens failures", () => {
+    function failWith(status: number, body: string) {
+      global.fetch = vi.fn(
+        async () =>
+          new Response(body, {
+            status,
+            headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+          }),
+      ) as never;
+    }
+
+    async function refreshError(): Promise<CodexRefreshError> {
+      try {
+        await refreshDeviceTokens("refresh-dead");
+      } catch (err) {
+        return err as CodexRefreshError;
+      }
+      throw new Error("refresh unexpectedly succeeded");
+    }
+
+    it("reads a dead refresh token as an expired credential with an auth status", async () => {
+      // The production shape: 401 with `invalid_refresh_token`.
+      failWith(401, JSON.stringify({ error: "invalid_refresh_token" }));
+      const err = await refreshError();
+      expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(CodexRefreshError);
+      expect(err.httpStatus).toBe(401);
+      expect(err.credentialExpired).toBe(true);
+      expect(err.oauthError).toBe("invalid_refresh_token");
+    });
+
+    it("classifies invalid_grant on a 400 as a dead credential (401), not a request bug", async () => {
+      failWith(
+        400,
+        JSON.stringify({
+          error: { code: "invalid_grant", message: "Refresh token revoked" },
+        }),
+      );
+      const err = await refreshError();
+      expect(err.httpStatus).toBe(401);
+      expect(err.credentialExpired).toBe(true);
+      expect(err.oauthError).toBe("invalid_grant");
+    });
+
+    it("keeps the status of a refusal that is not about the credential", async () => {
+      failWith(503, "upstream unavailable");
+      const err = await refreshError();
+      expect(err.httpStatus).toBe(503);
+      expect(err.credentialExpired).toBe(false);
+      expect(err.oauthError).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it("never quotes the response body in the message", async () => {
+      failWith(
+        401,
+        JSON.stringify({
+          error: "invalid_refresh_token",
+          error_description: "token rt-secret-value was revoked",
+        }),
+      );
+      const err = await refreshError();
+      expect(err.message).not.toContain("rt-secret-value");
+    });
+
+    it("codexReconnectRequired carries the same auth contract", () => {
+      const err = codexReconnectRequired("no refresh token");
+      expect(err.httpStatus).toBe(401);
+      expect(err.credentialExpired).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe("encryptCodexCreds / decryptCodexCreds", () => {
     it("round-trips access token, refresh token, and account id", () => {
       const expiresAt = new Date(Date.now() + 3600_000);
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/model-availability.test.ts b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/model-availability.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e24bb5e47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/model-availability.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — a provider that stopped offering the configured model says so.
+ *
+ * The operator's OAuth proxy reinstalled itself at a newer version, dropped
+ * the configured model name, and answered every call with a bare HTTP 500.
+ * The chain recorded a generic failure 1 766 times in a row. These cases pin
+ * the diagnosis: after a 5xx from a non-canonical endpoint the client asks
+ * the endpoint's free `/models` listing, and a listing without the model
+ * turns the error into one that names the cause (`modelNotServed`), which
+ * the chain's hop line carries as `model_not_served`.
+ */
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { OpenAIClient } from "../openai-client";
+import {
+  clearModelListingCache,
+  probeModelListing,
+} from "../model-availability";
+import { singleUserTurn } from "../types";
+
+// safeFetch's requirePublicHost path runs through undici's own `fetch`;
+// delegate it to the global stub so the interception still applies.
+vi.mock("undici", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("undici")>();
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    fetch: (input: unknown, init?: unknown) =>
+      (globalThis.fetch as unknown as (i: unknown, n?: unknown) => unknown)(
+        input,
+        init,
+      ),
+  };
+});
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/context", () => ({ annotate: vi.fn() }));
+const emitSignal = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/signal", () => ({
+  emitSignal: (...a: unknown[]) => emitSignal(...a),
+}));
+
+const PROXY = "https://oauth-proxy.example.com/v1";
+
+function listing(ids: string[]) {
+  return {
+    ok: true,
+    status: 200,
+    json: () => Promise.resolve({ data: ids.map((id) => ({ id })) }),
+  };
+}
+
+function serverError() {
+  return {
+    ok: false,
+    status: 500,
+    text: () => Promise.resolve("Internal Server Error"),
+  };
+}
+
+/** Route by method: the completion is a POST, the listing a GET. */
+function stubEndpoint(models: string[] | "broken") {
+  const fetchMock = vi.fn(async (_url: unknown, init?: { method?: string }) =>
+    init?.method === "GET"
+      ? models === "broken"
+        ? { ok: false, status: 404, json: () => Promise.resolve({}) }
+        : listing(models)
+      : serverError(),
+  );
+  vi.stubGlobal("fetch", fetchMock);
+  return fetchMock;
+}
+
+const turn = () => singleUserTurn({ system: "s", user: "u" });
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  clearModelListingCache();
+  emitSignal.mockClear();
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+});
+
+describe("probeModelListing", () => {
+  it("answers listed, not_listed, or unknown, and never guesses", async () => {
+    stubEndpoint(["gpt-6", "gpt-5.6-mini"]);
+    await expect(
+      probeModelListing({ baseUrl: PROXY, apiKey: "k", model: "gpt-6" }),
+    ).resolves.toBe("listed");
+    await expect(
+      probeModelListing({ baseUrl: PROXY, apiKey: "k", model: "gpt-5.4-mini" }),
+    ).resolves.toBe("not_listed");
+
+    clearModelListingCache();
+    stubEndpoint("broken");
+    await expect(
+      probeModelListing({ baseUrl: PROXY, apiKey: "k", model: "gpt-5.4-mini" }),
+    ).resolves.toBe("unknown");
+  });
+
+  it("asks the endpoint once per model for a burst of failures", async () => {
+    const fetchMock = stubEndpoint(["gpt-6"]);
+    for (let i = 0; i < 3; i += 1) {
+      await probeModelListing({ baseUrl: PROXY, apiKey: "k", model: "x" });
+    }
+    expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("OpenAIClient — a 500 from an endpoint that dropped the model", () => {
+  it("names the missing model and marks the error modelNotServed", async () => {
+    stubEndpoint(["gpt-6", "gpt-5.6-mini"]);
+    const client = new OpenAIClient({
+      apiKey: "k",
+      model: "gpt-5.4-mini",
+      baseUrl: PROXY,
+      providerType: "admin-key",
+      operatorTrusted: true,
+    });
+    await expect(client.generateCompletion(turn())).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      httpStatus: 500,
+      modelNotServed: true,
+      message: expect.stringContaining('model "gpt-5.4-mini" is not offered'),
+    });
+    expect(emitSignal).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        action: "ai.provider.model_not_served",
+        level: "error",
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an ordinary 500 alone when the model is still listed", async () => {
+    stubEndpoint(["gpt-5.4-mini"]);
+    const client = new OpenAIClient({
+      apiKey: "k",
+      model: "gpt-5.4-mini",
+      baseUrl: PROXY,
+      providerType: "admin-key",
+      operatorTrusted: true,
+    });
+    const error = await client.generateCompletion(turn()).catch((e) => e);
+    expect(error.httpStatus).toBe(500);
+    expect(error.modelNotServed).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("never probes the canonical OpenAI endpoint", async () => {
+    const fetchMock = stubEndpoint(["gpt-6"]);
+    const client = new OpenAIClient({
+      apiKey: "k",
+      model: "gpt-5.4-mini",
+      baseUrl: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
+      providerType: "admin-key",
+    });
+    await client.generateCompletion(turn()).catch(() => undefined);
+    expect(
+      fetchMock.mock.calls.filter(
+        (c) => (c[1] as { method?: string })?.method === "GET",
+      ),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-health-ledger.test.ts b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-health-ledger.test.ts
index 7f01c13f5..1734bfaa8 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-health-ledger.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-health-ledger.test.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ import {
   AUTH_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS,
   HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS,
   HARD_FAILURE_SKIP_THRESHOLD,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD,
   classifyFailure,
+  hardFailureCooldownMs,
   createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger,
   findCredentialExpiredProviders,
   postgresProviderHealthLedger,
@@ -197,3 +201,68 @@ describe("createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger", () => {
     expect((await ledger.getSkipHints("u1")).size).toBe(0);
   });
 });
+
+// v1.42 — a provider that keeps failing is paused with a pause that grows,
+// and resumes by itself. Before, the five-minute backoff lifted after every
+// failure and put a gateway that answered 500 to everything back at the front
+// of the chain: 1 766 failures in a row.
+describe("provider pause (v1.42)", () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the short backoff below the threshold and doubles from it, capped at a day", () => {
+    expect(hardFailureCooldownMs(1)).toBe(HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS);
+    expect(hardFailureCooldownMs(PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD - 1)).toBe(
+      HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS,
+    );
+    expect(hardFailureCooldownMs(PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD)).toBe(
+      PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS,
+    );
+    expect(hardFailureCooldownMs(PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD + 1)).toBe(
+      2 * PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS,
+    );
+    expect(hardFailureCooldownMs(PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD + 40)).toBe(
+      PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS,
+    );
+    // Conservative: the pause never starts before the skip threshold.
+    expect(PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD).toBeGreaterThan(
+      HARD_FAILURE_SKIP_THRESHOLD,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("pauses after N hard failures, keeps it paused past the old five minutes, and resumes after the window", async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    vi.setSystemTime(new Date("2026-10-08T04:30:00Z"));
+    const ledger = createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger();
+    for (let i = 0; i < PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD; i += 1) {
+      await ledger.recordFailure("u1", "admin-openai", 500);
+    }
+    expect(ledger.inspect("u1").get("admin-openai")?.reason).toBe("paused");
+
+    // Past the old five-minute backoff it is still paused.
+    vi.advanceTimersByTime(HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS + 1_000);
+    expect(ledger.inspect("u1").get("admin-openai")?.reason).toBe("paused");
+
+    // Past the pause it is tried again.
+    vi.advanceTimersByTime(PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS);
+    expect(ledger.inspect("u1").has("admin-openai")).toBe(false);
+
+    // One more failure doubles the pause; a success clears it.
+    await ledger.recordFailure("u1", "admin-openai", 500);
+    const retryAt = ledger.inspect("u1").get("admin-openai")?.retryAt;
+    expect(retryAt!.getTime() - Date.now()).toBe(2 * PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS);
+    await ledger.recordSuccess("u1", "admin-openai");
+    expect(ledger.inspect("u1").has("admin-openai")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("arms the escalating pause in the Postgres upsert itself", async () => {
+    await postgresProviderHealthLedger.recordFailure("u1", "admin-openai", 500);
+    const sql = (
+      vi.mocked(prisma.$executeRaw).mock.calls[0][0] as unknown as string[]
+    ).join("?");
+    expect(sql).toContain("power(");
+    expect(sql).toContain("LEAST(");
+    expect(sql).toMatch(/consecutive_failures \+ 1 >=/);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-runner.test.ts b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-runner.test.ts
index 58a077a6d..c191793b2 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-runner.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/__tests__/provider-runner.test.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ vi.mock("../coach/budget", async () => {
   };
 });
 
+// v1.42 — the per-hop failure lines.
+const emitSignal = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/signal", () => ({
+  emitSignal: (...a: unknown[]) => emitSignal(...a),
+}));
+
 vi.mock("../provider-health-ledger", async () => {
   const actual = await vi.importActual<
     typeof import("../provider-health-ledger")
@@ -52,8 +58,11 @@ import {
 } from "../provider-runner";
 import {
   AUTH_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD,
   createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger,
 } from "../provider-health-ledger";
+import { CodexRefreshError } from "../codex-oauth";
 
 const VALID_RESPONSE = JSON.stringify({
   summary: "ok",
@@ -113,6 +122,7 @@ function err(status: number, msg = "boom"): Error & { httpStatus: number } {
 
 beforeEach(() => {
   clearLastWorkingProviderCache();
+  emitSignal.mockClear();
   budgetState.spent = 0;
   budgetState.operatorSpent = 0;
 });
@@ -946,3 +956,145 @@ describe("runRawCompletionWithFallback — operator-cost cap at hop time", () =>
     expect(outcome.workingProvider.providerType).toBe("openai");
   });
 });
+
+describe("v1.42 — failed hops get their own line", () => {
+  function linkSignals() {
+    return emitSignal.mock.calls
+      .map(
+        (c) =>
+          c[0] as {
+            action: string;
+            level: string;
+            meta: Record<string, unknown>;
+          },
+      )
+      .filter((x) => x.action === "ai.chain.link_failed");
+  }
+
+  it("logs a hop the next provider covered at warn, with a stable cause", async () => {
+    const admin = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "admin-key",
+      script: [{ ok: false, error: err(500) }],
+    });
+    const codex = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "codex",
+      script: [{ ok: true }],
+    });
+    await runRawCompletionWithFallback({
+      userId: "u-signal-warn",
+      surface: "job",
+      providers: [
+        { providerType: "admin-openai", instance: admin },
+        { providerType: "codex", instance: codex },
+      ],
+      params: singleUserTurn({ system: "s", user: "u" }),
+    });
+    expect(linkSignals()).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        level: "warn",
+        meta: expect.objectContaining({
+          provider: "admin-openai",
+          status: 500,
+          cause: "upstream_5xx",
+          recovered: true,
+        }),
+      }),
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("logs every hop at error when nothing answered", async () => {
+    const a = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "codex",
+      script: [
+        { ok: false, error: new CodexRefreshError(401, "invalid_grant") },
+      ],
+    });
+    const b = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "admin-key",
+      script: [
+        {
+          ok: false,
+          error: Object.assign(err(500), { modelNotServed: true }),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
+    await expect(
+      runRawCompletionWithFallback({
+        userId: "u-signal-error",
+        surface: "job",
+        providers: [
+          { providerType: "codex", instance: a },
+          { providerType: "admin-openai", instance: b },
+        ],
+        params: singleUserTurn({ system: "s", user: "u" }),
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ primaryCredentialExpired: true });
+    const signals = linkSignals();
+    expect(signals.map((x) => x.level)).toEqual(["error", "error"]);
+    expect(signals.map((x) => x.meta.cause)).toEqual([
+      "credential_expired",
+      "model_not_served",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("records a dead Codex refresh token as an auth failure, not a network one", async () => {
+    const ledger = createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger();
+    const codex = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "codex",
+      script: [
+        { ok: false, error: new CodexRefreshError(400, "invalid_grant") },
+      ],
+    });
+    await expect(
+      runRawCompletionWithFallback({
+        userId: "u-dead-refresh",
+        surface: "job",
+        providers: [{ providerType: "codex", instance: codex }],
+        params: singleUserTurn({ system: "s", user: "u" }),
+        ledger,
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(AllProvidersFailedError);
+    expect(ledger.inspect("u-dead-refresh").get("codex")?.reason).toBe(
+      "credential_expired",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("walks a paused provider last, so the healthy one answers without the failing hop", async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    const ledger = createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger();
+    for (let i = 0; i < PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD; i += 1) {
+      await ledger.recordFailure("u-paused", "admin-openai", 500);
+    }
+    const admin = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "admin-key",
+      script: [{ ok: true }],
+    });
+    const codex = new ScriptedProvider({
+      type: "codex",
+      script: [{ ok: true }],
+    });
+    const run = () =>
+      runRawCompletionWithFallback({
+        userId: "u-paused",
+        surface: "job",
+        providers: [
+          { providerType: "admin-openai", instance: admin },
+          { providerType: "codex", instance: codex },
+        ],
+        params: singleUserTurn({ system: "s", user: "u" }),
+        ledger,
+      });
+
+    // Well past the old five-minute backoff: still paused, never asked.
+    vi.advanceTimersByTime(20 * 60 * 1000);
+    clearLastWorkingProviderCache();
+    expect((await run()).workingProvider.providerType).toBe("codex");
+    expect(admin.callCount).toBe(0);
+
+    // Once the pause lifts it leads the chain again and answers.
+    vi.advanceTimersByTime(PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS);
+    clearLastWorkingProviderCache();
+    expect((await run()).workingProvider.providerType).toBe("admin-openai");
+    expect(admin.callCount).toBe(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/coach/__tests__/tools-loop-budget.test.ts b/src/lib/ai/coach/__tests__/tools-loop-budget.test.ts
index d98ccc52c..d208abff1 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/coach/__tests__/tools-loop-budget.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/coach/__tests__/tools-loop-budget.test.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/ai/provider-runner", () => ({
   runRawCompletionWithFallback: (args: unknown) =>
     runRawCompletionWithFallback(args),
 }));
+// v1.42 — the budget stop's own warn line.
+const emitSignal = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/signal", () => ({
+  emitSignal: (...a: unknown[]) => emitSignal(...a),
+}));
 const runDialogTool = vi.fn();
 vi.mock("@/lib/ai/coach/tools/dialog-tools", async (importOriginal) => ({
   ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
@@ -106,6 +111,7 @@ function lastParams() {
 }
 
 beforeEach(() => {
+  emitSignal.mockReset();
   executeCoachTool.mockReset();
   runRawCompletionWithFallback.mockReset();
   runDialogTool.mockReset();
@@ -461,3 +467,31 @@ describe("reasoning, provider state and the trail", () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+describe("budget stop line (v1.42)", () => {
+  it("writes coach.turn.budget_stop at warn, once, when the budget ends the turn", async () => {
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(round("", [table("bp")]))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(round("Answer from what I have."));
+    await runCoachToolLoop({
+      ...baseArgs,
+      budget: createTurnBudget({
+        payer: "operator",
+        initialInputTokens: 10,
+        limits: { tokens: 500, wallMs: 1e9, maxRounds: 12 },
+      }),
+    });
+    expect(emitSignal).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(emitSignal.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: "coach.turn.budget_stop",
+      level: "warn",
+      meta: { reason: "budget", round: 2, payer: "operator" },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("writes nothing for a turn that answered on its own", async () => {
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback.mockResolvedValueOnce(round("Plain answer."));
+    await runCoachToolLoop({ ...baseArgs, budget: roomy() });
+    expect(emitSignal).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/coach/tools/loop.ts b/src/lib/ai/coach/tools/loop.ts
index ea45a44ad..2a0c40a82 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/coach/tools/loop.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/coach/tools/loop.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import { coachPromptCacheKey } from "@/lib/ai/coach/prompt-cache-key";
 import type { CoachHistoryReach } from "@/lib/ai/coach/history-reach";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { emitSignal } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 import type { Locale } from "@/lib/i18n/config";
 import { runRawCompletionWithFallback } from "@/lib/ai/provider-runner";
 import type { ProviderChainResolved } from "@/lib/ai/provider-runner";
@@ -295,6 +296,7 @@ export async function runCoachToolLoop(args: {
   let planProposal: CoachPlanProposal | undefined;
   let callCount = 0;
   let stopReason: CoachStopReason | null = null;
+  let stopSignalled = false;
   let progressStalled = false;
 
   for (let round = 1; ; round += 1) {
@@ -308,6 +310,23 @@ export async function runCoachToolLoop(args: {
     }
     const isFinal = stopReason !== null;
     if (stopReason) {
+      // v1.42 — a turn cut short by its budget is not a failure, but an
+      // operator who sees answers getting thin needs to count it. It used to
+      // be one `stop` meta key on the turn's info line.
+      if (!stopSignalled && stopReason !== "no_progress") {
+        stopSignalled = true;
+        emitSignal({
+          action: "coach.turn.budget_stop",
+          level: "warn",
+          meta: {
+            reason: stopReason,
+            round,
+            spent: budget.spent(),
+            elapsedMs: budget.elapsedMs(),
+            payer: budget.payer,
+          },
+        });
+      }
       const label = stopActivityLabel(locale, stopReason);
       const id = activity.start({
         phase: "stop",
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/codex-oauth.ts b/src/lib/ai/codex-oauth.ts
index 6d6e78ab2..6d389160c 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/codex-oauth.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/codex-oauth.ts
@@ -288,14 +288,108 @@ export async function refreshDeviceTokens(
   });
   if (!res.ok) {
     const body = await res.text().catch(() => "");
-    throw new Error(
-      `Codex device-token refresh failed (${res.status}): ${body}`,
-    );
+    throw codexRefreshError(res.status, body);
   }
   const tokens = (await res.json()) as RawTokenResponse;
   return buildCreds(tokens, refreshToken);
 }
 
+/**
+ * OAuth error codes on the refresh grant that mean the stored refresh token
+ * is dead for good: revoked, expired, already rotated, or issued to another
+ * client. Retrying cannot help; only signing in again can.
+ */
+const DEAD_REFRESH_TOKEN_CODES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
+  "invalid_grant",
+  "invalid_refresh_token",
+  "refresh_token_expired",
+  "refresh_token_reused",
+  "refresh_token_invalidated",
+  "invalid_token",
+]);
+
+/**
+ * A failed refresh of the Codex OAuth token.
+ *
+ * The refresh used to throw a bare `Error` with the status only in its
+ * message. The chain runner reads `httpStatus` to classify a failure, so a
+ * dead refresh token read as a network error: the health ledger recorded
+ * `hard_failed` instead of `auth_failed`, nothing told the person to
+ * reconnect, and every night tried the same dead token again.
+ *
+ * `httpStatus` is 401 whenever the grant itself is dead (whatever status the
+ * token endpoint chose to send it with, 400 for `invalid_grant` included), so
+ * every classifier downstream (`classifyFailure`, `AllProvidersFailedError`,
+ * the briefing failure marker) reads it as an expired credential. Any other
+ * refusal keeps the endpoint's status. The body is not quoted: only the
+ * OAuth error code, which is the endpoint's vocabulary, rides on the error.
+ */
+export class CodexRefreshError extends Error {
+  readonly httpStatus: number;
+  readonly upstream = "codex";
+  /** True when the person has to sign in to ChatGPT again. */
+  readonly credentialExpired: boolean;
+  /** The OAuth `error` code from the response body, when it had one. */
+  readonly oauthError: string | null;
+
+  constructor(status: number, oauthError: string | null) {
+    const credentialExpired =
+      status === 401 ||
+      status === 403 ||
+      (oauthError !== null && DEAD_REFRESH_TOKEN_CODES.has(oauthError));
+    super(
+      credentialExpired
+        ? `Codex sign-in expired (${status}${oauthError ? ` ${oauthError}` : ""}); reconnect ChatGPT`
+        : `Codex device-token refresh failed (${status}${oauthError ? ` ${oauthError}` : ""})`,
+    );
+    this.name = "CodexRefreshError";
+    this.credentialExpired = credentialExpired;
+    this.oauthError = oauthError;
+    this.httpStatus = credentialExpired && status !== 403 ? 401 : status;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The stored Codex credential cannot be used at all (missing refresh token,
+ * or storage that no longer decrypts). Same contract as a dead refresh token:
+ * the person has to reconnect.
+ */
+export function codexReconnectRequired(reason: string): CodexRefreshError {
+  const err = new CodexRefreshError(401, null);
+  err.message = `Codex sign-in unusable (${reason}); reconnect ChatGPT`;
+  return err;
+}
+
+/** Read the OAuth error code from a token-endpoint error body. */
+function readOAuthErrorCode(body: string): string | null {
+  try {
+    const parsed = JSON.parse(body) as {
+      error?: unknown;
+      code?: unknown;
+    };
+    const error = parsed.error;
+    if (typeof error === "string") return normaliseCode(error);
+    if (error && typeof error === "object") {
+      const code = (error as { code?: unknown; type?: unknown }).code;
+      if (typeof code === "string") return normaliseCode(code);
+    }
+    if (typeof parsed.code === "string") return normaliseCode(parsed.code);
+  } catch {
+    // Not JSON: no code to read. The status still classifies the failure.
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** Codes are the endpoint's own vocabulary; keep them short and plain. */
+function normaliseCode(code: string): string | null {
+  const trimmed = code.trim().toLowerCase();
+  return /^[a-z0-9_.-]{1,64}$/.test(trimmed) ? trimmed : null;
+}
+
+function codexRefreshError(status: number, body: string): CodexRefreshError {
+  return new CodexRefreshError(status, readOAuthErrorCode(body));
+}
+
 // ─── Encrypted-storage codec ────────────────────────────────────────
 //
 // We re-purpose `codexAccessTokenEncrypted` to store the entire creds
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/model-availability.ts b/src/lib/ai/model-availability.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0584f49f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/ai/model-availability.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { safeFetch } from "@/lib/safe-fetch";
+import { aiEgressPolicyFor } from "./local-host-allowlist";
+
+/**
+ * Does an OpenAI-compatible endpoint still offer the configured model?
+ *
+ * The operator's provider pointed at an OAuth proxy that installs
+ * `openai-oauth@latest` on every restart. One restart later the proxy listed
+ * only newer model names, the configured one was gone, and every call
+ * answered HTTP 500 with a body that named nothing. From the outside that
+ * reads as "the provider is down", and the fix (pick a model the endpoint
+ * offers) is invisible.
+ *
+ * `GET {baseUrl}/models` answers the question for free: it is the standard
+ * listing every OpenAI-compatible server implements, it bills nothing, and
+ * it needs the same bearer as a completion. The answer is cached for a few
+ * minutes per endpoint and model, so a burst of failures probes once.
+ *
+ * Tri-state on purpose. `unknown` (no listing route, a non-JSON answer, the
+ * probe itself failing) never claims the model is missing: only an endpoint
+ * that answered with a list that does not contain the name earns
+ * `not_listed`.
+ */
+export type ModelListing = "listed" | "not_listed" | "unknown";
+
+const PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 5_000;
+const CACHE_TTL_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
+
+const cache = new Map<string, { at: number; value: ModelListing }>();
+
+/** Test-only: forget every cached answer. */
+export function clearModelListingCache(): void {
+  cache.clear();
+}
+
+export async function probeModelListing(input: {
+  baseUrl: string;
+  apiKey: string;
+  model: string;
+  /** See `OpenAIClient`'s `operatorTrusted`. */
+  operatorTrusted?: boolean;
+  now?: number;
+}): Promise<ModelListing> {
+  const now = input.now ?? Date.now();
+  const key = `${input.baseUrl}\u0000${input.model}`;
+  const hit = cache.get(key);
+  if (hit && now - hit.at < CACHE_TTL_MS) return hit.value;
+
+  const value = await probeOnce(input);
+  cache.set(key, { at: now, value });
+  return value;
+}
+
+async function probeOnce(input: {
+  baseUrl: string;
+  apiKey: string;
+  model: string;
+  operatorTrusted?: boolean;
+}): Promise<ModelListing> {
+  const url = `${input.baseUrl.replace(/\/$/, "")}/models`;
+  const headers: Record<string, string> = { Accept: "application/json" };
+  const key = input.apiKey.trim();
+  if (key) headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${key}`;
+  try {
+    const res = await safeFetch(
+      url,
+      { method: "GET", headers },
+      {
+        timeoutMs: PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS,
+        ...aiEgressPolicyFor(url, { operatorTrusted: input.operatorTrusted }),
+      },
+    );
+    if (!res.ok) return "unknown";
+    const json = (await res.json().catch(() => null)) as {
+      data?: unknown;
+    } | null;
+    if (!json || !Array.isArray(json.data)) return "unknown";
+    const ids = json.data
+      .map((entry) =>
+        entry && typeof entry === "object"
+          ? (entry as { id?: unknown }).id
+          : undefined,
+      )
+      .filter((id): id is string => typeof id === "string");
+    if (ids.length === 0) return "unknown";
+    return ids.includes(input.model) ? "listed" : "not_listed";
+  } catch {
+    // The probe is a diagnosis, never a gate: a failed probe says nothing.
+    return "unknown";
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/openai-client.ts b/src/lib/ai/openai-client.ts
index 46c084158..ce57df3f7 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/openai-client.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/openai-client.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { safeFetch } from "@/lib/safe-fetch";
 import { callTimeoutMs } from "./effective-timeout";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { emitSignal } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 import type { AIProvider, CompletionParams, CompletionResult } from "./types";
 import {
   isCanonicalOpenAIEndpoint,
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ import {
   rememberJsonModeDialect,
 } from "./json-dialect";
 import { aiEgressPolicyFor } from "./local-host-allowlist";
+import { probeModelListing } from "./model-availability";
 import type { ReasoningEffort } from "./reasoning-effort";
 import {
   buildOpenAIMessages,
@@ -113,6 +115,33 @@ export class OpenAIClient implements AIProvider {
     this.type = config.providerType ?? "admin-key";
   }
 
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — after a server error from an operator- or person-configured
+   * endpoint (never the canonical `api.openai.com`, which names a missing
+   * model in its own 404), check whether it still lists the configured
+   * model. A 4xx already carries its reason in the body; a 5xx from a proxy
+   * often carries none. See `model-availability.ts`.
+   */
+  private async modelNoLongerServed(status: number): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (status < 500) return false;
+    if (this.type === "codex") return false;
+    if (isCanonicalOpenAIEndpoint(this.config.baseUrl)) return false;
+    const listing = await probeModelListing({
+      baseUrl: this.config.baseUrl,
+      apiKey: this.config.apiKey,
+      model: this.config.model,
+      operatorTrusted: this.config.operatorTrusted,
+    });
+    if (listing === "not_listed") {
+      emitSignal({
+        action: "ai.provider.model_not_served",
+        level: "error",
+        meta: { provider: this.type, model: this.config.model, status },
+      });
+    }
+    return listing === "not_listed";
+  }
+
   /**
    * True only for the user-configured gateway. Read it as "the base URL came
    * from a person, not from this repository" — every behaviour that must not
@@ -306,8 +335,15 @@ export class OpenAIClient implements AIProvider {
         });
         return this.generateCompletion(params);
       }
+      // v1.42 — a proxy that stopped offering the configured model answers
+      // with a bare 500 that names nothing. Ask its model listing (free, no
+      // completion) and say so plainly when the name is gone, so the chain,
+      // the health card and the log name the actual fix.
+      const modelNotServed = await this.modelNoLongerServed(res.status);
       const err = new Error(
-        `${this.isGateway ? "OpenAI-compatible gateway" : "OpenAI"} request failed (${res.status})`,
+        modelNotServed
+          ? `${this.isGateway ? "OpenAI-compatible gateway" : "OpenAI"} request failed (${res.status}): model "${this.config.model}" is not offered by this endpoint`
+          : `${this.isGateway ? "OpenAI-compatible gateway" : "OpenAI"} request failed (${res.status})`,
       );
       // Keep the body in a structured field rather than the message so
       // Error.message stays short and the excerpt lands in dedicated log
@@ -317,6 +353,7 @@ export class OpenAIClient implements AIProvider {
         upstream: this.isGateway ? "openai-compatible" : "openai",
         model: this.config.model,
         bodyExcerpt,
+        ...(modelNotServed ? { modelNotServed: true } : {}),
       });
       throw err;
     }
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger.ts b/src/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger.ts
index 4aae33447..64c49388c 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger.ts
@@ -52,13 +52,59 @@ export const HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5min
  *  never productive. */
 export const HARD_FAILURE_SKIP_THRESHOLD = 3;
 
+/**
+ * v1.42 — a provider that keeps failing is PAUSED, with a pause that grows.
+ *
+ * The backoff above lifts five minutes after each failure, and a lifted
+ * provider goes back to the front of the chain. An operator gateway that
+ * answered HTTP 500 to every call (it no longer offered the configured model)
+ * was therefore tried first again every five minutes: 1 766 failures in a row,
+ * and a 500 in front of 61 chains that the next provider then answered.
+ *
+ * From `PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD` consecutive hard failures on, each failure
+ * re-arms the skip window at `PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS` doubled per further
+ * failure, capped at `PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS`. Paused is the same skip as
+ * backoff (the provider moves to the tail of the chain, behind everything
+ * healthy, and is still walked as a last resort, so a chain never loses its
+ * only provider). When the window lifts, the next call tries it again: one
+ * success clears the count and resumes it in place, one more failure doubles
+ * the pause. Nothing needs to be reset by hand. The admin provider-health card
+ * shows a paused provider and until when.
+ *
+ * Conservative on purpose: five failures in a row is far past a brown-out,
+ * the first pause is half an hour, and the ceiling is a day, so a provider
+ * that recovers is tried again within a day even without a success elsewhere.
+ */
+export const PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD = 5;
+export const PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS = 30 * 60 * 1000;
+export const PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+/**
+ * The skip window a hard failure arms, given the consecutive-failure count
+ * INCLUDING that failure. Below the pause threshold it is the short backoff;
+ * from the threshold on it doubles per failure up to the ceiling.
+ */
+export function hardFailureCooldownMs(consecutiveFailures: number): number {
+  if (consecutiveFailures < PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD) {
+    return HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS;
+  }
+  const doublings = Math.min(
+    consecutiveFailures - PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD,
+    16,
+  );
+  return Math.min(
+    PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS * 2 ** doublings,
+    PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS,
+  );
+}
+
 export type ProviderHealthResult = "ok" | "hard_failed" | "auth_failed";
 
 /** A provider the runner should skip (negative cache) on this call,
  *  with the reason so the caller can surface it. */
 export interface ProviderSkipHint {
   providerType: ProviderChainType;
-  reason: "credential_expired" | "backoff";
+  reason: "credential_expired" | "backoff" | "paused";
   /** When the negative cache lifts (ledger `nextRetryAt`). */
   retryAt: Date | null;
 }
@@ -132,7 +178,10 @@ export const postgresProviderHealthLedger: ProviderHealthLedger = {
         } else if (row.consecutiveFailures >= HARD_FAILURE_SKIP_THRESHOLD) {
           hints.set(provider, {
             providerType: provider,
-            reason: "backoff",
+            reason:
+              row.consecutiveFailures >= PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD
+                ? "paused"
+                : "backoff",
             retryAt: row.nextRetryAt,
           });
         }
@@ -172,11 +221,18 @@ export const postgresProviderHealthLedger: ProviderHealthLedger = {
     const { result, cooldownMs } = classifyFailure(httpStatus);
     const interval = `${cooldownMs} milliseconds`;
     const status = httpStatus ?? null;
+    // v1.42 — the escalating pause for a hard failure, computed in SQL from
+    // the count the same statement writes, so two workers recording at once
+    // still arm the pause the combined count deserves. Mirrors
+    // `hardFailureCooldownMs`; an auth failure keeps its fixed cooldown.
+    const pauseFrom = PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD;
+    const pauseBase = `${PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS} milliseconds`;
+    const pauseMax = `${PROVIDER_PAUSE_MAX_MS} milliseconds`;
     try {
       // Atomic upsert. `consecutive_failures` accumulates across workers;
       // an auth failure forces the cooldown regardless of count, a hard
-      // failure extends it. The fixed cooldown anchors on NOW() so a
-      // fresh failure always re-arms the skip window.
+      // failure extends it. The cooldown anchors on NOW() so a fresh failure
+      // always re-arms the skip window.
       await prisma.$executeRaw`
         INSERT INTO provider_health
           (id, user_id, provider_type, last_result, last_status,
@@ -190,7 +246,18 @@ export const postgresProviderHealthLedger: ProviderHealthLedger = {
           last_status = ${status},
           consecutive_failures = provider_health.consecutive_failures + 1,
           last_failure_at = NOW(),
-          next_retry_at = NOW() + ${interval}::interval,
+          next_retry_at = NOW() + CASE
+            WHEN ${result} = 'hard_failed'
+              AND provider_health.consecutive_failures + 1 >= ${pauseFrom}::int
+            THEN LEAST(
+              ${pauseMax}::interval,
+              ${pauseBase}::interval * power(
+                2,
+                LEAST(provider_health.consecutive_failures + 1 - ${pauseFrom}::int, 16)
+              )
+            )
+            ELSE ${interval}::interval
+          END,
           updated_at = NOW()
       `;
     } catch {
@@ -265,7 +332,10 @@ export function createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger(): ProviderHealthLedger & {
       ) {
         out.set(provider, {
           providerType: provider,
-          reason: "backoff",
+          reason:
+            row.consecutiveFailures >= PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD
+              ? "paused"
+              : "backoff",
           retryAt: new Date(row.nextRetryAt),
         });
       }
@@ -289,11 +359,16 @@ export function createInMemoryProviderHealthLedger(): ProviderHealthLedger & {
       const prev = rowsFor(userId).get(providerType);
       const priorCount =
         prev && prev.result !== "ok" ? prev.consecutiveFailures : 0;
+      const count = priorCount + 1;
       rowsFor(userId).set(providerType, {
         result,
         status: httpStatus,
-        consecutiveFailures: priorCount + 1,
-        nextRetryAt: Date.now() + cooldownMs,
+        consecutiveFailures: count,
+        nextRetryAt:
+          Date.now() +
+          (result === "hard_failed"
+            ? hardFailureCooldownMs(count)
+            : cooldownMs),
       });
     },
     inspect(userId) {
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/provider-runner.ts b/src/lib/ai/provider-runner.ts
index 860da4973..3fd812767 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/provider-runner.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/provider-runner.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   type ProviderSkipHint,
 } from "./provider-health-ledger";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { emitSignal } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 import {
   isOperatorFundedProvider,
   readDailySpend,
@@ -395,6 +396,67 @@ export function classifyErrorBody(body: unknown): string | null {
   return `unclassified:${body.length}chars`;
 }
 
+/**
+ * A short, stable cause for one failed hop, for the `ai.chain.link_failed`
+ * line. Our own vocabulary only: the provider's words never leave.
+ */
+function hopCause(
+  error: unknown,
+  status: number | null,
+  bodyClass: string | null,
+): string {
+  const err = error as {
+    credentialExpired?: unknown;
+    modelNotServed?: unknown;
+  } | null;
+  if (err?.modelNotServed === true) return "model_not_served";
+  if (err?.credentialExpired === true) return "credential_expired";
+  if (bodyClass?.startsWith("classified:")) {
+    return bodyClass.slice("classified:".length);
+  }
+  if (status === null || status <= 0) return "network";
+  if (status === 401 || status === 403) return "auth_rejected";
+  if (status === 429) return "rate_limited";
+  if (status >= 500) return "upstream_5xx";
+  return "upstream_4xx";
+}
+
+interface HopSignal {
+  provider: ProviderChainType;
+  attempt: number;
+  status: number | null;
+  cause: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * v1.42 — one `ai.chain.link_failed` line per failed hop, written once the
+ * chain has settled: `warn` when a later provider answered (the fallback
+ * covered it), `error` when nothing did. The hop details used to live only as
+ * `ai_chain_hop_*` meta keys on the caller's line at level `info`, where a
+ * query for failures could not see them and the last caller of a batch
+ * overwrote the others.
+ */
+function signalFailedHops(
+  hops: readonly HopSignal[],
+  recovered: boolean,
+  surface: BudgetSurface,
+): void {
+  for (const hop of hops) {
+    emitSignal({
+      action: "ai.chain.link_failed",
+      level: recovered ? "warn" : "error",
+      meta: {
+        provider: hop.provider,
+        attempt: hop.attempt,
+        status: hop.status,
+        cause: hop.cause,
+        recovered,
+        surface,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Shared chain walker for the two RAW runners (streaming + buffered). Owns the
  * one set of chain / fallback / health-ledger semantics — empty-chain guard,
@@ -431,6 +493,7 @@ async function runRawChain(
 
   const ordered = await resolveChainOrder(userId, providers, ledger);
   const hops: FallbackHop[] = [];
+  const failedHops: HopSignal[] = [];
 
   for (let i = 0; i < ordered.length; i += 1) {
     const candidate = ordered[i];
@@ -510,6 +573,7 @@ async function runRawChain(
             : {}),
         },
       });
+      signalFailedHops(failedHops, true, surface);
       return {
         result,
         workingProvider: candidate,
@@ -520,6 +584,12 @@ async function runRawChain(
         throw error;
       }
       const summary = summariseError(error);
+      failedHops.push({
+        provider: candidate.providerType,
+        attempt: i + 1,
+        status: summary.status,
+        cause: hopCause(error, summary.status, summary.bodyExcerpt),
+      });
       void ledger.recordFailure(userId, candidate.providerType, summary.status);
       const hop: FallbackHop = {
         providerType: candidate.providerType,
@@ -545,6 +615,7 @@ async function runRawChain(
       ai_chain_fallback_count: hops.length,
     },
   });
+  signalFailedHops(failedHops, false, surface);
   throw new AllProvidersFailedError(hops);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/provider.ts b/src/lib/ai/provider.ts
index 847a9c442..6c90c3376 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/provider.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/provider.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { AnthropicClient } from "./anthropic-client";
 import { LocalOpenAICompatibleClient } from "./local-client";
 import {
   refreshDeviceTokens,
+  codexReconnectRequired,
   encryptCodexCreds,
   decryptCodexCreds,
   encryptAdminCodexCreds,
@@ -328,14 +329,14 @@ async function resolveCodexProvider(
         !freshUser?.codexAccessTokenEncrypted ||
         !freshUser.codexRefreshTokenEncrypted
       ) {
-        throw new Error("No refresh token available");
+        throw codexReconnectRequired("no refresh token");
       }
       const decoded = decryptCodexCreds({
         accessEncrypted: freshUser.codexAccessTokenEncrypted,
         refreshEncrypted: freshUser.codexRefreshTokenEncrypted,
       });
       if (!decoded) {
-        throw new Error("Codex token storage corrupt; user must re-link");
+        throw codexReconnectRequired("token storage corrupt");
       }
       const fresh = await refreshDeviceTokens(decoded.refreshToken);
       const enc = encryptCodexCreds(fresh);
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ async function resolveAdminCodexProvider(): Promise<AIProvider | null> {
         !fresh.adminCodexRefreshTokenEncrypted ||
         !fresh.adminCodexAccountIdEncrypted
       ) {
-        throw new Error("No central-codex refresh token available");
+        throw codexReconnectRequired("no central refresh token");
       }
       const decoded = decryptAdminCodexCreds({
         accessEncrypted: fresh.adminCodexAccessTokenEncrypted,
@@ -453,9 +454,7 @@ async function resolveAdminCodexProvider(): Promise<AIProvider | null> {
         expiresAt: fresh.adminCodexTokenExpiresAt,
       });
       if (!decoded) {
-        throw new Error(
-          "Central-codex token storage corrupt; re-link required",
-        );
+        throw codexReconnectRequired("central token storage corrupt");
       }
       const refreshed = await refreshDeviceTokens(decoded.refreshToken);
       const enc = encryptAdminCodexCreds(refreshed);
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/date-filter-fallback.test.ts b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/date-filter-fallback.test.ts
index c983cd3d6..981468d66 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/date-filter-fallback.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/date-filter-fallback.test.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/safe-fetch", async (importOriginal) => {
 });
 
 import { GOOGLE_HEALTH_DATA_TYPES, fetchDataPoints } from "../client";
+import { WideEventBuilder } from "@/lib/logging/event-builder";
+import { eventStorage } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 import { GoogleHealthApiError } from "../response-classifier";
 
 function jsonResponse(status: number, body: unknown): Response {
@@ -177,3 +179,82 @@ describe("fetchDataPoints — daily-summary filter style", () => {
     expect(capturedFilter(0)).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+// v1.42 (#1023) — the first-request 400 that triggers the snake_case retry is
+// expected, and the 200 right after it is the answer. It was logged as an
+// error beside that 200; a self-hoster read it as a failing sync.
+describe("fetchDataPoints — the fallback's 400 is a note, not an error", () => {
+  async function callsFor(run: () => Promise<unknown>) {
+    const evt = new WideEventBuilder("background");
+    await eventStorage.run(evt, () => run().catch(() => undefined));
+    return evt.toJSON().external_calls ?? [];
+  }
+
+  it("records the rejected camelCase probe without an error", async () => {
+    safeFetchMock
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(
+        jsonResponse(400, {
+          error: { status: "INVALID_ARGUMENT", message: "Invalid filter" },
+        }),
+      )
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(jsonResponse(200, { dataPoints: [] }));
+
+    const calls = await callsFor(() =>
+      fetchDataPoints(
+        GOOGLE_HEALTH_DATA_TYPES.restingHeartRate,
+        "t",
+        "fetchRhr",
+        {
+          start,
+        },
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(calls).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(calls[0]).toMatchObject({
+      status: 400,
+      note: "date_filter_rejected_retrying_snake_case",
+    });
+    expect(calls[0].error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(calls[1].error).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("still records the error when the snake_case retry is refused too", async () => {
+    safeFetchMock.mockResolvedValue(
+      jsonResponse(400, {
+        error: { status: "INVALID_ARGUMENT", message: "Invalid filter" },
+      }),
+    );
+    const calls = await callsFor(() =>
+      fetchDataPoints(
+        GOOGLE_HEALTH_DATA_TYPES.restingHeartRate,
+        "t",
+        "fetchRhr",
+        {
+          start,
+        },
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(calls[1].error).toMatch(/400/);
+  });
+
+  it("still records a 400 on a sample read, which has no fallback", async () => {
+    safeFetchMock.mockResolvedValue(
+      jsonResponse(400, {
+        error: { status: "INVALID_ARGUMENT", message: "Invalid filter" },
+      }),
+    );
+    const calls = await callsFor(() =>
+      fetchDataPoints(
+        GOOGLE_HEALTH_DATA_TYPES.heartRate,
+        "t",
+        "fetchHeartRate",
+        {
+          start,
+        },
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(calls).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(calls[0].error).toBeDefined();
+    expect(calls[0].note).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-intraday-overlap.test.ts b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-intraday-overlap.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4bf475bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-intraday-overlap.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 (#1023) — intraday heart rate re-reads two hours, not a day.
+ *
+ * Every hourly sync re-read the last 24 hours of every Google Health type,
+ * because daily summaries and sleep are re-scored after the fact. A
+ * per-minute heart-rate stream does not change once written, and re-reading
+ * a whole day of it each hour was 38 to 40 pages per sync on a slow host.
+ * Heart rate now uses the short intraday overlap; daily summaries keep the
+ * full day.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const { safeFetchMock } = vi.hoisted(() => ({ safeFetchMock: vi.fn() }));
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/safe-fetch", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("@/lib/safe-fetch")>();
+  return { ...actual, safeFetch: safeFetchMock };
+});
+
+vi.mock("../sync-core", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("../sync-core")>();
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    getValidToken: vi.fn(async () => ({ accessToken: "token" })),
+    handleCollectionFetchError: vi.fn(async () => 0),
+    upsertGoogleHealthMeasurements: vi.fn(async () => ({
+      imported: 0,
+      touched: [],
+      inserted: [],
+    })),
+  };
+});
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
+  prisma: { user: { findUnique: vi.fn(), update: vi.fn() } },
+}));
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/tz/resolver", () => ({
+  resolveUserTimezone: vi.fn(async () => "UTC"),
+}));
+
+import {
+  GOOGLE_HEALTH_DEFAULT_OVERLAP_MS,
+  GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS,
+  incrementalStart,
+} from "../sync-core";
+import { syncUserMetrics } from "../sync-metrics";
+
+const LAST_SYNC = new Date("2026-10-08T03:00:00.000Z");
+
+/** The `filter` the request for one data-type path carried. */
+function filterFor(path: string): string | null {
+  const call = safeFetchMock.mock.calls.find((c) =>
+    new URL(c[0] as string).pathname.endsWith(`/dataTypes/${path}/dataPoints`),
+  );
+  return call ? new URL(call[0] as string).searchParams.get("filter") : null;
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  safeFetchMock.mockReset().mockImplementation(async () => ({
+    status: 200,
+    ok: true,
+    json: async () => ({ dataPoints: [] }),
+  }));
+});
+
+describe("Google Health incremental overlap", () => {
+  it("keeps a day for summaries and narrows intraday samples to two hours", () => {
+    expect(GOOGLE_HEALTH_DEFAULT_OVERLAP_MS).toBe(24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+    expect(GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS).toBe(2 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+  });
+
+  it("reads heart rate from the intraday start and resting heart rate from the day start", async () => {
+    const start = incrementalStart(LAST_SYNC);
+    const intradayStart = incrementalStart(LAST_SYNC, {
+      overlapMs: GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS,
+    });
+
+    await syncUserMetrics("u1", { start, intradayStart });
+
+    expect(filterFor("heart-rate")).toBe(
+      'heart_rate.sample_time.physical_time >= "2026-10-08T01:00:00.000Z"',
+    );
+    expect(filterFor("daily-resting-heart-rate")).toBe(
+      'dailyRestingHeartRate.date >= "2026-10-07"',
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-outcomes.test.ts b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-outcomes.test.ts
index 140fbed28..4d4012476 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-outcomes.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/__tests__/sync-outcomes.test.ts
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/insights/comprehensive-generate", () => ({
 vi.mock("../sync-core", () => ({
   GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTEGRATION_KEY: "google-health",
   incrementalStart: vi.fn(() => undefined),
+  GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS: 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
   markSynced: vi.fn(async () => {}),
   runWithGoogleHealthSyncCycle: runCycle,
 }));
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/client.ts b/src/lib/google-health/client.ts
index 923968b2a..e784bb5af 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/client.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/client.ts
@@ -829,17 +829,32 @@ export async function forEachDataPointPage(
         verdict.classification === "success"
           ? undefined
           : extractGoogleApiErrorDetail(json);
+      // v1.42 (#1023) — the first filtered daily-summary read answering 400
+      // is the expected trigger for the snake_case retry below, not a
+      // failure: some accounts reject the documented camelCase prefix on
+      // some types, and the very next request answers 200. It was logged as
+      // an error next to the 200 that followed it. It is recorded as a note
+      // now; any other 400 still carries its error.
+      const expectedFallback =
+        canFallBack &&
+        dateStyle === "camel" &&
+        requestCount === 1 &&
+        res.status === 400;
       getEvent()?.addExternalCall({
         service: "google-health",
         method: `${verb}(page=${pageCount})`,
         duration_ms: Math.round(performance.now() - pageStart),
         status: res.status,
-        error:
-          verdict.classification === "success"
-            ? undefined
-            : apiErrorDetail
-              ? `${verdict.reason} ${apiErrorDetail}`
-              : verdict.reason,
+        ...(expectedFallback
+          ? { note: "date_filter_rejected_retrying_snake_case" }
+          : {
+              error:
+                verdict.classification === "success"
+                  ? undefined
+                  : apiErrorDetail
+                    ? `${verdict.reason} ${apiErrorDetail}`
+                    : verdict.reason,
+            }),
       });
       if (verdict.classification !== "success") {
         throw new GoogleHealthApiError({
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/sync-core.ts b/src/lib/google-health/sync-core.ts
index 3b478e8d4..eb7f86954 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/sync-core.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/sync-core.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ const TOKEN_REFRESH_BUFFER_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000;
  */
 export const GOOGLE_HEALTH_DEFAULT_OVERLAP_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
+/**
+ * v1.42 (#1023) — the overlap for intraday samples (heart rate, one point a
+ * minute). The 24 h overlap exists for daily summaries and sleep, which
+ * Google re-scores after the fact; a minute sample is final when it is
+ * written. Re-reading a whole day of it every hour meant 38 to 40 pages per
+ * sync on a per-minute stream, which a slow host felt. Two hours still
+ * covers a watch that syncs to the phone late.
+ */
+export const GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS = 2 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
 export interface GoogleHealthTokenInfo {
   accessToken: string;
   connection: { id: string; googleUserId: string };
@@ -354,6 +364,12 @@ export interface GoogleHealthResourceSyncOptions {
   fullSync?: boolean;
   /** The incremental lower bound, snapshotted once by the orchestrator. */
   start?: Date;
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — the incremental lower bound for intraday samples, from the same
+   * snapshot with `GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS`. Undefined on a full
+   * run, like `start`; a resource that does not set it falls back to `start`.
+   */
+  intradayStart?: Date;
   /**
    * When true, `upsertGoogleHealthMeasurements` writes the rows but SKIPS the
    * inline per-(type,day) DAY-rollup recompute + status-insight invalidate,
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/sync-metrics.ts b/src/lib/google-health/sync-metrics.ts
index d253ed437..473a06147 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/sync-metrics.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/sync-metrics.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ interface MetricResource {
   verb: string;
   /** Page ceiling for the walk; the client default when omitted. */
   maxPages?: number;
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — a minute-level sample stream, final when written, so it
+   * re-reads only the short intraday overlap instead of a whole day.
+   */
+  intraday?: boolean;
 }
 
 /** The launch metric resources (Measurement-producing). Height handled separately. */
@@ -104,6 +109,7 @@ const METRIC_RESOURCES: MetricResource[] = [
     map: mapHeartRate,
     verb: "fetchHeartRate",
     maxPages: GOOGLE_HEALTH_DENSE_MAX_PAGES,
+    intraday: true,
   },
   {
     dataType: GOOGLE_HEALTH_DATA_TYPES.bloodGlucose,
@@ -166,7 +172,10 @@ export async function syncUserMetrics(
         resource.dataType,
         tokenInfo.accessToken,
         resource.verb,
-        { start, maxPages: resource.maxPages },
+        {
+          start: resource.intraday ? (opts.intradayStart ?? start) : start,
+          maxPages: resource.maxPages,
+        },
         async (points) => {
           const readings: GoogleHealthMeasurementUpsert[] = [];
           for (const point of points) {
diff --git a/src/lib/google-health/sync.ts b/src/lib/google-health/sync.ts
index 87cd3f9ba..202b4be07 100644
--- a/src/lib/google-health/sync.ts
+++ b/src/lib/google-health/sync.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { syncUserWorkout } from "./sync-workout";
 import {
   GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTEGRATION_KEY,
   incrementalStart,
+  GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS,
   markSynced,
   runWithGoogleHealthSyncCycle,
   type GoogleHealthResourceSyncOptions,
@@ -173,9 +174,14 @@ export async function syncUserGoogleHealth(
   const start = incrementalStart(connection.lastSyncedAt, {
     fullSync: opts.fullSync,
   });
+  const intradayStart = incrementalStart(connection.lastSyncedAt, {
+    fullSync: opts.fullSync,
+    overlapMs: GOOGLE_HEALTH_INTRADAY_OVERLAP_MS,
+  });
   const resourceOpts: GoogleHealthResourceSyncOptions = {
     fullSync: opts.fullSync,
     start,
+    intradayStart,
     deferRollup: opts.fullSync === true,
   };
   const resources = [
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/comprehensive-outbound-repair.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/comprehensive-outbound-repair.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1a8b305f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/comprehensive-outbound-repair.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — one bounded repair after the outbound safety screen withholds a
+ * generated briefing.
+ *
+ * A screened generation used to fail outright, and the nightly pass then
+ * queued its 45-minute provider retry, which asked the same model the same
+ * question and was screened again (eight times a night on one account). Now
+ * the generator asks once more with the broken contract named, and persists
+ * the repair only when it passes the same parse, grounding and screen as a
+ * first pass. These tests pin the repair, its correction text, and that a
+ * repair which is screened again still persists nothing.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+
+const findUnique = vi.fn();
+const userUpdate = vi.fn();
+const resolveProviderChain = vi.fn();
+const resolveProvider = vi.fn();
+const runRawCompletionWithFallback = vi.fn();
+const extractFeatures = vi.fn();
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/db", () => ({
+  prisma: {
+    // The briefing path now reserves against the day's token ledger before
+    // egress and reconciles after (`reserveBudget` / `reconcileSpend`), both
+    // over raw SQL. A zero prior total keeps every generation under the cap,
+    // so these suites keep testing what they were written to test.
+    $queryRaw: vi.fn(async () => [{ total_tokens: 0, operator_tokens: 0 }]),
+    $executeRaw: vi.fn(async () => 0),
+    user: {
+      findUnique: (...a: unknown[]) => findUnique(...a),
+      update: (...a: unknown[]) => userUpdate(...a),
+      // v1.32.22 (M6) — the cache commit is now a privacy-mode-guarded
+      // updateMany; record it on the same spy but return a matched count so the
+      // guard proceeds (mode unchanged in these tests).
+      updateMany: (...a: unknown[]) => {
+        userUpdate(...a);
+        return Promise.resolve({ count: 1 });
+      },
+    },
+    auditLog: { deleteMany: vi.fn() },
+    // v1.41 — the operator's reasoning controls; an untouched instance.
+    appSettings: { findUnique: vi.fn(async () => null) },
+  },
+}));
+// The `briefing` capability is available in these fixtures; the refusal
+// path has its own test in comprehensive-generate-force.test.ts.
+// The wire re-check (`aiEgressRefusal`) passes in these fixtures; its refusal
+// arm has its own test in comprehensive-budget-refusal.test.ts.
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/capabilities/egress", () => ({
+  aiEgressRefusal: vi.fn(async () => null),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/capabilities/gate", () => ({
+  aiCapabilityForRecord: vi.fn(async () => ({
+    available: true,
+    reason: null,
+    onDeviceAllowed: true,
+  })),
+  aiCapabilityToServe: async () => ({
+    available: true,
+    reason: null,
+    onDeviceAllowed: true,
+  }),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/provider", () => ({
+  resolveProviderChain: (...a: unknown[]) => resolveProviderChain(...a),
+  resolveProvider: (...a: unknown[]) => resolveProvider(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/provider-runner", () => ({
+  AllProvidersFailedError: class extends Error {},
+  runRawCompletionWithFallback: (...a: unknown[]) =>
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/insights/features", () => ({
+  FeaturesPayloadTooLargeError: class extends Error {
+    sizeBytes = 0;
+  },
+  extractFeatures: (...a: unknown[]) => extractFeatures(...a),
+  BRIEFING_FEATURE_WINDOW_DAYS: 400,
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/insights/illness-cycle-briefing", () => ({
+  buildBriefingIllnessCycleContext: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(null),
+  buildBriefingIllnessCyclePrompt: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(""),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/insights/glp1-plateau", () => ({
+  detectGlp1Plateau: vi.fn(async () => null),
+  buildGlp1PlateauPrompt: vi.fn(() => ""),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/ai/coach/about-me", () => ({
+  getSelfContextTextForUser: vi.fn(async () => null),
+  buildAboutMeInsightBlock: vi.fn(() => ""),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/cache/invalidate", () => ({
+  invalidateUserInsights: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+import { generateComprehensiveInsight } from "../comprehensive-generate";
+
+const FEATURES = { weight: { count: 12, latest: 81.4, mean30: 82.1 } };
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+  // A once-queued reply must not leak from one case into the next.
+  runRawCompletionWithFallback.mockReset();
+  resolveProviderChain.mockResolvedValue([
+    { providerType: "openai", instance: {} },
+  ]);
+  resolveProvider.mockResolvedValue({ type: "none" });
+  extractFeatures.mockResolvedValue(FEATURES);
+  userUpdate.mockResolvedValue({});
+  // No cached text / hash → always runs a full generation (no gate hit).
+  findUnique.mockResolvedValue({
+    insightsPrivacyMode: "aggregated",
+    insightsCachedAt: null,
+    insightsCachedText: null,
+    insightsExcludeMetrics: [],
+    insightsSnapshotHash: null,
+    insightsBriefingRerollDate: null,
+  });
+});
+
+const CAUSAL = JSON.stringify({
+  summary: "Your weight fell because you slept more.",
+  dailyBriefing: { paragraph: "ok" },
+});
+const CLEAN = JSON.stringify({
+  summary: "Your weight was lower on days when you slept longer.",
+  dailyBriefing: { paragraph: "ok" },
+});
+
+function reply(content: string) {
+  return {
+    result: { content, tokensUsed: 10, model: "m" },
+    workingProvider: { providerType: "openai" },
+    fallbackHops: [],
+  };
+}
+
+describe("comprehensive outbound-screen repair", () => {
+  it("persists a repair that passes the screen, after one corrective call", async () => {
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(reply(CAUSAL))
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(reply(CLEAN));
+
+    const outcome = await generateComprehensiveInsight("u1", { locale: "en" });
+
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ status: "generated", providerType: "openai" });
+    expect(runRawCompletionWithFallback).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    const repairPrompt =
+      runRawCompletionWithFallback.mock.calls[1][0].params.messages[0].content;
+    expect(repairPrompt).toContain("withheld by the safety screen");
+    expect(repairPrompt).toContain("CAUSES");
+    // The repaired text is what lands in the cache, never the screened one.
+    const written = JSON.stringify(userUpdate.mock.calls.at(-1));
+    expect(written).toContain("on days when you slept longer");
+    expect(written).not.toContain("because you slept more");
+  });
+
+  it("stays withheld when the repair is screened again, and asks only once", async () => {
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback.mockResolvedValue(reply(CAUSAL));
+
+    const outcome = await generateComprehensiveInsight("u1", { locale: "en" });
+
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ status: "failed", reason: "outbound-screened" });
+    expect(runRawCompletionWithFallback).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  it("stays withheld when the repair call itself fails", async () => {
+    runRawCompletionWithFallback
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(reply(CAUSAL))
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("upstream down"));
+
+    const outcome = await generateComprehensiveInsight("u1", { locale: "en" });
+
+    expect(outcome).toEqual({ status: "failed", reason: "outbound-screened" });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/briefing-provider.ts b/src/lib/insights/briefing-provider.ts
index a573e3a88..fb2686927 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/briefing-provider.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/briefing-provider.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import { resolveJobReasoning } from "@/lib/ai/reasoning/controls";
  * correction did not).
  */
 export type BriefingCompletionStage =
-  "generate" | "json-retry" | "grounding-retry" | "reroll";
+  "generate" | "json-retry" | "grounding-retry" | "screen-retry" | "reroll";
 
 /**
  * Thrown when the reservation would push the user past the day's ceiling.
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/comprehensive-generate.ts b/src/lib/insights/comprehensive-generate.ts
index 37d74b324..cd396bfc3 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/comprehensive-generate.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/comprehensive-generate.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import {
   fenceBlock,
 } from "@/lib/ai/coach/data-fence";
 import { screenInsightPayloadProse } from "@/lib/ai/safety/insight-payload-screen";
+import type { OutboundReason } from "@/lib/ai/safety/outbound-screen";
 import { computeCitationCoverage } from "@/lib/ai/citation-coverage";
 import { applyInsightsExcludeFilter } from "@/lib/insights/exclude-filter";
 import { getCachedFeatures } from "@/lib/insights/feature-cache";
@@ -166,7 +167,17 @@ export type GenerateOutcome =
         | "scope-changed"
         | "profile-scope-changed";
     }
-  | { status: "failed"; reason: string };
+  | {
+      status: "failed";
+      reason: string;
+      /**
+       * v1.42 — the chain's first provider refused the credential (a dead
+       * Codex sign-in, a revoked key). The nightly pass reports the account
+       * as `auth_failed` and does not queue a retry that cannot succeed until
+       * the person reconnects.
+       */
+      credentialExpired?: boolean;
+    };
 
 /** Higher, seedless temperature for the daily-briefing phrasing re-roll. */
 const BRIEFING_REROLL_TEMPERATURE = 0.6;
@@ -1259,7 +1270,11 @@ export async function generateComprehensiveInsight(
       locale,
       httpStatus: typeof err.httpStatus === "number" ? err.httpStatus : null,
     });
-    return { status: "failed", reason };
+    const credentialExpired =
+      e instanceof AllProvidersFailedError && e.primaryCredentialExpired;
+    return credentialExpired
+      ? { status: "failed", reason, credentialExpired }
+      : { status: "failed", reason };
   }
 
   // Anthropic + local have no native JSON mode, so a ```json-fenced or
@@ -1492,14 +1507,72 @@ export async function generateComprehensiveInsight(
   // persists NOTHING -- the previous cached payload stays, exactly as a
   // provider outage or an unparseable response already behaves. The next run
   // regenerates from scratch.
+  //
+  // v1.42 — one bounded repair before giving up, the way the grounding gate
+  // above gets one corrective retry. A withheld generation used to fail
+  // outright, and the nightly pass then queued its 45-minute provider retry,
+  // which asked the same model the same question and was screened again: on
+  // one account that was eight wasted generations a night over a single
+  // causal sentence. The repair names the contract that tripped and asks for
+  // the whole object again; the repaired payload has to pass the same JSON
+  // parse, the same number grounding and the same screen as a first pass, or
+  // nothing is persisted, exactly as before. A screened outcome is final for
+  // the caller: it is not a provider fault, so nothing retries it.
   const screened = screenInsightPayloadProse(insights, locale);
   if (screened) {
     annotate({
       action: { name: "insights.generate.outbound_blocked" },
       meta: { locale, reason: screened },
     });
-    void recordBriefingFailure({ userId, reason: "outbound-screened", locale });
-    return { status: "failed", reason: "outbound-screened" };
+    let repaired = false;
+    try {
+      const retry = await runBriefingCompletion({
+        userId,
+        chain,
+        systemPrompt,
+        userPrompt: `${userPrompt}\n\n${buildOutboundScreenCorrection(screened)}`,
+        temperature: AI_BUDGETS.comprehensive.temperature,
+        maxTokens: resolveInsightsMaxTokens(),
+        timeoutMs: effectiveTimeoutMs,
+        stage: "screen-retry",
+      });
+      const retryInsights = parseComprehensiveResult(retry.result.content);
+      const retryUngrounded =
+        retryInsights === null
+          ? []
+          : findUngroundedBriefingNumbers(
+              readBriefingBlock(retryInsights),
+              features.signalsOfDay ?? null,
+              features,
+              groundingExtra,
+            );
+      if (
+        retryInsights !== null &&
+        retryUngrounded.length === 0 &&
+        screenInsightPayloadProse(retryInsights, locale) === null
+      ) {
+        insights = retryInsights;
+        result = retry.result;
+        workingProviderType = retry.workingProvider.providerType;
+        briefingStrippedHard = false;
+        repaired = true;
+      }
+    } catch {
+      // A transport failure or the day's budget on the repair: the first
+      // pass stays withheld, nothing else changes.
+    }
+    annotate({
+      action: { name: "insights.generate.outbound_repair" },
+      meta: { locale, reason: screened, repaired },
+    });
+    if (!repaired) {
+      void recordBriefingFailure({
+        userId,
+        reason: "outbound-screened",
+        locale,
+      });
+      return { status: "failed", reason: "outbound-screened" };
+    }
   }
 
   // v1.9.0 — the caller abandoned this generation (its bounded timeout
@@ -1556,3 +1629,22 @@ export async function generateComprehensiveInsight(
 
   return { status: "generated", providerType: workingProviderType };
 }
+
+/**
+ * The correction the one screen repair is sent with. Names the contract the
+ * first reply broke, never the sentence that broke it: the model gets the
+ * rule, not its own words back.
+ */
+export function buildOutboundScreenCorrection(reason: OutboundReason): string {
+  const rule =
+    reason === "causal_claim"
+      ? 'It stated that one measurement or habit CAUSES another. Describe co-occurrence and timing only ("was higher on days when", "tends to move together"); never say that something causes, drives, leads to or results in something else.'
+      : reason === "dose_prescription"
+        ? "It told the reader to take, change, stop or dose a medication. Never give a dose or a medication instruction; at most suggest discussing medication with their clinician."
+        : "It gave a risk score, a probability of disease or a diagnosis. Never estimate risk or name a diagnosis; describe the readings and their trend only.";
+  return `
+Your previous reply was withheld by the safety screen. ${rule}
+
+Re-write the whole JSON object with the same structure and the same numbers, changing only the wording that broke this rule. Return the full JSON object again.
+`;
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/insight-pregenerate.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/insight-pregenerate.test.ts
index 846055bc1..392eac9a1 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/insight-pregenerate.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/insight-pregenerate.test.ts
@@ -1508,3 +1508,131 @@ describe("runInsightPregenerate — warm budget honours the response timeout (v1
     }
   });
 });
+
+// v1.42 — the run used to annotate one wide event per candidate and the last
+// write won, so a night where one account worked and the last one failed read
+// as `all-failed`. The run now reports every candidate's outcome together, a
+// withheld (screened) briefing and a dead sign-in queue no provider retry,
+// and a time-budget cut-off reports the unreached accounts as deferred.
+describe("runInsightPregenerate — one outcome per candidate (v1.42)", () => {
+  type Reported = {
+    queue: string;
+    runId: string;
+    candidates: Array<{ key: string; outcome: string; cause?: string }>;
+  };
+
+  function harness(users: Array<{ id: string; locale: string }>) {
+    const { prisma } = makePrisma(users);
+    const reportRun = vi.fn(async (input: Reported) => ({
+      total: input.candidates.length,
+      attempted: 0,
+      failed: 0,
+      allFailed: input.candidates.every((c) => c.outcome === "failed"),
+      partial: false,
+    }));
+    const enqueueRetry = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    const statusGenerators = Array.from({ length: 7 }, () =>
+      vi.fn().mockResolvedValue({ hasProvider: true, cached: true }),
+    );
+    const warmGenericMetrics = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(0);
+    return {
+      prisma,
+      reportRun,
+      enqueueRetry,
+      statusGenerators,
+      warmGenericMetrics,
+    };
+  }
+
+  it("reports ok, auth_failed and screened candidates side by side, and retries none of the last two", async () => {
+    const h = harness([
+      { id: "ok-user", locale: "de" },
+      { id: "dead-codex", locale: "de" },
+      { id: "screened", locale: "de" },
+    ]);
+    const generate = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({ status: "generated", providerType: "codex" })
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({
+        status: "failed",
+        reason: "all-providers-failed",
+        credentialExpired: true,
+      })
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({ status: "failed", reason: "outbound-screened" });
+
+    const result = await runInsightPregenerate(h.prisma as never, {
+      generate,
+      statusGenerators: h.statusGenerators,
+      warmGenericMetrics: h.warmGenericMetrics,
+      enqueueRetry: h.enqueueRetry,
+      reportRun: h.reportRun as never,
+    });
+
+    expect(h.reportRun).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const reported = h.reportRun.mock.calls[0][0];
+    expect(reported.queue).toBe(INSIGHT_PREGENERATE_QUEUE);
+    expect(reported.candidates.map((c) => c.outcome)).toEqual([
+      "ok",
+      "auth_failed",
+      "screened",
+    ]);
+    expect(reported.candidates[1].cause).toBe("all-providers-failed");
+    expect(reported.candidates[2].cause).toBe("outbound-screened");
+    // Keys never carry the account id.
+    for (const c of reported.candidates) {
+      expect(c.key).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{8}$/);
+      expect(JSON.stringify(c)).not.toContain("user");
+    }
+    expect(h.enqueueRetry).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(result.allFailed).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("still queues the bounded retry for an ordinary provider failure", async () => {
+    const h = harness([{ id: "u1", locale: "de" }]);
+    const generate = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValue({ status: "failed", reason: "all-providers-failed" });
+
+    const result = await runInsightPregenerate(h.prisma as never, {
+      generate,
+      statusGenerators: h.statusGenerators,
+      warmGenericMetrics: h.warmGenericMetrics,
+      enqueueRetry: h.enqueueRetry,
+      reportRun: h.reportRun as never,
+    });
+
+    expect(h.enqueueRetry).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(h.reportRun.mock.calls[0][0].candidates).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        outcome: "failed",
+        cause: "all-providers-failed",
+      }),
+    ]);
+    expect(result.allFailed).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("reports the candidates a time-budget stop never reached as deferred", async () => {
+    const h = harness([
+      { id: "a", locale: "de" },
+      { id: "b", locale: "de" },
+      { id: "c", locale: "de" },
+    ]);
+    const generate = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValue({ status: "generated", providerType: "x" });
+    let calls = 0;
+
+    await runInsightPregenerate(h.prisma as never, {
+      generate,
+      statusGenerators: h.statusGenerators,
+      warmGenericMetrics: h.warmGenericMetrics,
+      enqueueRetry: h.enqueueRetry,
+      reportRun: h.reportRun as never,
+      shouldStop: () => ++calls > 1,
+    });
+
+    expect(
+      h.reportRun.mock.calls[0][0].candidates.map((c) => c.outcome),
+    ).toEqual(["ok", "deferred", "deferred"]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-failures-retention.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-failures-retention.test.ts
index 7a0674c9b..89d798894 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-failures-retention.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-failures-retention.test.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ import { join } from "node:path";
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import {
+  FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS,
   JOB_FAILURE_WINDOW_HOURS,
-  PG_BOSS_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS,
+  PG_BOSS_DEFAULT_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS,
+  failureReaderRetention,
 } from "@/lib/jobs/job-failures";
 
 const PG_BOSS_ROOT = join(process.cwd(), "node_modules/pg-boss");
@@ -26,10 +28,28 @@ describe("pg-boss failed-row ledger retention", () => {
     );
     expect(plans).toContain("CLOCK_FUNCTION_BODY = 'SELECT pg_catalog.now();'");
     expect(JOB_FAILURE_WINDOW_HOURS).toBeLessThan(
-      PG_BOSS_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS,
+      PG_BOSS_DEFAULT_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS,
     );
   });
 
+  it("keeps the per-queue floor above the reader window, with a day of slack", () => {
+    expect(JOB_FAILURE_WINDOW_HOURS).toBe(72);
+    expect(FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS).toBe(96);
+    expect(FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+      PG_BOSS_DEFAULT_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a queue retention that would hide failures from the readers", () => {
+    expect(failureReaderRetention(96)).toEqual({ deleteAfterSeconds: 345_600 });
+    expect(failureReaderRetention(7 * 24)).toEqual({
+      deleteAfterSeconds: 604_800,
+    });
+    expect(() => failureReaderRetention(95)).toThrow(RangeError);
+    expect(() => failureReaderRetention(24)).toThrow(RangeError);
+    expect(() => failureReaderRetention(Number.NaN)).toThrow(RangeError);
+  });
+
   it("pins the queue defaults the data-backup window had to escape", () => {
     const plans = readFileSync(join(PG_BOSS_ROOT, "dist/plans.js"), "utf8");
 
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-run-report.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-run-report.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2ccd2dd19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/job-run-report.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — `reportJobRun`: one line per run with every candidate's outcome,
+ * and a level that follows the run as a whole.
+ *
+ * The nightly briefing warm read as "all-failed" on seven nights because the
+ * last account of each run happened to fail. These cases pin the verdict
+ * (what counts as attempted, what makes a run failed versus partial) and the
+ * two signals an operator and the repeated-failure alert key on.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const emitSignal = vi.fn();
+const annotate = vi.fn();
+const readConsecutiveRunFailures = vi.fn(async (_queue: string) => 3);
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/signal", () => ({
+  emitSignal: (...a: unknown[]) => emitSignal(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/context", () => ({
+  annotate: (...a: unknown[]) => annotate(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/lib/jobs/job-failures", () => ({
+  readConsecutiveRunFailures: (queue: string) =>
+    readConsecutiveRunFailures(queue),
+}));
+
+import { judgeJobRun, reportJobRun } from "../job-run-report";
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe("judgeJobRun", () => {
+  it("leaves skipped and deferred candidates out of the attempted set", () => {
+    expect(
+      judgeJobRun([
+        { key: "a", outcome: "skipped" },
+        { key: "b", outcome: "deferred" },
+        { key: "c", outcome: "failed" },
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({
+      total: 3,
+      attempted: 1,
+      failed: 1,
+      allFailed: true,
+      partial: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("counts a dead credential as a failure", () => {
+    expect(
+      judgeJobRun([
+        { key: "a", outcome: "auth_failed" },
+        { key: "b", outcome: "failed" },
+      ]).allFailed,
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("reads one success among failures as partial, not failed", () => {
+    const verdict = judgeJobRun([
+      { key: "a", outcome: "ok" },
+      { key: "b", outcome: "failed" },
+    ]);
+    expect(verdict.allFailed).toBe(false);
+    expect(verdict.partial).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("reads a withheld result as partial: the provider answered", () => {
+    const verdict = judgeJobRun([{ key: "a", outcome: "screened" }]);
+    expect(verdict.allFailed).toBe(false);
+    expect(verdict.partial).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("is neither failed nor partial when nothing was attempted", () => {
+    const verdict = judgeJobRun([{ key: "a", outcome: "skipped" }]);
+    expect(verdict.allFailed).toBe(false);
+    expect(verdict.partial).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("reportJobRun", () => {
+  it("emits job.run.failed at error with the streak when every attempt failed", async () => {
+    const verdict = await reportJobRun({
+      queue: "insight-pregenerate",
+      runId: "r1",
+      candidates: [
+        { key: "a", outcome: "auth_failed", cause: "all-providers-failed" },
+        { key: "b", outcome: "skipped", cause: "no-consent" },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(verdict.allFailed).toBe(true);
+    expect(readConsecutiveRunFailures).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      "insight-pregenerate",
+    );
+    expect(emitSignal).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(emitSignal.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: "job.run.failed",
+      level: "error",
+      meta: {
+        queue: "insight-pregenerate",
+        consecutiveFailures: 3,
+        failed: 1,
+        total: 1,
+        causes: ["auth_failed:all-providers-failed"],
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("emits job.run.partial at warn when only some failed", async () => {
+    await reportJobRun({
+      queue: "q",
+      runId: "r",
+      candidates: [
+        { key: "a", outcome: "ok" },
+        { key: "b", outcome: "failed", cause: "timeout" },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(readConsecutiveRunFailures).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(emitSignal.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: "job.run.partial",
+      level: "warn",
+      meta: { queue: "q", failed: 1, total: 2 },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("emits nothing extra for a clean run, and lists every outcome on the run line", async () => {
+    await reportJobRun({
+      queue: "q",
+      runId: "r",
+      candidates: [
+        { key: "a", outcome: "ok" },
+        { key: "b", outcome: "ok" },
+        { key: "c", outcome: "skipped", cause: "no-provider" },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(emitSignal).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    const meta = annotate.mock.calls[0][0].meta;
+    expect(meta.outcomes).toEqual({ ok: 2, skipped: 1 });
+    expect(meta.candidate_outcomes).toHaveLength(3);
+    expect(meta.all_failed).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/run-job.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/run-job.test.ts
index 9b32e591f..555ef57cb 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/run-job.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/run-job.test.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ vi.mock("../report-worker-error", () => ({
   reportWorkerError: (...a: unknown[]) => reportWorkerError(...a),
 }));
 
+// v1.42 — the failed run's own line and the streak behind it.
+const emitSignal = vi.fn();
+const readConsecutiveRunFailures = vi.fn(async (_queue: string) => 2);
+vi.mock("@/lib/logging/signal", () => ({
+  emitSignal: (...a: unknown[]) => emitSignal(...a),
+}));
+vi.mock("../job-failures", async () => ({
+  ...(await vi.importActual<typeof import("../job-failures")>(
+    "../job-failures",
+  )),
+  readConsecutiveRunFailures: (q: string) => readConsecutiveRunFailures(q),
+}));
+
 import { jobDone, jobFailed } from "../job-outcome";
 import { JobFailure, runJob } from "../run-job";
 
@@ -171,3 +184,47 @@ describe("runJob observation (#1031)", () => {
     observe.mockRestore();
   });
 });
+
+describe("runJob failure signal (v1.42)", () => {
+  it("emits job.run.failed at error with the queue's streak for a failed outcome", async () => {
+    const wrapped = runJob("environment-fetch", async () =>
+      jobFailed("fetch_failed", new Error("open-meteo 503")),
+    );
+    await expect(wrapped(noJobs)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(JobFailure);
+    expect(readConsecutiveRunFailures).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      "environment-fetch",
+    );
+    expect(emitSignal).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(emitSignal.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: "job.run.failed",
+      level: "error",
+      meta: {
+        queue: "environment-fetch",
+        reason: "fetch_failed",
+        consecutiveFailures: 2,
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("emits it for a handler that throws, and still rethrows the original error", async () => {
+    const original = new Error("boom");
+    const wrapped = runJob("data-backup", async () => {
+      throw original;
+    });
+    await expect(wrapped(noJobs)).rejects.toBe(original);
+    expect(emitSignal.mock.calls[0][0]).toMatchObject({
+      action: "job.run.failed",
+      level: "error",
+      meta: { queue: "data-backup", reason: "handler_threw" },
+      error: original,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("emits nothing for a successful run", async () => {
+    const wrapped = runJob("rate-limit-cleanup", async () =>
+      jobDone({ deleted: 1 }),
+    );
+    await wrapped(noJobs);
+    expect(emitSignal).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts b/src/lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts
index c803627e7..1622d7dac 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/apple-health-import-worker.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ import {
   sweepStaleImportStaging,
   type StagingInUse,
 } from "@/lib/import/apple-health-staging";
+import { caughtAs, logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /**
  * Queue + cron for the periodic orphan-ImportJob sweep. v1.32.1
@@ -100,10 +101,16 @@ export async function handleImportJobReconcileTick(
       // deploy), the person's export does not stay in /tmp past this.
       // A queued or running import keeps its files whatever their age;
       // when that cannot be read, nothing is swept this tick.
-      const inUse = await stagedImportFilesInUse().catch(() => null);
+      const inUse = await stagedImportFilesInUse().catch((err: unknown) => {
+        logCaught("apple_health.import.staging_probe_failed", err);
+        return null;
+      });
       const swept = inUse
         ? await sweepStaleImportStaging(undefined, undefined, inUse).catch(
-            () => 0,
+            (err: unknown) => {
+              logCaught("apple_health.import.staging_sweep_failed", err);
+              return 0;
+            },
           )
         : 0;
       evt.addMeta("import_staging_swept", swept);
@@ -463,7 +470,7 @@ export async function handleAppleHealthImport(
         onExportDate: async (exportedAt) => {
           await prisma.importJob
             .update({ where: { id: importJobId }, data: { exportedAt } })
-            .catch(() => {});
+            .catch(caughtAs("apple_health.import.export_date_failed"));
         },
       })),
       ecg: {
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/backup-pass-attempts.ts b/src/lib/jobs/backup-pass-attempts.ts
index 389252334..115acd04e 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/backup-pass-attempts.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/backup-pass-attempts.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
  * least every second run.
  */
 import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /** The pass's queue name, which is also the marker's key. */
 export type BackupPass = "data-backup" | "data-backup-offhost";
@@ -46,7 +47,8 @@ export async function markBackupAttemptStarted(
       update: { startedAt: at },
       create: { userId, pass, startedAt: at },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.attempt.mark_failed", err, { phase: "started" });
     // Bookkeeping only; an account deleted meanwhile has no row to write.
   }
 }
@@ -62,7 +64,8 @@ export async function markBackupAttemptFinished(
       where: { userId, pass },
       data: { finishedAt: at },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.attempt.mark_failed", err, { phase: "finished" });
     // Bookkeeping only.
   }
 }
@@ -87,7 +90,8 @@ export async function readInterruptedBackupAttempts(
         )
         .map((row) => [row.userId, row.startedAt]),
     );
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.attempt.read_failed", err);
     return new Map();
   }
 }
@@ -131,7 +135,8 @@ export async function readAccountsToTakeLast(
       select: { userId: true, startedAt: true, finishedAt: true },
     });
     return heldBackAccounts(rows);
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.attempt.read_failed", err);
     return new Map();
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts b/src/lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts
index e2af9e0dd..e17aa8865 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/backup-restore.ts
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ import {
   RESTORE_FAILURE_CAUSES,
   type RestoreFailureCause,
 } from "@/lib/export/restore-failure-cause";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const BACKUP_RESTORE_QUEUE = "backup-restore";
 
@@ -478,7 +479,8 @@ export async function admitBackupRestore(input: {
       data: { pgBossJobId: bossJobId },
     });
     return { admitted: true, jobId };
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.restore.enqueue_failed", err, { jobId });
     // Written but never queued: fail it here, or it holds the account's slot
     // until the unclaimed window runs out.
     await prisma.backupRestoreJob.update({
@@ -818,7 +820,8 @@ export async function enqueueBackupRestoreSweepAtBoot(
         expireInSeconds: BACKUP_RESTORE_EXPIRE_SECONDS,
       },
     );
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.restore.sweep_enqueue_failed", err);
     // The admission check fails an abandoned job the next time the account
     // is restored, so a missed sweep costs a retry, not a stuck account.
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts b/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
index a7056d7d4..3df90feeb 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import { singleUserTurn } from "@/lib/ai/types";
 import { screenCoachReply } from "@/lib/ai/coach/outbound-guard";
 import { extractAssessmentSummary } from "@/lib/insights/status-shared";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { caughtAs, logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /** Per-call upstream timeout — kept inside the spec's ≤8–10 s window. */
 export const COACH_NUDGE_AI_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = 9_000;
@@ -246,13 +247,14 @@ export const composeNudgeWithAI: ComposeNudgeWithAI = async (params) => {
           signal: AbortSignal.timeout(COACH_NUDGE_AI_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS + 1_000),
         }),
       );
-    } catch {
+    } catch (err) {
       // Timeout / network / provider error → refund what wasn't spent and
       // fall back to the template.
+      logCaught("coach.nudge.ai_failed", err);
       await reconcileSpend(params.userId, reservation.reserved, 0, dateKey, 0, {
         servedBy: null,
         reservedOwner: reservation.owner,
-      }).catch(() => {});
+      }).catch(caughtAs("coach.nudge.reconcile_failed"));
       annotate({ action: { name: "coach.nudge.ai.fallback" } });
       return null;
     }
@@ -264,7 +266,7 @@ export const composeNudgeWithAI: ComposeNudgeWithAI = async (params) => {
       dateKey,
       result.cachedInputTokens ?? 0,
       { servedBy: chain[0].providerType, reservedOwner: reservation.owner },
-    ).catch(() => {});
+    ).catch(caughtAs("coach.nudge.reconcile_failed"));
 
     const body = sanitiseAiBody(result.content, params.locale);
     if (!body) {
@@ -274,7 +276,8 @@ export const composeNudgeWithAI: ComposeNudgeWithAI = async (params) => {
 
     annotate({ action: { name: "coach.nudge.ai.composed" } });
     return { title: params.template.title, body };
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("coach.nudge.compose_failed", err);
     // Defensive: any unexpected failure keeps the template.
     return null;
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/cycle-reminder.ts b/src/lib/jobs/cycle-reminder.ts
index 86111ae78..dadb0ff05 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/cycle-reminder.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/cycle-reminder.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import type { EventType } from "@/lib/notifications/types";
 import { isCycleReminderClientManaged } from "@/lib/validations/notification-prefs";
 import { getEvent } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 import { DEFAULT_TIMEZONE } from "@/lib/tz/format";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /**
  * Local-time hour (0–23) at which the daily cycle reminder fires. 09:00 is
@@ -266,7 +267,10 @@ async function alreadyNotifiedToday(
       select: { id: true },
     });
     return row !== null;
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Fail toward "not yet notified": a read failure must not silence the
+    // reminder for the day, but it has to be visible.
+    logCaught("cycle.reminder.dedupe_read_failed", err);
     return false;
   }
 }
@@ -548,7 +552,8 @@ async function hasObservedPeriodNearPrediction(
         delta >= -PERIOD_CONFIRM_GRACE_DAYS && delta <= PERIOD_SOON_LEAD_DAYS
       );
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("cycle.reminder.period_read_failed", err);
     return false;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/data-arrival.ts b/src/lib/jobs/data-arrival.ts
index a99c6da95..3e048ee61 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/data-arrival.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/data-arrival.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import { isArrivalKind, type DataArrival } from "@/lib/arrivals/types";
 import { enqueueWorkoutInsight } from "@/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate-shared";
 
 import { getWorkerPrisma, workerLog } from "./reminder/shared";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export { DATA_ARRIVAL_QUEUE };
 
@@ -274,7 +275,8 @@ export async function runDataArrival(
   // process, and it costs nothing when it is not.
   try {
     invalidateUserDashboardSnapshot(arrival.userId);
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("daily.arrival.cache_evict_failed", err);
     // A cache miss is never worth failing a job over.
   }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-ai-run.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-ai-run.ts
index 40388d7e0..e556b5d3b 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-ai-run.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-ai-run.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ import {
   OCR_EXTRACT_MODEL_CALLS,
 } from "@/lib/labs/ocr-run";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_AI_RUN_QUEUE = "document-ai-run";
 
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ export async function enqueueDocumentAiRun(
       action: { name: "ai_runs.enqueue_failed" },
       meta: { reason: err instanceof Error ? err.name : "unknown" },
     });
+    logCaught("ai_runs.enqueue_failed", err);
     return false;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-index.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-index.ts
index 74f16d12d..f5ee4d462 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-index.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-index.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { maybeAutoStageLabFacts } from "@/lib/documents/auto-stage-labs";
 import { indexDocumentContent } from "@/lib/documents/index-document";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { caughtAs, logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_INDEX_QUEUE = "document-index";
 
@@ -63,7 +64,9 @@ export async function runDocumentIndex(
   // A deferred import stages nothing: lab staging is an AI read, and the
   // person asked for those to wait.
   if (outcome.indexed && !localOnly) {
-    await maybeAutoStageLabFacts(userId, documentId).catch(() => {});
+    await maybeAutoStageLabFacts(userId, documentId).catch(
+      caughtAs("documents.auto_index.lab_staging_failed"),
+    );
   }
 }
 
@@ -101,6 +104,7 @@ export async function enqueueDocumentIndex(
       action: { name: "documents.autoIndex.enqueueFailed" },
       meta: { documentId, reason: err instanceof Error ? err.name : "unknown" },
     });
+    logCaught("documents.auto_index.enqueue_failed", err);
     return { enqueued: false };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-summary-catchup.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-summary-catchup.ts
index 55e083756..3cb5c191a 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-summary-catchup.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-summary-catchup.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { enqueueDocumentSummary } from "@/lib/jobs/document-summary";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_SUMMARY_CATCHUP_QUEUE = "document-summary-catchup";
 
@@ -184,6 +185,7 @@ export async function enqueueSummaryCatchUp(
       action: { name: "documents.autoRead.catchUpEnqueueFailed" },
       meta: { reason: err instanceof Error ? err.name : "unknown" },
     });
+    logCaught("documents.auto_read.catch_up_enqueue_failed", err);
     return { enqueued: false };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-summary.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-summary.ts
index d01048c30..02f495b81 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-summary.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-summary.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 import type { DocumentSummaryState } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_SUMMARY_QUEUE = "document-summary";
 
@@ -311,7 +312,8 @@ export async function runDocumentSummaryJob(
         persisted: written.count > 0,
       },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("documents.summary.auto_failed", err);
     // Refund the reservation on a provider miss; the document keeps no summary
     // (the on-demand route remains the manual fallback). Never rethrow — a
     // transient provider error must not retry-loop or fail the queue.
@@ -394,6 +396,7 @@ export async function enqueueDocumentSummary(
       action: { name: "documents.summary.enqueueFailed" },
       meta: { documentId, reason: err instanceof Error ? err.name : "unknown" },
     });
+    logCaught("documents.summary.enqueue_failed", err);
     return { enqueued: false };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail-backfill.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail-backfill.ts
index 9dc4b6fda..638275d50 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail-backfill.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail-backfill.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { nativeCanvasSupported } from "@/lib/documents/native-canvas-support";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { enqueueDocumentThumbnail } from "@/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_BACKFILL_QUEUE = "document-thumbnail-backfill";
 
@@ -211,7 +212,8 @@ export async function enqueueBootTimeThumbnailBackfill(): Promise<{
         },
       );
       if (jobId) enqueued += 1;
-    } catch {
+    } catch (err) {
+      logCaught("documents.thumbnail.backfill_enqueue_failed", err);
       // A transient send failure is a no-op — the next boot re-discovers the
       // still-missing thumbnails.
     }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail.ts b/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail.ts
index 3e4dddbe1..f593ab760 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/document-thumbnail.ts
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import { generateThumbnail } from "@/lib/documents/thumbnail";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { withBackgroundEvent } from "@/lib/logging/background";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_QUEUE = "document-thumbnail";
 
@@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ export async function enqueueDocumentThumbnail(
       action: { name: "documents.thumbnail.enqueueFailed" },
       meta: { documentId, reason: err instanceof Error ? err.name : "unknown" },
     });
+    logCaught("documents.thumbnail.enqueue_failed", err);
     return { enqueued: false };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/geolite2-fetch.ts b/src/lib/jobs/geolite2-fetch.ts
index f8c6c6f80..8b1b14c01 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/geolite2-fetch.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/geolite2-fetch.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { envFlag } from "@/lib/env";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { offlineGeoReady } from "@/lib/geo";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const GEOLITE2_FETCH_QUEUE = "geolite2-fetch";
 
@@ -71,7 +72,8 @@ export async function enqueueGeolite2FetchBootDiscovery(): Promise<{
       meta: { enqueued },
     });
     return { enqueued };
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("geolite2.fetch.enqueue_failed", err);
     // A transient send failure is a no-op — the monthly cron and the next boot
     // both re-attempt.
     return { enqueued: 0 };
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate-shared.ts b/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate-shared.ts
index 95e5aee07..136d9353a 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate-shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate-shared.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import type { SupportedLocale } from "@/lib/insights/status-shared";
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const INSIGHT_PREGENERATE_QUEUE = "insight-pregenerate";
 
@@ -111,7 +112,8 @@ export async function enqueueForceWarm(payload: {
       action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.force.enqueued" },
       meta: { locale: payload.locale },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("insights.pregenerate.enqueue_failed", err, { kind: "force" });
     // Enqueue is best-effort; a failure here just means the caches stay
     // cold until the next poll / nightly cron warms them.
   }
@@ -169,7 +171,8 @@ export async function enqueueTodayBriefingWarm(payload: {
       action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.today.enqueued" },
       meta: { locale: payload.locale, immediate: payload.immediate },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("insights.pregenerate.enqueue_failed", err, { kind: "today" });
     // Best-effort, like every warm enqueue: the next read asks again.
   }
 }
@@ -240,7 +243,8 @@ export async function enqueuePregenerateFailureRetry(payload: {
         delay_seconds: PREGENERATE_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS,
       },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("insights.pregenerate.enqueue_failed", err, { kind: "retry" });
     // Best-effort: a failed enqueue leaves the nightly tick as the
     // catch-net, exactly the pre-retry behaviour.
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate.ts b/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate.ts
index 5e37cea90..927a64fc9 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/insight-pregenerate.ts
@@ -48,12 +48,20 @@
  * Recurring pg-boss task — never runs inside an HTTP request and never
  * shells out to `tsx` (CLAUDE.md DO-NOTs).
  */
+import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import pLimit from "p-limit";
 
 import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
 import { checkRateLimit } from "@/lib/rate-limit";
 import { getAssistantFlags } from "@/lib/feature-flags";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { withBackgroundEvent } from "@/lib/logging/background";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
+import {
+  reportJobRun,
+  type JobRunCandidate,
+  type JobRunOutcome,
+} from "@/lib/jobs/job-run-report";
 import { aiCapabilityForJob } from "@/lib/ai/capabilities/gate";
 import { userIdsWithModuleOff } from "@/lib/jobs/ai-job-candidates";
 import type { SupportedLocale } from "@/lib/insights/status-shared";
@@ -279,6 +287,13 @@ export interface PregenerateRunResult {
   budgetBlocked: number;
   /** The job's time budget ran out before every candidate was reached. */
   stoppedEarly: boolean;
+  /**
+   * v1.42 — every candidate the run attempted failed (see `reportJobRun`).
+   * Written into the job's facts as `all_failed`, which is how a completed
+   * night with nothing generated still counts toward the repeated-failure
+   * streak.
+   */
+  allFailed: boolean;
   /**
    * Count of per-metric assessment caches written warm across the whole
    * run. The comprehensive generator evicts the seven `*-status`
@@ -342,15 +357,11 @@ async function warmPerStatusCaches(
         } catch (err) {
           // A single card's generation failing must not abort the rest of
           // the warm pass for this user, nor the cron's user loop — but it
-          // must not be invisible either: annotate so a failing card is
-          // diagnosable from one grep instead of a silent zero.
-          annotate({
-            action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.warm_failed" },
-            meta: {
-              stage: "status-card",
-              locale,
-              message: describeError(err),
-            },
+          // must not be invisible either: a warn line under one action, so a
+          // failing card is diagnosable from one grep instead of a silent zero.
+          logCaught("insights.pregenerate.warm_failed", err, {
+            stage: "status-card",
+            locale,
           });
           return 0;
         }
@@ -391,13 +402,9 @@ async function warmStatusBatch(
     } catch (err) {
       // The batch must never throw the cron's user loop off course — but
       // a swallowed batch failure left ~7 cards cold with zero signal.
-      annotate({
-        action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.warm_failed" },
-        meta: {
-          stage: "status-batch",
-          locale,
-          message: describeError(err),
-        },
+      logCaught("insights.pregenerate.warm_failed", err, {
+        stage: "status-batch",
+        locale,
       });
     }
   }
@@ -440,9 +447,8 @@ async function warmGenericMetricCaches(
   } catch (err) {
     // Best-effort discovery — but a silently-failing grouped read used to
     // zero out the whole generic warm with no trace.
-    annotate({
-      action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.warm_failed" },
-      meta: { stage: "metric-discovery", message: describeError(err) },
+    logCaught("insights.pregenerate.warm_failed", err, {
+      stage: "metric-discovery",
     });
     return 0;
   }
@@ -478,14 +484,10 @@ async function warmGenericMetricCaches(
             ? 1
             : 0;
         } catch (err) {
-          annotate({
-            action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.warm_failed" },
-            meta: {
-              stage: "metric-card",
-              metric,
-              locale,
-              message: describeError(err),
-            },
+          logCaught("insights.pregenerate.warm_failed", err, {
+            stage: "metric-card",
+            metric,
+            locale,
           });
           return 0;
         }
@@ -496,6 +498,15 @@ async function warmGenericMetricCaches(
   return results.reduce((sum: number, n) => sum + n, 0);
 }
 
+/**
+ * A stable, non-identifying key for one candidate on the run's log line: a
+ * short hash of the account id, enough to follow one account across nights
+ * without naming it.
+ */
+function candidateKey(userId: string): string {
+  return createHash("sha256").update(userId).digest("hex").slice(0, 8);
+}
+
 interface PregenerateCandidate {
   id: string;
   locale: string | null;
@@ -583,12 +594,15 @@ export async function runInsightPregenerate(
      * not reach are the stalest again tomorrow, so they lead the next pass.
      */
     shouldStop?: () => boolean;
+    /** Injected for the test — defaults to the real run report. */
+    reportRun?: typeof reportJobRun;
   } = {},
 ): Promise<PregenerateRunResult> {
   const now = options.now ?? new Date();
   const cap = options.cap ?? PREGENERATE_BATCH_CAP;
   const generate = options.generate ?? generateComprehensiveInsight;
   const enqueueRetry = options.enqueueRetry ?? enqueuePregenerateFailureRetry;
+  const reportRun = options.reportRun ?? reportJobRun;
   // v1.18.7 (HIGH-1) — when the caller injects its own `statusGenerators`
   // (the unit tests do), keep the per-card warm so those assertions hold;
   // production injects nothing, so the seven warm calls collapse into ONE
@@ -615,6 +629,7 @@ export async function runInsightPregenerate(
     failed: 0,
     budgetBlocked: 0,
     stoppedEarly: false,
+    allFailed: false,
     assessmentsWarmed: 0,
     metricAssessmentsWarmed: 0,
   };
@@ -627,197 +642,35 @@ export async function runInsightPregenerate(
   const candidates = await findPregenerateCandidates(prisma, now, cap);
   result.total = candidates.length;
 
-  for (const candidate of candidates) {
+  // v1.42 — one outcome per candidate, reported together at the end of the
+  // run (`reportJobRun`). Each candidate also runs inside its own wide event,
+  // so what one account's generation annotates (the provider chain's hops,
+  // the failure cause) lands on that account's line instead of overwriting
+  // the run's: the run used to read `all-failed` whenever the LAST account
+  // failed, on nights where the others had worked.
+  const runId = randomUUID();
+  const runOutcomes: JobRunCandidate[] = [];
+
+  for (const [index, candidate] of candidates.entries()) {
     if (options.shouldStop?.()) {
       result.stoppedEarly = true;
+      // The rest are the stalest again tomorrow; they lead the next pass.
+      for (const rest of candidates.slice(index)) {
+        runOutcomes.push({
+          key: candidateKey(rest.id),
+          outcome: "deferred",
+          cause: "job_budget",
+        });
+      }
       break;
     }
-    // v1.18.11 P3 — one feature-cache scope per candidate, so the
-    // comprehensive briefing's bounded feature read is computed once and any
-    // sibling consumer in this candidate's warm reuses it. Scoped per user so
-    // no cross-user object can leak.
-    await withFeatureCacheScope(async () => {
-      // The two capabilities this pass serves, resolved before any snapshot
-      // or rate-limit write: the briefing for the comprehensive insight, the
-      // status notes for the per-metric warm. Each half runs only when its
-      // own capability is available; the chokepoints re-check at the wire.
-      const [briefing, statusText] = await Promise.all([
-        aiCapabilityForJob(candidate.id, "briefing"),
-        aiCapabilityForJob(candidate.id, "statusText"),
-      ]);
-      if (!briefing.available && !statusText.available) {
-        result.skipped++;
-        annotate({
-          action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.skipped" },
-          meta: {
-            briefing: briefing.reason,
-            status_text: statusText.reason,
-          },
-        });
-        return;
-      }
-
-      // Budget gate — one COMPREHENSIVE pre-generation per user per 20 h.
-      // The route's on-demand path uses a different bucket
-      // (`insights:${userId}`), so this never starves a user's manual
-      // regenerate quota. The gate bounds the comprehensive cost only: a
-      // blocked user still gets the refill-only status warm below, because
-      // the 02:xx status crons already skipped every pregenerate candidate
-      // on the assumption that THIS pass warms their cards — exiting early
-      // here left those cards cold until the first on-visit generation.
-      const budget = briefing.available
-        ? await checkRateLimit(
-            `insight-pregenerate:${candidate.id}`,
-            1,
-            PREGENERATE_BUDGET_WINDOW_MS,
-          )
-        : null;
-
-      // The stored locale, then the operator default: a NULL column used to
-      // resolve to English here, so a German-language instance warmed its
-      // briefings in English every night.
-      const locale = await resolveJobLocale(candidate.locale);
-      if (budget === null) {
-        result.skipped++;
-        annotate({
-          action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.skipped" },
-          meta: { briefing: briefing.reason },
-        });
-      } else if (!budget.allowed) {
-        result.budgetBlocked++;
-      } else {
-        // Force a fresh generation: the discovery window (20 h) is shorter
-        // than the generator's 24 h cache TTL, so without `force` a user
-        // whose cache is 20–24 h old would be discovered, consume the
-        // budget bucket, then short-circuit to `cached` with no actual
-        // pre-generation — defeating the "warm the cache before the user's
-        // morning visit" intent for the common case. The per-user budget
-        // bucket (above) bounds attempts, and the generator's content-hash
-        // gate (v1.16.8) turns a same-data force into a timestamp refresh
-        // (`unchanged`) with no provider call.
-        //
-        // Bounded budget + abort (v1.16.1): one stalled provider must not
-        // pin the whole batch behind a single candidate, and `withTimeout`
-        // alone cannot cancel the detached generation — without the abort a
-        // late resolve would still write a cache row + timestamp after the
-        // loop moved on (the same race the forced single-user warm closes).
-        const controller = new AbortController();
-        // v1.25.3 — size the outer abort from the candidate's resolved
-        // response-timeout so a raised setting extends the warm budget
-        // instead of being clipped by a fixed cap.
-        const warmBudgetMs = comprehensiveWarmBudgetMs(
-          candidate.aiResponseTimeoutSeconds,
-        );
-        // Capture the rejection so the failure annotation can carry the
-        // actual error text — `withTimeout` folds a rejection into a bare
-        // `errored: true` envelope, which made the cause undiagnosable.
-        let thrown: unknown = null;
-        const bounded = await withTimeout(
-          () =>
-            generate(candidate.id, {
-              locale,
-              force: true,
-              signal: controller.signal,
-            }).catch((err: unknown) => {
-              thrown = err;
-              throw err;
-            }),
-          warmBudgetMs,
-          null,
-          () => controller.abort(),
-        );
-        if (bounded.timedOut || bounded.errored || bounded.value === null) {
-          result.failed++;
-          // v1.21.5 — make the warm failure queryable. The nightly loop used to
-          // bump `failed` with no annotation, so a candidate whose comprehensive
-          // generation timed out (e.g. the briefing clipped at the old 45 s
-          // bound) left the cached block empty AND emitted nothing greppable.
-          // v1.28.30 — carry the stage + error text so ONE grep on
-          // `comprehensive_failed` names the failing catch and its cause.
-          annotate({
-            action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.comprehensive_failed" },
-            meta: {
-              locale,
-              stage: "nightly.bound",
-              cause: bounded.timedOut
-                ? "timeout"
-                : bounded.errored
-                  ? "error"
-                  : "null",
-              budget_ms: warmBudgetMs,
-              message: thrown === null ? null : describeError(thrown),
-            },
-          });
-          // v1.28.30 — bounded intra-day retry: one delayed forced warm for
-          // just this user, so a transient 04:30 provider hiccup heals
-          // before the morning visit instead of waiting for the next night.
-          await enqueueRetry({ userId: candidate.id, locale });
-        } else {
-          const outcome = bounded.value;
-          switch (outcome.status) {
-            case "generated":
-              result.generated++;
-              break;
-            case "cached":
-              result.cached++;
-              break;
-            case "unchanged":
-              result.unchanged++;
-              break;
-            case "skipped":
-              result.skipped++;
-              break;
-            case "failed":
-              result.failed++;
-              // v1.28.30 — THE previously-silent failure path. A generator
-              // that resolves with `{ status: "failed" }` (features error,
-              // oversize payload, invalid JSON after retry, abort) bumped
-              // the tally with no annotation at all — the nightly summary
-              // showed `failed: 1` and nothing else was greppable. Reuse
-              // the `comprehensive_failed` shape with the generator's own
-              // reason as the cause.
-              annotate({
-                action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.comprehensive_failed" },
-                meta: {
-                  locale,
-                  stage: "nightly.generator",
-                  cause: `generator:${outcome.reason}`,
-                  budget_ms: warmBudgetMs,
-                  message: null,
-                },
-              });
-              await enqueueRetry({ userId: candidate.id, locale });
-              break;
-          }
-        }
-      }
-
-      // Warm the per-metric assessment caches — refill-only, single locale
-      // (v1.16.8). The comprehensive write no longer evicts the per-status
-      // rows, so there is nothing to force-refill: a card already generated
-      // today is a cheap cache read, a cold card runs its generator, and the
-      // generator's content-hash gate turns a same-data regeneration into a
-      // timestamp refresh with no provider call. The warm runs on every
-      // comprehensive outcome (budget-blocked, failed, timed-out,
-      // consent-skipped included) because the 02:xx status crons skip every
-      // pregenerate candidate on the assumption that THIS pass covers them.
-      //
-      // Nothing to warm when the status notes themselves are unavailable.
-      if (!statusText.available) {
-        annotate({
-          action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.status_skipped" },
-          meta: { reason: statusText.reason },
-        });
-        return;
-      }
-      result.assessmentsWarmed += await warmStatus(candidate.id, [locale]);
-      // v1.8.7.1 — warm the generic per-HealthKit-metric caches too, for
-      // the user's data-bearing metrics only (the helper filters via one
-      // grouped count, so an empty metric never reaches the provider).
-      result.metricAssessmentsWarmed += await warmGenericMetrics(candidate.id, [
-        locale,
-      ]);
-    });
+    const key = candidateKey(candidate.id);
+    const outcome = await withBackgroundEvent(
+      "job.insight_pregenerate.candidate",
+      (evt) =>
+        withFeatureCacheScope(() => pregenerateCandidate(candidate, key, evt)),
+    );
+    runOutcomes.push(outcome);
   }
 
   // Wide-event tally so the nightly dashboard can track how many
@@ -837,8 +690,254 @@ export async function runInsightPregenerate(
       metric_assessments_warmed: result.metricAssessmentsWarmed,
     },
   });
+  const verdict = await reportRun({
+    queue: INSIGHT_PREGENERATE_QUEUE,
+    runId,
+    candidates: runOutcomes,
+  });
+  result.allFailed = verdict.allFailed;
 
   return result;
+
+  /**
+   * One candidate's whole pass: capabilities, the budget gate, the bounded
+   * comprehensive generation and the refill-only card warm. Returns how the
+   * candidate ended for the run report; never throws for a provider failure
+   * (those are outcomes), only for something unexpected, which aborts the
+   * run as it always did.
+   */
+  async function pregenerateCandidate(
+    candidate: PregenerateCandidate,
+    key: string,
+    evt: { elevateLevel(level: "warn"): unknown },
+  ): Promise<JobRunCandidate> {
+    annotate({ meta: { candidate: key, run_id: runId } });
+    const state: { outcome: JobRunOutcome; cause?: string } = {
+      outcome: "ok",
+    };
+    const settle = (outcome: JobRunOutcome, cause?: string) => {
+      state.outcome = outcome;
+      state.cause = cause;
+    };
+
+    // The two capabilities this pass serves, resolved before any snapshot
+    // or rate-limit write: the briefing for the comprehensive insight, the
+    // status notes for the per-metric warm. Each half runs only when its
+    // own capability is available; the chokepoints re-check at the wire.
+    const [briefing, statusText] = await Promise.all([
+      aiCapabilityForJob(candidate.id, "briefing"),
+      aiCapabilityForJob(candidate.id, "statusText"),
+    ]);
+    if (!briefing.available && !statusText.available) {
+      result.skipped++;
+      annotate({
+        action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.skipped" },
+        meta: {
+          briefing: briefing.reason,
+          status_text: statusText.reason,
+        },
+      });
+      return {
+        key,
+        outcome: "skipped",
+        cause: briefing.reason ?? "unavailable",
+      };
+    }
+
+    // Budget gate — one COMPREHENSIVE pre-generation per user per 20 h.
+    // The route's on-demand path uses a different bucket
+    // (`insights:${userId}`), so this never starves a user's manual
+    // regenerate quota. The gate bounds the comprehensive cost only: a
+    // blocked user still gets the refill-only status warm below, because
+    // the 02:xx status crons already skipped every pregenerate candidate
+    // on the assumption that THIS pass warms their cards — exiting early
+    // here left those cards cold until the first on-visit generation.
+    const budget = briefing.available
+      ? await checkRateLimit(
+          `insight-pregenerate:${candidate.id}`,
+          1,
+          PREGENERATE_BUDGET_WINDOW_MS,
+        )
+      : null;
+
+    // The stored locale, then the operator default: a NULL column used to
+    // resolve to English here, so a German-language instance warmed its
+    // briefings in English every night.
+    const locale = await resolveJobLocale(candidate.locale);
+    if (budget === null) {
+      result.skipped++;
+      settle("skipped", briefing.reason ?? "briefing_unavailable");
+      annotate({
+        action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.skipped" },
+        meta: { briefing: briefing.reason },
+      });
+    } else if (!budget.allowed) {
+      result.budgetBlocked++;
+      settle("skipped", "budget_blocked");
+    } else {
+      // Force a fresh generation: the discovery window (20 h) is shorter
+      // than the generator's 24 h cache TTL, so without `force` a user
+      // whose cache is 20–24 h old would be discovered, consume the
+      // budget bucket, then short-circuit to `cached` with no actual
+      // pre-generation — defeating the "warm the cache before the user's
+      // morning visit" intent for the common case. The per-user budget
+      // bucket (above) bounds attempts, and the generator's content-hash
+      // gate (v1.16.8) turns a same-data force into a timestamp refresh
+      // (`unchanged`) with no provider call.
+      //
+      // Bounded budget + abort (v1.16.1): one stalled provider must not
+      // pin the whole batch behind a single candidate, and `withTimeout`
+      // alone cannot cancel the detached generation — without the abort a
+      // late resolve would still write a cache row + timestamp after the
+      // loop moved on (the same race the forced single-user warm closes).
+      const controller = new AbortController();
+      // v1.25.3 — size the outer abort from the candidate's resolved
+      // response-timeout so a raised setting extends the warm budget
+      // instead of being clipped by a fixed cap.
+      const warmBudgetMs = comprehensiveWarmBudgetMs(
+        candidate.aiResponseTimeoutSeconds,
+      );
+      // Capture the rejection so the failure annotation can carry the
+      // actual error text — `withTimeout` folds a rejection into a bare
+      // `errored: true` envelope, which made the cause undiagnosable.
+      let thrown: unknown = null;
+      const bounded = await withTimeout(
+        () =>
+          generate(candidate.id, {
+            locale,
+            force: true,
+            signal: controller.signal,
+          }).catch((err: unknown) => {
+            thrown = err;
+            throw err;
+          }),
+        warmBudgetMs,
+        null,
+        () => controller.abort(),
+      );
+      if (bounded.timedOut || bounded.errored || bounded.value === null) {
+        result.failed++;
+        const boundCause = bounded.timedOut
+          ? "timeout"
+          : bounded.errored
+            ? "error"
+            : "null";
+        settle("failed", boundCause);
+        // v1.21.5 — make the warm failure queryable. The nightly loop used to
+        // bump `failed` with no annotation, so a candidate whose comprehensive
+        // generation timed out (e.g. the briefing clipped at the old 45 s
+        // bound) left the cached block empty AND emitted nothing greppable.
+        // v1.28.30 — carry the stage + error text so ONE grep on
+        // `comprehensive_failed` names the failing catch and its cause.
+        annotate({
+          action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.comprehensive_failed" },
+          meta: {
+            locale,
+            stage: "nightly.bound",
+            cause: boundCause,
+            budget_ms: warmBudgetMs,
+            message: thrown === null ? null : describeError(thrown),
+          },
+        });
+        // v1.28.30 — bounded intra-day retry: one delayed forced warm for
+        // just this user, so a transient 04:30 provider hiccup heals
+        // before the morning visit instead of waiting for the next night.
+        await enqueueRetry({ userId: candidate.id, locale });
+      } else {
+        const generated = bounded.value;
+        switch (generated.status) {
+          case "generated":
+          case "rerolled":
+            result.generated++;
+            break;
+          case "cached":
+            result.cached++;
+            break;
+          case "unchanged":
+            result.unchanged++;
+            break;
+          case "skipped":
+            result.skipped++;
+            settle("skipped", generated.reason);
+            break;
+          case "failed":
+            result.failed++;
+            // v1.28.30 — THE previously-silent failure path. A generator
+            // that resolves with `{ status: "failed" }` (features error,
+            // oversize payload, invalid JSON after retry, abort) bumped
+            // the tally with no annotation at all — the nightly summary
+            // showed `failed: 1` and nothing else was greppable. Reuse
+            // the `comprehensive_failed` shape with the generator's own
+            // reason as the cause.
+            annotate({
+              action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.comprehensive_failed" },
+              meta: {
+                locale,
+                stage: "nightly.generator",
+                cause: `generator:${generated.reason}`,
+                budget_ms: warmBudgetMs,
+                message: null,
+              },
+            });
+            if (generated.reason === "outbound-screened") {
+              // v1.42 — the model answered and the safety screen withheld
+              // it, after the generator's own repair. Asking the same model
+              // again in 45 minutes is not a provider retry; it is the same
+              // question, and it was screened eight times a night.
+              settle("screened", generated.reason);
+            } else if (generated.credentialExpired) {
+              // v1.42 — a dead sign-in (a Codex refresh token the issuer
+              // revoked) does not heal in 45 minutes either; the person has
+              // to reconnect, and the ledger already tells them so.
+              settle("auth_failed", generated.reason);
+            } else {
+              settle("failed", generated.reason);
+              await enqueueRetry({ userId: candidate.id, locale });
+            }
+            break;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Warm the per-metric assessment caches — refill-only, single locale
+    // (v1.16.8). The comprehensive write no longer evicts the per-status
+    // rows, so there is nothing to force-refill: a card already generated
+    // today is a cheap cache read, a cold card runs its generator, and the
+    // generator's content-hash gate turns a same-data regeneration into a
+    // timestamp refresh with no provider call. The warm runs on every
+    // comprehensive outcome (budget-blocked, failed, timed-out,
+    // consent-skipped included) because the 02:xx status crons skip every
+    // pregenerate candidate on the assumption that THIS pass covers them.
+    //
+    // Nothing to warm when the status notes themselves are unavailable.
+    if (!statusText.available) {
+      annotate({
+        action: { name: "insights.pregenerate.status_skipped" },
+        meta: { reason: statusText.reason },
+      });
+    } else {
+      result.assessmentsWarmed += await warmStatus(candidate.id, [locale]);
+      // v1.8.7.1 — warm the generic per-HealthKit-metric caches too, for
+      // the user's data-bearing metrics only (the helper filters via one
+      // grouped count, so an empty metric never reaches the provider).
+      result.metricAssessmentsWarmed += await warmGenericMetrics(candidate.id, [
+        locale,
+      ]);
+    }
+
+    const final = state.outcome;
+    if (final === "failed" || final === "auth_failed" || final === "screened") {
+      evt.elevateLevel("warn");
+    }
+    annotate({
+      meta: { outcome: final, ...(state.cause ? { cause: state.cause } : {}) },
+    });
+    return {
+      key,
+      outcome: final,
+      ...(state.cause ? { cause: state.cause } : {}),
+    };
+  }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1001,7 +1100,8 @@ export async function forceWarmUser(
             aiResponseTimeoutSeconds: true,
           },
         });
-      } catch {
+      } catch (err) {
+        logCaught("insights.pregenerate.force.preflight_failed", err);
         // Best-effort pre-flight — on a read failure fall through to the
         // budgeted generation attempt below.
       }
@@ -1119,7 +1219,8 @@ export async function forceWarmUser(
                 data: { insightsWarmFailedAt: null },
               });
             }
-          } catch {
+          } catch (err) {
+            logCaught("insights.pregenerate.force.marker_failed", err);
             // Marker maintenance is best-effort; never fail the warm on it.
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/insight-status-generate-shared.ts b/src/lib/jobs/insight-status-generate-shared.ts
index 2b31f6e4a..5296732d1 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/insight-status-generate-shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/insight-status-generate-shared.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   providerWorkAuthorityForRecord,
   type ProviderWorkAuthority,
 } from "@/lib/sharing/provider-work-authority";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const INSIGHT_STATUS_GENERATE_QUEUE = "insight-status-generate";
 
@@ -165,7 +166,10 @@ export async function enqueueStatusGeneration(
       action: { name: "insights.status.generate.enqueued" },
       meta: { metric: payload.metric },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("insights.status.enqueue_failed", err, {
+      metric: payload.metric,
+    });
     // Enqueue is best-effort; a failure here just means the card stays
     // in `preparing` until the next poll / nightly cron warms the cache.
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/job-failures.ts b/src/lib/jobs/job-failures.ts
index 9332b041d..db7604b6d 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/job-failures.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/job-failures.ts
@@ -28,22 +28,61 @@ import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
 import { redactSecrets } from "@/lib/logging/redact";
 
 /**
- * pg-boss 12.34.0 stores terminal rows until
- * `completed_on + deletion_seconds` (`dist/plans.js`). Its queue default is
- * 604800 seconds, while `retention_seconds` defaults to 1209600 seconds; job
- * insertion copies those queue values and maintenance applies the terminal-row
- * deletion clock. The deployed queue-table audit found those same values on
- * every queue, and no job submitter overrides either option.
+ * How long pg-boss keeps a terminal row, and why the readers below can rely
+ * on it.
  *
- * Seven days is therefore the verified availability floor for failed rows.
- * The reader stays at 72 hours, safely inside that floor, and pg-boss remains
- * the single failure ledger.
+ * pg-boss 12.34.0 stores terminal rows until `completed_on +
+ * deletion_seconds` (`dist/plans.js`). The queue default is 604800 seconds
+ * (seven days), `retention_seconds` defaults to 1209600 seconds, and job
+ * insertion copies the queue's values onto each row. A queue created without
+ * a `deleteAfterSeconds` option therefore keeps its failed rows for seven
+ * days.
+ *
+ * That is no longer true for every queue. v1.42 shortens the retention of
+ * the pure-volume queues (a sampler that ticks every five minutes, the rollup
+ * recompute fan-out) so their completed rows stop bloating `job_common`. A
+ * failed row on such a queue lives only as long as that queue's own
+ * retention, and a reader that looks back 72 hours over a queue that forgets
+ * after 48 would report "nothing failed" about failures it can no longer see.
+ *
+ * So the availability is per queue now, and it has a floor: no queue may
+ * keep its terminal rows for less than `FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS`,
+ * which is the 72-hour reader window plus a day of slack for a run that
+ * fails just before a maintenance pass. Every queue option that shortens
+ * retention goes through `failureReaderRetention`, which refuses a value
+ * under the floor, and `src/__tests__/job-retention-floor-guard.test.ts`
+ * refuses a `deleteAfterSeconds` anywhere that is neither a call to it nor a
+ * literal at or above the floor. pg-boss remains the single failure ledger.
  */
-export const PG_BOSS_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS = 7 * 24;
+export const PG_BOSS_DEFAULT_FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_HOURS = 7 * 24;
 
 /** How far back a failure still counts as news. */
 export const JOB_FAILURE_WINDOW_HOURS = 72;
 
+/**
+ * The shortest terminal-row retention any queue may have: the reader window
+ * plus a day. See the block above.
+ */
+export const FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS =
+  JOB_FAILURE_WINDOW_HOURS + 24;
+
+/**
+ * The `deleteAfterSeconds` queue option for a queue that keeps its terminal
+ * rows for `hours`. Throws below the floor, so a retention change that would
+ * blind the failure readers fails at boot and in the test suite rather than
+ * silently three days later.
+ */
+export function failureReaderRetention(hours: number): {
+  deleteAfterSeconds: number;
+} {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(hours) || hours < FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS) {
+    throw new RangeError(
+      `queue retention of ${hours} h is below the ${FAILED_ROW_AVAILABILITY_FLOOR_HOURS} h the failure readers need`,
+    );
+  }
+  return { deleteAfterSeconds: Math.round(hours * 3600) };
+}
+
 /** Queues named in one report — enough to see a pattern, bounded for the wire. */
 const MAX_QUEUES = 20;
 
@@ -373,3 +412,52 @@ export async function readQueueRunningSince(
     return null;
   }
 }
+
+/** Newest terminal rows `readConsecutiveRunFailures` looks at. */
+const CONSECUTIVE_LOOKBACK_ROWS = 50;
+
+/**
+ * How many runs of `queue` in a row ended in failure, newest first, counting
+ * the run that is failing right now (so the result is at least 1).
+ *
+ * A run counts as failed when pg-boss failed it (`state = 'failed'`), or when
+ * it completed but said in its own facts that every candidate it attempted
+ * failed (`did.all_failed`, written through `reportJobRun`). A fan-out pass
+ * like the nightly briefing warm completes even when nothing worked, because
+ * failing the queue would retry the whole cohort over one account; its
+ * all-failed nights are still a streak an operator wants to hear about.
+ *
+ * Completed runs that do not report `all_failed` at all (a queue's on-demand
+ * single-account jobs share it with the nightly pass) are not evidence either
+ * way and are skipped. The streak ends at the first completed run that says
+ * it did not all fail.
+ *
+ * Fails soft to 1: when the queue schema cannot be read, this run is still a
+ * failure, and one is the only count that is known.
+ */
+export async function readConsecutiveRunFailures(
+  queue: string,
+): Promise<number> {
+  try {
+    const rows = await prisma.$queryRaw<
+      Array<{ state: string; all_failed: string | null }>
+    >`
+      SELECT state, output->'did'->>'all_failed' AS all_failed
+      FROM pgboss.job
+      WHERE name = ${queue}
+        AND state IN ('completed', 'failed')
+        AND completed_on IS NOT NULL
+        AND (state = 'failed' OR output->'did'->>'all_failed' IS NOT NULL)
+      ORDER BY completed_on DESC
+      LIMIT ${CONSECUTIVE_LOOKBACK_ROWS}
+    `;
+    let streak = 1;
+    for (const row of rows) {
+      if (row.state === "failed" || row.all_failed === "true") streak += 1;
+      else break;
+    }
+    return streak;
+  } catch {
+    return 1;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/job-lock.ts b/src/lib/jobs/job-lock.ts
index 5db0d75ba..a7a49e737 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/job-lock.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/job-lock.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * One extra connection per running locked job.
  */
 import { Client } from "pg";
+import { caughtAs } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /** What a guarded run came to. */
 export type GuardedRun<T> = { ran: true; result: T } | { ran: false };
@@ -50,9 +51,9 @@ export async function withJobLock<T>(
     } finally {
       await client
         .query("SELECT pg_advisory_unlock(hashtextextended($1, 0))", [key])
-        .catch(() => {});
+        .catch(caughtAs("jobs.lock.release_failed"));
     }
   } finally {
-    await client.end().catch(() => {});
+    await client.end().catch(caughtAs("jobs.lock.release_failed"));
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/job-outcome.ts b/src/lib/jobs/job-outcome.ts
index 33e994a32..61f9733b5 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/job-outcome.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/job-outcome.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ export const JOB_FACT_ALLOWLIST: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   "ai_runs_deleted",
   "ai_runs_timed_out",
   "ai_runs_worker_unavailable",
+  // v1.42 — every candidate a fan-out pass attempted failed (`reportJobRun`).
+  "all_failed",
   // An admission delivery that found its import still running from an
   // earlier delivery of the same job and did nothing.
   "already_running",
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/job-run-report.ts b/src/lib/jobs/job-run-report.ts
index f17d02795..4dadbd0f4 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/job-run-report.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/job-run-report.ts
@@ -3,16 +3,31 @@
  *
  * A pass over many accounts used to annotate its wide event once per
  * candidate, and the last write won: a run where six accounts worked and one
- * failed read as whatever the last account did. `reportJobRun` takes the
- * whole candidate list instead, so the run's line carries every outcome and
- * the level follows the worst of them.
+ * failed read as whatever the last account did. The nightly briefing warm read
+ * as `all-failed` on seven nights in a row when it had in fact completed every
+ * night, because the last account of each run happened to fail. `reportJobRun`
+ * takes the whole candidate list instead, so the run's line carries every
+ * outcome and the level follows the run as a whole:
  *
- * Contract stub: the signature is fixed for its callers (the insight
- * pre-generation, the tombstone purge, the measurement maintenance). Until
- * the implementation lands it annotates the run's counts the way the callers
- * do today.
+ *   - every attempted candidate failed → `job.run.failed` at `error`, with how
+ *     many runs of the queue in a row have now failed (`consecutiveFailures`,
+ *     the number the repeated-failure alert keys on);
+ *   - some failed, or a result was withheld → `job.run.partial` at `warn`;
+ *   - otherwise nothing extra: the run's own line says what it did.
+ *
+ * "Attempted" leaves out `skipped` and `deferred` candidates: an account
+ * without consent or one the job budget did not reach is not a failure of the
+ * run. `screened` (the model answered and the safety screen withheld it) is
+ * attempted but is not a provider failure, so a run of only screened
+ * candidates is partial, not failed.
+ *
+ * The verdict comes back to the caller, which writes `all_failed` into its
+ * `jobDone` facts. That fact is what lets `readConsecutiveRunFailures` count a
+ * completed-but-all-failed night as part of a streak.
  */
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { emitSignal } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
+import { readConsecutiveRunFailures } from "@/lib/jobs/job-failures";
 
 /** How one candidate of a run ended. */
 export type JobRunOutcome =
@@ -26,20 +41,118 @@ export interface JobRunCandidate {
   cause?: string;
 }
 
-export function reportJobRun(input: {
+export interface JobRunVerdict {
+  /** Candidates the run looked at. */
+  total: number;
+  /** Candidates it actually attempted (not skipped, not deferred). */
+  attempted: number;
+  /** `failed` + `auth_failed`. */
+  failed: number;
+  /** Every attempted candidate failed (and at least one was attempted). */
+  allFailed: boolean;
+  /** Something failed or was withheld, but not everything. */
+  partial: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Candidates listed on the run's line; the counts always cover all of them. */
+const MAX_LISTED_CANDIDATES = 50;
+
+const FAILED: ReadonlySet<JobRunOutcome> = new Set(["failed", "auth_failed"]);
+const NOT_ATTEMPTED: ReadonlySet<JobRunOutcome> = new Set([
+  "skipped",
+  "deferred",
+]);
+
+/** The verdict alone, without logging. Pure, for callers and tests. */
+export function judgeJobRun(
+  candidates: readonly JobRunCandidate[],
+): JobRunVerdict {
+  const total = candidates.length;
+  const attempted = candidates.filter(
+    (c) => !NOT_ATTEMPTED.has(c.outcome),
+  ).length;
+  const failed = candidates.filter((c) => FAILED.has(c.outcome)).length;
+  const screened = candidates.filter((c) => c.outcome === "screened").length;
+  const allFailed = attempted > 0 && failed === attempted;
+  return {
+    total,
+    attempted,
+    failed,
+    allFailed,
+    partial: !allFailed && (failed > 0 || screened > 0),
+  };
+}
+
+export async function reportJobRun(input: {
   queue: string;
   runId: string;
   candidates: readonly JobRunCandidate[];
-}): void {
-  const failed = input.candidates.filter(
-    (c) => c.outcome === "failed" || c.outcome === "auth_failed",
-  ).length;
+}): Promise<JobRunVerdict> {
+  const verdict = judgeJobRun(input.candidates);
+  const byOutcome: Record<string, number> = {};
+  for (const c of input.candidates) {
+    byOutcome[c.outcome] = (byOutcome[c.outcome] ?? 0) + 1;
+  }
+
   annotate({
     meta: {
       queue: input.queue,
       runId: input.runId,
-      candidates: input.candidates.length,
-      failed,
+      candidates: verdict.total,
+      attempted: verdict.attempted,
+      failed: verdict.failed,
+      all_failed: verdict.allFailed,
+      outcomes: byOutcome,
+      candidate_outcomes: input.candidates
+        .slice(0, MAX_LISTED_CANDIDATES)
+        .map((c) => ({
+          key: c.key,
+          outcome: c.outcome,
+          ...(c.cause ? { cause: c.cause } : {}),
+        })),
     },
   });
+
+  if (verdict.allFailed) {
+    const consecutiveFailures = await readConsecutiveRunFailures(input.queue);
+    emitSignal({
+      action: "job.run.failed",
+      level: "error",
+      meta: {
+        queue: input.queue,
+        runId: input.runId,
+        consecutiveFailures,
+        failed: verdict.failed,
+        total: verdict.attempted,
+        causes: distinctCauses(input.candidates),
+      },
+    });
+  } else if (verdict.partial) {
+    emitSignal({
+      action: "job.run.partial",
+      level: "warn",
+      meta: {
+        queue: input.queue,
+        runId: input.runId,
+        failed: verdict.failed,
+        total: verdict.attempted,
+        outcomes: byOutcome,
+        causes: distinctCauses(input.candidates),
+      },
+    });
+  }
+  return verdict;
+}
+
+/** The distinct causes of the run's failed or withheld candidates, bounded. */
+function distinctCauses(candidates: readonly JobRunCandidate[]): string[] {
+  const causes = new Set<string>();
+  for (const c of candidates) {
+    if (c.outcome === "ok" || NOT_ATTEMPTED.has(c.outcome) || !c.cause) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    causes.add(`${c.outcome}:${c.cause}`);
+    if (causes.size >= 10) break;
+  }
+  return [...causes];
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/morning-digest-refresh-shared.ts b/src/lib/jobs/morning-digest-refresh-shared.ts
index 2540c1630..4d136c1c1 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/morning-digest-refresh-shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/morning-digest-refresh-shared.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const MORNING_DIGEST_REFRESH_QUEUE = "morning-digest-refresh";
 
@@ -76,7 +77,8 @@ export async function enqueueMorningDigestRefresh(
       action: { name: "daily.morning_refresh.enqueued" },
       meta: { local_date: payload.localDate },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("daily.morning_refresh.enqueue_failed", err);
     // Best-effort: a failed enqueue leaves the next sleep landing + the nightly
     // cron as the catch-net; the digest stays honestly provisional meanwhile.
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/offhost-purge.ts b/src/lib/jobs/offhost-purge.ts
index c7089b98a..cc08a3acc 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/offhost-purge.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/offhost-purge.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ import {
 import { reportWorkerError } from "@/lib/jobs/report-worker-error";
 import { getWorkerPrisma } from "@/lib/jobs/reminder/shared";
 import { withBackgroundEvent } from "@/lib/logging/background";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const OFFHOST_PURGE_QUEUE = "offhost-backup-purge";
 /** 03:40, after the nightly upload (02:30) has had its hour. */
@@ -104,7 +105,8 @@ export async function kickOffhostPurge(): Promise<void> {
         retryDelay: 300,
       },
     );
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("backup.offhost_purge.kick_failed", err);
     // The cron is the backstop.
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/period-narrative-shared.ts b/src/lib/jobs/period-narrative-shared.ts
index 56742c1ea..d46c2528f 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/period-narrative-shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/period-narrative-shared.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/sharing/provider-work-authority";
 import type { NarrativePeriod } from "@/lib/insights/narrative/period-narrative";
 import type { Locale } from "@/lib/i18n/config";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const PERIOD_NARRATIVE_QUEUE = "period-narrative-warm";
 
@@ -100,7 +101,10 @@ export async function enqueueNarrativeWarm(payload: {
       action: { name: "insights.narrative.warm.enqueued" },
       meta: { period: payload.period, locale: payload.locale },
     });
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("insights.narrative.enqueue_failed", err, {
+      period: payload.period,
+    });
     // Best-effort — a failure just means the narrative stays as-is until the
     // next read or the nightly cron warms it.
   }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
index e5b646c1a..a30e48d3b 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/arrivals/reaction-line-shared";
 
 import { workerLog } from "./reminder/shared";
+import { caughtAs } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export { REACTION_LINE_QUEUE };
 
@@ -567,7 +568,7 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
   const hasReservedTokens = row.generationReservedTokens != null;
   const hasReservationDate = row.generationBudgetDateKey != null;
   if (hasReservedTokens !== hasReservationDate) {
-    await releaseClaim().catch(() => {});
+    await releaseClaim().catch(caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"));
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "invalid_reservation_state" };
   }
 
@@ -600,7 +601,7 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
       if (err instanceof ReactionClaimLostError) {
         return { status: "skipped", reason: "claim_lost" };
       }
-      await releaseClaim().catch(() => {});
+      await releaseClaim().catch(caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"));
       throw err;
     }
   }
@@ -620,7 +621,7 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
   } catch (err) {
     // No provider was touched, so releasing ownership is retry-safe. The
     // durable reservation remains attached and is reused by the retry.
-    await releaseClaim().catch(() => {});
+    await releaseClaim().catch(caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"));
     throw err;
   }
 
@@ -690,8 +691,10 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
       reservation.dateKey,
       0,
       { servedBy: chain[0].providerType, reservedOwner: reservation.owner },
-    ).catch(() => {});
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    ).catch(caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"));
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     workerLog("error", "[reaction-line] generation failed", err);
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "provider_failed" };
   }
@@ -708,14 +711,18 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
   } catch (err) {
     // Do not publish a line whose spend was not durably reconciled. The
     // invocation timestamp remains terminal, preventing a second provider call.
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     workerLog("error", "[reaction-line] spend reconciliation failed", err);
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "spend_reconciliation_failed" };
   }
 
   const line = sanitiseReactionLine(result.content, locale);
   if (!line) {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "unusable_output" };
   }
   // Prompt instructions are not an enforcement boundary. Grade every numeric
@@ -729,7 +736,9 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
     (evidenceLedger.length === 0 && /\d/.test(line)) ||
     findUnverifiedCoachNumbersInLedger(line, evidenceLedger, locale).length > 0;
   if (hasUngroundedNumber) {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "ungrounded_output" };
   }
 
@@ -740,7 +749,9 @@ export async function runReactionLine(
     chain[0].providerType,
   ]);
   if (late) {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("reaction_line.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     return { status: "skipped", reason: late.reason };
   }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reminder/insights-handlers.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reminder/insights-handlers.ts
index c0443ac43..dff543080 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reminder/insights-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reminder/insights-handlers.ts
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ export async function handleInsightPregenerateJob(
         failed: summary.failed,
         budget_blocked: summary.budgetBlocked,
         stopped_early: summary.stoppedEarly,
+        // v1.42 — read back by `readConsecutiveRunFailures`, so a night that
+        // completed with nothing generated counts toward the failure streak.
+        all_failed: summary.allFailed,
         assessments_warmed: summary.assessmentsWarmed,
         metric_assessments_warmed: summary.metricAssessmentsWarmed,
       });
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/run-job.ts b/src/lib/jobs/run-job.ts
index 9a673bc8c..114c26e26 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/run-job.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/run-job.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ import {
 } from "./job-outcome";
 import { reportWorkerError } from "./report-worker-error";
 import { observeJob } from "./job-observer";
+import { readConsecutiveRunFailures } from "./job-failures";
+import { emitSignal } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 /** A converted handler: it says what it did instead of just finishing. */
 export type JobHandler<T> = (jobs: Job<T>[]) => Promise<JobOutcome>;
@@ -67,14 +69,34 @@ function factMeta(did: JobFacts | undefined): Record<string, JobFact> {
   return meta;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The failed run's own line: `job.run.failed` at `error`, naming the queue and
+ * how many runs of it in a row have now failed. Every queue reaches it, so
+ * the repeated-failure alert keys on one action and one number instead of on
+ * the handler's own task name, which differs per queue, or on the stderr line
+ * `reportWorkerError` writes, which is not structured.
+ */
+async function signalRunFailed(
+  queue: string,
+  reason: string,
+  error: unknown,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const consecutiveFailures = await readConsecutiveRunFailures(queue);
+  emitSignal({
+    action: "job.run.failed",
+    level: "error",
+    meta: { queue, reason, consecutiveFailures },
+    error,
+  });
+}
+
 /**
  * Wrap a handler for `boss.work`. Resolves with the bounded, redacted
  * persistence representation on `ok: true`; reports and rethrows on
  * `ok: false`.
  *
- * A handler that throws is left alone — the throw already fails the job, and
- * re-wrapping it would only bury the original stack. `runJob` exists for the
- * case the throw never happens.
+ * A handler that throws keeps its own error — re-wrapping it would only bury
+ * the original stack — but its run still gets the `job.run.failed` line.
  */
 export function runJob<J>(
   queue: string,
@@ -83,11 +105,17 @@ export function runJob<J>(
   return async (jobs: J[]): Promise<SerializedJobOutcome> => {
     // Observed, so a long run, an expiry and a cut-off leave a line in the
     // log naming the queue and how far it got (see `job-observer.ts`).
-    const outcome = await observeJob(
-      queue,
-      jobs as ReadonlyArray<{ id?: string; expireInSeconds?: number }>,
-      () => handler(jobs),
-    );
+    let outcome: JobOutcome;
+    try {
+      outcome = await observeJob(
+        queue,
+        jobs as ReadonlyArray<{ id?: string; expireInSeconds?: number }>,
+        () => handler(jobs),
+      );
+    } catch (error) {
+      await signalRunFailed(queue, "handler_threw", error);
+      throw error;
+    }
     if (outcome.ok) return serializeJobOutcome(outcome);
 
     const failure = new JobFailure(queue, outcome.reason, outcome.cause);
@@ -102,6 +130,7 @@ export function runJob<J>(
       ...factMeta(outcome.did),
       ...(causeMessage === undefined ? {} : { cause: causeMessage }),
     });
+    await signalRunFailed(queue, outcome.reason, failure);
 
     throw failure;
   };
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate-shared.ts b/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate-shared.ts
index 5108a0fdf..da8351199 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate-shared.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate-shared.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  */
 import { getGlobalBoss } from "@/lib/jobs/boss-instance";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
+import { logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export const WORKOUT_INSIGHT_GENERATE_QUEUE = "workout-insight-generate";
 
@@ -57,11 +58,12 @@ export async function enqueueWorkoutInsight(
       retryBackoff: true,
     });
     return { enqueued: true };
-  } catch {
+  } catch (err) {
     annotate({
       action: { name: "workouts.insight.enqueue_failed" },
       meta: { workoutId: payload.workoutId },
     });
+    logCaught("workouts.insight.enqueue_failed", err);
     return { enqueued: false };
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate.ts b/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate.ts
index 083f77cd2..839d38eef 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/workout-insight-generate.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ import {
   WORKOUT_INSIGHT_GENERATE_QUEUE,
   type WorkoutInsightGeneratePayload,
 } from "./workout-insight-generate-shared";
+import { caughtAs, logCaught } from "@/lib/logging/signal";
 
 export { WORKOUT_INSIGHT_GENERATE_CONCURRENCY, WORKOUT_INSIGHT_GENERATE_QUEUE };
 export type { WorkoutInsightGeneratePayload };
@@ -418,12 +419,12 @@ export async function runWorkoutInsightGenerate(
   })().catch(async (err) => {
     // Nothing could have reached a provider. Delete the reservation so a
     // backed-off retry can safely reclaim both ownership and daily capacity.
-    await releaseClaim().catch(() => {});
+    await releaseClaim().catch(caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"));
     throw err;
   });
 
   if (prepared.status === "unchanged") {
-    await releaseClaim().catch(() => {});
+    await releaseClaim().catch(caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"));
     annotate({
       action: { name: "workouts.insight.skipped" },
       meta: { workoutId, reason: "unchanged" },
@@ -472,13 +473,18 @@ export async function runWorkoutInsightGenerate(
       temperature: AI_BUDGETS.workoutInsight.temperature,
       maxTokens: AI_BUDGETS.workoutInsight.maxTokens,
     });
-  } catch {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("workouts.insight.provider_failed", err, { workoutId });
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "provider_uncertain" };
   }
 
   if (outcome.kind !== "ok") {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     annotate({
       action: { name: "workouts.insight.skipped" },
       meta: { workoutId, reason: outcome.kind },
@@ -488,7 +494,9 @@ export async function runWorkoutInsightGenerate(
 
   const screened = finalizeStatusSummary(outcome.content, prepared.locale);
   if (!screened.ok || !screened.text) {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     annotate({
       action: { name: "workouts.insight.outbound_blocked" },
       meta: { workoutId, reason: screened.ok ? "empty" : screened.reason },
@@ -531,8 +539,11 @@ export async function runWorkoutInsightGenerate(
         throw new Error("Workout insight generation claim was lost");
       }
     });
-  } catch {
-    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(() => {});
+  } catch (err) {
+    logCaught("workouts.insight.persist_failed", err, { workoutId });
+    await finishTerminalAttempt().catch(
+      caughtAs("workouts.insight.cleanup_failed"),
+    );
     return { status: "skipped", reason: "persistence_uncertain" };
   }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/logging/__tests__/signal.test.ts b/src/lib/logging/__tests__/signal.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3c01ba3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/logging/__tests__/signal.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — the logging pieces the error-log discipline rests on.
+ *
+ *   - `emitSignal` writes its own line with a stable action and level, joined
+ *     to the surrounding event by request and trace id, and leaves that event
+ *     alone.
+ *   - `setError` keeps `error` for real failures and records a refusal the
+ *     request was meant to get (any 4xx) at `warn`. Expired-token 401s made up
+ *     most of the error lines and hid the real ones.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const emitted: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = [];
+vi.mock("../transports", () => ({
+  emitIfSampled: (event: Record<string, unknown>) => emitted.push(event),
+}));
+
+import { WideEventBuilder } from "../event-builder";
+import { eventStorage } from "../context";
+import { emitSignal, logCaught } from "../signal";
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  emitted.length = 0;
+});
+
+describe("emitSignal", () => {
+  it("writes one line with its own action and level, joined to the parent by id", () => {
+    const parent = new WideEventBuilder("http");
+    parent.setAction({ name: "insights.generate" });
+    eventStorage.run(parent, () =>
+      emitSignal({
+        action: "ai.chain.link_failed",
+        level: "error",
+        meta: { provider: "admin-openai", status: 500 },
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(emitted).toHaveLength(1);
+    const line = emitted[0] as {
+      action: { name: string };
+      level: string;
+      request_id: string;
+      trace_id: string;
+      meta: Record<string, unknown>;
+    };
+    expect(line.action.name).toBe("ai.chain.link_failed");
+    expect(line.level).toBe("error");
+    expect(line.request_id).toBe(parent.getRequestId());
+    expect(line.trace_id).toBe(parent.getTraceId());
+    expect(line.meta).toMatchObject({ provider: "admin-openai", status: 500 });
+    // The parent keeps its own action and level.
+    expect(parent.toJSON().action?.name).toBe("insights.generate");
+    expect(parent.getLevel()).toBe("info");
+  });
+
+  it("logCaught carries the error's type and a bounded, redacted message at warn", () => {
+    logCaught(
+      "jobs.enqueue.failed",
+      new Error(`boom Bearer sk-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ${"x".repeat(500)}`),
+      { queue: "insight-pregenerate" },
+    );
+    const line = emitted[0] as { level: string; meta: Record<string, string> };
+    expect(line.level).toBe("warn");
+    expect(line.meta.error_type).toBe("Error");
+    expect(line.meta.error_message.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(240);
+    expect(line.meta.error_message).not.toContain("sk-abcdefghijklmnop");
+  });
+
+  it("never throws, even when emitting fails", () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      emitSignal({
+        action: "x.y.z",
+        level: "warn",
+        meta: {
+          get bad(): never {
+            throw new Error("getter");
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+    ).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("setError level", () => {
+  it("records a 4xx refusal at warn", () => {
+    const evt = new WideEventBuilder("http");
+    evt.setError(
+      Object.assign(new Error("Token expired"), { statusCode: 401 }),
+    );
+    expect(evt.getLevel()).toBe("warn");
+    expect(evt.toJSON().error?.message).toBe("Token expired");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a real failure at error", () => {
+    const evt = new WideEventBuilder("http");
+    evt.setError(new Error("database unreachable"));
+    expect(evt.getLevel()).toBe("error");
+    const five = new WideEventBuilder("http");
+    five.setError(Object.assign(new Error("bad gateway"), { statusCode: 502 }));
+    expect(five.getLevel()).toBe("error");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/logging/event-builder.ts b/src/lib/logging/event-builder.ts
index 1bcc0596c..09afd9819 100644
--- a/src/lib/logging/event-builder.ts
+++ b/src/lib/logging/event-builder.ts
@@ -167,7 +167,18 @@ export class WideEventBuilder {
   }
 
   setError(err: unknown): this {
-    this.elevateLevel("error");
+    // v1.42 — a refusal the request was meant to get (an expired session,
+    // a missing permission, a validation error: anything that carries a 4xx
+    // status) is a `warn`, not an `error`. Every 401 from an expired token
+    // used to land at `error`, about nine in ten of all error lines, so a
+    // query or an alert on `level=error` could not see the real failures
+    // between them. The error details are recorded either way.
+    const status = (err as { statusCode?: unknown } | null)?.statusCode;
+    this.elevateLevel(
+      typeof status === "number" && status >= 400 && status < 500
+        ? "warn"
+        : "error",
+    );
     if (err instanceof Error) {
       this.event.error = {
         type: err.constructor.name,
diff --git a/src/lib/logging/signal.ts b/src/lib/logging/signal.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93e39b456
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/logging/signal.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+import { WideEventBuilder } from "./event-builder";
+import { getEvent } from "./context";
+import { emitIfSampled } from "./transports";
+
+/**
+ * A failure that deserves its own log line, under its own action name.
+ *
+ * A wide event carries one action, and the last `annotate()` to name one wins.
+ * That is the right shape for "what did this request do", and the wrong one
+ * for "what went wrong on the way": a provider hop that failed before the
+ * next one answered, a job candidate that failed among six that worked, a
+ * Coach turn that ran out of budget, a caught error the code chose to carry
+ * on past. Each of those used to be either a meta key on someone else's line
+ * at level `info`, or nothing at all, so a query for `level=error` could not
+ * find it and an alert rule had no stable name to key on.
+ *
+ * `emitSignal` writes one extra line with the action, the level and a small
+ * pinned-shape meta bag. It carries the surrounding event's request and trace
+ * ids, so the signal and the line it happened inside join on one id; the
+ * surrounding event itself is not touched (its own level still describes its
+ * own outcome).
+ *
+ * Levels: `error` for a real failure nobody downstream recovered from, `warn`
+ * for one the code recovered from (a fallback answered, a degraded result was
+ * served) or a refusal by design that an operator should still be able to
+ * count. Nothing here is for `info`: an expected outcome belongs on the
+ * request's own line.
+ *
+ * Never throws. A log line must not break the work it describes.
+ */
+export interface SignalInput {
+  /** Stable `<surface>.<noun>.<verb>` name, e.g. `ai.chain.link_failed`. */
+  action: string;
+  level: "warn" | "error";
+  /** Scalars and small arrays only; redacted on the way in like any meta. */
+  meta?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  /** The caught value, when there is one. Only its type and message leave. */
+  error?: unknown;
+}
+
+/** Longest error message a signal carries. */
+const MAX_MESSAGE_CHARS = 240;
+
+export function emitSignal(input: SignalInput): void {
+  try {
+    const event = new WideEventBuilder("background");
+    const parent = getEvent();
+    if (parent) {
+      event.setRequestId(parent.getRequestId());
+      event.setTraceId(parent.getTraceId());
+    }
+    event.setBackground({ task_name: input.action });
+    event.setAction({ name: input.action });
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(input.meta ?? {})) {
+      event.addMeta(key, value);
+    }
+    if (input.error !== undefined) {
+      const err = input.error;
+      event.addMeta(
+        "error_type",
+        err instanceof Error ? err.name || "Error" : typeof err,
+      );
+      const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+      event.addMeta("error_message", message.slice(0, MAX_MESSAGE_CHARS));
+    }
+    event.elevateLevel(input.level);
+    event.finish();
+    emitIfSampled(event.toJSON());
+  } catch {
+    // A log line must never break the work it describes.
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The common case of a `catch` that carries on: say what failed, at `warn`,
+ * under a stable action, with the caught error attached. Use it where the
+ * code deliberately degrades (an enqueue that the next tick repeats, a
+ * best-effort side write) instead of dropping the error or folding it into an
+ * `info` annotation.
+ */
+export function logCaught(
+  action: string,
+  error: unknown,
+  meta?: Record<string, unknown>,
+): void {
+  emitSignal({ action, level: "warn", error, meta });
+}
+
+/**
+ * `logCaught` shaped for a promise's `.catch`: `.catch(caughtAs("x.y.failed"))`
+ * in place of `.catch(() => {})`. The promise still settles, so a best-effort
+ * side write stays best-effort, and its failure leaves a `warn` line.
+ */
+export function caughtAs(
+  action: string,
+  meta?: Record<string, unknown>,
+): (error: unknown) => void {
+  return (error: unknown) => logCaught(action, error, meta);
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/logging/types.ts b/src/lib/logging/types.ts
index 727f5440f..8a5119cdb 100644
--- a/src/lib/logging/types.ts
+++ b/src/lib/logging/types.ts
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ export interface WideEvent {
     duration_ms: number;
     status?: number;
     error?: string;
+    /**
+     * v1.42 — an expected non-2xx the caller recovers from by design (a
+     * filter dialect probe), recorded without `error` so a query for
+     * failed calls does not find it.
+     */
+    note?: string;
   }>;
 
   // Hintergrundaufgabe (nur bei kind === "background")
diff --git a/src/lib/rollups/tiered-context.ts b/src/lib/rollups/tiered-context.ts
index d9d815c2e..b73f6073d 100644
--- a/src/lib/rollups/tiered-context.ts
+++ b/src/lib/rollups/tiered-context.ts
@@ -311,6 +311,16 @@ const BAND_TRUNC_UNIT: Record<
  *
  * `tzKey` (the far-from-UTC day-grain guard) buckets on the user's LOCAL
  * calendar via `AT TIME ZONE`; parameter-bound, never spliced.
+ *
+ * v1.42 — `measured_at` is a `timestamp` without time zone holding UTC wall
+ * time, so the local wall clock is `(measured_at AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AT TIME
+ * ZONE tz`: the first step says what the value is, the second converts it.
+ * The single `measured_at AT TIME ZONE tz` this used read the UTC value AS IF
+ * it were local time and converted the wrong way, so a far-from-UTC reader's
+ * readings were shifted by twice their offset (sixteen hours in Los Angeles):
+ * an evening reading landed on the next day's bucket. Every other local-day
+ * reader
+ * (`day-aggregates.ts`, `day-mean.ts`) already used the two-step form.
  */
 async function readBandLive(
   userId: string,
@@ -337,7 +347,7 @@ async function readBandLive(
           }>
         >`
           SELECT
-            date_trunc(${unit}, m."measured_at" AT TIME ZONE ${tzKey}) AS bucket_start,
+            date_trunc(${unit}, (m."measured_at" AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AT TIME ZONE ${tzKey}) AS bucket_start,
             COUNT(*)::int                        AS count,
             AVG(m."value")::double precision     AS mean,
             MIN(m."value")::double precision     AS min_value,
@@ -419,7 +429,7 @@ async function readHourlyMeanBandLive(
     }),
   );
   const bucket = tzKey
-    ? Prisma.sql`date_trunc(${unit}, m."measured_at" AT TIME ZONE ${tzKey})`
+    ? Prisma.sql`date_trunc(${unit}, (m."measured_at" AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AT TIME ZONE ${tzKey})`
     : Prisma.sql`date_trunc(${unit}, m."measured_at")`;
   try {
     const rows = await prisma.$queryRaw<
diff --git a/tests/integration/job-failures.test.ts b/tests/integration/job-failures.test.ts
index a4c108986..981353dd0 100644
--- a/tests/integration/job-failures.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integration/job-failures.test.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import {
   readActiveJobsStartedBefore,
+  readConsecutiveRunFailures,
   readFailingQueues,
   readQueueFailureForUser,
 } from "@/lib/jobs/job-failures";
@@ -189,6 +190,46 @@ describe("readActiveJobsStartedBefore (#1031)", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("readConsecutiveRunFailures (v1.42)", () => {
+  const STREAK_QUEUE = "insight-pregenerate";
+
+  /** Complete one job with the facts a handler returned. */
+  async function completeOneJob(did: Record<string, unknown>) {
+    const jobId = await boss.send(STREAK_QUEUE, {}, { retryLimit: 0 });
+    const [job] = await boss.fetch(STREAK_QUEUE);
+    if (!job || job.id !== jobId) throw new Error("nothing to fetch");
+    await boss.complete(STREAK_QUEUE, job.id, { ok: true, did });
+    return jobId!;
+  }
+
+  /** Pin the finishing order so the test does not race the clock. */
+  async function finishedMinutesAgo(jobId: string, minutes: number) {
+    await getPrismaClient().$executeRawUnsafe(
+      `UPDATE pgboss.job SET completed_on = now() - make_interval(mins => ${minutes}) WHERE id = '${jobId}'`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  it("counts failed runs and all-failed nights, skips runs that do not say, and stops at a good night", async () => {
+    await boss.createQueue(STREAK_QUEUE);
+    // Oldest first: a good night, then a pg-boss failure, an on-demand job
+    // that reports nothing about the run, and an all-failed night.
+    await finishedMinutesAgo(await completeOneJob({ all_failed: false }), 40);
+    await finishedMinutesAgo(
+      await failOneJob(STREAK_QUEUE, {}, "worker died"),
+      30,
+    );
+    await finishedMinutesAgo(await completeOneJob({ forced: 1 }), 20);
+    await finishedMinutesAgo(await completeOneJob({ all_failed: true }), 10);
+
+    // Two earlier failures plus the run failing now.
+    await expect(readConsecutiveRunFailures(STREAK_QUEUE)).resolves.toBe(3);
+  });
+
+  it("answers 1 for a queue with no history: the run failing now", async () => {
+    await expect(readConsecutiveRunFailures("never-ran")).resolves.toBe(1);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("no queue schema at all", () => {
   it("answers null rather than throwing, so the status page still renders", async () => {
     const prisma = getPrismaClient();
diff --git a/tests/integration/provider-pause.test.ts b/tests/integration/provider-pause.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3845e1ca1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/provider-pause.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — the escalating provider pause, against the real upsert.
+ *
+ * The pause is computed inside the one `INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE` that
+ * records a failure, from the count that same statement writes, so two
+ * workers failing at once still arm the pause their combined count deserves.
+ * Only Postgres can show the CASE arithmetic is right; the unit test can only
+ * show the statement carries it.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/db-compat", () => ({
+  ensureDbCompatibility: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+}));
+
+import {
+  HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS,
+  PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD,
+  postgresProviderHealthLedger as ledger,
+} from "@/lib/ai/provider-health-ledger";
+
+const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+
+async function windowMs(userId: string): Promise<number> {
+  const row = await prisma.providerHealth.findFirstOrThrow({
+    where: { userId, providerType: "admin-openai" },
+    select: { nextRetryAt: true, lastFailureAt: true },
+  });
+  return row.nextRetryAt!.getTime() - row.lastFailureAt!.getTime();
+}
+
+describe("provider pause in the Postgres ledger", () => {
+  let userId: string;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await truncateAllTables(prisma);
+    const user = await prisma.user.create({
+      data: {
+        email: "pause@example.test",
+        username: "pause",
+        passwordHash: "x",
+      },
+    });
+    userId = user.id;
+  });
+
+  it("backs off briefly, then pauses from the threshold, doubling, and a success resumes", async () => {
+    for (let i = 1; i < PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD; i += 1) {
+      await ledger.recordFailure(userId, "admin-openai", 500);
+    }
+    expect(await windowMs(userId)).toBe(HARD_FAILURE_COOLDOWN_MS);
+    expect(
+      (await ledger.getSkipHints(userId)).get("admin-openai")?.reason,
+    ).toBe("backoff");
+
+    await ledger.recordFailure(userId, "admin-openai", 500);
+    expect(await windowMs(userId)).toBe(PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS);
+    expect(
+      (await ledger.getSkipHints(userId)).get("admin-openai")?.reason,
+    ).toBe("paused");
+
+    await ledger.recordFailure(userId, "admin-openai", 500);
+    expect(await windowMs(userId)).toBe(2 * PROVIDER_PAUSE_BASE_MS);
+
+    await ledger.recordSuccess(userId, "admin-openai");
+    expect((await ledger.getSkipHints(userId)).has("admin-openai")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the fixed cooldown for a dead credential, however long the run", async () => {
+    for (let i = 0; i < PROVIDER_PAUSE_THRESHOLD + 2; i += 1) {
+      await ledger.recordFailure(userId, "admin-openai", 401);
+    }
+    expect(
+      (await ledger.getSkipHints(userId)).get("admin-openai")?.reason,
+    ).toBe("credential_expired");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/tests/integration/tiered-context-local-day.test.ts b/tests/integration/tiered-context-local-day.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a7dd40527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/tiered-context-local-day.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/**
+ * v1.42 — the tiered context's live day band buckets on the reader's own
+ * calendar day, including on a daylight-saving changeover.
+ *
+ * For a reader far from UTC the 14–30-day band is read live, bucketed by
+ * `date_trunc('day', <local wall clock>)`. `measured_at` is a `timestamp`
+ * without time zone holding UTC, and the band read it with a single
+ * `AT TIME ZONE tz`, which interprets the value as local time and converts
+ * the wrong way: in Los Angeles every reading moved sixteen hours, and an
+ * evening reading was summarised as the next day. The Coach and the briefing
+ * then quoted a day's mean built from two different days.
+ *
+ * 2026-03-08 is the US changeover (02:00 PST becomes 03:00 PDT). Two weight
+ * readings on that local day, 08:00 PDT (15:00Z) and 23:30 PDT (06:30Z on
+ * the 9th), must form one bucket for the 8th.
+ */
+import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/db-compat", () => ({
+  ensureDbCompatibility: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+}));
+
+import { buildTieredSeries } from "@/lib/rollups/tiered-context";
+
+const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+const USER = "tiered-context-local-day";
+const TZ = "America/Los_Angeles";
+/** "Now" for the band arithmetic: the 8th sits inside the 14–30-day band. */
+const NOW = new Date("2026-03-25T12:00:00Z").getTime();
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  await truncateAllTables(prisma);
+  await prisma.user.create({
+    data: { id: USER, username: USER, timezone: TZ },
+  });
+  await prisma.measurement.createMany({
+    data: [
+      { at: "2026-03-08T15:00:00Z", value: 70 },
+      { at: "2026-03-09T06:30:00Z", value: 80 },
+      // A reading on the local 7th, late evening PST, for contrast.
+      { at: "2026-03-08T07:30:00Z", value: 90 },
+    ].map(({ at, value }) => ({
+      userId: USER,
+      type: "WEIGHT" as const,
+      value,
+      unit: "kg",
+      measuredAt: new Date(at),
+      source: "MANUAL" as const,
+    })),
+  });
+});
+
+describe("tiered context — live day band on the reader's calendar", () => {
+  it("puts an evening reading on its own local day across the DST changeover", async () => {
+    const series = await buildTieredSeries(USER, "WEIGHT", {
+      tz: TZ,
+      now: NOW,
+      skipEnsureFresh: true,
+    });
+    const byDay = Object.fromEntries(
+      series.dayBand.map((b) => [b.bucketStart.slice(0, 10), b]),
+    );
+    expect(Object.keys(byDay).sort()).toEqual(["2026-03-07", "2026-03-08"]);
+    expect(byDay["2026-03-08"]).toMatchObject({ count: 2, mean: 75 });
+    expect(byDay["2026-03-07"]).toMatchObject({ count: 1, mean: 90 });
+  });
+});