release_stale_claims() reclaimed expired claims without counting the
failure, so a claim that was never spawned (worker_pid NULL) spun forever
with consecutive_failures stuck at 0 and the failure_threshold breaker
could never trip (#111306). The reclaim transaction now increments
consecutive_failures atomically. Extend-live-worker and manual operator
reclaim paths are untouched (extend is not a failure; reclaim_task
deliberately resets the counter).
Tests: 3 new regression tests in tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_db.py —
reclaim without spawn increments (red on base), reclaim with dead worker
increments (red on base), live-worker extend does not. Related kanban
suites: 79 passed, 1 skipped.
authored with AI assistance (Muse, Meta's Muse Spark) under the contributor's direction
Kevin Rajan
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