Jack Lau
dd03471858
A recurring job that fails at the scheduler layer - an exception escaping
run_one_job's body before the agent is ever constructed - has delivered a
failure alert since 4668750fa. It has never carried the repeated-failure
review nudge the normal agent-failure delivery carries: the nudge (#80752,
2026-08-06) predates that second delivery site by eight days and only ever
composed the first one.
The streak itself is layer-agnostic. mark_job_run increments failure_streak
for an escaped failure exactly as it does for an agent failure, and the
escape handler calls it. So the counter climbs correctly and shows up in
`hermes cron list`, but the chat message that spends it is unreachable for a
job whose failures ALL escape - a half-applied update leaving a bad import,
a provider client that cannot construct. Those are precisely the failures
that repeat identically on every tick, so the operator gets the same one-line
error every 10 minutes indefinitely and is never told the automation itself
is worth reviewing or pausing.
Compose the nudge at the escape handler's delivery exactly as the normal
path does. It stays config-gated and threshold-gated by the same helper, so
a first-time escaped failure reads exactly as it did before.
Docs said the streak counts "runs where the agent failed", which is what the
reporter read and reasonably concluded their failures were out of scope. The
counter never worked that way; correct the sentence to match the code.
Tests: two cases on the escaped-failure delivery path - streak at threshold
appends the nudge (fails on the unfixed handler with the bare summary), and
streak below threshold delivers the unchanged one-liner, so the guard also
proves the nudge is not unconditional. The existing nudge tests only ever
exercised the helper in isolation, which is why the second delivery site
could be added without it.
Fixes #88655
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