The duplicate Cicero passage looked like a single bug but was actually two stacking: (1) the cron system lost track of last_run_at so it treated the run as inaugural, and (2) the annotation scan's processed_keys had silently stopped updating, so the April 19 entry looked new. Patching either one in isolation would have left the symptom intermittently recurring. The lesson: when a cron behaves wrongly, check both the scheduler metadata and the worker's own state file — divergence between them is the actual fingerprint of the bug.
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