feat(ACTIVITY-WP-0014): explicit run-miss recovery policies (T02, T04)

Set Temporal catchup_window on cron schedules so a fire missed during a
worker/Temporal outage is no longer silently dropped. Redefine misfire_policy
into three explicit modes — skip, catchup_all, catchup_latest — mapping to
(catchup_window, overlap) pairs; legacy catchup/compress aliased. Add
catchup_window_seconds override. Remove the ad-hoc upsert-time 1h backfill in
favour of native catchup. Apply catchup_latest to daily-statehub-wsjf-triage in
the Railiance runtime manifest and document run-miss policies in the runbook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/runbook.md

@@ -333,6 +333,31 @@ the same durable consumer name provides automatic failover.
 
 ---
 
+## Run-miss recovery policies (cron triggers)
+
+A cron fire is **missed** when the worker or Temporal is unavailable at trigger
+time. `trigger_config.misfire_policy` selects what happens when the system
+recovers. Each policy combines a Temporal **catchup window** (how far back missed
+fires are recovered) with an **overlap policy** (what to do if a recovered fire
+would start while a prior run is still executing):
+
+| `misfire_policy` | Behaviour | Default catchup window | Overlap |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `skip` | Run on trigger or skip — a missed fire is never recovered | 60s grace | `SKIP` |
+| `catchup_all` | Recover **every** fire missed during the outage | 365 days | `BUFFER_ALL` |
+| `catchup_latest` | Recover only the **most recent** missed fire; no backlog | 24h | `BUFFER_ONE` |
+
+Set `trigger_config.catchup_window_seconds` to override the per-policy default
+(e.g. an hourly definition using `catchup_latest` should set it to ~3600 so a
+single missed hour is recovered but older ones are not).
+
+Legacy values are still accepted: `catchup` → `catchup_all`,
+`compress` → `catchup_latest`.
+
+> **Why this exists:** before ACTIVITY-WP-0014 no catchup window was set, so a
+> brief outage at trigger time silently dropped the fire with no recovery and no
+> log line. The `daily-statehub-wsjf-triage` definition now uses `catchup_latest`.
+
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 ### Worker fails to start: "ACTCORE_DB_URL is required"
@@ -342,6 +367,9 @@ Set the environment variable before running the worker.
 1. Check Temporal UI → Schedules tab for the schedule status.
 2. Ensure `enabled=True` on the ActivityDefinition (paused schedules don't fire).
 3. Verify the cron expression with: `docker exec temporal-admin-tools temporal schedule describe --schedule-id activity-schedule-<uuid>`
+4. If a fire was **missed entirely** (no run, no failure event) during an outage,
+   check `misfire_policy` — under `skip` missed fires are dropped by design. Use
+   `catchup_all` or `catchup_latest` to recover them. See *Run-miss recovery policies*.
 
 ### Event not routing
 1. Check NATS monitoring: http://localhost:8222/jsz to verify the `ACTIVITY_EVENTS` stream exists.

k8s/railiance/20-runtime.yaml

@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ data:
       type: cron
       cron_expression: "20 7 * * *"
       timezone: Europe/Berlin
-      misfire_policy: skip
+      # ACTIVITY-WP-0014: recover the most recent missed daily fire when the
+      # worker/Temporal was unavailable at trigger time, without accumulating a
+      # backlog after a multi-day outage.
+      misfire_policy: catchup_latest
     context_sources:
       - type: static
         bind_to: context.prompt_path

src/activity_core/models.py

@@ -49,7 +49,18 @@ class CronTriggerConfig(BaseModel):
     )
     timezone: str = Field(default="UTC", description="IANA timezone name.")
     jitter_seconds: int = Field(default=0, ge=0)
-    misfire_policy: Literal["skip", "catchup", "compress"] = Field(default="skip")
+    # Run-miss recovery behaviour (ACTIVITY-WP-0014). What happens when a fire is
+    # missed because the worker / Temporal was unavailable at trigger time:
+    #   skip           - run on trigger or skip; a missed fire is never recovered
+    #   catchup_all    - recover every fire missed during the outage window
+    #   catchup_latest - recover only the most recent missed fire; do not accumulate
+    # Legacy aliases are accepted: catchup → catchup_all, compress → catchup_latest.
+    misfire_policy: Literal[
+        "skip", "catchup_all", "catchup_latest", "catchup", "compress"
+    ] = Field(default="skip")
+    # Override the per-policy default catchup window (how far back Temporal will
+    # recover missed fires after an outage). None uses the policy default.
+    catchup_window_seconds: int | None = Field(default=None, ge=0)
 
 
 class EventTriggerConfig(BaseModel):

src/activity_core/schedule_manager.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ from temporalio.client import (
     Schedule,
     ScheduleActionStartWorkflow,
     ScheduleAlreadyRunningError,
-    ScheduleBackfill,
     ScheduleCalendarSpec,
     ScheduleHandle,
     ScheduleOverlapPolicy,
@@ -38,13 +37,49 @@ _ORCHESTRATOR_TASK_QUEUE = "orchestrator-tq"
 # RunActivityWorkflow detects this value and derives run dedup key from workflow_id.
 SCHEDULED_TRIGGER_KEY = "scheduled"
 
-# T24: misfire_policy → ScheduleOverlapPolicy
+# ACTIVITY-WP-0014: misfire_policy → run-miss recovery behaviour.
-_MISFIRE_TO_OVERLAP: dict[str, ScheduleOverlapPolicy] = {
+#
-    "skip": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.SKIP,
+# A "missed fire" happens when the worker / Temporal is unavailable at trigger
-    "catchup": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ALL,
+# time. Two Temporal levers together define the behaviour:
-    "compress": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ONE,
+#   - catchup_window: how far back the server will recover missed fires once it
+#     is healthy again. The previous code never set this, so a brief outage at
+#     trigger time silently dropped the fire with no recovery and no signal.
+#   - overlap: what to do when a (recovered) fire would start while a prior run
+#     is still executing.
+#
+# Legacy values (catchup, compress) are aliased onto the explicit names.
+_MISFIRE_ALIASES: dict[str, str] = {
+    "catchup": "catchup_all",
+    "compress": "catchup_latest",
 }
 
+# overlap policy + default catchup window (seconds) per normalised policy.
+_SKIP_WINDOW_SECONDS = 60
+_CATCHUP_ALL_WINDOW_SECONDS = 365 * 24 * 3600
+_CATCHUP_LATEST_WINDOW_SECONDS = 24 * 3600
+
+_MISFIRE_TO_OVERLAP: dict[str, ScheduleOverlapPolicy] = {
+    # Run on trigger or skip — recover nothing past a tiny grace window.
+    "skip": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.SKIP,
+    # Run on trigger or recover every missed fire during the outage window.
+    "catchup_all": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ALL,
+    # Run on trigger or recover the most recent missed fire only; BUFFER_ONE
+    # buffers at most one start and drops the rest, so a backlog never accumulates.
+    "catchup_latest": ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ONE,
+}
+
+_MISFIRE_DEFAULT_WINDOW: dict[str, int] = {
+    "skip": _SKIP_WINDOW_SECONDS,
+    "catchup_all": _CATCHUP_ALL_WINDOW_SECONDS,
+    "catchup_latest": _CATCHUP_LATEST_WINDOW_SECONDS,
+}
+
+
+def _normalize_misfire_policy(misfire_policy: str) -> str:
+    """Map legacy aliases onto the explicit run-miss policy names."""
+    canonical = _MISFIRE_ALIASES.get(misfire_policy, misfire_policy)
+    return canonical if canonical in _MISFIRE_TO_OVERLAP else "skip"
+
 
 def schedule_id(activity_id: str | UUID) -> str:
     """Return the canonical Temporal Schedule ID for an ActivityDefinition."""
@@ -57,7 +92,15 @@ def smoke_schedule_id(activity_id: str | UUID) -> str:
 
 
 def _overlap_policy(misfire_policy: str) -> ScheduleOverlapPolicy:
-    return _MISFIRE_TO_OVERLAP.get(misfire_policy, ScheduleOverlapPolicy.SKIP)
+    return _MISFIRE_TO_OVERLAP[_normalize_misfire_policy(misfire_policy)]
+
+
+def _catchup_window(cfg: CronTriggerConfig) -> timedelta:
+    """Resolve the catchup window: explicit override, else the policy default."""
+    if cfg.catchup_window_seconds is not None:
+        return timedelta(seconds=cfg.catchup_window_seconds)
+    policy = _normalize_misfire_policy(cfg.misfire_policy)
+    return timedelta(seconds=_MISFIRE_DEFAULT_WINDOW[policy])
 
 
 def _build_schedule(defn: ActivityDefinition) -> Schedule:
@@ -80,7 +123,10 @@ def _build_schedule(defn: ActivityDefinition) -> Schedule:
         jitter=timedelta(seconds=cfg.jitter_seconds) if cfg.jitter_seconds else None,
     )
 
-    policy = SchedulePolicy(overlap=_overlap_policy(cfg.misfire_policy))
+    policy = SchedulePolicy(
+        overlap=_overlap_policy(cfg.misfire_policy),
+        catchup_window=_catchup_window(cfg),
+    )
     state = ScheduleState(paused=not defn.enabled)
 
     return Schedule(action=action, spec=spec, policy=policy, state=state)
@@ -282,18 +328,10 @@ async def upsert_schedule(client: Client, defn: ActivityDefinition) -> ScheduleH
         else:
             await handle.pause(note="disabled via upsert_schedule")
 
-    # T24 catchup: backfill any fires missed in the last hour.
+    # ACTIVITY-WP-0014: missed-fire recovery is now handled natively by the
-    if isinstance(defn.trigger_config, CronTriggerConfig):
+    # schedule's catchup_window (see _build_schedule), which the server applies
-        if defn.trigger_config.misfire_policy == "catchup":
+    # continuously after any outage — not only at upsert time. The previous
-            now = datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc)
+    # ad-hoc 1-hour backfill is therefore no longer needed.
-            backfill_start = now - timedelta(hours=1)
-            await handle.backfill(
-                ScheduleBackfill(
-                    start_at=backfill_start,
-                    end_at=now,
-                    overlap=ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ALL,
-                )
-            )
 
     return handle
 

tests/test_schedule_lifecycle.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ def _make_defn(
     misfire_policy: str = "skip",
     enabled: bool = True,
     jitter: int = 0,
+    catchup_window_seconds: int | None = None,
 ) -> ActivityDefinition:
     return ActivityDefinition(
         id=uuid.uuid4(),
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ def _make_defn(
             cron_expression=cron,
             misfire_policy=misfire_policy,
             jitter_seconds=jitter,
+            catchup_window_seconds=catchup_window_seconds,
         ),
     )
 
@@ -186,6 +188,76 @@ async def test_misfire_policy_compress_sets_overlap_buffer_one(env: WorkflowEnvi
     await delete_schedule(env.client, defn.id)
 
 
+# ── ACTIVITY-WP-0014: explicit run-miss policies + catchup window ────────────
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_skip_sets_short_catchup_window(env: WorkflowEnvironment) -> None:
+    """skip = run on trigger or skip: tiny grace window, no real recovery."""
+    defn = _make_defn(misfire_policy="skip")
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, defn)
+
+    desc = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(defn.id)).describe()
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.overlap == ScheduleOverlapPolicy.SKIP
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(seconds=60)
+
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, defn.id)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_catchup_all_recovers_full_window(env: WorkflowEnvironment) -> None:
+    """catchup_all = recover every missed fire: long window, BUFFER_ALL."""
+    defn = _make_defn(misfire_policy="catchup_all")
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, defn)
+
+    desc = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(defn.id)).describe()
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.overlap == ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ALL
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(days=365)
+
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, defn.id)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_catchup_latest_does_not_accumulate(env: WorkflowEnvironment) -> None:
+    """catchup_latest = recover only the most recent missed fire: BUFFER_ONE."""
+    defn = _make_defn(misfire_policy="catchup_latest")
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, defn)
+
+    desc = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(defn.id)).describe()
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.overlap == ScheduleOverlapPolicy.BUFFER_ONE
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(hours=24)
+
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, defn.id)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_legacy_aliases_map_to_explicit_policies(env: WorkflowEnvironment) -> None:
+    """Legacy catchup/compress keep working and pick up the new catchup windows."""
+    catchup = _make_defn(misfire_policy="catchup")
+    compress = _make_defn(misfire_policy="compress")
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, catchup)
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, compress)
+
+    d1 = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(catchup.id)).describe()
+    d2 = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(compress.id)).describe()
+    assert d1.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(days=365)
+    assert d2.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(hours=24)
+
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, catchup.id)
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, compress.id)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_explicit_catchup_window_override(env: WorkflowEnvironment) -> None:
+    """An explicit catchup_window_seconds overrides the per-policy default."""
+    defn = _make_defn(misfire_policy="skip", catchup_window_seconds=7200)
+    await upsert_schedule(env.client, defn)
+
+    desc = await env.client.get_schedule_handle(schedule_id(defn.id)).describe()
+    assert desc.schedule.policy.catchup_window == timedelta(hours=2)
+
+    await delete_schedule(env.client, defn.id)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_schedule_smoke_test_creates_one_shot_schedule(
     env: WorkflowEnvironment,

workplans/ACTIVITY-WP-0014-schedule-misfire-robustness.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ owner: claude
 topic_slug: activity-core
 created: "2026-06-23"
 updated: "2026-06-23"
-state_hub_workstream_id: ""
+state_hub_workstream_id: "91b64686-5d17-4c86-bc9e-3d0ee6720cf5"
 ---
 
 # Schedule Misfire Robustness & Run-Miss Recovery Options
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Proposed mapping to a new `misfire_policy` value set (names open to review):
 id: ACTIVITY-WP-0014-T01
 status: todo
 priority: high
-state_hub_task_id: ""
+state_hub_task_id: "c90ff214-9214-48c7-96b9-7d699528d5ab"
 ```
 
 Bring up the ops-bridge tunnel (`bridge up state-hub-coulombcore`,
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ calibration evidence is still wanted. Record findings in the workplan.
 
 ```task
 id: ACTIVITY-WP-0014-T02
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
-state_hub_task_id: ""
+state_hub_task_id: "19615562-4cb2-4f25-872f-505d6e40dcc5"
 ```
 
 Add `catchup_window_seconds` to `CronTriggerConfig` and redefine `misfire_policy`
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ map). Unit tests for each mode's `(catchup_window, overlap)` mapping.
 id: ACTIVITY-WP-0014-T03
 status: todo
 priority: medium
-state_hub_task_id: ""
+state_hub_task_id: "dbedd96a-59ca-4b83-bce6-35755b076807"
 ```
 
 Detect when a scheduled definition has no successful run within its expected
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ be invisible.
 
 ```task
 id: ACTIVITY-WP-0014-T04
-status: wait
+status: progress
 priority: medium
-state_hub_task_id: ""
+state_hub_task_id: "04e9d1d2-1192-4402-9402-b12c5d7d44e5"
 ```
 
 Choose and set the appropriate `misfire_policy` for `daily-statehub-wsjf-triage`