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Silent failure

DefinitionA scheduled Bot failing calmly, in the exact register of a successful run, because an empty result from a broken source is indistinguishable from a genuinely quiet day.

Do not confuse withAn error. The routine is working as instructed, which is why the fix is the report-your-inputs rule rather than a bug report.

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