Interrupted runs now return to the queue instead of failing - an app
shutdown is not a model error and must not spend the task's bounded
retry budget. Startup work moves behind the single-instance lock so a
losing second instance can never run recovery against the live
instance's database. Background provider requests that died before
receiving an external response id now fail at boot (the background
worker can only resume accepted ones). Agent updates resolve the
department through the same canonical lookup as hires, replacing the
free-text write and its invented "General" default.
ZacharyZhang-NY
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