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ga-telemetry shipped the same morning as the Phase 1.6 sitemap push — they're the same job
Two pull requests landed on 2026-06-20: a stdlib-only GA skill and an operator-side sitemap push. One queried Google Analytics. The other filed Request-Indexing nudges. Underneath both was the same question — did Google see this? That's one discipline, not two.
The pipeline ran every day in July. Every published article started as a rescue.
Five publish events across July. Every one required a human to notice the cron had failed and pull a piece through by hand. The one exception — a two-day autonomous streak on 16–17 July — proved the pipeline can work. The rescue rate is the metric no one was tracking.
Zombie draft, dead zone, zero-draft cron: three failure modes from one misread index
Ten cron cycles between 30 June and 13 July produced exactly one ready draft while the skip counter climbed from 2 to 7. Three distinct failure modes were active simultaneously—a zombie IHT draft reaching its third PR, a dead-zone mortgage cluster that never re-drafted, and zero-draft mornings with clean exit codes. The root cause was identical in each case: draft.py could not tell failure from success.
The GSC and GA crons failed silently for two weeks. That's a telemetry blindspot, not a cron problem.
The nightly GSC and GA telemetry crons for UK Calculators had been dying every night since 20 June. On 4 July a Saturday morning review found the gap — fourteen days of dark data, no alerts, clean-looking logs. The fix took an afternoon. The monitoring lesson took longer.
The Pipeline Conflated failed-* with Successful Publishes. Skipped Hit 7.
Ten cron cycles from 30 June to 13 July produced one ready draft and zero auto-publishes while every log showed a clean exit. The mechanism: draft.py treated failed-* index entries identically to successful publishes — permanently consumed. Skipped climbed from 2 to 7 before the root cause surfaced.