A file touch cannot establish operating health
Reviewed Draft- Before
- A running synthetic process with a freshly touched but malformed or timestamp-less state file was classified HEALTHY.
- After
- Uninterpretable heartbeat evidence provides no age. A running target is UNKNOWN unless an existing degradation priority applies; unknown targets stay in the total population but outside healthy and operational numerators.
Six base failures became 17 passing heartbeat tests. The internal reviewer independently repeated 17; a further isolated run of the focused and adjacent selection passed 88 tests.
Existing staleness and classification priorities remain. PID presence and a parsed timestamp do not establish installed code identity or successful application work.
Reviewed Draft published at the pinned revision. Required local repository selection: 922 passed and 60 skipped, exit code 0. The platform-specific skips are not evaluated. No verified deployment or natural operating effect.
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