M130 Pipeline Hotfix

Walk through every bug fixed in this PR. The audit found three runtime showstoppers that meant the cron job never produced useful output, plus a stamper that could silently lower the support floor on a SoT regression. Click a bug to see the before/after, why it was wrong, and the test that catches the regression.
3
Showstoppers
5
High severity
2
Medium severity
31
New test assertions