- Foreground gateway: a run that ended without official data is written to
the existing same-day negative snapshot store; later turns that day answer
from it without starting the gateway (second call <= 0.15 s, same fields).
Success still goes to the positive cache first; a consult-gate deferral and
a join timeout are not failures.
- /v5/vedastro-validate: a result blocked by VedAstro itself is kept in memory
for a day per (evidence fingerprint, candidate pair); evidence-decided
results are not. The whole check has 11 s (frontend waits 12 s); calls with
time to spare keep the adapter timeout, so normal output is unchanged.
- conftest also isolates the negative store and clears the check memory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
