The Lock heartbeat proves the process is alive; it says nothing about progress. Record the
last journal seq alongside, so alive-and-working is distinguishable from alive-but-stuck —
loop status shows it, and stale judgment (takeover, watchdog) can use it.
Evidence: hermes heartbeat/last-success pair and omnigent heartbeats carrying
last_event_seq — independent convergence.
The Lock heartbeat proves the process is alive; it says nothing about progress. Record the
last journal seq alongside, so alive-and-working is distinguishable from alive-but-stuck —
loop statusshows it, and stale judgment (takeover, watchdog) can use it.Evidence: hermes heartbeat/last-success pair and omnigent heartbeats carrying
last_event_seq — independent convergence.