A stall is often systemic (a Qdrant/embedding outage stalls every in-flight
job), so reclaiming the whole batch at now() every */5min tick would
thundering-herd a recovering dependency, bypassing TieredEscalationStrategy's
per-job backoff. reclaim_stalled_ingest_jobs now offsets retry_at by a fixed
delay (INGEST_RECLAIM_RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS, default 30s; 0 = legacy immediate).
Also document the hot-vs-restart flag asymmetry: INGEST_ESCALATION_ENABLED is
re-read per job; INGEST_TRANSIENT_MAX_ATTEMPTS is snapshotted at worker startup.
Deck #323.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
