[zariffromlatif]

Summary

What changed?

1. Contact email from a secret. forward-test.yml reads SEC_USER_AGENT from secrets.SEC_USER_AGENT first, then the repository variable, then the default.
2. GDELT throttling handling (run_forward_test.py):
   • Names that fail get one retry pass, after a 2-minute cooldown and with a 15-second pause between requests.
   • Once a 40-minute budget is spent, no new request starts and the skipped names are recorded as errors.
   • Progress is printed per name as the run goes.
3. A 60-minute job timeout in the workflow, instead of GitHub's default of 6 hours.
4. Report (summarize.py): every one of the 20 pre-registered names now gets a row, and a new News fetch failures column counts the runs with no GDELT coverage for each name.

Why was this needed?

• The repo is public, and GitHub prints repository variables unmasked in Actions logs. Secrets are masked.
• The first live run (2026-10-16) took 22 minutes. 6 of 20 names (NVDA, AMZN, BAC, BA, GM, COIN) got GDELT "429 Too Many Requests" after every retry, leaving coverage gaps that the report didn't show. Names with no activity also had no row at all, so "quiet" looked the same as "not tracked".

Validation

• Relevant tests pass (pytest -q aetherius/tests): 121 passed (was 116). New tests cover:

  • a throttled name recovering in the retry pass;
  • a name that keeps failing being reported, not dropped;
  • the budget stopping new requests without a pointless cooldown;
  • the per-name failure count;
  • every pre-registered name being listed.

  Retry timing is tested with a fake clock, so no test sleeps.

• SVB-2023 backtest still passes if scoring / mapping / ingestion changed: not applicable. The frozen scorer is untouched.

• Lint passes (ruff check aetherius simulations scripts).

• Docs updated: simulations/forward_test/README.md.

I regenerated the report from the real first-run log: all 20 names are listed, and the 6 throttled names show 1 failure each.

Scope

• Ingestion, entity mapping, scoring, or signals (aetherius/app/services/...)
• Delivery / templates / review workflow
• Backtests (simulations/backtest/...)
• Docs / governance / landing page only

Forward test only (simulations/forward_test/, .github/workflows/forward-test.yml).

Safety Checklist

• No secrets committed (.env, API keys, tokens)
• No generated artifacts committed (simulations/artifacts/, runtime logs)
• No client-specific / private data included
• Marketing / README claims still match implementation reality

Notes for Reviewers

• The SEC_USER_AGENT secret is already set. Delete any repository variable with the same name.
• The first run's single flag (TSLA, "Techs Slide On Anthropic Valuation Report; Tesla Reveals Flying Roadster") is a false positive from the documented substring class ("slide" and "slid"). It should be labeled not material in labels.json.

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