Four focused correctness fixes for the "fire exactly once per FAILED
exchange" use case (alerting layer only; HTTP-level idempotency is a
separate scope):
1. Composite cursor (startTime, executionId) replaces the current
single-timestamp, inclusive cursor — prevents same-millisecond
drops and same-exchange re-selection.
2. First-run cursor initialized to rule createdAt (not null) —
prevents the current unbounded historical-retention scan on first
tick of a new rule.
3. Transactional coupling of instance writes + notification enqueue +
cursor advance — eliminates partial-progress failure modes on crash
or rollback.
4. Config hygiene: reNotifyMinutes forced to 0, forDurationSeconds
rejected, perExchangeLingerSeconds removed entirely (was validated
as required but never read) — the rule shape stops admitting
nonsensical PER_EXCHANGE combinations.
Alert stays FIRING until human ack/resolve (no auto-resolve); webhook
fires exactly once per AlertInstance; Inbox never sees duplicates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>