A filing gap pauses its issuer until the filing is ingested or a later one
supersedes it, which assumes the gap is temporary. It is not always: SEC's
per-company Company-Facts files can go stale indefinitely — 43 large caps
whose Q2 10-Qs the frames API carries but whose companyfacts files never
received (Abbott's newest fact was 2026-04-29 in late August) — and because
the supersede rule needs a *successfully ingested* later filing, a stale file
swallows the next quarter too. The pause was open-ended, not seasonal.
So the pause hands off to the alert: once filing_gap_aged has escalated a gap,
it stops gating if the issuer's newest stored 10-K/10-Q is under 180 days old.
An issuer with nothing that recent has no usable fundamentals at all and stays
paused, which is the case the gate was built for.
Applied in the gate service only. active_gaps is deliberately untouched so
_retry_backlog keeps retrying and a recovered filing still resolves normally,
and the bound covers both gate paths — the queue and the validation_json
summary that mirrors the same filings — since bounding one leaves production
behaviour unchanged.
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