[mayteio]

Problem

• A held marketing email that claimed a frequency cap slot can be dropped if the email queue delays it past the hold deadline.
• The run log then says no slot opened, and the claimed slot is wasted. Raised by Parameter on #127579.
• No project is exposed yet: holding is opt-in and the setting has not deployed.

Changes

• The expired-hold check now ignores an email queue continuation, because that send already passed the cap before its deadline.

How did you test this code?

Test rationale: A new handler test runs a continuation with a past deadline. It fails if the check skips the send again.

Release status

• No feature flag controls this change

Docs update

• None.

🤖 Agent context

Autonomy: Human-driven (agent-assisted)

Agent: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5

Skills: /writing-tests, /writing-pr-descriptions

More context for AI agents

• Session: PostHog Desktop cloud task, Customer.io to Workflows cutover.
• Read closely: frequencyCapHoldExpired in hog_function.ts.

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Created with PostHog Desktop from a PostHog Desktop task

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

[trunk-io]

😎 Merged successfully - details.

[parameterai]

Risk: No findings

This PR stops the workflows email pipeline from dropping a held marketing send when the email queue delays it past its frequency-cap hold deadline: the expired-hold check now ignores continuations (invocations with hogFunctionState), so the send re-runs the atomic, per-visit idempotent frequency-cap check instead of being skipped. I traced the check, the Redis Lua slot script, and the action-state lifecycle and found no cap bypass, double-claim, or stale-state path.

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[github-actions]

🤖 CI report

✅ Trunk lane — non-backend lane

This PR is assigned to the non-backend lane. It does not run backend Python tests and may merge in parallel with PRs in other lanes.

✅ Duplication (Python) — clean

New Python code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

✅ Duplication (TypeScript) — clean

New TypeScript code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

[stamphog]

Approved.

The messaging write-path change has owning-team and STRONG-familiarity authorship assurance, with a targeted regression test. No substantive review concerns or other refusal grounds are present.

• Author wrote 100% of the modified lines and has 5 merged PRs in these paths (familiarity STRONG).

Gate mechanics and policy version

Gate		Result
prerequisites	✓	all clear
deny-list	✓	no deny categories matched
size	✓	9L, 1F substantive, 30L/2F incl. docs/generated/snapshots — within ceiling
tier	✓	T1-agent / T1b-small (30L, 2F, single-area, fix)
stamphog 2.7.0		.stamphog/policy.yml @ 8539886 · reviewed head 8539886

[mayteio]

/trunk merge

[deployment-status-posthog]

Deploy status

Environment	Status	Deployed At	Workflow
dev	✅ Deployed	2026-11-11 18:19 UTC	Run
prod-us	✅ Deployed	2026-11-11 18:47 UTC	Run
prod-eu	✅ Deployed	2026-11-11 18:50 UTC	Run

_{This table shows the posthog release only. Hogstation shows every service that this PR reaches, Kargo services included.}