When a long-running worker times out, cancels, or fails, the obvious response is to kill the process you started. That often looks like progress and leaves the real hazard intact: shell wrappers, package managers, builds, and pipelines keep running — or get reparented under something that no longer ...

Long-running automated work usually persists its position as a stage name. That is enough to describe where the work got to, and not enough to describe what it was doing. When a single stage can stand for more than one pending operation, a crash in the wrong moment leaves you holding a label instead...