Dedup was failing on essentially every inbound call in production. dedup.py
queries system_id == X with a started_at range; that composite index was
neither declared in firestore.indexes.json nor present in the live c2-server
database, so the query returned FAILED_PRECONDITION, dedup swallowed it as a
warning, and every duplicate check degraded to "not a duplicate".
While AI is off that only cost duplicate call documents. With a window open it
would have paid Whisper and Gemini twice for every double-heard transmission,
and fed Gate B5's cost measurement a figure that is wrong for a reason
unrelated to the pipeline being measured. Two documents for one transmission is
also the exact input shape that produces a spurious second incident.
The index is created on c2-server and building. This declares it in source so
the file and the live database agree.
Refs server-26#84, #33, #45.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>