- fetch_espn_date_chunks() asks for a window's partial edge month whole when the window covers ESPN_MONTH_COVER_MIN_DAYS (7) or more of its days, trimmed to the window by US Eastern start date. New espn_request_chunks().
- Chunk requests share one process-wide cap of ESPN_CHUNK_WORKERS (6) in flight.
- A new process starts as if a range had just been rejected, so it no longer spends a doomed 400 per window at start.
- Also: _eastern_zone() without try/except/pass (Codacy), and test_on_demand_live_and_restore reads the last on-demand state write rather than the last cache write (the font-usage publisher raced it; main CI had failed on it since #748).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On-demand: a mode requested by name is shown first (even a quiet live mode); a session that can't resume after a restart, or whose plugin system failed to start, ends with status restore-failed instead of staying dead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
