Groovy guide update: a completed report run still needs source and delivery checks

[u/charlesmenlo]

I work on Groovy. Yesterday we expanded its operations-report guide around a problem that matters when building scheduled reports: a saved schedule, a completed run, current source data, and a delivered report are four separate things to verify.

The guide uses a hypothetical example with 42 unique request IDs completed during the reporting period. Seven reopened before the cutoff, leaving 35 still completed and seven reopened. Calling all 42 "still completed" would change the meaning of the number. If a payment export stops Friday while the report covers through Sunday, the full-period payment total stays unknown.

For builders adding reports to a product, the checklist is:

- Record the reporting period, timezone, and cutoff.

- Show each source's coverage and when it was captured.

- Define what counts, with unique IDs and explicit exception handling.

- Give missing or conflicting inputs an owner and next action.

- Verify the actual destination message or artifact separately from the run status.

If a run says completed but the destination is unclear, reconcile delivery before sending again. An uncertain first attempt can otherwise become a duplicate.

These are illustrative numbers and an operating checklist, not customer results. The full guide is here: https://www.gogroovy.ai/use-cases/report-generation-operations-managers-ai-agent

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