Now I understand the whole picture. Two separate issues: 1. Sync bookmark is stuck — the index thinks it's "caught up" (0 changed, all unchanged), but the pages genuinely aren't in the DB.

--retry-failed

says "no failures to retry" because the old git-crash failures were never recorded as sync-failures; the bookmark just advanced past them silently. 2. The source has never completed a full cycle —

cycle_freshness: FAIL, Source 'default' has never completed a full cycle

. That's the deeper problem. Links/timeline/atoms are all at 0. The clean fix is a hard reimport of the meetings directory to force those pages in. Let me do that (it's additive/idempotent —

import

re-reads the markdown).