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Liveness probe

A lightweight check that asks **“Is the process alive?”** — if it fails, orchestrators restart the container.

#When to use

Kubernetes, Cloud Run, or any platform that auto-restarts stuck workers serving LLM APIs.

Do not embed slow dependency checks — that belongs on readiness.

`GET /health/live` returns 200 if the event loop responds within 1s.