Outcome of a code-quality audit of the bot. Three logically-scoped commits; each is self-consistent and compiles independently.

1. Resilience & lifecycle fixes (a9fdf33)

• Cache deadlock: MediaCache.update_cache held the non-reentrant cache_lock and re-acquired it via save_cache_to_disk → latent hang on every post-TTL refresh. Split out a lock-free _write_items_to_disk the lock holder calls directly.
• Startup model: moved one-time init out of on_ready (fires on every gateway reconnect → leaked aiohttp sessions + re-crawled the cache) into setup_hook. PlexBot.close() now stops the gateway before closing the shared Tautulli/TMDB sessions so background tasks can't use (or silently re-open) a closed session.
• Event loop: the git fetch version check no longer blocks the loop — it runs once at startup via asyncio.gather(asyncio.to_thread(...)), and the "unknown" failure sentinel is no longer read as "outdated".
• Shared-session ownership: cogs no longer close the shared session in cog_unload (the bot owns it); ServerCommands cancels its presence task instead.
• Response handling: plex_data/recommendations route Tautulli responses through check_response/get_response_data (no more crashes when the API returns None), guard a null data payload, and use stdlib zoneinfo instead of pytz.

2. Dead code + linting/CI (58d7cb9)

• Removed the unused utilities.Config class and MyEmbedDescriptionPageSource, plus dead imports across the package.
• Added a conservative ruff config (F, E9) and a CI workflow (ruff + compileall smoke test); bumped the black/ruff target to py312.

3. Dependencies + docs (c6d8afd)

• requirements.txt: declare only directly-imported deps — add aiohttp/matplotlib (were only transitive), drop unused requests/numpy and the bogus datetime PyPI package, pin everything to current stable, and add tzdata so zoneinfo has an IANA database on platforms without a system copy.
• Documented the real Python floor (3.12, required by nextcord 3.x).

Notes

• Verified green locally: ruff check . + compileall.
• Two behaviors worth a manual smoke-test post-merge: the plex chart … commands (pandas 3.0 + zoneinfo path) and plex downloading (qBittorrent client bump).
• Deliberately not included here: removing the dead TMDB integration, persisting the cache last_updated timestamp, and consolidating the duplicated duration formatters — flagged as follow-ups.

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