headless-review is the standalone surface of newsletter Step 6.5: a cold
adversarial review-orchestrator, NOT post-emitting — it emits a consolidated
review report + optional edition-state persist, never drafts prose, never
publishes a feed post, so the feed-post predicates (hook 110-140, 1,200-1,800
band, no-body-link) do not apply (even further from feed-post than newsletter).
The 4 archetype agents are shared with newsletter Step 6.5 -> S9 baseline reused.
Ran the 7 predicates tool-grounded against the final file (248 lines):
- 4 namespaced subagent types resolve (frontmatter name: match)
- 8/8 Reference Files exist (:241-248)
- always-present fallback longform-quality-rules.md exists
- articles.NN.headlessReview schema complete in edition-state.template.json
(:56-69, ladder pending->run->folded)
- 5 degradation points (freeze cp :130 / draft ask-once :104 / persona :117 /
[GATE] re-run :163-164 / output-default :93 + SendUserFile-else-file:// :208-210)
- persona resolution chain = newsletter Step 1 (:179-183)
- "five archetypes" (line-wrapped :5-6/:30-31) = 5 modes from 4 agents
Borderline at talk: freeze (:126) assumes review/ exists (no mkdir -p).
Operator chose Alt A (no change) — byte-identical to newsletter :1050 (S9-clean);
review/ is created by the render pipeline that produces the draft. Logged as a
NICE below the axis-pass bar, not pursued.
4-axis verdict: a/b/c/d all PASS, 0 gaps, 0 deferrals -> NO CHANGE.
Gate: test-runner 81/0/0 · counts 29/19/26 unchanged · headless-review.md
byte-identical to 3cd174c (S9); only docs/hardening/log.md added.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016qgzo6rxthw7KuxHjn5vyE
Step-3 optimize gate (:79) carried the buzzword line but as a bare
'- [ ] No corporate buzzwords' — not self-contained, leaning on the
quality-scorecard.md reference rather than the inline gate the AI executes.
Enumerated the banned list inline to match every other post-emitting gate
(post :134 / react :131 / carousel :123 / video :129 / scorecard :132),
removing pipeline as the odd-one-out.
Recorded deferral: Step-2 component structure (:58-62) sums 960-1640, floor
below the Step-3 band floor 1,200 — identical to batch's untouched 3a; the
gate (:77) already names the band and catches a minimum-path undershoot, so
no edit (editing Step 2 would exceed S7 precedent).
Gate: test-runner 81/0/0 · counts 29/19 unchanged · only .md touched.
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S7 close-out (1 edit / 1 command-file · lint 81/0 · counts 29/19/26/6):
- batch.md:95 Step-3b Quick Quality Check: replace vague "Character count in range" with a format-aware band (standard 1,200-1,800 · quick 150-500 · carousel/video caption per that format) — the old line named no band, and the 3a structure (:88-92) sums to 960-1640, under the 1,200 standard floor, so a ~1,000-char standard post passed "in range" unflagged
Axis-c (length band) closed; axes a/b/d PASS. Class: hybrid guided/stateful + post-emitting per post (each of 3-5 drafts is a feed post). Buzzword (:98) + no-body-link (:97) already present — the gap S2-S6 found is already closed in batch. Wiring verified: trend-spotter + content-planner resolve; all 5 node helpers (queueUpcoming/queueAdd 8-arg/queueFormatSummary/generateIcalFromQueue/writeIcalFile) export with matching signatures. 3 deferrals (3a single-structure vs mixed-format promise · no per-post differentiation gate by design · weekly_goal-unset micro-fallback). Local-only per push policy.
v1 (autonomous 5-step + reviewer swarm + /trekreview gate) produced confident
fabrications and burned context for what are usually 0-1 line edits. v2 is a
slow, dialogic, one-command-per-session gate with the operator as truth source
and every mechanical claim tool-grounded. Method, command-class predicates,
session queue, and STATE.md end-of-session handoff are documented in plan.md.
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New phase after the baseline-audit remediation (S1-S17, bf9d432, complete):
a command-hardening pass that simulates each of the 29 commands and tightens
it to its stated intention (intention-fidelity + prompt-quality only — no
structural redesign, no new features, no GUI/M0). Runs over ~8 journey-grouped
Voyage sessions, gated by lint + /trekreview ALLOW before push.
Foundation laid this session (execution starts next session):
- docs/hardening/brief.md (valid; 3 locked forks: hybrid simulation,
intention-fidelity+prompt-quality, per-journey cadence; research skipped —
the 2026 bar is frozen in algorithm-signals-reference.md)
- docs/hardening/plan.md (8 sessions, Grade B+ 87)
Adversarial review: brief-reviewer PROCEED_WITH_RISKS (3 findings folded:
self-graded quality axis, SC-H deferral contradiction, no stopping rule);
plan-critic REVISE (2 blockers + 10 major — all addressed: anchored coverage
predicate kills substring false-positives, full-session cold-reviewer oracle
on concrete before/after output, per-type mechanical predicate, Failed:0 gate
not literal-74, S1 HALT circuit-breaker); scope-guardian ALIGNED.
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