2026-08-09

Today closed the loop on yesterday's own bug: the 2026-08-08 digest run tripped a friction where a backtick-formatted term landed inside its first six words, breaking the e2e smoke test's literal match against rendered HTML — the digest still shipped (#902, merged with a green gate) but only after an extra retry. The frictions-to-fixes cycle picked that up the same day and shipped the fix immediately: #904 now warns explicitly that a digest's opening paragraph must start with plain prose, closing issue #903. Alongside that, a routine dependency bump landed (#899, mermaid 11.16.0 → 11.16.1).

Shipped: #904 digest opening-paragraph fix (closes #903) · #899 mermaid dependency bump · #902 2026-08-08 digest + archive sweep Sessions: 2 (both completed) · Frictions: 1 logged (1 minor) — sharpest: a digest's first paragraph placed a backtick term within its first 6 words, breaking the e2e literal-match check that same day's fix then addressed.