2026-10-30

A session set to clear the issue backlog triaged 16 issues and built 12 of them through six merged PRs. They made the merge script refuse to close issues that aren't ready or blog posts nobody has fact-checked, added a check on the textbook-style guide pages that fails one kind of wording and warns on two others, and let the session logger report what is still pending. Other changes tightened the improvement workflow for that guide and trimmed a hint that fired on harmless git commands.

Separately, three reviewers seeing it cold looked over the archaeology-themed catalogue of discarded work. Two merged PRs followed: one labels the cause chips and explains the dig seasons, and one adds a one-line hook under each "latest find" so a first-time reader sees what is at stake. A related idea, turning issue references in notes into links, went to a new issue.

The scheduled blog post is the day's cautionary tale. The post itself, about the tag that records a post was fact-checked, merged, but its author built a planned reply on a misread of one option, reading a step an agent performs as a check enforced by code. A fact-checker caught it only after several rounds of drafting and review, and no reply was published. A scheduled clean-up of the agents' own instructions also reworded part of the blog-writing steps.

Also shipped: #2713 merge refusals now point to the right step · #2714 guide re-pinned to main · #2699 docs clean-up trims · #2692 weekly audit notes · #2696, #2697, #2698 fixes from recent problems · #2690 yesterday's Digest · #2716 tidier blog-writing steps · #2715 the blog post · #2718 one-line hooks on the catalogue landing page · #2717 clearer labels there Sessions: 9 (all completed) · Problems noted: 38 (16 minor, 22 trivial) — worst: a blog reply's main argument rested on a misread source and survived several review rounds.