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Fifteen claim blocks and a zero-draft cron: the cost of grounding a content pipeline in gov.uk
Hand-curated gov.uk claim blocks stopped the ukcalculators drafter fabricating figures. Three days after the first clean pillar shipped, the cron fired on time, ranked 150 clusters, put mortgage at the top — and produced nothing. That was the gate working correctly.
Zero drafts at 07:00: build the gate, not the prompt
The 29 June cron ran every stage correctly and produced nothing. Haiku underfired on claim-extraction, the pipeline accepted the shortfall without raising an error, and the log showed a clean exit. The fix was a corrective stage that detects the count failure, reruns with constrained parameters, and marks the run failed if the second attempt also falls short. Six pillars shipped in the three days that followed.
The cron exited clean. There were no drafts.
Two zero-draft mornings out of four cron firings across 29 June to 2 July, both exits clean. The failure was Haiku's claim extraction underfiring one stage before draft: structurally invisible, no error, no warning, cron returns success.
Ten of thirteen: why verification without correction is just expensive triage
The morning cron produced a draft with 10 of 13 sentences passing the verifier. Without a corrective step, that's a triage ticket, not a publish. Four days of cron output showed the rescue pattern fires once in four — and what covers the other three.
The cron ran clean and drafted nothing: eight pillars in five days named the extraction bottleneck
Five days into a 14-day operator-publish sprint, the cron fired on-time every day and produced two useful drafts — one of which recycled yesterday's ground. Improving on the quality-gate diagnosis from the inheritance tax piece, this sprint isolated an earlier failure: claim extraction stalls before the drafter gets a turn.