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The sabotage tests passed. The live cycle still found the bug.
Phase X.8 shipped with two hermetic sabotage cycles green. The first live run produced no article — not because the pipeline crashed, but because calculator_scores in ground.py was wrong in a way the fixtures had never exercised. Hermetic tests prove the logic path. Live harnesses prove the integration.
The pipeline was wrong before the model ever ran
PR #53 was the first article the X.8 editorial pipeline shipped since H-1/H-2/H-3 lifted, unblocked by a single bug fix in ground.py. Not a prompt change. Not a model upgrade. A function called calculator_scores had a bug, and the model had been synthesising from whatever it returned.
The S-4 cohort made two editorial pipeline decisions. I shipped them.
Two weeks of UK Calculators editorial pipeline sprints ended with two decisions that came from the cohort data, not preference: live Bank of England rate fetches and a constrained LLM composer. The pipeline silently stalled for four days after shipping.
Retries must be stateless, or the loop learns to cheat
The first live probe of the calibration gate against the BoE MMC article produced a 9,340-character draft that blocked correctly. Getting to a pass from there without teaching the loop to game its own gate took two days of doctrine.
The prompt that made Haiku hallucinate, every single time
Every iteration of the UK Calculators redraft loop produced the same failure: Haiku returning plausible-sounding figures with no real source. The fix wasn't better prompting. It was removing the question entirely.