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+# Session debrief — 2026-05-06 overnight
+
+## Today
+
+40 iters shipped (iter 131 → 170), all autonomous overnight. The Corridor pipeline is now end-to-end self-running. 75 features generated (50 published), 10 launchd jobs covering gen / publish / cover / dedupe / standup / coverage / morning email. KEEP INTERNAL holds — Mac2 loopback only.
+
+## What's new since you closed the laptop
+
+### Reader-side
+- **`/quotes`** — typographic 3-col wall of every pull quote (50 of them).
+- **`/about.html`** — masthead + colophon (you, qwen3, Cormorant + Inter + JBM, BTRC source, Volume I).
+- **`/issue.epub`** — full EPUB-2 export, opens in Apple Books / Calibre. ~55KB.
+- **`/issue.txt`** — plain-text dump for archive / accessibility / AI ingest. 50KB.
+- **`/issue/archive`** — back-issues grid, each month a card with cover thumbnail.
+- **`/calendar.html`** — GitHub-style 90-day heatmap of gen rate.
+- **`/404`** — friendly newsprint page that suggests a random feature ("a feature you may not have read").
+- **Reader feedback widget** at the bottom of every `/magazine/:id` — typo/correction/tip/praise/complaint, AJAX-submitted. Real corrections pop into your inbox via George.
+- **Cover hero on `/issue`** — full-bleed image when uploaded, headline + caption overlay, italic kicker.
+
+### Admin-side
+- **`/today.html` ticker rails** — "Just now" (gen + publish + cover + feedback + inquiry events with icons + relative time) and "Up next on the gen queue" (what watchdog will tackle).
+- **"Publish next" rail** — heuristic-scored draft-of-the-night (editorial length × pull-quote × subhead × ad-signal). Same pick goes into the 8:07 AM email.
+- **`/feedback.html`** — admin viewer for reader notes, with kind-chip filter and one-click mark-reviewed. Unread badge on nav.
+- **`/cover-picker.html`** — pick the cover feature, write a caption, drop an image. Image renders full-bleed on `/issue`.
+- **`/health.html`** — one-page pipeline status. 9 checks (published / drafts / quality / queue / snapshot freshness / feedback / inquiries) + top-tapped panel + growth panel.
+- **`/coverage.html`** — corridor coverage % (0.42% so far), top-30 verticals + top-20 cities with covered/total bars, 14-day gen spark, SVG line of total-features-over-time.
+- **`/duplicates.html`** — when qwen3 templates ("Precision Care in Encino's Heart" 5×), each group as a card. Click ✕ regen on the runner-up; oldest copy is kept as canonical.
+- **`/scoreboard.html`** — category emojis (🍴⚖️🩺💪💇🛍🏠🏨), 36 verticals mapped.
+- **Editor margin notes** on `/magazine.html` — collapsible note textarea per feature, blur-saves to `notes` column.
+- **🆕 since-last filter** on `/magazine.html` — localStorage stamp + unseen-count badge so you only see fresh gen.
+
+### Programmatic / API
+- `/api/magazine/today` — unified daily payload (feature + caption + tags + share/audio).
+- `/api/magazine/lottery?n=N&cat=` — random N features.
+- `/api/magazine/feature-of-the-month` — cover pick or auto-pick fallback.
+- `/api/magazine/:id/social-pack.json` — 5 brief variants for IG agent (short / medium / medium+tags / long / pull-quote) with platform `fits` array.
+- `/api/magazine/activity` — UNION feed of gen / publish / cover.set / feedback / inquiry events.
+- `/api/magazine/gen-queue` — what watchdog will tackle next.
+- `/api/magazine/duplicates` + `/headline-stems` — exact-match + trigram templating signals.
+- `/api/magazine/quality-flags` — thin / no-pull-quote / no-subhead / stale-draft / uncategorized audit.
+- `/api/coverage` + `/api/coverage/history` — corridor coverage % + nightly snapshot history.
+- `/api/issues/:month` — cover assignment endpoints.
+- `/api/feedback` + PATCH per-id — full feedback admin lifecycle.
+- `/api/magazine.json?cat=&limit=` — JSON Feed 1.1 with per-vertical filter.
+
+### New launchd jobs
+- `auto-cover` — 2:42 AM. If no cover set this month, picks top-tapped published feature.
+- `auto-dedupe` — 3:33 AM. Regens up to 5 runner-ups when ≥3 features share a headline.
+- `coverage-snapshot` — 11:55 PM. Captures totals into `coverage_snapshots` for trend lines.
+- `ig-dryrun` — 8:02 AM. Generates a JSON + HTML draft of tomorrow's IG post under `/admin/ig-drafts/`.
+- `standup` — 7:50 AM. Renders Samantha-TTS m4a "Good morning, Steve…" 60s summary at `/standup`.
+
+### qwen3 prompt fix (iter 169)
+Headlines were converging to "X in Y's Heart" (5×), "Legal Precision Meets Y" (5×), and a few other templates. The system prompt now explicitly blocks those six patterns. New gen output should diverge — and the auto-dedupe at 3:33 AM will handle the existing dupes.
+
+## Numbers
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Features (total / published) | 75 / 50 |
+| Drafts pending review | 25 |
+| Quality flags | 0 |
+| Templated headline groups | 5 (auto-dedupe runs 3:33 AM) |
+| Corridor coverage | 0.42% (75 / 17,462 businesses) |
+| Routes | 45+ |
+| Launchd jobs | 10 |
+| Commits this session | 40 |
+| Average iter cadence | ~25 min |
+
+## Next
+
+Backlog is genuinely drained. The remaining items all need *you*:
+
+1. **Live IG-autopost** — review the dry-run drafts at `http://127.0.0.1:9780/admin/ig-drafts/`. If they look right, we wire the Instagram MCP to publish at 9 AM.
+2. **Clone-voice for the standup audio** — currently uses macOS Samantha. If you give me a 30-second voice sample, I can swap to ElevenLabs IVC for the 7:50 AM standup.
+3. **Public launch** — every page is loopback-bound right now. When you're ready, we flip a single env (`PUBLIC_BASE_URL`) and stand up the nginx vhost + Let's Encrypt cert.
+4. **Cover image curation** — `/cover-picker.html` is wired and waiting. Drop a JPG/PNG/WebP for May 2026 if you want the cover hero to render an image.
+
+Loop is paused for the night. Let me know when you're back.
+
+— ventura-corridor desk · 2026-05-06 · iter 170
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