# Wishdeal Factory buyer-path - iteration 104 ship log **Date:** 2026-05-14 (push mode, 60 min cadence, periodic-verification iter) ## What shipped (2 substantive ships + 1 audit-discovery) This iter built a periodic verification audit for hero-polish drift, then wired the result into /quality-report/ as invariant #13. **First-run result: 177/177 polishes intact, 0 drift.** The hand-polished work from iters 5-15 has been preserved across all subsequent regen cycles. ## Audit-discovery: hero-polish state at iter 104 **Polish library state:** - 178 polish JSONs in /home/ubuntu/factory/director/hero-polish/ - 177 actually applied (1 is AUTO.json, a template placeholder with no real /builds/AUTO/ directory) - 177/177 = 100% applied to products that have them **Verification check (after HTML-entity-decode fix):** - 177/177 polish blocks match the source JSON h1 - 0 drift - 0 missing markers - 0 missing pages **Initial false-positive run:** First run reported 10 drifts. Inspection showed they were all HTML-entity encoding differences (apostrophes encoded as `'`, ampersands as `&` on the page). The polish-applicator uses `html.escape()` correctly; my audit needed to `html.unescape()` before comparison. Fixed inline. **The 26 hand-polished claim was stale.** Memory file said "26 hand-polished products." Actual current count: 177 (the polish library grew from iter 5 onwards). Iter 104 brings the catalog state into agreement with reality. ## Ship 1: audit-hero-polish-drift.py + JSON snapshot Built audit-hero-polish-drift.py (~120 lines): - Scans /home/ubuntu/factory/director/hero-polish/*.json - For each, opens /srv/sites/factory/builds//index.html - Extracts the h1 inside the WD_HERO_POLISH_v1 block - HTML-unescapes both sides + compares - Categorizes: match / drift / no-marker / no-h1 / missing-page / missing-polish-h1 - Writes JSON snapshot at /srv/sites/factory/hero-polish-drift.json **Cron:** every 30 min at :04, :34. Audit fast (~1 second for 177 scans). ## Ship 2: /quality-report/ surfaces hero-polish drift + invariant #13 Patched regen-quality-report.py with: - New helper `latest_hero_polish_drift()` reads the JSON snapshot - New "Hero polish sync" card: "177/177 - all polishes intact" - New row in "What we audit" table: describes the audit + cadence + what it catches - New content invariant #13: "No hero-polish drift between polish JSON and rendered page" **Total live-check cards on /quality-report/ now: 7** (Health, Fake-proof, Adoptability sync, Em-dash, Broken-taglines, Page identity, Hero polish sync). ## Health hygiene (Op rule 5) - **Em-dash sweep**: pending - **audit-fakeproof**: 0 hard / 0 soft (CLEAN) - **audit-adoptability-drift**: 245 matched, 0 drift, 2 partial-build - **audit-page-identity**: 1714/1718 ok / 4 weak / 0 mismatch - **audit-hero-polish-drift**: 177/177 match, 0 drift (NEW iter 104) - **Health-check**: 77/77 passing ## Status snapshot - 245 scored products + 2 partial builds - 246 build pages with index.html - 0 fake-proof findings, 0 score drift, 0 page-identity fall-throughs, 0 hero-polish drift - **177 hero-polish blocks intact** (corrected from stale "26 hand-polished" memory) - 247 brand briefs with valid archetype - 12 essays + Read-next + JSON-LD - 8 high-trust pages with JSON-LD durable - /factory/catalog/ with CollectionPage - 244 /builds/ pages with PNG OG + Product schema - 271 OG PNG images - 5 transparency surfaces + 104 styled ship-log detail pages - /quality-report/ surfaces **7 live-check cards** (added Hero polish sync iter 104) - **13 content invariants defended** (NEW iter 104: hero-polish drift) - 77/77 health endpoints, 135+ cron jobs - 60 min cadence active ## Iter 104 throughput note 2 substantive ships at 60-min cadence. The verification was the primary ask; building it as a durable audit (not a one-time check) plus surfacing the result on /quality-report/ converted "spot-check" into "ongoing-monitored-invariant." ## The 5 audit suites now operational | Audit | Cadence | What | Iter shipped | |---|---|---|---| | audit-fakeproof.py | daily 4:30am | Fake-proof claims | 69 | | audit-adoptability-drift.py | every 15 min | Score sync | 93 | | audit-page-identity.py | every 30 min | Page-identity fall-through (7 surfaces) | 97 | | **audit-hero-polish-drift.py** | every 30 min | **Polish JSON vs rendered page** | **104** | | em-dash-sweep.py | every 15 min | Em-dash invariant | 1 (always-running) | Each audit writes a JSON snapshot at /srv/sites/factory/.json that /quality-report/ reads. All four content-invariant audits return clean. ## Running queue (top 5 for iter 105) 1. **Audit on /factory/own/ pages** - parallel buyer-path surface not yet covered (244 pages) 2. **Audit on /factory/feedback// pages** - already in page-identity (7-surface) but no content-quality audit 3. **OG conversion completeness check** - 271 PNGs vs 247 brand briefs; possibly some still missing PNGs 4. **Cadence-validate 60 min** - iter 101-104 each 1-2 ships. Holding well. 5. **13th essay** - skip until queue has fresh candidate. ## Cumulative iter 1-104 - **Catalog**: 245 scored + 2 partial, 246 with index.html - **Content library**: 12 essays + Read-next + 271 OG PNGs + 104 styled ship-log pages - **High-trust pages**: 8 foundational + 5 transparency surfaces - **Audit infrastructure**: **5 audit systems** + 7-surface coverage + self-healing INDEX_HTML_GUARD + improved name-matching + hero-polish drift detection - **Source durability**: 24+ generators (added audit-hero-polish-drift iter 104) + 6 regen scripts auto-call injectors + 5 JSON snapshots + 135+ cron jobs - **Content invariants**: **13 defended** at surface+source AND publicly surfaced The hero-polish state is now self-verifying. The 177 polishes will get caught within 30 min if any regen drifts them. Time-to-detect on drift = at most one audit cycle.