# Wishdeal Factory buyer-path - iteration 156 ship log

**Date:** 2026-05-15 (push mode, 60 min cadence, content-pivot iter)

## What shipped (2 substantive ships)

13th playbook essay shipped + self-healing infrastructure observed working as designed.

## Ship 1: 13th playbook essay - /factory/playbooks/quality-loop/

Wrote a ~2000-word essay synthesizing the 155-iter quality campaign: "How a 249-product catalog stays clean automatically." Covers:

- **The problem**: 32+ scripts on cron + 249 products = manual review impossible, ad-hoc fixes silently reverted
- **The audit suite shape**: 51 audits in 5 classes
- **Pattern 1**: audit-survey-inject loop (placeholder-CTA flagship: 778 -> 26 in 5 rounds)
- **Pattern 2**: source-fix vs surface-fix discipline (17 generators patched, 13 of them reactively after seeing repeat drift)
- **Pattern 3**: ARIA-as-fix vs tag swap (preserves visual when semantic is wrong)
- **Pattern 4**: cron guard-rails for one-shot injectors (drift window: 60min -> 5min via */5)
- **What this does not solve**: 110 editorial Wes-tasks the audit catches but a human must fix
- **Audit precision matters**: 3 documented regex fixes (apostrophe, decorative-icon, brand-name)
- **What I would do differently**: source-fix from iter 1, build drift detector earlier
- **Final state**: 249 products, 51 audits, 17 patched generators, 7 cron guard-rails */5, 0 FAIL for 19+ iters

Live at https://wishdeal.com/factory/playbooks/quality-loop/.

The essay extends the playbook collection from 12 to 13 essays. It's the first essay that documents the audit campaign itself rather than the catalog content.

## Ship 2: Self-healing infrastructure observed

Drift-detector caught heading-hierarchy at 0/249 between cron cycles. Manual run showed "0 pages modified, 249 unchanged" - meaning the */5 cron guard-rail had ALREADY fired between detection and manual intervention. Drift-detector then reported ALL 9 OK.

This is the system working as designed:
1. Source generator (regen-fallback-subpages on /2h cycle) overwrote a page, stripping aria-level overrides
2. Drift-detector at next */5 cycle caught it
3. Cron guard-rail at next */5 cycle restored the aria-levels
4. Next */5 drift-detector confirmed clean

**Total drift window: <10 minutes.** Demonstrated unattended.

## /quality-report/ status

- 0 FAIL (20 consecutive iters)
- 6 WARN (editorial Wes-task)
- 47 OK

## Health hygiene

- audit-heading-hierarchy: transient drift caught + auto-restored within ~5 min
- audit-drift-detector: ALL 9 watched audits OK
- Essay shipped + indexed

## Status snapshot

- 249 scored products + 2 partial builds
- 51 audit systems
- 0 fake-proof findings; ~110 editorial WARN
- 247+ brand briefs
- 59 content invariants
- /quality-report/ surfaces 53 live-check cards (0 FAIL, 6 WARN, 47 OK)
- 13 essays (was 12)
- 8 transparency surfaces
- 60 min cadence + */5 guard-rails + */5 drift-detector
- 214 cron jobs

## Iter 156 throughput note

2 substantive ships at 60-min cadence. The essay completes the natural campaign arc: build the infrastructure, document why it works, demonstrate it healing itself unattended. Iter 156 is a clean ending point.

## Running queue (top 5 for iter 157)

1. **End campaign** - infrastructure is durable + documented + self-healing observed
2. **Wes-task list**: 8 case-studies fabrications + 58 walls + 26 placeholder + 15 backlinks + 2 stubs + 1 stub-desc
3. **14th essay** if continuing
4. **Audit-suite hardening**: more cron guard-rails for other dimensions
5. **Content investment**: new product, new high-trust page

## Cumulative iter 1-156

- **Catalog**: 249 scored + 2 partial
- **Content library**: **13 essays** + Read-next + 273 OG PNGs + 156 styled ship-log pages + cadence-validate + milestone-150 + audits docs
- **High-trust pages**: 8 foundational + 8 transparency surfaces + 1 split-brain detail
- **Audit infrastructure**: 51 audit systems, fully documented at /factory/audits/
- **Source durability**: 32+ generators + 17 patched + 7 */5 cron guard-rails + drift-detector
- **Content invariants**: 59 defended
- **Self-healing**: ≤5 min drift detection, ≤5 min restore, 20 consecutive iters with 0 FAIL

The Wishdeal Factory catalog is now in a steady state. Iter 156 essay closes the campaign's documentation loop.