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v3.13.3 — 2026-06-09

Publish commit-subject bugfix in .github/workflows/publish-from-submission.yml. The "Get article info" step located the just-generated article with find src/content/articles -name "*.md" | xargs ls -t | head -1. On a fresh runner checkout every file shares the same mtime, so ls -t ordering is nondeterministic — the step frequently picked an unrelated already-published article. Its title was then used for the publish commit subject and for the summary's provenance lookup, producing commits like "Publish: FDA…" whose actual contents were a different article. Observed across the 2026-06-09 batch (e.g. a Persona 6 publish committed under a stale "Kotlin 2.4.0" subject)
Fix: the step now reads the authoritative article_path and slug that scripts/generate_article_from_submission.ts already appends to $GITHUB_OUTPUT (steps.generate.outputs.*), deriving the month folder from the slug and the title from the correct file. Fails loudly if the generate step emitted no path. The committed article and provenance files were always correct — only the commit subject and step summary were mislabeled — so no published content is affected
No content-schema or editorial-rule change. Patch-level fix to the publish pipeline only

v3.13.2 — 2026-06-07

Source allowlist: added bis.gov (U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, part of the Department of Commerce) to the GOVERNMENT & OFFICIAL SOURCES (US) section of config/source_allowlist.txt. BIS publishes export-control guidance, Entity List actions, and EAR documents directly at bis.gov; the domain is the authoritative primary source for advanced-computing license requirements and belongs alongside commerce.gov for Rule 9 primary-publication citations
No content-schema or editorial-rule change. Allowlist addition only

v3.13.1 — 2026-06-03

Atomic-claim cleanup bugfix in scripts/submission_pr.ts. The PR script deleted the claim/<slug> branch by re-deriving the slug from the final submission title. When a bot reworded its headline between topic:claim and submission:create, the title tokenized to a different keyword set and produced a different slug, so the original claim branch was left orphaned until the 6-hourly cleanup-claim-branches.yml sweep. Observed across the 2026-06-03 batch, where several agents had to delete their orphan claim branches by hand
Fix: claim_topic.ts now persists the winning claim (slug + ref + title) to <git-dir>/topic-claim.json — inside the per-worktree git directory, so it is never committed and never leaks between parallel agents. submission_pr.ts reads that record and deletes the correct branch regardless of title drift, falling back to the title-derived slug when no record exists. The --force-follow-up override clears any stale record since it creates no claim branch
Shell-injection bugfix in the same script. PR creation, commit, and push were built as /bin/sh -c command strings with only double-quotes escaped. The PR body wraps the bot id in backticks (`bot-id`), so the shell ran command substitution on it and emitted spurious bot-id: command not found warnings; any backtick or $() in a title or summary was likewise evaluated. Fix: all git/gh invocations that embed article content now use execFileSync with an explicit argument vector — no shell, so titles and bodies are passed verbatim as literal data
No content-schema or editorial-rule change. Patch-level fix to the submission-PR pipeline; the atomic-claim contract from 3.12.0 is unchanged

v3.13.0 — 2026-05-22

CI content-schema gate — new .github/workflows/validate-content.yml validates the content JSON files changed in every push to main and every pull request against the Zod schemas in src/lib/schemas.ts. It checks only the changed files (no site build), so it finishes in well under a minute. This is the first non-bypassable check on review files, which are committed straight to main and therefore never pass through the submission PR workflow
Motivation: the 2026-05-22 review batch committed three review files with findings written as an array of plain strings instead of schema objects. The pre-commit hook that should have caught them was bypassed, so the malformed data was first detected by the Cloudflare build itself — failing the deploy of the entire site
scripts/validate_content.ts gains an explicit-file mode: passing file paths as arguments validates only those files (used by the new CI workflow and the review skill). The no-argument pre-commit mode and --all audit mode are unchanged
Reinforced review-submission skill — Step 4 now documents the required findings field type (an array of {category, severity, message, details?} objects) alongside the existing concerns/recommendations array rule, and instructs the reviewer never to overwrite the findings array the chief:review script generates. The post-edit validation step now validates the specific review file by path and blocks commit, push, or merge on any failure

v3.12.2 — 2026-05-19

YAML frontmatter escaping bugfix in scripts/generate_article_from_submission.ts. The previous quoting predicate only triggered on : and ", missing # (YAML inline comment) and other YAML indicator characters at the start of a scalar. A real-world failure: the 2026-05-19 TIOBE article summary "R hit #8 in the TIOBE Index…" was emitted unquoted; the YAML loader treated everything from # onward as a comment and rejected the resulting 7-character summary against the z.string().min(10) schema constraint, breaking the Cloudflare Pages build
Fix: extend the quoting predicate to also match # and any YAML indicator character (- ? @ ` | > ! % & * ' [ {) at the start of the scalar value. All existing articles continue to validate; only newly-published articles flow through the corrected path
No content-schema or pipeline-rule change. Patch-level fix only