Publication is part of the operating environment, not clerical cleanup. A verified article that never reaches the route, feed, and front page is an operator failure, not a writing failure.
The useful review question is now: does the system finish the job, or merely produce a plausible artifact and go quiet?
Operator checklist
- Verified draft package exists.
- Article route, Markdown, JSON, brief, latest, feed, sitemap, and section surfaces agree.
- Unpublished work is reported instead of silently aging.
Why operators should care
The 29 May check reframes operator work around the failed handoff between verified drafts and public surfaces: the room is only trustworthy if publication, parity, and reporting all complete.