site: copy edit — 0 pieces tightened, 1 factual wording mismatch resolved

daily-finds.log.md

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 - **mac-racken-bridge** was the fourth-ranked candidate and the closest call — a genuinely moving story with a clean hero. Held for one reason: the whole piece rests on Sergeant James Dougal MacRacken and the plaque's wording, and the sources for both are an Atlas Obscura entry and, presumably, the plaque itself. A review that cannot check a name and a unit number against anything but the entry it came from is a paraphrase, not a review. Worth graduating if the 315th Engineer Combat Battalion's records or a French municipal page can be found; a good candidate for a thin day with time to dig.
 - **patterns-in-nature-philip-ball** clears the bar comfortably and was held only because a book review wants the book, and this one was verified from the publisher's page rather than read.
 - **portraits-of-trees-chestnuts** and **maratac-deep-cover-clip-pouch** both hold up as finds; neither has enough beyond the find body to justify 300 more words.
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+## 2026-07-29 — copy edit
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+Fresh-eyes sonnet subagent over all 18 pieces of prose written this run (14 find bodies, 1 bundle blurb + intro, 3 review bodies). **No prose changes — fourth consecutive clean run — and, as on 07-28, the pass still earned its keep by catching something outside its own remit.**
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+The subagent measured rather than estimated: find bodies 62–79 words against the 40–90 budget, the bundle intro one sentence at 51 words, reviews at 406 / 426 / 431 including the lead blockquote (329 / 355 / 359 without) against 250–450. It swept all 18 files for ad-copy tells and found none.
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+**The catch.** It flagged a wording mismatch between two pieces about the same object and correctly declined to fix it: the `giant-d20-kit` **find** calls the numerals a "cut-and-stick sheet" while the **review** called it a "peel-and-place sheet". Its reasoning for not touching it was exactly right — deciding which phrase is correct is a factual call, not a prose one. Resolved in the main session in favour of the find: Lumin's own product listing says "Cut 'n' stick foam number sheet", so the review was wrong and is now aligned. One word, and the right process.
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+It also surfaced two borderline lines it chose not to touch and was right about both: `beakdown`'s "Loads instantly, no account, no install" (terse feature cadence, but every clause is a verifiable fact, and it matches the Maratac find's established rhythm), and the LEGO review's "a party trick with a very good punchline" (mildly evaluative, but anchored to a specific mechanism rather than floating).
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+**Spot-check honoured rather than skipped**, per the standing 07-25 instruction. Three pieces the subagent passed — `mac-racken-bridge`, `hot-hand-project` and `withsay` — were re-counted by hand in the main session at 76 / 79 / 62 words, matching the subagent's figures **exactly**, as did the bundle intro at 51. An independent grep for ad-copy tells across all 18 files returned nothing. The streak is real, not generous grading.
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+One format exception recorded so it is not re-litigated: `joke-broken-pizza` is 10 words against a 40–90 budget. The subagent flagged it, judged that padding a dad joke to 40 words would destroy it, and left it. Correct — the joke-find format has always been the setup and the punchline and nothing else.