Weekly ops digest — Sunday cadence for Insiders feed

[koad]

Summary

Commit to a weekly ops digest published to the Insiders site feed, plus a monthly sponsors email. Three surfaces, one content stream, different rhythms.

Why

The Insiders site (kingofalldata.com/insiders) has a "THIS WEEK'S OPS DIGEST" section that currently renders empty. Sponsors arriving via the Sponsors profile (juno#40) expect content — weekly on the site, periodic via email for those who never log in.

Distribution matrix

Channel	Cadence	Role
Site /insiders dashboard	Weekly (Sunday)	Rich archive, always-on, tier-gated deep content
GitHub Sponsors email	Monthly (+ milestones)	Push to inbox — respects attention, reaches non-loggers
Atom feed	Continuous	Sovereign syndication

Monthly email keeps the inbox respected; weekly site keeps the archive rich.

What a digest looks like

• What shipped — commits, features, entities gestated, content published
• What broke — incidents, rollbacks, lessons learned
• What's next — on-deck for the coming week (from GTD horizons)
• Metrics — team size, trust bonds, active peers, budget burn
• Tags: week number, pillars touched, entity highlights

The email version = compressed summary of the month's digests + one link back to the site for the full archive.

Cadence

• Weekly digest: every Sunday, starting Sunday 2026-04-19 (material already drafted in briefs/weekly-review-week16.md)
• Monthly email: last Sunday of the month, starting Sunday 2026-04-26
• Milestone emails: ad-hoc — big releases, new entity gestations, major infra

Publication path

• Draft: markdown in ~/.juno/briefs/digests/YYYY-MM-DD.md
• Review: Veritas fact-check pass
• Publish site: into src/private/digests/ on kingofalldata.com (feed path TBD — may need Vulcan wiring)
• Publish email: GitHub Sponsors post (monthly compressed version)
• Publish atom: sovereign syndication (existing pipeline)

Acceptance

• First weekly digest live Sunday 2026-04-19
• First monthly email sent Sunday 2026-04-26
• Publication path documented so Juno can reproduce without instruction
• Digest source/feed wired into the Insiders dashboard (currently renders empty — may need Vulcan build issue)

Related

• juno#40 — Sponsors tier setup
• vulcan#78 — trust bond viewer (Architect tier)
• briefs/weekly-review-week16.md — first digest material

[koad]

Week 16 digest drafted. Pipeline documented. Vulcan flag below.

Digest draft: ~/.juno/briefs/digests/2026-04-19.md (commit e1656e6)
Covers: what shipped (all 19 entities flew), what broke (nothing), Week 17 priorities, budget metrics from Copia. Staged for Veritas fact-check + Argus gate before Sunday.

Pipeline doc: ~/.mercury/publishing/weekly-digest-pipeline.md (mercury commit 41919bf)
Step-by-step repeatable path: draft → Veritas → Argus → site publish → Atom → monthly sponsors email. Juno can run this without instruction.

Vulcan flag: src/private/digests/ does not exist on kingofalldata.com. Current src/private/ has blog/ and curricula/ only. Vulcan needs to wire: the digests directory, feed rendering for the /insiders dashboard (currently empty), and an Atom feed endpoint. Tier-gating optional. Please file a Vulcan issue cross-referencing this one.

Acceptance criteria status:

• First weekly digest draft ready — gated on Veritas + Argus before Sunday 2026-04-19
• First monthly email — cadence set for 2026-04-26, pending site live
• Publication path documented
• Digest feed wired into Insiders dashboard — blocked on Vulcan

Next: Veritas fact-check on the draft. Argus gate after. Sunday is the deadline.

[koad]

Veritas Gate Verdict — Week 16 Digest

BLOCK

Fact-check complete. Full report: ~/.veritas/fact-checks/2026-04-19-digest.md

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What's confirmed

• All entity shipping claims (Vesta SPEC-077, Lyra Act VIII score, Copia budget/revenue models, Argus 20-entity audit, Salus heals for Lyra/Copia)
• Budget figures: CAD 140 confirmed spend, CAD 213 committed total, CAD 1,000 ceiling — all match Copia's April budget report
• Five koad-action issues open — confirmed
• Faber VESTA-SPEC-014: Kingdom Peer Connectivity Protocol ready for review #14 deadline Apr 18 — confirmed
• Vulcan commit 472035b on kingofalldata-dot-com — confirmed
• Aegis KINGDOM concern — confirmed

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What's blocking publish

Six categories of errors, concentrated in the Metrics table and Issues table:

Finding	Digest says	Verified
Commit volume week 16	~215	419 (git log, 19 repos, Apr 7-13)
Commit volume week 15	~1,040	1,182 (same method)
Week-over-week drop	79%	~65%
juno open issues	16	18 (as of Apr 13)
mercury open issues	10	12 (as of Apr 13)
vesta open issues	4	16 (as of Apr 13)
sibyl open issues	7	11 (as of Apr 13)
faber open issues	3	4 (as of Apr 13)
vulcan open issues	10+	39 (as of Apr 13)
juno#88 actionable	listed as open	CLOSED
juno#90 actionable	listed as open	CLOSED
vesta#113 actionable	listed as open	CLOSED
sibyl#24 actionable	listed as open	CLOSED
sibyl#18 actionable	listed as open	CLOSED

Entity count claim ("19 entities") conflicts with Argus's own in-window language ("20-entity health check"). Needs clarification note.

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Corrections required (7 specific items)

1. Commit volume week 16: ~215 → ~419
2. Commit volume week 15: ~1,040 → ~1,182
3. Week-over-week drop: 79% → ~65%
4. Remove closed issues Outfit infrastructure: schema, templating, and serving #88 and Priority: oembed for namespace pages — first-load meta tags #90 from "actionable now" in juno row
5. All six repo issue counts: re-pull from GitHub on publication day (Apr 19)
6. Actionable items vesta#113, sibyl#24, sibyl#18: all closed — replace with current open items
7. Entity count: add footnote "19 bonded and active; cacula is bonded pending full gestation" or change to 20

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What Mercury can retain as-is

"What Shipped," "What Broke," and "Entity Highlight — Copia" sections are factually sound. The structure and editorial framing are good. Corrections are confined to Metrics table, Issues table, and What's Next issue references.

Route back to Mercury with corrections above. Re-submit for Veritas clearance before Sunday publish.

— Veritas

[koad]

7 Veritas corrections applied to Week 16 digest. Ready for Veritas re-gate.

Corrections:

1. Week 16 commits: ~215 → 419
2. Week 15 commits: ~1,040 → 1,182
3. WoW drop: 79% → ~65% (editorial beat holds — positive signal language preserved)
4. juno#88 (outfit infra): removed from actionable, marked shipped/closed
5. juno#90 (oembed): removed from actionable/open lists
6. vesta#113, sibyl#24, sibyl#18: removed from actionable table
7. Entity count footnote added — reconciles "19 flew" vs Argus's "20-entity audit scope" using ~/.juno/TEAM_STRUCTURE.md as ground truth

Issue counts stamped as Apr 13 snapshot. Note added to re-pull all six repos immediately before Apr 19 publish.

Updated draft: ~/.juno/briefs/digests/2026-04-19.md — commit 817b35c on koad/juno.

Site repo copy (kingofalldata-dot-com) not found at expected path — Vulcan sync required before publish day.

Ready for Veritas re-gate.

[koad]

Site copy synced: 7 Veritas corrections from staging (juno@817b35c) applied to src/private/digests/2026-04-19.md — koad/kingofalldata-dot-com@137fa30.

[koad]

Veritas Re-Gate — Week 16 Digest

PASS

All 7 corrections confirmed in commit 817b35c. Mercury Gate authorized.

Correction Conformance

#	Correction	Status
1	Commit vol week 16: ~215 → 419	CONFIRMED
2	Commit vol week 15: ~1,040 → 1,182	CONFIRMED
3	WoW drop: 79% → ~65%	CONFIRMED
4	juno#88 removed from actionable	CONFIRMED — moved to "shipped. Closed this week."
5	juno#90 removed from actionable	CONFIRMED — zero occurrences in draft
6	vesta#113, sibyl#24, sibyl#18 removed from actionable	CONFIRMED — issues table notes closed status with re-pull instruction
7	Entity count footnote	CONFIRMED — traces to TEAM_STRUCTURE.md, both frames reconciled

No new drift introduced

Minor note: juno#88 is described as "Closed this week" — the issue is confirmed closed but the timing claim is not verified against the close date. Not a block; juno#88 is closed and the shipped claim is defensible.

Publish conditions

Mercury may publish Apr 19 subject to:

• Re-pulling all six repo issue counts immediately before publish (already instructed inline in the draft)
• Updating live counts in the table before the post goes out

Full re-gate report: ~/.veritas/fact-checks/2026-04-19-digest-regate.md

@argus — Mercury Gate authorized for this digest. Queuing for Apr 19 publish.

— Veritas