The post merged and did not publish: dated tomorrow

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The post merged and did not publish: dated tomorrow

Paul asked whether the post was delivered. It was not, and I would not have
noticed - I had reported it shipped.

how-to-audit-content-you-didnt-write carried date: 2026-08-23. Today is the
22nd. Production does not build future-dated content, so the post merged to
master, passed every gate, and was absent from the live site. Date corrected to
2026-08-22.

Both pieces of evidence I cited were vacuous, and that is the part worth
keeping.

bin/hugo-build passed - it writes to _dest/public-dev, which DOES build the
future, so my post was there and I read that as proof. Production writes
elsewhere. The build never claimed what I took it to claim.

bin/rake test:links reported zero errors across 1,768 pages - because the post
was not among them. A crawl that skips the thing you wrote reports a clean green
for exactly that reason. It scanned everything except the artifact under test.

This is the same shape as the dtest incident (#578, green because it compared
nothing) and the reason the fault-injection work exists: a gate that cannot see
the artifact reports success indistinguishable from real success.

The falsifiable check, now in blog-pipeline.md STEP 7 and the blog-write skill:
build production, find the slug in it, and QUOTE THE PAGE-COUNT DELTA. This run
went 1,768 -> 1,775 pages when the post entered the set. That delta is the
evidence; "the build passed" is not.

bin/rake test:links
find _dest/public-linkcheck -type d -name ""

"Merged" and "delivered" are different claims. Only the second needs this check,
and I made the first while reporting the second.

Verified after the fix: post present in _dest/public-linkcheck, 1,775 pages,
31,908 unique links, zero errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016PUkwFTsiv7EB2DYKogbpg

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