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QC verdict — trump-cancels-iran-strikes (FAIL)

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  "ts": "2026-08-02T13:03:21+00:00",
  "slug": "trump-cancels-iran-strikes",
  "run_id": "2026-08-02T12-59-16Z",
  "draft_sha": "6eb8013a5ae242b4",
  "verdict": "FAIL",
  "checks": {
    "kind": "COVERAGE BRIEF",
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    "sources": 12,
    "spans_total": 2,
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    "failures": [
      "1/2 spans unlocatable (>20%) — grounding is broken",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_request\": We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, t..."
    ],
    "warnings": [
      "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"
    ]
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    "comic": 8,
    "key": "wry",
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      "arithmetic-as-truth-test",
      "mock-precision",
      "transcription-as-forensic-evidence",
      "flat-landing",
      "clerk-taxonomy-discipline"
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    "idiom": "the boy who cried wolf",
    "repetition": "none",
    "notes": "\"out of what I can only call reflex\" slightly winks at the idiom audit — the machine noticing its own effect rather than stumbling into truth. Drop the clause."
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