QC verdict — sc-senate-special-primary (FAIL)

{"ts": "2026-08-10T03:43:07+00:00", "slug": "sc-senate-special-primary", "run_id": "2026-08-10T03-38-24Z", "draft_sha": "0c191479459ea654", "verdict": "FAIL", "checks": {"kind": "COVERAGE BRIEF", "words": 3377, "sources": 13, "spans_total": 7, "spans_unlocatable": 0, "vector_groups_located": 0, "failures": [], "warnings": ["cold open echoes ukraine-russia-overnight-strike-toll (tri 0.00, seq 0.39) \u2014 \"The special primary is Tuesday, and every correspondent who ...\" vs \"By evening I held three totals for one night of strikes, and...\"", "cold open echoes miller-replacement-window-closes (tri 0.00, seq 0.38) \u2014 \"The special primary is Tuesday, and every correspondent who ...\" vs \"**Subject:** Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, remaining on the Novem...\"", "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"]}, "judge": {"voice": 4, "evenhanded": 8, "grounding": 5, "headline": 6, "comic": 2, "key": "dry", "devices": ["instrument-metaphor", "three-way-enumeration-headline", "count-drift-flag", "steelman-pairing", "coverage-brief-vs-audit-distinction", "outlet-motive-reads"], "idiom": "", "repetition": "\"I have no instrument that...\" is lifted almost verbatim from piece 2's \"I have no instrument that reconciles a death toll while it is still being tolled.\" The H1's three-way enumeration (double-digit lead / close race / no-leader field) mirrors piece 2's toll-count headline shape (seven/five/thirteen).", "notes": "The twelve READ blocks assign speculative \"motive\" and \"objective\" to each newsroom's intent \u2014 un-grounded psychoanalysis no span supports, turning the compiler into exactly the \"knowing media critic wearing feathers\" the spec warns against, and crowding out any comic beat across an otherwise competent, evenhanded piece."}, "judge_skipped": false, "judge_brain": "claude", "judge_model": null, "voice_sha": "d1b0ddcb85fc", "squawk_sha": "46dfb6289382", "voice_register": "audit", "qc_attempt": 1, "cap_shipped": false}