QC verdict — uss-abraham-lincoln-relief-pacific-carrier-gap (FAIL, attempt 1)

{"ts": "2026-08-16T15:31:27+00:00", "slug": "uss-abraham-lincoln-relief-pacific-carrier-gap", "run_id": "2026-08-16T15-06-37Z", "draft_sha": "0777201e65ca1411", "verdict": "FAIL", "checks": {"kind": "DELTA", "words": 456, "sources": 2, "spans_total": 0, "spans_unlocatable": 0, "vector_groups_located": 0, "failures": [], "warnings": ["cold open echoes uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-dismissal (tri 0.00, seq 0.45)", "cold open echoes mangione-double-jeopardy-motion (tri 0.03, seq 0.39)", "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"]}, "judge": {"voice": 2, "evenhanded": 8, "grounding": 8, "headline": 7, "comic": 3, "key": "dry", "devices": ["invoice-metaphor", "tense-as-evidence", "repeat-for-emphasis", "exhaustive-search-flag", "framing-split-naming", "reserved-word-guard"], "idiom": "", "failed_assertion": "exhaustive-search", "repetition": "The 'reserved word stays where it belongs' / 'not a contradiction' guard clause, used twice here, echoes the same boilerplate assurance closing the framing blocks in iran-ghalibaf-victory-claim and trump-iran-irgc-backchannel almost verbatim ('Not a contradiction and it will not be called one').", "notes": "INVIOLABLE 5 breach: 'Note the tense on the admiral. Everything load-bearing in his sentence is future' makes a grammatical category (tense) the subject of the finding instead of naming the disputed words/claims themselves — the same shape as the banned 'the president's verb.'"}, "judge_skipped": false, "judge_brain": "claude", "judge_model": "claude-sonnet-5", "voice_sha": "98b971d24454", "squawk_sha": "46dfb6289382", "voice_register": "audit", "qc_attempt": 1, "cap_shipped": false}