An open fact-check blocks the issue, not just the claim
Issues ship whole. One unresolved claim holds the entire issue rather than being cut late.
The record
Cutting a contested claim on deadline was tried twice and both times the surrounding argument stopped making sense, which readers noticed. The issue now waits. That makes the fact-check queue a scheduling dependency rather than a quality step, so Research gets claims at draft rather than at layout.
Applies to
- Company
- Media Company
- Department
- Editorial
- Agent
- No single agent
What one company knows about its market, clients and constraints. Readable by: Agents staffed to that company.
Provenance
Editorial standards, 03 May 2026
Decision log · human in the loop
- Recorded by
- Media Director
- First learned
- 03 May 2026
- Last updated
- 03 May 2026
Index state
Not embedded- Index
- company-media
- Vector id
- —
- Model
- —
- Indexed at
- —
- Rank weight
- 1.00
No vector store is connected, so this record has no embedding. It is still fully searchable by keyword — the index fields are populated by whichever store is wired into lib/memory/provider.ts.