Round six validation — September 8, 2026

This batch contains exactly 50 distinct research changes: 20 new entries and 30 substantive updates. Separately, 23 assistant-added modern incident entries were removed. The public collection changes from 350 to 347 entries; no imported entry was removed.

  • Compared the final changelog against the pre-work SHA-256 baseline: exact equality between new files and new items, changed baseline files and updated items, and deleted baseline files and the 23 explicit removal records.
  • Verified 347 unique catalog records, exact people/Topics link coverage, required metadata and Updates navigation, citations, and resolving public internal links. No removed slug remains in public entry, index, map, script or catalog references outside preserved changelog history.
  • Reviewed the community and science narratives, all mystery/creature contributions, and source limitations. Corrected stale tavern title/lede and Allen/Barclay limits after research additions. A separate agent checked the Vineland article against its full contemporary report.
  • Source ledgers document inspected originals, attributed secondary accounts, access failures, geographic inferences and rejected leads. New wildman reports are presented as historical reporting, not independent confirmation of every allegation or a medical diagnosis.
  • Public-domain record previews were visually inspected by their researching agents; root additionally inspected the school appendix, original 1899 newspaper page and mobile illustration detail. Hosted PDF/image files were opened with document/image decoders to reject corrupt or disguised downloads. Provenance and rights bases accompany the records.
  • Repeated catalog generation produced identical output. Eight broad Topics groups preserve all entries; new unmapped categories fail generation rather than receiving a guessed classification. The removal-history fixture checked preserved titles/counts and failure on an unexplained absent entry.
  • Playwright desktop and 390 × 844 mobile checks passed: no horizontal overflow, one-column mobile lists, section jumps below the header, keyboard skip link, reduced-motion support and no console errors. The final changelog renders 50 research items with a separate removal section. Searching Vineland returns the new black-cat entry alongside existing matches.
  • Existing utility tests passed: 26 tests via node --test test/feeds.test.js accountability/pace.test.js.
  • Clean Jekyll build passed from tracked HEAD with only Pine Barrens and catalog-script changes overlaid. Built entry bytes match the final sources; all 347 records, original assets and required publication files exist, and all 23 deleted entries are absent. Excluded application source directories, TypeScript, SQL, source maps and the Pivot development journal are absent. The pre-existing public Pivot redirect remains.
  • Scoped git diff --check passed. Unrelated workspace changes are excluded from the commit.

Verification used local browsers and an isolated production build. Deployment follows the authorized push.