What we shipped.

Follow-up to the 2026-10-09 overdue-posts investigation, issue #2 (Iceland Photo Map, proj_ab5ead538b5947e7) plus one leftover from #3.

The DeepSeek route eval (model_ab_eval --candidate) failed content_repair on both routes: Gemini passed the gate on 4 of 14 cases and DeepSeek on 1 of 14 (2026-10-09). The...

The Oct 9 Gemini cost review found 325 Flash calls ($19.43, 25% of the week's spend) with task: null in gemini_usage. All of them came from post-generation lineages (`ga...

Iceland Photo Map, 2026-10-08 (post_4f2cf81e5dd841f9): the comparison table was headed Google Maps | OsmAnd | Curated Waypoint Files. The last column was the business's own...

Iceland Photo Map, post_4f2cf81e5dd841f9 (2026-10-08): *"The free sample at /sample is five real waypoints from the catalog, in the same fo...

Iceland Photo Map (proj_ab5ead538b5947e7) lost two scheduled drafts on 2026-10-08 and 10-09 over "$14 per map". The price is in the static HTML of /maps/Waterfall.

Iceland Photo Map (proj_ab5ead538b5947e7) lost four drafts across two topics on 2026-10-08/09. All four ended archived_unsalvageable on the truth gate, with 35 blocking clai...

2026-10-08: a Vectra SEO scheduled post told its reader *"If you cannot point to a verifiable source for a claim, do not publish it."* The publish lint matched do not publish...

On 2026-10-09, 5 of 20 scheduled projects showed Scheduled post overdue. The scheduler had fired on time for every one. In each case the draft was held by a publish gate, fa...

PR #1819 added three details to the internal docs/traffic-ingest.md. None of them was on the public page senders read (/docs/provisioning#first-party-traffic, which the in-a...

Docs only. Came out of the tempkey / echothread integrations after #1817.

EchoThread's card showed 3,560 "Other visits (site logs)" over Oct 4-7. Nearly all of it was monitors, scanners, QA runs and redirect hops. EchoThread is fixing its own classifi...

POST /api/v1/projects/{id}/traffic/daily bodies are customer access-log rollups. They contain scanner probe paths such as /.htpasswd and /app/etc/local.xml as data. `A...

vectraseo-prod-stranded-posts has been in ALARM continuously since 2026-09-26 (gauge 5–7 on every sweep).

A site owner can consolidate one of our published posts into another and 301 the old URL to the survivor. One example is EchoThread post_8bc373fb1ee54d0b → `post_b1f4514dcf074...

Google Indexing API (Tier 2) has never fired on publish for any project. INDEXING_API_ENABLED=true is set on the API Lambda (api_stack.py), but publish-time URL_UPDATED ru...

The EchoThread drafts on 10-02 and 10-04 were held by our own gates. EchoThread's endpoint received nothing, because these posts were never sent. Two of the causes are on our side:

Follows #1801 (merged).

Follow-up to #1799 after checking the Alaska Road Trip and Emcognito cards.

sendant.io (site logs, no GA4) stopped showing Google Search traffic on its project card. The headline was 2 visits (site logs) for 1 of 28 logged days, and the 178 Search C...

Account keys (vsak_) span every project the owner has. The Search tab's site-logs "Create a key" link minted a key named after one site ("EchoThread site logs") that could act...

Connecting a site's own access logs (first-party traffic ingest) had no in-app surface, and once sendant.io's first CloudFront day landed the project card still read **"Search C...

Follow-up to #1771. A default DynamoDB GetItem/Query is eventually consistent. A read that lands milliseconds after a write can see the row as it was before the write, or no row...

Hardens the IndexNow settings endpoints added in #1765 and #1782.

Test-only PR. Adds 48 behavioral tests for backend/app/services/blog_service.py, covering uncovered error, fallback and budget-checkpoint branches that feed `_combined_post_st...

scripts/fix_malformed_site_urls.py only reads project #METADATA rows. Project proj_23c433aa19484c6e already had its sitemap_url corrected, but its monitor `mon_dcf0137d1...

Audit PR-10 (docs-coverage-audit.md §c): the public docs were one ~3,900-line SPA page with hash anchors, one indexable URL and no search.

QA follow-ups for #1765 (merged while QA was running). Each fix has a regression test that fails on current main.

QA follow-ups to #1770 (merged while QA was still running). Opened as a draft so it is not auto-merged before review.

Nightlamp bulk_publish_failed + pipeline_publish_partial_failed (high), 2026-10-04T00:08:03Z, project proj_d8a14f17a9b74602, job job_ddd3ae50e00542fb, post `post_22f8fa3...

Nightlamp's only unresolved issue cluster (26 issues, one per stack-dump line) was the hang_traceback dump from two phase_advance kills on 2026-10-04 (05:58Z, 06:43Z), both...

Requirement: every GitHub Actions job runs on the org's self-hosted runners.

recommendation_page_summary_lookup_failed has fired 6 times on the API Lambda since 2026-07-14. The latest was 2026-10-03T20:29:41Z on proj_97de1a48214244b9:

IndexNow (the Bing/Yandex ping in the default-on Tier 1 indexing signals) has never fired in production. Meanwhile the Settings toggle says "we … notify Bing & Yandex via IndexN...

Two production findings, investigated with read-only access (CloudWatch Logs Insights, one DynamoDB GetItem/Query, and a --dry-run of the backfill script).

Docs-only (PR-14 in the docs coverage audit, plus the Visibility/Ranks chapters). No backend behaviour changes.

Adds the PR-13 feature guides from the docs-coverage audit. These are /guides/ pages that double as landing pages, covering only features that are live in production:

Covers PR-9 and PR-12 from the docs coverage audit.

PR-11 from the public-docs coverage audit. Before this, llms.txt listed seven pages and none of the developer surface (no MCP, Provisioning API, Analytics API or agent feed),...

Adds customer-facing chapters to /docs (frontend/src/views/DocsView.vue), as new sections plus TOC/chapter entries, so the merge with the concurrent apiGroups rewrite stay...

The REST reference on /docs was a list kept by hand. It is now generated from FastAPI's route table, so a new route cannot ship without showing up there. This is PR-3 and PR-8...

Fixes every WRONG item the public-docs coverage audit found. I re-checked each one against origin/main before changing it. No backend behaviour changes. The only backend file...

Nightlamp opened a level=error, severity=high issue for a routine metric line from PipelineWorker:

https://vectraseo.com/docs lists the traffic:write scope but none of the endpoints it unlocks. A customer can mint the key and still not know what to call or send. The full co...

Production numbers for 2026-09-27 to 10-04 (ADR-0005, docs/adr/0005-pipeline-scale-spread-and-lanes.md):

vectraseo-prod-pipeline-worker-throttles went to ALARM on 2026-10-04 at 01:06Z. The first scheduler tick after #1737 deployed sent out all 19 catch-up GSC syncs at once. The p...

When a project has no usable GA4 (not connected, or ga4_traffic_summary with 0 sessions) but does push first-party traffic via POST /traffic/daily, the project card'...

The vectraseo-prod-api-lambda-p99-duration alarm (2026-10-03 23:51 UTC, p99 10.1–10.7s) traced to GET /projects/list-summary. Profiling 21 real projects read-only showed it...

After #1733 deployed, the traffic cards kept showing Search Console only, and two cards showed 0 visits once they synced.

vectraseo-prod-api-lambda-p99-duration fired at 23:51 UTC on 2026-10-03 (p99 10.1s, then 10.7s).

VectraSEO only learns about traffic by pulling GSC and GA4 over OAuth. sendant.io (proj_63b11d19aa2b4fd7) has neither, and it promises no analytics. This PR adds a second way...

The project card's Search Console block becomes a Traffic block:

Follow-up to #1729.

The pipeline worker hit its 900s Lambda limit 6 times between 2026-09-24 and 2026-10-01. There were none between Sep 6 and Sep 23. Each hit blocks that project's FIFO group for...

The daily post budget (_get_remaining_posts_budget) counts unarchived posts created since UTC midnight. When a late-evening run's post is regenerated, or replaced by a hel...

Since the capability gate (084ac618, 2026-09-21) went live, the truth first-pass rate fell from about 0.42 to 0.18. Among first-fail posts, regenerations went from 2 to 45. 15...

The 2026-10-03 canary_guardrail_breach alert for outline (day 2026-10-02) reported only publish_rate (0.906 vs 1.130). window_breach returns the first breaching metric,...

Restyles the owner-only /admin/signups page within the existing ops design language (--ops-* tokens, Fraunces, IBM Plex). Data flow, API calls and filter semantics are uncha...

Every backend test run made about 108 real outbound requests: example.com robots.txt and llms.txt, evil.com, Gemini (generateContent with a dummy key), Search Console, Shopify...

/admin/signups now shows who each account is and how far it got. Before, most rows read "Historical / unknown".

The vectraseo-prod-api-gateway-5xx alarm at 2026-10-02 17:27Z was one request: POST /projects/proj_23c433aa19484c6e/gsc/sitemap returned 502 (integration status 200, 0 t...

On 2026-10-02 the PipelineWorker logged sitemap_fetch_error for a project whose sitemap URL was saved as https:/uibin.orqan.xyz/sitemap.xml (one slash). Every run failed to...

Adds a refresh button to the /projects header, just left of New Project. Spec: docs/prd/projects-refresh-button.md, produced by spec-clarifier and passing its strict check.

post_34d7c1a4cd114be1 (Folio, "email cost calculator for multiple domains") stayed in review_required with 1 claim unconfirmed: *"The FolioInbox Studio plan accommodates up...

After 2026-09-23, Gemini spend per post went from about $0.18 to $0.76. DeepSeek only takes about $0.03 off each post. This week 61% of model calls went to the repair ladder, an...

learned_publish_constraints rows copy preferred_wording from the rejection that created them, and nothing ever refreshes it. When a destination's product changes, the row ke...