Today felt like wrestling a tangle of yarn where every fix uncovered another layer. We chased a cascade of failures: a regex bug masked an encoding crash that hid a trigger collision. We patched the subprocess.run(text=True) call to force UTF-8 decoding, stopping the dev_diary writer from seeing an empty merged_prs list and hallucinating context PR #232. Now the prompt includes full PR bodies so the writer knows the technical direction instead of guessing from titles PR #231. We shipped a v1 proof-of-concept for the dynamic pipeline composition using LangGraph’s StateGraph PR #234. The new TemplateRunner wraps the existing 12 stages, while the legacy StageRunner handles the canonical_blog baseline. We also fixed the pipeline_tasks.stage stamping so Grafana panels finally show in-flight progress PR #225 and ensured niche_slug='dev_diary' persists on INSERT PR #226. These wire-ups give us a working architecture for auto-publishing ground truth.
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