Development log · August 2026
Owner-directed development: one focused change
The recurring MoreYears development loop remains paused after its completed drain queue. This owner-requested homepage enhancement is proceeding as one guarded, low-risk issue and will still be tested and checked in production before release.
The important guardrail
Product development can advance automatically when a change is low-risk and reversible. Editorial automation remains gated: code checks alone cannot approve medical claims, sources, or health advice.
Infrastructure identity, secrets, authentication, destructive data changes, paid services, and major architecture choices also stop for human approval.
Release history
Cycle by cycle
Newest first. Completed entries summarize changes checked in production; the current release candidate remains marked pending until its post-deployment verification finishes.
Making the evergreen longevity foundations guide unmistakable on Home
Issue #162 is implemented for review in PR #164.
- Replaces the small text-only callout with one prominent image-and-copy feature immediately after the lead story.
- Reuses the guide’s publication-owned 1,600 × 900 foundations artwork and responsive AVIF/WebP/JPEG assets without changing a medical claim.
- Makes the full feature one clear keyboard and pointer destination with descriptive alternative text, a 48-pixel CTA, responsive stacking and an image-failure fallback.
- Adds deterministic structure and style checks plus hosted desktop, mobile, narrow and forced-image-failure review coverage.
- Exact-head CI, hosted responsive inspection, merge, deployment and production verification remain pending.
- The recurring loop remains paused; this is a one-off owner instruction, not autonomous queue replenishment.
Covered studies from released evidence
Issue #152 is implemented for review in PR #161.
- Projects 133 deduplicated primary publications and governing syntheses connected to all 55 released stories.
- Separates canonical publication identity, publication state, study design, population or model, evidence maturity, measured result, interpretation, limitations, funding/conflicts and correction state.
- Adds deterministic design/population/outcome filters, normalized shareable URLs, no-match recovery and complete no-JavaScript records.
- Projection uses only governed released evidence; no new medical claim or recommendation is introduced.
- Exact-head CI, hosted responsive inspection, merge, deployment and production verification remain pending.
- Owner-requested drain queue has no queued work beyond active #152; no replenishment.
Covered clinical trials from released evidence
Issue #148 / PR #160 published 60 deduplicated registry records connected to 45 of 55 released stories. CI, responsive inspection, deployment, all changed production routes, GA4 and the custom 404 passed.
10 things you can do for a longer, healthier life
Issue #155 / PR #158 published the unranked evidence-first guide and its source-reviewed smoking-cessation mortality analysis. CI, responsive inspection, deployment and all changed production routes passed.
Discovery inventories repaired after the 54-story release
Issue #156 / PR #157 reconciled Latest, the Evidence Tracker, Research and the covered-interventions directory. Production passed at 54 stories and 49 approaches.
Falls and independence: STRIDE, LiFE and tailored Tai Ji Quan
Issue #144 is implemented on its governed branch; review continues in PR #154, which supersedes PR #153 at the same reviewed branch head after GitHub failed to register exact-head checks.
- Three research passes and 12 atomic claims were frozen before drafting.
- Three source-reviewed articles preserve distinct populations, comparators, fall outcomes, limits, funding/conflicts and safety context.
- Canonical projections now describe 54 stories, 21 Health & function stories and 49 covered approaches.
- Review refinement aligned category totals, recirculation, semantic dates, rendered illustration counts and the Cycle 71 responsive contract; it also added visible byline separation and article-specific failure-state evidence. A fresh exact-head CI rerun, complete responsive visual review, deployment and production verification remain pending.
Cycle 69 homepage discovery repaired
Production verification of issue #142 found its three metabolic-health analyses live across Latest, Topics and the evidence directories but absent from Home’s six-story grid. Repair issue #150 / PR #151 restored DPP/DPPOS, Look AHEAD and ACCORD to Home in newest-first order, retained exactly six cards and corrected the Home evidence-tracker count to 51. The bounded repair was merged, deployed and production-verified before normal roadmap work resumed.
Metabolic-health trials edition
Issue #142 / PR #149 published DPP/DPPOS, Look AHEAD and ACCORD analyses. Production verification found their Home discovery cards missing; issue #150 / PR #151 completed the bounded Cycle 70 repair.
Repairing the Cycle 67 Development queue snapshot
This bounded production repair addresses issue #146 through PR #147.
- Production verification found the Q3 report and all reader integrations live, but this page's ready-queue block still described completed Cycle 65 work.
- Replaces #123/#140 and the obsolete #138 review state with the exact untouched dependency-ready queue: #142, then #144.
- Adds deterministic assertions that reject completed, merged or actively repairing issues from the ready-queue cards.
- Leaves all 48 stories, the Q3 report and snapshot, medical content, analytics, routes, sitemap and reader integrations unchanged.
- Verification state: the production defect is reproduced and the bounded fix is prepared; exact-head CI, container, hosted responsive screenshots, accessibility, manual review, deployment and full Cycle 67 production re-verification remain pending.
Publishing a quarterly State of Human Longevity Evidence report
This reader-understanding increment addresses issue #140 through PR #145.
- Freezes a versioned 2026 Q3 snapshot from the canonical 48-story tracker and published-coverage manifests.
- Counts primary outcome, evidence design, topic, population, publication format and 83 explicitly overlapping measured-result assignments without converting frequency into an evidence score.
- Adds accessible tables, text equivalents, methodology, coverage limits and a distinct 1,600 × 900 publication-owned chart.
- Connects the report from Home, Research, Learn and the evidence tracker; #142 and #144 remain dependency-ready and untouched.
- Verification state: exact-head Quality #519, Growth #78, artifact-digest checks and responsive manual review passed; PR #145 deployed the report and reader integrations, but production verification found this page's ready-queue block still described completed Cycle 65 work. Issue #146 is the bounded release repair, and issue #140 remains incomplete until it deploys.
Giving the heat, cold and HBOT evidence edition distinct visual identities
This reader-comprehension increment addresses issue #123 through PR #143.
- Adds three distinct publication-owned originals for the sauna, cold-water and hyperbaric-oxygen stories without adding or strengthening any scientific claim.
- Keeps observational heat exposure, selected short-term physiology and isolated blood-cell biomarkers visually separate from causal, clinical, healthspan or lifespan outcomes.
- Extends the canonical nine-asset illustration manifest, responsive AVIF/WebP/JPEG formats, article discovery metadata, Home/Latest/Topics/category cards and evidence-before-art article figures.
- Leaves #140 and #142 dependency-ready; no other implementation is active.
- Verification state: Quality #509, exact-head deterministic, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual screenshot, deployment and production checks passed on August 25, 2026.
Turning released intervention coverage into a reader directory
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #138 through PR #141.
- Projects 48 released evidence rows into 43 canonical intervention or exposure records without inferring from headlines or general knowledge.
- Keeps population, evidence design, measured outcome, released bottom line, explicit not-shown boundary and verification date attached to every linked story.
- Adds shareable category and evidence-design filters, honest no-match recovery, browser-history support and complete no-JavaScript output.
- Integrates the reader directory from Interventions, Research and Learn while keeping the fixture preview secondary; #123 and #140 remain ready and untouched.
- Verification state: Quality #498, exact-head deterministic, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual screenshot, deployment and production checks passed on August 25, 2026.
Turning 48 released stories into a filterable human-longevity evidence tracker
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #135.
- Evolves Evidence at a glance in place so every canonical released story appears exactly once across five primary outcome groups.
- Adds shareable progressive filters for outcome, evidence design, population or model, topic category and measured result while preserving all stories without JavaScript.
- Keeps population, design, measured outcomes, released bottom line, explicit boundary and verification date together; it adds no ranking, score, recommendation or new medical claim.
- Connects the tracker from Home, Learn, Research, Interventions, Aging Biology and Start Here; #138 and #123 remain dependency-ready.
- Verification state: Quality #485, exact-head deterministic, container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual screenshot, deployment and production checks passed on August 25, 2026.
Putting cancer-screening benefits and harms in the same frame
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #127 through PR #136.
- Completes three separated evidence-review passes, then freezes 18 atomic claims across NordICC colonoscopy, NLST low-dose CT and Rotterdam ERSPC PSA screening.
- Publishes three reader-facing analyses that keep invitation versus participation, selected eligibility, cancer-specific mortality, false positives, overdiagnosis and all-cause survival separate.
- Raises the library from 45 to 48 stories and integrates the edition across Home, Latest, Topics, the 17-story Health & function hub, Research, Interventions, Aging Biology, Evidence at a glance and the canonical/news sitemaps.
- Adds three distinct 1,200-pixel publication-owned graphics and preserves Lois Rune, publisher, article image, AI-disclosure and sitewide GA4 metadata.
- Verification state: the original release and bounded Interventions-count repair passed exact-head CI, responsive review, deployment and production checks on August 24, 2026.
Preparing the publication for search, authority and audience growth
This manually directed launch-readiness increment addresses issue #129.
- Limits canonical and news sitemaps to genuine reporting and public reader destinations while marking preview, workflow, development and demonstration routes
noindex,follow. - Adds Lois Rune as the visible and structured author of all 45 stories, publishes her author profile and AI-assistance disclosure, and completes publisher and image metadata.
- Gives every story a relevant publication-owned image at least 1,200 pixels wide, preserving evidence-safe artwork and scientific boundaries.
- Adds privacy-conscious analytics hooks, newsletter launch-list capture, accurate modification dates, a two-day news sitemap and deterministic launch-readiness validation.
- Verification state: complete local deterministic validation passes. Exact-head container, hosted responsive, screenshot, deployment, production and Search Console submission checks remain pending.
- Limits canonical and news sitemaps to genuine reporting and public reader destinations while marking preview, workflow, development and demonstration routes
Testing emerging supplement claims against human outcomes
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #121 through PR #128.
- Completes three separated evidence-review passes before prose, then freezes 18 atomic claims and 18 scoped assessments for spermidine, urolithin A and GlyNAC.
- Adds three reader-facing stories that lead with null primary outcomes, small samples, endpoint hierarchy and product-specific limits—not supplement marketing.
- Raises the library from 42 to 45 stories and integrates the edition across Home, Latest, Topics, the 17-story Drugs & supplements hub, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Start Here, Evidence at a glance, sitemap and recirculation.
- Verification state: Quality #447, exact-head deterministic, production-container, HTTP/custom-404, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual 1280/390/320 screenshot review, deployment and production checks passed; the release was verified on August 5, 2026.
Turning site language into reasons to read
This reader-comprehension increment addresses issue #125 through PR #126.
- Replaces generic process and system headings with concrete questions, findings and reader benefits across Home, Latest, Topics, Start Here, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn and four category hubs.
- Gives all 42 released articles topic-specific related-reading and recirculation titles instead of “Continue through the knowledge system” and “Keep reading.”
- Preserves canonical story headlines, medical and scientific claims, citations, evidence scope, navigation targets, metadata, ordering and the 42-story manifest.
- Adds deterministic rejection of the retired phrases plus hosted desktop, mobile and narrow evidence across every changed route; exact-head CI, screenshot review, deployment and production verification passed at 8:20 a.m. MDT on August 4, 2026.
Making the complete story archive easier to narrow
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #119 through PR #124.
- Adds topic, measured-outcome and evidence-design controls across all 42 released stories while preserving newest-first order and every canonical card.
- Uses a versioned projection derived from released metadata, AND-between-dimensions filtering, exact result counts, shareable query parameters, safe normalization, a clear-all action and an honest no-match recovery path.
- Preserves progressive enhancement: without JavaScript, every story remains visible and readable.
- Verification state: Quality #426, deterministic, container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual 1280/390/320 screenshot review, deployment and production checks passed; the release was verified at 6:12 a.m. MDT on August 4, 2026.
Separating heat, cold and hyperbaric-oxygen signals from longevity claims
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #117 through PR #122.
- Prepares three reader-facing stories on sauna and mortality associations, cold-water thermogenesis, and hyperbaric-oxygen blood-cell biomarkers.
- Separates observational association from causation; physiology and biomarker changes from clinical outcomes; and selected cell measurements from whole-body aging, healthspan or lifespan.
- Commits two dated research passes before prose, verified primary identifiers, counterevidence, funding and conflicts, current CDC/FDA safety context, 18 atomic claims and 18 evidence assessments.
- Raises the candidate library from 39 to 42 stories, publishes a Measuring aging category hub, and expands Evidence at a glance from 18 to 21 outcome comparisons.
- Verification state: exact-head deterministic, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual 1280/390/320 screenshot review, deployment and changed-route production checks passed; the release was verified at 1:33 a.m. MDT on August 4, 2026.
Expanding Start Here with outcome-led reading paths
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #115 through PR #120.
- Adds heart and circulation, brain and cognition, and strength, bones and independence paths alongside the four released orientation paths.
- Uses only already reviewed coverage and keeps cardiovascular events, mortality, prevention setting, cognitive tests, dementia outcomes, subgroup findings, bone density, fractures, mobility and physical function visibly distinct.
- Connects the seven-path experience from Home, Latest and relevant category hubs without displacing newest or complete-story discovery.
- Verification state: Quality #394, exact-head deterministic, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual 1280/390/320 screenshot review, deployment and changed-route production checks passed; the release was verified at 8:09 p.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Preparing an ASPREE aspirin and healthy-aging evidence edition
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #113 through PR #118.
- Prepares bounded reporting on disability-free survival, cardiovascular events versus major bleeding, and mortality/cancer outcomes across ASPREE and ASPREE-XT.
- Separates primary from secondary prevention; composite outcomes from components; cancer incidence from cancer mortality; and randomized treatment from post-trial observational follow-up.
- Commits two dated research passes before prose, 9 verified sources, 21 atomic claims and 21 evidence assessments, plus current FDA and USPSTF context.
- Raises the candidate library from 36 to 39 stories and integrates all three across Home, Latest, Topics, Drugs & supplements, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, Evidence at a glance, sitemap and recirculation.
- Verification state: Quality #388, exact-head deterministic, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, manual 1280/390/320 screenshot review, deployment and changed-route production checks passed; the release was verified at 6:15 p.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Expanded evidence-safe illustrations to the sleep edition
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #111; released through PR #116.
- Adds three distinct publication-owned illustrations to the CBT-I, CPAP and melatonin stories without changing a medical claim, source, category, title, deck, evidence scope, story order or the 36-story count.
- Reuses each canonical asset on its article plus Home, Latest, Topics and the relevant category hub, while keeping evidence boxes ahead of artwork and labeling every article image as editorial illustration—not evidence.
- Extends the versioned manifest to six assets, records creation and rights provenance, preserves responsive AVIF/WebP/JPEG formats, intrinsic dimensions and below-fold lazy loading, and adds 16 deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Verification state: Quality #361, exact-head repository, production-container, hosted responsive, accessibility, deployment and production checks passed; the release was verified at 3:31 p.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Published a men’s healthy-aging testosterone evidence edition
This source-reviewed content release addresses issue #109 through PR #114.
- Published bounded reporting on TRAVERSE cardiovascular noninferiority, TRAVERSE fracture outcomes, and Testosterone Trials physical-function results.
- Preserved indication, formulation, population, primary-versus-secondary outcome, noninferiority, bone-density surrogate, clinical fracture, safety, regulatory, anti-aging, healthspan and lifespan boundaries in 22 atomic claims.
- Raised the canonical library from 33 to 36 stories and integrated the edition across reader discovery, categories, evidence records and recirculation.
- Verification state: exact-head repository, editorial, container, responsive visual, accessibility, deployment and changed-route production checks passed at 1:16 p.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Creating an outcome-first evidence comparison guide
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #107 through PR #112.
- Adds an indexable Evidence at a glance guide covering 15 source-reviewed stories in five outcome groups.
- Keeps intervention, population or model, study design, measured outcome, released bottom line, evidence scope, verification date, and explicit boundary together.
- Uses canonical released metadata only; it adds no evidence score, ranking, recommendation, or new medical claim.
- Integrates the guide into Home, Learn, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, sitemap, container smoke checks, and hosted responsive QA.
- Verification state: full CI and manual review of 53 responsive screenshots passed; all integrations, story links, metadata, the custom 404, deployment, and production checks passed at 9:59 a.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Publishing a sleep and circadian-health evidence edition
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #105 through PR #110.
- Adds bounded reporting on CBT-I for later-life insomnia, SAVE and ISAACC CPAP cardiovascular outcomes, and product-specific melatonin sleep evidence.
- Preserves sleep, symptom, cardiovascular, safety, regulatory, biological-aging, healthspan and lifespan boundaries in 15 atomic claims.
- Documents three separated research passes, verified primary identifiers, counterevidence, absolute outcomes, funding/conflicts and ten deterministic mutation rejections.
- Raises the canonical library from 30 to 33 stories and integrates the edition across Home, Latest, Topics, three category hubs, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, sitemap and recirculation.
- Verification state: Quality #352, responsive visual inspection, accessibility, production-container, HTTP/custom-404, deployment, and production checks passed; the release was verified at 4:06 a.m. MDT on August 3, 2026.
Publishing an immune-aging and adult-vaccination evidence edition
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #103 through PR #108.
- Adds bounded reporting on shingles vaccination and non-randomized dementia findings, high-dose influenza vaccination in older adults, and product-specific RSV vaccine trials.
- Preserves vaccine product, study design, population, endpoint, absolute-versus-relative effect, immunogenicity, guidance, safety, mortality, healthspan and lifespan boundaries in 19 atomic claims.
- Documents three research passes before prose, verified primary identifiers and current public-health/regulatory sources, funding/conflicts, 13 rejection fixtures, and standing publication authorization.
- Raises the canonical library from 27 to 30 stories and integrates the edition across Home, Latest, Topics, Health & function, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, sitemap, recirculation and hosted responsive QA.
- Verification state: the complete exact-head CI, production-container, HTTP/custom-404, responsive visual, accessibility, deployment, and production checks passed; the release was verified at 9:13 p.m. MDT on August 2, 2026.
Adding an evidence-safe editorial illustration pilot
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #101 through PR #106.
- Adds three publication-owned originals for FINGER, MIND, and ACTIVE, with responsive AVIF/WebP variants and JPEG fallbacks.
- Reuses each visual on its article, Home, Latest, Topics, and relevant category hub while preserving the 27-story order, counts, claims, sources, evidence boxes, and recirculation.
- Captions identify editorial illustration—not a measured result or scientific evidence—and the manifest records identity, provenance, rights, status, alt, credit, dimensions, formats, loading, dates, and non-evidence boundaries.
- Adds manifest/render validation, eleven rejection fixtures, and hosted image-loading, intrinsic-size, responsive, accessibility, console, clipping, and overflow checks.
- Verification state: Quality #324, responsive visual inspection, accessibility, production-container, deployment, and production checks passed; the release was verified at 4:41 p.m. MDT on August 2, 2026.
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Preparing three women’s healthy-aging evidence stories
This source-reviewed content increment addresses issue #97 through PR #104.
- Adds bounded reporting on menopausal hormone therapy and WHI, zoledronic-acid fracture prevention in HORIZON, and the small supervised LIFTMOR resistance-training trial.
- Preserves formulation, uterus status, symptom, disease, BMD, fracture, function, safety, mortality, healthspan, lifespan, funding, and correction boundaries in 21 atomic claims.
- Documents three research passes before prose, a versioned evidence bundle, 15 rejection fixtures, 27-story discovery integration, and responsive hosted-QA coverage.
- Review refinements aligned four stale Cycle 47/site-inventory assertions, then corrected two category-hub count attributes that still exposed the prior 24-story manifest values.
- Verification state: Quality #320, responsive visual inspection, accessibility, deployment, and production checks passed; the release was verified at 3:08 p.m. MDT on August 2, 2026.
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Created a guided Start Here path through published coverage
This reader-discovery increment addresses issue #95 through PR #102.
- Adds four short paths for readers new to longevity science, everyday-life questions, drugs and supplements, and experimental science or aging measurements.
- Connects already-released guides, topic hubs, and source-reviewed stories with an explicit reason, format, and evidence scope for every ordered step plus a clear archive or category exit.
- Places the guide after stories and topic discovery on Home and connects it from Learn without removing or demoting the eight existing research-literacy guides.
- Adds a versioned reading-path map, sequence-not-ranking and medical-advice boundaries, eleven rejection fixtures, sitemap and container coverage, and hosted desktop/mobile/narrow review; #97 and #101 remain dependency ready.
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Repaired the stale story total on Latest
This bounded release repair addresses issue #99 through PR #100.
- Corrects the current Latest introduction from twenty-one to twenty-four source-reviewed articles so it agrees with the released manifest, header status, machine-readable count, and 24 rendered archive cards.
- Adds a manifest-derived written-count check and strengthens the visible-count rejection fixture so future story editions cannot leave the reader-facing archive prose behind.
- Preserves article copy, medical claims, sources, categories, recirculation, navigation, and historical Development counts; #95 and #97 remain the dependency-ready queue.
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Published three source-reviewed cognitive-aging stories
This release addresses issue #93 through PR #98.
- Publishes bounded reporting on the FINGER multidomain program, the randomized MIND diet trial, and ACTIVE cognitive training, raising the real-story library from twenty-one to twenty-four.
- Keeps cognitive-test performance, MRI measures, daily function, claims-diagnosed dementia, adverse events, mortality, healthspan, and lifespan as separate outcomes rather than one “brain health” verdict.
- Preserves three research passes, fourteen verified source records, nine study records, three trial records, fifteen atomic claims, fifteen evidence assessments, funding/conflict context, correction state, and the published ACTIVE critique-and-response dispute.
- Integrates the stories into Home, Latest, Topics, category hubs, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, sitemap, recirculation, container routes, and hosted desktop/mobile/narrow QA; exact-head review, deployment, and production verification passed.
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Made a real evergreen explainer visual, scannable, and media-ready
This release candidate addresses issue #91 through PR #96.
- Adds a category/content/evidence context row, claim-linked takeaways, a know/do-not-know boundary, an outcome-specific evidence matrix, and a semantic population → outcome → limit figure to the source-reviewed exercise explainer.
- Preserves the existing scientific body, evidence box, sources, disclosures, history, and next reads while mapping every new summary to the canonical four exercise claims and five sources.
- Defines and validates provider-independent draft states for video, full narration, and short audio summaries, with separate scientific, editorial, accessibility, provenance, transcript, human-approval, publication, correction, withdrawal, regeneration, and supersession gates.
- Publishes no media, provider connection, player, download, “coming soon” promise, ranking, recommendation, or new medical claim; exact-head deterministic, container, responsive, accessibility, console, and visual review remain required.
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Created reader-first category hubs for published coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #89 through PR #94.
- Adds dedicated Everyday foundations, Drugs & supplements, and Health & function hubs with a reader question, newest coverage, complete manifest-derived story list, evidence scope, and direct paths to Topics and Latest.
- Links eligible Topics headings and story counts to the hubs while keeping the two single-story categories honestly on the index, without padded destinations or fixture/process material.
- Adds a versioned category projection, six rejection fixtures, deterministic route/count/order/metadata agreement, sitemap and production-route coverage, and hosted desktop/mobile/narrow capture.
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Connected every published story to useful next reads
This release candidate addresses issue #85 through PR #92.
- Adds three transparent next reads to each of twenty-one source-reviewed stories, with a plain-language relationship reason, format, category, evidence scope, and editorial boundary.
- Stores sixty-three current relationships in a versioned map with independent provenance, editorial, correction, and history state; deterministic checks reject self-links, duplicates, dangling or fixture targets, stale records, and page-to-data disagreement.
- Makes each Topics category expose its exact story count, newest coverage, and path to the complete Latest archive, with shared responsive styling and hosted Chromium QA.
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Prepared a seventh edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #81 through PR #90.
- Prepares a VITAL vitamin D claim check, a COSMOS multivitamin research analysis, and a resveratrol evidence explainer that separates mechanisms, biomarkers, disease outcomes, cognition, function, safety, healthspan, and lifespan.
- Records three separate research passes, verified primary and registry identifiers, funding and product provision, corrections, explicit population and formulation boundaries, claim-scoped evidence roles, and twelve deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Raises the real-story library from eighteen to twenty-one and connects the edition to Home, Latest, Topics, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, sitemap, container routes, and hosted responsive QA.
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Repairing stale published-story counters
This bounded release repair addresses issue #87 through PR #88.
- Production verification after the sixth-edition deployment found that the three new stories and all eighteen links were live, while Home, Latest, and Topics still announced a fifteen-story library.
- Corrects the visible counters to eighteen and makes deterministic validation compare Home, Latest, and Topics count labels with the canonical published-coverage manifest.
- Leaves article prose, sources, categories, navigation, and the ready #81/#85 queue unchanged.
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Prepared a sixth edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #79 through PR #86.
- Prepares a SPRINT analysis that separates cardiovascular, mortality, cognition, safety, and population limits; a statin explainer that distinguishes secondary from late-life primary prevention; and an omega-3 claim check that keeps formulations, populations, comparators, and outcomes distinct.
- Records three separate research passes, 18 canonical sources, 11 studies, seven trials, nine atomic claims, absolute outcomes, correction and registry checks, funding and conflicts, safety context, and explicit non-longevity boundaries.
- Raises the real-story library from fifteen to eighteen and connects all three stories to Home, Latest, Topics, Interventions, Aging Biology, Research, Learn, sitemap, deterministic validation, container routes, and hosted responsive QA.
- Post-deployment verification found that Home, Latest, and Topics still displayed fifteen-story counters; Cycle 40 records the bounded repair before issue #79 can be completed.
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Put published stories first
This release candidate addresses issue #83 through PR #84.
- Reorders Home around a real featured story, six recent stories, and five plain-language topic categories before reader education and process links.
- Makes Latest the complete newest-first archive and populates Topics with all fifteen sourced stories, category counts, evidence scope, and direct reading paths.
- Reduces primary navigation to five reader destinations and adds a versioned coverage manifest with deterministic disagreement and rejection fixtures.
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Prepared a fifth edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #77 through PR #82.
- Prepares an ACHIEVE hearing-and-cognition analysis led by the null overall result, a time-restricted-eating explainer with comparator-specific findings and both TREAT corrections, and a creatine brief that separates training outcomes from longevity.
- Records three separate research passes, 16 canonical sources, nine atomic claims, correction history, subgroup limits, conflicts and funding, safety and regulatory context, and an explicit unavailable creatine disclosure field.
- Connects all three stories to Latest, the homepage, category hubs, topics, guides, sitemap, deterministic validation, container route tests, and hosted responsive screenshot review.
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Prepared a fourth edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #75 through PR #80.
- Publishes a functional-outcome explainer on physical activity and late-life mobility, a SELECT analysis that separates cardiovascular benefit from anti-aging claims, and a claim check on NAD precursor supplements.
- Records three separate research passes, primary identifiers, correction checks, negative findings, sponsor and product-supply disclosures, current regulatory context, and claim-by-claim evidence boundaries.
- Connects all three stories to Latest, the homepage, category hubs, topics, guides, sitemap, deterministic validation, container smoke tests, and hosted responsive screenshot review.
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Prepared a third edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #73 through PR #78.
- Publishes an evidence explainer on sleep and healthy aging, a correction-aware analysis of Mediterranean dietary evidence and PREDIMED, and a metformin analysis that separates approved diabetes use from unproven healthy-aging claims.
- Records discovery, counterevidence and claim-level integration separately, with stable source, study, trial, claim, assessment, relationship, provenance, correction and history records.
- Connects all three stories to Latest, the homepage, category hubs, topics, guides, sitemap, deterministic validation, container smoke tests, and hosted responsive screenshot review.
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Prepared a second edition of sourced longevity coverage
This release candidate addresses issue #71 through PR #76.
- Publishes a CALERIE calorie-restriction Research Brief, a human-senolytic-evidence News Analysis, and an epigenetic-clock Explainer with explicit population, evidence maturity, outcomes, limitations, safety, conflicts, and claim boundaries.
- Records three separate research passes and traceable PMID, PMCID, DOI, NCT, correction, and DailyMed identifiers in a versioned real-record bundle.
- Connects all three stories to Latest, the homepage, category hubs, guides, sitemap, deterministic validation, container smoke tests, and responsive screenshot review.
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Taught readers how methods and models limit a claim
This release candidate addresses issue #67 through PR #74.
- Publishes complete guides to research methods and model-to-human translation, organized around practical questions readers can ask of a headline or evidence box.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent research-literacy contract with fictional non-medical records, eleven independent dimensions, explicit unknown states, and twenty-two deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Connects Learn, Research, evidence, article, study, trial, glossary, and orientation routes while prohibiting scores, real-record assessment, ingestion, recommendations, scheduling, and publication.
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Made updates, corrections, and record history understandable
This release candidate addresses issue #65 through PR #72.
- Adds an Updates and history center plus a non-medical record demonstration that separates clarifications, corrections, source updates, status changes, retractions, withdrawals, editorial notes, and product changes.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent update-ledger projection with prior and current states, affected routes, source verification, reviewer decisions, append-only history, honest unknown states, and twenty-four deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Connects the homepage trust area, corrections policy, provenance, record history, monitoring, editorial workflows, topic and article demonstrations while clearly stating that live monitoring, automatic mutation, notification, and publication have not launched.
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Prepared the first three sourced longevity stories
This approved release candidate addresses issue #69 through PR #70.
- Prepares source-reviewed coverage of the ER-100 partial-reprogramming trial, PEARL rapamycin results, and exercise evidence for healthy aging with explicit population, model, evidence maturity, limitations, safety, conflicts, and source roles.
- Records three separate research passes plus verified DOI, PMID, NCT, regulatory and guidance identifiers in connected article, topic, study, trial, claim, source, provenance, and relationship records.
- Records David’s July 31 publication approval, rechecks source and correction status, and makes all three routes indexable and reachable from the homepage, Latest, and relevant category pages.
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Demonstrated concise Signals and evidence-safe Daily Briefings
This release candidate addresses issue #63 through PR #68.
- Adds two fixture-only formats showing how small developments stay proportionate and grouped updates keep independent evidence, sources, corrections, histories, and next actions.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent editorial-formats contract with explicit grouping and non-execution boundaries plus deterministic rejection cases.
- Connects Latest, the homepage, the full article demonstration, and social-signal discovery while making clear that regular reporting, monitoring, scheduling, and daily delivery have not launched.
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Mapped the longevity industry without turning activity into evidence
This release candidate addresses issue #61 through PR #66.
- Adds a fixture-only Industry orientation spanning organizations, programs, deals, regulation, people, clinics, commercial claims, reporting, disclosures, and evidence boundaries.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent Industry projection with eleven independent dimensions and nineteen deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Connects the homepage, organization and researcher directories, provenance, history, claims, Search readiness, and editorial standards while keeping Industry out of primary navigation until verified real records make that destination useful.
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Expanded Learn from evidence decoding to reader orientation
This release candidate addresses issue #59 through PR #64.
- Adds Longevity 101, a controlled plain-language glossary, and a general safety-and-scam literacy framework as three connected reader routes.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent reader-glossary contract with stable terms, aliases, boundaries, provenance, honest states, and deterministic rejection fixtures.
- Connects the new orientation from the Learn collection and existing evidence, clinical-trial, and biomarker guides without evaluating a real intervention, product, company, or claim.
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Made source intake and identifier checks inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #55 through PR #62.
- Adds two fictional, non-medical demonstrations that separate discovery, source classification, deduplication, identifier normalization, identity matching, and human review routing.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent pre-ingestion contract with exact, ambiguous, no-match, invalid, unavailable, stale, corrected, retracted, and rejected states.
- Adds deterministic rejection fixtures and connects intake from provenance, history, monitoring, Research, Studies, and Trials without calling an external API or enabling publication.
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Made evidence review and human approval inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #53 through PR #60.
- Adds two fictional, non-medical workflow demonstrations that separate source checks, scoped evidence review, revision, editorial decisions, and final human publication eligibility.
- Defines a versioned, storage-independent workflow contract with explicit role, decision, eligibility, provenance, correction, honest-state, and append-only history boundaries.
- Adds deterministic rejection fixtures and connects the workflow from editorial, article, claim, provenance, history, and corrections routes without enabling a CMS or publisher.
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Closed an ISO calendar-date validation gap
This repair release candidate addresses issue #57 through PR #58.
- Rejects calendar-impossible ISO-looking dates before JavaScript can normalize them into a different real date.
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Covers the rollover case with a deterministic
2026-02-30fixture while preserving valid leap-day, ordinary, UTC, and offset date-time values. - Leaves the production JSON-LD graphs, canonical URLs, visible reader content, services, and publication boundaries unchanged.
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Made fixture and evidence boundaries readable by machines
This release candidate addresses issue #51 through PR #56.
- Adds a versioned, storage-independent structured-metadata contract for conservative Schema.org page, entity, identity, date, role, provenance, and relationship mappings.
- Adds fixture-only JSON-LD to the article-format, living-topic, and Research routes while keeping evidence assessment, development stage, editorial state, correction state, and fixture status independent.
- Adds deterministic rejection fixtures for duplicate or dangling identities, unsupported schema, canonical and date mismatches, missing provenance, visible-copy disagreement, false unknowns, and prohibited rating or medical shortcuts.
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Made material source-status changes traceable
This release candidate addresses issue #49 through PR #54.
- Adds a fixture-only material-status monitoring demonstration that follows detection, identifier matching, verification, affected-record review, and editorial disposition.
- Keeps source status, match confidence, verification, correction state, affected records, provenance, and history independent without a truth, evidence, or credibility score.
- Adds a versioned monitoring contract, seventeen deterministic rejection fixtures, Corrections, Editorial standards, provenance, history, Research, and Search integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and responsive QA.
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Separated social attention from scientific evidence
This release candidate addresses issue #47 through PR #52.
- Adds a fixture-only social-signal discovery demonstration that follows observation, clustering, triage, source verification, and editorial disposition.
- Keeps discussion level, scientific importance, source role, verification, correction state, provenance, and history independent without an engagement-derived score.
- Adds a versioned discovery projection contract, sixteen deterministic rejection fixtures, Latest, Research, Search, and Editorial standards integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Made article connections transparent and inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #45 through PR #50.
- Adds a fixture-only connected-coverage demonstration that explains why an article points to each durable record.
- Keeps reports-on, status-update, timeline-event, curated, current, historical, corrected, superseded, unavailable, unknown, and not-assessed states distinct.
- Adds a versioned recirculation contract, fifteen deterministic rejection fixtures, Latest, Research, Search, article, and topic integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Made claim-to-evidence relationships inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #43 through PR #48.
- Adds a fixture-only claim-to-evidence demonstration with a precisely scoped fictional claim and four distinct evidence relationships.
- Keeps support, contradiction, indirect evidence, insufficiency, study design, population, outcome, limitations, provenance, confidence, and history separate without a composite score.
- Adds a versioned projection contract, fourteen deterministic rejection fixtures, Research, Search, article, and topic integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Made organization and researcher relationships inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #41 through PR #46.
- Adds fixture-only organization and researcher directory demonstrations using fictional, non-medical records.
- Keeps identity, aliases, programs, dated roles, affiliations, authorship, disclosures, provenance, reporting confidence, corrections, and evidence boundaries independent.
- Adds a versioned directory projection contract, deterministic rejection fixtures, Research, Search, trust, and discovery integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Made source provenance and record history inspectable
This release candidate addresses issue #39 through PR #44.
- Adds fixture-only source-provenance and append-only record-history demonstrations using fictional, non-medical records.
- Keeps source identity, role, verification dates, confidence, editorial status, validity windows, corrections, supersessions, and retractions independent.
- Adds a versioned projection contract, deterministic negative fixtures, Research and trust-center integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Separated study reporting from trial operations
This release candidate addresses issue #37 through PR #42.
- Adds distinct fixture-only study-library and clinical-trial tracker demonstrations that explain what each record can show.
- Keeps study design, publication state, population, outcomes, trial phase, operational status, results availability, evidence, and provenance independent.
- Adds a storage-independent tracker contract, deterministic negative fixtures, separate linked study and publication identities, Research and discovery integration, metadata, sitemap, container coverage, and responsive QA.
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Demonstrated an evidence-aware intervention directory
This release candidate addresses issue #35 through PR #40.
- Adds a complete non-medical directory-format preview with one fixture record and ten visibly independent questions.
- Defines canonical categories, aliases, provenance thresholds, neutral grouping and sorting, stable URLs, and honest empty, unknown, not-assessed, unavailable, and mixed states.
- Adds deterministic positive and negative fixtures, Interventions integration, metadata, sitemap, container smoke coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Demonstrated how a living topic page accumulates knowledge
This release candidate addresses issue #33 through PR #38.
- Adds a complete fixture-only topic page with Overview, Latest, Evidence, Trials, Companies, and Timeline views that work without JavaScript.
- Keeps status, development stage, evidence maturity, population, outcome, reporting confidence, publication status, uncertainty, and editorial assessment independent.
- Adds a storage-independent projection contract, positive and negative fixtures, homepage and Topics integration, metadata, sitemap, container smoke coverage, and responsive QA.
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Defined evidence-aware discovery before launching search
This release candidate addresses issue #31 through PR #36.
- Adds a versioned, storage-independent discovery contract with labeled result types, thirteen evidence-sensitive facets, canonical aliases, durable query serialization, and honest unavailable, empty, invalid, and no-match states.
- Publishes a complete search-readiness route without a fake search box, disabled filters, fabricated counts, invented records, or premature primary-navigation promotion.
- Connects the route from Research and the Topics map and adds deterministic negative fixtures, metadata, sitemap, container smoke coverage, and hosted responsive QA.
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Opened research, study, and trial discovery
This release candidate addresses issue #27 through PR #34.
- Adds a Research hub that separates sources, study records, trial records, reported results, scientific claims, and reader-facing updates.
- Adds study- and trial-record guides with explicit fields, evidence boundaries, and honest pre-catalog states—without fabricated records, identifiers, results, or claims.
- Integrates Research with primary navigation, the homepage, Topics map, metadata, sitemap, deterministic validation, container smoke tests, and hosted responsive QA.
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Opened Aging Biology and intervention discovery
This release candidate addresses issue #25 through PR #32.
- Adds complete Aging Biology and Interventions orientation hubs, with plain-language scope, evidence questions, and honest pre-coverage states for every category.
- Adds a Topics map that connects biology, proposed interventions, research Guides, and the article method without fabricating stories, counts, or detail routes.
- Integrates the new discovery paths with shared navigation, the homepage, metadata, sitemap, deterministic validation, container smoke tests, and hosted responsive QA.
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Defined the longevity knowledge-system contract
This release candidate addresses issue #28 through PR #30.
- Makes the target navigation, intervention and Aging Biology taxonomies, living topic pages, article evidence structure, formats, cadence, and search facets authoritative.
- Defines storage-independent entities, first-class claims, relationships, provenance, external identifiers, evidence dimensions, and unknown-value semantics.
- Adds controlled vocabularies, aliases, a clearly non-medical demonstration bundle, and negative fixtures that deterministic validation must reject.
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Rebuilt the homepage as an evidence-aware publication front
This release candidate addresses issue #23 through PR #29.
- Gives the editorial-format demonstration a clear lead-story hierarchy while repeating that it is not current reporting.
- Adds distinct paths into evidence, clinical-trial, and biomarker literacy without implying medical review or a launched news catalog.
- Makes the evidence methodology, editorial boundary, and public build record easy to find from the homepage.
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Built the trust and transparency center
This release candidate addresses issue #21 through PR #26.
- Adds distinct About, Editorial standards, and Corrections routes with a cohesive trust-center design and cross-links.
- Makes the mission, source roles, uncertainty language, disclosures, AI-assistance boundaries, and publication approval boundary visible before regular coverage begins.
- Defines dated, explained, preserved correction history while honestly stating that no public intake channel exists yet.
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Built a practical research-guides collection
This release candidate addresses issue #20 through PR #24.
- Adds a complete Guides landing page plus plain-language clinical-trial and biomarker interpretation guides.
- Separates evidence maturity, trial design, measurement reliability, surrogate status, function, healthspan, and lifespan without analyzing a real intervention or product.
- Integrates the collection with shared navigation, homepage, metadata, sitemap, deterministic validation, and responsive QA.
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Built the evidence-oriented article experience
This release candidate addresses issue #19 through PR #22.
- Adds an honest Latest page and a clearly labeled article-format demonstration without publishing a real medical or scientific claim.
- Makes content status, evidence maturity, study population, reporting confidence, caveats, provenance, disclosures, and update history visible to readers.
- Integrates both routes with the homepage, shared navigation, metadata, sitemap, deterministic checks, and hosted responsive QA.
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Increased the loop’s queue depth and cycle ambition
This release candidate addresses issue #17 through PR #18.
- Requires the controller to prepare three dependency-ready issues before a normal build, so claiming one leaves two queued.
- Raises the normal target to a coherent reader-facing increment spanning roughly one to three related routes and their complete integration and QA.
- Preserves one active implementation PR, one issue per build, every risk boundary, and every release gate.
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Made every content page easier to navigate
The cycle completed issue #15 through PR #16.
- Added one consistent Home, Evidence guide, and Development log navigation pattern across every content page.
- Added a semantic, no-JavaScript mobile menu with large touch targets, visible keyboard focus, and honest current-page state.
- Added hosted Chromium QA that measures responsive behavior and preserves screenshot evidence; it caught and prevented a real desktop-navigation defect before release.
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Made missing pages honest and useful
The cycle completed issue #7 through PR #14.
- Added a branded, accessible not-found page with a clear route back to the homepage.
- Replaced the misleading homepage fallback so unknown URLs return the custom page with an honest HTTP 404 status.
- Added hosted container checks for existing routes, direct 404-page access, missing-path behavior, and automatic cleanup.
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Published a guide to reading longevity evidence
The cycle completed issue #6 through PR #13.
- Added a five-rung guide explaining what cell, animal, observational, randomized, and replicated human evidence can and cannot establish.
- Covered the cross-cutting questions that shape evidence quality, relevance, and practical meaning.
- Linked the guide from the homepage, added it to the sitemap, and extended deterministic route and content validation.
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Made the site discoverable and repaired a release defect
The cycle completed issue #5 through PR #8, then used production QA to find and fix an incorrect web-manifest content type through issue #9 and PR #10.
- Added crawl rules, a sitemap, canonical URLs, social-sharing metadata, a favicon, a web manifest, and a share card.
- Extended deterministic validation for the new discovery and sharing assets.
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Verified both HTML routes and every new asset in production,
including the corrected
application/manifest+jsonresponse.
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Established the governed autonomous development loop
The first manual cycle completed issue #2 through PR #4.
- Added durable product, architecture, editorial, roadmap, and release-gate guidance.
- Installed the GitHub queue, controller state, labels, issue template, deterministic site validation, and container CI.
- Published this development route and verified the homepage and log in production at desktop and mobile sizes.
Current work
One owner-directed homepage enhancement
This is a published snapshot, not a live GitHub feed. Issue #162 temporarily takes priority because it was requested directly by the owner; the recurring development loop remains paused.
- Issue #162 · Review pending
Feature the longer, healthier life guide on Home
PR #164 awaits exact-head CI and hosted responsive inspection.
- Issue #159 · Ready, loop paused
Launch privacy-preserving search across published evidence
The dependency-ready issue remains held until a later owner instruction resumes roadmap work.
One active owner-directed review; autonomous replenishment and recurring execution remain disabled.