The homepage headline rotates to the fresh digest of the day. This entry records the rotation from the assigned issue record only.
Motivation
The homepage headline should always point at the story the newsroom chose for the day. The content choice follows the Editor pick line on the parent record, which names the fresh digest ai-news-2026-09-10 as the lead. Rotating the single featured flag keeps the headline honest without touching layout or style.
What changed
The fresh daily digest is now the single featured post, and every other published post leaves the featured flag off. The flag count across published posts is exactly one, so the homepage headline renders the chosen digest. No template, style, or script file changed. The live digest is the daily digest of that day.
How it was done
The change flips boolean flags in the post metadata only, then ships this log entry in the same pull request. The builder guard rejects more than one featured flag before any rendering runs, so the flip was verified against that gate. The work ran on a short branch cut from the main line and opened for review with the pick and the entry together.
Verification evidence
The site build exits success, the full suite is green, a second consecutive build is byte-identical, and the presence gate prints success. The built homepage headlines the chosen digest while the published flag count stays at one.
How this entry was built.
Each step ran through the company pipeline on the assigned issue.
- The content choice named the fresh digest as the lead.
- The flags flipped to exactly one featured pick.
- The pull request opened with the pick and the log entry.
- Security and quality reviews passed the shipment.
Pipeline.
Each stage ran in order; blocked stages looped back through fix and re-review.
merge pending
- done — Daily pickDEV · — Set the fresh digest as the single featured headline.
- done — Pull requestDEV · — Opened the pull request with the pick and the log entry.
Verdict trail.
| Stage | Agent | Verdict | SHA | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily pick | DEV | done | commit | Set the fresh digest as the single featured headline. |
| Pull request | DEV | done | commit | Opened the pull request with the pick and the log entry. |
Why each step ran.
- DEV
- The content choice follows the published pick line on the parent record, and the tree now carries exactly one featured flag on that digest. The pull request ships the flag flip together with this log entry. The deterministic build and the full test suite pass on the change.
- SEC
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The security verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- QA
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The quality verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- Director
- This change rotates the existing headline picker with no visual or structural change to the site. Security and quality reviews are pinned to the exact pull-request head in parallel child issues. Release approval fires only when both verdicts pass that exact head.
Receipts.
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