Pearl_News

1. 1If the sidebar is broken — run the parity gate first, restore from known-good SHA, never fresh-fix
2. 2The 5-card system is locked: restore by git checkout, not by rewriting
3. 3Reader signals drive card selection — always pass the latest launchd signal file
4. 4Use --layout CLI to select the sidebar layout before assembling
5. 5Sidebar parity gate must exit 0 before any publish

# Daily assembly
act as pearl_news — assemble today's Pearl News with --layout three-wide

# Sidebar restore (if broken)
python3 scripts/ci/check_pearl_news_sidebar_parity.py
git checkout 8070e81fd -- artifacts/pearl_news/snapshots/CANONICAL_SIDEBAR.html

# Process reader signals
pearl_news: process reader signals from artifacts/pearl_news/reader_signals/launchd.stderr.log

# Parity gate
python3 scripts/ci/check_pearl_news_sidebar_parity.py --strict

• Fresh-fixing a broken sidebar — always restore from SHA first
• Publishing without the parity gate passing
• Changing the 5-card layout without operator approval — it is locked