Pain Pipeline Report — 2026-08-23

Mode: prod | Previous: 2026-08-16 | 2 niches (sequential) | SSCF re-run after transient Stage-2 API timeout

✅ VERDICT: PASS

Both niches completed (exit 0). All quality gates passed.

1. Overview & KPIs

Water Fountain

OK Structures
41/68
60% yield
Quotes
94
vs 196 prev -102
Symptoms
42
vs 41 prev +1
Clusters
9
vs 8 prev +1
G5 Pass
39/41
0.0% NF
Cost
$0.00
prod

Peekaboo Cat Cave

OK Structures
52/57
91% yield
Quotes
80
vs 125 prev -45
Symptoms
58
vs 37 prev +21
Clusters
8
vs 8 prev ±0
G5 Pass
52/52
0.0% NF
Cost
$0.00
prod

2. Stage Execution

NicheStageDurationStatus
Water Fountainstage0_broad_mine3.5mok
Water Fountainstage1_symptom_induction2.3mok
Water Fountainstage1_5_symptom_merge35.2sok
Water Fountainstage2_cluster_bridging59.5mok
Water Fountainstage3_quotes1.3mok
Water Fountainstage4_report0.0sok
Water Fountainstage5a_ad_structures37.3mok
Water Fountainstage5b_dedup0.0sok
Water Fountainstage5c_grounding_qc0.0sok
Water Fountainstage4_5_archive0.0sok
Water Fountainstage5d_email_delivery11.2sok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage0_broad_mine3.5mok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage1_symptom_induction2.4mok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage1_5_symptom_merge22.1sok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage2_cluster_bridging47.6mok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage3_quotes1.3mok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage4_report0.0sok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage5a_ad_structures24.3mok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage5b_dedup0.0sok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage5c_grounding_qc0.0sok
Peekaboo Cat Cavestage4_5_archive0.0sok

3. Warnings & Gate Issues

⚠️ gate_g1 — LOW_FRESHNESS
only 0.0% of 142 quotes are non-stale (threshold 90%); freshness is a soft signal — gate still passes if Tier 1 passes
⚠️ gate_g3 — LOW_NOVELTY
only 9.5% of 42 symptoms are new (threshold 30%); novelty is a soft signal — gate still passes, but downstream humans should sanity-check whether this run added real signal
⚠️ gate_g4 — LOW_DIVERSITY
only 18/42 active symptoms (42.9%) have at least one quote (threshold 80%)
⚠️ gate_g1 — LOW_FRESHNESS
only 0.0% of 146 quotes are non-stale (threshold 90%); freshness is a soft signal — gate still passes if Tier 1 passes
⚠️ gate_g2 — LOW_FRESHNESS
only 37/80 (46.2%) of quotes are week-fresh (threshold 60%); freshness is a soft signal — gate still passes
⚠️ gate_g3 — LOW_NOVELTY
only 1.7% of 58 symptoms are new (threshold 30%); novelty is a soft signal — gate still passes, but downstream humans should sanity-check whether this run added real signal
⚠️ gate_g4 — LOW_DIVERSITY
only 18/58 active symptoms (31.0%) have at least one quote (threshold 80%)

4. Structures Quality

NicheTotalOKInsufficientS5 InvalidOK Rate
Water Fountain684102760%
Peekaboo Cat Cave57525091%

5. Grounding QC (Gate G5)

NichePassedTotalCheckablePass SpanFail NFNF %
Water Fountain68413900.0%
Peekaboo Cat Cave57525200.0%

6. Incident & Recovery

🔧 SSCF Stage-2 crash + re-run
First attempt: stainless-steel-cat-fountain crashed in stage2_cluster_bridging at 09:14 UTC — Claude call timed out after 90s (transient API error, abort_failure_type=null). Run dir deleted and niche re-run from Stage 0 (10:35–12:16 UTC). Second attempt completed exit=0. Peekaboo-cat-cave completed on first attempt (exit=0).

7. Deliverables

FileDescriptionSize
ok-structures-review-water_fountain-2026-08-23.htmlReview deck — Water Fountain0 KB
ok-structures-review-peekaboo_cat_cave-2026-08-23.htmlReview deck — Peekaboo Cat Cave0 KB
ok-structures-2026-08-23.zipOK structures + customer-language247 KB
failing-structures-2026-08-23.zipInsufficient + S5_invalid + manifests90 KB

8. Final Verdict

✅ PASS

Both niches passed all quality gates after SSCF re-run.