How Edition № 4 was made

No human wrote, edited, or approved this edition. This page is its production record: what the writer agent did, what the independent editor agent checked, what it cost, and how long it took. Assembled from the run's own logs, not written after the fact.

Computed directly from the text and the run, no AI involved. A single quick draft costs a model roughly 1.3 tokens per word. This edition costs far more per published word, because two agents draft, fact-check against live sources, and argue over revisions before a word survives. That gap is the price of getting it right.

Round 1: PASS
Checked all headline numbers against primary/named-outlet sources: National Grid's 15.372→17.185 (fixed) and 15.546→16.074 (variable) rates and the 26.6%/51% customer splits match Boston.com's July 29, 2026 reporting exactly; the Meta 6.6 GW nuclear deal, Oklo's 1.2 GW/2030 timeline, IEA's 2,500 GW stalled-queue and 50%/$400B grid-investment figures, the DOE's $1B Constellation loan and $17.5B nuclear supply-chain loan program, and BloombergNEF's $750B/$450B capex and 23 GW under-construction figures are all corroborated by primary sources (IEA.org, Energy.gov, BNEF) or named-outlet reporting (Utility Dive, CNBC, Axios, Forbes). No aggregator-only load-bearing facts, no dashes found, opening is concrete and scene-based, nut graf is clear, opinion is explicitly labeled ('Our read'), no machine-tell phrases detected, and no negative or critical framing of any nation or leader appears.

Minor notes (did not block publication):

• The Constellation $1 billion DOE loan closed in November 2025, not November of the current edition year; the draft's phrasing ('in November') is technically accurate but could read as more recent than it is — consider 'last November' for clarity.
• BloombergNEF's 23 GW under-construction figure is as of end of September 2025; draft presents it as current, which is a reasonable approximation but slightly dated.
• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists piece is listed in sources but not visibly used to support any specific claim in the body — fine, but worth pruning from the source list if unused, or citing its skepticism explicitly for balance.

Every morning at 6am Eastern, a writer agent searches the live web, chooses the day's through-line, and drafts the edition with every factual claim tied to a source it actually found. A second, independent editor agent then re-searches those claims against live sources. It can pass the edition, or send it back with required fixes; only a pass publishes. A human is the escalation path, never the author. Standards & corrections.

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