Updates

September 27, 2026

• Install new Business Cycle cover: Broad Street from the Federal Hall steps Opus 5.5
• deploy.ps1: don't reference $tarball after a delta publish Opus 5.5
• Reinstall Nero fire painting without anachronistic skyline Opus 5.5
• Rewrite business-cycle brief: real Wall/Broad geometry from the Federal Hall steps Opus 5.5
• Install redrawn Newton mint painting (sorolla-v4) Opus 5.5
• Refresh forum thread cards
• Nero fire brief: pin a flat AD 64 skyline, exclude towers, domes, Colosseum Opus 5.5
• Rewrite Newton mint brief: one press, one scale step, no horse mills Opus 5.5
• Add the Planes: line the brief gate requires to 26 audiobook briefs Opus 5.5
• Scene briefs for the 40 audiobook series Opus 5.5
• Queue the 40 audiobook series for painted covers Opus 5.5
• Date post 2026-09-27: course:human-action-a-treatise-on-economics Sonnet 5
• Outreach drafts nightly: 2026-09-27 run notes (0 staged) Opus 5.5 (1M context)

September 26, 2026

• Record the library host cutover to R2 (live 2026-09-26) Opus 5.5
• sync_r2: connect to R2 over IPv4 only Opus 5.5
• Add opt-in Azure gpt-image-2.5-sunburst image backend Opus 5.5
• Repaint the 1991 Kremlin flag cover from the dome-top platform (sorolla-v3) Opus 5.5
• Move the whole library host to R2: mirror, cutover and rollback tooling Opus 5.5
• Restage the 1991 Kremlin flag cover: over-shoulder from the dome, coherent depth Opus 5.5
• Painted covers for 23 more series; two briefs sharpened for a redo Opus 5.5
• Spell the XMP packet BOM as an escape, not an invisible literal Opus 5.5
• Painted covers for 27 more events and commentary series Opus 5.5
• Improve /art/ SEO: keyword title, licence-led description, rights XMP, image sitemap Opus 5.5
• Krea caption for the Nazi-Soviet pact cover (gpt-image refused it) Opus 5.5
• Deploy: verify live pages in one parallel curl; sample the artifact check Opus 5.5
• Deploy: publish small changes as a delta in one ssh call Opus 5.5
• Build: stop lead_prose at the first few paragraphs; slice manifest paths Opus 5.5
• Deploy: drop the WordPress target guard, check staging hash inside publish Opus 5.5
• Cut a no-change build from 73s to 30s with byte-identical output Opus 5.5
• Fix Gandhi's third foot on the Liberty vs. Power course cover Opus 5.5
• Add /art/ gallery of every commissioned painting and cover Opus 5.5
• Krea-rendered covers for the three moderation-blocked scenes Opus 5.5
• Painted covers for 11 more events and commentary series Opus 5.5
• Course covers: moderation-blocked scenes render with local Krea, no confirmation Opus 5.5
• Painted covers for 10 more events and commentary series Opus 5.5
• Create SKILL.md
• Image-generation backup reads the project's own OpenAI key from the repo .env Opus 5.5
• Image generation: OpenAI Images API as automatic backup when Codex quota is spent Opus 5.5
• Painted covers for 11 events and commentary series Opus 5.5
• Course covers: paint history as it was, insignia included Opus 5.5
• Scene briefs for the last 11 events and commentary series (with Period lines) Opus 5.5
• Scene briefs for 11 more events and commentary series (with Period lines) Opus 5.5
• Scene briefs for 11 more events series (with Period lines) Opus 5.5
• Books index: redesign the head as a masthead with stat figures Sonnet 5
• Scene briefs for 22 more events and commentary series (with Period lines) Opus 5.5
• Scene briefs for the top 33 events and commentary series (with Period lines) Opus 5.5
• Codex image backend: cut per-image tokens ~30% and pass briefs verbatim Opus 5.5
• Courses index: redesign the head as a masthead with stat figures; frame the featured shelf as a panel Opus 5.5
• Course covers: queue events and commentary after courses; Period: line and direct anachronism rule Opus 5.5
• commission-course-cover skill: brief rule for simple scale and mechanics Opus 5.5
• Bowling Green course cover: install sorolla-v3 (one rope direction, level pedestal, laurel-wreathed Roman-garb king) Opus 5.5
• Homestead course cover: install sorolla-v6 (correct crowd/barge scale); rewrite Bowling Green brief (one rope direction, level pedestal, Roman-garb king, crowd held back) Opus 5.5
• Homestead course-cover brief: over-shoulder with one barge and one scale step (fixes crowd/boat scale) Opus 5.5
• Regenerate course covers; fix Luther/Charles V scene
• Worms course-cover brief: remove anachronisms (period books, leaded windows, Bischofshof hall, beardless Charles, tonsured Luther) Opus 5.5
• Krea POC: record decision to keep gpt-image as the course-cover default Opus 5.5
• Krea 2 local-render POC: findings and verdict vs gpt-image; tiled-decode fallback Opus 5.5
• commission-course-cover skill: record observed Codex quota window size Opus 5.5
• Course covers: install 33 painted covers generated via Codex (ChatGPT) Opus 5.5
• commission_course_cover: number new variants from the highest, not the count Opus 5.5
• krea_render: corner repair pass (latent inpainting on an extended canvas) for painted-in signatures Opus 5.5
• Krea POC round 2: scene-first prompts with explicit value structure Opus 5.5
• course-covers spec: record the brief lint test Opus 5.5
• Course cover scene briefs: batch A (11 courses) Opus 5.5
• Course cover scene briefs: batch B (11 courses) Opus 5.5
• Course cover scene briefs: batch C (11 courses) Opus 5.5
• Course briefs: lint test for header lines, camera, source URL, and unique scenes Opus 5.5
• krea_render: encode prompts on CPU (encoder exceeds one 12 GB card), load from local snapshot Opus 5.5
• Course painting lightbox: show the scene caption and source link Opus 5.5
• Krea 2 local render POC for course covers: captions and three-stage bf16 renderer Opus 5.5
• Course covers: two-column painted hero, info subcommand, skill, invariant test, specs Opus 5.5
• Painted course covers: commissioned tier, painted course-page hero with high-DPI srcset and lightbox, featured four installed Opus 5.5
• X daily post: 2026-09-26 Opus 5.5
• Course covers: one-off photographic style experiment Opus 5.5
• Course-cover sheets: one file per trial instead of overwriting Opus 5.5
• Course covers: four extreme style files for a second style trial Opus 5.5
• Course-cover commission: house rules, three trial styles, featured briefs, generator Opus 5.5
• Document local hardware and the idle second GPU for heavy jobs Opus 5.5
• Record course-cover decisions; spec the painted-cover hero, high-DPI srcset, and lightbox Opus 5.5
• Merge pull request #9 from DavidVeksler/video-thumbnails
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into video-thumbnails
• Plan commissioned course covers: house style, scene rules, featured scenes Opus 5.5
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into video-thumbnails
• Recover four unplayable lecture videos Opus 5.5
• Diagnose and recover unplayable lecture MP4s Opus 5.5
• Refuse an inline player to lecture MP4s that cannot play Opus 5.5
• Recheck Q&A starts that began before their review excerpt Opus 5.5
• Video posters: sample 11 frames over 10-40% of the runtime Opus 5.5
• Mark each lecture's audience Q&A so listeners can jump to it or skip it Opus 5.5
• Add poster frames to lecture videos Opus 5.5
• Correct 72 lecture recording dates that were mises.org upload dates Opus 5.5
• Update stale quote and Scholar tests; run the test suite on pre-push Opus 5.5
• Rejoin Bastiat's split author page; fail the build on author-name clashes Opus 5.5
• Report courses whose lecture dates are probably mises.org upload dates Opus 5.5
• Spec: read-along, book chapters synced to their lecture audio Opus 5.5
• Restore course-title punctuation; correct Raico recording dates Opus 5.5
• Link each companion-course lecture to its book chapter Opus 5.5
• Book mentions: count a lecturer who contributed to the book Opus 5.5
• SEO log: lecture-book mentions deployed, with its measurement baseline Opus 5.5
• Link lectures to the books their transcripts discuss, both directions Opus 5.5
• Rule out the Mises SQL database as a licence source for the 298 gated PDFs Opus 5.5
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 25, 2026

• Allow approved course cover overrides
• Enable mises.org summary prose for all courses Sonnet 5
• Enrich history-the-struggle-for-liberty course metadata Sonnet 5
• Date post 2026-09-25: journal-issue:freemanfee:freemanfee-1996-09:2026 Sonnet 5
• OER Commons: record bulk-import draft Opus 5.5
• OER Commons import file in their v3.2 template: 328 CC or public-domain works Opus 5.5
• OER Commons export: 362 books and papers with a CC deed or public-domain determination Opus 5.5
• OER Commons: record reply offering bulk CSV import; correct licence claim in staged note Opus 5.5
• X daily post: 2026-09-25 Opus 5.5
• Outreach nightly 2026-09-25: 0 drafts; Howard College guide held on rights gate Opus 5.5 (1M context)
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 24, 2026

• Topics banner: Hülsmann, Hoppe and Tucker at the card catalogue Opus 5.5
• Update outreach-status.json
• Courses banner: Mises lecturing a 1950s NYU seminar Opus 5.5
• Authors banner: impossible salon of Rand, Paterson, Lane, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Bastiat Opus 5.5
• About banner: Vienna cafe economists; workroom painting moves to /torrents/ Opus 5.5
• Section art as clickable banners, five new people paintings Opus 5.5
• X daily post: 2026-09-24 Opus 5.5
• Rebuild hooks calendar 2026-09-24 (no post: daily-spotlight cap already used) Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-24, all channels exhausted/capped/gated Opus 5.5 (1M context)
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 23, 2026

• Link the archive's X and Facebook accounts Opus 5.5
• Date post 2026-09-23: course:marx-and-marxism Opus 5.5
• Post to Facebook daily: spotlights fill days without a date hook Opus 5.5
• X daily post: 2026-09-23 Opus 5.5
• Add daily X auto-poster: date hooks plus book and series spotlights Opus 5.5
• Trim /research/ to the facts: drop method essay, caveats, and section intros Opus 5.5
• Credit Jeffrey Tucker with the open-sourcing initiative on home and about Opus 5.5
• Separate papers and articles from books on author pages Opus 5.5
• Split papers and articles off the books shelf into /articles/ Opus 5.5
• Render embedded italics in book titles instead of leaking raw <i> tags Sonnet 5
• Fix Rothbard cover shears geometry
• Refine Fiat Money cover with portrait
• minify images with PNG Gauntlet
• Update Fiat Money cover
• Refine Theory of Money and Credit cover mechanism
• Commission covers for Theory of Money and Fiduciary Media and Property, Freedom, and Society Sonnet 5
• Record Jorg Guido Hulsmann's personal permission for his 6 catalog works Sonnet 5
• Fix inLanguage hardcoded to "en" for non-English books Sonnet 5
• Add language-aware common-word QA check; convert Hoppe's Spanish book Sonnet 5
• Hide about page image caption
• Convert The Misesian Case Against Keynes to EPUB/AZW3 Sonnet 5
• Record Hans-Hermann Hoppe's personal permission for his 16 catalog works Sonnet 5
• Import 70 missing books: 36 from mises.org, 34 public-domain classics Sonnet 5
• Date post 2026-09-23: none Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-23, all channels exhausted/capped/gated Opus 5.5 (1M context)
• Refresh forum thread cards
• Add find_missing_mises_books.py: sweep mises.org for books the catalog lacks Opus 5.5
• Outreach runbooks: stage via gmail_draft.py, fix link-wrap claim Opus 5.5

September 22, 2026

• Add editorial imagery across archive sections
• Add dated hooks calendar and auto-posted daily date hooks Opus 5.5
• Add Google Scholar citation meta tags to book and journal-work pages Opus 5.5
• Center homepage browse-card icons within their circle badges Sonnet 5
• Add marketing ideas brainstorm backlog Opus 5.5
• Add Homelessness study to /research/ hub Sonnet 5
• Add weekly cold-outreach routine: runbook, --plan and --record Opus 5.5
• Refresh forum thread cards
• Add forum-links-nightly.ps1: forum card refresh moves to Task Scheduler Opus 5.5
• Document the batch author-permission fast path Sonnet 5
• Record Walter Block's permission for 11 held works Sonnet 5
• Add retina shield mark to /about/ page head Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-22, twenty-first night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Log nightly forum links refresh for 2026-09-22 Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 21, 2026

• Drop CLAUDE.md pointer; AGENTS.md is read natively Opus 5
• Implement /updates/ attribution strip and collapsed repeats Sonnet 5
• Spec: /updates/ attribution strip and collapsed repeats Sonnet 5
• Size OG kicker tag to fit its text width
• Weekly KPI report: /read/ posts sharpest position gain yet, off-page flat 4th week
• Outreach drafts nightly log: 2026-09-21, no items staged Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 20, 2026

• Raise homepage hero medallion density from 5 to 9 slots Sonnet 5
• Remove preserve from homepage OG kicker
• Feature Vienna cafe painting in homepage OG card
• Replace archive engraving with Vienna cafe scene
• Add Austrian economics editorial artwork
• Drop nofollow from editorial book links; keep sponsored on affiliate buy link Opus 5
• Merge branch 'fix/author-death-dates' (all commits already cherry-picked into master) Opus 5
• Merge branch 'about-page-refresh' (already cherry-picked into master as 9d06cb7) Opus 5
• Stage all 56 cold outreach drafts in Gmail and log them Opus 5
• Add cold email outreach campaign
• Redesign /stats/ with key tiles, timelines, and nav
• Fix horizontal overflow on book pages at phone widths Opus 5
• Record death dates for Machan, Tullock, Ayau and M. Stanton Evans Opus 5
• Homepage redesign: hero search, start-here band, denser sections Opus 5
• Log 2026-09-20 forum links refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5
• Rebuild /about/ as a structured, visual page Opus 5
• Add cold email outreach campaign
• Redesign /stats/ with key tiles, timelines, and nav
• Author page redesign: holdings bar, head quote, book filter, course split Opus 5
• Rebuild /about/ as a structured, visual page Opus 5
• Fix horizontal overflow on book pages at phone widths Opus 5
• Record death dates for Machan, Tullock, Ayau and M. Stanton Evans Opus 5
• Homepage redesign: hero search, start-here band, denser sections Opus 5
• Log 2026-09-20 forum links refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 19, 2026

• Outreach drafts log: 2026-09-19 nightly run, nothing workable Sonnet 5
• Log 2026-09-19 forum links refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 18, 2026

• Outreach status: checked-date bumps from the 2026-09-17 nightly run Opus 5
• Docs: record the www -> apex Cloudflare redirect rule; retire www as staging Opus 5
• Report: link the three fix-class issues (#4, #5, #6) Opus 5
• Report: 28 homepage-absorbed GSC queries, classified with proposed fixes Opus 5
• Docs: featured-weekly runbook, spec reconciliation, homepage SEO log entry Opus 5
• Homepage SEO: title, topic row, feed links, Organization schema, stale-shelf guard Opus 5
• Stage featured selection 2026-W38 and add scripts/stage_featured.py Opus 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-18, eighteenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Log 2026-09-18 forum links refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 17, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-17, seventeenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 16, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-16, sixteenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Dead-link reclaim: fourth weekly run, mises.org block persists a second week Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 15, 2026

• KPI routine: script the Cloudflare and sitemap pulls; document the .aspx bot-flood WAF rule Opus 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-15, fifteenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Log 2026-09-15 forum-links nightly refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 14, 2026

• Weekly KPI report: /read/ position improves 4th straight week (26.24), book/author reach dips, request-spike anomaly noted Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-14, fourteenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 13, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-13, thirteenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 12, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-12, twelfth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 11, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-11, eleventh night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Log 2026-09-11 forum links refresh Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 10, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-10, tenth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 9, 2026

• Stop the filter bar flickering between its two heights Opus 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-09, ninth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Dead-link reclaim run 2026-09-09: mises.org blocked all 15 probes
• Log 2026-09-09 forum links refresh
• Refresh forum thread cards
• End a chapter at the next chapter's anchor, not at a document boundary Opus 5
• Read a two-column PDF down its columns, not across the gutter Opus 5

September 8, 2026

• simplify permissions text
• Record Reisman's 2025 signed licence, which does not commence yet Opus 5
• Sync the Government Against the Economy EPUB byte count Opus 5
• Convert Capitalism to EPUB and publish its reading pages Opus 5
• Redraw the Capitalism cover in the author's own palette Opus 5
• Document the scaled conversion timeout in the pdf-to-epub spec Opus 5
• Redirect the Capitalism cover brief to the 1996 jacket's palette Opus 5
• Write an original Reisman bio, and document the guide's new edition fields Opus 5
• Verify the edition of Reisman's Capitalism, and give the page a guide Opus 5
• Publish the permission basis in licenses.json and the runbooks Opus 5
• Document rights-holder permissions in the governing specs Opus 5
• Record rights-holder permissions, and Reisman's for Capitalism Opus 5
• Log 2026-09-08 outreach run: all channels still exhausted/capped/gated
• Log 2026-09-08 forum links refresh
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 7, 2026

• Costs of War: replace the ratchet cover at David's request Opus 5
• Install 42 covers from batch 2, reject 7, and queue the Costs of War redraw Opus 5
• Cover proposals: batch 2 landed complete, 100 of 100 Opus 5
• Install interim cover and refresh cache mtime
• Hoppe: swap A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism to the other variant Opus 5
• Man, Economy, and Liberty: record the shade rejection as a dated note Opus 5
• Man, Economy, and Liberty: bar the lamp shade, brief the bare socket Opus 5
• Deploy: restore the SEO gate; make pre-push's skip explicit Opus 5
• Weekly KPI: /read/ growth continues, off-page links flat 8/111 two weeks running Sonnet 5
• commission_covers: --skip-proposed kept skipping the rejected books Opus 5
• Outreach drafts nightly: 2026-09-07, staged 0 (all channels exhausted/capped/gated) Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 6, 2026

• Redo Land Bubble cover: drop the gavel, bar it in the brief Sonnet 5
• Install 46 commissioned covers, reject 4, from the 100-image batch Opus 5
• Cover briefs: an impossible object is a tell, exclusion 7 Opus 5
• Deploy: drop the WordOps origin assertion, keep the IIS one Opus 5
• Cover proposals: the 100-image batch landed complete Opus 5
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-06, sixth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Series rail: keep its heading at the width where the disclosure is forced open Opus 5
• Course page: the play control sits with its lecture, and progress counts a part-heard one Opus 5
• Lecture pages: series rail, player toolbar, share and auto-continue Opus 5
• Player dock: place the close button on the phone layout, not below it Fable 5.1
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 5, 2026

• Course pages: shared player module, dock, progress and .m3u playlists Fable 5.1
• Publish wiki-link coverage to the dashboard, and spec the author rule Opus 5
• Link the archive and the quote site to each other on author pages Opus 5
• Match authors to the wiki by reading its index, not by guessing names Opus 5
• stats: icons for distribution cards and the two bare section headers Sonnet 5
• Spec the course and lecture page redesign: shared player, progress, dock, rail Fable 5.1
• commission_covers: codex reports two shapes of reset time, not one Opus 5
• Clear 249 catalogue descriptions that were PDF metadata, not prose Opus 5
• commission_covers: --wait-for-quota, so a large batch drains itself Opus 5
• commission_covers: a spent quota ended the whole run, silently Opus 5
• Add freecapitalists-cover-proposals-nightly, a draft-tier routine Opus 5
• commission_covers: make a batch resumable, because the quota ends it Opus 5
• Commission twelve covers from the generated brief corpus, ranks 12-28 Opus 5
• top_books: report the commissioned tier it was blind to Opus 5
• outreach-status: date bump from the nightly routine Opus 5
• Cover briefs: final pass, and the last agent's skip logic held Opus 5
• Second pass over 22 briefs from the overlapping batch Opus 5
• Every book in the catalogue now has a cover brief: 969 of 969 Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 026 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Normalise all 46 Freeman volumes onto one register, and land batches 020, 023 Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 024 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 025 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 022 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 019 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 028, the tail of the catalogue Opus 5
• Cover briefs: a numbered run of one publication is the exception to variety Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 015 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batches 016, 017 and 018 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batches 012 and 014 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Add scripts/catalog_description_audit.py Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batch 013 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Fix five em dashes, and stop demanding Context of briefs that cannot have one Opus 5
• Cover briefs: more of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Stop parsing the brief directories' own documentation as briefs Opus 5
• Commit the corpus runbook and the writer prompt it uses Opus 5
• Cover briefs: further batches of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Install a new America's Great Depression cover, and record a backend failure Opus 5
• Retire the second Introduction to Economics scan, keep the measured one Opus 5
• cover_check: the blind spot is bigger than one proposal Opus 5
• Cover briefs: make the corpus resumable, and land what survived the interruption Opus 5
• Fix five catalogue errors the cover-brief pass found, and credit co-authors Opus 5
• Cover briefs: batches 001 and 003 of the generated corpus Opus 5
• Install new covers for Human Action, Socialism, and Hoppe Opus 5
• Add scripts/cover_brief_audit.py, and fix two briefs it caught Opus 5
• cover_check: note the blind spot on typographic and flat-poster covers Opus 5
• Rewrite the three flagship briefs, and let codex generations overlap Opus 5
• commission-cover: judge against the shelf, and a corpus builder for briefs Opus 5
• Cover briefs: name a register, track spent motifs, exclude the generated look Opus 5
• Add scripts/cover_check.py: measure a cover at card size Opus 5
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-05, fifth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 4, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-04, fourth night all channels exhausted/capped/gated Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 3, 2026

• Add skill runbooks for core content workflows
• AI visibility test: first run, 2026-09-03 Sonnet 5
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry
• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-03, third night all channels exhausted/capped/gated
• Log 2026-09-03 forum-links refresh
• Refresh forum thread cards

September 2, 2026

• Outreach nightly log: 2026-09-02, all channels capped/exhausted/gated Sonnet 5
• Dead-link reclamation: run 2, ranks 17-31, 3 dead / 0 candidates Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

September 1, 2026

• fix grammar
• Clean overly verbose copy
• Revert "Add Top content section to /stats/: real Search Console clicks, above the method note"
• Add Top content section to /stats/: real Search Console clicks, above the method note
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry
• Outreach nightly: log a genuine zero-item night, all channels exhausted/capped/gated
• Log forum-links nightly refresh: 2026-09-01
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 31, 2026

• Weekly KPI: /read/ pages nearly double reach, author-page rebuild still undeployed Sonnet 5
• Outreach nightly: stage OpenDOAR, OER Commons, DOAB directory items
• Log nightly forum-links refresh
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 30, 2026

• Outreach nightly: exhaust open-library queue, resolve OBP directory mechanism Sonnet 5
• Log forum thread cards refresh 2026-08-30
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 29, 2026

• Fix academic outreach channel: real drafts blocked by dead-end search
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry
• Outreach nightly: stage 3 Open Library work-record edits
• Add competitor feature scan: full-text search is the top gap Sonnet 5
• Size the lecture-speaker author-page gap left open in today's entry Opus 5
• Record the 2026-08-29 two-engine pull and route the IndexNow runbook Opus 5
• Fix two byline defects in lecture and book titles Opus 5
• Add IndexNow submission, aimed at the engine that actually ranks this archive Opus 5

August 28, 2026

• Refresh forum thread cards

August 27, 2026

• Point /stats/ at the companion wiki's own Special:Statistics Opus 5
• Wire publish_dashboard_stats.py into the nightly forum-links runbook
• Update Open Library outreach status records
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry
• Outreach nightly: stage 3 more Open Library work-record edits
• Refresh forum thread cards Sonnet 5

August 26, 2026

• Refresh outreach status timestamp
• Outreach nightly: stage 3 Open Library work-record edits Sonnet 5
• Dead-link reclamation: first run, cursor at 15, zero candidates Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 25, 2026

• Match the catalog against a second forum's topics, for objectivism-online
• Publish book/course-forum discussion-card coverage to dashboard.davidveksler.com Sonnet 5
• Update outreach-status.json
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 24, 2026

• Draft two institutional rights-holder emails, the ask that unlocks the most held text Opus 5
• Write up the 08-24 SEO read: where the full-text blockers actually are Opus 5
• Publish full text for The Progressive Era and two more; audit the shared-EPUB trap first Opus 5
• Make author pages read as bibliographies, and fix their inverted authorship schema Opus 5
• Record actual push outcome for tonight's outreach log entry Sonnet 5
• Stage nightly outreach: DataHoarder post and two Open Library edits Sonnet 5
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 23, 2026

• Add sixth pipeline card: local forum AI on desktop GPU
• Refresh forum thread cards

August 22, 2026

• Update forum-activity.md with what actually shipped on the forum side Sonnet 5
• Add a live forum activity widget to the homepage Sonnet 5
• Widen the crosslink card to all three link directions
• Create settings.local.json
• Add forum-wiki crosslink release data
• Add forum crosslinks pipeline to built page
• Add a Companion forum section to llms.txt, next to the wiki pointer
• Put a start-a-thread CTA on every book and course page, not just matched ones Sonnet 5
• Record that the first forum-links build went live Opus 5
• Correct the per-run topic-fetch figure to the measured 105 Opus 5
• Link book and course pages to the forum threads that name them Opus 5
• Outreach nightly: second run this day, cap already spent, no new items Sonnet 5
• Fix what the outreach routine's first live run exposed Fable 5
• Stage nightly outreach: HN/reddit posts and Open Library edit for Human Action Opus 5

August 21, 2026

• Scaffold four marketing routines for the authority constraint Fable 5

August 20, 2026

• Send contact mail from the verified domain, not resend.dev Opus 5
• Record the Turnstile gate as live and verified Opus 5
• Correct the contact Worker's deploy status; stage TURNSTILE_SECRET Opus 5
• Gate the contact form behind Cloudflare Turnstile Opus 5
• Promote the relaunched Mises Community forums to top-level nav Opus 5
• Rename archive subdomain to forum host

August 19, 2026

• Recover imprint-page run-on boundary; split real front matter into its own chapter Sonnet 5
• Document the copyright-page drop and the withdrawn-chapter redirect family Opus 5
• Clear 3 more held books on existing CCE renewal-search evidence Sonnet 5
• Drop publisher copyright/imprint pages from public-domain books' reading pages Sonnet 5
• Mark The Law public domain: essay text confirmed clean of Mises Institute's 2007 Foreword copyright Sonnet 5
• Add reciprocal archive-to-quotes-site link on author pages Sonnet 5
• Enrich author pages: close bio/portrait gaps, match search vocabulary Sonnet 5
• Log week-4 GSC read: /read/ chapter pages are the ranking engine Opus 5

August 18, 2026

• Add extract-book-text.ps1 wrapper for the held-book full-text pipeline Sonnet 5
• Authorize full text of Bureaucracy despite a direct renewal record Sonnet 5
• Fetch the two Bastiat Collection volume EPUBs, closing the Stage 0 gap Sonnet 5
• Execute Stage 0 sweep: fetch 19 EPUBs mises.org already publishes Sonnet 5
• Sweep all 422 EPUB-less books: 21 exist upstream as EPUBs Opus 5
• Flag mises.org pages that answer for more than one catalog record Opus 5
• Add Stage 0: find books mises.org already publishes as an EPUB Opus 5

August 16, 2026

• Merge two duplicate catalog records found by a manual dedup scan Sonnet 5

August 15, 2026

• Mark seo-backlog item 11 satisfied by the wiki link repointing Opus 5
• Remove the quote-CTA affinity bridge; Tier C authors get no book link
• Waive legitimate rare tokens/punctuation in new Rothbard quotes Sonnet 5
• Resolve Rothbard/Hayek quotes to their shelved author slugs Sonnet 5
• Fix misleading quote CTA label for the affinity bridge
• add quotes

August 14, 2026

• Publish unsourced and Tier C quotes; add 108 legacy-collection quotes
• Show a random archive quote in the /authors/ page-head whitespace
• Fix short-quote meta descriptions, raise quotes-site scale threshold
• Waive legitimate rare tokens, drop footnote-noise context for Mises import
• Verify Mises quotes against archive corpus, regenerate quotes.json
• Update quotes-source.json
• Resolve stale-waiver catch-22 between CI's lint and the full quotes build Sonnet 5
• Waive three more legitimate non-dictionary tokens in Bastiat quote context Sonnet 5
• Fix quote-title generation and gate checks exposed by the 219-quote import Sonnet 5
• Remove /contact redirect to blogs subdomain
• Update quotes.json
• Update research.html
• Fix quote OCR typo and add text waivers
• Update quotes.json
• deploy-quotes: drop verify_quotes.py from the deploy path Sonnet 5
• Quote validation work in progress
• docs: define OAIS preservation profile
• Harden quotes site copy and rendering pipeline
• Update research template copy and visibility
• Point docs/deploy.md at the new quotes-site deploy script Sonnet 5
• Add guarded deploy script for quotes.freecapitalists.org Sonnet 5
• feat: add economic research hub
• Back up legacy quotes DB before the quotes.freecapitalists.org cutover Sonnet 5
• Spec the /research/ hub bridging primary texts to CheatSheets analysis Fable 5
• Add /contact/ page backed by a new Cloudflare Worker + Resend
• Compose the site description from model.stats instead of freezing it Opus 5
• Neutral provenance in the About block, per David Opus 5
• Note the GiB-labelled-GB basis for the 140 GB figure in the About copy Opus 5
• Rewrite homepage hero, About, and provenance FAQ in first person Opus 5
• Implement quotes.freecapitalists.org Phase 0/1: ingest, verify, Tier A pages Sonnet 5
• Summarize OCR runs and add icons to /how-its-built/ Opus 5
• Hide footer links and trim license page
• Add two build-time timeline visuals: authors by birth decade, PDFs by scan year Sonnet 5
• Fix bio_sources to reject sub-year Wikidata date precision
• Fix bogus 2000 birth year for frank-shostak

August 13, 2026

• Add icons to /stats/ headline tiles and section headers

August 14, 2026

• Merge pull request #2 from DavidVeksler/quotes-site-spec

August 13, 2026

• Add spec for quotes.freecapitalists.org Opus 5
• Hyperlink the /stats/ timeline bars to their /books/?era= filter Sonnet 5
• Add OCR sweep totals and a publication-year timeline to /stats/ Sonnet 5
• Add book summary link to catalog
• Add external-link book pattern; list The Dao of Capital via Amazon Sonnet 5
• Restore original PDF metadata for 322 of the 447 OCR-swept files Sonnet 5
• Sweep the whole library for missing text layers, OCR and replace 447 of them Sonnet 5
• Add PDF metadata restore, guard the OCR sweep, delete stale backups Opus 5
• Clarify archive rights and license original site work
• docs: the legacy-backup coverage gap is by design, not a risk Opus 5
• docs: record PDF scan provenance and the immutable legacy backup Opus 5
• docs: consolidate rights policy
• Simplify AGENTS.md preamble
• docs: condense full-text pages spec
• docs: remove completed work items
• docs: streamline deployment runbook
• docs: streamline book rights specification
• docs: streamline project agent instructions
• Ignore temporary files
• Ignore Python cache files
• Distinguish font obfuscation from real DRM in the EPUB encryption gate Sonnet 5
• Extract full-text reading pages for 11 previously-ungenerated books Sonnet 5

August 12, 2026

• Apply the wiki reverse-links plan: 91 articles now link to the archive
• Refresh wiki reverse-links dry-run plan (backlog item 11)
• Log first post-cutover GSC read: growth is real, positions not yet the bottleneck
• Document the div-as-paragraph extraction fix and NON_WORK_CHAPTERS
• Fix flattened paragraphs in i-pencil, drop FEE back-matter chapter
• Fix drifted numbers, model naming and strip layout on /how-its-built/ Opus 5
• shorten TTS disclosure: "Machine-generated narration (TTS)"
• Add extract_voice_ref.py script for extracting voice reference clips Haiku 4.5
• Regenerate i-pencil.m4b with Milton Friedman voice clone for Afterword Haiku 4.5
• Build recruiter-facing engineering record page
• Add .m4b MIME mapping for TTS audiobooks Sonnet 5
• Update i-pencil TTS to use Milton Friedman voice clone for Afterword Haiku 4.5
• Add Milton Friedman voice reference for i-pencil Afterword narration Haiku 4.5
• Fix book-tts.json sidecar shape to match the site loader
• Generate i-pencil TTS narration with Leonard Read voice clone
• Extract LeFevre's Journal per-issue tables of contents from the Mises DB
• Document the local Mises SQL Server database as a governing spec Opus 5
• Amend audio-tts.md to permit real-voice cloning for Leonard Read
• Wire up TTS audio narration: generator script, data model, templates, JSON-LD
• Update "How It's Build" spec
• Use multiple voice for multiple writers
• Spec the /how-its-built/ recruiter page: five models, four pipelines, evidence rules Fable 5
• Record the i-pencil TTS pilot's decisions: Chatterbox, M4B chapters, front-matter exclusion
• Add automatic /updates/ changelog page from raw git history
• Draft text-to-speech audio narration spec, pilot candidate I, Pencil
• Fix stray doc reference in _fingerprint_assets docstring Sonnet 5
• Fix LCP lazy-loading bug and minify site.css for client-side performance Sonnet 5
• Recover 1 more book cover via fetch_covers.py Sonnet 5

August 11, 2026

• Add held-but-not-published byte totals to /stats/ Sonnet 5
• Diversify homepage hero medallions: more Austrian greats, add women Sonnet 5
• Redesign journal marks as full-width nameplate bands
• Fix unreachable download links on book pages with read-online enabled Sonnet 5
• Refresh chapter OCR audit findings
• Enable Human Action's full-text reading pages; add enable-book-fulltext skill Sonnet 5
• Correct 15 more books' legacy-OCR chapter headings from the audit backlog Sonnet 5
• Add Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Kinsella, 2023)
• refine instructions
• Add The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman
• Update god-of-the-machine.png
• Install the commissioned God of the Machine cover
• Fix legacy-OCR chapter headings on god-of-the-machine, add the correction mechanism Sonnet 5
• Recreate the God of the Machine first-edition jacket, not just its argument
• Add a God of the Machine cover brief drawing on the first-edition jacket's own metaphor
• Add a triage script confirming legacy OCR heading errors are catalog-wide
• Add a third dist preview port Opus 5
• Set the site tagline to the bare domain Opus 5
• Fix the sticky courses toolbar flicker at rest Opus 5
• Build the hero "Lineage" author medallions Opus 5
• Enrich the God of the Machine book page Sonnet 5
• Compact the courses page head so a card row clears the fold Opus 5
• Install commissioned covers for Acton, Hoppe, McCarran, and Mises' Socialism
• Trim hero-animation spec: drop rights and alternatives sections Fable 5
• Compact the books filter bar: one control row plus a Filters disclosure Opus 5
• Add manual topic overrides for canonical books with thin metadata
• Link homepage stat numbers to their index pages Sonnet 5
• Spec the hero "Lineage" floating author-medallion animation Fable 5
• Link study guides to the books they cover Sonnet 5
• Add cover briefs for Acton, Hoppe, McCarran, and Mises' Socialism
• Import Cuhel's On the Theory of Needs and Reed's When Money Goes Bad Sonnet 5
• Import 2 new Kirzner FEE titles, enrich 2 records with EPUBs Sonnet 5
• Fix author page duplicate lead sentence and raw ISO life-span dates
• Update license-audit-report.md
• Fix FreemanFEE original-source link: freeman.fee.org, not mises.org
• Link journal series and issue pages to their original mises.org periodical page
• Sync 2 stale formats.pdf.bytes fields in catalog.json Sonnet 5
• Delete mises-at-facts-dump.json
• Import 79 mises.at Denker biographies into author-bios.json Sonnet 5
• Embed OCR text layer into the Mises Geldwertstabilisierung PDF
• Embed OCR text layer into the Strigl PDF; fix its garbled metadata
• Fill more /authors/ portrait gaps: full bio pass + mises.at merge Sonnet 5
• Link authors index to mises.at's Austrian School family tree Sonnet 5
• Add facts-only extractor for mises.at's 79-thinker Denker library Sonnet 5
• Log the Strigl OCR run in data/ocr-runs.json
• Add scripts/ocr_pdf.py: manual OCR for scanned, no-text-layer catalog PDFs
• Stop triage rejecting permissions-only encrypted PDFs as unreadable Opus 5
• Add per-issue table of contents for Rampart Journal

August 10, 2026

• Publish the FEE-era Freeman's per-issue tables of contents Opus 5
• Add per-issue table of contents for the independent-era Freeman Opus 5
• Surface journal article/table-of-contents detail on /stats/ Sonnet 5
• Add scripts/extract_faf_contents.py, the faf table-of-contents extractor
• Recover real interview titles/authors for the Austrian Economics Newsletter Sonnet 5
• Add per-issue table of contents for American Affairs, and commit its shared rendering infrastructure
• Implement archive publication RSS feeds
• Add per-issue contents for The Free Market from dbo.FreeMarket Sonnet 5
• Recover qjae article titles/authors from the Mises DB citation table Sonnet 5
• Add rae article extraction script (data already merged upstream) Sonnet 5
• Recover real per-article titles/authors for jls from the Mises DB Sonnet 5
• Spec RSS feeds for the three indexes and each author page Opus 5
• Fix circular PD-basis flattening in build_book_rights.py Sonnet 5
• Source scholar working-paper metadata from the Mises DB, not just PDF layout Sonnet 5
• Extract real titles/authors for scholar and lar journal PDFs Sonnet 5
• Add author outreach row to AGENTS.md doc-routing table
• Merge FreemanFEE's 685 issues into catalog-media.json, add its provenance sidecar
• Import the real Libertarian Papers journal, replacing the lp_test.pdf placeholder Sonnet 5
• Add the 2 missing book-rights records (recovered books, rebuild lag) Sonnet 5
• Add the author outreach builder, email renderer and drafting skill Fable 5
• Spec the author outreach campaign (permission, complete works, amplification) Fable 5
• Add FreemanFEE journal: FEE's own Freeman run, 1955-2015
• Document the payload_requests reweight in courses-page.md and the proxy builder
• Weight file-host downloads above Wikipedia fame in demand proxy
• Add a description line and typographic mark to each /journals/ card Sonnet 5
• Restamp 2 stale epub bytes fields in catalog.json Opus 5
• Order /courses/ by demand instead of A to Z Opus 5
• Commission an original cover for I, Pencil Sonnet 5
• Add cover brief for I, Pencil
• Fix 184 stale formats.*.bytes fields in catalog.json Sonnet 5
• Strip the outdated title-page banner image from 60 EPUBs
• Point the docs and generated install text at the new payload root Opus 5
• Move the library payload root D: -> F: behind one resolver Opus 5
• Add /stats/: every measured total the build can state Opus 5
• Fix nested-anchor chapter-boundary bug; sweep catalog for the class Sonnet 5

August 9, 2026

• Document the chapter-boundary ordering bug and its unswept scope Sonnet 5
• Reconvert remaining 98 pypdf-html books; fix chapter-boundary ordering bug Sonnet 5
• EPUB conversions progress checkin
• Commission a cover for The Myth of National Defense
• Brief a commissioned cover for The Myth of National Defense
• Document the pypdf-html converter bug fix and the zero-outline triage Sonnet 5
• Fix EPUB converter's pypdf-html fallback: no page anchors, no rights metadata Sonnet 5
• Split Economy, Society, and History into its real 15 chapters Sonnet 5
• Fold pills and controls when the books/courses filter bar pins to top
• Commission an original cover for Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market
• Commission an original cover for Principles of Economics
• Stage top-10-by-demand books for this week's featured shelf
• Add a cover brief for Menger's Principles of Economics
• Add a cover brief for Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market
• Make the next commission run better: step 0, and the extraction boundary Opus 5
• Refine the commission-cover skill from the Hazlitt session Opus 5
• Commission an original cover for Economics in One Lesson Opus 5
• Add a cover brief for Economics in One Lesson Opus 5
• Turn the cover commissioning process into a reusable skill Opus 5
• Replace the History of Money and Banking cover with the second-round pick Opus 5
• Install For a New Liberty (variant 3) and let named briefs re-run Opus 5
• Install four generated covers Opus 5
• Record the fabrication failure in the cover-brief README Opus 5
• Add Codex backend for cover generation
• Link book pages straight to their chapters
• Redraw 29 covers whose catalog titles were de-inverted Opus 5
• Put both cover generators on generator/coverart.py Opus 5
• Add the off-site content strategy: where rejected ideas go
• Draw cover art for the 37 lecture series with no cover Opus 5
• Fit the author line and split dash subtitles (cover recipe v5) Fable 5
• Add a harness to answer cover briefs with gpt-image-1 Opus 5
• Merge master: commissioned cover tier and per-slug grain seed Opus 5
• Install four more commissioned covers Opus 5
• Write cover briefs for the other nine top books Opus 5
• Draw cover art for the 400 books with no usable cover Opus 5

August 8, 2026

• Add a commissioned cover tier and install the Bureaucracy cover Opus 5
• Add reversible provenance for machine-made artifacts Opus 5
• Add a content-first cover brief for Bureaucracy Opus 5
• Make top-N lookup and cover drawing repeatable in two commands Opus 5
• Draw original cover art for the 10 most-requested books Opus 5
• Fix two raw-filename titles left over from this session's metadata fixes
• Migrate the 4 audio-only hidden books into the media/courses catalog
• Recover our-enemy-the-state from a verified copy David supplied
• Un-hide tengreateconomists-schumpeter, point it at the archive.org record
• Recover 5 books, hide 19, resolve the last of the 36 degraded books
• Refresh metadata QA report after the no-google enrichment rerun
• Rerun enrich_metadata.py --no-google (Google Books IP quota exhausted)
• Rerun extract_book_extents.py against the current D: drive catalog
• Rerun build_book_topics.py; exclude catalog-hidden.json ids
• Fix book-text.json indent width from the prior prune
• Hide 6 books, prune stale sidecar entries after the dedupe pass
• Dedupe 6 orphan catalog records, add the book-hide sidecar mechanism
• Add a one-time proxy demand tier for unranked /books/ sorting
• Add the content strategy, written against measured state
• Sort /books/ by measured demand instead of A to Z
• Build the measured keyword-target bucket: 81 books, ranked on real demand Opus 5
• Record what the fee.org and mises.org GSC exports change Opus 5
• Import the fee.org and live mises.org GSC exports as catalog demand data Opus 5
• Convert 74 more mechanical-ready PDFs to EPUB Sonnet 5

August 7, 2026

• Convert 26 recovered PDFs and extract the newly public-domain books Opus 5
• Point the extraction override at the consolidated rights record Opus 5
• Fix the text-first EPUB fallback: rebuild paragraphs, don't emit one Opus 5
• Update the doc routing and the six affected specs for the rights consolidation Opus 5
• Deprecate the five rights sidecars without deleting them Opus 5
• Switch the derivative and full-text gates to the shared rights record Opus 5
• Switch the export gate and the book pages to the shared rights record Opus 5
• Add the consolidated rights record and the one gate function Opus 5
• Admit the audit's public-domain books to full-text extraction Opus 5
• Add EPUB/AZW3 for Wieser; log 5 new conversions
• Record three EPUB QA failures
• Add the book-rights consolidation design note Opus 5
• Export the public-domain books in the bulk dataset Opus 5
• Let a public-domain determination clear the EPUB licence gate Opus 5
• Treat unrenewed, not-published-abroad books as public domain Opus 5
• Search the CCE renewal record for every renewal-era catalog book Opus 5
• Extend license-audit.json's public-domain-by-age determination to pre-1932 Sonnet 5
• Update docs/deploy.md for the rsync transfer swap
• Fix deploy verification asserting <urlset on the sitemap index
• Fix deploy.ps1 rsync passing a bare "/" as a second source
• Replace deploy.ps1's tar+scp+extract transfer with a direct rsync
• Update about.html
• Link the published HuggingFace dataset from llms.txt and /about/
• Extend the public-domain gate from pre-1930 to pre-1932, per David's decision Sonnet 5
• Update licensing docs and age thresholds
• Publish full text of Pictures of the Socialistic Future; document the process Sonnet 5
• Publish full text of Against Intellectual Property; add Read online filter Sonnet 5
• Condense licensing.md to cut token cost of parsing it Sonnet 5
• Empty the descriptions that were only PDF document properties Opus 5
• Retire pre-2014 books torrents and the Shanghai conference torrent Sonnet 5
• Stop claiming the whole library is Creative Commons Opus 5
• Merge llms.txt prose, file-host sitemap, and lecture rights JSON-LD Opus 5
• Withhold the full text of books whose rights cannot be established Opus 5
• Carry the text, not the links: rebuild llms-full.txt Opus 5
• A payload sitemap the file host can legally serve Opus 5
• Say what the lecture rights actually are, without inventing a licence Opus 5
• Merge the pre-2000 rights review: 155 of 177 cannot be established Opus 5
• Fix the next-lecture links, and gate the class of bug that hid them Opus 5
• Propose retiring the pre-2000 basis, and flag the routing error behind it Opus 5
• Correct the deploy payload size, and measure what a cutover now costs Opus 5
• Re-determine the rights basis for the 177 books published on age alone Opus 5
• Merge the lecture transcript release into the dataset export Opus 5
• Publish the book text: 8,899 static chapter pages
• Open the lecture transcripts, on an operator authorisation and not a licence Opus 5
• Recover the section headings the EPUBs encode as styled paragraphs
• Runbook for the dataset export, and route to it from AGENTS.md Opus 5
• Publish per-work rights as data, and export the CC-licensed corpus Opus 5
• Record why the corpus was invisible, and the two steps left Opus 5
• Guard the crawler access the archive depends on Opus 5
• Diagnose the 100-word failures: Calibre rasterizes a good text layer Opus 5
• Quarantine has never actually quarantined anything Opus 5
• Rebuild all 116 books at converter v5 Opus 5
• Record what v5 actually shipped, including the gate that had to be redesigned Opus 5
• Converter v5: reflow the paragraphs, catch the decoding failures Opus 5
• Correct the small-caps measurement, survey Calibre's options, scope the v5 run Opus 5
• Measure what the converted EPUBs actually look like, and plan v5 Opus 5

August 6, 2026

• Reconvert all 116 books at converter v4 Opus 5
• Stop Calibre inflating small books with a cover nobody asked for Opus 5
• FEE spec: the licence was in the ebook, not on the website Opus 5
• Stamp every generated book with the converter version that made it Opus 5
• Let the site state the FEE licences, and stop trusting the catalog about disk Opus 5
• Update catalog.json
• Update pdf-epub-conversions.json
• Record FEE EPUB licenses in audit sidecar
• Record the FEE rights tiers from the strongest evidence in the file Opus 5
• Import the six FEE ebooks whose licence is printed in the file Opus 5
• Give the generated EPUBs structure, rights, and a Kindle edition Opus 5
• FEE: fix the dedupe matcher, add the merit verdict, defer rights Opus 5
• Add FEE import criteria: five gates, plus triage of the 162 fee.org ebooks Opus 5
• Harden the PDF->EPUB pipeline: live licence gate, real QA, spec doc Opus 5
• Strip HTML markup before it reaches Calibre's --title/--authors Sonnet 5
• Fix wrong EPUB metadata: force --title/--authors, don't trust the PDF's own Sonnet 5
• Finish PDF->EPUB conversion: all 116 mechanical-ready books done Sonnet 5
• Record the Wayback snapshots as a rejected licence source (licensing.md 2.1) Opus 5
• Drop duplicate Garrison "Lachmann Legacy" catalog record Sonnet 5
• Record the 85 conversions from this session's batch run in the sidecar Sonnet 5
• Fix catalog-write durability bug; backfill 80 converted books Sonnet 5
• Add PDF->EPUB conversion pipeline; convert first 5 mechanical-ready books Sonnet 5
• Rerun license verifier; refresh EPUB-candidate license gates Sonnet 5
• Add PDF-only EPUB-candidate triage script Sonnet 5
• Convert 8 mobi-only Review of Austrian Economics volumes to epub
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• There is no transcription bug: the 15 are video duplicates Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Correct the wmav2 scope to 15 lectures and record the near-miss Opus 5
• Re-transcribe five singleton lectures; no material change Opus 5
• Fix Ctrl+C not stopping transcribe_lectures.py on Windows Sonnet 5
• Clean up docs/: remove completed reports, dead WP-migration docs
• Transcribe WMV-only lectures from their converted MP4 Opus 5
• Record the completed transcript corpus and the WMV failure mode Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Stop the-quotable-mises's topic index from rendering as chapters Sonnet 5
• Demote two book-structure.json entries that aren't chapter lists Sonnet 5

August 5, 2026

• Update lecture-transcripts.json Opus 5
• Record the chapter-table review and promotion in both specs Opus 5
• Fix apparatus-filter gap; promote 493 high-confidence chapter tables Opus 5
• Record the chapter-table extraction; correct the two projections it disproved Opus 5
• Extract chapter tables from PDF outlines, proposed for review Opus 5
• Record items 3.1, 3.4 and 3.8 as done; re-measure the coverage table Opus 5
• Adjudicate the six companion-course candidates; add the alias sidecar Opus 5
• Journal issue computed answers, and fix hours_phrase singular Opus 5
• Order course lectures by mises.org document ID, not title Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×3
• Add book: Getting Libertarianism Right (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) Sonnet 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×3
• optimize images

August 4, 2026

• Prepare the books+journals move to R2 Opus 5
• Cost the cheaper file-host alternatives to R2 Opus 5
• Spec the in-browser EPUB viewer Opus 5
• Add a 404 sweep for the published book/course download links Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Document the IIS MIME-map requirement on the file host Opus 5
• Point I, Pencil at the canonical Leonard E Read directory Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×2
• Enrich the top-100 SEO-target books and courses Sonnet 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×3
• Enrich the featured books and courses Sonnet 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json Sonnet 5
• Document the incremental build and --full Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Make rebuilds incremental with a content-digest manifest Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×5
• Dedupe catalog records sharing a mises.org document id Sonnet 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json ×2
• Make course pages rank on what a mirror cannot copy Opus 5
• Publish the mises.org summaries for The Failure of the "New Economics" Opus 5
• Order course lectures numerically; enrich The Failure of the "New Economics" Opus 5
• Publish the lecture transcripts as a player-synced reader Opus 5
• Update mechanical-seo.md
• Spec the remaining mechanical SEO work, measured and ranked Opus 5
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Log page-type parity results and what was cut Opus 5
• Extend computed FAQs and answer leads to courses, authors and lectures Opus 5
• Harden rebuilds against Windows file locks
• Update Hazlitt PDF source
• Record measured coverage and the plan for scaling book guides Opus 5
• Compute book-page FAQs from the model, for the whole catalog Opus 5
• Link Economics in One Lesson to legal free copies elsewhere Sonnet 5
• Document the book-guides enrichment layer and its baseline Opus 5
• Enrich book pages with verified editions, chapter guides and FAQs Opus 5
• Add companion book to course JSON-LD `about`
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Add book guides with chapters and FAQ schema
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Add tmp/ to .gitignore Haiku 4.5
• Add SEO targeting and ranking analysis Haiku 4.5
• Refactor generator pipeline for metadata integration Haiku 4.5
• Add lecture transcripts and journal article metadata Haiku 4.5
• Update site logo and styles Haiku 4.5
• Update author portraits and journal template Haiku 4.5
• Curate foundational authors shelf
• docs: record local IIS test URL
• Render faceted author pages and lecture catalog
• Build author index metadata and media relationships
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Temporarily disable SEO gate in deploy and pre-push
• Update lecture-transcripts.json
• Re-pull mises.org GSC at full depth; journals join, books do not Opus 5
• Spec the authors index rebuild Opus 5
• Add 20 new lecture transcript records
• Replace dead TOC scrape with the real files on the Mises trade-cycle essay Opus 5
• Plan the 100-item SEO target search Opus 5
• Strip stray HTML markup from publication_info
• Pick up further transcription progress ×4
• Ignore local scratchpad dir; pick up latest transcription progress
• Merge journal issue-level pages (SEO backlog item 18)
• Group journal articles under real issue pages (seo-backlog #18) Sonnet 5
• Merge AI answer-engine surfaces (SEO backlog item 10)
• Add AI answer-engine answerability blocks and visibility probe (backlog #10) Sonnet 5
• Merge topic-hub cross-linking to courses and the wiki (SEO backlog item 7)
• Cross-link topic hub pages to courses and the companion wiki
• Merge book-page page-count surfacing (SEO backlog item 2)
• Surface book page counts on book detail pages; retire completed backlog items Sonnet 5
• Merge reverse wiki-links dry-run tooling (SEO backlog item 11)
• Add wiki reverse-links dry-run planner (SEO backlog item 11) Sonnet 5
• Remove SEO backlog item 19 (surname() fix already shipped)
• Further lecture-transcription progress

August 3, 2026

• Guard deploy verification against the apex pointing at the wrong origin Opus 5
• Further lecture-transcription progress Sonnet 5 ×3
• Drop the /tag/bittorrent/ live-verification check from both deploy twins Sonnet 5
• Further lecture-transcription progress Sonnet 5 ×3
• Note in assets/site.css that .license-note is currently unused Sonnet 5
• Hide the per-book license-note block pending more licence-data refinement Sonnet 5
• Remove the legacy /document/<id>/ book URL redirect Sonnet 5
• Add scripts/audit_author_links.py: re-verify Wikipedia/Wikidata same_as links Sonnet 5
• Merge pull request #1 from DavidVeksler/codex/dependabot-fleet
• Add chapter TOC, author card, and related-books to book detail pages Sonnet 5
• Estimate the run from the model it will actually use Opus 5
• Retry dist/ rmtree with backoff to survive transient Windows file locks Sonnet 5
• Add indexable /topics/<slug>/ hub pages for the book topic taxonomy
• Fix util.surname() to actually implement its organisation-name promise
• Write up the pending SEO queue as docs/seo-backlog.md Opus 5
• Stop the VAD from discarding the archival lecture recordings Opus 5
• Automate Dependabot updates

August 2, 2026

• Replace the site-wide CC BY 4.0 claim with a per-book licence property Opus 5
• Verify book licences per book instead of one blanket CC BY 4.0 claim Opus 5
• Complete the manual per-book licence audit of all 990 books Opus 5
• Licence audit: cross-check against the automated pass Opus 5
• Licence audit: full file evidence in, report drafted Opus 5
• Publish 2,728 lecture pages and 2,461 journal issue pages Opus 5
• Licence audit: all 990 book files scanned Opus 5
• Licence audit checkpoint: 717 of 990 books scanned Opus 5
• Fix 13 wrong identity claims in the author biographies, and the matcher that made them Opus 5
• Licence audit checkpoint: 398 of 990 books scanned Opus 5
• Attribute the generated-description decision to David directly Opus 5
• Start the manual per-book licence audit (checkpoint, scan in progress) Opus 5
• Recover 68 real covers and 22 sourced descriptions from mises.org Opus 5
• Publish the 54 owner-authorised books as an override, not a looser gate Opus 5
• Extract full-text reading HTML from the archive's 312 EPUB books Opus 5
• Finish the off-page outreach plan and wire it into the doc routing Opus 5
• Extend the cover and metadata recovery sources (work in progress) Opus 5
• Add the off-page outreach targets and backlink checker (work in progress) Opus 5
• Add the lecture transcription pipeline (work in progress, pilot not yet run) Opus 5
• Add the EPUB full-text extractor (work in progress, not yet wired in) Opus 5
• Fix the title truncation bug and rebuild the SEO head Opus 5
• Add project note: move the file payloads off the home IP Opus 5

July 29, 2026

• Pin deploy.ps1's tar to Windows bsdtar instead of PATH Opus 5

July 28, 2026

• Add the shield logo: favicon, apple-touch icon, masthead mark Opus 5

July 23, 2026

• Add Start Here reading-order CTA and Kindle/Apple Books help modal
• Import 12 mises.org books, with a reusable add-book pipeline Opus 4.8
• Fix deploy canary that false-failed on a hidden course Opus 4.8
• Refresh the metadata enrichment QA report Opus 4.8
• Finish the WMV conversion: all 133 lectures now stream Opus 4.8
• Fix two encoder bugs that failed 26 of the WMV conversions Opus 4.8
• Enroll 20 more courses in the mises.org metadata sidecar Sonnet 5
• Update course-metadata sidecar with latest scraper progress Sonnet 5
• Update course-metadata and wmv-conversion sidecars with latest progress Sonnet 5
• Create wmv-conversions.json
• Add course year sorting and bulk metadata fetch
• Hide low-value conference/media series from the courses index Sonnet 5
• Add a per-course podcast RSS feed Sonnet 5
• Publish the mises.org lecture summaries on the Mises Archives course Opus 4.8
• Convert the WMV-only lecture videos to streamable MP4 Opus 4.8
• Recover course recording years, dates and topics from mises.org Opus 4.8
• Trim homepage featured books to 4 and reuse the /courses/ featured shelf
• Feature four courses on /courses/, and fingerprint asset URLs Fable 5
• Redesign the courses filter into a faceted, shareable toolbar Opus 4.8
• Strip dangling site-name separator when truncating <title> tags Fable 5
• Merge four entity-mangled duplicate lecture series into canonical courses Fable 5
• Require pwsh 7 in deploy.ps1: PS 5.1 falsely trips the target guard Fable 5
• Add featured course and filter menu to the courses index Fable 5
• Record the real crawler-403 cause: content_bots_protection, not Bot Fight Mode Opus 4.8
• Redirect legacy WordPress paths to blogs.freecapitalists.org Sonnet 5
• Enrich sitemap with lastmod, changefreq and priority Opus 4.8
• Record the apex cutover: archive is live on the DO box, not local IIS Opus 4.8
• Read the Cloudflare zone id from site.config.json so the purge stops skipping Opus 4.8
• Promote the apex to the Liberty Archive; fix deploy verification UA Opus 4.8
• Strip embedded YouTube videos from book/media descriptions Sonnet 5
• Add wiki to primary nav before Torrents
• Point llms.txt at the companion wiki Opus 4.8
• Link the archive to its companion wiki Opus 4.8

July 22, 2026

• Fix the netplan trap with metadata-derived anchor policy routing Opus 4.8
• Document the DO restore procedure and why the netplan trap stays Opus 4.8
• Record the 2026-07-23 wipe, the WP-mu path rename, and the restore traps Opus 4.8
• Refuse to rsync --delete over a foreign docroot in deploy scripts Opus 4.8
• Remove biography source credits from author pages Sonnet 5
• Improve author bio text and HTML across archive
• Standard Format For Author Biographies
• Add one-off catalog description cleanup script
• Resume author-bio resolution pass and fix 8 wrong-person matches Sonnet 5
• Remove dead mises.org links from book and course descriptions
• Add author biographies, portraits and life dates to author pages Opus 4.8
• Add light/dark theme toggle and link course speakers to author pages Sonnet 5
• On-page SEO: rebalance meta descriptions toward content, away from licensing Sonnet 5
• Merge duplicate author pages and dedupe records from scraped spelling variants Sonnet 5
• Add agent-discovery Link headers and Content Signals to robots.txt Sonnet 5
• Rewrite homepage hero: sharper H1, benefit-led subhead, add Download everything CTA Opus 4.8
• Remove redundant tagline from About section Opus 4.8
• Enrich book metadata: descriptions to 100%, original publication years to 94% Opus 4.8
• Implement weekly featured section (books + courses) with hand-made selection Opus 4.8
• Plan weekly-rotating homepage featured section (books + courses) Opus 4.8
• Add real front covers for 82 books from Open Library (Phase 2) Opus 4.8
• Add per-section OG cards and stop tracking scratchpad previews Opus 4.8
• Derive book covers from PDF page 1 / EPUB when no real cover exists Opus 4.8
• Cache cover thumbnails across builds Opus 4.8
• Add generated OG card and Twitter metadata
• Refine redirects and homepage SEO output
• Add landing About/FAQ with FAQ schema
• Document generator architecture, build/serve/deploy commands, and current IIS hosting in AGENTS.md Opus 4.8
• Add IIS redirect maps and rebuild wrappers
• Add Legacy Mises Community Forums link under torrent section on homepage Opus 4.8
• Emit dist/web.config for local IIS hosting (webp/torrent MIME, 404, default doc) Opus 4.8
• Phase C EXECUTED: WP-mu main site moved to blogs.freecapitalists.org; apex parked as 302 Opus 4.8
• Record DO daily snapshots as the worst-case rollback net (Phase B/E) Opus 4.8
• Re-plan Phase C from Phase A findings; align goal/verification to live WP sites Opus 4.8
• Phase A results: WP-mu relocation discovery (read-only) + STOP-and-re-plan verdict Opus 4.8
• Add read-only WP-mu discovery script for Phase A relocation runbook Fable 5
• Phase 6 prep: WP multisite relocation runbook Fable 5
• Add guarded deploy scripts for the Liberty Archive
• Phase 5: draft deploy runbook and serving architecture Fable 5
• Wire real torrent files into /torrents/, point file host at library subdomain Fable 5
• Reindex media catalog: torrent complete, 0 incomplete Fable 5
• Phase 4: build the Liberty Archive static site generator Fable 5
• Drop CC license notice from book detail mockup Fable 5
• Refine landing mockup for three-type architecture Fable 5
• Drop License provenance section from spec Fable 5

July 21, 2026

• Add verified journal code -> title lookup table Fable 5
• Refine design spec for three document types (books/journals/courses) Fable 5
• Remove homepage provenance section
• Add Liberty Archive design mockups
• Build media and journals catalog
• Spec: lock /tag/misesdotorg/ -> /torrents/ redirect into cutover plan Opus 4.8
• Add master prompt wrapping all specs for one-shot execution Opus 4.8
• Add Phase 3 SERP supply-side snapshot and analysis Opus 4.8
• Add Phase 4 specs: static site generator + page design (landing/book/media) Opus 4.8
• Phase 3 report: exact document-ID matching pass against catalog.json Opus 4.8
• Spec: record hosting decision (NZXT serves books+media) and CC provenance evidence Opus 4.8
• Phase 3: pull GSC keyword data for mises.org + baseline properties, add residual-demand report Opus 4.8
• Phase 2: parse book Info.txt metadata into structured catalog.json Opus 4.8
• Phase 1: index Mises Torrents 2014 collection (books/journals/media) Opus 4.8
• Record Liberty Archive decision: governing spec, supersede A/B/C positioning Opus 4.8
• Scaffold freecapitalists.org redesign: doc spine + positioning proposal Opus 4.8