The standard

A digest is only worth reading if its claims can be checked. This page is what to check, and how.

What counts as a source

The page where the thing was published by the company that shipped it. Its own announcement, its own documentation, its own pricing page, its own filing. Not a summary of one, not a report about one, and not another publication's write up.

Where a number here differs from what you read elsewhere, that page is why.

What gets cut

A claim that cannot be sourced does not ship, however good it is. A number appears with its unit and the side of the trade it sits on, or it does not appear.

An announcement is not a deployment. The lens is what shipped and reached people, so a plan is not an item here, and a hedge is a plan wearing a verb: reportedly, is expected to, intends to.

When something is cut, the edition says so. Every edition that drops an item carries Left out: the subject, and the reason it did not make it. A gap that is named is a gap you can go and check. An unnamed gap reads exactly like an oversight.

The rule is enforced, not remembered

Every source is fetched before an edition sends, and the page has to carry the item's own subject and its own figures, not merely resolve. An item whose page does not carry them is dropped to Left out with the reason, rather than quietly softened until it fits.

The closing section is held to the same rule from the other side. It argues across the week's items, so it has no source line of its own, and every figure, year, version and named entity in it has to appear in an item first. It may argue. It may not add.

That second rule exists because it was broken. Three days before the first edition was due to send, its closing section asserted a named programme, its eligibility rules and a vendor policy change. None of the three appeared in any item. None carried a link. All of it sat directly above the line saying that every claim above links to the publisher's own page.

It did not send. The check written that day was proven by being fed the exact paragraph it had just refused, which is the only way to know a check works.

A rule that only a person remembers holds until the week that person is tired. This one was broken on the first edition, and the reason you did not read it is that something other than a memory was holding it.

How a correction runs

A correction runs in the next edition, above the first lead, in the same type as the item it corrects. It is not a footnote and it is not quiet. It names what was wrong and what is right.

That placement is not a promise about intent, it is where the renderer puts it.

The test, which is yours to run

Open any item's source and check the number against it. That is the whole test. It works here and it works on anything else you read.

If a claim here does not survive it, reply to any edition or reach me at hello@deployedbyai.com, and the correction runs in the next one.