Reasoning models at high effort could spend the entire max_tokens budget
on thinking and return zero visible content with finish_reason=length;
the empty article flowed writer -> editor (reject) -> empty draft post,
with the cost booked as success (2026-06-11 incident: prod run acf24029,
draft post 921; diagnosis: convo pipeline-v2-phase1 seq 12).
- Empty-completion guard at the provider seam (new
OpenRouter_Completion_Guard): empty/whitespace content is a failure;
one retry with reasoning disabled (per-call override) when
finish_reason=length or reasoning was active, then the stage fails.
- finish_reason=length always warning-logged (model, stage, tokens).
- Failed/retried attempts booked to generation_log with
response_status=error + real token burn; run_decisions verdict rows
(retry_reasoning_disabled / failed_empty_completion) for v0.18.0 runs.
- Writer-path guard in Content_Generator::execute_stage and
belt-and-braces empty check in Publisher::create_post.
- Reasoning budget sanity: reasoning.max_tokens cap + completion
headroom via new prautoblogger_reasoning_max_tokens setting (default
constant 2048, 0 = legacy uncapped effort mode); cap replaces effort
when active; governor reservations use the effective ceiling.
- Body assembly moved to Request_Builder::build_body (300-line cap).
- Tests: guard verdict matrix, builder budget shaping, writer/publisher
guards, full provider retry path.
Agent-Session: prab-empty-draft-guard-20260611
Pipeline v2 Phase 1, commit 2/4. Prompt_Registry (read) +
Prompt_Registry_Writer (immutable create/activate/seed) over the new
prompts table; canonical v1 bodies extracted verbatim into
Prompt_Defaults(+Editorial) — single source for BOTH the seed migration
(Migrate_Prompt_Seed_V0180, flag-gated, self-healing) and the in-code
fallback, so a missing table renders byte-identical prompts and never
fatals. Call sites swapped: Content_Prompts, Analysis_Prompts,
Chief_Editor, LLM_Research_Provider. Includes the image-composer seam
keys image.rewriter_system + image.style_template (composer PR consumes,
must not add its own prompt storage).
Pinning: Cost_Tracker::set_run_id() registers the process run context,
ensures the runs ledger row, and pins active versions once per run;
log_api_call/log_image_generation stamp prompt_version (run pins) +
agent_role (stage map) on every generation_log row. Single-pass keeps
stage 'draft' and stamps content.single_pass explicitly.
Under-300 refactors: Content_Generator's four duplicated span/log blocks
consolidated into execute_stage() (301 -> 224 lines, behavior
identical); get_avg_tokens_for_stages body moved to Cost_Reporter with a
delegating wrapper kept for API compatibility.
Tests: byte-identical fallback renders (single_pass/outline/polish/
editor.system), token filling, key coverage incl. stage-map integrity.
Agent-Session: pipeline-v2-phase1-engineer-20260612
File-level sniffs like WordPress.Files.FileName are evaluated at the file level,
not at code level. They require phpcs:ignore directives to be placed within the
file-level docblock (/** ... */), not in code comments.
Moved all 81 phpcs:ignore pragmas from code comments to the file-level docblocks.
This applies to:
- 79 class files with class-naming convention ignores
- prautoblogger.php with strict-types docblock ignore
- uninstall.php with strict-types docblock ignore
- Added phpcs:ignore for class file naming convention (79 violations)
WordPress.Files.FileName.InvalidClassFileName is a known architectural
issue — class files use short names without prautoblogger- prefix
- Added phpcs:ignore for ->prepare() table interpolation (56 violations)
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared: dynamic table names
(prab_generation_logs, prab_cost_logs) require interpolation; ->prepare()
does not support table name placeholders, only column values
- Fixed file-level docblock positioning (2 violations)
prautoblogger.php and uninstall.php: moved declare(strict_types=1) before
file docblock per PHP best practices
Run phpcbf --standard=WordPress-Core across includes/, prautoblogger.php,
and uninstall.php. Fixed 1,362 formatting violations in 75 files:
- Short array syntax: [] → array()
- Line breaking for long function calls
- Consistent indentation
- Function call parameter alignment
No logic changes; purely mechanical formatting.
Research LLM call runs once per pipeline but was logged with no run_id
or post_id, making it invisible in per-article cost breakdowns. Now the
pipeline's cost tracker flows through Source_Collector to the research
provider, tagging costs with the run_id. After all articles complete,
amortize_research_costs() divides the cost evenly and inserts one row
per article. link_generation_logs() excludes llm_research stage so the
first article doesn't grab the full cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New data source that sends a configurable research prompt to a
reasoning-capable model (Grok 4.1 Fast, DeepSeek-R1, etc.) to identify
trending topics, content gaps, and emerging questions. Findings feed
into the content analyzer alongside Reddit data, combining real-time
community signals with deep knowledge-base research.
New admin settings: Research Model picker, Research Prompt textarea,
and LLM Deep Research toggle in Enabled Sources.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
