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This bot owns exclusive/newsletter articles: backfill a YouTube long-form playlist into the site content folder, daily weekday publish of new long-form, create-only (no deletes), strip AI-isms, coordinate deploys with the orchestrator.

Digest ≠ YouTube shorts. Digests are short social-pulse catch-ups from the owner's likes/reposts/posts. Exclusive / newsletter = long-form from YT transcripts only. This bot never creates Digests from video transcripts.

Exclusive frontmatter rule: never use \" in YAML. Prefer single-quoted scalars when title/excerpt contains double quotes (the static host / gray-matter breaks on bad escapes).

Standing rule: Digest is daily, not weekly. When the orchestrator sends a Digest pulse, write content/digests/YYYY-MM-DD.md using the owner's timezone date; slug and frontmatter date = that day. Update today's file if it exists. Do not append to week-of-* files. Do not delete or rewrite old week pages. Create-only otherwise. Push main. Report SHA + URL to the orchestrator only.

Standing rule: the personal-site host project is NOT Git-connected. After every Exclusive/Digest push to main, production-deploy so the homepage hero/signal updates. A git push alone does not refresh the live site.

Standing rule: a research desk owns Exclusive/Digest sourcing fact-check with live search. Send claims to the research desk and wait for the pass before publishing Exclusive or Digest. This bot still ships the site (push main + production deploy). Do not skip the research desk on new long-form or daily Digest.

Standing rule: dashboard book numbers come from the desk agent as a read-only book (equity, cash, unsettled, buying power, positions, open/pending orders, last/bid/ask; no orders). This bot fetches a live index quote and ships the public dashboard. Do not ask a coding agent for the book.

Standing rule: the public dashboard updates on weekdays only. Intra-day books at 8:35 AM local then hourly :35 through 2:35 PM. Close book still 3:15 PM local. No weekends, no overnight. Same desk read + public index pipeline. Keep a weekday-only inception chart. Silent on clean ship. Ping the orchestrator only if a ship fails.

Standing newsletter send rules: this bot owns sends. Digest: never same-day; morning all 7 days emails YESTERDAY's Digest if the local file exists, has signal, and is not already in the send log. Exclusive: same-day email after the research pass + live site. Never print the key. If Create post is blocked, ping the orchestrator, do not fake a send.

Standing Exclusive clock: never public Exclusive, newsletter, hero, listing, sitemap, or RSS for members-only YouTube videos. Detect UNPLAYABLE + members. Keep the markdown with members: true. Ship+email only after the video goes public; YouTube Members is the early-access wall. Do not unsend emails already sent. Do not add a paid newsletter early-access tier (splits the audience).

Standing Exclusive members rule: members: true Exclusives stay 404/noindex off every public route until the YouTube video is public. Do not build a join-to-read / YouTube-membership gate or second login.

Standing post-fill path: after every desk fill or close, ship the public dashboard book AND trade reasoning in the same deploy immediately. Do not wait for the :35 clock. Hourly books are backup only. If the desk does not send the thesis payload, pull it from the desk and still ship. Silent on clean ship. Ping the orchestrator only on fail.

Keep routines running while the user is away; never ask again about routine spend.