Summary of work done

Patched the daily KB pulse and the daily KB follow-up drift scan together.

What shipped:

Reason for ending session

The requested hardening pass is implemented and locally verified. No live destructive changes were made.

Suggested next steps

Let the next scheduled pulse and follow-up runs execute normally, then confirm the follow-up report stops flagging ordinary same-day backlog movement as a drift defect. If the stack still reports a mismatch, inspect whether the difference comes from real new entries after the pulse or from a stale historical page being compared without timestamp context.

Handoff for the next agent

The important files are Skills/sail-kb-daily-pulse/build_report.py, Skills/sail-kb-daily-pulse/SKILL.md, Skills/tests/test_kb_followup_live_backlog.py, and ~/.codex/automations/daily-sail-kb-follow-up-and-drift-scan/automation.toml. The user chose option A specifically to reduce false urgency from count mismatches and stale blockers. The expected next proof is tomorrow's scheduled output, not another speculative code pass.