Issues

• Switch summarizer.batch to DeepSeek V4 Flash — gated rollout plan

  effort-weeksenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#285 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Verify/run the stat-chip prod cleanup (strip_common_noun_outlet_links.py --apply + seed_entity_aliases.py)

  kristenmartino/sift-api#282 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Structured tracing: link each LLM call to prompt version, cost, latency, and downstream outcome

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#281 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Expose confidence signal from classification/decision stages, route low-confidence cases

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#280 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Version prompts and support gradual rollout (deprioritized — see body)

  effort-weeksenhancementtier-v2
  kristenmartino/sift-api#279 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Continuously sample production output for drift, not just point-in-time evals

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#278 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Wire existing eval scripts into CI as a regression gate

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#277 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Gate story_confirmer decisions with a stronger-model check in production (contingent)

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#276 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Gate story_synthesizer output with the Sonnet judge in production (contingent)

  effort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#275 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Build a ground-truth eval for story_confirmer identity decisions

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#274 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Measure story_synthesizer fabrication rate with the existing calibrated judge

  effort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#273 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Make hedge preservation a stated contract in _build_prompt, so it can be checked

  kristenmartino/sift-api#265 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 18, 2026

• Import campaign-finance composition from DIME — where the money came from, current through 2024

  effort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#260 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 18, 2026
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• Re-run the OpenSecrets bulk import for the 2024 cycle — dossier PAC data is four years stale

  blockedeffort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#254 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 18, 2026
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• Measure whether the legal-safety rules hold now that summaries carry real article text

  blocked
  kristenmartino/sift-api#243 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 14, 2026

• 33 foreign-executive rows are unverified data, not merely unpublished

  effort-daytier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#166 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 7, 2026

• Re-verify the 13 foreign dossier sources before 2026-11-05, or they age out

  effort-daytier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#164 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Aug 7, 2026

• Alert on outlets that stop contributing — feed_stats counts fetched, not new

  effort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#125 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Jul 31, 2026
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• Tripwire before pgvector exact-search outgrows brute-force (no ANN index)

  effort-dayenhancement
  kristenmartino/sift-api#103 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Jun 18, 2026

• Activate the pipeline-heartbeat workflow (set secrets + verify)

  effort-daystabilization
  kristenmartino/sift-api#102 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Jun 18, 2026

• Restore (or de-reference) ASK_SIFT_PLAN.md + REFINED_COMPARE_PLAN.md — referenced but not on main

  effort-daytier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#96 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Jun 4, 2026

• Outlet seed CSV ↔ prod divergence: capture missing outlets + make the seeder authoritative

  effort-weekenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#93 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on Jun 4, 2026

• Move topic query embedding + vector search into sift-api (/v1/search)

  effort-weekstabilizationtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#80 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on May 30, 2026

• Move topic-search web-search fallback into sift-api (/v1/search/fallback)

  effort-weekstabilizationtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#79 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on May 30, 2026
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• Add repair pass for NULL article embeddings

  effort-dayenhancementtier-v1.5
  kristenmartino/sift-api#76 · Filter by author kristenmartino opened on May 30, 2026