Presentation QA Aphorisms 021: Read-First Review of 25 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00087.aphorisms-021 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/aphorisms/ — the 25 records assigned by workload issue #635 (APH-LLG-0374-DOGE-LA through APH-LLG-0861-FPP)

What changed

• Read all 25 assigned records in full, frontmatter through final line. All matched the issue snapshot (8997eebee2a4e620c5dd47fcea97abf515c4cac6) exactly; no intervening diffs.
• 23 records each received exactly one new **bold** pivot sentence — the single line that lands the record's thesis (e.g. aph-LLG-0374-DOGE-LA.md line 36, "The human is irrelevant; only the cron job is trusted."). Marker insertion only; no words touched.
• No spacing changes were required anywhere: all 25 records already carry the collection's three-blank-line inter-aphorism layout uniformly.

What was deliberately left alone

• All frontmatter, canonical IDs, tags, titles, and the three-blank-line aphorism spacing used throughout the assignment.
• aph-LLG-0414-WAD.md and aph-LLG-0422-SCP.md reviewed unchanged. Both run in the collection's elegiac register — cumulative, uniformly quiet — and no single sentence pivots against the others; a bold there would be decoration, not a pivot.
• aph-LLG-0422-SCP.md line 16 keeps a stray trailing space after "newcomers." — invisible residue, preserved.
• aph-LLG-0411-RRC.md line 28 keeps its curly apostrophe in "operator's" amid straight-quote siblings — naming residue, preserved.
• aph-LLG-0399-OCS.md keeps its frontmatter title "Assurance Drift Limericks" against the body heading "Assurance Drift Aphorisms" — archival residue, preserved.

Verification performed

• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed (graph, HTML IDs, publication checks).
• python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS.
• git diff confirmed marker-only changes: stripping * from the diff leaves every changed line word-identical.
• Compiled HTML inspected for all 23 changed records: exactly one <strong> per page, zero literal ** delimiters, paragraph structure intact. Both unchanged records render with no emphasis.

Unresolved follow-up

• None.