Presentation QA Mascots 027: Read-First Review of 9 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00197.mascots-027 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/mascots/ — the 9 records assigned by workload issue #754 (272.shorthand-reliquary.md through 280.ribbon-latency.md, case-sensitive path order)

What changed

• Read all 9 assigned records in full, frontmatter through final limerick line, including related-residue appendices. Snapshot 8997eebe line counts verified unchanged (1,534 lines total).
• 275.appendix-silk.md line 20: bolded "Annexa Sorrowmark" — the contrast entity at the Boundary Note definitional pivot (Silk governs how truth is placed; Sorrowmark that it was moved). Matches the established convention of **Annexa Sorrowmark**/**Appendix Silk** in 239.annex-lurker.md line 17 and **Time Dilation** in 280. Asterisks only.
• 276.mandate-lace.md line 20: bolded "Formee Formeson" — the contrast entity at the ### Distinction pivot, matching **Time Dilation** (280), **Metric Decay** (269), **Abrupt Timeout** (266). Formee Formeson is canonical record mascots/M-0011. The callback "Formee" later in the same sentence stays plain. Asterisks only.
• No other records changed. 272, 274 already italicize their contrast entities; 273, 277, 280 already carry bold pivots; 278, 279 are already visually structured.

What was deliberately left alone

• All frontmatter, canonical IDs, tags, titles, anchors ({#...}), link targets, quoted/documentary material, lists, headings, and every existing emphasis marker — including the two pre-existing bold labels in 277 and the bare Formee callback in 276.
• 278.benevolence-spacer.md and 279.annex-hush.md stat-block preambles: hard-break label lines (Role , Function , Emotional Tone , Slogan ) plus bare paragraph section labels in 278 ("Boundary Note", "Operational Posture", "Failure Modes", "Archive Note") where 275 uses ## headings and 279 mixes both. Established archived-mascot convention shared with unassigned neighbors 281, 294, 299 — flagged in the PR evidence, not normalized.
• All verse: every stanza line already carries correct two-space hard breaks (only section-final lines lack them, which is correct). Stanza census is regular — all haikus 3 lines, all limericks 5 lines. No missing-hard-break residue in this batch. Cross-record duplicated stanza residue ("We leave the whole database at / A state of decay / ... / somebody's cat" in 275, 276, 277, 278) preserved as intentional.
• 275 frontmatter status: archived and tag "empathegy"; 278/279 status: archived — archival residue statuses and coinages preserved.

Verification performed

• git diff 8997eebe..HEAD -- <assigned paths> — empty; no files changed since snapshot.
• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed after the edits.
• Compiled-article inspection of dist/cantilever/mascots/M-0275.html line 85 (<strong>Annexa Sorrowmark</strong>) and M-0276.html line 86 (<strong>Formee Formeson</strong>); <br> hard breaks verified present in verse of changed and unchanged records (M-0275: 66, M-0276: 42, M-0278: 48).

Unresolved follow-up

• Whether the bare-label stat-block sections in 278 (and mixed ##/bare style in 279) should migrate to ## headings for consistency with 275 is a collection-level convention question for the maintainer — flagged, not normalized.