SITREP BRIEFS

The Ledger — everything that has happened to the archive, as opposed to in a brief.

The ledger

Corrections, gaps and operations

Why this page exists. The archive rule says editions are preserved exactly as published and never edited afterward. That rule is only worth anything if its exceptions are named. An archive that quietly keeps its rule and one that quietly breaks it look identical from outside — the difference is whether the breaks are written down. Entries here are appended and never removed or reworded.

Date	Kind	Record
2026-08-02	Operation	All seven back issues re-skinned; no content altered The briefs were redesigned onto the layout used by throughline.tryrerun.com, in SITREP's palette. Editions published before that date carried the previous stylesheet, so the archive held two visual generations. Rather than leave the split or hide the repair, the seven editions of 27 July – 2 August 2026 were re-skinned in place and the operation recorded here. The change was a STYLESHEET SWAP and nothing else: everything between <style> and </style> was replaced and no byte outside it was touched. `restyle_back_issues.py` refuses to write unless it can first prove the remainder is byte-identical, and it proved that for all seven. Prose, severity scores, source lists, timestamps and model names are the same bytes that were published. The pre-redesign copies are retained at /opt/sitrep-digests-backup-preredesign. Presentation changed; the record did not.