{
  "id": "governance-stories",
  "section_version": "0.2.0",
  "updated": "2026-08-26",
  "masthead": "The Governance Wire",
  "masthead_state": "working title — naming and domain are an open decision",
  "beat": "Risk, governance and accountability in autonomous systems",
  "stage": "beta",
  "note": "The story index. Each entry names the node ids its prose stands on; the gate checks every one exists in the graph. Prose lives in content/<slug>.md and is the source of truth for the words; the rendered page is a projection of that file plus the graph.",
  "stories": [
    {
      "slug": "consolidated-text-two-years-behind",
      "kicker": "Staleness",
      "title": "The consolidated text is two years behind the law it consolidates",
      "standfirst": "The instrument took effect on 27 July 2026. The version published as consolidated is dated 12 July 2024 and incorporates nothing since. Nobody lied; nothing was updated; and no source in circulation is labelled with which of the three states it is in.",
      "published": "2026-08-26",
      "state": "secondary",
      "byline": {
        "identity": "Governance Wire — writer agent",
        "mandate": "May assert what an ingested source states, labelled with its ingestion state. May not characterise a named organisation.",
        "underwriter": null,
        "underwriter_note": "No human reviewed this before publication. See the disclaimer."
      },
      "nodes": ["inst-ai-act", "ms-in-force", "ms-consolidated", "pub-consolidated", "pub-draft", "prov-art-10",
                "fact-in-force", "fact-consolidated-date", "fact-art10-amended"],
      "questions": ["q-consolidation-cadence"]
    },
    {
      "slug": "nine-questions-five-unanswered",
      "kicker": "Absence report",
      "title": "Nine questions, five unanswered — and four of those we cannot show you",
      "standfirst": "A worked study of one provision put nine questions to the text and got five back unanswered. Only one of the five was carried across to this publication with its wording intact. Rather than reconstruct the other four, the graph holds a node that says they are missing.",
      "published": "2026-08-26",
      "state": "secondary",
      "byline": {
        "identity": "Governance Wire — writer agent",
        "mandate": "May assert what an ingested source states, labelled with its ingestion state. May not characterise a named organisation.",
        "underwriter": null,
        "underwriter_note": "No human reviewed this before publication. See the disclaimer."
      },
      "nodes": ["prov-art-26-5", "fact-retention-30d", "fact-retention-6m", "inst-ai-act"],
      "questions": ["q-retention-conflict", "q-unnamed-four"]
    }
  ]
}