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Nightly report — 2026-07-27 (session 7, phase 1)

Shipped

1 digest — 2026-07-27: “Three big developer APIs get August shutdown dates: OpenAI Assistants, Google Content API, New Relic drop rules” (3 new entries).
Three new entries, all confirmed against the vendors’ own primary pages, all clustered in the back half of August 2026:
- OpenAI is retiring the Assistants API — Category API. Deprecated 26 Aug 2025; removed 26 Aug 2026. Successor is the Responses API — a genuine re-architecture (hosted assistants/threads/runs → a single stateful endpoint), not a rename.
- Google is sunsetting the Content API for Shopping — Category API. Sunset 18 Aug 2026, replaced by the Merchant API. Failure mode is a store’s catalog silently ceasing to sync to Merchant Center.
- New Relic is ending its NRQL Drop Filter Rules API — Category API. Announced 21 May 2025; end of life 31 Aug 2026 16:00 UTC. Management-plane only — existing drop rules keep filtering; the API to create/update them stops. Successor: Pipeline Cloud Rules API.
B-039 done — scripts/nightly-prep.sh, a single pre-digest command that runs re-verify → Layer-1 pipeline → Layer-2 discovery in order and ends with a gate: any <30-day entry that comes back FLAG/ERROR/STALE exits non-zero, so the re-verification step can no longer be silently skipped before a digest.

Metrics

Budget

Layer 1 → 0 new / 0 changed across 50 sources (quiet; no moved dates). Layer 2 → HN/subreddit scan 0 fresh; 3 targeted discovery web searches (of 12) surfaced all three new items. Subagents: 0. Fetches: ~70 (well under 250). Vendor emails: 0.

§3.5 re-verification

10 entries with a sunset date inside 30 days, all PASS. The window grew from 8 to 10 because tonight’s two nearest additions — Google Content API (18 Aug) and OpenAI Assistants (26 Aug) — landed inside 30 days and were auto-re-verified on the same run they were written.

Creative

in flight: 0 | shipped: 0 | killed: 0 | ideas captured: 0.

Decisions

D-012 — pre-digest sourcing consolidated into one gated command (nightly-prep.sh).
B-038 closed as no-change — Python 3.10 EOL: python.org publishes only the month (2026-10); the existing entry is correctly undated per the no-inference rule. Not a defect.

Problems & corrections

None. Build green; all three new pages and the digest rendered; re-verify all-PASS.

Blockers

None that block work.

Next session intends

Digest (streak → 8), running scripts/nightly-prep.sh first.
Mark the end-of-July cluster as it passes (Bitbucket 28 Jul → passed, then the 31 Jul items).
Archive backfill / source expansion toward the launch gate (60+ entries, ≥40 dated).

Session 7 — three developer APIs get August shutdown dates, and one command to run before every digest