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# Produce and inspect a daily brief

> Follow one reporting edition from collection and frozen evidence through human review and publication.

Use a configured reporting workflow or app with your own permitted sources. Choose one reporting period small enough to inspect.

You need execution access, suitable data, a published reporting method and named reviewers. Confirm the publication destination before the exercise.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Check the series settings">
    Inspect the reporting purpose, time zone, period, evidence cutoff and target publication time.

    Check source jobs, required processing, reviewers, destination and limits. Each scheduled period creates its own edition. A revision remains within its edition.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Inspect collection and readiness">
    Open the edition's occurrence and collection records. Check every required source and processing result.

    A missing or failed source is a gap. An empty but successfully inspected evidence selection can produce **no report**. Do not substitute that outcome for failed collection.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the frozen evidence selection">
    Inspect the edition's selected source versions and method versions at the cutoff.

    Open representative inputs and check period coverage. Late evidence does not silently change the edition. Required failures block a complete report unless the configured partial-report route is explicitly reviewed.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Inspect the draft and review">
    Open the draft, supporting assets and cited passages. Check unsupported claims, contradictions and omitted intervals.

    Follow the configured review passes. A human makes the final required publication decision on the exact version. Request changes when the result or its evidence is incomplete.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm publication">
    After approval, inspect the publication action and receipt in the workspace artefact library.

    Confirm the edition, version and rendered/exported output. Approval alone does not establish delivery. Record a missed publication target rather than hiding it behind later completion.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Handle a correction or delayed edition

A retry or draft revision keeps the edition identity. A later period creates a new edition even when earlier work remains unfinished.

Apply the configured skip or catch-up policy to missed occurrences. Check its recorded outcome and work limits. It cannot overwrite an unfinished edition or publish an unapproved version.

New evidence after cutoff needs an explicit correction or another edition. Preserve the earlier report, evidence and decisions. Review the corrected version before publication.

The checked result is a published exact version, an explicit no-report outcome, or a visible blocked/partial edition. See [Trace a published result](/audit-and-compliance/trace-published-result) for the evidence route.


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