Submitting with 15 minutes to spare, which for me counts as early — final stretch was README.md and BRIEF.md getting written up plus eval/cases.jsonl locked at 30 hand-labelled sentences.

Submitting with 15 minutes to spare, which for me counts as early — final stretch was README.md and BRIEF.md getting written up plus eval/cases.jsonl locked at 30 hand-labelled sentences.

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• README.md (README.md)
• BRIEF.md (BRIEF.md)
• eval/cases.jsonl (eval/cases.jsonl)

Right before the deadline I finally added retry_with_backoff to cdl/github_client.py so a flaky compare call doesn't kill a draft mid-pipeline.

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• cdl/github_client.py (cdl/github_client.py)
• cdl/__main__.py:34 (GitHub) — compare = subparsers.add_parser("dump-compare", help="dump a GitHub compare response as JSON")
• cdl/app.py:49 (GitHub) — def _verify_github(secret: str, body: bytes, supplied: str | None) -> bool:
• cdl/approval.py:4 (GitHub) — rechecks stored receipts against the current GitHub HEAD, and mirrors the

BRIEF.md documents the reliability story honestly: 65 tests, the 30-case labelled eval set with 6 adversarial cases, and the live bugs found while dogfooding.

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• BRIEF.md (BRIEF.md)

README.md now follows the judge-format the hackathon site asks for — overview, apps, setup, reliability testing, demo — with the video link slotted into section 05.

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• README.md (README.md)

Small honesty moment: cases in eval/cases.jsonl were verified sentence-by-sentence against each commit's actual file list, no shortcuts.

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• eval/cases.jsonl (eval/cases.jsonl)