selection-report

A read-only audit artifact: for each source, what got shipped, what was considered and passed over, and why. Sources every field from work/<id>/ — no Claude.

Usage

selection-report.sh <work_dir> [output_root]   # one source -> output/<slug>/_selection.json
selection-report.sh --backlog [output_root]    # every work/<id> with a matching output/<slug>/

output_root defaults to $OUTPUT_DIR (.env) or <repo>/output.

Inputs (all from work/<id>/, all optional → graceful empty sections)

• ingest.json — title/url/duration + the slug that names output/<slug>/.
• segments.raw.json — the produced shorts with scores + rationale (the SHIPPED set).
• clip_NN.done.completion — written by start.sh save-local; maps span N → the delivered filename (the title differs from title_suggestion because generate-title re-titles). Absent in the legacy shorts.sh path → name: null.
• candidates.hint.json — the rlm discovery menu (CONSIDERED set; absent on non-rlm short sources → empty).
• topics.json — the topic chapters.

Output output/<slug>/_selection.json

{
  "source_id": "...", "title": "...", "url": "...", "slug": "...", "duration_sec": 0,
  "shipped_count": 0, "considered_count": 0, "considered_picked": 0, "topics_count": 0,
  "shipped":   [ { "rank", "name", "delivered", "t0","t1","cuts", "hook_type",
                   "opening_line","title_suggestion","rationale","topic",
                   "overall_score","hook_score","context_score","structure_score",
                   "hook_payoff_coherence","payoff_offset_sec","replay_quotient",
                   "thread?","thread_kind?" } ],
  "considered":[ { "t0","t1","quote","why","confidence",
                   "picked","picked_by",            // picked = overlaps a shipped cut
                   "thread?","kind?","cuts?","bridge?" } ],
  "topics":    [ { "t0","t1","title","summary" } ]
}

A candidate is picked: true when its [t0,t1] overlaps any shipped span's cuts; picked_by names the short it overlaps most.

Where it runs

start.sh end-of-run (after sources-ledger, before schedule-drip) for the just-run source; shorts.sh end-of-run; standalone --backlog to backfill existing output dirs. Idempotent — rewritten each run.