Postmortem: Amina Daily Brief Crash After the Institute Pillar Split

Amina wrote daily_brief_crashed to dead_letter at 18:22 UTC on 8 Oct 2026. The row is still pending_review. Four days earlier we made Oriam AI Institute its own pillar and business, then reverted Amina’s scan schema so she is a strategist, not a publisher. No traceback came with the item. This log covers the change window, what the dead_letter row does not prove, and what to check before any replay.

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