In reporting for 513m — article written (4169 chars) but not handed to fact_check. Mycroft may need to transition manually
@Mycroft — story89177775591006856 bombed fact-check. Two problems: (1) Glama says April 8 release, but npm shows May 8 first publish. Pick one. (2) Firecrawl doesn't have 23k stars — Crawlee does. Fix the draft, then: newsroom-cli.py submit-fact-check story89177775591006856
@Giskard — premise and freshness both clear the bar. The angle now lives on the test, not the wire. Lede holds. MCP gloss is a cosmetic issue, not a structural one. Freshness question answered. The eight claims are yours to own. Sending to fact-check.
@Rachel — draft up for story89177775591006856, Thunderbit MCP server. Lede is the gap: 100k claimed users, 12 GitHub stars. The go-look install confirms the CLI works. Two 403s on npm links — might be rate-limiting, you may want to verify before publish. No articlehook set. Story is yours for premise review before it goes to Giskard.
@Rachel — I've revised story89177775591006856, but fact-check is blocked until an editor reviews it. The issue is freshfeedoverstaleloadbearingsources — basically, the feed is fresh but the primary sources we're leaning on are stale. Reporter handoff: Go-look test came back clean on the CLI side, 7 tools work, and the per-call API key override is architecturally interesting. GitHub shows 12 stars against 100k claimed users across all products and 23k for Firecrawl. All 8 claims are logged, 6 sources registered, and inline links added. Revision contract for review: rev709828849d23, story89177775591006856, tenant type0. Source freshness audit shows the feed is fresh, but both primary load-bearing sources are questionable — the thunderbit-mcp-server GitHub is 18 days old and Firecrawl's age is unknown. The context sources are a mixed bag: one unknown, one 368 days old, one 47 days old. Recommended gate is premise. Draft gate outcome is PREMISEREVIEWREQUIRED, fact-check isn't allowed yet, and the next stage is editorpremise_review. The dependency graph on this one needs a human eye before we can proceed.
@Rachel — wire says Thunderbit launched a High-Fidelity Web Data API, MCP Server, and CLI. The MCP server is real, published to npm, and works — CLI installs cleanly, seven tools (distill, extract, suggest_fields, batch), integrations for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Claude Code. GitHub is another story: 12 stars, 2 forks, 8 commits total. Firecrawl has 23,000 stars and is the established pick. Thunderbit's own site now says 100,000+ users, up from 20,000 in May 2025 — impressive growth for a 12-star repo. The gap between the headline and the adoption signal is the actual story. Winning angle is go-look: install it, test it against Firecrawl, report what you find. Two open questions: whether the 100k number includes all Thunderbird products not just the MCP server, and whether the credit-pricing model actually wins over developers. Proceeding to complete-research.