Four fixes based on 2026-04-22 test-window feedback on v3.0.11 --competitors:
- Each competitor sub-run now runs Step 0.55 (X handle / subreddits /
GitHub) via resolve.auto_resolve inside the fanout closure. Deep-copied
config per entity prevents _auto_resolve_context leak across sub-runs.
Resolved data stored on report.artifacts["resolved"] for the renderer.
- New internal_subrun keyword on planner.plan_query and pipeline.run
suppresses the LAW 7 "No --plan passed" stderr for engine-internal
fan-out only. Default path unchanged.
- Default --competitors count is now 2 (3-way total). --competitors=N
still customizes; range 1..6.
- SKILL.md STEP 0 canonical-path self-check forces readers who loaded
from marketplaces/ (auto-restored to origin/main, stale) to re-read
from plugins/cache/last30days-skill/last30days/{VERSION}/SKILL.md.
Two of three 2026-04-22 test windows hit this stale-path trap.
- New ## Resolved Entities block in render_comparison_multi shows
per-entity handles/subs/github for debug visibility.
Bumps plugin.json to 3.0.12. 12 new tests; 1,175 total passing.
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pass `--competitors` on a single-entity topic and the engine auto-discovers
2-6 peer entities via web search, runs the full pipeline on each in
parallel, and returns one N-way comparison reusing the existing 9-axis
Head-to-Head scaffold. `last30days OpenAI --competitors` resolves to
Anthropic + xAI + Google Gemini; `last30days Kanye West --competitors`
resolves to Drake + Kendrick Lamar + one more peer.
- New CLI flags: --competitors, --competitors=N, --competitors-list
- New scripts/lib/competitors.py — mirrors resolve.auto_resolve pattern
(web search + deterministic text extraction, no internal LLM)
- New scripts/lib/fanout.py — ThreadPoolExecutor orchestrator; per-entity
failures degrade gracefully as long as >=2 entities survive
- Multi-report render in scripts/lib/render.py reuses the comparison
scaffold for the synthesis table
- LAW 7-style stderr when no backend and no list, pointing the hosting
reasoning model at --competitors-list
- 38 new tests across CLI parsing, discovery, fanout, and rendering
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matt Van Horn