Producer Fallback: When Claude Hits the Weekly Limit, the Pipeline Still Ships

Short summary

A content pipeline blog-backfill system was hardened to fall back from Claude to Grok when Claude hits weekly rate limits, ensuring daily posts still ship. Two failures triggered the work: a dirty git tree blocking preflight and Claude's weekly limit expiring. The pipeline now auto-commits audit-log dirt, runs voice-lint gates to ban AI fingerprints, and treats producer outages as ordinary dependency failures with deterministic fallback.

• •Claude rate limits shouldn't kill a daily content pipeline—Grok serves as fallback producer with the same artifact contract
• •Pipeline now auto-commits audit-log-only dirt and enforces voice-lint gates against AI fingerprints
• •Producer outages are treated as dependency failures: fail closed, alert, and use a second producer rather than missing a day

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