• Data Lookback Fallback: use per-date manifest "Documents Analyzed" count
• ARTICLE_DATE update: persist to GITHUB_ENV after lookback selection
• Template compliance: filename preservation rules, template adaptation notes
• Lookback loop optimization: check manifest BEFORE running pre-article-analysis
• ARTICLE_DATE overwrite protection: idempotent initialization pattern documented in SHARED_PROMPT_PATTERNS.md
• Add idempotent guards to ALL downstream ARTICLE_DATE initializations in 6 workflows (prevent overwriting lookback-selected date)
• Add missing political-style-guide.md to methodology reading lists in 4 type-specific workflows (motions, committee-reports, propositions, interpellations)
• Add idempotent guard to shared lookback snippet in SHARED_PROMPT_PATTERNS.md (lines 76-79) so it doesn't overwrite a previously resolved ARTICLE_DATE from GITHUB_ENV
• Use ${ARTICLE_DATE:-} and ${GITHUB_ENV:-} consistently for set -u safety across all 7 workflows
• Honor workflow_dispatch.inputs.article_date in news-realtime-monitor pipeline init and lookback blocks for manual backfills
• Fix inline comment in news-realtime-monitor to reflect pipeline filters to resolved $ARTICLE_DATE (not necessarily today)
• Fix No-Events Early Exit snippet in news-realtime-monitor to honor workflow_dispatch.inputs.article_date with idempotent guard
• PENDING variable empty-string safety: add [ -z "$PENDING" ] && PENDING=0 after substitution in all 7 workflows to guarantee numeric output
• Remove unscoped manifest fallback in 4 doc-type workflows (motions, committee-reports, propositions, interpellations) — only use scoped manifests to prevent false positives from other workflow types

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