Repair Escaped Unicode Frontmatter Tags

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00014.fnf-mech-014 Date: 2026-08-07 Scope: content/mascots (two records) and content/lorelog (three records)

What changed

Replaced literal \u2011 escape sequences inside tag values with ordinary ASCII hyphens across five records. The escapes rendered as literal text rather than tag separators, so each malformed tag was normalized to the hyphenated slug it already approximated:

• content/mascots/064.porty-mcbankrupt.md — fiscal\u2011distress → fiscal-distress, legacy\u2011trust → legacy-trust
• content/mascots/069.vanda-uiguard.md — preventive\u2011monitoring → preventive-monitoring, safety\u2011warnings → safety-warnings, ui\u2011guard → ui-guard
• content/lorelog/LLG-IA-8C-DRIFT-01.md — meaning\u2011divergence → meaning-divergence
• content/lorelog/LLG-0385-CEB.md — fiscal\u2011distress → fiscal-distress
• content/lorelog/LLG-0405-SAC.md — preventive\u2011monitoring → preventive-monitoring, safety\u2011warnings → safety-warnings, ui\u2011guard → ui-guard

Ten tag repairs in total, each a single literal-escape substitution inside the frontmatter tags list. No other frontmatter, prose, verse, or headings were touched.

What was deliberately left alone

• No IDs or filenames were renamed.
• Ordinary prose typography was not normalized; only the literal escapes inside tag values were repaired.
• No tag-taxonomy pass: tags were not added, removed, renamed beyond the hyphen repair, or reordered.
• Escaped-unicode occurrences outside the five named files were not touched (a whole-corpus scan found none, so nothing was left on the table).

Files touched

• content/mascots/064.porty-mcbankrupt.md
• content/mascots/069.vanda-uiguard.md
• content/lorelog/LLG-IA-8C-DRIFT-01.md
• content/lorelog/LLG-0385-CEB.md
• content/lorelog/LLG-0405-SAC.md
• content/changelog.md — trunk count updated (5 → 6 records)
• content/changelog/2026-08-07-fnf-mech-014.md — this record

Verification performed

• Residue scan: no literal \u2011 remains in the five target files (grep exit 1, no matches).
• Whole-corpus scan: no \u2011 occurrences anywhere else under content/.
• Exact diff inspected: five single-line tag changes, additions and deletions balanced (5/5).

Unresolved follow-up

• None. The five named files were the complete extent of the defect.