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      <description>VerdictPal Lab's second first-party protocol: four identical multi-turn design prompts through Lovable, v0, Replit, and Bolt. Run 01 recorded a Turn 1 ranking (Lovable → v0 → Replit → Bolt) and the cost-of-arrival in each vendor's native unit — no padded leaderboard, formal scored rows pending a repeatable rubric. /benchmarks/ai-builder-design-test · /benchmarks/lab</description>
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      <description>VerdictPal Lab's first first-party benchmark: twelve research questions, dual-reviewer citation grading, frozen runbook on the atlas card — protocol published, desk run still pending, no padded leaderboard. /benchmarks/citation-fidelity · /benchmarks/lab</description>
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      <title>Factory flagship dossier shipped</title>
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      <description>VS Code-compatible AI editor at fit 81 — Tab, Chat, Agent, Privacy Mode, team governance, and the diff-review failure modes we publish before you merge.</description>
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      <title>Gemini flagship dossier shipped</title>
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      <description>Google's multimodal assistant ecosystem at fit 75 — Search grounding, Deep Research, storage bundles, and where it is not a cited search engine.</description>
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      <title>NotebookLM flagship dossier shipped</title>
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      <description>Source-grounded reading workspace at fit 78 — corpus chat, Audio Overviews, Flashcards, and the empty-corpus trap documented on the card.</description>
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      <description>Cited search front door at fit 72 — consumer Pro/Max, Deep Research, Sonar APIs, and failure modes for bibliographies you have not opened.</description>
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      <description>The open-source coding agent at fit 95 — Plan/Build modes, Go and Zen pricing, 75+ providers, and the free-model privacy caveats on the record.</description>
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      <title>Command Code flagship dossier shipped</title>
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      <description>The macOS launcher we install before debating another AI tab — extensions, Quick AI, clipboard, and honest failure modes at fit 97.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Guides pillar now has a real student research path, tool stack, playbook, and showcase for turning broad prompts into source-backed briefs.</description>
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      <description>Dark surfaces now use muted amber, readable borders, and component-specific overrides instead of neon cards and inverted cream panels.</description>
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