KENSAI Product Update: Canonical-First Blog Recovery Keeps Freshness Verifiable

Top line: KENSAI restores the July 5 English blog floor from the source of truth outward. The recovery starts with real HTML posts, then rebuilds feeds and overview pages, then checks the public routes that readers and crawlers actually use.

Why canonical source comes first

A freshness repair is fragile when it begins in a JSON feed. The index can say a post exists while the route still fails, or a mirror can look current while the canonical blog directory is empty. That is not a publishing system; it is a status page with wishful thinking.

The cleaner pattern is simple: create the canonical English files first, let the established scripts read those files, and only then copy compatibility mirrors. If a same-day count is green after that sequence, it is tied to artifacts the site can serve.

What changed in the operating loop

• Source files lead: the daily floor depends on dated HTML posts in the canonical blog path.
• Indexes are derived: the JSON feed is rebuilt from the files instead of patched by hand.
• Mirrors stay explicit: legacy EN paths receive the same regenerated data, so old checks do not drift.
• Routes close the loop: success requires the post pages and overview page to return clean responses.

Product takeaway

Freshness is a product promise, not a calendar label. KENSAI keeps that promise by making the recovery path auditable: source artifact, generated index, mirror sync, and route proof all have to agree.