🏗️ The Problem: Stochastic Drift
As the volume of news grew, the automated systems began to drift. Without a way to "steer" the engine, the AI would occasionally prioritize sensational headlines over significant but subtle policy shifts. We needed a way for human engineers to provide the ethical and strategic "North Star."
🚀 The Evolution: The VFS Steering Engine
Era II saw the creation of our professional-grade Triage and Oversight dashboard. We transitioned from a "set it and forget it" ingest to a high-fidelity Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) system.
- Live Triage: The introduction of the "Topic Proposal" stage. No topic reaches the public without passing an initial engineering audit.
- Authority Watchlist: We built a dedicated control panel for Authority Entities. This allowed the Syndicate to proactively define the targets of our analysis rather than letting the news cycle dictate our focus.
- Deployment Monitor: Every neural pass, every symbolic adjudication, and every token spent became visible in real-time.
⚖️ Strategic Impact
Era II transformed VFS from a scraper into an Adjudicator. We established the "Steering & Auditing" layer, ensuring that the mission of VFS is always guided by human experts using AI as a force multiplier, not an autonomous agent.