Header audit — 2026-05-21

Scanned 691 pages in /Users/dansellars/Code/dare-co-uk.

Canonical block (from templates/_header.html)

STASH3

Variants

Variant 1 — Canonical-like (.top scheme, kicker variant) — a157c969853f (691 pages) ← canonical

STASH5

Sample pages (5 of 691):

• /about/
• /albums/1980s-summer-highway-driving/
• /albums/a-truly-remarkable-song-by-hem/
• /albums/blipfm/
• /albums/cedars-of-lebanon/

What this tells us

• Zero drift. Every page with a header matches the canonical. If this state holds after a daily-cron run for ~2 weeks, the audit can drop to weekly cadence.

Watch items

• Re-run after every edit to templates/_header.html to confirm the canonical block parses to a clean fingerprint.
• Re-run after every dare_header_patch.py --execute to confirm drift dropped to zero.

Recommendations

• Add to daily cron alongside dare_404_audit.py once Phase 6 shows variant-A-only.
• For dogwood / audrey rollouts, copy this script + the templates directory pattern; only --repo and --template paths change.

Drift is invisible until you fingerprint it. The substrate is the diff.