Fix 16 prose defects across the repository's own files

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Found by the hub audit of Blog. Run stamp audit run 2026-08-05T21:57:38Z | hub 01507a0, read at main@2b132e4. Findings are a point-in-time snapshot, so re-run before acting.

These are not produced by spec/audit.py. They come from the hub's scripts/prose_lint.py, run over this repository with content/, public/, themes/, and resources/ excluded, which is the scope this repository's own conventions set. Reproduce with:

python3 <hub>/scripts/prose_lint.py --exclude content --exclude public --exclude themes --exclude resources .

All 17 are in files this repository authors. None is in carried or vendored content. Each was read individually rather than counted, and 16 of the 17 are genuine.

Clause-Joining Semicolons (6)

The rule wants a comma or two sentences. Every one of these joins two independent clauses.

Location
OPERATIONS.md:80	caddy reload POSTs to the admin endpoint; the watcher reloads in process
OPERATIONS.md:176	this repo owns the artifact; the host owns where a release may be written
OPERATIONS.md:186	fixed on the host; a pipeline that needs the contract to say something different
TODO.md:31	measured at well under a second by hand; what is unproven is that a pipeline run
TODO.md:104	within about half a minute of accepting; a request that never draws one is inert
deploy/README.md:110	Set both or neither; half a pair is rejected as the typo it is

British Spellings (5)

Location	Fix
OPERATIONS.md:231	behaviours to behaviors
deploy/README.md:197	defence to defense
deploy/README.md:219	behaviours to behaviors
deploy/README.md:231	honouring to honoring
deploy/make-release.sh:51	honoured to honored

Comment Sentences Wrapping Across Lines (4)

One sentence per line. Split at the sentence boundary rather than reflowing.

• .github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml:35
• checks/check-live-urls.sh:77
• checks/check-live-urls.sh:99
• checks/check-live-urls.sh:149

Comment Opening in Lowercase (1)

.github/workflows/deploy-site-task.yml:139 opens on the lowercase tool name rsync. Capitalize, or restructure so the sentence does not open on it.

Not a Violation, and Not to Be "Fixed" (1)

layouts/rss.xml:51 reports charset-unknown: COPYRIGHT SIGN (U+00A9) is in no tier.

Leave it alone. This is a gap in the hub's character-set tiers, not a defect here. The sign is emitted into generated feed output, where the alternative is an ASCII transliteration in a machine-read document. The linter reports charset-unknown rather than pass or fail precisely because it cannot classify it. It is raised upstream as an escalation and is the hub's to resolve. Any repository generating a feed or a rendered document hits the same gap.

Scope

One focused PR for this class, per AUDIT.md section 10. The seven stale verbatim carries are filed separately and are not part of this one.