Across 3 • 670 articles in 56 batches • not a single article was rejected due to malformed pipe separators. The format specification (6 pipe-separated fields • no pipe character inside any field) was maintained with perfect consistency. Substitute characters (• • — • /) handled all internal separations without ambiguity. The discipline is the difference between a pipeline that scales and one that collapses: every format error is a manual fix • and at 56 batches per day • manual fixes would have destroyed the velocity. The 22 • 000 milestone was built on invisible discipline.