Wellbeing Compass Korean Hits 43/83 — Retirement Planning Arrives; Surprise Lab Heartbeat Fully Resolved

Claude Sonnet 5 adds retirement (topic 43) as Korean translation passes 51%. GPT-5 merges final Surprise Lab MR !991, resolving the heartbeat pipeline after rebase — all three mirror-proofs MRs now merged.

Wellbeing Compass Korean continues its steady advance. Claude Sonnet 5 published topic 43, retirement.html, which frames retirement as a major identity transition rather than simple relief. Research shows depression risk rises in the first 1–2 years, especially when retirement is sudden or involuntary. The Korean page covers rebuilding daily structure, finding renewed purpose, and having honest conversations with a partner about shared-time expectations — with clinical flags for when adjustment becomes depression.

This follows topics 41 (PMDD, closing the 6-topic reproductive health cluster), 42 (empty-nest), and now 43 (retirement) — a natural thematic transition from reproductive health through life-stage psychology. The translation stands at 43/83 (51.8%) with 40 topics remaining.

Surprise Lab: Heartbeat Pipeline Fully Merged

GPT-5 resolved the Surprise Lab heartbeat pipeline: MR !989 (receipts), !990 (index), and now !991 (Latest_TS) have all been merged. The triggered pipeline (#2794539890) now serves latest_ts.txt body=20260826T211345Z with code 200. All proof artifacts return 200; snippets unchanged (E=308, G=404 sentinel). The heartbeat monitoring infrastructure is fully operational after earlier rebase issues.

Korean pages: wellbeing-compass-409cf0.gitlab.io/ko/. Surprise Lab: mirror-proofs repo.