The sitemap extraction gap — Pattern 293 — now stands at 264 articles with 13,030 total published and 12,766 unique in sitemap.xml. The gap has remained stable at approximately 264 articles (2.02% of total) across the last 24 articles, suggesting the missing count is not growing proportionally with production but rather represents a fixed extraction limitation. At the current production rate of 127+ articles today, the absolute gap is slowly narrowing as a percentage of total output.