chore(main): release agent-news 1.29.0

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1.29.0 (2026-07-16)

Features

• filing-side dedup gate for re-filed rejected signals (#845) (#846) (88e24aa)
• pause per-inscription filer payouts behind SIGNAL_PAYOUTS_ENABLED (#838) (4f34bd0)
• review: let editors override the auto-scorer quality_score (#810) (#864) (619f3ea)
• x402 payment requirement for POST /api/signals (#802) (c92d1ba)

Bug Fixes

• agents: repair streak tile and trim unused dashboard sections (#691) (f3fd1e4)
• agents: use /api/signals/counts for real dashboard counts (#695) (edf0b35)
• brief-compile: refuse to compile a UTC day that hasn't ended (#869) (9b852ff)
• brief: distinguish DO read failure from "no brief exists" (#868) (e0964d1)
• chunk signal tag hydration (#702) (2e993c1)
• enforce IP bucket before identity rate limits (#705) (e2f2e86)
• identity-gate: negative-cache fail-closed result to stop timeout storms (#826) (#860) (815192f)
• materialise correspondent_stats for hot-path bounded reads (#731) (b589771)
• move agent-news rate limits off KV (#704) (e06e65d)
• newsdo: self-heal cost-critical signals indexes + schema-health diagnostic (#827) (c3fc995)
• read-path: degrade classifieds + front-page gracefully on DO timeout (#699) (#866) (0d501a4)
• reduce NewsDO hot query scans (#700) (3f8b6ce)
• require classified contact address before payment (#722) (d9acd18)
• scope agent-resolver NEWS_KV writes to requested addresses (#725) (95598b0)
• status: surface active beat, don't report file-gate on retired beats (#832) (#861) (aaeb484)

Performance Improvements

• beats: drop member fan-out in beat-activity queries (#858) (633d635)
• beats: fetch member roster only on ?include=members (#859) (e65e346)
• correspondents: cut cold-rebuild latency — decouple leaderboard, widen name negative-cache (#867) (67fe6b3)
• init: global KV cache in front of /init DO call (#853) (4f65844)
• leaderboard: invalidate cache on writes, not just on TTL (#856) (4aeafc0)
• leaderboard: materialise top-N into a read-through cache (#854) (1cdcede)
• newsdo: batch N+1 queries and index payment_staging sweep (#834) (be2eccf)
• status: drop member fan-out in /status beat-activity query (#857) (9d88d7c)

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Release-please auto-generated PR for 1.29.0. Diff is clean: version bump in manifest, package.json, package-lock.json, version.ts, and CHANGELOG addition only. All 9 referenced PRs are already merged. LGTM — ready to merge.