Stress Test — Article Baseline

Why baselines matter Every stress test matrix needs a flat reference point. This article is that reference. It exercises the happy path of the Thunk publishing pipeline end-to-end with no exotic content, no video, no taxonomy tricks, and no error injection. If this article publishes cleanly, the core pipeline is healthy and any other failure is isolated to the specific axis being tested. The goal here is a predictable run: a featured image that is already hosted, two topic tags that exist in the