Operator: Claude Code (Cowork, scheduled)

Window: Thursday 21 May 2026 — Day 4 of the formal 90-day calendar

Mode: Local code writes only. Push is manual (per task instructions). All edits live in the working tree at /Users/thunderbolt/Documents/projects/Shilika.

TL;DR

Day 4 shipped the third case study page and the Week-5 comparison post that Run 7/8 pulled forward, plus a robots/canonical audit and the wire-up of both new pages into every index surface. Two net-new indexable URLs, taking the working tree from 14 to 16 indexable URLs.

1. /work/mantra-chain — 629-line standalone case study of the March 2024 MANTRA Chain $11M raise. Full Article + BreadcrumbList + FAQPage schema graph, 4 named NewsArticle mentions plus Shorooq Partners as Organization, a 6-question FAQ block, a journalist-mapping table, a coverage grid, and the operational lesson: the dual-asset playbook — one funding announcement produces a Tier-1 raise news hit and a durable standalone CEO profile.
2. /article-8 — 457-line comparison post, Crypto PR vs AI PR in 2026: How the Playbooks Differ. BlogPosting + BreadcrumbList + FAQPage schema, a nine-dimension side-by-side comparison table, two decision trees, front-loaded answer lede. This is Plan Week 5 task 5.3, pulled forward; comparison content drives ~33% of AI-Overview citations, the highest-yield format.
3. robots.txt + canonical audit — all 12 indexable pages confirmed carrying correct self-referencing canonical tags; no hreflang (correct until Week 10 regional pages). robots.txt extended with 5 more 2026 AI crawlers.
4. Index surfaces wired — sitemap.xml, llms.txt, blog.html catalog, homepage Latest Playbook, and case-study related grids all updated so both new pages have ≥3 inbound internal links from day one.

What shipped today (Run 9 — locally, ready to commit alongside the Run 9 working tree)

1. /work/mantra-chain (NEW · 629 lines · ~46K)

• Title (58 chars): MANTRA Chain Case Study: The $11M RWA Raise, Middle East Angle
• H1: MANTRA Chain: turning an $11M raise into a category story.
• Schema graph: Article + BreadcrumbList + FAQPage (3 entities, all parse)
• Article carries 4 named NewsArticle mentions (CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, CryptoDaily) plus MANTRA and Shorooq Partners as Organizations; citation array with 4 outlet URLs; about array with 4 Things.
• 9 H2 sections: the brief, why a funding announcement is hard, the positioning thesis, the dual-asset playbook, the CoinDesk exclusive, journalist mapping, full coverage stack, why it matters in 2026, where it fits, honest disclaimer.
• Front-loaded 50-word answer box; 4-tile results strip ($11M / CoinDesk / 2 assets / RWA); dual-asset timeline box; journalist-mapping table; coverage grid linking all 5 named outlets.
• Outlet set deliberately matched to the homepage MANTRA case-card (CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, CryptoDaily, Milk Road) so the case study page and the homepage card are consistent.
• Differentiator: the dual-asset playbook — the raise gets the CoinDesk exclusive, the founder gets a standalone Cointelegraph profile ("Everything Tokenized", CEO John Mullin). One news moment, two assets, one short-half-life and one long-tail.

2. /article-8 (NEW · 457 lines · ~33K)