September 2026

Executive summary

September opened on the same rhythm August closed with: one active day, then a quiet stretch. The month's first Monday committed a long-flagged Help article and generated Burmese's canonical registry, putting a third language into Library Review; that week's own drafted follow-up plan then sat untouched through two entirely silent weeks, 7 through 24 September. The month closed with its busiest stretch by far: on 25 and 27 September, a Doctrine Knowledge Graph (a reviewed, AI-assisted, visually explorable claims workflow) and a public Library Graph (an auto-derived doctrine-and-glossary map for every published language) both shipped, and by month's end the Library Graph could link the same doctrine across different books of a language via a 1,311-entry canonical registry. A security architecture review opened earlier in the month was also carried through its first two remediation phases in that same closing burst. No new Bible book content was generated all month, and no reviewer has yet been assigned to any of the three open review queues.

What's new

• Change

  Built Burmese's canonical registry (third Library Review queue) and committed a long-flagged Help article in the month's first week.

  Impact

  Contested Burmese terminology is reviewable alongside German and Spanish; the Studio text-selection feature has a written explanation.

  Next action

  Assign a reviewer to at least one of the three open queues.

• Change

  Shipped the Doctrine Knowledge Graph and the public Library Graph in the closing week, then linked doctrines across books via a 1,311-entry canonical registry.

  Impact

  Doctrine claims now go through a reviewed workflow with an AI analyzer and visual explorer, and every published language has a public, cross-book doctrine-and-glossary map.

  Next action

  Get theologian reviewers using the new claims queue; extend registry coverage to languages that diverge from the Spanish reference set.

• Change

  Carried the 20 September security architecture review through Phases 1 and 2: input validation, rate limiting, security headers, and a CI/dependency-audit gate.

  Impact

  Closes an open redirect, an email header-injection path, and an unauthenticated log-injection bug; npm audit advisories fell from 22 to 8.

  Next action

  Confirm the mail and bot-check vendor decisions and schedule administrator MFA enforcement.

• Change

  Compiled the quarter's site traffic in the first week: 377 visitors from 48 countries over the 91 days to 5 September.

  Impact

  Partners have evidence the Library reaches five continents, a third of visitors outside the United States.

  Next action

  Plan how to deepen engagement in the 21 single-visitor countries.

Business impact

The month adds two new platform capabilities partners can point to directly: a reviewed doctrine workflow and a public, cross-book doctrine map spanning all 67 published languages, alongside a measurably safer platform (production npm audit advisories from 22 to 8, automated tests and a dependency gate on every future pull request). Set against that, the doctrine-review queue still holds 539 decisions across German, Spanish, and Burmese with nobody assigned, now over seven weeks after the review tool shipped, and the open question of a public Bible-study product direction remains a conversation, not a plan.

Metrics

• Canonical doctrine concepts linking doctrines across books

  1,311(was n/a) ▲ Up from last period

  New this month.

• Production npm audit advisories (high or above)

  8(was 22) ▼ Down from last period

• Registry decisions awaiting a reviewer

  539(was 203) ▲ Up from last period

  German 137, Spanish 203, Burmese 199. Burmese added early in the month; unchanged and unstaffed since.

• Languages with a complete New Testament, month-to-date

  57(was 57) → No change from last period

• Book pages live in the Library

  1,939(was 1,939) → No change from last period

• Help articles published

  13(was 12) ▲ Up from last period

• Countries reached this quarter (Plausible)

  48(was not previously reported) ▲ Up from last period

  377 visitors over the 91 days to 5 September, 137 outside the United States, across five continents.

Risks

The month's activity compressed into three days out of thirty: one Monday early on, then nothing until the last three days of the month. Both knowledge-graph systems and the security remediation shipped in that same closing window with minimal time to observe them live; the security migration deploy failed once on a same-session numbering collision and needed a same-day fix. The security plan's mail-provider and bot-check vendor choices are assumed defaults, not confirmed, and the new administrator login policy has no real effect until MFA is enforced at the identity providers, a step outside this repository's control. The review queue has now gone unstaffed for the entire month.

Decisions needed

Leadership: name the first volunteer reviewers against three queues totalling 539 decisions, now the longest-open decision in this report's history. Decide the shape of the public Bible-study experience (open page, gated, or member/community site). Confirm the mail and bot-check vendor choices so the security work's Phase 2 controls can be turned on, and schedule administrator MFA enforcement at Google and Microsoft.

Next Month

• Name the first volunteer reviewers against 539 queued decisions
• Decide the shape of the public Bible-study experience
• Confirm the mail and bot-check vendor decisions; schedule administrator MFA enforcement

Key dates

No key dates recorded for this period.