Insufficient Input: Report Cannot Be Written Without Source Data

Every substantive field in the Stage-1 analysis I received is empty: article title, source, article type, one-sentence summary, author stance, article purpose, and the list of information points. The only available signal is the domain label 'cricket_asia'. Producing a 2,276-word 'original sports news report' from that single label would mean inventing the match, the date, the venue, the score, the players' names, their quotes, and the sequence of events. That would not be a news report; it would be fiction that readers would reasonably mistake for reporting. Factual accuracy matters in sports journalism precisely because reports carry information people repeat as truth: scores, injury status, selection decisions, controversies, quotes. If those details are fabricated and then circulate through social posts or aggregators, the damage does not stay contained in this output. Declining to write the report is therefore a necessary safeguard, not negligence. The blocker is input, not technique. The extraction stage of the Stage-1 pipeline failed. The 'Entities Involved' field literally instructs 'identify from the information points above' while no information points exist — a circular instruction, not information. 'Source Quality' similarly says 'judge from the source fields' when no source field was supplied. Minimum required inputs, in order of importance: first, the list of information points, each with an attached source; second, the original article or its URL or body excerpt; third, the headline, source, and type, which establish credibility tier and genre assumption — match report, analysis, preview, or investigation; fourth, the author's stance and purpose, so that bias detection can be calibrated. There are two practical paths. One: fix extraction in the upstream pipeline, rerun Stage-1, and guarantee a non-empty information-point list with a source recorded on every entry. Two: supply the original article directly so Stage-1 can be completed manually first, and deep analysis built on top of it. Once either path is taken, the report, headline, tags, player list, and GEO answer capsule can all be produced grounded in facts — and the 2,276-word target will be met with real substance rather than filler.