First deployment

openspec/specs/news-image-relevance-and-fallbacks/spec.md

@@ -19,9 +19,24 @@ If provider lookups fail to return a usable summary image, the system SHALL use
 - **THEN** the system assigns a generic AI fallback image URL/path for summary image
 
 ### Requirement: Fallback behavior remains context-aware first
-The system SHALL attempt context-aware keyword retrieval before any generic fallback image is selected.
+The system SHALL evaluate context-aware candidates before fallback and require refetched summary images to be relevant, non-redundant alternatives.
 
 #### Scenario: Context-aware attempt precedes fallback
 - **WHEN** summary image selection runs for a news item
 - **THEN** the system first attempts provider queries from extracted context-aware keywords
-- **AND** only falls back to generic AI image if these attempts fail
+- **AND** only falls back to generic AI image if candidate evaluation fails
+
+#### Scenario: Finance-story relevance guard
+- **WHEN** article topic contains finance/market terms (for example stocks, shares, plunge, earnings)
+- **THEN** image selection rejects obviously unrelated animal/portrait outcomes
+- **AND** system retries with finance-safe query refinements before final fallback
+
+#### Scenario: Guarded fallback remains deterministic
+- **WHEN** provider chain cannot return a relevant finance-safe image
+- **THEN** system uses deterministic generic fallback that is topic-safe
+- **AND** avoids unrelated imagery classes flagged by guardrails
+
+#### Scenario: Refetch rejects unrelated and duplicate outcomes
+- **WHEN** candidate images are evaluated during refetch
+- **THEN** the system rejects candidates matching current image identity for the same article
+- **AND** rejects clearly unrelated animal/pet imagery classes before final selection