clawfort/openspec/changes/archive/2026-02-13-p14-bugs/specs/news-image-relevance-and-fallbacks/spec.md

MODIFIED Requirements

Requirement: Fallback behavior remains context-aware first

The system SHALL apply stricter relevance guardrails before accepting summary images for finance/market stories.

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