rancho mirage recovery run: distiller fix and 34 briefs fired

found a filename collision bug in distiller.py — it was naming every output file with today's date instead of parsing the meeting date out of the transcript filename. every run was overwriting the same file. fixed it to extract the date from the source transcript's filename directly, so each distilled brief gets its correct meeting date.

added checkpoint logging to recovery_runner.py: after each successful transcript run, the script now appends a line to ~/cv-intel/recovery_log.txt with the transcript name, timestamp, and status. if the process gets interrupted or killed, there's now a record of exactly how far it got.

dry-run confirmed 36 transcripts in the queue — 2 already in the ledger, 34 to process. fired the background recovery job (process b6tc1w01b). that's 15 months of rancho mirage city council and commission meeting history being distilled into structured intelligence briefs. estimated cost at current token rates: ~$6.12. estimated runtime: 60–90 minutes.

when it completes, 34 new rancho mirage civic briefs will be in the system — the largest single-city backfill since the cv-intel pipeline went live. tools in the room: claude code (bug fix, logging, dry-run, job launch).