diff --git a/.github/scripts/gazette-draft.js b/.github/scripts/gazette-draft.js
index 205b6960..eba915cc 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/gazette-draft.js
+++ b/.github/scripts/gazette-draft.js
@@ -42,4 +42,39 @@ if (data.sources.length === 0) {
   }
 }
 
+if (data.needs_editor_review && data.needs_editor_review.length > 0) {
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push("== Editor review candidates");
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push("// These PRs may contain release-note-worthy changes.");
+  lines.push("// They did not include release-note partial files.");
+  lines.push("// Human review required before inclusion.");
+  lines.push("");
+
+  for (const candidate of data.needs_editor_review) {
+    lines.push(`=== ${candidate.pr_title}`);
+    lines.push("");
+    lines.push(`// PR: ${candidate.pr_url}`);
+    lines.push(`// Reason: ${candidate.reason}`);
+
+    if (candidate.signal && candidate.signal.length > 0) {
+      lines.push("// Signals:");
+      for (const signal of candidate.signal) {
+        lines.push(`// - ${signal}`);
+      }
+    }
+
+    lines.push("");
+
+    if (candidate.changed_files && candidate.changed_files.length > 0) {
+      lines.push("// Changed files:");
+      for (const file of candidate.changed_files) {
+        lines.push(`// - ${file}`);
+      }
+    }
+
+    lines.push("");
+  }
+}
+
 process.stdout.write(lines.join("\n"));
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.github/scripts/release-collect.js b/.github/scripts/release-collect.js
index 4d5b4b87..27d59453 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/release-collect.js
+++ b/.github/scripts/release-collect.js
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ async function collectSources(owner, repo) {
     partial_count: 0,
     ignored_non_partial_file_count: 0,
     sources: [],
-    skipped: []
+    skipped: [],
+    needs_editor_review: []
   };
 
   for (const pr of prs) {
@@ -211,7 +212,27 @@ async function collectSources(owner, repo) {
     const ignoredFiles = files.filter((file) => !file.filename.startsWith(PARTIALS_PATH));
 
     if (partialFiles.length === 0) {
-        if (INCLUDE_SKIPPED) {
+      const isPotentialReleaseNoteCandidate =
+        pr.user?.login === "IT-Kobiton" &&
+        files.some((file) =>
+            file.filename.startsWith("docs/modules/")
+        );
+
+      if (isPotentialReleaseNoteCandidate) {
+          output.needs_editor_review.push({
+            pr_number: pr.number,
+            pr_title: pr.title,
+            pr_url: pr.html_url,
+            reason:
+              "IT-Kobiton docs PR without a release-note partial. Changed customer-facing docs surface. Human review recommended.",
+            signal: [
+              "author: IT-Kobiton",
+              "changed_path: docs/modules/"
+            ],
+            changed_files: files.map((file) => file.filename)
+          });
+        }
+
           output.skipped.push({
             pr_number: pr.number,
             pr_title: pr.title,
@@ -219,7 +240,6 @@ async function collectSources(owner, repo) {
             reason: "No release-note partial files changed",
             changed_file_count: files.length
           });
-        }
 
       continue;
     }
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gazette-collect.yaml b/.github/workflows/gazette-collect.yaml
index fca61821..fdffcfa6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gazette-collect.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gazette-collect.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ on:
       release_date:
         description: "Target release date, YYYY-MM-DD"
         required: false
-        default: "2026-08-22"
+        default: ""
         type: string
       release_label:
         description: "Release label, for example 2608.18"
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ on:
       - ".github/scripts/release-collect.js"
       - ".github/scripts/gazette-draft.js"
 
+  schedule:
+    # Thursday 9:00 PM Eastern during daylight saving time.
+    # GitHub cron uses UTC.
+    - cron: "0 13 * * 4"
+
 permissions:
   contents: write
   pull-requests: write
@@ -137,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
           retention-days: 7
 
       - name: Create Gazette pull request
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.create_pr == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' || (github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.create_pr == 'true') }}
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           BRANCH: gazette/weekly-release-note-harvest
@@ -196,4 +201,7 @@ jobs:
             --title "The Gazette: weekly release-note harvest" \
             --body-file /tmp/gazette-pr-body.md \
             --base main \
-            --head "$BRANCH"
\ No newline at end of file
+            --head "$BRANCH"
+          
+          
+