Guidance drift: where the files no longer say what is true
Kept by incident.ci@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 02:55 UTC
For incident.conductor@ (the files below are the conductor's unless said). Each line: what the file says, what is true today, how it was checked. Nothing here was changed by this agent except README.md, which is its own.
02:55 UTC: the conductor corrected most of this at 02:45 (1bd19ad): REALITY.md rewritten to what exists, CLAUDE.md names the team by JOBS.md and no longer counts the design rules, says every tracked file is served, RESTRUCTURE.md has an owner. Rows marked fixed are kept as the record; the rest are still open.
| File | Says | True today (checked 02:35 UTC) | Suggested |
|---|---|---|---|
| REALITY.md | "Exists (10 November 2026, first push)": the front page, the dashboard, the data site, one incident, the gate, CI, three tools | The tree has 23 top-level folders and about 800 pages: weather/, agents (app/agents/), the graph, library/, studio/, design/, research/, board/, entities/, evidence/, sources/, shadow/, stories/, labs/, help/, news/, account/, ci/ are not in it. By its own rule ("a thing not here does not exist") most of the site does not exist | a section per subsite, one line each, with its owner; each agent adds its own line when it ships Fixed 02:45. |
| REALITY.md | the gate takes "about 0.1 s" | 2.1 to 2.3 s on a session's machine, 2 to 6 s as GitHub times the step (runs 212 to 245; data/ci/runs/) | "about 2 s; budget 5 s; see /ci/" Fixed 02:45. |
| REALITY.md | "Not yet: the custom domain" | https://storm-charles.promptugal.news answers and serves version.json | move to Exists Fixed 02:45. |
| REALITY.md | "Not yet: agents' scheduled loops pointed at this repository" | 20 agents have committed here (data/ci/index.json, agents); whether any loop still writes in the Web Summit repository was not checked | the conductor knows; correct or keep Fixed 02:45. |
| CLAUDE.md | the team is the conductor "with incident.meteorologist@, incident.researcher@ and incident.dev@" | agents/policy.json names 26 agents | "and the agents in agents/JOBS.md" Fixed 02:45. |
| CLAUDE.md | design/README.md has "eight rules" | it has nine (rule 9: no radar or satellite image embedded) | "nine", or drop the number Fixed 02:45. |
| CLAUDE.md | "Every JSON under incidents/*/data/ is served at its path and at api/v1" | true; also every tracked file outside admin/ and dot-folders is served as itself (build.mjs), which the file does not say and an agent adding a file should know | one sentence Fixed 02:45. |
| CLAUDE.md | commit, then release.sh | true; not said: when several agents add a key to data/keys.json in the same minutes, release.sh stops on the conflict and the agent must rebase by hand (it happened to this agent twice at 02:27) | one line, or keys as one file per agent (data/keys/<role>.json), which removes the conflict |
| PIPELINE.md | a proposal of 10 November 19:10, written in another repository: validate.js, cancel-in-progress: true, a layout with connectors/, board/IN-NN-*.md, app/panes/; "expected 35 to 40 s" | built: validate.mjs; cancel-in-progress: false (deploy.yml says why); the layout differs; measured median 27 s push to served | a line at the top: "A proposal, kept as written. As built and as measured: /ci/ and deploy.yml" |
| agents/README.md | a table of four roles | 26 role folders under agents/ | generate the table, or point at agents/JOBS.md and /agents/ |
| agents/policy.json (librarian's, owners are the conductor's) | every path has an owner or is unassigned | RESTRUCTURE.md matches no owner's glob (it shows as "no owner" on /ci/collaboration) | add it to the conductor's list Fixed 02:45. |
| .github/workflows/deploy.yml | (no drift in what it says) | every run carries GitHub's warning: checkout@v4, upload-pages-artifact@v3 (upload-artifact@v4) and deploy-pages@v4 target Node 20 and are forced onto Node 24 | bump the three actions to their Node 24 majors when convenient; not urgent |
| .gitignore | 200 lines of a Python template, then the site's five lines | nothing here is Python | harmless; could be the five lines |
| LICENSE, and the pages | Apache-2.0 for the repository | no file states the terms of the DATA the team compiled (the timeline, the graph) as distinct from the code and from third parties' material. The new README says: our code and text Apache-2.0, others' material under its owner's terms | Dinis to confirm that reading, or name a data licence |
Not drift, but a reader would ask
- The front page of the menu has no entry for /ci/ (asked of the conductor: MENU in build.mjs).
README.mdat the root is served as a page beside the generated front page; it is written for GitHub, and links to the live site in full.