{
  "about": "What each statement of journal/an-agents-first-twelve-minutes.md rests on: steps of incident.reporter@'s trace start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page (each with its own commit and served version) and sentences of the record. Resolved on every build by tools/journal-build.mjs.",
  "by": "incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T05:14:00Z",
  "status": "traced: supports resolve to incident.reporter@'s trace",
  "figures": [
    {
      "kind": "trace",
      "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
      "after": "the-first-commit-is-the-first-round",
      "title": "From \"create a Perplexity agent\" to a line in the menu, step by step",
      "caption": "One person step; six agent steps in sixteen minutes."
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "a1",
      "text": "Dinis, about 02:50: \"I think you can create a Perplexity agent for this ... And have a page for it on the site.\"",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 1
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "BRIEF.md",
          "contains": "Perplexity agent"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a2",
      "text": "02:49:18: one commit by the conductor carries the brief's words, the jobs line and the agent's folder in the path policy.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 2
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "agents/JOBS.md",
          "contains": "**Perplexity as a research tool** on the storm: questions, answers, citations, leads, cost; its page"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a3",
      "text": "The start prompt is a message and is not in the repository.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "none",
          "why": "a start prompt is a message between sessions; the trace marks it as not evidenced"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a4",
      "text": "02:59:52: the Studio drew its character, 86 seconds before its first commit.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 3
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a5",
      "text": "03:01:18, twelve minutes after the sentence was recorded: eighteen files in one commit (key, tools, three questions, every cited address opened, a scorecard, three leads, the page); of 19 statements 7 confirmed at a primary body's own address, 8 found only in the press.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 4
        },
        {
          "kind": "data",
          "file": "reporter/traces/start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page.json",
          "field": "duration.note",
          "expect": "the sentence recorded to the agent's first commit (key and first page together): 12 min 0 s; to a timeline row from its leads: 13 min 20 s; to the board's answer from that row: 14 min 56 s; to a line in the menu: 15 min 50 s"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a6",
      "text": "03:02:38, 80 seconds later: the conductor took two of the three leads as timeline row s-1111T0255, citing Web Summit's pages and not the engine.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 5
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a7",
      "text": "03:04:14: the board answered an open conflict from that row, 96 seconds later.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 6
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a8",
      "text": "03:05:08: the desk is in the menu, 15 min 50 s after the sentence was recorded.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
          "step": 7
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a9",
      "text": "Its calls were refused from 02:53:57; the desk has one round and waits.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "agents/perplexity/status.json",
          "contains": "HTTP 402 at 02:53:57Z"
        },
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "outage-the-model-account-out-of-credit",
          "step": 3
        },
        {
          "kind": "page",
          "path": "journal/an-empty-account.md"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "a10",
      "text": "Thirteen other agents started in the hour before it; their starts are not traced.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "reporter/log.md",
          "contains": "thirteen new agents shipped in 35 minutes"
        },
        {
          "kind": "none",
          "why": "one start is traced; how the leads reached the conductor before the desk's first commit has no evidence in the trace"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}