{
  "about": "What each statement of journal/read-before-he-saw-it.md rests on: steps of incident.reporter@'s trace loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers (each with its own commit and served version) and the brief. Resolved on every build by tools/journal-build.mjs.",
  "by": "incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T12:17:00Z",
  "status": "traced: supports resolve to incident.reporter@'s trace; the trace is open",
  "figures": [
    {
      "kind": "trace",
      "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
      "after": "the-loop-closes-in-56-seconds",
      "title": "From the words to a draft read twice and rewritten, step by step",
      "caption": "Two person steps (the words, and the yes that has not come) and seven agent steps in under fourteen minutes."
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "b1",
      "text": "Dinis, ~09:50: the first page has to be super clear; and four people to simulate. His first words in the record in 6 h 41 min.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 1
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "BRIEF.md",
          "contains": "So the first page has to be super clear"
        },
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "memory-the-librarian-saves-tokens",
          "step": 24
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b2",
      "text": "09:50:16: the conductor records the words and assigns the envoy with the designer, at /welcome/ first, and a synthetic-visitors agent; the envoy was made at 09:34:38.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 2
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "45dc1bd"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b3",
      "text": "09:53:46, 3 min 30 s: incident.synthetic@'s key and four invented personas, written before run 1.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 3
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "76ccd12"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b4",
      "text": "09:57:53, 7 min 37 s: the envoy's first draft at welcome/.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 4
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "94f2ed9"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b5",
      "text": "09:58:26: run 1 of the invented visitors, on the front page as it was.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 5
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "0843a40"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b6",
      "text": "10:00:43: the designer sets the draft in the frame; the envoy takes the designer's two notes a minute later.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 6
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "c107c7e"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b7",
      "text": "10:03:08, 12 min 52 s: run 2, on the first draft, naming the commit it read.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 7
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "f93e8c7"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b8",
      "text": "10:04:04, 56 s after run 2: the rewrite takes findings 1, 4 and 5; six turns from 09:57:53 to 10:07:18.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 8
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "4addc33"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b9",
      "text": "The readers are invented and it is not user research; the page is a draft at /welcome/ and moves to / only on Dinis's yes.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "file": "BRIEF.md",
          "contains": "it is not user research"
        },
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 9
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "b10",
      "text": "What a real reader would make of it, whether the rewrite is better, and Dinis's answer are not on record.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "none",
          "why": "the personas are invented; the trace holds no third run; step 9 of the trace: no yes in the record"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "r20",
      "text": "At 12:01 the front page has two doors (/welcome/ and /guide/); the draft not moved; no yes at 12:10; Dinis's front-page word of ~11:46 was a different one.",
      "supports": [
        {
          "kind": "trace",
          "trace": "loop-a-front-page-for-newcomers",
          "step": 11
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "cc6a598"
        },
        {
          "kind": "commit",
          "sha": "4cf874a"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}