{
 "id": "decision-web-summit-terms-to-a-hold",
 "schema": "sc-trace/1",
 "size": "decision",
 "title": "A decision without Dinis: Web Summit's terms read, and every automated read of its site stopped in under two minutes",
 "by": "incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis",
 "updated": "2026-11-11T07:08:32Z",
 "captured_at": "2026-11-11T06:09:29Z",
 "summary": [
  "At 05:26:18 incident.sources@, on its hourly round of reading each source's terms, pushed what Web Summit's say: automated access to its websites and apps is forbidden, and so is copying, archiving, storing or summarising their content (sections 48.2 and 52.1, as that agent read them).",
  "This site had polled the organiser's blog every two minutes, captured its pages, and ten timeline rows link to it. The agent stopped its own requests and put the choice to Dinis as an ask.",
  "The conductor did not wait for him: an interim hold, by 05:27 (the card's time; the conductor made no commit for it, and three agents' commits name it). Within 1 min 56 s of the terms being pushed, the research checker, the source page, the board and the archive had each acted, in four commits by four agents.",
  "What the hold costs is written on the card: an organisers' decision now reaches this site through the press, social accounts or a person, some minutes later; five open questions only Web Summit can answer are no longer re-read by any agent.",
  "It is the first decision in the record taken to stop something rather than build something, and the first taken while Dinis was silent; it is marked interim, and the keep-or-continue choice is his (second on his list)."
 ],
 "rests_on": [
  "board/items/a-websummit-terms.json",
  "sources/registry.json",
  "sources/README.md",
  "agents/sources/status.json",
  "agents/perplexity/status.json",
  "agents/archivist/status.json",
  "evidence/websummit/index.json",
  "research/perplexity/hosts.json",
  "agents/conductor/holds.md"
 ],
 "input": {
  "kind": "a page read",
  "what": "Web Summit's terms and conditions (updated 27 October 2026), read by incident.sources@ at 05:25 UTC on its hourly round"
 },
 "output": {
  "kind": "a hold, and a card waiting on a person",
  "what": "no automated read or capture of websummit.com by any agent; its captures kept privately and not shown (address, title, time and hashes stay); a card for Dinis: keep the hold, or continue",
  "url": "https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/view/?path=board/items/a-websummit-terms.json"
 },
 "status": "open: on hold by the conductor since 05:27; the choice waits on Dinis",
 "duration": {
  "from": "2026-11-11T05:26:18Z",
  "to": null,
  "note": "terms pushed to the research checker no longer requesting the site: 89 s; to the source page saying \"on hold\": 1 min 40 s; to a card for Dinis: 1 min 44 s; to the archive reading no further and showing no capture: 1 min 56 s; a wrong count in that commit corrected 13 s later; waiting on Dinis since 05:28:02"
 },
 "shape": {
  "step": "n, at (UTC; for a commit step, the committer time), at_note, actor {name, kind: person|agent|ci}, in, out, handoff {to, via, evidence_of_handoff}, kind, sha (a commit of this repository unless repo says otherwise), agent_trailer, for[] (the commit's For: trailers), evidence[] (commit | version | file | url), evidence_note",
  "evidence": "commit {sha, url}; version {version, run, own_run, served_by, push_to_served_s}: the first CI tag at or after the commit; file {path, section?}; url {url, read_utc}. Entries with \"filled\": true are written by tools/reporter-fill.mjs from git and data/ci/runs/. evidence: [] with evidence_note means the record holds none.",
  "handoffs": "Messages between sessions are not in the repository. A hand-off by message is evidenced only by the commit's For: trailer, a status line, or a later file that says so; the step says which.",
  "person": "A person's step is where Dinis acted. His words are known only as incident.conductor@ wrote them down in BRIEF.md (\"close to his words\"); the time is the brief's own \"~\" time, and the commit that records it is the only timestamp."
 },
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    "kind": "agent"
   },
   "kind": "a finding",
   "sha": "dd54ba38a4c622616a0065e2ecaa4dbe97f848a8",
   "in": "the hourly round: the feed read (unchanged) and the next source's terms page, most cited first",
   "out": "\"Web Summit's terms read and quoted: automated access, archiving and summarising of its websites are forbidden (a decision for Dinis)\". Its status file puts the choice as an ask that starts \"Dinis:\": stop the automated reads and keep links and facts in our own words, or continue, knowing the terms; and says the agent itself makes no further request.",
   "handoff": {
    "to": "incident.conductor@ and Dinis Cruz",
    "via": "the commit's For: trailer and an ask in agents/sources/status.json",
    "evidence_of_handoff": "the next three steps name the conductor's hold within 89 s"
   },
   "evidence": [
    {
     "type": "file",
     "path": "sources/registry.json",
     "url": "https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/view/?path=sources/registry.json"
    },
    {
     "type": "file",
     "path": "agents/sources/status.json",
     "section": "asks",
     "url": "https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/view/?path=agents/sources/status.json"
    },
    {
     "filled": true,
     "type": "commit",
     "sha": "dd54ba38a4c622616a0065e2ecaa4dbe97f848a8",
     "url": "https://github.com/PrompTugal/PrompTugal__News__Storm-Charles/commit/dd54ba38a4c622616a0065e2ecaa4dbe97f848a8"
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    {
     "filled": true,
     "type": "version",
     "version": "v0.1.549",
     "run": 549,
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    "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis"
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   "at": null,
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     "type": "file",
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     "section": "summary",
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    },
    {
     "type": "commit",
     "sha": "879d9d4c36e274b878979d78bc8bff706af1e323",
     "url": "https://github.com/PrompTugal/PrompTugal__News__Storm-Charles/commit/879d9d4c36e274b878979d78bc8bff706af1e323"
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   "actor": {
    "name": "incident.perplexity@web-summit.dinis",
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    {
     "type": "file",
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    },
    {
     "type": "file",
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     "filled": true,
     "type": "version",
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     "run": 553,
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    "name": "incident.sources@web-summit.dinis",
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     "type": "file",
     "path": "board/items/a-websummit-terms.json",
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    "incident.sources@web-summit.dinis",
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    "to": "incident.conductor@",
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     "type": "file",
     "path": "evidence/websummit/index.json",
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     "filled": true,
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    "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis"
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    "name": "Dinis Cruz",
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   "out": "no answer in the record",
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    "to": "incident.conductor@ (to record the choice on the Web Summit source page)",
    "via": "none yet",
    "evidence_of_handoff": "the card is open"
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    "name": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
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   "sha": "1777559b7a5098c68f95587fe38e4d64fe1fda80",
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   "out": "Out of time order (it documents step 2). \"the record of my two interim holds (websummit.com, IPMA's session) and two corrections to my own record\": the hold was passed \"By session message to each agent, 05:26 to 05:28; no commit of the lead's until this file\"; the two-minute blog poll was stopped by incident.dev@ at 05:27:38 (last read 05:27:31), which no commit in this repository showed; \"Nothing deleted\"; \"The lead has not read the terms itself (that would be one more automated read)\". Meanwhile incident.journalist@ told this trace as a piece, \"The first decision to stop\" (5c2749f, 06:21:00), and the board joined incident.dev@'s ask into the card (15dc24d, 06:34:21). One hour and 39 minutes after the card opened, no word from Dinis in the record.",
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    "to": "Dinis Cruz",
    "via": "agents/conductor/holds.md and board/items/a-websummit-terms.json",
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     "type": "file",
     "path": "agents/conductor/holds.md",
     "section": "Holds",
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    },
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    },
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     "type": "commit",
     "sha": "15dc24de20d89ad40acdb4503b4b66b2632a7c52",
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    },
    {
     "filled": true,
     "type": "version",
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     "run": 607,
     "own_run": true,
     "served_by": "2026-11-11T06:22:31Z",
     "push_to_served_s": 45
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   ],
   "n": 8,
   "at": "2026-11-11T06:21:45Z",
   "agent_trailer": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
   "for": [
    "incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "counts": {
  "steps": 8,
  "steps_with_no_evidence": 1,
  "person_steps": 1,
  "agent_steps": 7
 },
 "people_acted": [
  "Dinis Cruz"
 ],
 "agents_acted": [
  "incident.sources@web-summit.dinis",
  "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
  "incident.perplexity@web-summit.dinis",
  "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "incident.archivist@web-summit.dinis"
 ],
 "corrections": [
  {
   "at": "2026-11-11T07:08:32Z",
   "what": "Step 2 said the way the hold was passed was not in the record, and no step showed the blog poll stopping. The conductor wrote both down at 06:21:45 (agents/conductor/holds.md): session messages, 05:26 to 05:28; the poll stopped 05:27:38 by incident.dev@. Added as step 8; step numbers unchanged. The summary's \"four commits by four agents\" stands for this repository; a fifth agent (incident.dev@) and incident.researcher@ also stopped, outside it."
  }
 ]
}