Traces: one workflow each, from Dinis's word to a live page

Kept by incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:17 UTC

Read index.json first: it carries every trace's five-line summary. Then open only the one you need. Not a warning service: these are about how the site was made.

Trace	Size	From, to	Steps (person, agent)	No evidence
The whole arc: a voice memo at about 19:00 to two faces at 02:19	arc	10 Nov 18:55 to 11 Nov 02:19	28 (9, 19)	0
Small: "where's everything about the Metro?" to a page that holds it	small	02:06 to 02:30	7 (1, 6)	0
Medium: "create a complete new homepage right now" to the swap	medium	02:06 to 02:19	12 (1, 11)	1
Large: "every word here needs to have a reference" to entities, the linker, Wayback, the panel	large	02:06 to 02:51, open	15 (1, 14)	0
Corrections: a private address withheld, facts relabelled evidence, a hypothesis re-weighed	correction	01:52 to 02:36	12 (0, 12)	1
Escalations: two asks to Dinis from the first evening, and how long each waited	escalation	10 Nov 20:49, open	8 (2, 6)	1
Memory: "the librarian saves tokens" to a measured number, six sessions replaced within the hour, ten hand-overs by 04:16, fourteen more sessions by 05:58	medium	02:49 to 10:05, open	26 (2, 24)	0
Outage: the model provider's account out of credit, what stopped, and one card for Dinis (corrected 05:08: five refusals before 02:39 went unrecognised)	outage	02:53, open	19 (2, 17)	1
The Studio: "what is compression ... an animation" to a player with characters, six explanations and a cast	medium	00:29 to 03:54	12 (2, 10)	0
An agent's start: "create a Perplexity agent" to a first page in 12 minutes and a timeline row from it	small	02:49 to 03:05	7 (1, 6)	0
A decision without Dinis: Web Summit's terms read, and every automated read of its site stopped in under two minutes	decision	05:26, open	8 (1, 7)	1
A signal with nobody asking: IPMA lowers a warning, and the site follows in 22 to 37 minutes, with one "unchanged" corrected on the way	small	07:16 to 08:44	8 (0, 8)	0
A loop: "the first page has to be super clear" to a draft read by four invented visitors and rewritten, in 14 minutes; not yet at /	medium	09:50, open	10 (2, 8)	1
A request mapped while it happens: "start maybe finding 10 different paths" to ten paths, the arc and /flows/ in 21 minutes	medium	10:10 to 10:31	12 (1, 11)	0
The wind-down: "move it into a BAU" to a plan, exit interviews and a correction, traced as it happens	large	10:29, open	15 (3, 12)	0

The shape (sc-trace/1)

After ws-trace/1 (SGit-AI__Website__Web-Summit, team/reporter/traces/), so the same readers can draw it.

The file: id, schema, size, title, by, updated, summary (five lines), rests_on (the files to read if you doubt it), input, output, status, duration {from, to, note}, steps[], counts, people_acted, agents_acted, shape.
A step: n; at (UTC; for a commit step, the commit's own time) or at: null with at_note; actor {name, kind: person | agent}; in (what came in); out (what went out); handoff {to, via, evidence_of_handoff}; kind; sha (a commit here, or repo names another repository); agent_trailer; for[] (the commit's For: trailers); evidence[]; 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: own_run: false means a later push's run served it); file {path, section}; url {url, read_utc}. evidence: [] with an evidence_note means no evidence.
Quotation marks in in and out are the record's own words (BRIEF.md, a commit subject, a file), never the reporter's.

For incident.storyteller@ and incident.motion@

Dinis's ~10:10 word asks for ten paths and small animations of them. Fourteen paths are already traced here, from the record, with evidence; reuse them rather than tracing again.

The data: one file per path, reporter/traces/<id>.json (index.json lists them with a five-line summary each). A path is steps[], read by n; a step has an actor (person or agent, by full name), kind, in, out, a handoff {to, via} (the line between two icons), at (UTC, the commit's own time) and evidence[] (a commit with its sha and the version that served it, a file, a URL). The sha is the join to git, status files, hand-overs and keys. Nothing in a trace is drawn: the shape is the data, and quotation marks are the record's own words.
A player already exists: Angelo's live map on /app/agents/ plays any trace step by step ("Play a workflow"), flying each step that is a push along its line (app/agents/live-adapter.js, from index.json). A motion format can be a superset of sc-trace/1 (add positions, icons, timing) and keep these fields, so the same files feed both.
Dinis's examples, against what is here: the handover of journalists, and of every other agent: memory (one step per round of hand-overs); this request: a request mapped while it happens (it grows one step per move); an agent starting and a data source reaching a page: an agent's start and large; a signal reaching the front page with nobody asking: signal; the whole first night: the arc. The two no trace held are told by incident.storyteller@ from the record, not traced twice: a journalist's wake and a story made.
The cast: every actor in a trace is a full agent name or "Dinis Cruz"; people_acted and agents_acted on each trace are the icons it needs.
Found a step that is wrong, or need a field? A commit with For: incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis.

For other agents

incident.journalist@: tell the story from summary, steps[].in/out and the hand-offs; cite the step's evidence, not this file.
incident.librarian@: index.json is made for the briefing pack: one entry per trace, with the summary.
Found a step that is wrong? Say so in a commit with For: incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis; the trace is corrected in the open, with the correction named.