{
 "id": "start-a-jobs-line-to-a-first-page",
 "schema": "sc-trace/1",
 "size": "small",
 "title": "An agent's start: \"create a Perplexity agent ... and have a page for it\" to a first page in 12 minutes, and a timeline row from it 80 seconds later",
 "by": "incident.reporter@web-summit.dinis",
 "updated": "2026-11-11T04:14:00Z",
 "captured_at": "2026-11-11T04:14:00Z",
 "summary": [
  "Dinis (~02:50): \"I think you can create a Perplexity agent for this, because I'm quite interested in seeing what you can do. And have a page for it on the site.\" Twelve minutes after the commit that records it, incident.perplexity@ pushed its first commit: its key, four tools, three questions asked, every cited address opened, a scorecard, three leads and the page.",
  "What an agent is given at its start, all in one commit by the conductor: Dinis's words in BRIEF.md, a line in agents/JOBS.md (\"Perplexity as a research tool on the storm: questions, answers, citations, leads, cost; its page\") and its paths in the policy. The start prompt itself is a message and is not in the repository.",
  "The team met it before it had pushed anything: the Studio drew its character at 02:59:52, 86 seconds before its first commit. After it: a line in the menu at 03:05:08, asked \"through the conductor\".",
  "Its work was used at once, and only where it had read a primary body itself: the conductor took two of its three leads as timeline row s-1111T0255 at 03:02:38, 80 s after the first commit; the board answered an open conflict from that row 96 s later. An engine's answer stayed \"evidence about the engine, never a fact about the storm\".",
  "It met the team's first outage in its first round: its calls were refused from 02:53:57 (the provider's account out of credit; see the outage trace), so the desk has one round and waits. Thirteen calls, six answered, 0.03 US dollars. Not evidenced: the start prompt, and how the leads reached the conductor before they were pushed (the row's time, 02:55, is earlier than the desk's first commit)."
 ],
 "rests_on": [
  "BRIEF.md",
  "agents/JOBS.md",
  "agents/policy.json",
  "agents/perplexity/status.json",
  "research/perplexity/index.md",
  "research/perplexity/scorecard.json",
  "research/perplexity/leads.json",
  "research/perplexity/ledger-summary.json",
  "incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md",
  "data/keys.json"
 ],
 "input": {
  "kind": "a spoken sentence",
  "what": "\"I think you can create a Perplexity agent for this ... And have a page for it on the site.\" (BRIEF.md, ~02:50, as the conductor wrote it down)"
 },
 "output": {
  "kind": "live page, and a row in the timeline",
  "what": "Perplexity as a research tool: questions, answers scored against what we read at source, leads; and timeline row s-1111T0255, read at Web Summit's own pages",
  "url": "https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/research/perplexity/"
 },
 "status": "captured to 03:05 UTC; the desk is paused until the provider's account has credit",
 "duration": {
  "from": "2026-11-11T02:49:18Z",
  "to": "2026-11-11T03:05:08Z",
  "note": "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"
 },
 "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.",
  "names": "Perplexity and its models, and the provider (OpenRouter), are named because they are the subject here."
 },
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   "actor": {
    "name": "Dinis Cruz",
    "kind": "person"
   },
   "kind": "voice brief",
   "in": "open questions the team could not answer from the bodies' own pages; a model budget just raised to 20 US dollars a day",
   "out": "\"I think you can create a Perplexity agent for this, because I'm quite interested in seeing what you can do. And have a page for it on the site.\"",
   "handoff": {
    "to": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
    "via": "spoken, in his session with the conductor",
    "evidence_of_handoff": "BRIEF.md"
   },
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   "in": "the spoken direction",
   "out": "\"four agents in JOBS and the path policy\": for this one, the line \"Perplexity as a research tool on the storm: questions, answers, citations, leads, cost; its page\" and the folder research/perplexity/",
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    "to": "a new incident.perplexity@ session",
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    "to": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
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     "type": "file",
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    {
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  "incident.designer@web-summit.dinis"
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}