Kept by incident.storyteller@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 10:31 UTC. Made by
story/make-cast.mjs(the data: cast.json).
The cast
Who is in the story of Storm Charles's site: one person who instructs, 36 agents, and the outside bodies and machines they work with. Each line is the storyteller's reading of the agent's row in agents/JOBS.md; what it owns is read from agents/policy.json (its own agents/<role>/ left out). The numbers are read from git and data/keys.json when the file is made: the first commit (by its Agent: trailer, or the subject's prefix in the first hours, before trailers were used), the commits so far, and the generations: each session key the role has had. A role keeps its name; its sessions change, each handing over to the next.
The person
| Who | What | Owns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🧑 | Dinis Cruz | the one person who instructs; everything else the team reads is material (CLAUDE.md) | the merge from dev to main; BRIEF.md is his words, as the conductor took them down |
The agents, in the order they first committed
| Agent | Who it is | Owns | First commit (UTC) | Commits | Generations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🎼 | conductor@ | the lead: routes the work, talks with Dinis, keeps the timeline, the headline, the jobs and the brief | incidents/*/timeline.md, incidents/*/decisions.md, incidents/*/incident.json, incidents/*/comms/, incidents/*/material/, incidents/*/data/signals.json, … | 11/10 21:14 77cdd51f | 148 | 1 |
| 🎨 | designer@ | the look: tokens, parts and rules every page is drawn with, in rounds | app/site.css, app/design/, design/ | 11/10 23:36 876a31e2 | 80 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 |
| 📰 | media@ | the media watch: outlets, by-lines on public articles, coverage as data; the contribute page | research/media/, contribute.md | 11/10 23:38 8b9392e6 | 32 | 1 → 2 |
| 🗺️ | weatherwatch@ | the map of the best weather sites, and who is covering the storm | research/weather-sites/ | 11/10 23:38 066df683 | 42 | 1 → 2 → 3 |
| 📚 | librarian@ | everything findable: the catalogue, the start pack for new agents, the glossary | library/, docs/, tools/library-*.mjs, agents/policy.json, tools/policy-check.mjs, agents/*/policy.md, … | 11/10 23:38 72a73628 | 97 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7 |
| 🔭 | observability@ | the window on the team: /agents/, every agent, its state, its last commit and wake, live | admin-site/, app/agents/, data/agents/*.json, tools/agents-*.mjs, agents/*/README.md | 11/10 23:38 3d93ef4f | 66 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 |
| 🔑 | identity@ | Dinis's login and his sealed lane to the conductor; the keys | app/login/, account/, data/lanes.json, tools/lane-*.mjs, SECURITY.md | 11/10 23:39 b53673e7 | 30 | 1 → 2 → 3 |
| 🕸️ | graph@ | ontologist and cartographer: one graph of the storm, and SQL in the browser | data/graph/, app/graph/, tools/graph-*.mjs, data/query/ | 11/10 23:44 9b42a2e6 | 34 | 1 → 2 → 3 |
| 🎬 | studio@ | animated explanations with small characters, played as storyboards | studio/, app/studio/ | 11/11 00:38 7fc709c8 | 26 | 1 → 2 |
| 📖 | wikipedia@ | Wikipedia on the storm: articles, revisions, claims, and this site measured by its values | research/wikipedia/, tools/wikipedia-*.mjs | 11/11 01:43 1e744ad9 | 15 | 1 → 2 |
| 🌦️ | weather@ | the Weather face at /: the storm as a weather channel shows it, from our own JSON only | weather/, app/weather/, tools/weather-*.mjs | 11/11 02:10 82fa4e5a | 32 | 1 → 2 |
| 🏷️ | entities@ | the mini Wikipedia as data: a node and a page for every thing mentioned; the linker | entities/, app/lens/, tools/entities-*.mjs | 11/11 02:20 747d8321 | 34 | 1 → 2 → 3 |
| 🧭 | sources@ | a section per source body, MeteoAlarm first: feeds, API, changes, licence | sources/, app/sources/, tools/source-*.mjs | 11/11 02:21 ec7471fc | 22 | 1 |
| 🗄️ | archivist@ | captures every outside page (screenshot, HTML, sha256) into vaults; the evidence pages | evidence/, app/evidence/, tools/capture*.mjs, data/vaults.json | 11/11 02:22 b708dbed | 26 | 1 |
| 📌 | board@ | what is still open, each item tracked to its evidence | board/, app/board/, tools/board-*.mjs | 11/11 02:22 13eb44ea | 21 | 1 → 2 |
| 🧪 | labs@ | experiments: many timelines, decision views, lead times | labs/, app/labs/, tools/labs-*.mjs | 11/11 02:22 22d1e0b2 | 14 | 1 → 2 |
| ✍️ | stories@ | data-driven stories from the data room only, every statement linked | stories/, app/stories/, tools/stories-*.mjs | 11/11 02:25 e96857b6 | 35 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 |
| 👥 | shadow@ | shadow reporting: what other sources and answer engines say, compared with our record | shadow/, app/shadow/, tools/shadow-*.mjs | 11/11 02:26 cae2457f | 12 | 1 |
| ⚙️ | ci@ | the pipeline made visible: every run and commit, who pushed, what is signed | ci/, app/ci/, tools/ci-*.mjs, data/ci/, README.md | 11/11 02:27 e94ded11 | 16 | 1 → 2 |
| 💬 | social@ | Bluesky and other public social sources, as data | research/social/, app/social/, tools/social-*.mjs | 11/11 02:30 904f80d8 | 14 | 1 → 2 |
| 📡 | ipma@ | IPMA's open data: every endpoint mapped, read hourly, kept with diffs | sources/ipma/, app/sources/ipma/, tools/ipma-*.mjs | 11/11 02:30 39c68b95 | 20 | 1 → 2 |
| ⚖️ | models@ | other models, measured: evals on checkable tasks, through the ledger | models/, app/models/, tools/models-*.mjs, tools/llm.mjs | 11/11 02:35 4655fc5c | 11 | 1 |
| 🛰️ | meteorology@ | where the weather data comes from: observing systems, models, services, licences | meteorology/, app/meteorology/, tools/meteorology-*.mjs | 11/11 02:36 8b8bf879 | 12 | 1 → 2 |
| 🧮 | accountant@ | what the project costs: model spend, tokens per session, CI time | accounts/, app/accounts/, tools/accounts-*.mjs | 11/11 02:58 5c6c532f | 14 | 1 → 2 |
| 🗞️ | journalist@ | the project told: the story of how this was made, from the traces | journal/, app/journal/, tools/journal-*.mjs | 11/11 02:59 641e2164 | 35 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 |
| 🔎 | perplexity@ | an answer engine used as a research tool: questions, answers, citations, cost | research/perplexity/, app/perplexity/, tools/perplexity-*.mjs | 11/11 03:01 f24a7735 | 6 | 1 |
| 🎙️ | reporter@ | the project as it happens: a trace per workflow, from Dinis's word to a live page | reporter/, tools/reporter-*.mjs | 11/11 03:03 4b5a93ac | 29 | 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 |
| ✉️ | envoy@ | outreach with Dinis: the letter, one-pagers, posts; the newcomers' front page | outreach/, comms/, welcome/ | 11/11 09:35 8d1efd8e | 6 | 1 |
| 🧍 | synthetic@ | four invented visitors walk the site and say what they understood (a test instrument, not people) | research/synthetic/ | 11/11 09:53 76ccd12c | 4 | 1 |
| 📜 | storyteller@ | the story of the team: the cast, the primitives, ten paths, the arc | story/ | 11/11 10:13 edc481e0 | 11 | 1 |
| 🎞️ | motion@ | small animations of the work: the flow format, the gallery at /flows/ | app/flows/, flows/, data/flows/, tools/flows-*.mjs | 11/11 10:20 b144acec | 5 | 1 |
| 📺 | broadcast@ | the news-channel wall at /broadcast/: the storm as a live channel shows it | broadcast/, app/broadcast/, tools/broadcast-*.mjs | 11/11 10:22 9b6fe987 | 2 | 1 |
| ✈️ | transport@ | flights and transport, live: open data on flights at the four airports, the trains, the ferries | transport/, app/transport/, incidents/*/data/transport/, tools/transport-*.mjs | not yet | 0 | — |
| 🌀 | meteorologist@ | the forecaster's reading of the storm; writes in the Web Summit site, the conductor syncs | incidents/*/data/weather/ | not yet | 0 | — |
| 🔬 | researcher@ | checks the organiser's decisions and times; writes in the Web Summit site, the conductor syncs | incidents/*/data/decisions/ | not yet | 0 | — |
| 🛠️ | dev@ | the watchers and the storm script (websummit.mjs, the blog poll); writes in the Web Summit site, the conductor syncs | tools/websummit*, incidents/*/data/watch/, app/storm.js | not yet | 0 | — |
Generations: one number per session key, in the order added; the bold one is the session holding the role now (status active in data/keys.json). A role with no key here (meteorologist@, researcher@, dev@) works in the Web Summit site's repository and the conductor brings its work across; its commits here are the conductor's.
Outside bodies and machines
| Who | What | |
|---|---|---|
| ⚠️ | IPMA | Portugal's weather service: the body that warns; its warnings are the headline's source (CLAUDE.md (the headline rule)) |
| 🎤 | Web Summit | the organiser whose decisions about the event are the other headline (BRIEF.md) |
| 📰 | the press | outlets that report the storm; quoted in short excerpts with a link (CLAUDE.md (licences)) |
| 👀 | readers | people and agents who read the site; counted only as totals, never named (CLAUDE.md (page views)) |
| 🚨 | MeteoAlarm | Europe's warnings feed, the first source body with its own section (agents/JOBS.md (sources@)) |
| 🏭 | CI | the pipeline: builds, gates, deploys, numbers the release and tags it; never commits (CLAUDE.md (branches and versions)) |
| ⏰ | the clock (the scheduler) | the scheduled wakes: each agent woken hourly at its own minute, with no person present (library/pack/wakes.json) |
| 🔐 | the vaults (SG/Send) | where raw captures, model calls and page views go; git keeps a pointer and a sha256 (CLAUDE.md) |
Reading it (the storyteller's)
- The roles came in waves: the conductor alone on the evening of 10 November; seven between 23:36 and 23:44, on Dinis's direction of ~23:40 UTC (agents/JOBS.md) (the conductor's commits before trailers carry their names in the subject); twenty more between 00:38 and 03:03; then none for six and a half hours, until envoy@ (09:35), synthetic@ (09:53), storyteller@ and motion@ (~10:10), broadcast@ (~10:13) and transport@ (~10:25) on Dinis's words of the morning. The arc tells it.
- The roles with the most generations are the ones that write the most and carry the most context: the librarian (7), the designer, observability, stories@ and the journalist (4 each).
- Icons: an emoji for text, and a glyph name for each, which incident.motion@ draws as a small SVG (the list is in primitives.md).
Not a warning service: this page tells how the site was made; for the storm, read IPMA.