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story/make-paths.mjsfrom 03-a-journalists-hand-over.json (the data incident.motion@ animates).
Path 3: A hand-over: the journalist's third session to its fourth
Named by Dinis (BRIEF.md, ~10:10). 11 November, 05:15 to 08:18 UTC: one session's life, and the minute the role passes on.
A role is a name and a set of folders; a session is one context holding it. The journalist's third session starts at 05:15 and does three hours of hourly wakes. At its 08:12 wake (path 1) its context reaches 196,389 tokens. At 08:16 the conductor starts a fourth session; it makes its own key, marks the third's key "handed over", reads the hand-over the third left in its status file, and pushes its first round 1 min 10 s after its key. Nothing passes between the two sessions except files.
Cast: 🎼 conductor@ · 🗞️ journalist@ #3 · 🗞️ journalist@ #4 · 🔑 identity@ · 🧮 accountant@ · 🧑 Dinis Cruz
The steps
| UTC | after | Who | Step | What | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:15:03 | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | wake | the third session's first model call (the ledger's first_call); it was started after the second session's hand-over | accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl | |
| 05:17:41 | +2 min 38 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | commit | the third session starts: its session key's public half (incident-journalist-dinis-3); the second's entry marked handed over; a ninth piece | 12c22b23 · data/keys.json |
| 06:20:59 | +1 h 3 min | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | commit | 06:20 round: a tenth piece, "The first decision to stop" | 5c2749f1 |
| 07:15:12 | +54 min 13 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | correct | 07:14 round: the tenth piece corrected from the conductor's own record of the hold | fda196f5 |
| 08:14:51 | +59 min 39 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | commit | 08:14 round: the eleventh piece, "Nobody asked" (path 1); the status file carries a hand-over list for whoever comes next | 26371572 · agents/journalist/status.json |
| 08:15:01 | +10 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #3 | commit | tokens measured: 49 calls in the session; context 84,018 at the first call, 196,389 at the last (the team's line is to hand over near 200,000) | 82c935dc · accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl |
| ~08:16:00 | +59 s | 🎼 conductor@ → 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | route | the conductor starts a fourth journalist session, at Dinis's word (the fourth's status: started_by the conductor's session, on_whose_word Dinis Cruz, follows the third) | agents/journalist/status.json |
| 08:16:05 | +5 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | wake | the fourth session's first model call; its context starts at 84,099 tokens (the start prompt, CLAUDE.md, the start pack) | accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl |
| ~08:16:30 | +25 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | read | the hand-over: the handover list in the status file (run the check first; stamp times from the clock; counts from the file that owns them) and next (two dated lines owed). Time approximate | agents/journalist/status.json |
| 08:16:54 | +24 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | hand-over | its own session key's public half added (incident-journalist-dinis-4); the third session's entry marked "handed over". For: identity@, which checks the keys | 8aaa7ce5 · data/keys.json |
| 08:18:04 | +1 min 10 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | commit | the fourth session's first round: the two dated lines the third had listed in next (the accountant's round 8; the outage's sixth empty hour), each resting on a commit. For: the conductor and the accountant | 7146cfdf |
| 08:18:04 | +0 s | 🗞️ journalist@ #4 | commit | tokens measured: the first round cost 14 calls | bc2d7002 · accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl |
From the first step to the last: 3 h 3 min.
The pauses
- 05:17:41 → 06:20:59 (1 h 3 min): hourly wakes: the session waits for the clock
- 06:20:59 → 07:15:12 (54 min 13 s): hourly wakes
- 07:15:12 → 08:14:51 (59 min 39 s): hourly wakes
The pauses of an hour are the session waiting for its clock: it holds its context between wakes and each wake adds to it. That is why a session ends: not on a timer, but when its context is full.
What this shows
- A hand-over is files, not memory: the old session leaves a list in its status file; the new one reads it, makes its own key and starts on the old one's
next. - The record marks every generation: one key per session in data/keys.json, the old one marked "handed over", the new one's first commit within a minute.
- The new session starts at 84,099 tokens where the old one ended at 196,389: starting again is cheaper than remembering (the title of the journalist's own sixth piece).
Reading it (the storyteller's)
Its fourth session wrote down what the start pack had not told it (pack_did_not_tell in its status file): that the pack was built from the status file at the last push, and that a fresh session should pull dev again before reading it. A hand-over improves the next hand-over.
The journalist's first hand-over, at 04:09, was on the conductor's word at 04:08 (commits 0fb17c3a and a5745e7d); its second at about 05:15. This one is told because the record holds both ends of it: the context number that ended the third session, and the first call of the fourth.
Rests on
- commits 12c22b23, 5c2749f1, fda196f5, 26371572, 82c935dc, 8aaa7ce5, 7146cfdf, bc2d7002
- accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl: the lines at 08:15:01 (session s-3bc2fe25665f) and 08:18:04 (session s-c97c7fa1ba3b)
- agents/journalist/status.json as committed in 26371572 (handover, next) and 7146cfdf (session, pack_did_not_tell)
- data/keys.json: incident-journalist-dinis-3 (handed over) and -4 (active)
- Times: a commit's author time (git
%aI), to the second; CI's times fromdata/ci/runs/; a time with ~ is placed by the storyteller (the step'splacedfield says why), drawn dashed by motion@.
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