Kept by incident.storyteller@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 10:33 UTC. Made by
story/make-paths.mjsfrom 05-dinis-request-of-1010.json (the data incident.motion@ animates).
Path 5: Dinis's request of 10:10, from that moment on (open, recorded as it happens)
Named by Dinis (BRIEF.md, ~10:10). 11 November, from 10:10 UTC; open.
At about 10:10 Dinis asked the conductor for the story of the agents, told as in his book, with small animations, "even this request ... map out everything that's going to happen from this request". This path is that request, recorded by one of the agents it created (the storyteller tells it; the reporter traces it too, from the outside, in reporter/traces/request-ten-paths-and-small-animations.json). In its first fourteen minutes: the brief written, two agents started, the Universe and the live map given their own pages, the cast and the primitives pushed, motion's format and first animations live, and five of the ten paths told; by 10:30 all ten and the arc. At about 10:30 Dinis turned the incident towards its close, and this story became the spine of its closing record. It stays open: it grows one step per move, and Dinis's answer on path 4 and his yes on path 8 are still to come.
Cast: 🧑 Dinis Cruz · 🎼 conductor@ · 📜 storyteller@ #1 · 🎞️ motion@ · 🔭 observability@ #4 · 🎙️ reporter@ #4 · 🏭 CI · 👀 readers · 🎨 designer@ #5 · 📺 broadcast@ · ✈️ transport@ · incident.planner@web-summit.dinis
The steps
| UTC | after | Who | Step | What | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~10:10:00 | 🧑 Dinis Cruz → 🎼 conductor@ | instruct | "Start maybe finding 10 different paths"; "we gave an identity to each agent ... we should have the same thing here"; "you need a little icon for me" (in his session with the conductor, about 10:10) | BRIEF.md | |
| 10:10:37 | +37 s | 🎼 conductor@ | route | BRIEF.md gains the section "Dinis, 11 November, ~10:10 UTC"; JOBS gains storyteller@ and motion@; policy.json gives each its folders | f4071e9c · agents/JOBS.md |
| 10:11:53 | +1 min 16 s | 🔭 observability@ #4 | write | its hand-over takes the request's own part for it: the Universe and the live map, each on its own page | 65b29a34 |
| 10:12:27 | +34 s | 🎼 conductor@ | route | Dinis's next ask, ~10:13: a news-channel wall; incident.broadcast@ started | 062940a1 |
| ~10:12:38 | +11 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | wake | the storyteller's session starts: its key made (record sha256:01efced5750df04a) with the pinned pki-agent.mjs; it reads BRIEF, JOBS, the book's cast and day chapters | data/keys.json |
| 10:13:14 | +36 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | commit | its session key's public half and its status file: a new agent in the record | edc481e0 |
| 10:15:40 | +2 min 26 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | the cast (Dinis, 35 agents with their generations, outside bodies and machines; an emoji and a glyph each) and the primitives; For: motion@ | 8862c581 · story/cast.md |
| 10:16:21 | +41 s | 🎙️ reporter@ #4 | write | a trace of this request, open; the existing traces pointed out to the storyteller and motion | 3d984657 · reporter/traces/request-ten-paths-and-small-animations.json |
| 10:17:20 | +59 s | 🎙️ reporter@ #4 → 📜 storyteller@ #1 | message | "before you trace any of the ten paths, 14 are already traced from the record": the shape of its traces and which of Dinis's examples each matches (a session message; its queued time; not in the repository); the same points are in the reporter's section for the storyteller and motion in that file | reporter/traces/README.md |
| 10:18:55 | +1 min 35 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | paths 1 and 3: a journalist's wake; its hand-over | f54ad5e5 |
| 10:20:12 | +1 min 17 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 6: IPMA lowers a warning, from its message to the press | f61d3db0 |
| 10:20:49 | +37 s | 🎞️ motion@ | publish | motion's first push: one small format for a flow (data/flows/schema.json), the player, and the first three small animations (a journalist's wake, a hand-over, an agent's night) | b144acec · data/flows/schema.json |
| 10:21:36 | +47 s | 🎼 conductor@ → 📜 storyteller@ #1 | answer | on path 4: it cannot place Dinis's data source with certainty either, has asked him, and gives the best candidate (a session message; not in the repository); recorded in path 4, which rests on it | story/paths/04-last-nights-data-source.json |
| 10:22:07 | +31 s | 🔭 observability@ #4 | publish | the live map and the Universe, each full size on its own page (/agents/live/, /agents/universe/) | e73737c5 |
| 10:22:08 | +1 s | 📺 broadcast@ | publish | /broadcast/, the news-channel wall, first version | 9b6fe987 |
| 10:22:17 | +9 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 2: a story made | 22115c19 |
| 10:24:14 | +1 min 57 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 4: last night's data source, as our reading, Dinis's step open; For: the conductor | 468b7c46 |
| 10:24:15 | +1 s | 🎞️ motion@ | answer | "the storyteller's paths play as they are (story/paths/*.json); its primitives taken into the schema": the format agreed, in a commit | bed1fa94 |
| 10:24:25 | +10 s | 🎼 conductor@ | route | Dinis's ask of ~10:25: flights and transport; incident.transport@ started | 44c65e23 |
| 10:25:39 | +1 min 14 s | 🎞️ motion@ | answer | a placed time on a storyteller step is drawn dashed (its ask of 10:24, taken by the storyteller as a "placed" field) | 7e00a0a2 |
| 10:26:00 | +21 s | 🎨 designer@ #5 | read | round 52: a first look at /flows/, five notes for motion@ | 8e1f5e76 |
| 10:26:31 | +31 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 7: page views and a vault key through the lane | 246ccb1e |
| 10:27:26 | +55 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 8: a page for newcomers, read by four invented visitors | 524d3176 |
| 10:27:38 | +12 s | 🎞️ motion@ | publish | the reporter's traces play as they are: 14 trace flows beside the paths | 4038053e |
| 10:28:26 | +48 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 9: a correction | 522e67e5 |
| 10:29:32 | +1 min 6 s | 🧑 Dinis Cruz → 🎼 conductor@ | instruct | ~10:30: wind the incident down to business as usual ("explorer to villager"); incident.planner@ writes the plan; the storyteller's arc to be the spine of the closing record (the conductor's message, 10:30). The commit is the conductor's writing of it into BRIEF.md | bda392be |
| 10:30:41 | +1 min 9 s | 📜 storyteller@ #1 | publish | path 10 and the arc: the ten paths told, the whole incident in a page | 6a43c78a |
From the first step to the last: 20 min 41 s.
The pauses
- None of 3 minutes or more.
No pause of three minutes or more in the first twenty minutes: two agents and two others answering one request in parallel. The path stays open.
What this shows
- A spoken request becomes work in about half a minute: the conductor writes it into BRIEF.md and JOBS.md, and the agents it names exist within three minutes, each with its own key.
- The agents agree a format without a meeting: the storyteller proposes the primitives in a file, motion takes them into its schema and says so in a commit, and the paths play as written.
- The request is recorded by an agent it created, while a second agent traces it from outside: the record of the work is part of the work.
Reading it (the storyteller's)
Two of the steps are session messages: they are real, but they live in the sessions, not in the repository. They are marked so; the commits are the record.
The time of Dinis's words is the brief's "~10:10"; the conductor's commit is 37 s after 10:10. As in path 2, a heading's time is approximate and the commit's is exact.
Rests on
- BRIEF.md, "Dinis, 11 November, ~10:10 UTC" (commit f4071e9c)
- commits f4071e9c, 65b29a34, edc481e0, 8862c581, 3d984657, f54ad5e5, f61d3db0, b144acec, e73737c5, 22115c19, 468b7c46, bed1fa94
- reporter/traces/request-ten-paths-and-small-animations.json (incident.reporter@, open)
- the storyteller's session: the reporter's message (queued 10:17:20) and the conductor's (queued 10:21:36)
- 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@.
All the paths · the cast · the primitives
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