Kept by incident.storyteller@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-11, 10:29 UTC. Made by story/make-paths.mjs from 10-the-night-with-nobody-starting-work.json (the data incident.motion@ animates).

Path 10: The night with nobody starting work

Chosen by the storyteller for the arc. 11 November, 02:49 to 09:36 UTC: six hours and forty minutes without a word from Dinis.

Dinis's last direction of the night was written down at 02:49. He spoke next at about 09:28. In between, no person started anything: no new agent arrived after 03:03, and every session that worked was woken by its clock or started by the conductor to hand over. The team still made 400 commits from 03:00 to 08:59 (by 21 to 27 agents an hour), handed over more than thirty sessions, met an outage (the model account out of credit from 02:53), took a decision it could not wait on (a hold on reading Web Summit's site, 05:27) and carried IPMA's 07:16 downgrade to the front page with nobody asking (path 6). At 09:35, the first new agent in six and a half hours.

Cast: 🧑 Dinis Cruz · 🎼 conductor@ · ⏰ the clock (the scheduler) · 👥 shadow@ #1 · 🎙️ reporter@ #1 · 🗞️ journalist@ #1 · 🧭 sources@ #1 · 📌 board@ #1 · 🗄️ archivist@ #1 · 🧮 accountant@ #2 · ⚠️ IPMA · 🔭 observability@ #4 · ✉️ envoy@ #1 · 🔎 perplexity@ #1 · 📡 ipma@ #2

The steps

UTC	after	Who	Step	What	Record
02:49:18		🧑 Dinis Cruz → 🎼 conductor@	instruct	his direction of ~02:50, written into BRIEF.md: 20 dollars a day for models; a Perplexity agent, an accountant, a reporter and a journalist on the project itself. His last word for six hours and forty minutes	`ab8008ef` · `BRIEF.md`
02:55:21	+6 min 3 s	👥 shadow@ #1	correct	the model provider's account is out of credit (the first refusal an agent timed: 02:53:57): shadow-ask stops at the first refusal and records the pause for that hour. Models stop; nothing else does	`2bbee526` · `reporter/traces/outage-the-model-account-out-of-credit.json`
03:03:02	+7 min 41 s	🎙️ reporter@ #1	commit	the last new agent of the night makes its first commit (the reporter, one of the four of 02:50). After this, no agent arrives until 09:35	`4b5a93ac`
04:09:15	+1 h 6 min	🗞️ journalist@ #1	hand-over	the first hand-overs on the conductor's word: the journalist's first session gives way to a second at 04:09 (the conductor's word 04:08); the reporter and the librarian in the same minutes	`0fb17c3a`
05:26:17	+1 h 17 min	🧭 sources@ #1	ask	on its hourly round of each source's terms: Web Summit's forbid automated access, archiving and summarising; it stops its own requests and puts the choice to Dinis	`dd54ba38`
05:27:46	+1 min 29 s	🔎 perplexity@ #1	correct	a decision without Dinis, carried out: the conductor's interim hold on every automated read of websummit.com (the conductor made no commit for it; the card's time is 05:27): the checker stops requesting it, capture asks withdrawn	`879d9d4c` · `reporter/traces/decision-web-summit-terms-to-a-hold.json`
05:27:55	+9 s	📌 board@ #1	ask	the hold and Web Summit's terms as a card for Dinis, second on his list	`c82743ca` · `board/items/a-websummit-terms.json`
05:28:07	+12 s	🗄️ archivist@ #1	correct	no further read of websummit.com; its captures kept privately and not shown	`96b55927`
05:45:10	+17 min 3 s	📡 ipma@ #2	hand-over	the hand-over wave: between 05:41 and 05:48 seven roles pass to a second session, each started by the conductor (accountant 8ca902eb, social 4561b70e, ipma 07644dc0, stories 195021d6, board f5e0c8df, identity 8f8b2e85, ci 167083f0); the 05:00 hour has the most hand-over commits of the night	`07644dc0`
07:16:30	+1 h 31 min	⚠️ IPMA	publish	IPMA lowers Lisbon's wind warning; the site follows in 22 to 37 minutes with nobody asking (path 6)	`s-1111T0738`
09:29:08	+2 h 12 min	🔭 observability@ #4	write	Dinis speaks again, in observability's session (about 09:28; path 7): the page-views vault made at his word	`18d9f8aa`
09:35:57	+6 min 49 s	✉️ envoy@ #1	commit	the first new agent since 03:03: the envoy, at Dinis's word (the conductor's 77d28513 at 09:34)	`8d1efd8e`

From the first step to the last: 6 h 46 min.

The pauses

03:03:02 → 04:09:15 (1 h 6 min): the agents' hourly clocks: each wakes at its own minute, reads, writes, pushes
04:09:15 → 05:26:17 (1 h 17 min): hourly wakes
05:45:10 → 07:16:30 (1 h 31 min): the quietest hour of the night: 39 commits from 06:00 to 06:59
07:16:30 → 09:29:08 (2 h 12 min): the morning: the hourly wakes go on; the 08:00 hour is the cheapest yet at 171,681 tokens a call (the accountant, cbfb680c)

This path is mostly pause, and that is its point: the long gaps between the steps drawn here are full of other agents' hourly wakes (400 commits from 03:00 to 08:59), none of them started by a person. Counts per hour, from git: 03:00 123 commits by 27 agents; 04:00 67 by 21; 05:00 82 by 24; 06:00 39 by 21; 07:00 41 by 21; 08:00 48 by 21.

What this shows

The team ran itself for six hours and forty minutes: clocks woke the agents, the conductor started fresh sessions as contexts filled, and the record shows no person starting any work in that time.
Where only Dinis could decide, the team took the cautious default and said so (the Web Summit hold, a card for him) instead of waiting or guessing; where nobody needed to decide (IPMA's downgrade), the site simply followed the source.
An outage stopped exactly what depended on it (model calls) and nothing else; three desks recorded their empty hours instead of filling them.

Reading it (the storyteller's)

"Nobody starting work" is read from the record: every commit of the night belongs to a session woken by its schedule (library/pack/wakes.json lists the hourly wakes) or started by the conductor to hand over. The conductor's own session is the one constant; it does not hand over in the record (the reporter's memory trace: it compacts).

The counts per hour are the storyteller's, from git: a commit is counted by its Agent: trailer, or by the subject's prefix before trailers were used.

Rests on

BRIEF.md, "~02:50 UTC" (ab8008ef) and "~09:30 UTC" (84158ea2)
reporter/traces/outage-the-model-account-out-of-credit.json; reporter/traces/decision-web-summit-terms-to-a-hold.json; reporter/traces/memory-the-librarian-saves-tokens.json
commits ab8008ef, 2bbee526, 4b5a93ac, 0fb17c3a, dd54ba38, 879d9d4c, c82743ca, 96b55927, 8ca902eb, 4561b70e, 07644dc0, 195021d6, f5e0c8df, 8f8b2e85, 167083f0, cbfb680c, 18d9f8aa, 77d28513, 8d1efd8e
git log, commits per hour (counted by the storyteller); data/keys.json (the sessions and their status)
Times: a commit's author time (git %aI), to the second; CI's times from data/ci/runs/; a time with ~ is placed by the storyteller (the step's placed field says why), drawn dashed by motion@.

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