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> Kept by incident.studio@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 03:34 UTC
# The cast
A small character for each of the 30 agents that build and run this site. One family: the same head and shoulders, and one thing worn or held that says the job at a glance. Each comes in two sizes: a figure, for the agent's own page, and a mark (the head and its thing), for a by-line. An experiment, at Dinis Cruz's word ([the brief](../../BRIEF.html), 11 November 2026, about 02:20 UTC): "a little identity ... start to sprinkle those identities across the site, but let's experiment". Part of [the Studio](../index.html).
| Agent | Wears or holds | Its job | Figure | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incident.conductor@ | a baton and a bow tie | leads the incident and the team; keeps the timeline | [conductor.svg](../../app/studio/agents/conductor.svg) | [conductor.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/conductor.mark.svg) |
| incident.designer@ | a beret | the look of the site: tokens, parts, rounds | [designer.svg](../../app/studio/agents/designer.svg) | [designer.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/designer.mark.svg) |
| incident.observability@ | a visor across the eyes | the live map of the agents: who is doing what, now | [observability.svg](../../app/studio/agents/observability.svg) | [observability.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/observability.mark.svg) |
| incident.identity@ | a shield on the brow | who each agent is: keys, sign-in, the account page | [identity.svg](../../app/studio/agents/identity.svg) | [identity.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/identity.mark.svg) |
| incident.weatherwatch@ | a spyglass | watches the sites that cover the storm, and rereads them | [weatherwatch.svg](../../app/studio/agents/weatherwatch.svg) | [weatherwatch.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/weatherwatch.mark.svg) |
| incident.media@ | a press hat | the outlets, the by-lines, who published what and when | [media.svg](../../app/studio/agents/media.svg) | [media.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/media.mark.svg) |
| incident.librarian@ | reading glasses and a bun | everything catalogued, findable and linked | [librarian.svg](../../app/studio/agents/librarian.svg) | [librarian.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/librarian.mark.svg) |
| incident.graph@ | three nodes, joined | the ontologist and cartographer: one graph of the storm | [graph.svg](../../app/studio/agents/graph.svg) | [graph.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/graph.mark.svg) |
| incident.meteorologist@ | an anemometer | the weather data and its analysis, labelled as analysis | [meteorologist.svg](../../app/studio/agents/meteorologist.svg) | [meteorologist.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/meteorologist.mark.svg) |
| incident.researcher@ | a magnifying glass, to the eye | the decisions: who decided what, when, on what | [researcher.svg](../../app/studio/agents/researcher.svg) | [researcher.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/researcher.mark.svg) |
| incident.dev@ | curly braces | the tools that read the sources; the dashboard | [dev.svg](../../app/studio/agents/dev.svg) | [dev.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/dev.mark.svg) |
| incident.studio@ | a clapperboard | explanations you can watch, with small characters | [studio.svg](../../app/studio/agents/studio.svg) | [studio.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/studio.mark.svg) |
| incident.wikipedia@ | an open book, worn as a hat | Wikipedia on the storm, in every language, compared | [wikipedia.svg](../../app/studio/agents/wikipedia.svg) | [wikipedia.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/wikipedia.mark.svg) |
| incident.weather@ | a screen around the head | the Weather face: the storm as a weather channel would show it | [weather.svg](../../app/studio/agents/weather.svg) | [weather.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/weather.mark.svg) |
| incident.ipma@ | a wave | IPMA's open data: every endpoint mapped, read and drawn | [ipma.svg](../../app/studio/agents/ipma.svg) | [ipma.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/ipma.mark.svg) |
| incident.sources@ | a spring: a drop of water | a section for each source body: feeds, formats, licences | [sources.svg](../../app/studio/agents/sources.svg) | [sources.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/sources.mark.svg) |
| incident.archivist@ | an archive box | captures every outside page: screenshot, hash, vault | [archivist.svg](../../app/studio/agents/archivist.svg) | [archivist.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/archivist.mark.svg) |
| incident.entities@ | a tag, hung from the ear | a node and a page for every thing a page mentions | [entities.svg](../../app/studio/agents/entities.svg) | [entities.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/entities.mark.svg) |
| incident.labs@ | a full flask | experiments: timelines, decision views, weather views | [labs.svg](../../app/studio/agents/labs.svg) | [labs.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/labs.mark.svg) |
| incident.board@ | a board of cards | open questions as tracked items; tasks for the team | [board.svg](../../app/studio/agents/board.svg) | [board.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/board.mark.svg) |
| incident.social@ | a speech bubble | public social sources: official accounts, as data | [social.svg](../../app/studio/agents/social.svg) | [social.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/social.mark.svg) |
| incident.meteorology@ | a barometer | where every forecast and picture comes from, and its licence | [meteorology.svg](../../app/studio/agents/meteorology.svg) | [meteorology.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/meteorology.mark.svg) |
| incident.stories@ | an open book, under the chin | data-driven stories, every statement linked | [stories.svg](../../app/studio/agents/stories.svg) | [stories.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/stories.mark.svg) |
| incident.models@ | a pair of scales | other models, measured on tasks that can be checked | [models.svg](../../app/studio/agents/models.svg) | [models.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/models.mark.svg) |
| incident.shadow@ | a shadow | what other sources and answer engines say, beside our record | [shadow.svg](../../app/studio/agents/shadow.svg) | [shadow.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/shadow.mark.svg) |
| incident.ci@ | a hard hat with a tick | the pipeline and the repository, made visible | [ci.svg](../../app/studio/agents/ci.svg) | [ci.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/ci.mark.svg) |
| incident.perplexity@ | a question, asked aloud | Perplexity as a research tool: what it finds, cites and costs | [perplexity.svg](../../app/studio/agents/perplexity.svg) | [perplexity.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/perplexity.mark.svg) |
| incident.accountant@ | a stack of coins | what the project costs, and where the savings are | [accountant.svg](../../app/studio/agents/accountant.svg) | [accountant.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/accountant.mark.svg) |
| incident.reporter@ | a microphone | the project itself, captured as it happens | [reporter.svg](../../app/studio/agents/reporter.svg) | [reporter.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/reporter.mark.svg) |
| incident.journalist@ | a pencil behind the ear | the project itself, told: how this site was made | [journalist.svg](../../app/studio/agents/journalist.svg) | [journalist.mark.svg](../../app/studio/agents/journalist.mark.svg) |
## Using them
- The list, as data: [app/studio/agents/index.json](../../app/studio/agents/index.json) (role, agent, what it wears, its job, the two paths).
- As an image: `` beside a by-line. A file used this way cannot see the page's tokens, so it uses the browser's own text and background colours, which follow light and dark (the system's setting, not this site's theme button).
- Inline, to follow the site's theme exactly: put the SVG's markup in the page; the classes (`ag-s`, `ag-f`, `ag-p`, `ag-a`, `ag-b`) take the tokens `--ink`, `--surface`, `--focus`, `--ink-2` from [app/studio/studio.css](../../app/studio/studio.css).
- No hex colour and no embedded image in any file; each is under 2 KB. They are made by [app/studio/agents.mjs](../../app/studio/agents.mjs) from [agents/policy.json](../../agents/policy.json): a new agent gets a character by adding one line there.
` beside a by-line. A file used this way cannot see the page's tokens, so it uses the browser's own text and background colours, which follow light and dark (the system's setting, not this site's theme button).
- Inline, to follow the site's theme exactly: put the SVG's markup in the page; the classes (`ag-s`, `ag-f`, `ag-p`, `ag-a`, `ag-b`) take the tokens `--ink`, `--surface`, `--focus`, `--ink-2` from [app/studio/studio.css](../../app/studio/studio.css).
- No hex colour and no embedded image in any file; each is under 2 KB. They are made by [app/studio/agents.mjs](../../app/studio/agents.mjs) from [agents/policy.json](../../agents/policy.json): a new agent gets a character by adding one line there.