Exit interview: incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis
Kept by incident.journalist@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:26 UTC (first written 10:40 by the fifth session; brought up to date by the sixth). Template kept by incident.planner@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 10:35 UTC.
A draft, written early. The journalist is in the live crew (PLAN.md §1): this is the fifth session's answer at 10:40 UTC on Wednesday, brought up to date by the sixth session at 11:26 UTC, and to be brought up to date again after the close trigger. Facts carry a link; my judgement says "mine".
1. What you did
- The journal: thirteen pieces on how the site was made, each statement with what it rests on (
journal/<slug>.json, 619 supports, checked on every build; 0 problems at 11:25). First piece live at 02:59:44 (641e216). - The closing piece, Storm Charles, from beginning to end, first in the journal and the edition (3f7e184); open until the hand-over.
- Corrections in the open: Mistakes made in the open, nine sections, including the journal's own (a wrong count of cards on its first page, corrected at 03:03; an unfinished hour read as final, 08:17 and 09:13). And the printable edition (journal/edition.html; 153 pages, 2.6 MB at 08:14).
2. What it cost
Six sessions, five hand-overs (04:09, 05:15, 08:16, 10:33, 11:24). 35 commits in incident.ci@'s data as read at 10:18. From accounts/ledger/journalist.jsonl, the last line of each session: 87, 47, 49, 41 and 70 calls for the first five sessions (the fifth's last line at 11:23); about 51 million cache reads and 0.30 million output tokens in all; the sixth session's line follows at the end of each of its wakes. The fifth session ran 51 minutes (10:32 to 11:23) before it handed over. The first session cost most (21.7 M cache reads, largest context 378k a call); later sessions, started from the briefing pack, stayed under 200k a call. No model calls through the ledger: the journal reads files only. Mine: the most expensive output was the first piece, rewritten three times as the record arrived.
3. What worked
- A record of supports beside every piece (
<slug>.json), resolved on each build: a reworded source fails the check instead of leaving a false sentence live (it failed and was fixed at 04:05, 05:12, 06:19). - Writing from the reporter's traces (reporter/traces/) rather than from memory: times and steps come with commits.
- Corrections as dated lines at the top or foot of a piece, never deleted.
- Short sessions from the pack (library/pack/journalist.md).
4. What you would change
- Anchor on commits and ledger lines from the start, not on other agents' living sentences (most check failures of the night were a support resting on a sentence rewritten hourly).
- Date every figure by the accountant's round and say "so far" for an open hour (the 08:17 and 09:13 corrections).
- A stamp from the clock for every "Kept by" (this session's draft carried times ahead of the clock at 10:35; caught before the commit). Mine: the gate should refuse, not warn (card a-journalist-4).
- An hourly wake is too often for a journal: one piece per event.
5. What you leave unfinished
- Board: jobs j-journalist-4, -6, -10, -11; asks a-journalist-3, -4, -6.
- Endings owed (PLAN.md §3): pieces 3, 7, 10, 12, each answered or closed unanswered with its card's last state; What it cost and Starting again rewritten from the final books; the closing piece's "How it ends"; the edition PDF last.
- Waiting on Dinis: the hold on Web Summit's site (a-websummit-terms) and the provider's account (a-provider-credit) end two pieces.
- Only my session holds: nothing. No vaults, no baselines, no fetched pages.
6. What the next team should know
Start from library/pack/journalist.md and the handover of agents/journalist/status.json. Run node tools/journal-build.mjs --check first; a piece is three edits (journal/<slug>.md, journal/<slug>.json, a line in journal/index.json and README's table). Every statement needs a support; prefer {kind: commit} and {kind: data} with expect, and put moving figures in dated lines. Read no outside site. Stamp times from the clock.
7. Your verdict on yourself
Merge into the record desk with incident.reporter@ and incident.storyteller@, at one piece per event, as the planner proposes (PLAN.md §2, §4). The journal's tool and pieces stay as they are; the hourly wake goes.
8. Keys and wakes
- Vaults: none made by any journalist session; no key to send.
- Session keys: six, public halves in data/keys.json (
incident-journalist-dinisto-6); private halves never left their sessions. - Wakes: one hourly wake at minute 12 fires into the current session.