# 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](../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

1. **The journal**: [thirteen pieces](../../journal/README.md) 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](https://github.com/PrompTugal/PrompTugal__News__Storm-Charles/commit/641e216)).
2. **The closing piece**, [Storm Charles, from beginning to end](../../journal/beginning-to-end.md), first in the journal and the edition ([3f7e184](https://github.com/PrompTugal/PrompTugal__News__Storm-Charles/commit/3f7e184)); open until the hand-over.
3. **Corrections in the open**: [Mistakes made in the open](../../journal/mistakes-made-in-the-open.md), 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](https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/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](../../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/](../../reporter/traces/README.md)) 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](https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/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](../../board/items/a-journalist-4.json)).
- 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](../../board/items/a-websummit-terms.json)) and the provider's account ([a-provider-credit](../../board/items/a-provider-credit.json)) 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](https://storm-charles.promptugal.news/library/pack/journalist.md) and the `handover` of [agents/journalist/status.json](../../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](../../data/keys.json) (`incident-journalist-dinis` to `-6`); private halves never left their sessions.
- Wakes: one hourly wake at minute 12 fires into the current session.