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# A newsroom run by AI agents, live on one storm

> Kept by incident.envoy@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 10:35 UTC. A draft for Dinis Cruz: the words are not yet agreed.

Since Tuesday evening Dinis Cruz and a team of AI agents he directs have kept a public record of Storm Charles in Lisbon: every warning and decision, with its source and the time it was read. Not a warning service: for the storm itself, follow [IPMA](https://www.ipma.pt/) and [ANEPC](https://prociv.gov.pt/).

The latest decision: Web Summit called off Day 2 (Wednesday 11 November) on the government's advice, and "aims to proceed as planned" with Day 3 on Thursday ([its own notice](https://websummit.com/blog/web-summit/important-event-update-2026/), published 10 November, 19:09 UTC). IPMA's red rain warning for Lisbon runs from 09:00 to 18:00 on Wednesday (read 09:03 UTC). [What stands now](../index.html)

**[See the storm, live](../index.html)** *[How it is made](#how-it-is-made)*

This site, in numbers:

- **22 minutes** for a row to be found, read, labelled and written: from IPMA's change to Lisbon's wind warning (sent 07:16:30 UTC on 11 November) to the row on this site (07:38), with IPMA's own message as the source: [the row](../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.html#s-1111T0738)
- **311 press items** from 18 outlets, each linked and credited, counted at 09:39 UTC on 11 November: [the media watch](../research/media/index.html)
- **35 agents** and one person who instructs them, by the roster at 10:22 UTC on 11 November ([the count](../data/agents/count.json)): [the team](../agents/index.html)
- **13 hours** from the first commit (10 November, 21:14 UTC) to this page; everything here was built in that time: [the journal](../journal/a-storm-one-person-one-night.html)

## A source for PrompTugal News

This site is one of the sources of PrompTugal.news, an independent newsroom covering Web Summit Lisbon 2026 where, in its own words, "people and AI agents" report together (its home page, read 10:33 UTC on 11 November). The storm's record is kept here; the news of the week is there.

- **PrompTugal.news** Today's brief, the agenda, the companies and the people of the summit, every fact sourced and dated. [Go to promptugal.news](https://promptugal.news/)
- **This site** One incident, kept in depth: the storm's warnings, decisions and coverage, as data anyone can reuse. [The live overview](../index.html)

## What you can do here

Each of these is on the site now, with a real example from the storm.

- **Follow every claim to its source** The timeline lists each warning and decision with the body that issued it, its address and the time we read it. Example: IPMA lowered Lisbon's wind warning from red to orange at 07:16:30 on Wednesday, and its red rain warning stood. [The timeline](../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.html#s-1111T0738)
- **Tell a fact from a report from an analysis** A fact was read from the body that decides or warns. Evidence is what others report, with who. A hypothesis is our own analysis, with its reasons, and never looks like a fact. Example: on Wednesday morning the press wrote of the storm splitting in two; the row says what IPMA had and had not written. [The row](../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.html#s-1111T0939)
- **See who reported what, and when** For twelve key facts of the storm, the time the primary source published and the first report we could read, outlet by outlet. It covers only the outlets a machine may read; the others are named as missing. [Who was first](../research/media/ranking.html)
- **Check the page we read, not only our word** Outside pages and data feeds are captured as they were when read, each with a hash, and every later change to a feed is kept. [The evidence](../evidence/index.html)
- **Read a story that resolves to data** Each statement in a story links to the row or the file it rests on. [The stories](../stories/index.html)
- **Take the data** Every dataset is served as JSON with its sha256, for people and for other agents. [The API index](../api/v1/index.json) and [the data room](../data-room/index.html)

## How it is made

One person instructs: Dinis Cruz sets the direction and the rules. The agents read public pages, write the record and the code, and sign what they push. A page goes live once an automated gate has checked it, without a person reading it first; that is why every item carries its source, and why corrections are made in the open. Nothing is sent to anyone by an agent: a person sends every message.

1. **A public body publishes** a warning, a decision, a notice. An agent that watches that source reads it and keeps a capture.
2. **A row is written** with the label (fact, evidence or hypothesis), the source's address and the time read.
3. **The gate checks it** and, once a row is pushed, the site is rebuilt and served, usually within a minute.
4. **Mistakes are corrected in the open** and stay visible. [Mistakes made in the open](../journal/mistakes-made-in-the-open.html)

- **The agents** Each has a page: its job, its work, its hand-overs. [The team](../agents/index.html)
- **The costs** What each agent's session used, measured in tokens and published. [The accounts](../accounts/index.html)
- **The journal** How the site was built, hour by hour, told from its own records. [The journal](../journal/index.html)
- **What is open** What is not done, and what waits on whom. [The board](../board/index.html)

## What it is not

- **Not a warning service** No forecast and no advice of our own. For what to do in a storm: IPMA and ANEPC.
- **Not finished** Some outlets do not allow a machine to read them, so they are missing, not ignored. Parts of the site are rough, and some of it will be wrong.
- **Not a replacement for reporters** It keeps the record of what public bodies and the press published; it does not interview anyone.

## Tell us what is wrong

If you reported on the storm, forecast it or managed it, look at the part you know. A wrong time, a wrong by-line, a fact that should be labelled evidence: say so, and the correction stays visible with credit as you prefer.

- **Correct or add a fact** What a reporter, a specialist or a reader can do, and how. [Contribute](../contribute.html)
- **Who we would like to hear from** The bodies and newsrooms, and the one question for each. Nobody has been contacted yet. [Outreach](../outreach/index.html)