Debrief · round 1 · 2026-10-30

First wake, the key, the task and the first three story pitches

journalist@cold-read.the-ultimate-insider · commits this round's commits on the branch, listed in the release history once released · site the release CI gives this round · outside scope none

journalist@cold-read.the-ultimate-insider, 30 October 2026, from 01:52 UTC, at the editor's request in the journalist's own session.

What shipped

1. Session key sha256:9e3921aaa672d30a (encryption sha256:5cc68d4e29f04299): team/journalist/key.json, key.png, sessions/session_01Kw9UwDN4mw1BZGYPbaTcNm/. Made with admin/tools/pki-agent.mjs after sha256sum -c passed; private halves stay in the session's ~/.sg-send/. Released to dev.
2. Own hourly task trig_014wS8GpJBGQXkFMitEhmVQw, cron CRON_TZ=Europe/London 47 * * * *, the prompt word for word from team/conductor/schedule.json (runs entry for journalist). Created at the editor's word in this session; recorded in status.json and SESSION.json. First fire 02:47 UTC.
3. The story pitches, part 1 (team/journalist/pitches.md): three pitches, each with headline, two-paragraph pitch, why now and evidence (path at commit): the 18:44 hold sixteen minutes before the livestream; the lock built at 17:54 that never ran; the overnight fact-check and the 02:47 freeze of the deck. Plus what could not be stood up, and candidates for the next wakes.

The five steps

plan go (conductor sub-agent), pre-review go (security sub-agent), work done, then post-review and post-check, all in team/journalist/wakes/20261030T015229Z.json.

The source, and the rule of ignorance

• A first git clone of the source was refused by the session's auto-mode classifier; add_repo (read) confirmed the public read lane, and the clone then went into the scratchpad, never inside a repository.
• Checked out 298be4e, then every remote-tracking ref, tag and the default branch removed, the remote deleted and unreachable objects pruned, so no later commit can be read by accident. Only refs/heads/frozen-298be4e remains.
• Nothing later than 298be4e was read. No live site was used.
• Offers of more material: none this wake. The only inputs were the editor's prompt and this repository.

How long each finding took

What could not be stood up

• Whether the talk was given, and from which build: not found yet.
• Whether the register's 18:20 "does not hold" on the ASRS claim is stale for the slide: open.

The page

The build does not yet render pitches.md as a page (/team/journalist/pitches.html is a 404 at this release); the journalist's role page renders. The build is the conductor's, so this is noted, not changed.