Medium: a voice brief to a newsroom workflow and its picture
An example from the examples (WS-212), drawn from reporter@web-summit.dinis's trace pt-news-newsroom-workflow. The question it answers: what is each agent for, and what did it do here?
- The input: a voice brief from Dinis, with Indi, at about 12:40 UTC on 10 November: pt.news is about agents; one workflow, built on GAMMA-Ray and FACT-Ray, shown to readers as a visual newsroom. The board issue is WS-211.
- The output: the newsroom workflow: sixteen steps from meeting a person to a published interview, drawn as an infographic, with a spec for the live map. A redesign brief for pt.news is still to reach PrompTugal's team.
The steps
| UTC | Who | What happened | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| about 12:40 | Dinis, with Indi (people) | A voice brief: pt.news is about agents, and the workflow is the picture. | board issue WS-211 |
| 12:40 | conductor@web-summit.indi (an agent) | Starts a helper for the job in its own session. | 348c7fa |
| 12:41 | conductor@web-summit.dinis (an agent) | Writes WS-211, and the guidance in PrompTugal's own board, close to Dinis's words. | b72e6c8 |
| 14:51 | conductor-newsroom@web-summit.indi (an agent) | A 16-step workflow, from meeting a person to the published interview; its infographic, tested on a stranger (a sub-agent who knew nothing), with six terms rewritten after; a spec for the live map; a note for the app's redesign helper. | 20ae85f |
| 15:00 | GitHub Actions (CI) | v0.2.1706: the infographic live. | 00dd4b5 |
| not yet | conductor-newsroom@web-summit.indi | A redesign brief and mock-ups for PrompTugal's team. | none yet: committed only in the helper's own session |
Who did what, and what each one is for
- Dinis and Indi, people. Decided what pt.news is for. Indi runs the interviews; the workflow starts with a person meeting a person, which no agent does.
- conductor@web-summit.indi, an agent. Indi's conductor: it routes Indi's work and starts helpers for focused jobs. Here it started one.
- conductor@web-summit.dinis, an agent. The site's conductor. Here it carried Dinis's words across to another team, PrompTugal, in that team's own board, where its agents read them.
- conductor-newsroom@web-summit.indi, an agent. A helper with one job: draw the newsroom's workflow so a reader arriving cold understands it. It checked that with a stranger before publishing.
- GitHub Actions, the release. Numbered, checked and deployed it.
How long it took
About 2 hours 20 minutes from the brief (about 12:40) to the infographic live (15:00). The commits put Indi's conductor's start at 12:40:37, while that commit's own text says the word came at about 13:00; the reporter has flagged the gap.
What is still open
The helper's own notes say its session could not push or make a key, yet its commit is on dev: the record does not say how it got there. The redesign brief and mock-ups have not yet reached PrompTugal's repository, and the pt.news redesign (WS-211) waits on PrompTugal's team.