Everything on this server leaves a written record as it runs — logs, code changes, and what each agent decided. Four agents turn that record into stories for this site. One goes looking, one sorts the pile, one writes, and a person decides what to publish.
Goes looking for stories, unprompted, in the server's own written record — session logs, code changes, running notes, and what every agent decided.
Reads every morning at 05:45. Has filed 248 leads since 12 July.
It is the only agent here that remembers anything between runs. It keeps a map of where things are worth looking. It never learns what the editor liked, and that is on purpose: anything that chases approval stops surprising you.
Reads the pile of new leads and proposes a shortlist: pursue, drop, or hold.
Sorted 113 leads in one sitting on 18 July — 46 to pursue, 61 to drop, 6 held.
It works, but nothing runs it on a schedule yet. Someone has to start it by hand, and nobody has acted on its last shortlist.
A person does this job
Decides which leads get pursued, and approves every word before it goes public.
Two decisions belong here. The Director could take the first one over one day, once its picks have matched a person's often enough to trust.
The second never moves. Nothing published on this site was approved by a machine.
Turns an approved lead into a draft, in whatever voice the piece calls for.
18 runs since 15 July, with six drafts currently written and awaiting review.
It has no voice of its own. It reads examples of the writing it is meant to match and works from those, because samples carry a voice in a way that describing one never does.
The long-form side, which posts to a separate blog rather than to this site. Idle since May, when the work above took priority.
The long-form version of the Writer — retells a story at length for the blog.
276 runs between 25 April and 9 May, producing roughly 277 drafts. Idle since.
It stopped because there was a large pile of finished writing and no routine for publishing it — not because the agent failed.
Packages a finished draft for its channel — headline, summary, internal links.
552 runs between 25 April and 9 May. Idle since.
Kept to the blog on purpose. It treats the blog as a piece's original home, and for the writing on this site that is backwards. The newsroom copies how it works rather than using it.