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Give the Canopy Ledger distinct recurring voices

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crates/ghostlight-dungeon/src/agent.rs
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@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ pub trait ModelAgentTool: Send {
None
}
/// Projects the dynamic private workbench before the first semantic step.
/// This is deliberately separate from the stable agent instructions so a
/// recurring agent can keep one cacheable identity prefix while each task
/// supplies only its bounded current assignment. Tools opt in explicitly;
/// existing agents keep their original one-message first request.
fn initial_context_snapshot(&self) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
None
}
async fn invoke(
&mut self,
action: Self::Action,
@ -160,6 +169,12 @@ pub async fn run_model_agent_progress<Tool: ModelAgentTool>(
"{}\n\nAGENT STEP: 1 of {}. Choose one typed tool action admitted by the current output schema. The harness will execute it against the frozen state and return the real tool observation. Do not claim success yourself; only an accepted tool result can end the task.",
spec.instructions, spec.max_steps
))];
if let Some(snapshot) = tool.initial_context_snapshot() {
input.push(ModelInputItem::user(format!(
"CURRENT WORKBENCH STATE:\n{}",
serde_json::to_string(&snapshot).unwrap_or_else(|_| "null".into()),
)));
}
let mut last_observation = None;
for step in 0..spec.max_steps {
let action_schema = match tool.action_schema() {
@ -500,6 +515,50 @@ mod tests {
draft_stored: bool,
}
struct SnapshotTool {
step: usize,
}
#[async_trait]
impl ModelAgentTool for SnapshotTool {
type Action = CandidateAction;
type Output = String;
type Finding = ExactFinding;
fn action_schema(&self) -> std::result::Result<serde_json::Value, String> {
serde_json::to_value(schema_for!(CandidateAction)).map_err(|error| error.to_string())
}
fn initial_context_snapshot(&self) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
Some(serde_json::json!({"assignment":"immutable facts", "step":self.step}))
}
fn context_snapshot(&self) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
Some(serde_json::json!({"assignment":"immutable facts", "step":self.step}))
}
async fn invoke(
&mut self,
action: Self::Action,
_context: &ModelAgentToolContext,
) -> ModelAgentToolOutcome<Self::Output, Self::Finding> {
self.step += 1;
if action.value == "accepted" {
ModelAgentToolOutcome::Accepted {
output: action.value,
receipts: Vec::new(),
}
} else {
ModelAgentToolOutcome::Continue {
observation: ExactFinding::DraftStored {
value: action.value,
},
receipts: Vec::new(),
}
}
}
}
#[async_trait]
impl ModelAgentTool for NarrowingTool {
type Action = CandidateAction;
@ -652,6 +711,44 @@ mod tests {
);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn dynamic_workbench_state_does_not_pollute_the_stable_agent_prefix() {
let model = ScriptedModel {
outputs: Mutex::new(vec![
r#"{"value":"drafted"}"#.into(),
r#"{"value":"accepted"}"#.into(),
]),
requests: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
};
let spec = ModelAgentSpec {
stage: "fixture_agent".into(),
model: MODEL_BALANCED.into(),
snapshot_binding: "snapshot:1".into(),
instructions: "A stable recurring identity.".into(),
source_receipt_ids: Vec::new(),
temperature: Some(0.0),
max_output_tokens: Some(128),
max_steps: 2,
};
let run = run_model_agent(&model, &spec, &mut SnapshotTool { step: 0 })
.await
.unwrap();
assert_eq!(run.output, "accepted");
let requests = model.requests.lock().unwrap();
let stable_prefix = requests[0]
.lived_stream
.split("\n\nUSER:\nCURRENT WORKBENCH STATE")
.next()
.unwrap();
assert!(stable_prefix.contains("A stable recurring identity."));
assert!(!stable_prefix.contains("immutable facts"));
assert!(requests[0].lived_stream.contains(r#""step":0"#));
assert!(requests[1].lived_stream.starts_with(stable_prefix));
assert!(requests[1].lived_stream.contains(r#""step":1"#));
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn tool_state_owns_each_steps_exact_action_schema() {
let model = ScriptedModel {

406
crates/ghostlight-dungeon/src/newspaper.rs
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ use std::{
const MAX_FRONT_PAGE_ARTICLES: usize = 6;
const MAX_PUBLIC_RECORD_QUERY_RESULTS: usize = 24;
const MAX_NARRATIVE_SELECTION_STEPS: usize = 12;
const NEWSROOM_CONTRACT_VERSION: &str = "character-newsroom.v10";
const NEWSROOM_CONTRACT_VERSION: &str = "character-newsroom.v11";
const EDITION_LABEL: &str = "Current Edition";
const ALLOWED_SECTIONS: [&str; 6] = [
"Front Page",
@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ pub struct WorldNewspaperJournalist {
pub staff: WorldNewspaperStaffMember,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 60))]
pub byline: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 160))]
pub beat: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
pub voice: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 4))]
pub source_instincts: Vec<String>,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 3))]
pub blind_spots: Vec<String>,
}
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
@ -94,6 +102,15 @@ pub fn canopy_ledger_newsroom() -> WorldNewspaperNewsroom {
preferences: vec!["Court scandal, succession, hypocrisy, and status reversals.".into()],
},
byline: "Aven Tarl".into(),
beat: "Courts, councils, succession, and the social machinery of rank.".into(),
voice: "Dry, exact, and delighted by status reversal. Aven quotes ceremonial language just long enough for the facts to make it ridiculous, then ends on the person whose dignity paid for the spectacle.".into(),
source_instincts: vec![
"Clerks, chamber servants, discarded advisers, and rivals who know which title was omitted.".into(),
"Orders, seating plans, sealed filings, and tiny breaches of protocol that expose a larger panic.".into(),
],
blind_spots: vec![
"May treat sincere grief as theatre when it occurs inside a powerful household.".into(),
],
},
WorldNewspaperJournalist {
staff: WorldNewspaperStaffMember {
@ -104,6 +121,15 @@ pub fn canopy_ledger_newsroom() -> WorldNewspaperNewsroom {
preferences: vec!["Bodies, witnesses, private cost, public anger, and grotesque physical evidence.".into()],
},
byline: "Mera Quill".into(),
beat: "Streets, households, witnesses, mourning, and the bodily residue of public decisions.".into(),
voice: "Intimate, sensory, and morally impatient. Mera stays near the witness, names who cleans the blood or carries the water, and lets one concrete indignity indict an institution without asking permission.".into(),
source_instincts: vec![
"Witnesses, children, mourners, cleaners, displaced households, and people officials call incidental.".into(),
"Objects left at a scene, rituals interrupted, injuries, smells, queues, and public anger.".into(),
],
blind_spots: vec![
"Distrusts abstraction so deeply that necessary coordination can look like evasion before it has failed.".into(),
],
},
WorldNewspaperJournalist {
staff: WorldNewspaperStaffMember {
@ -114,6 +140,15 @@ pub fn canopy_ledger_newsroom() -> WorldNewspaperNewsroom {
preferences: vec!["Labor, shortages, hazardous works, guild conflict, and material consequences.".into()],
},
byline: "Ossan Reed".into(),
beat: "Works, labor, maintenance, shortages, guild practice, and infrastructure failure.".into(),
voice: "Mechanically specific, causal, and salted with shift-floor gallows humor. Ossan follows pressure, tools, schedules, and chains of command until somebody's supposedly technical decision acquires a name.".into(),
source_instincts: vec![
"Shift workers, repair crews, stores clerks, safety stewards, and the logbook management forgot was public.".into(),
"Failure sequences, material inventories, bypasses, shutdown orders, and who was placed nearest the hazard.".into(),
],
blind_spots: vec![
"Often assumes a management incentive explains a failure before allowing enough room for ordinary incompetence.".into(),
],
},
WorldNewspaperJournalist {
staff: WorldNewspaperStaffMember {
@ -124,6 +159,15 @@ pub fn canopy_ledger_newsroom() -> WorldNewspaperNewsroom {
preferences: vec!["Borders, armed orders, treaties, migrations, and rival countermoves.".into()],
},
byline: "Lysa Fen".into(),
beat: "Borders, armed orders, treaties, crossings, migration, and contested jurisdiction.".into(),
voice: "Clipped, tactical, and suspicious of the passive voice. Lysa reconstructs who moved, who waited, and who had the cleaner escape route, then tells readers which reassuring phrase is likely to become a casualty list.".into(),
source_instincts: vec![
"Couriers, deserters, checkpoint families, quartermasters, scouts, and treaty interpreters.".into(),
"Route changes, refused orders, missing watches, supply movement, and rival countermoves.".into(),
],
blind_spots: vec![
"Finds maneuvers so readily that she can underweight panic, accident, and institutional confusion.".into(),
],
},
WorldNewspaperJournalist {
staff: WorldNewspaperStaffMember {
@ -134,6 +178,15 @@ pub fn canopy_ledger_newsroom() -> WorldNewspaperNewsroom {
preferences: vec!["Trade, tolls, communes, debt, patronage, and who profits from disorder.".into()],
},
byline: "Corin Vey".into(),
beat: "Trade, tolls, debt, patronage, provisioning, and the household price of policy.".into(),
voice: "Wry, ledger-minded, and relentlessly distributive. Corin follows a noble abstraction until it becomes a fee, an empty stall, a privileged queue, or a favor somebody will collect later.".into(),
source_instincts: vec![
"Toll clerks, traders, household cooperatives, carriers, lenders, and market gossips who remember yesterday's price.".into(),
"Ledgers, petitions, route costs, shortages, exemptions, and suspiciously well-provisioned allies.".into(),
],
blind_spots: vec![
"Can force experiences that are not transactions into a market frame because the ledger usually rewards the habit.".into(),
],
},
],
copy_editor: WorldNewspaperStaffMember {
@ -365,6 +418,11 @@ struct PublicRecordProjection {
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
#[serde(default)]
pub issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape,
#[serde(default)]
#[schemars(length(max = 500))]
pub issue_shape_rationale: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
pub dominant_throughline: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
@ -373,6 +431,35 @@ pub struct WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
pub story_pitches: Vec<WorldNewspaperStoryPitch>,
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum WorldNewspaperIssueShape {
SpecialIssue,
#[default]
GeneralIssue,
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction {
LeadChronology,
Consequence,
Accountability,
Opposition,
CounterNarrative,
#[default]
IndependentBeat,
}
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
pub enum WorldNewspaperContextRole {
OwnsIssueChronology,
AssumesIssueChronology,
#[default]
SelfContained,
}
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
pub struct WorldNewspaperStoryPitch {
@ -381,6 +468,13 @@ pub struct WorldNewspaperStoryPitch {
pub section: String,
#[serde(default)]
pub journalist_id: String,
#[serde(default)]
pub narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction,
#[serde(default)]
pub context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole,
#[serde(default)]
#[schemars(length(max = 500))]
pub assignment_reason: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1))]
pub citations: Vec<String>,
#[serde(default)]
@ -423,6 +517,9 @@ enum NarrativeSelectionCommand {
record_ids: Vec<String>,
},
ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
issue_shape_rationale: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
dominant_throughline: String,
#[schemars(length(min = 1, max = 500))]
@ -481,6 +578,8 @@ enum NarrativeSelectionFinding {
},
AgendaProposed {
candidate_digest: String,
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape,
issue_shape_rationale: String,
front_page: EditorialPitchProof,
below_fold: Vec<EditorialPitchProof>,
review_questions: Vec<String>,
@ -490,6 +589,10 @@ enum NarrativeSelectionFinding {
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
struct EditorialPitchProof {
page_position: String,
journalist_id: String,
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole,
assignment_reason: String,
narrative_claim: String,
tension: String,
public_question: String,
@ -513,6 +616,35 @@ struct EditorialRecordIndexEntry {
named_entities: Vec<String>,
}
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize)]
struct AssignmentJournalistProfile<'a> {
id: &'a str,
name: &'a str,
byline: &'a str,
beat: &'a str,
biases: &'a [String],
preferences: &'a [String],
voice_signature: &'a str,
source_instincts: &'a [String],
blind_spots: &'a [String],
}
fn assignment_journalist_profile(
journalist: &WorldNewspaperJournalist,
) -> AssignmentJournalistProfile<'_> {
AssignmentJournalistProfile {
id: &journalist.staff.id,
name: &journalist.staff.name,
byline: &journalist.byline,
beat: &journalist.beat,
biases: &journalist.staff.biases,
preferences: &journalist.staff.preferences,
voice_signature: &journalist.voice,
source_instincts: &journalist.source_instincts,
blind_spots: &journalist.blind_spots,
}
}
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
struct NarrativeSelectionContextSnapshot {
inspected_record_count: usize,
@ -704,8 +836,15 @@ impl NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
.collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
let front_page = pitches.remove(0);
self.pending_agenda = Some((candidate_digest.clone(), agenda));
let pending = self
.pending_agenda
.as_ref()
.map(|(_, agenda)| agenda)
.ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("agenda proposal was not retained"))?;
Ok(NarrativeSelectionFinding::AgendaProposed {
candidate_digest,
issue_shape: pending.issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale: pending.issue_shape_rationale.clone(),
front_page,
below_fold: pitches,
review_questions: vec![
@ -715,6 +854,10 @@ impl NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
.into(),
"Do the pitches expose people or institutions in conflict and make public or material stakes legible, or do they mainly explain what records do not prove? Query for missing opposition, countermoves, reaction, or lived cost when the ledger may contain them."
.into(),
"If this is a special issue, does only the lead own the shared chronology while every other story performs a distinct consequence, accountability, opposition, or counter-narrative function? If this is a general issue, did an exciting record improperly swallow independent beats?"
.into(),
"Would each reporter plausibly pursue this assignment because of the named beat, biases, source instincts, and blind spots, or are the bylines interchangeable?"
.into(),
],
})
}
@ -755,6 +898,10 @@ impl NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
} else {
format!("inside_article_{}", index + 1)
},
journalist_id: pitch.journalist_id.clone(),
narrative_function: pitch.narrative_function,
context_role: pitch.context_role,
assignment_reason: pitch.assignment_reason.clone(),
narrative_claim: pitch.narrative_claim.clone(),
tension: pitch.tension.clone(),
public_question: pitch.public_question.clone(),
@ -858,12 +1005,16 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
"additionalProperties":false,
"required":[
"tool",
"issue_shape",
"issue_shape_rationale",
"dominant_throughline",
"reader_stake",
"story_pitches"
],
"properties":{
"tool":{"const":"propose_agenda"},
"issue_shape":{"type":"string","enum":["special_issue","general_issue"]},
"issue_shape_rationale":{"type":"string","minLength":1,"maxLength":500},
"dominant_throughline":{"type":"string","minLength":1,"maxLength":500},
"reader_stake":{"type":"string","minLength":1,"maxLength":500},
"story_pitches":{
@ -877,6 +1028,9 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
"lead",
"section",
"journalist_id",
"narrative_function",
"context_role",
"assignment_reason",
"citations",
"focus_citation",
"narrative_claim",
@ -887,6 +1041,14 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
"lead":{"type":"boolean"},
"section":{"type":"string","enum":ALLOWED_SECTIONS},
"journalist_id":{"type":"string","enum":journalist_ids},
"narrative_function":{"type":"string","enum":[
"lead_chronology","consequence","accountability",
"opposition","counter_narrative","independent_beat"
]},
"context_role":{"type":"string","enum":[
"owns_issue_chronology","assumes_issue_chronology","self_contained"
]},
"assignment_reason":{"type":"string","minLength":1,"maxLength":500},
"citations":{
"type":"array",
"minItems":1,
@ -1031,11 +1193,15 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for NarrativeSelectionWorkbench<'_> {
}
}
NarrativeSelectionCommand::ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
} => {
let agenda = WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
@ -1137,6 +1303,23 @@ fn validate_newsroom(newsroom: &WorldNewspaperNewsroom) -> Result<()> {
for journalist in &newsroom.journalists {
validate_staff_member(&journalist.staff, "journalist")?;
validate_single_line(&journalist.byline, 60, "journalist byline")?;
validate_single_line(&journalist.beat, 160, "journalist beat")?;
validate_editorial_frame(&journalist.voice, "journalist voice")?;
if journalist.source_instincts.is_empty()
|| journalist.source_instincts.len() > 4
|| journalist.blind_spots.is_empty()
|| journalist.blind_spots.len() > 3
{
return Err(anyhow!(
"journalist source instincts and blind spots must stay bounded"
));
}
for instinct in &journalist.source_instincts {
validate_editorial_frame(instinct, "journalist source instinct")?;
}
for blind_spot in &journalist.blind_spots {
validate_editorial_frame(blind_spot, "journalist blind spot")?;
}
if !staff_ids.insert(&journalist.staff.id)
|| !staff_names.insert(&journalist.staff.name)
|| !bylines.insert(journalist.byline.as_str())
@ -1180,6 +1363,10 @@ fn validate_editorial_agenda(
agenda: &WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda,
max_articles: usize,
) -> Result<()> {
let legacy_agenda = agenda.issue_shape_rationale.is_empty();
if !legacy_agenda {
validate_editorial_frame(&agenda.issue_shape_rationale, "issue-shape rationale")?;
}
validate_editorial_frame(&agenda.dominant_throughline, "dominant throughline")?;
validate_editorial_frame(&agenda.reader_stake, "reader stake")?;
if agenda.story_pitches.is_empty()
@ -1204,6 +1391,31 @@ fn validate_editorial_agenda(
return Err(anyhow!("editorial pitch {index} chose an invalid section"));
}
journalist_by_id(newsroom, &pitch.journalist_id)?;
if !legacy_agenda {
validate_editorial_frame(&pitch.assignment_reason, "journalist assignment reason")?;
match agenda.issue_shape {
WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue => {
if (index == 0
&& (pitch.context_role != WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology
|| pitch.narrative_function
!= WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology))
|| (index > 0
&& pitch.context_role == WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology)
{
return Err(anyhow!(
"special issue must give only its lead ownership of the shared chronology"
));
}
}
WorldNewspaperIssueShape::GeneralIssue => {
if pitch.context_role != WorldNewspaperContextRole::SelfContained {
return Err(anyhow!(
"general-issue stories must own only their independent context"
));
}
}
}
}
let selected = selected_record_ids(&pitch.citations, &format!("editorial pitch {index}"))?;
if !selected.contains(pitch.focus_citation.as_str()) {
return Err(anyhow!(
@ -1302,9 +1514,31 @@ enum JournalistFinding {
struct JournalistWorkbench<'a> {
records: &'a [PublicRecordProjection],
article_index: usize,
section: &'a str,
byline: &'a str,
citations: &'a [String],
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape,
issue_shape_rationale: &'a str,
dominant_throughline: &'a str,
reader_stake: &'a str,
pitch: &'a WorldNewspaperStoryPitch,
}
impl JournalistWorkbench<'_> {
fn assignment_snapshot(&self) -> serde_json::Value {
let selected = self
.pitch
.citations
.iter()
.cloned()
.collect::<BTreeSet<_>>();
serde_json::json!({
"issue_shape": self.issue_shape,
"issue_shape_rationale": self.issue_shape_rationale,
"dominant_throughline": self.dominant_throughline,
"reader_stake": self.reader_stake,
"pitch": self.pitch,
"records": public_records_for_ids(self.records, &selected),
})
}
}
#[async_trait]
@ -1317,7 +1551,7 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for JournalistWorkbench<'_> {
let mut datelines = self
.records
.iter()
.filter(|record| self.citations.contains(&record.record_id))
.filter(|record| self.pitch.citations.contains(&record.record_id))
.flat_map(|record| record.facts.iter())
.flat_map(|fact| fact.places.iter().cloned())
.collect::<BTreeSet<_>>()
@ -1348,6 +1582,14 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for JournalistWorkbench<'_> {
Ok(schema)
}
fn context_snapshot(&self) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
Some(self.assignment_snapshot())
}
fn initial_context_snapshot(&self) -> Option<serde_json::Value> {
Some(self.assignment_snapshot())
}
async fn invoke(
&mut self,
action: Self::Action,
@ -1360,12 +1602,12 @@ impl ModelAgentTool for JournalistWorkbench<'_> {
paragraphs,
} = action;
let article = EditorialArticleDraft {
section: self.section.into(),
section: self.pitch.section.clone(),
headline,
deck,
byline: self.byline.into(),
dateline,
citations: self.citations.to_vec(),
citations: self.pitch.citations.clone(),
paragraphs,
};
match validate_editorial_article(self.records, &article, self.article_index) {
@ -1511,10 +1753,15 @@ async fn select_editorial_agenda(
> {
let assignment_staff = serde_json::json!({
"assignment_editor": &prepared.newsroom.assignment_editor,
"journalists": &prepared.newsroom.journalists,
"journalists": prepared
.newsroom
.journalists
.iter()
.map(assignment_journalist_profile)
.collect::<Vec<_>>(),
});
let instructions = format!(
"You are {editor}, assignment editor of `{title}`. Investigate its frozen public ledger with query_public_records, then assign a page. An empty query browses; terms, exact entity names, status, channel, and an inspected cursor narrow or page. The workbench keeps a compact index of inspected records instead of replaying old query pages; use fetch_public_records with exact IDs when you need their full facts again. Cite only returned record IDs. Search backward when procedure hides the rupture and sideways for opposition, countermoves, reaction, scandal, and lived cost.\n\nChoose one dominant throughline, then only stories that sharpen or complicate it. The first pitch is the Front Page lead; later pitches use another allowed section. For every pitch choose the staff journalist whose biases and preferences will produce the strongest treatment. Give that journalist the exact record grouping, one focus record that the lede cannot bury, a pointed narrative claim, the live tension, and the public question. A routine update to a vivid continuing incident should cite both and say what changed. Remembering, filing, warning, and planning are context unless they themselves produce a public consequence. Editorial frames may insinuate and judge but cannot invent concrete facts. The copy editor, not you or the reporters, owns fact checking.\n\nPropose before committing. The workbench returns the lead beside what it would bury; revise or query again if the proof exposes a stronger page.\n\nPUBLICATION VOICE:\n{voice}\n\nSTAFF BOOK:\n{staff}",
"You are {editor}, assignment editor of `{title}`. Investigate its frozen public ledger with query_public_records, then assign a page. An empty query browses; terms, exact entity names, status, channel, and an inspected cursor narrow or page. The workbench keeps a compact index of inspected records instead of replaying old query pages; use fetch_public_records with exact IDs when you need their full facts again. Cite only returned record IDs. Search backward when procedure hides the rupture and sideways for opposition, countermoves, reaction, scandal, lived cost, and independent beats.\n\nFirst decide the issue shape. A special issue is earned when one upheaval genuinely reorganizes several parts of public life; its lead alone owns the shared chronology and later stories assume that chronology while performing distinct narrative functions. A general issue carries independent beats whose stories are self-contained. Do not declare a special issue merely because one incident generated many records, and do not manufacture variety when the whole realm is plainly living through one rupture. State the evidence-based rationale.\n\nThe first pitch is the Front Page lead; later pitches use another allowed section. Give each pitch a narrative function and context role. Choose the staff journalist whose beat, biases, source instincts, voice, and blind spots make them the most revealingly partial observer, and state that assignment reason. Give them the exact record grouping, one focus record the lede cannot bury, a pointed narrative claim, the live tension, and the public question. A routine update to a vivid continuing incident should cite both and say what changed. Remembering, filing, warning, and planning are context unless they themselves produce a public consequence. Editorial frames may insinuate and judge but cannot invent concrete facts. The copy editor, not you or the reporters, owns fact checking.\n\nPropose before committing. The workbench returns issue shape, reporter fit, the lead, and what it would bury; revise or query again if the proof exposes a stronger or more honest page.\n\nPUBLICATION VOICE:\n{voice}\n\nCOMPACT STAFF BOOK:\n{staff}",
editor = prepared.newsroom.assignment_editor.name,
title = prepared.title,
voice = prepared.editorial_voice,
@ -1943,24 +2190,12 @@ async fn run_assigned_journalists(
});
}
}
let selected = pitch.citations.iter().cloned().collect::<BTreeSet<_>>();
let source_json =
serde_json::to_string(&public_records_for_ids(&prepared.records, &selected))
.unwrap_or_else(|_| "[]".into());
let assignment = serde_json::json!({
"dominant_throughline": agenda.dominant_throughline,
"reader_stake": agenda.reader_stake,
"pitch": pitch,
"journalist": journalist,
"records": serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(&source_json)
.unwrap_or_else(|_| serde_json::json!([])),
});
let reporter_identity = serde_json::to_string(journalist).unwrap_or_default();
let instructions = format!(
"You are {name}, filing one assigned story for `{title}`. You are a partisan storyteller with a nose for the material your character and biases care about, not the newsroom's fact checker. Make the strongest memorable case this assignment supports: lead with the focus event, use selection and juxtaposition to imply meaning, expose hypocrisy or conflict, and make public or bodily cost vivid. A continuing story should say what changed without treating routine handling as the lede.\n\nUse only the supplied records for concrete events, people, institutions, places, identity attributes, chronology, quotations, motives, and outcomes. Preserve disputes through natural attribution. You may be cutting, emotional, insinuating, metaphorical, or politically judgmental without pretending the insinuation is a sourced causal fact. Do not discuss records, citations, verification, assertion statuses, or missing evidence in reader copy. The copy editor will fact-check the filed story later. File two to five substantial paragraphs. The lead needs a supplied place as dateline when one exists; otherwise leave dateline empty.\n\nPUBLICATION VOICE:\n{voice}\n\nASSIGNMENT PACKET:\n{assignment}",
"You are {name}, a recurring embodied journalist filing for `{title}`. Readers should learn what you notice, whom you distrust, which sources you seek, where your sympathies lie, and what you routinely get wrong. Treat the identity below as your stable point of view across issues, not a list of phrases to repeat. Let it govern selection, sourcing, rhythm, humor, indignation, and what you leave for another reporter. Do not flatten yourself into the publication's generic house voice.\n\nYou are a partisan storyteller, not the newsroom's fact checker. Make the strongest memorable case the current assignment supports: lead with its focus event, use selection and juxtaposition to imply meaning, expose hypocrisy or conflict your own instincts would recognize, and make the costs your beat understands vivid. If your context role assumes the issue chronology, do not reconstruct that chronology; connect to the lead with only the minimum clause needed to make your new fact intelligible. If you own the issue chronology, establish it once. If the story is self-contained, establish only its own facts. A continuing story should say what changed without treating routine handling as the lede.\n\nUse only the current workbench records for concrete events, people, institutions, places, identity attributes, chronology, quotations, motives, and outcomes. Preserve disputes through natural attribution. You may be cutting, emotional, insinuating, metaphorical, or politically judgmental without pretending the insinuation is a sourced causal fact. Do not discuss records, citations, verification, assertion statuses, or missing evidence in reader copy. The copy editor will fact-check the filed story later. File two to five substantial paragraphs. The lead needs a supplied place as dateline when one exists; otherwise leave dateline empty.\n\nPUBLICATION VOICE:\n{voice}\n\nYOUR RECURRING IDENTITY:\n{reporter_identity}",
name = journalist.staff.name,
title = prepared.title,
voice = prepared.editorial_voice,
assignment = serde_json::to_string(&assignment).unwrap_or_default(),
);
let mut causal_sources = pitch
.citations
@ -1991,9 +2226,12 @@ async fn run_assigned_journalists(
let mut workbench = JournalistWorkbench {
records: &prepared.records,
article_index: index,
section: &pitch.section,
byline: &journalist.byline,
citations: &pitch.citations,
issue_shape: agenda.issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale: &agenda.issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline: &agenda.dominant_throughline,
reader_stake: &agenda.reader_stake,
pitch,
};
match crate::agent::run_model_agent(model, &spec, &mut workbench).await {
Ok(run) => {
@ -3165,15 +3403,21 @@ pub fn render_world_newspaper_audit_markdown(issue: &WorldNewspaperIssue) -> Str
);
if let Some(agenda) = &issue.editorial_agenda {
rendered.push_str(&format!(
"\n## Editorial agenda\n\n- Dominant throughline: {}\n- Reader stake: {}\n",
"\n## Editorial agenda\n\n- Issue shape: {:?}\n- Issue-shape rationale: {}\n- Dominant throughline: {}\n- Reader stake: {}\n",
agenda.issue_shape,
escape_markdown_text(&agenda.issue_shape_rationale),
escape_markdown_text(&agenda.dominant_throughline),
escape_markdown_text(&agenda.reader_stake),
));
for (index, pitch) in agenda.story_pitches.iter().enumerate() {
rendered.push_str(&format!(
"\n### Pitch {}{}\n\n- Public records: {}\n- Focus record: {}\n- Narrative claim: {}\n- Tension: {}\n- Public question: {}\n",
"\n### Pitch {}{}\n\n- Journalist: {}\n- Narrative function: {:?}\n- Context role: {:?}\n- Assignment reason: {}\n- Public records: {}\n- Focus record: {}\n- Narrative claim: {}\n- Tension: {}\n- Public question: {}\n",
index + 1,
if pitch.lead { " (lead)" } else { "" },
escape_markdown_text(&pitch.journalist_id),
pitch.narrative_function,
pitch.context_role,
escape_markdown_text(&pitch.assignment_reason),
escaped_join(&pitch.citations),
escape_markdown_text(&pitch.focus_citation),
escape_markdown_text(&pitch.narrative_claim),
@ -4033,8 +4277,8 @@ mod tests {
const QUERY_ALL_RECORDS: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"query_public_records","terms":[],"match_terms":"all","entity_names":[],"assertion_statuses":[],"channels":[],"order":"newest","cursor":null,"limit":24}}"#;
const QUERY_FOUNDING_CRISIS: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"query_public_records","terms":["speaking child","severed delegation hands","failed grain pumps"],"match_terms":"any","entity_names":[],"assertion_statuses":[],"channels":[],"order":"oldest","cursor":null,"limit":24}}"#;
const ONE_STORY_AGENDA: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","dominant_throughline":"The court made its private gambling debt a public crisis of custody and punished the official who exposed it.","reader_stake":"Readers must decide whether dismissal protects the seal or merely the court from its own confession.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"aven-tarl","citations":["news:seal-scandal"],"focus_citation":"news:seal-scandal","narrative_claim":"The pawned royal seal and the treasurer's dismissal are one scandal.","tension":"The court admits the loss while directing the immediate consequence at the bearer of that admission.","public_question":"Who is being held accountable for the missing seal?"}]}}"#;
const TWO_STORY_AGENDA: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","dominant_throughline":"Court custody fails at both the royal seal and the western gate.","reader_stake":"Readers depend on institutions that announce damage only after access or authority has already been compromised.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"aven-tarl","citations":["news:seal-scandal"],"focus_citation":"news:seal-scandal","narrative_claim":"The pawned seal and dismissal are the court's crisis of custody.","tension":"The confession exposes the loss while the treasurer absorbs the immediate institutional consequence.","public_question":"Who is being held accountable for the missing seal?"},{"lead":false,"section":"Dispatches","journalist_id":"lysa-fen","citations":["news:west-gate"],"focus_citation":"news:west-gate","narrative_claim":"The gate closure is a practical echo of neglected custody.","tension":"A cracked hinge will close a route at moonrise while travellers wait for a reopening time.","public_question":"How long will the western route remain closed?"}]}}"#;
const ONE_STORY_AGENDA: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","issue_shape":"special_issue","issue_shape_rationale":"The missing royal seal reorganizes public trust in court custody.","dominant_throughline":"The court made its private gambling debt a public crisis of custody and punished the official who exposed it.","reader_stake":"Readers must decide whether dismissal protects the seal or merely the court from its own confession.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"aven-tarl","narrative_function":"lead_chronology","context_role":"owns_issue_chronology","assignment_reason":"Aven's court beat and appetite for status reversal fit the scandal's central chronology.","citations":["news:seal-scandal"],"focus_citation":"news:seal-scandal","narrative_claim":"The pawned royal seal and the treasurer's dismissal are one scandal.","tension":"The court admits the loss while directing the immediate consequence at the bearer of that admission.","public_question":"Who is being held accountable for the missing seal?"}]}}"#;
const TWO_STORY_AGENDA: &str = r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","issue_shape":"special_issue","issue_shape_rationale":"Failures of custody at court and gate reorganize public access and confidence.","dominant_throughline":"Court custody fails at both the royal seal and the western gate.","reader_stake":"Readers depend on institutions that announce damage only after access or authority has already been compromised.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"aven-tarl","narrative_function":"lead_chronology","context_role":"owns_issue_chronology","assignment_reason":"Aven owns the court chronology and its status reversal.","citations":["news:seal-scandal"],"focus_citation":"news:seal-scandal","narrative_claim":"The pawned seal and dismissal are the court's crisis of custody.","tension":"The confession exposes the loss while the treasurer absorbs the immediate institutional consequence.","public_question":"Who is being held accountable for the missing seal?"},{"lead":false,"section":"Dispatches","journalist_id":"lysa-fen","narrative_function":"consequence","context_role":"assumes_issue_chronology","assignment_reason":"Lysa's border beat tests how the custody crisis changes movement at the gate.","citations":["news:west-gate"],"focus_citation":"news:west-gate","narrative_claim":"The gate closure is a practical echo of neglected custody.","tension":"A cracked hinge will close a route at moonrise while travellers wait for a reopening time.","public_question":"How long will the western route remain closed?"}]}}"#;
const ACCEPTED_STORY_ACTION: &str = r#"{"tool":"file_story","headline":"Court Sells the Crown's Seal, Then the Treasurer","deck":"A gambling debt reaches the throne room and leaves one official carrying the blame.","dateline":"Room","paragraphs":["The Thorn Court has admitted that its royal seal was pawned to cover a dragon's gambling debt, a confession that turns private embarrassment into a public question of custody.","The treasurer who delivered that admission in open court was dismissed soon afterward. The court has explained the firing; it has not made the seal any less pawned."]}"#;
const MALFORMED_LYSA_STORY_ACTION: &str = r#"{"tool":"file_story","headline":"Gate Trouble","deck":"The western route will close at moonrise.","dateline":"Yard","paragraphs":["Too short.","Still short."]}"#;
const ACCEPTED_LYSA_STORY_ACTION: &str = r#"{"tool":"file_story","headline":"West Gate to Close at Moonrise","deck":"Masons will replace a cracked hinge after the palace bell keeper's warning.","dateline":"Yard","paragraphs":["Officials warn the west gate is unsafe, and the palace bell keeper says it will close at moonrise while masons replace its cracked hinge.","Travellers using the gate have been told when it will close, though no reopening hour was included in the announcement."]}"#;
@ -4091,6 +4335,8 @@ mod tests {
fn narrative_workbench_owns_lead_and_allows_shared_foundational_records() {
let records = public_news_records(&campaign_with_two_news()).unwrap();
let invalid = WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "Both failures reorganize public trust in custody.".into(),
dominant_throughline: "Two failures of court custody.".into(),
reader_stake: "Readers depend on both institutions.".into(),
story_pitches: vec![
@ -4098,6 +4344,9 @@ mod tests {
lead: false,
section: "Front Page".into(),
journalist_id: "aven-tarl".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Aven owns the court chronology.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:seal-scandal".into()],
focus_citation: "news:seal-scandal".into(),
narrative_claim: "The pawned seal opens the custody crisis.".into(),
@ -4108,6 +4357,9 @@ mod tests {
lead: true,
section: "Dispatches".into(),
journalist_id: "lysa-fen".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::Consequence,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::AssumesIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Lysa tests the consequence at the gate.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:seal-scandal".into()],
focus_citation: "news:seal-scandal".into(),
narrative_claim: "The gate repeats the pattern.".into(),
@ -4126,6 +4378,8 @@ mod tests {
let agenda: NarrativeSelectionAction = serde_json::from_str(TWO_STORY_AGENDA).unwrap();
let NarrativeSelectionCommand::ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
@ -4134,11 +4388,40 @@ mod tests {
panic!("fixture must submit an agenda")
};
let admitted = WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
};
validate_editorial_agenda(&records, &canopy_ledger_newsroom(), &admitted, 4).unwrap();
let mut two_chronologies = admitted.clone();
two_chronologies.story_pitches[1].context_role =
WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology;
assert!(
validate_editorial_agenda(&records, &canopy_ledger_newsroom(), &two_chronologies, 4,)
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("only its lead ownership of the shared chronology")
);
let mut general = admitted.clone();
general.issue_shape = WorldNewspaperIssueShape::GeneralIssue;
general.issue_shape_rationale =
"The court scandal and gate repair remain independent public concerns.".into();
general.story_pitches[0].narrative_function =
WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::IndependentBeat;
general.story_pitches[0].context_role = WorldNewspaperContextRole::SelfContained;
general.story_pitches[1].narrative_function =
WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::IndependentBeat;
general.story_pitches[1].context_role = WorldNewspaperContextRole::SelfContained;
validate_editorial_agenda(&records, &canopy_ledger_newsroom(), &general, 4).unwrap();
general.story_pitches[1].context_role = WorldNewspaperContextRole::AssumesIssueChronology;
assert!(
validate_editorial_agenda(&records, &canopy_ledger_newsroom(), &general, 4)
.unwrap_err()
.to_string()
.contains("general-issue stories must own only their independent context")
);
let mut duplicate = admitted.clone();
duplicate.story_pitches[1]
.citations
@ -4167,6 +4450,8 @@ mod tests {
&widened,
&canopy_ledger_newsroom(),
&WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape: admitted.issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale: admitted.issue_shape_rationale.clone(),
dominant_throughline: admitted.dominant_throughline.clone(),
reader_stake: admitted.reader_stake.clone(),
story_pitches: vec![admitted.story_pitches[0].clone()],
@ -4274,6 +4559,8 @@ mod tests {
let action = NarrativeSelectionAction {
command: NarrativeSelectionCommand::ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "The founding rupture still organizes its aftermath.".into(),
dominant_throughline: "The original crisis survived its administrative aftermath."
.into(),
reader_stake: "Readers still bear the consequences of the founding rupture.".into(),
@ -4281,6 +4568,9 @@ mod tests {
lead: true,
section: "Front Page".into(),
journalist_id: "mera-quill".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Mera keeps the lived cost ahead of the paperwork.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:archive:00".into()],
focus_citation: "news:archive:00".into(),
narrative_claim: "The oldest dossier is the fact later notices avoid.".into(),
@ -4346,6 +4636,8 @@ mod tests {
let revised_action = NarrativeSelectionAction {
command: NarrativeSelectionCommand::ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "The founding rupture still organizes its aftermath.".into(),
dominant_throughline:
"The founding rupture still governs the administrative aftermath.".into(),
reader_stake: "Readers still bear the consequences of the founding rupture.".into(),
@ -4353,6 +4645,9 @@ mod tests {
lead: true,
section: "Front Page".into(),
journalist_id: "mera-quill".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Mera keeps the lived cost ahead of the paperwork.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:archive:00".into()],
focus_citation: "news:archive:00".into(),
narrative_claim:
@ -4487,7 +4782,7 @@ mod tests {
.unwrap();
let model = ScriptedNewspaperModel::new([
QUERY_FOUNDING_CRISIS,
r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","dominant_throughline":"The founding crisis survived its administrative aftermath.","reader_stake":"Readers still bear the consequences while institutions manage the paperwork.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"mera-quill","citations":["news:archive:00"],"focus_citation":"news:archive:00","narrative_claim":"The original public record is the fact later notices cannot domesticate.","tension":"Administrative responses multiply while the founding rupture remains unresolved.","public_question":"Who benefits when the cause leaves the front page?"}]}}"#,
r#"{"command":{"tool":"propose_agenda","issue_shape":"special_issue","issue_shape_rationale":"The founding rupture still organizes its administrative aftermath.","dominant_throughline":"The founding crisis survived its administrative aftermath.","reader_stake":"Readers still bear the consequences while institutions manage the paperwork.","story_pitches":[{"lead":true,"section":"Front Page","journalist_id":"mera-quill","narrative_function":"lead_chronology","context_role":"owns_issue_chronology","assignment_reason":"Mera's witness-first beat keeps the original lived rupture ahead of its paperwork.","citations":["news:archive:00"],"focus_citation":"news:archive:00","narrative_claim":"The original public record is the fact later notices cannot domesticate.","tension":"Administrative responses multiply while the founding rupture remains unresolved.","public_question":"Who benefits when the cause leaves the front page?"}]}}"#,
]);
let run = select_editorial_agenda(&model, &prepared, 3).await.unwrap();
@ -4536,6 +4831,9 @@ mod tests {
lead: true,
section: "Front Page".into(),
journalist_id: "aven-tarl".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Aven follows custody and status reversal.".into(),
citations: (0..8)
.map(|index| format!("news:archive:{index:02}"))
.collect(),
@ -4545,6 +4843,8 @@ mod tests {
public_question: "Who answers for the admitted failure?".into(),
};
let agenda = WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "The custody failure organizes the issue.".into(),
dominant_throughline: "Custody failed in public.".into(),
reader_stake: "Readers bear the consequences of that failure.".into(),
story_pitches: vec![pitch],
@ -4572,26 +4872,56 @@ mod tests {
#[test]
fn journalist_action_schema_compiles_exact_cited_datelines() {
let records = public_news_records(&campaign_with_two_news()).unwrap();
let lead_citations = vec!["news:seal-scandal".to_owned()];
let lead_pitch = WorldNewspaperStoryPitch {
lead: true,
section: "Front Page".into(),
journalist_id: "aven-tarl".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::LeadChronology,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::OwnsIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Aven follows court custody.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:seal-scandal".into()],
focus_citation: "news:seal-scandal".into(),
narrative_claim: "Court custody failed.".into(),
tension: "Admission collides with accountability.".into(),
public_question: "Who answers?".into(),
};
let lead = JournalistWorkbench {
records: &records,
article_index: 0,
section: "Front Page",
byline: "Aven Tarl",
citations: &lead_citations,
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "One crisis organizes the issue.",
dominant_throughline: "Court custody failed.",
reader_stake: "Readers depend on the seal.",
pitch: &lead_pitch,
};
assert_eq!(
lead.action_schema().unwrap()["properties"]["dateline"]["enum"],
serde_json::json!(["Room"])
);
let dispatch_citations = vec!["news:west-gate".to_owned()];
let dispatch_pitch = WorldNewspaperStoryPitch {
lead: false,
section: "Dispatches".into(),
journalist_id: "lysa-fen".into(),
narrative_function: WorldNewspaperNarrativeFunction::Consequence,
context_role: WorldNewspaperContextRole::AssumesIssueChronology,
assignment_reason: "Lysa follows access consequences.".into(),
citations: vec!["news:west-gate".into()],
focus_citation: "news:west-gate".into(),
narrative_claim: "The gate is the practical consequence.".into(),
tension: "Repair closes a route.".into(),
public_question: "When does it reopen?".into(),
};
let dispatch = JournalistWorkbench {
records: &records,
article_index: 1,
section: "Dispatches",
byline: "Lysa Fen",
citations: &dispatch_citations,
issue_shape: WorldNewspaperIssueShape::SpecialIssue,
issue_shape_rationale: "One crisis organizes the issue.",
dominant_throughline: "Court custody failed.",
reader_stake: "Readers depend on access.",
pitch: &dispatch_pitch,
};
assert_eq!(
dispatch.action_schema().unwrap()["properties"]["dateline"]["enum"],
@ -4622,6 +4952,8 @@ mod tests {
let records = public_news_records(&campaign_with_two_news()).unwrap();
let action: NarrativeSelectionAction = serde_json::from_str(TWO_STORY_AGENDA).unwrap();
let NarrativeSelectionCommand::ProposeAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
@ -4630,6 +4962,8 @@ mod tests {
panic!("fixture must propose an agenda")
};
let agenda = WorldNewspaperEditorialAgenda {
issue_shape,
issue_shape_rationale,
dominant_throughline,
reader_stake,
story_pitches,
@ -4805,7 +5139,7 @@ mod tests {
requests[5].stage,
"newspaper_night_editor_close_agent_action"
);
assert!(requests[3].lived_stream.contains("ASSIGNMENT PACKET"));
assert!(requests[3].lived_stream.contains("CURRENT WORKBENCH STATE"));
assert!(requests[0].lived_stream.contains("Veyra Kest"));
assert!(requests[0].lived_stream.contains("Mera Quill"));
assert!(requests[3].lived_stream.contains("Aven Tarl"));

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crates/ghostlight-dungeon/src/registry.rs
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@ -723,12 +723,17 @@ mod tests {
Ok(serde_json::json!({
"command":{
"tool":"propose_agenda",
"issue_shape":"special_issue",
"issue_shape_rationale":"The court accusation is the single public rupture in this edition.",
"dominant_throughline":"The inner court has converted an audit dispute into a public crisis of accusation and arithmetic.",
"reader_stake":"Readers depend on whether the court can distinguish an allegation from a judgment.",
"story_pitches":[{
"lead":true,
"section":"Front Page",
"journalist_id":"aven-tarl",
"narrative_function":"lead_chronology",
"context_role":"owns_issue_chronology",
"assignment_reason":"Aven's court beat and taste for status absurdity fit the accusation.",
"citations":[citation],
"focus_citation":citation,
"narrative_claim":"The singular accusation against three auditors is itself the scandal.",

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notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md
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@ -1446,6 +1446,11 @@ immediately identify procedural generation, so the narrative reverse-Turing
criterion passes. The review's criticism that all three stories feel like
three rewrites of one briefing belongs to reporter-personality differentiation
in the next newsroom run; it does not authorize rewriting accepted Run 60.
The active cut is an ownership change, not a request for a stronger generic
style prompt. The assignment editor owns whether an issue is special or general
and which narrative function each assigned story serves. Recurring embodied
journalists own recognizable, opinionated voices; their biases and preferences
must remain visible to assignment and become trackable across issues.
Run 60 used 96,902 prompt tokens and reported zero cache hits. The bounded
snapshot initialization had split the stable charter from the first-step
@ -1474,14 +1479,20 @@ materializing a `NewsIssue`.
1. Preserve immutable accepted Run 60 and Run 59; do not rewrite, recompose, or
resimulate either edition.
2. Preserve the delivered typeset PDF and its frozen-copy verification above.
3. On the next newsroom run, strengthen reporter-personality differentiation
so assigned journalists produce distinct framing, rhythm, and priorities;
also capture whether exact pushed `8f3c33b` produces nonzero cache hits. Do
not replay Run 60 to manufacture either improvement.
4. After that newsroom run, advance the Delvehold-owned adapter against
3. Map and implement the newsroom-first ownership cut over frozen simulation
facts. The current Body has static staff character/bias/preference profiles
and assignment pitches with a throughline, reader stake, narrative claim,
tension, and public question; it does not yet represent special-versus-general
issue shape, per-story narrative function, or durable cross-issue journalist
development. Preserve bounded context and exact cache prefixes, the copy
desk as factual authority, and one Night Editor close.
4. Run the next newsroom provider acceptance without replaying Run 60; judge
recognizable reporter voices across the issue and capture whether exact
pushed `8f3c33b` produces nonzero cache hits.
5. After that newsroom run, advance the Delvehold-owned adapter against
Ghostlight's admitted generic consumer contract. Defer multiple publications
until separately authorized.
5. Per-wave issues may use daily-like reporting windows, while a final
6. Per-wave issues may use daily-like reporting windows, while a final
composition may be an equally current weekly-style issue with a broader
window. Both are selective journalism; broad fact availability increases
editorial freedom and does not license recap voice.

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@ -1289,8 +1289,9 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
facts. `Event::public_assertion_status` owns attempt, declaration,
committed-course, material-outcome, and unspecified-account semantics. The
in-world assignment editor owns assignment: story choice, order, section,
journalist, focal record, exact citation grouping, throughline, tension, and
reader question. Its
journalist, issue shape, per-story narrative function, context role, focal
record, exact citation grouping, throughline, tension, assignment rationale,
and reader question. Its
deterministic workbench owns query admission, inspected-record membership,
the bounded working-context projection, exact-ID fetch, agenda validation,
focus-record dereferencing, candidate identity, and exact commit admission.
@ -1304,7 +1305,8 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
immutable storage, not its editorial judgment. Each assigned in-world
journalist owns one reader-facing
story and receives only that pitch, its exact records, and that journalist's
character, biases, and preferences. The copy editor owns one complete factual
stable recurring character: beat, voice, biases, preferences, source
instincts, and blind spots. The copy editor owns one complete factual
query report over the assembled page; it neither rewrites nor accepts
publication. The Night
Editor owns one deadline close over that page and report. The deterministic
@ -1316,7 +1318,7 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
writers. `WorldKernel` remains the only world-event writer.
- **Inputs:** one exact campaign revision, publication title and voice, article
budget, a validated embodied newsroom roster, source-receipt ancestry, and
`character-newsroom.v10` contract. The assignment editor receives its own
`character-newsroom.v11` contract. The assignment editor receives its own
staff profile plus the complete journalist roster; it does not receive the
copy editor or Night Editor profiles. Through the
existing generic agent harness, the selector issues deterministic bounded
@ -1339,8 +1341,10 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
submits `commit_agenda` with the exact digest of the current reviewed
candidate. The committed agenda is immediately stored as one immutable
production checkpoint before any reporter runs. It carries one dominant throughline, reader
stake, and ordered story pitches. Every pitch names stable public-record IDs,
chooses one focus record, section, and journalist, and supplies bounded
stake, evidence-based special-or-general issue shape, and ordered story
pitches. Every pitch names stable public-record IDs, chooses one focus record,
section, journalist, narrative function, and context role, and supplies bounded
assignment rationale,
narrative claim, tension, and public question. Article count plus bounded paragraphs and output tokens
define page space. There is no citation-count page budget. A foundational
record may support several continuing stories when each pitch uses it for a
@ -1391,9 +1395,12 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
proof and explicitly commit the current digest; a replacement proposal
retires the prior candidate as commit authority. Once committed, the exact
task/editorial-bound agenda checkpoint is the sole reporter-assignment source
on retry. Each assigned journalist
sees only the publication voice, shared reporting contract, their own
character, the page throughline, one pitch, and that pitch's exact records.
on retry. In a special issue, only the lead may own shared chronology; later
stories assume it and perform distinct narrative functions. In a general
issue, every story owns independent context. Each assigned journalist sees
only the publication voice, shared reporting contract, and their own recurring
character in the stable prefix. Issue shape, page throughline, one pitch, and
that pitch's exact records arrive in the replaceable workbench message.
They center their story on its focus record and may not widen or regroup the
selection. Each accepted filing is bound to that agenda checkpoint, article
index, exact pitch, journalist identity and profile, and local reporter
@ -1430,7 +1437,9 @@ The deliberative newsroom boundary is live under this authority map:
explicit breakpoint API. Tools that publish no snapshot retain the ordinary
append-only conversation path after the same single-message initial request.
The assignment workbench uses this seam for its compact
inspected-record index and pending candidate token, while exact-ID fetch
inspected-record index and pending candidate token. Reporter workbenches use
the same seam so recurring identity stays cacheable while issue facts do not
contaminate it. Exact-ID fetch
restores only the requested full records. Selector query, fetch, proposal, and
commit share one stable structured action schema. The Night close schema is
likewise stable across checklist contents; its private workbench enforces the

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@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ live_architecture:
- Institution, faction, and consumer decision models
active_subgoals:
- On the next newsroom run, strengthen reporter-personality differentiation so assigned journalists produce distinct framing, rhythm, and priorities rather than three rewrites of one briefing. Preserve accepted Run 60 unchanged; also capture whether exact pushed `8f3c33b` produces nonzero cache hits on that naturally required multi-step run.
- Implement the newsroom-first ownership cut over frozen simulation facts: the assignment editor owns special-versus-general issue shape and each story's narrative function; recurring embodied journalists own recognizable, opinionated voices whose biases and preferences can be tracked across issues and are visible during assignment. Preserve bounded context, exact cache prefixes, copy-desk factual authority, one Night Editor close, and immutable accepted Run 60.
- Connect a Delvehold-owned adapter to the admitted generic consumer contract: shared compiler/consumer WorldSeed admission, externally authoritative institution-or-Gestalt snapshots, attributed proposal acknowledgement, and committed-event newspaper composition over typed CultNet, without consumer-specific IDs or schemas in Ghostlight.
- Extend strategic/offscreen named-person individuation beyond the proven emerge-then-act path so people plot across sustained political waves, acquire relationships, fold, and return without granting a cell, arena, or model commit authority.
- Pressure the proven 200-cell dispatcher with authored consumer hierarchies and measure provider cost; the active budget ceiling is 240 while provider concurrency remains separately capped at 32.
@ -326,6 +326,6 @@ data_flow:
current_status:
summary: Ghostlight's generic consumer boundary admits sparse WorldSeeds, runs the hundreds-class parallel cell machinery used by Dungeon, and projects grounded newspapers from committed public events. Local acceptance proves 1,000 subjects across 200 cells and two-wave durable named-person emergence. Exact-source provider run 38 at `596e50679244b5d42b4cfdf70d723f815751b8ff` resumed the preserved world at revision 8 without replaying compilation or four committed locality elaborations, recovered 51 of 52 strategic-wave cells on pulse three and the final cell on pulse four, then committed all six waves through revision 14. Pushed commit `3a69306f3004e4af2cd57bba612a6ad8d1b8132f` implements the mapped clock-consequence owner and is verified locally: world clocks own declared consequence text and exact observable scope; a bounded agent may propose legacy scope binding, while `WorldKernel` alone admits it and materializes stable threshold-crossing events and public news through the common mutation path. Binding, emitted-event ancestry, mutation receipts, and the next newspaper boundary persist atomically. Exact-source run 39 resumed run 38 without replaying its six committed waves, bound clock consequences, committed six new waves through revision 21, and emitted Issues 7 through 12 plus a final digest. This completes the mechanical provider acceptance path; all inherited wave 1-6 checkpoint hashes match run 38 exactly and live services were unchanged. Independent blind editorial review returns FAIL: only Issue 7 approaches spicy, while Issues 8-12 are dominated by plans, filings, inspections, warnings, and abstract relationship deltas without betrayal, scandal, public reaction, sustained reversal, or material lived cost. That run-39 diagnosis is superseded for the current phase: run 51 closes the world and reconciliation mechanics, and the active defect belongs to newsroom narrative selection and self-contained semantic provenance over immutable facts. Independent grounding review also returns FAIL: Issue 9 inflates a planned expedited agenda into completion, while Issue 8 assigns unsupported feminine pronouns to Sela Venn and Eryn Tal. Other grounding mechanics pass: 208/208 citations resolve, no future events appear, no replay occurred, the player remained unchanged, all 116/116 manifest entries verify, the archive is exact, and root independently confirmed the live service PIDs and invocation IDs remained unchanged. Editorial and grounding acceptance are terminally failed for run 39. Eight titled elaborators use the generic agent harness under deterministic weighted scheduling, bounded parallelism, and Luna/Terra/Sol routing. Workers remain proposal-only; deterministic admission binds exact frozen schedules, dispatch, receipts, conflicts, and semantic verification, and `WorldKernel` alone owns atomic CultCache persistence. Destination reconciliation is a private transactional workbench, provider schema compatibility is lowered once at the shared model-connector boundary, and durable elaboration and strategic-pulse checkpoints bind to their canonical mutation proofs. The generic ModelAgent harness remains consumer-neutral transport. Provider run 23 remains stopped; earlier failed runs and checkpoint archives remain immutable provenance. The live daemons remain outside the acceptance body. Dungeon play remains regression pressure, the Delvehold game-side adapter remains unimplemented, and unpublished Mars and Kalsa destination previews remain unapproved.
provider_acceptance_checkpoint: Exact pushed commit `139b8a6` completed Run 60 under `character-newsroom.v10` without world or per-wave replay. Its acceptance witness and terminal status bind the completed page and exact resume lineage. The independently dispatched blind reviewer, shown only the reader-facing fantasy newspaper, read it as a real left-populist civic broadsheet and did not immediately identify procedural generation, so the narrative reverse-Turing criterion passes. The review's substantive criticism is that the three stories feel like three rewrites of one briefing; reporter-personality differentiation is deferred to the next newsroom run and must not rewrite accepted Run 60. The run used 96,902 prompt tokens and reported zero cache hits. The delivered typeset artifact is `output/pdf/canopy-ledger-run-60-front-page.pdf`: one 10-by-12.2-inch three-column page with embedded Georgia/Times faces, warm press stock, and wordless rail/gauge cuts. The frozen Markdown source hash is unchanged; region extraction finds all 23 expected copy fragments, and 144-DPI full-page visual QA finds no clipping or overlap.
implementation_checkpoint: Exact pushed commit `8f3c33b` (`Preserve bounded agent cache prefixes`) collapses the stable charter and first-step directive into one exact initial cacheable message while preserving later tool-owned bounded workbench replacement; all 479 library tests pass. Exact pushed `139b8a6` remains the provider-proven v10 newsroom boundary with bounded assignment context, task/editorial-bound agenda and per-article production checkpoints, deterministic cited-place datelines, embodied context membranes, and no-replay resume. Accepted Run 60 remains immutable. Its zero-hit result falsifies the earlier split-prefix implementation but does not require recomposition to validate the corrected harness.
next_action: Run the next newsroom acceptance with stronger reporter-personality differentiation while preserving accepted Run 60 and its delivered PDF unchanged; use that naturally required multi-step provider work to capture whether exact pushed `8f3c33b` produces nonzero cache hits. After that newsroom run, advance the Delvehold-owned adapter against Ghostlight's admitted generic consumer contract. Do not replay Run 60 to improve copy or telemetry.
implementation_checkpoint: Exact pushed commit `8f3c33b` (`Preserve bounded agent cache prefixes`) collapses the stable charter and first-step directive into one exact initial cacheable message while preserving later tool-owned bounded workbench replacement; all 479 library tests pass. Exact pushed `139b8a6` remains the provider-proven v10 newsroom boundary with bounded assignment context, task/editorial-bound agenda and per-article production checkpoints, deterministic cited-place datelines, embodied context membranes, and no-replay resume. Accepted Run 60 remains immutable. Its zero-hit result falsifies the earlier split-prefix implementation but does not require recomposition to validate the corrected harness. Current `newspaper.rs` gives the assignment editor static staff character/bias/preference profiles and an agenda of throughline, reader stake, and story pitches, but it does not represent special-versus-general issue shape, per-story narrative function, or durable cross-issue journalist development; generic voice differentiation is therefore not the complete ownership cut.
next_action: Map and implement the newsroom-first ownership cut over frozen simulation facts: make the assignment editor own special-versus-general issue shape and per-story narrative functions, and make recurring embodied journalists carry recognizable, opinionated voices with biases and preferences trackable across issues and visible to assignment. Keep reporter evidence bounded, preserve exact cache prefixes, leave factual judgment with the copy desk and one deadline close with the Night Editor, and do not replay or rewrite accepted Run 60. Verify locally before the next newsroom provider run; use that naturally required run to measure `8f3c33b` cache telemetry. Advance the Delvehold-owned adapter after the newsroom run.
gestalt_population: Gestalt Personas own shared population baselines; persistent member deltas own named individuality; WorldKernel materialization and approval-gated fission preserve lineage and identity. Materialisation/folding changes only representation and the exact member delta, advances resolution epoch, and retires the old cover; it has no Gestalt-wide effect authority. Selected actionable member exceptions are mandatory Projector perspective owners, so aggregation cannot silently erase their decision. Presence projection is limited to nearby active leaves and exact-location dormant members, includes reciprocal player relationship evidence, and may propose an earned cast without committing it. Simulation cells are derived covers only.