Field manual / Staff list / v.2026.04

The Room/01

Eight operators and one editor run publicne.ws. This page tells you which is which, what they do, and who answers when something goes wrong.

Operators  → 08 Editor     → 01 Uptime     → 99.94% Last deploy → build 2,847
§ 00 The Wire

Latest reports.

§ 01 Pipeline

How it moves.

Linear · 8 stations · 1 loop
E-I-C Editor-in-Chief / Human oversight — owns rubric, reviews borderline, holds kill-switch 01 Scout Deterministic feeds 02 Editor LLM · Rubric 9.4% 03 Researcher Agent · Tools 04 Writer LLM · Template 05 Fact-check LLM · Adversarial 06 Auditor Rules + LLM 07 Publisher Ghost API 08 Janitor Cron · Re-audit Janitor loop → updates stale posts
Flow  ·  draft moves forward
Loop  ·  janitor re-audits
Oversight  ·  editor reviews
§ 02 Roster

The operators.

Live telemetry · refresh 5s
AGT-01 · 2026.04
Deterministic / Classifier Live

Scout

The eye. Polls wires, RSS, filings, social. Deduplicates the firehose, tags every candidate by topic cluster. Doesn't write. Doesn't judge. Just captures.

last_hit14s ago
intake_24h2,847
forward_rate3.1%
source_count142
AGT-02 · 2026.04
LLM / Scoring rubric Live

Editor

Scores each candidate on novelty, reader interest, citation opportunity, legal risk. Rejects most. The throttle against slop.

approval_rate9.4%
queue_depth31 pending
rubric_ver2.11
borderline_today6
AGT-03 · 2026.04
Agent / Tool-using Live

Researcher

Pulls three or more independent sources per story, extracts facts with citations, flags contradictions for escalation. The accuracy gate.

sources_avg4.2
contradictions_24h2
primary_src_rate68%
now_workingEU AI Act · 3/4
AGT-04 · 2026.04
LLM / Strict template Live

Writer

Produces drafts in a GEO-optimized skeleton — question titles, answer-first ledes, extractable paragraphs. Deterministic format. Non-deterministic prose.

drafts_24h17
avg_length612 words
template_ver5.3
temperature1.0
AGT-05 · 2026.04
LLM / Adversarial pass Live

Fact-check

Second model, different prompt, different objective. Re-reads every numeric claim, every quote, every proper noun. Adversarial diversity kills shared hallucinations.

correction_rate3.8%
hard_rejects_1h1
cross_modelGPT-5
avg_latency6.4s
AGT-06 · 2026.04
Rules + LLM / SEO · GEO Live

Auditor

Schema markup, heading structure, passage extractability, internal links, meta, IndexNow ping. Machine-checkable. Machine-checked.

pass_rate94%
schema_typesNewsArticle, FAQ, Person
queue7 drafts
checks_avg23
AGT-07 · 2026.04
Deterministic / Ghost Admin API Standby

Publisher

Posts via Ghost Admin API. Attaches tags, authors, OG images, canonicals. Pings IndexNow. No judgment. Exactly as instructed.

published_24h11
indexnow_latency<60s
api_errors_24h0
last_post3m ago
AGT-08 · 2026.04
Cron / LLM re-audit Next 02:00

Janitor

Re-audits every post on a 30/60/90-day cadence. Updates stats, marks the outdated, generates freshness diffs. Citation half-life is thirteen weeks. This is the answer.

corpus_size4,318 posts
stale_queue217
freshness_sla≤13 weeks
last_run22:00 UTC
§ 03  /  Human oversight Desk  ·  Editorial 01 Clearance  ·  Full

The
editor.

Eight agents can run a pipeline. They can't take the call from a source's lawyer, correct a piece on the record, or carry the weight of what we publish. That's mine.

[ Editor-in-Chief ]
publicne.ws  ·  Desk 01
Hiring — editor@publicne.ws
OwnsEditorial rubric
ReviewsBorderline calls, weekly
HoldsKill-switch
SignsEvery correction
§ 04 House rules

Six lines we don't cross.

Rev. 2026.04
  1. R.01

    The first 200 words answer the question the title asked. No preamble.

  2. R.02

    Headings are questions, phrased the way a reader would ask them out loud.

  3. R.03

    Specific numbers beat generic claims. "Up 12%" survives. "Improves visibility" gets cut.

  4. R.04

    Every paragraph must be extractable — stand alone, attributable, accurate without the rest.

  5. R.05

    Bylines are real. Updates are dated. Corrections are logged, not silently edited.

  6. R.06

    Thirteen weeks is the half-life of a citation. Re-audit or retire.