{
 "note": "The journalist's desk: the cycle every evidence export goes through, the full pass and where it stands, and the pass ledger, one row per hand-kept data file with the evidence vault head it was last checked against. Kept by claude-journalist. The staleness report on /views/desk/ is computed from this file, the built pages and the vault's claims at every build.",
 "author": "claude-journalist",
 "decided": {
  "by": "Dinis Cruz, editor",
  "on": "2026-10-24",
  "says": "the journalist does the full pass and maintains the site after each export as part of its workflow, released in turn rather than in one large push"
 },
 "cycle": [
  {
   "id": "watch",
   "who": "researcher@php.newsroom",
   "label": "Watch",
   "what": "The source watch re-reads every outside page on a schedule and keeps a dated snapshot when one changes."
  },
  {
   "id": "curate",
   "who": "curator@php.newsroom",
   "label": "Curate",
   "what": "Five times a day the curator promotes about 18 snapshots into the evidence vault, reads each, and records its claims and timeline rows."
  },
  {
   "id": "export",
   "who": "claude-journalist",
   "label": "Export",
   "what": "The journalist pulls the evidence vault read-only and re-exports it into data/: sources, counts, claims, timeline, the latest capture."
  },
  {
   "id": "review",
   "who": "claude-journalist",
   "label": "Review",
   "what": "Every new vault claim appears on /claims/review/ as not yet reviewed; each gets a verdict (used, agrees, held back) checked against the saved page and the ledger."
  },
  {
   "id": "refresh",
   "who": "claude-journalist",
   "label": "Refresh",
   "what": "The hand-kept data files the new evidence touches are updated, each row citing a capture, and the pass ledger below records the head each was checked against."
  },
  {
   "id": "state",
   "who": "claude-journalist",
   "label": "State",
   "what": "When the evidence moves enough to change what a reader should know, a new version of the state of affairs is written; its delta is on /views/."
  },
  {
   "id": "release",
   "who": "claude-journalist",
   "label": "Release",
   "what": "Build, gate, security check, release.sh to dev, check live. One step of the pass per release, not one large push."
  },
  {
   "id": "settled",
   "who": "the build",
   "label": "Settled",
   "what": "The staleness report on this page is empty: no 'as of' older than the latest capture, every file checked against the current head, every vault claim reviewed."
  }
 ],
 "pass": [
  {
   "n": 1,
   "title": "The desk, the plan and the staleness report",
   "status": "done",
   "what": "This page: the cycle, the pass, the pass ledger and the report that says what is still stale."
  },
  {
   "n": 2,
   "title": "Refresh the hand-kept data from the new evidence",
   "status": "in progress",
   "what": "Story, the compromise line, the offline ledger, agencies, numbers, the timeline, the KEV snapshot and the software inventory, each checked against the current head."
  },
  {
   "n": 3,
   "title": "Move the facts typed into the build into data",
   "status": "pending",
   "what": "Front-page tiles, KEV, playbook, the Explained page, chart windows and counts read from data, so the next export changes them without code."
  },
  {
   "n": 4,
   "title": "The persona pass",
   "status": "pending",
   "what": "The sixteen readers' answers, introductions and asks move into personas.json, with their 'as of' generated, and are re-read against the state of affairs."
  },
  {
   "n": 5,
   "title": "Review the rest of the curator's claims",
   "status": "pending",
   "what": "Every claim on /claims/review/ gets a verdict; the used ones go into the site's claim table with their sources."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  {
   "path": "data/story.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": "1845598d9a38",
   "note": "What is known on exploitation rewritten; the turn to looking for break-ins and the Swiss count added; three open questions updated."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/claims.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": "Partly: no-confirmed-compromise refreshed (24 October); the other 69 claims not yet re-read."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/impact.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": "1845598d9a38",
   "note": "Four reports added: Germany's hospitals and hosts, Morocco, Romania, Japan, each with its source."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/compromise.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": "1845598d9a38",
   "note": "11 rows now cite the promoted copies in the evidence vault; ACSC, Patchstack (PCMag) and Luxembourg added; KEV row at the watch's 08:03 check; as of the latest capture."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/exploitation.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/numbers.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/agencies.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/timeline.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/history.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": "Partly: the php2shell row's KEV and response lines refreshed (24 October); the comparators not re-read."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/defence.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/affected.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/software.json",
   "kept_by_before": "the vault export (collector-gov's capture)",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/plain.json",
   "kept_by_before": "story-site",
   "checked_against": "1845598d9a38",
   "note": "Right now, Latest and the three 'as of' lines rewritten for 23 October; the rest re-read."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/personas.json",
   "kept_by_before": "briefing writer",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/questions.json",
   "kept_by_before": "librarian",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": "Partly: 'Has anyone actually been hacked?' refreshed to 23 October 16:04 UTC (24 October); the other answers not yet re-read."
  },
  {
   "path": "data/signals.json",
   "kept_by_before": "journalist and historian",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/patching.json",
   "kept_by_before": "journalist",
   "checked_against": null,
   "note": ""
  },
  {
   "path": "data/state.json",
   "kept_by_before": "journalist",
   "checked_against": "1845598d9a38",
   "note": "State of affairs v2."
  }
 ],
 "kept_as_written": [
  "articles/",
  "updates/",
  "versions/",
  "whatsnew/",
  "admin/",
  "readings/",
  "brief/",
  "corrections/",
  "feedback/",
  "sherpa/",
  "team/",
  "pulse/",
  "sources/",
  "facts/",
  "views/"
 ],
 "kept_as_written_why": "Stories, updates, versions of the state of affairs, release notes, briefs, outside readings and source pages are dated and kept as written by design; a dated phrase in them is history, not staleness. Facts pages carry every version of a fact. The state of affairs gives each measure its own as-of time on purpose.",
 "accepted": [
  {
   "page": "*",
   "phrase": "as of 20:30 UTC on 21 October",
   "why": "Huntress's own time for its statement that it had seen no exploitation on its partners' systems (claim huntress-none): a source's date, kept wherever the claim is quoted."
  }
 ]
}