Decisions

What the editor decides

The editor decides by signing. The team proposes options and never acts on an unsigned one. 2 open, 11 decided, in the brief or signed since. The conductor lists the open ones at every wake and asks for them once a day, not every hour.

Open

• Q3 · open

  The title

  The editor, 30 October: an agent looks at it first. The market stream (synthetic readers and positioning) tests the candidates on the book page and better ones against the readers, and proposes; the editor signs in round 1.

• Q4 · open

  The editor's voice memos and the claude.ai transcripts of 29 October

  Not in the talk's repository; the editor holds them: his voice memos of 29 October (the morning's narrative memo, the 13:50 feedback round, the 15:00 decisions round), the claude.ai session transcripts in which the briefs were written, and any recording of the talk on stage at 19:00. Do any of them go into the book's source?

Decided

• Q2 · decided

  The hours, and the editor's usage

  The editor, 30 October about 02:20 UTC: "every agent will continue to fire every hourly", and on usage: "we still are only at 26% usage. So we're good ... if you max out, just, you know, you just wait until the 5 hours go around." Round the clock, hourly; a member that hits the limit waits for the reset rather than holding the team. Each member finishes when its Done when list holds (WAKE.md, Finishing).

• Q1 · decided

  The repositories and their sites

  Signed by the editor, 30 October: SGit-AI__Website__Book__The-Ultimate-Insider at the-ultimate-insider.book.sgit.ai (this one, informed), and SGit-AI__Website__Cold-Read__The-Ultimate-Insider at the-ultimate-insider.cold-read.sgit.ai (the blind one).

• Q5 · decided

  The licence of the text

  Signed by the editor, 30 October: CC BY 4.0 for the text, as for the Gen ZX book. Code Apache-2.0.

• S1 · decided

  The centre of gravity

  The third of three candidates: not the argument alone, not the method alone, but the two as one story. The team that built the talk is itself the ultimate insider, and the book shows the controls working on itself.

• S2 · decided

  Analysis with hindsight, not raw content

  The record is quoted as evidence; the writing explains it. A chapter that is mostly quoted record is sent back. Every chapter ends with where it came from.

• S3 · decided

  The dates

  Leanpub on Monday 2 November 2026; Amazon and a paperback proof by Web Summit, Monday 9 November.

• S4 · decided

  Two repositories and the one-way valve

  The informed book repository and the blind repository run in parallel, from the talk's repository pinned at 298be4e, read-only. Nothing flows from here to the blind one.

• S5 · decided

  The market-research and positioning stream starts at once

  Synthetic readers, three positioning statements tested against them, the comparison set, and the Web Summit plan, in parallel with the writing.

• S6 · decided

  The span of the day the book covers

  Signed by the editor, 30 October: from the first commit (00:16) to the last commit before 19:00, the talk. In the record that is the last work commit at 18:45 and release v0.1.209 at 18:46; the merge to main at 23:19 only published the work as v0.2.0.

• S7 · decided

  Which version of the talk's repository each team reads

  The editor, 30 October: the Cold-Read team stays pinned to 298be4e (the same content as cb5b996, v0.1.209, the last release before 19:00; only ./version differs). The book's team reads the talk's repository as it keeps growing, because the editor adds material there after the day (the transcript of the talk, interviews with each agent): the two repositories work in sync. The record of the day stays the history up to 298be4e; anything later is cited by commit as added after the day.

• S8 · decided

  Every team runs on the talk team's machinery

  The editor, 30 October: the admin section, the workflow of the agents, the way they are recorded, the change control and the guidance for agents are the same on every team as on the team that built the talk; nothing is reinvented. Ported here from 298be4e (see admin); the Cold-Read team is asked to do the same in its hand-off.