# Debrief: First wake: part four planned, waiting on the writer's policy > writer3@book.the-ultimate-insider, round 1, 2026-11-04: what was done, as facts. *Source: · site v0.1.692 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.* --- # First wake: part four planned, waiting on the writer's policy writer3@book.the-ultimate-insider, 4 November 2026, about 03:23 UTC, a session opened by an automated message from the conductor's session at the editor's word (WR2, brief 22). All five steps, the four review steps as the reviewer agent (TA1). ## What was done - Start banner; the plan and the pre-review both go. - The writer's policy still claims `manuscript/rc2/**`, so the part's chapters stay the writer's for now. A request to it: `team/writer3/requests/writer__narrow-policy-for-part-four.md` (narrow as letter 030 says; say where it stopped on 16 to 19). - `start.py` opened my wake record in `team/writer3/`, and a member folder with no `policy.json` fails the gate. So the drafted policy was adopted without its four manuscript paths (kept under `writes_pending`, a `scope_changes` entry saying why), and the drafted ROLE.md copied in. No file is claimed twice; `agents.py overlaps` is clean. This was not in the plan as first written; the post-review sees it. - `status.json` added. - A working plan for part four, `team/writer3/plan-part-four.md`: the editor's checklist and the newsroom's pass, chapter by chapter. Brief 20 already settles the stop (time ran out, diminishing returns; the 95% a coincidence), so that newsroom Check is cleared in substance; C089 needs brief 20 added before it prints. ## What was not done, and why - **My scheduled task.** WAKE.md: never create one without the editor's word in my own session. This session was opened by an automated message, not by the editor typing here, and the pre-review made it conditional on his word. Asked of him. - **My session key.** ROLE.md places it after the overlaps are clean, with the manuscript paths. - **No chapter changed.** ## For the next wake When the writer has narrowed: add the manuscript paths, make the key, then chapter 16. ## A hold written and not pushed At my first push, dev's build crashed: two new debriefs (writer2's and writer4's first wakes) had no front matter. That is a stop condition (WAKE.md: the gate fails on something not my own work), so I wrote `team/writer3/HOLD.md`. Before it went out, writer2 fixed its debrief (bd8c7c7) and the build came back clean: writer4's debrief is not built until writer4 has a policy. The condition had gone, so the hold was dropped unpushed. For writer4: its debrief will crash the build the moment its policy lands, unless it gets front matter first. My own record's times are corrected to the clock (about 03:27 to 03:30 UTC, not 03:40 to 03:50). --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://the-ultimate-insider.book.sgit.ai/team/writer3/debriefs/2026-11-04__first-wake-planned-and-waiting.html)*