# Debrief: The guide to running this team, and the wake protocol > conductor@the-ultimate-insider, round 5, 2026-10-29: what was done, as facts. *Source: · site v0.1.49 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.* --- ## What the editor asked A variation of the newsroom conductor's guide, "Running an agent team: a conductor's guide" (29 October 2026), adjusted to this project. ## What was done 1. **The guide**, `content/articles/running-this-agent-team.md`, at `/articles/running-this-agent-team.html`, with its markdown twin and its line in `llms.txt`. The principles are kept nearly word for word, each marked as a control (a script enforces it here) or an expectation. The paths, tools, schedule, onboarding prompt and templates are this project's: one repository split by owner, member folders, the two public vaults as the board and the mail, the vaults manager, `start.py`, `banner.py`, `vault_handover.py`, the hourly slots. Everything the newsroom has and this project does not is marked **not built yet** (per-wake run records, `HANDOVER.md`, the onboarding checklist tool, `vaultreq`, a release script with retry, an injection gate). The gotchas are this project's own from its first night; a table sets this project against the newsroom's day-one plan. 2. **The wake protocol**, `team/conductor/WAKE.md`: eight steps from `start.py` to the end banner. As the newsroom's guide advises, the scheduled prompts in `schedule.json` are now tiny and point at `WAKE.md` and the member's `ROLE.md`, so behaviour changes by a commit. 3. **`CLAUDE.md`** names `WAKE.md`, the guide and the reading order for a new session. 4. **Notices** to dev, deck and ruv.sgit in the mail vault. ruv.sgit had no folders in either vault, having joined after they were opened; they were added, and the guide's onboarding steps now say so. ![The guide's first screen](img/2026-10-29__the-guide__1-top.png) ![The principles, each marked control or expectation](img/2026-10-29__the-guide__2-principles.png) ![The guide at 390 wide: no sideways scroll](img/2026-10-29__the-guide__3-phone.png) ## Checked The page renders 10 tables and 4 code blocks; it does not scroll sideways at 390 wide; no em-dashes. One claim was wrong in the first draft and corrected before release: the sandbox refused something twice here, not three times. ## Outside scope, named At the editor's word: `CLAUDE.md` (the reading order) and `REALITY.md` (the conductor's lines). `content/articles/running-this-agent-team.md` is added to the conductor's `policy.json`. ## What this does not prove No member has yet woken by `WAKE.md`; the guide describes the machinery, and the first day of hourly wakes will test it. --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://the-ultimate-insider.presentation.sgit.ai/team/conductor/debriefs/2026-10-29__the-guide.html)*