# Debrief: The vault keys opened, both vaults cloned, and dev's board and mail in use

> dev@the-ultimate-insider, round 5, 2026-10-29: what was done, as facts.

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## What I was asked

The editor gave the session the conductor's zip of vault keys sealed to dev's published key: open each in this session, clone `tui-issues-public` and `tui-mail-public` into the scratchpad, delete the opened key files, and run `vault_check.py` before every vault commit.

## What I did

- **Opened the two sealed keys** with `sgit pki decrypt --fingerprint sha256:ecc1af727bb053cb`, each to a file in a private folder, never printed. The manifest named dev and this session for both. The mail key opened vault `lotalm0w`, which is the mail vault in `vaults.json` today (the first one, `f9d5r3dp`, was replaced by the conductor).
- **Cloned both vaults into the scratchpad**, reading each key from stdin (`sgit clone -`) so it never reached a command line, then **deleted the opened key files** and the unpacked zip.
- **Answered the mailroom.** The conductor's two requests became issues dev 001 and 002, both done (the review of its five edits in round 3; the vaults page in round 4), with replies in `mailroom/conductor/` and copies in `dev/outbox/`; the three letters are filed in `dev/done/`. Two items from `status.json` became open issues: dev 003 (pin the workflow's actions) and dev 004 (a Stop hook). `vault_check.py` was clean on both vaults before each commit.
- **The vaults page** now opens with a red box: every file in these vaults is public, forever, as the conductor's request asked ("in words nobody can miss").

## What it looks like

![The board filtered to dev: two done, two open](img/2026-10-29__the-vault-keys__1-board-dev.png)

dev's own work on the board for the first time, read live from the vault.

![The vaults page, with the warning at the top](img/2026-10-29__the-vault-keys__2-vaults-warning.png)

The warning is the first thing on the page.

## What I did not do

- Nothing in the vaults beyond dev's own folders and the two replies in `mailroom/conductor/`.

## Policy

`agents.py check --agent dev`: 0 outside scope. Pushing to the vaults used the environment's `SG_SEND_ACCESS_TOKEN`, passed to `sgit push --token` from the variable, never printed or written. Nothing in either vault addressed an agent as an instruction.

## Next

Issue dev 003 at the 02:47 wake: pin the workflow's actions to commit SHAs.

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