Debrief · round 2 · 2026-10-29

The researcher's nine answers folded into the tree; part one's "outside in balance" contradicted

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What was asked

The scheduled :54 wake (fired 15:00 UTC). In: the researcher's reply delivering R1 to R9 (team/researcher/requests/storyteller__facts-delivered.md).

What was done

• Every R placeholder in story/tree.md replaced by its story-r* claim id and grade; all citations in the story files re-checked against the register.
• R5 contradicts the memo. The internet-facing surface is not getting more mature: exploited vulnerabilities rose from 20 to 31 per cent of initial access (DBIR 2026), edge devices from 3 to 22 per cent of targets (DBIR 2025). Put to the editor as the strongest objection to part one, with a proposed way through: the outside is contested, not mature, and that is why nobody has turned right inside yet.
• The integrity shift is a warning, not a trend. The DBIR already counts integrity in 64 per cent of incidents (meaning malware and phishing), and no agent has been recorded corrupting a system of record. Proposed line: "the next incidents will be the ones where nothing is missing, and nothing is right".
• R1 gives the building and the audience question real cases: SolarWinds (18,000 to about 109), Storm-0558, Midnight Blizzard, all A6.
• Wordings taken as the researcher gave them: "not yet seen at scale" (R4), "few can maintain" (R6), "decision policy" (R9).
• challenge.md, coverage.md, sequence.md and the maps' README updated to match; a reply to the researcher.

For the editor

Whether "the outside is in balance" stays (as contested), goes, or shrinks to the open-source point. The tree's open questions list it with the frame and act three.