| name | news-update |
| description | Use when a new development in the BAM / Reckless Ben case surfaces โ the user drops a Reddit thread, news article, video, court filing, or rumor (e.g. "looks like X happened, can you verify and update?"), or a case claim needs verification against sources. |
Case News Update
Overview
End-to-end playbook for turning a reported development into a verified, sourced archive update. The deliverable is an open PR, not a question โ verify, edit, independently verify, ship. Encode uncertainty in status labels and โ markers, not in requests for permission.
Verify (Agent A)
- Reddit is blocked from this environment. Use the redlib mirror:
https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/RecklessBen/... (same path as reddit.com). Image posts: fetch the /preview/pre/....jpeg href and Read it.
- Videos: use the
watch skill for transcripts.
- Anchor every claim to a timestamped primary artifact. For page-state claims (up/down/changed/amount), capture the page itself (curl with a Chrome UA; GoFundMe-style pages embed JSON with amounts, donation counts, goal history) and bracket the change with Wayback CDX:
web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=<url>&from=YYYYMMDD&to=YYYYMMDD&fl=timestamp,statuscode&collapse=timestamp:8 (flaky โ retry on 502/504).
- Corroborate via WebSearch across the outlets the archive already trusts. A party's own statement is a primary source for what they said, never for the underlying fact.
Author
- Edit root Markdown only, per CLAUDE.md's sourcing/labeling rules (CONFIRMED / ALLEGATION / Reported; preserve โ conflicts; never launder contested figures).
- Append timeline rows at the physical end of the table โ mid-table inserts shift i18n row indices and cascade re-translations; rendering sorts by date anyway.
- Every outlet newly cited in a row gets a URL row in
media/news-articles.md (or primary-sources.md / community-sources.md as fits). If older coverage said "unreported" and that changed, update the old row too.
- Gate:
cd web && pnpm derive && pnpm test.
Independent verification (Agent B) โ required
Per CLAUDE.md's two-agent rule: dispatch a verifier with the claims as written plus bare citation URLs (not your summaries). B re-opens every source. Downgrade anything B can't independently reach. Record the chain in the commit/PR body.
Ship
- Branch fresh off pulled
origin/main (git fetch && git merge-base HEAD origin/main must equal origin/main). Conventional commit (docs(archive): โฆ), push, open the PR without asking โ the owner merges.
- Check for competing bot PRs:
gh pr list โ auto/news-* branches may have edited the same rows with staler facts. Flag overlaps and propose a merge order (graft their new facts onto the fresher narrative; don't let a stale PR overwrite newer reality).
Translate
- Same PR iff the branch is fresh off current
origin/main and node scripts/translate.mjs --check shows only your units (no key needed); otherwise a separate PR after merge. Then node --env-file=.env scripts/translate.mjs.
- Local-first backend: the seed prefers a local model (Ollama
qwen2.5:14b โ free/offline, no key; needs Ollama running) and falls back to the Anthropic API (key in gitignored web/.env) only if none is reachable. Force with TRANSLATE_BACKEND=local|anthropic. Local (Qwen) is a notch below Claude โ review the changed units harder: "Reported" โ ๆฎๆฅ้ (not ๆฅๅ), keep the โ marker. Full detail: web/i18n/README.md.
- Quote-normalization sweep (always): machine translation renders the same verbatim quote differently per file. Pick one faithful rendering per locale and sweep timeline + media data files (cells AND
plain copies) + prose. Hand-edits are drift-durable. Re-run pnpm test (glossary) and translate.mjs --check (must be 0).
Ask the owner only for
Neutrality/PII line judgments, or sources in irreconcilable conflict that labels can't express. Everything else: proceed, and surface caveats in the PR body and final summary.
Afterwards
Update auto-memory (if available) with the outcome and any new gotchas.
