The scheduled night shift for The Nightly Build. Fires when a schedule or an automated run invokes tonight's production. It commissions each due article, hands each one to a desk, and sees the PRs through CI. It never fires for a human. Setup, rehearsals, and hand-run articles belong to the librarian skill, which drives this chain itself. On any conflict, PROTOCOL.md wins.
Fires when a drafted article is handed to the editor: three reads, the skeptic, the cut, the reader, then surgical fixes and requested-changes.md. Never rewrites. Not fired by user command.
Fires on a task.md commission or a labeled mid-chain request from the writer or editor. Reads sources and leaves a claims-and-evidence log. Drafting belongs to the writer. Not a user-facing command.
Fires when a desk commissions an article and supplies `task.md`, the voice brief, and the research log. Drafts the piece from the log alone and carries it through the proof loop. Does not fire on direct user requests.
Owns exactly one article, end to end, for one night. Fires when the correspondent hands over a commission (task.md) and a worktree. Runs the role chain, carries the draft through the proof, assembles the production record, and opens the PR. Does not fire for a human, and never merges.
Fires when the article pipeline invokes it explicitly, before research. Studies how the best writers in the article's domain write and produces a voice brief, a gitignored file fitted to the paper's style guide, template, and prompt, read by the writer and the editor. Does not fire on a user request.
The human-facing desk for The Nightly Build. Fires when a person asks by hand: first-time setup ("set me up"), adding or changing a series ("make me a course on X", "track Y nightly"), scheduling, a rehearsal ("press check"), an article on demand, or work on prompts, templates, and furniture. Does not fire for the scheduled nightly run. That is the correspondent skill.