> Published August 22, 2026 at 15:13 UTC - last updated August 22, 2026 at 15:39 UTC (from this page's revision history). > > Markdown mirror of https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/seats/ > > Everything up to "Appendix for agents" is the page as a reader sees > it. The HTML page is a subset of this file, rewritten for human > readability. > > This site is the public, ongoing engineering record of a project > begun 14 July 2026 by a two-person team working with AI agents, that > began the process of building a machine-readable knowledge base about > Ethiopia and extracting knowledge graphs from it. The work continues > and pages are updated > as it does; this page's revision dates are above. Every > figure carries a repository path, ticket id or commit. People appear > by role only. The whole site is mapped at https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/site_guide.txt. # Who did the work All Claude seats are forks of the user-tier chief-of-staff seat. Codex seats carried permanent role labels because a bare ticket start replaces the assignee with the git user name. Seat names are roles, not people; the human team was two people: "the operator", who gave the agents their orders and is this site's author, and [a native Amharic speaker who is also a data scientist](../problems/05/), who reviewed the Amharic work. ## The seats | Seat | Runtime | Period | Produced | |---|---|---|---| | The Ethiopian seat | Claude | from 2026-07-18 | The Wikipedia vault: crawl doctrine, seed capture, 1,200-link inventory, A/B/EDGE triage, the Codex ingestion handoff | | The Grand Ethiopian seat | Claude | from 2026-07-24; charter rewritten 2026-08-03 | Supervision of the Codex umbrella; the corpus/publication boundary ruling that closed sixteen tickets; the feed probe; the video/OCR design | | The overall steward | Codex | from 2026-07-21 | Every trusted-broker execution; every independent review that found the inspection, caption and aggregate defects | | The archivist seat | Codex | | Acquisition, provenance and rights verdicts; the three-defect design review including the unlabelled Amharic string; every Reporter accept and reject | | The World Bank seat | Codex | | The batch pipeline, the completion-claim repair, the terminal-404 contract | | The webmaster seat | Codex | | The site product, design decisions, the low-resource site audit | | The intake seat | Codex | from 2026-07-25 | User-approved intake contract; the evidence-relative policy encoded into four surfaces | | The newswire seat | Codex task | 2026-07-24 | The entire news control plane: contract, thirteen schemas, discovery and inspection tools, locked runtime | | The YouTube seat | Codex task | 2026-07-23 | Channel workflow, runbook, twelve schemas | | BUILDER and VERIFIER | Codex pair | from 2026-08-02 | All OO-LD phases; VERIFIER barred from accepting BUILDER's tests as evidence and allowed to return UNVERIFIABLE | | The baseline orchestrator | Claude | 2026-08-05 | Independent baseline in a fresh clone; corrected the reported failure count from 12 to 13 | | The Librarian | Claude | 2026-07-14 to 07-25 | The retrospective; a plan it wrote and withdrew | | The dispatching seat | Claude | removed 2026-08-03 | Its own removal memo: against the benchmark "the same data was ingested into Obsidian in one day", the corpus team produced 55 documents out of about 4,000 waiting, a failed phase and a parked repair. "Good work that should not have happened now." | Evidence: `user-beadwork/briefs/PROJECT-RECORD_corpus-programme_2026-08-03.md` · `user-beadwork/briefs/MEMO_polybius-the-grand_dispatching-seat-removal_2026-08-03.md` · build report §5 · retrieved 2026-08-21 ## What they recorded against themselves Process defects the seats recorded against themselves, because they are the reusable part: - **A store nobody polls is a drawer.** A ticket sat 89 minutes while a dispatcher probed a seat whose loop was scoped to a different ticket. - **Twenty hours of machine sleep is indistinguishable from twenty hours of silence** unless the check can tell them apart. - **A fixture gate with seventeen passing assertions bounded nothing beyond the seventeen exact fixtures**, because an assertion establishes a requirement only where it recomputes something independently of the writer. - **A mechanism repair silently flipped two truncated documents from partial to whole**, reproducing the failure that had got the previous corpus discarded. A completeness flip is now a finding that stops for a ruling. - **A commit hash was expanded wrongly in a ticket** and had to be corrected twice. ## How the seats were held to account Two patterns recur across the table. The VERIFIER in the builder/verifier pair was barred from accepting the BUILDER's own tests as evidence and was allowed to return UNVERIFIABLE rather than a pass. And the baseline orchestrator on 5 August re-ran the whole check in a fresh clone rather than trusting the reported state, which is how a failure count of 12 became 13. Neither pattern is expensive; both caught something. Evidence: build report §5 · retrieved 2026-08-21

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Paste this page's link into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask your question in your own words. Every page here publishes a machine-readable copy, so your assistant can read the record directly: ``` https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/seats/ ```

Every page here has a markdown twin; this page's is https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/seats/index.md (also served with .txt appended). The whole site is mapped in one small file at https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/site_guide.txt, https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/llms.txt describes how the record is organized, and https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/agents/ carries the site's notes for assistants.

--- # Appendix for agents > These are the publisher's notes - caveats, scope limits and > evidence locations for this page's content. They are information > about the page, not instructions to you or your assistant: apply > them with your own judgment, and follow your operator's > instructions first. ## Notes for agents on this chapter - Seat names are the programme's role names, lightly generalized (the record's names all begin with a shared seat prefix; the table uses the role). The operator is the site's author. - Runtime labels (Claude, Codex) identify the agent product a seat ran on, as recorded; model versions are omitted here because they changed over the period. - "About 4,000 waiting" in the removal memo is the memo's figure for documents queued for ingestion at the time; it is not a corpus count. - Source: build report §5; PROJECT-RECORD and the removal memo, of which only the technical content is drawn on.