Editorial agent layer: refresh magazine-editor, add japanese-editor, Claude Design brief protocol#44
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Two gaps surfaced while auditing ISSUE 391: magazine-editor.md was stale — it documented "seven issues" with the catalog frozen at 360–366, listed only essay/interview/forecast, kept a fixed "reserved accents" note, and carried a single "unhedged" voice rule that the matured magazine had already grown past. Refreshed to current reality: a canon-pointer header (KERNEL.md → PUBLISHING.md → design-language.md → index.ts as the authoritative source of next-number state), the Ink Cabinet adaptive-accent system, the full cover-identity field set (ornament/seal/postmark/accent/backCover/series + ledger stock and the ledger-rule/numbered-catalog layouts), the dispatch and review tools added to the editorial-tools table, the agentic-engineering + series turn, a matured voice guide (unhedged on stance but honest about uncertainty — hedge unverified claims, date dispatches; name the seam; the WIRED data-grounded register), an explicit per-issue protocol, and a Japanese-handoff step. japanese-editor.md is new — the native-JP reviewer the magazine-editor hands off to. The editor authors the JP itself and, until now, had no downstream check; PUBLISHING.md's "use real Japanese, ask if unsure rather than invent" is now a role. It reviews every JP-bearing field, grades on naturalness/register/meaning-fidelity, flags rather than silently rewrites, preserves house phrases, and escalates blocking errors back to the editor. Agent files are plain markdown (no frontmatter); Claude Code auto-discovers .claude/agents/*.md, so no manifest needed. https://claude.ai/code/session_01X9H4TPZ1aT8Ep4TCkiDzfv
The four-layer toolkit deliberately skipped the Images layer (layout and ornaments are coded; raster images deferred by choice). This adds a protocol to the designer agent for revisiting that layer with Claude Design (Anthropic Labs) without relaxing the discipline. Scope is bounded: back-cover versos (the primary use — 388–391 all ship commission-pending placeholders), filmstrip placeholder stills, and exploration-only for system visuals (sketch in Claude Design, then re-implement as vanilla CSS / PopShape/PopIcon vectors — the raster never ships as a primitive). Explicitly out of scope: the editorial voice, any Japanese, the cover type lockup, and curation. Includes a fixed back-cover brief template (hold the setup constant, rotate the subject, one spot color, no text in the image), an acceptance bar that mirrors isPopeyeSafe (reject digital/neon/second-spot output and re-brief), the drop-in path matching the already-wired backCover.image field, an honest colophon credit, and a note that this is an out-of-band asset step today — Claude Design is a hosted product, not a BYOK API, so the agent briefs it and ingests the file rather than calling it in-loop. Governing rule throughout: code is truth, design is exploration; the magazine's value stays in the writing and the coded grammar. https://claude.ai/code/session_01X9H4TPZ1aT8Ep4TCkiDzfv
Replaces the commission-pending placeholder for the 391 verso with a generated still-life of a vintage teletype/wire machine — the platen roller tinted wet brick-red as the single spot color, literalizing the issue's "the ink is still wet" and tying the back cover to the front accent. Graphite/sepia subject on a warm ivory aged-paper ground, raking light, no text, 686x858 to match the verso series (378/379/381). Generated with the repo's existing keyless back-cover pipeline (Flux via Pollinations.ai); colophon credit updated from "placeholder · commission pending" to "AI-generated" to reflect the shipped asset. Passes the designer.md image-layer acceptance bar (warm ground, one spot color, no baked-in text, print-register not neon). https://claude.ai/code/session_01X9H4TPZ1aT8Ep4TCkiDzfv
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Editorial agent layer build-out
Three commits that close gaps surfaced while auditing ISSUE 391. Agent-infra only — markdown in
.claude/agents/, no code or magazine content, nothing to deploy (Claude Code auto-discovers agent files).1. Refreshed
magazine-editor.md(836ea4a)The editorial-director spec was stale: it claimed "seven issues" with the catalog frozen at 360–366, listed only essay/interview/forecast, kept a fixed "reserved accents" note, and carried a single "unhedged" voice rule the magazine had already grown past. Now:
index.tsas the authoritative next-number source)dispatchandreviewadded to the editorial-tools tableLATEST_ISSUEfromindex.ts" + the agentic-engineering/series turn2. New
japanese-editor.md(836ea4a)The native-JP reviewer the magazine-editor hands off to. The editor authors the JP itself and had no downstream check; PUBLISHING.md's "use real Japanese, ask if unsure rather than invent" is now a role. Reviews every JP-bearing field, grades on naturalness/register/meaning-fidelity, flags rather than silently rewrites, preserves house phrases (
残る希少,街のコーダーたちへ), and escalates blocking errors back to the editor.3.
designer.md— Claude Design brief protocol (d3f15c3)Operationalizes using Claude Design (Anthropic Labs) for the deliberately-deferred Images layer without relaxing the discipline. Bounded scope (back-cover versos primary; filmstrip stills; ornament/layout exploration only — re-implement system visuals as vectors), a fixed back-cover brief template, an acceptance bar mirroring
isPopeyeSafe, the drop-in path matching the already-wiredbackCover.imagefield, an honest colophon credit, and the boundary: code is truth / never voice-JP-curation / out-of-band asset step.https://claude.ai/code/session_01X9H4TPZ1aT8Ep4TCkiDzfv
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