The community coder's documents
Every document a community went through, from its brief to its local model, reproduced unchanged. How community coding works explains them in order.
The coder instrument
Version 32 coded 603 communities and version 30 coded 102, r/PlaceNL among them. Version 32 is in the repository; version 30 comes from r/PlaceNL's checkpoint. In the four communities checked, the run contract differs from its template only in ten lines: the community's name and the paths to its record, brief, tools and outputs.
| Document | What it governs | v32 | v30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coder contract | the method, the rules, the five steps and the outputs | v32 | v30 |
| Community coder, which the run calls the case lead | the gate between working alone and with a fleet, and the order of work in each branch | v32 | v30 |
| Fleet coder | one slice of whole threads, coded, and nothing else | v32 | v30 |
| Brief writer | the brief of the community's week before the event | v32 | v30 |
| Launch file | what each agent is told when it starts | v32 | v30 |
| Tools | how the agents read the record and cite it | both | same file |
| The instrument | its files, and what changed from the version before | files, changes | changes |
Why the instrument moved from v30 to v31 and from v31 to v32. Nearly every brief records the brief writer of version 30, with its revision of 7 September 2026, whichever version then coded the community; 17 record version 32's revision.
The handler
- The coding handler's contract: what it may read and write, the cycle for one community, the checks, failures, the record, and what is ours to decide.
- The coding handler's queue: how many communities run at once, and the order of the queue.
- The case-lead prompt: how a community coder is launched and calibrated.
- Checkpoints: the saved session of each community coder.
- The brief coordinator and the brief writer's prompt: how the briefs were queued and written.
- Repair-queue rules: how failed work is restarted.
- Verified archives: how a finished community is archived and restored.
The local model (R6)
These reach the repository only inside the R6 checkpoints.
- The local model's contract, fifth version of 7 October 2026, and the pilot amendment of 11 October, which 13 of the 14 checkpoints carry.
- The crosswalk: the local model beside the aggregator, stage by stage.
- The file profile: every file the local model writes.
- The aggregator's contract and C1 card as the checkpoints carry them, earlier than the copies the aggregator ran with. Its other stage cards, C2, C3, C5 and E1, are the aggregator's own.
- The handler, its snapshot policy and amendments, as they stood on 2 November 2026, after the run.