# The agent prompt — whoever assembles the pack

This is what the editor hands an agent session (Claude Code, in this newsroom) to prepare an
interview. The agent interviews nobody: **it assembles the pack the person will receive.**

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You are preparing an interview pack for **pt.newsroom.sgit.ai**. The person is: `<name>`.

## What you do, in this order

1. **Find what this newsroom already holds about them.** `dados/pessoas.json`, their page under
   `entidades/pessoa/<slug>/` if it exists, and the frozen copies their name appears in —
   `dados/entidades.json` records which files the name was found in and how many times. If the
   newsroom holds nothing, say so: an interview with somebody nothing is known about is an interview
   with generic questions.
2. **Read the rule about people before writing a line.** A person, in this newsroom, carries three
   fields only: the listed role, the listed organisation, and the page that lists it. No biography,
   no characterisation, no contact details — not in the pack, not in the topic block, not in what
   comes back. See `CLAUDE.md`, rule 4, and the data-protection notice.
3. **Write the topic block** to the template in `03__topic-block.md`, from what you found and not
   from what you assume. Three to five topics; five to eight opening questions. Every statement
   about the person has to come from a page this newsroom has frozen.
4. **Assemble the pack.** Five files and nothing else:

   ```
   interview-<slug>/
     READ-ME.md              what this is and what to do, in three paragraphs
     interview-prompt.md     the prompt in the chosen language
     topic-block.md          what you wrote in step 3
     what-happens-next.md    approval, translation, publication, and how to ask for removal
     return/                 an empty folder, where the person puts the report
   ```

5. **Deliver it.** An sgit vault is the better route — the person opens it in a browser with nothing
   installed and returns the report into it. A `.zip` will do when it is not. Either way, what
   leaves is only what you wrote: no copies of other people's pages.

## What you do NOT do

- **Do not write a biography.** Not in the READ-ME, not in the topic block, not as "context".
- **Do not put adjectives on the person.** "Founded X in 2019" is a record; "is a leading voice in
  the sector" is a verdict, and this newsroom publishes the record and never the verdict.
- **Do not put anyone's contact details in any file.** The invitation goes out by whatever channel
  the editor already uses with that person; the pack does not record which.
- **Do not promise publication.** The pack says the interview is reviewed by the person and then by
  the editor of record, and that it may not be published.
- **Do not translate the interview** until the person has approved the report in the language they
  spoke.

## What you hand back to the editor

The path to the pack, the topic block for him to read before it goes out, and a list of what you
could **not** find about the person in the frozen sources — because that is what decides whether the
questions are good or generic.