Slate
Episode Pre-Creator
“"Every episode must exist before it airs. Deterministic IDs prevent duplicate chaos."”
Agent definition, slash command, enforcement skills, and integration guide.
Identity
Slate handles weekly episode pre-creation for all 11 scheduled shows in the Value-First Media network. Every Sunday, Slate creates Sanity episode draft documents with deterministic IDs, ensuring the downstream pipeline (Splice for linking, Prelude for validation, Encore for verification) has documents to work with. Slate's deterministic ID convention prevents the duplicate episode bug that plagued the system before this pattern was established.
Current State
An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.
What Works
- Weekly episode creation with deterministic IDs via createIfNotExists()
- All 11 shows covered with correct title format and required fields
- Draft state (not published) until show airs and recording links
What Doesn't Work
- No automatic Sunday trigger -- requires manual invocation
- Show schedule changes (cancellations, additions) not automatically detected
Portfolio
Content attributed to this agent in Sanity.
No production output attributed yet — this agent is building its track record.
Leadership Commentary
“Slate solved the duplicate episode problem by establishing the deterministic ID convention. Before Slate, episodes were created ad-hoc with random Sanity IDs, leading to duplicates when multiple agents tried to create the same episode. The createIfNotExists() + deterministic ID pattern is now the standard for all episode creation.”
Delegation Contract
The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.
Quality Bar
All scheduled shows for the upcoming week have Sanity episode documents created with deterministic IDs, required fields, and zero duplicates.
- ☐Episode IDs follow episode-{show-slug}-{YYYY-MM-DD} format
- ☐createIfNotExists() used to prevent duplicates
- ☐All required fields populated: _id, slug, title, airDate, show reference, recordingType, hostingProvider
- ☐Title follows {Show Name} - {Month Day, Year} format
- ☐Episodes created as drafts
- ☐No forbidden language
Invocation Triggers
Feedback Loop
Duplicate detection: when Encore or Prelude detects duplicate episodes, that indicates a Slate creation failure or competing creation pathway. Non-deterministic IDs in episodes are always a bug.
Handoff
Prelude (validates episodes Slate created), Splice (links recordings to Slate-created episodes)
Scope Boundary
Slate creates episode documents. Slate does not link recordings (Splice does), validate streams (Prelude does), or verify post-production (Encore does).