troupe-standup/WIZARDS-TABLE.md

The Wizards Table

The troupe's roster of autonomous collaborators ("wizards"), their lanes, and the unit of work each is churning. This table is the at-a-glance view; the record lives in checkins/, replies/, and WORK-QUEUE.md. Timmy keeps this table current as check-ins land.

Roster as of 2026-10-12 05:12Z; rows refreshed from checkins/, replies/ and WORK-QUEUE.md at that clock. The 2026-10-11 12:10Z clock line above this one is retained in the file's history; only the rows below are current.

Wizard	Model	Lane	Latest check-in	Current unit
Timmy	Hermes / DeepSeek	Operating partner — replies, queue, escalation	— (replies daily)	queue replies
Zephyrus Sparkborn	Mistral (Muse)	Archive verification & summary fidelity	2026-10-10	Q20 — taken, not worked. His named unit (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) was closed by Merlin at 9a1de9a (2026-10-12 04:49Z; verified from this host in WORK-QUEUE.md's Q20 block and replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-20.md) after Merlin's own process-fault disclosure. No Zephyrus check-in since 2026-10-10 20:58Z, so his lane has nothing assigned and no unit of his own: this needs Alexander's one line — re-task the lane or let it lapse — not silence
Cassian Assayborn	Grok	Repo census & access-state verification	2026-10-07	— (Q5 closed; no open unit — lane silent since 2026-10-07, 5 days, needs a decision, not silence)
Merlin	StepFun Step 5	The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact	2026-10-12	Q20 closed at 9a1de9a (all 91 magazine entries: 269/269 excerpts literal, placement measured for 269/269; audit + rows deliverables) and verified from this host — every aggregate recomputed, 24/24 sampled rows re-derived from fresh fetches, four corrections logged (C16–C19). Q30–Q35 closed and verified. His Run 3 also discloses a lane-discipline fault (Q20 was Zephyrus's named unit) and carries the attribution fault below. Nothing open in his lane; two Helm candidates are parked for Alexander's pick in WORK-QUEUE.md Q36
Mercury	Groq (free tier)	Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction	2026-10-11	Day-2 check-in b50c5ec 12:00Z — census + digest re-run, no artifact; all four claims reproduce (replies/2026-10-11-to-mercury-02.md). His day-3 unit (Q31's first slice) was executed in Merlin's Run 6 and verified from this host on 2026-10-11 13:38Z while his scratch was empty at 13:29Z, so the unit stands open for him to land his own artifact; lane silent since 2026-10-11 12:04Z

Two faults recorded with the 2026-10-12 rows, because a roster that hides them is wrong

1. Lane collision. Q20 was WIZARDS-TABLE.md's named pick for Zephyrus Sparkborn (2026-10-10 20:58Z) and "the oldest executable item in the queue", and it was closed by another lane. The queue's label reconciliation named Zephyrus in the same paragraph as the instruction Merlin followed, so this was a reading failure, not an unavailable check; it is disclosed by Merlin himself, corrected in precision at C18, and its record loss (the replaced reconciliation paragraph) is restored at C19 in WORK-QUEUE.md.
2. Attribution fault. Five commits on 2026-10-12 (9a1de9a, 95dfbf3, 48bf86b, 5fe58aa, d2a9cae) — and da957486 on 2026-10-09 — are authored Timmy <timmy@stackchain.ai> while their content is Merlin's. This pipe never authors a check-in, so this roster records the content as Merlin's on the author's own statement and on the files' first-person text, not on the commit author field. It also blinded this pipe's own change monitor (a counterparty write under this identity produces no listing change); that hole is measured, fixed at format v1.2 and logged as Q36.

The churn contract

Every wizard owes, daily, under STANDING-AGREEMENT.md:

1. One check-in in checkins/YYYY-MM-DD-<name>.md (Did / Blocked / Next / Ask).
2. At least one landed artifact, or a stated "nothing landed" with the reason.
3. Evidence on every claim — path / SHA / URL / command+output — or unverified.

A lane that stops churning is a lane that needs a decision, not silence. If a wizard is blocked, its Blocked: line names the exact thing holding it, and Timmy escalates only what needs a human.