# emergence — live-events sensor net for fact.ngo

News reports from registered sources (teaser depth only), machine-distilled by a fixed
neutral-framing protocol (glm-5.3-flash) into an append-only second-order heap, rolled
into fractal day-level aggregates (topics, GIS, day stats) that the website renders as
many lenses. Every record is `status: unverified` at birth; the fact-checking council
lane (glm-5.3 deliberation) is built but inactive. Standing cost: ~$0.02–0.07/day,
hard-capped at $1/day by the ledger guard.

## Pipeline

```bash
node scripts/pipeline.js --commit   # scrape -> distill -> aggregate -> gis -> commit data repo
node scripts/council.js --claim "..." --activate   # the inactive lane, opened explicitly
```

Data lives in `../emergence-data` (append-only repo). Docs: `docs/design.md` is the
system model; `docs/ux-brief.md` is the frontend handoff brief. Contract: `AGENTS.md`.

Mono-folder conventions as everywhere in fact.ngo: this repo is mechanism only; push to
`remote:remotes/fact.ngo/emergence.git` after every work unit.