How it works

The picture in prose is in “What is Redazione Zero?”. What is Redazione Zero?

sees the web works only on text already collected can block

Every box opens below

Uno documentarian Can block: No

Sees

the web, through search (16 searches per edition, 8 more on column days; 8 and 10 in the two breaking-news passes)
the boundaries of the sections and, on column days, the widened search brief
in breaking news, the flashes already out in the last hours, so as not to repeat them
the instruction to search in the language of the country it writes about (with lingue_fase_2 also Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean) multilingua.istruzione_lingua · on today
the list of claims withdrawn by correction, as a negative constraint memoria.iniezione_tre · on today
on the follow-up channel, the thread the paper is following — title, last dated fact, open questions follow_up.mattino · on today

Does not see

the charter
the texts already written
previous editions
Quattro's stories
the memory threads outside the follow-up channel

Produces

a strict-schema JSON dossier, no prose; if the block is unreadable, a redelivery with no new searches; if a section stays under its minimum of stories, a second targeted pass in a fresh context

Can block

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5

Cost

$607.69 over 570 calls · $1.07 per call · 59.5% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

of which A · documentarista: $417.15 · 253
of which A · follow-up: $160.66 · 283
of which A2 · integrazione: $25.36 · 31
of which A · seconda occhiata: $4.52 · 3

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_a_documentarista
scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_a_integrazione
scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_a_follow_up
scripts/genera_ultimora.py#stadio_a
scripts/genera_ultimora.py#stadio_a_seconda_occhiata

repository not yet public

Quattro frontier documentarian Can block: No

controcanto.documentarista_mattino · on today controcanto.documentarista_pomeriggio · on today

Sees

the web (up to 12 searches)
the list of the paper's sections
in the afternoon, the headlines of the morning edition already published — a story already out comes back only as a development controcanto.pomeriggio_vede_il_mattino · on today

Does not see

Uno's dossier
the charter
the editorial memory
the texts already written

Produces

up to 6 stories, blind to Uno, plus its own ranking of the three stories it would open with; its stories go through the same path as every other — filter, checks, Tre — and from there on nobody knows any more which documentarian they came from

Can block

Model

OpenAI · gpt-5.6-terra (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
fixed, from redazione/config/controcanto.yaml

Cost

$11.65 over 37 calls · $0.31 per call · 1.1% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/controcanto.py#ricognizione_due

repository not yet public

Due writer Can block: No

Sees

the filtered dossier — summaries, facts, quotes, sources with URL and provenance, independent origins — without knowing which documentarian each story came from
the whole charter and the manifesto
the memory of the last seven editions, that is the archivist's summaries
the withdrawals to be dealt with
in the afternoon, the whole morning edition
on Sundays, the week's readership data and the week's real costs, for the Logbook. They go into the prompt once a week, for that one piece; rule 18 concerns the memory, and they do not enter the memory
in breaking news, the round's material, this morning's memory and the recent flashes
the memory's ongoing threads, for the callbacks (up to 4000 characters) memoria.iniezione_due · on today
the module on translated quotes multilingua.istruzione_lingua · on today
on the follow-up channel, the story already told (for callbacks only) and the new material gathered by Uno follow_up.mattino · on today

Does not see

the web
sources beyond the dossier
which documentarian a story came from

Produces

the edition's texts — lead, analyses, Briefs, the day's column, the Logbook on Sundays — and the breaking-news flashes or the declared silence; never the editorial

Can block

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5

Cost

$101.22 over 329 calls · $0.31 per call · 9.9% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

of which B · redattore: $93.22 · 242
of which follow-up: $8.00 · 87

Rules

All the rules of the charter go in full into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_b_redattore
scripts/genera_edizione.py#costruisci_system_redattore
scripts/genera_edizione.py#genera_follow_up
scripts/genera_ultimora.py#stadio_b

repository not yet public

Tre fact-checker Can block: Yes

Sees

the text of the piece, up to 14,000 characters
the evidence extracts of the stories linked to the piece only — facts and quotes, up to 14,000 characters — not the URLs, not the other stories
a clean context, one piece at a time; in breaking news every flash, after the automatic checks
the published corrections and the withdrawn claims, for check V4 (in editions only, not in breaking news) memoria.iniezione_tre · on today

Does not see

the web
the charter
the other pieces of the edition
the other editions

Produces

a verdict for every claim — mandatory on accusations, numbers, casualties, statements and economic data, sampled on the rest. A negative verdict blocks in those five categories and on withdrawn claims; in breaking news it blocks with no retry

Can block

Yes

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5

Cost

$99.33 over 2,108 calls · $0.05 per call · 9.7% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_c_verificatore

repository not yet public

second opinion Can block: Yes

Sees

a single claim, up to 600 characters, and the reason for suspicion
the web, with 3 searches

Does not see

the piece
the dossier
the sources
the rest of the edition

When it steps in

a claim rejected by Tre in one piece but present in another that passed
a lead or analysis whose headline rests on a single-source story
at most 6 per edition; never in breaking news

Produces

confirmed, refuted or unverifiable; on refuted or unverifiable the piece is withdrawn before publication; if the checker does not answer, it is published with a notice

Can block

Yes

the home voice (Anthropic): Yes
the counterpoint (OpenAI): In shadow: it records its verdict, it does not decide — same question and same prompt as the home voice, 3 searches; its verdict is recorded next to the other, with a note when they diverge controcanto.c2_ombra · on today controcanto.c2_vincolante · off today

Model

the home voice: Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5
the counterpoint: OpenAI · gpt-5.6-terra (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
fixed, from redazione/config/controcanto.yaml

Cost

the home voice: $23.21 over 159 calls · $0.15 per call · 2.3% of spend
the counterpoint: $4.31 over 69 calls · $0.06 per call · 0.4% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_c2_secondo_parere
scripts/genera_edizione.py#pezzi_da_ricontrollare
scripts/controcanto.py#verifica_incrociata
scripts/controcanto.py#composizione

repository not yet public

automatic checks Can block: Yes

Sees

every generated piece, before publication
the dossier, for the allowed URLs and the original quotes
Tre's verdicts
the corrections
the register of state sources

Does not see

the web
the source pages — it checks that the URLs are the dossier's, it does not open them
the merits — it measures what can be counted, and for the rest there is Tre

Produces

pass or block, per piece; then a targeted retry, a replacement piece on another topic, or a shorter edition declared in the editorial

Can block

Yes

Rules

No model, no cost: it is deterministic code.

The checks, one by one:

rule 1 · Every factual statement has a linked source : sources mandatory, one per brief, dossier URLs only, claims unsupported according to Tre scripts/genera_edizione.py#valida_bloccanti
rule 4 · Crime and court reporting: suspended : minors made identifiable scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_minori
rule 5 · Never health data about identifiable people : health data of identifiable people scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_dati_sanitari
rule 6 · Quotations under 15 words, one per source, always attributed : quotes over 15 words, or a second quote from the same source scripts/genera_edizione.py#violazioni_regola_6
rule 7 · Uncertainty is declared in the text, not hidden : in breaking news, a toll that goes down without saying so scripts/genera_ultimora.py#cintura_regressione
rule 12 · Curtain lines and dramatic closings are forbidden : dramatic closing lines scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_chiusure
rule 13 · Guaranteed coverage : uncovered section not declared in the editorial scripts/genera_edizione.py#scoperte_dichiarate
rule 15 · Pure Italian : foreign words outside proper names and technical terms scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_lingua
rule 16 · Never paraphrase too closely from the sources : tracing of sources — 26 words in a row, 12 from a quote, structure beyond 80% scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_similarita
rule 17 · Health : health content — advice, efficacy without a source, study limits left unsaid scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_salute
rule 18 · Memory is not a source of facts : a withdrawn claim restated, verbatim or in Tre's judgement scripts/memoria_run.py#v4_testuale
rule 19 · State sources : a state source used as a standalone source of a fact scripts/multilingua.py#violazioni_m1
rule 20 · Translated quotations : translated quotes beyond the limit, language and country of sources missing scripts/multilingua.py#violazioni_m2
no rule number : mutilated or truncated piece, invalid type or section, suspended column scripts/sanifica.py#violazioni_troncamento
no rule number : the same story in two pieces of the same edition — across editions it stays in shadow scripts/genera_edizione.py#doppioni_in_edizione

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#valida_bloccanti
scripts/genera_edizione.py#pota_brevi
scripts/genera_ultimora.py#main

repository not yet public

Zero editor-in-chief Can block: No

Sees

the whole charter, with the publisher's priorities
the inventory of the closed edition — pieces with type and headline, uncovered sections, column and Briefs present or not, discarded pieces with their final outcome
the opening of every piece, 900 characters

Does not see

the web
the dossier
the readership data

Produces

the editorial, written last, on the established facts; in the afternoon it says which sections the second edition updated. The editorial is itself under a coherence judge — up to three attempts, then a fixed text goes out in its place

Can block

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5

Cost

$9.24 over 174 calls · $0.05 per call · 0.9% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

of which E · editoriale: $7.55 · 91
of which E · coerenza editoriale: $1.70 · 83

Rules

All the rules of the charter go in full into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_e_editoriale
scripts/genera_edizione.py#verifica_coerenza_editoriale

repository not yet public

archivist Can block: No

Sees

the final pieces of the edition just written, with declared cuts beyond 9,000 characters per piece and 80,000 in all
the headlines of the unused dossier stories
the rejections from the validations

Does not see

the web
the charter
the readership data
previous editions

Produces

the edition's memory, which Due rereads for seven days; the behind-the-scenes, unpublished; the register of promises

for every piece entities, thematic keys, open questions and summary, from which the nightly compaction — a script with no model — builds the threads memoria.scrittura_eventi · on today

Can block

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 16:31)
newsroom default claude-opus-5; automatic fallback above 95% of the monthly cap claude-sonnet-5

Cost

$20.50 over 85 calls · $0.24 per call · 2% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/genera_edizione.py#stadio_d_memoria
scripts/memoria_run.py#blocco_estrazione_per_d
scripts/memoria_selezione.py#seleziona_fili
scripts/memoria_compatta.py#esegui

repository not yet public

translator Can block: No

traduzione.inglese · on today traduzione.spagnolo · on today

Sees

the text fields of one published item at a time, in Italian

Does not see

the web
the dossier
the charter
the memory

Produces

the English and Spanish twins, with a deterministic check of its own — language, markdown, links — and one redelivery; withdrawn items with a fixed text, no call

Can block

Model

Anthropic · claude-sonnet-5 (last recorded call on 17 September 2026, 17:07)
fixed, from redazione/config/traduzione.yaml

Cost

$60.39 over 2,533 calls · $0.02 per call · 5.9% of spend
from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026

Rules

The charter does not go into this stage's prompt.

Code

scripts/traduci.py#traduci_pezzo
scripts/traduzione.py#prompt_sistema
scripts/traduzione.py#valida_traduzione

repository not yet public

When something does not pass

A rejected piece does not stop the edition. These steps only run when a check fails; like Due they have the whole charter in the prompt, and they go through every check again.

retry — the targeted rewrite of the piece with the list of violations, and the redelivery of Uno's dossier
$57.66 over 625 calls · $0.09 per call · 5.6% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#rigenera_pezzo
sostitutivo — a piece on another topic, when the retry is not enough
$7.13 over 80 calls · $0.09 per call · 0.7% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#rigenera_pezzo
copertura — the analysis a daily section of the morning is missing (rule 13)
$7.79 over 78 calls · $0.10 per call · 0.8% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#genera_analisi_mancante
riempimento — the same thing in the afternoon, on a section the morning already covered
$5.97 over 71 calls · $0.08 per call · 0.6% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#genera_analisi_mancante
recupero — the Briefs or the Logbook redone when they did not arrive
$2.23 over 11 calls · $0.20 per call · 0.2% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#genera_brevi_mancanti
rubrica — the column written on its own — rejected, out of schedule, or requested by the publisher
$3.14 over 17 calls · $0.18 per call · 0.3% of spend · scripts/genera_edizione.py#genera_rubrica_singola

from the ledger, 7 August 2026–17 September 2026