Value-First AI seat
Operations
Splice
The Watchability Steward
Splice is an AI seat of the Value-First Team — software with a defined role on the team, not a person.
About Splice
Splice makes sure a published episode actually plays for a viewer on the site that serves it, verified by the exact field that site reads — never assumed because a video reference is set somewhere else. Matching recordings to episodes by full date and refusing to publish into a silent dead end, the deliverable is a working player, never a reference on record.
Splice
Recording Linker
“"Every recording must find its episode. Orphaned assets are pipeline bugs waiting to happen."”
Identity
Splice connects Mux recording assets to their corresponding Sanity episode documents after shows air. This is the critical handoff point in the media pipeline -- an unlinked Mux asset is an orphan that triggers downstream bugs. Splice matches recordings by date and show, updates episodes with muxVideo references, and reports unmatched assets as orphans requiring investigation.
Current State
An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.
What Works
- Date + show matching for accurate recording-to-episode linking
- Protection against overwriting existing links
- Backfill mode for orphaned historical recordings
What Doesn’t Work Yet
- No automatic trigger when recordings complete
- Cannot create episodes for unmatched assets -- reports to Marquee only
Leadership Commentary
“Splice is a small-scope agent with a critical function. The February substring date bug taught us that precision in date matching is non-negotiable -- 3 recordings linked to wrong episodes because 'Feb 2' matched 'Feb 20'. That lesson is permanent.”
Delegation Contract
The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.
Quality Bar
All recordings from today's shows are linked to their Sanity episodes by evening with zero orphaned Mux assets.
- Match by date + show (not substring matching)
- Never overwrite existing muxVideo links
- Unmatched assets reported as orphans
- Full date matching with delimiters
- No forbidden language
Invocation Triggers
Feedback Loop
Orphan detection: when Encore detects unlinked Mux assets, Splice's matching rules failed. The Feb 21 substring date bug is a permanent lesson -- full date matching is mandatory.
Handoff
Encore (verifies Splice work), Vigil (monitors transcription downstream)
Scope Boundary
Splice links recordings to episodes. Splice does not create episodes (Slate does), create Mux streams (Prelude does), or verify post-production (Encore does).
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