A Crisis Desk That Changes Pace
An agent can filter a fast-moving crisis into technically verified updates, then ease its reporting cadence as the urgency recedes.
Developed from a conversation between Pete Winn and Andy David
During the Coldcard wallet incident, Pete turned his agent Rick into a live reporting desk. Rick pulled Twitter threads into a local database every ten minutes and posted updates to a Flight Deck channel every fifteen minutes. Instead of forcing Pete to monitor a chaotic feed himself, each report focused on what had materially changed.
Pete identified accounts he considered high signal while asking Rick to keep a wider watch for other useful sources. Any material finding had to be checked against the affected devices’ firmware before it was reported. As new claims appeared, the workflow could trace them through the code and distinguish evidence from hearsay. Pete said this gave him a validated explanation of one exploit within ten minutes.
The same workflow changed pace as the incident settled. Pete reduced the updates from every fifteen minutes to hourly, then to twice a day, while adding promising sources and adjusting what the collectors gathered. The underlying collection scripts remained in place. Only their scope, cadence and analytical instructions changed, allowing an emergency monitoring desk to become a lighter ongoing watch.