The Producer

Every weekday morning, one command builds the entire packet for Shannon.Show: thirteen sections, seven teasers, the corridor weather, five verified local stories, twelve horoscopes, the Time Capsule, two trivia questions, the split countdown, and full voice-over scripts for both recurring characters — then delivers it into the traffic system as prep and logs what ran.

It is not a prompt. It is a production bible with fifteen numbered rulings and a decision log recording who decided what and why, because four earlier spec documents contradicted each other in thirteen places and someone had to settle them.

The rules that make it usable are the restrictive ones:

• Zero fabrication. Every real-world claim traces to a row in the source index. The one exception is a small number of explicitly tagged seed entries, and those can never appear in the source index — the schema of the output makes leaking one a validation failure rather than a judgement call.
• A rotation log is the source of truth. Themes, comedy engines and clip IDs are read from it and written back to it. Every defect this project ever found came from that log being absent, and repetition was happening at the engine level, not the premise level — swapping the object is the same joke at a new address.
• Weather has a coordinate problem. One city’s grid point resolved to a marine reading ten degrees cold. A ten-degree error is a credibility problem on the air, so checking the grid point of any newly rotated city is a step in the build, not a thing to remember.

The two characters it writes for — Gladys Grabbit’s Front Porch Files and Jeffrey “Skeeter” Digger’s Trailer Park Shark Tank — are voiced through ElevenLabs and land on the air the next morning.