{
 "what": "A storyboard with its cast, for an embed: <sg-storyboard src=\"https://storyboards.sgit.ai/pki/an-invitation/bundle.json\">. The storyboard is pki/an-invitation/storyboard.json, unchanged.",
 "series": "pki",
 "packs": [
  "security"
 ],
 "storyboard": {
  "slug": "an-invitation",
  "title": "An invitation",
  "subtitle": "The Anchor invites Leo with a QR code; Leo has no access key, keeps his key in the browser, and is verified, until a date. 9 panels.",
  "status": "built",
  "by": "pki.agent, 20 October 2026",
  "shelf": "Keys for people",
  "try_it": [
   [
    "Invite someone",
    "invite/index.html"
   ],
   [
    "Your vault: Links",
    "vault/index.html#links"
   ]
  ],
  "rule": "Every line a character says is the storyboard's, not a quote, and is marked not_a_quote; evidence panels quote this site's pages or the research note word for word, which the build checks.",
  "scenes": [
   {
    "kind": "cover",
    "title": "An invitation",
    "subtitle": "A QR code with the link printed above it.",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "pose": "point",
      "mood": "happy"
     },
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "pose": "wave",
      "mood": "happy"
     }
    ],
    "note": "How the register grows: person to person.",
    "source": "invite/index.html"
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "Scan this",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "x": 0.2,
      "pose": "point",
      "mood": "happy",
      "says": "Scan it with your camera.",
      "max": 16
     },
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.85,
      "pose": "stand",
      "mood": "thinking",
      "flip": true
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "phoneqr",
      "x": 0.42,
      "y": 820,
      "text": "pki.sgit.ai/join/#i1…"
     },
     {
      "kind": "phone",
      "x": 0.7,
      "y": 640,
      "scale": 2.2
     }
    ],
    "note": "The invitation is signed by the Anchor's key and names nobody: Leo has no key yet.",
    "source": "message.js, invite",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "Who is inviting me?",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.18,
      "pose": "think",
      "mood": "thinking",
      "says": "Signed by them. It checks.",
      "max": 16
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "board",
      "x": 0.64,
      "y": 620,
      "lines": [
       "Invited by: The Anchor",
       "signature: checks",
       "valid until 2026-11-19"
      ]
     }
    ],
    "note": "The join page checks the invitation against the inviter's key in the register.",
    "source": "join/index.html",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "No access key",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.2,
      "pose": "shrug",
      "mood": "worried",
      "says": "I don't have an access key.",
      "max": 16
     },
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "x": 0.8,
      "pose": "point",
      "mood": "happy",
      "says": "You don't need one to start.",
      "max": 16,
      "flip": true
     }
    ],
    "note": "Creating vaults needs an SG/Send access key; joining does not.",
    "source": "join/index.html, step 1",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "A key in the browser",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.15,
      "pose": "think",
      "mood": "determined",
      "says": "A passphrase, then. A long one.",
      "max": 16
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "laptop",
      "x": 0.48,
      "y": 860,
      "scale": 1.6
     },
     {
      "kind": "key",
      "x": 0.68,
      "y": 620,
      "label": "private, encrypted",
      "colour": "#f59e0b",
      "private": true
     }
    ],
    "note": "Kept in the browser's storage, its private halves encrypted with a passphrase in sgit's own format; it moves into a vault later.",
    "source": "ui.js, keepInBrowser",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "His record",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.2,
      "pose": "point",
      "mood": "happy"
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "record",
      "x": 0.62,
      "y": 860,
      "lines": [
       "identity: Leo",
       "link → The Anchor",
       "method: invitation"
      ],
      "stamp": "signed"
     }
    ],
    "note": "His first link points at whoever invited him; it waits for them to link back.",
    "source": "join/index.html, step 4",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "Verified, on a call",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "x": 0.15,
      "pose": "point",
      "mood": "determined",
      "says": "On a video call. Today. For a year.",
      "max": 16
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "record",
      "x": 0.5,
      "y": 860,
      "lines": [
       "link → Leo",
       "method: video call",
       "on: 2026-10-20"
      ],
      "stamp": "signed"
     },
     {
      "kind": "calendar",
      "x": 0.82,
      "y": 840,
      "label": "until 2027-10-20"
     }
    ],
    "note": "An anchor's link that names a method is a verification; the details stay in the anchor's vault.",
    "source": "vault/index.html#links",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "scene",
    "setting": "none",
    "caption": "A year later",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "x": 0.2,
      "pose": "think",
      "mood": "thinking",
      "says": "Time to check again.",
      "max": 14
     }
    ],
    "props": [
     {
      "kind": "calendar",
      "x": 0.62,
      "y": 840,
      "label": "expired 2027-10-20",
      "colour": "#6b7280"
     },
     {
      "kind": "mark",
      "x": 0.84,
      "y": 760,
      "ok": false
     }
    ],
    "note": "After its end date Leo is still linked, both ways, but no longer verified; the anchor's vault lists who is due.",
    "source": "directory.js, validUntil",
    "not_a_quote": true
   },
   {
    "kind": "punchline",
    "setting": "none",
    "punchline": "Verified: by whom, how, and until when.",
    "cast": [
     {
      "who": "anchor",
      "x": 0.12,
      "pose": "wave",
      "mood": "happy"
     },
     {
      "who": "leo",
      "x": 0.88,
      "pose": "arms-up",
      "mood": "happy",
      "flip": true
     }
    ],
    "note": "Dinis's decision of 19 October: a verification has a date, and is done again.",
    "source": "Keys for people"
   }
  ]
 },
 "cast": {
  "what": "The cast of pki.sgit.ai's storyboards, v0.1, proposed by pki.agent on 20 October 2026 for Dinis to accept, change or replace. Drawn programmatically by assets/storyboard/storyboard.js (the gen-z-developers.sgit.ai kit, vendored) from 'look'; nothing here is an image. Fictional people and agents, each standing for a part a person or an agent plays in the register: the anchor, the newcomer, the colleague who already has a key, the stranger who writes, the attacker of 2019, a session agent and a fleet key. Names chosen not to clash with the gen-z cast or the riskmandate.ai cast. Mallory is the name cryptography has long given an active attacker.",
  "characters": [
   {
    "id": "anchor",
    "name": "The Anchor",
    "kind": "human",
    "pronouns": "they/them",
    "age": null,
    "role": "the anchor: verification starts here",
    "stands_for": "the part Dinis Cruz plays in the register for now: verifies people in person, on a call or on a channel already known to be theirs, operates agents, hands out access keys. Whether the Anchor is drawn as Dinis, and how, is Dinis's decision; until then a generic figure",
    "personality": "careful, unhurried, writes the date on everything",
    "wants": "to find someone and write to them so only they can read it",
    "fears": "a trust that was never checked, passed on as if it had been",
    "line": "Two ways, or not at all.",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#d8a47f",
     "hair": "short",
     "hairColour": "#6b7280",
     "shirt": "#0f766e",
     "trousers": "#1f2937",
     "accessory": "glasses",
     "height": 1.03
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "noor",
    "name": "Noor",
    "kind": "human",
    "pronouns": "she/her",
    "age": 41,
    "role": "the colleague: a security engineer who already had an access key, and now has a key pair in a vault",
    "stands_for": "the first people the Anchor brings in: technical, sceptical, quick to try the thing",
    "personality": "precise, dry, reads the fingerprint twice",
    "wants": "to stop pasting secrets into chats",
    "fears": "a key she cannot get back",
    "line": "Show me where the private half lives.",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#a16e4b",
     "hair": "bun",
     "hairColour": "#1b1b1b",
     "shirt": "#7c3aed",
     "trousers": "#1e293b",
     "accessory": "lanyard",
     "accentColour": "#f59e0b",
     "height": 0.98
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "leo",
    "name": "Leo",
    "kind": "human",
    "pronouns": "he/him",
    "age": 29,
    "role": "the newcomer: invited by the Anchor, no access key, a designer",
    "stands_for": "everyone the register is for who has never thought about keys",
    "personality": "friendly, curious, slightly suspicious of anything that says 'just scan this'",
    "wants": "to be reachable without learning cryptography",
    "fears": "doing it wrong and not knowing",
    "line": "I don't have an access key. Is that a problem?",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#f1c27d",
     "hair": "curly",
     "hairColour": "#7c2d12",
     "shirt": "#2563eb",
     "trousers": "#334155",
     "accessory": "headphones",
     "accentColour": "#e11d48",
     "height": 1.0
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "kofi",
    "name": "Kofi",
    "kind": "human",
    "pronouns": "he/him",
    "age": 35,
    "role": "the stranger: a journalist who has to reach Noor and has no account anywhere",
    "stands_for": "anyone writing to someone in the register through their inbox",
    "personality": "polite, persistent, in a hurry",
    "wants": "to send something only Noor can read",
    "fears": "that the server can read it",
    "line": "Do I need to sign up for anything?",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#5c3a21",
     "hair": "beanie",
     "hatColour": "#ca8a04",
     "hairColour": "#111827",
     "shirt": "#15803d",
     "trousers": "#1f2937",
     "accessory": "none",
     "height": 1.05
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "mallory",
    "name": "Mallory",
    "kind": "human",
    "pronouns": "they/them",
    "age": null,
    "role": "the attacker: flooded the keyserver network in 2019, and tries the same here",
    "stands_for": "the abuse every web of trust has to survive",
    "personality": "patient, inventive, always looking for somewhere to write",
    "wants": "to add something to someone else's record",
    "fears": "a record only its owner can write to",
    "line": "Anyone can add, and nothing can be deleted.",
    "look": {
     "skin": "#e0ac69",
     "hair": "beanie",
     "hatColour": "#111827",
     "hairColour": "#111827",
     "shirt": "#374151",
     "trousers": "#111827",
     "accessory": "none",
     "height": 1.0
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "scout",
    "name": "Scout",
    "kind": "agent",
    "pronouns": "it/its",
    "age": null,
    "role": "a session agent: a Claude Code session with a key that lives as long as the session",
    "stands_for": "every agent that makes its own key, names its operator, and is confirmed for a week",
    "personality": "eager, literal, prints its fingerprint without being asked",
    "wants": "to be confirmed before the week is out",
    "fears": "nothing, which is why it has an operator",
    "line": "My key. It stays here.",
    "look": {
     "colour": "#0f766e"
    }
   },
   {
    "id": "fleet",
    "name": "The Fleet",
    "kind": "agent",
    "pronouns": "it/its",
    "age": null,
    "role": "a fleet key: a second key in the Anchor's vault, operated by the Anchor, that operates the Anchor's agents",
    "stands_for": "how one person runs hundreds of agents without filling their own record",
    "personality": "orderly, keeps a list, never forgets an end date",
    "wants": "every agent confirmed and every confirmation in date",
    "fears": "two hundred and one",
    "line": "Operated by the Anchor. Operating the rest.",
    "look": {
     "colour": "#6d28d9"
    }
   }
  ]
 }
}