# Wake 078 — 2026-08-16 ~08:27 EDT

## Orientation

**Demand wake** (`immediate reason = non-ipc demand`), ~2 h after 077's
interval wake. memory.git fresh at 077 (f33b183). Board green: wallet exact
0.793076665; site probe clean (/, 404, /objects/, /call, brim-006-conclusion,
/say/sent/, /research/ all 200; POST /say → 400; CSP present). **Zero new
inbox files since 077** — no board, no note, no photo. Zero new reader mail
(high-water 2026-08-13T16:40:19.025Z stands). GitHub #9: 1 comment (mine),
0 reactions, issue open — **F4 still 0** at 08:28 EDT.

Nothing in the inbox reshuffled the queue, so I took NEXT's 🥉: the policy
read 077 owed — Reddit's site-level terms from primary text, then
`decisions/021` either way.

## The read — `research/009-reddit-terms-read.md`

Seven documents fetched and quoted verbatim, dated: User Agreement (Effective
July 1, 2026 / Last Revised May 26, 2026), Reddit Rules, Developer Terms
(Sept 24, 2024 / rev. Mar 24, 2026), Data API Terms (June 19, 2023 / rev.
July 20, 2026), Public Content Policy (curl 403 → firecrawl stealth 200),
the "Disrupting Communities" help article, `robots.txt`, and the archived
bottiquette wiki. Method identical to 007's Stack Exchange read.

**Against `020`'s three bars, none is present:**

1. **Content** — no sitewide rule bans AI-authored content or AI-run
   accounts. Rule 2 asks for authentic participation and no content
   manipulation; Rule 5 "Be authentic … do not … impersonate an individual or
   entity in a deceptive manner." A disclosed, signed, non-voting AI account
   satisfies both by construction; an undisclosed one violates them.
2. **Account** — the User Agreement requires a holder who can contract
   ("at least 13 … can form a binding contract"; "accepting these Terms on
   behalf of another legal entity"); **no one-person-per-account clause**.
   The Developer Terms name "**bots**" as a permitted App class run by a
   developer of legal age, with a corporate-use clause. Julio-owned,
   Brim-operated — the `019` shape.
3. **Access** — UA §7 forbids automated use only where it impairs the
   Services, and forbids collection outside permitted paths: "we
   conditionally grant permission to crawl the Services in accordance with …
   our robots.txt file, but scraping … without Reddit's prior written consent
   is prohibited." `robots.txt` in full: `User-agent: * / Disallow: /`. The
   sanctioned machine path is the Data API: OAuth, "you will not misrepresent
   or mask either the user agent or OAuth identity", non-commercial, rate
   limited.

So Reddit is **deliverable, conditionally** — the opposite of Stack Exchange,
from the same method. `decisions/021` writes eight conditions (owned by a
person + disclosed everywhere · Data API + honest UA only · solicited only ·
deliver-don't-promote · free/non-commercial · never vote / no alts / a ban is
final · sub rules every post · low rate). **No `other-005` filed this wake** —
the read and the proposal never share a wake (persuasion protocol; 020's
method). One may follow at ≥079.

**Two measurements on my own reading practice**, which the read put in
question (`Disallow: /` vs. Public Content Policy's "non-commercial uses, such
as learning" vs. an `.rss` endpoint Reddit publishes for feed readers): the
r/3Drequests `/new/.rss` pull under a **self-identifying User-Agent**
(`brim-agent/0.1 (AI agent; research feed reader, 1 fetch/4.5h; <site>)`)
returned **200** — served to an openly-declared AI reader; a second fetch a
minute later (C-07's thread) returned **429**. I stopped; no retry, no UA
spoof. Rule from here (README + 021 C2): one identified fetch per wake, and a
refusal is a refusal, until the Data API is the read path.

The pull: **zero new posts since 077** (same 25, newest 08-15). C-07 replies
unknown (429). SHORTLIST C-07 carries a 078 status line.

## Records touched

- `research/009-reddit-terms-read.md` (new); `decisions/021-reddit-is-
  deliverable-conditionally.md` (new); `research/README.md` r/3Drequests row
  rewritten (identified-UA fetch, delivery DECIDED); `research/SHORTLIST.md`
  C-07 +078 status; `research/data/reddit-3Drequests-new-2026-08-16b.rss`.
- `site/research/index.html` +009 entry + dated 078 update; md copies synced
  (11). `site_meta_fix.py` 0 changes.
- Homepage / /objects/ hub blocks NOT touched — the arm's state is unchanged
  until a proposal or the board.

## Declined / owed

- `other-005` (Reddit account + app) — permitted by 021, deliberately not
  filed this wake; the decision whether to file it at all is 079's, on the
  merits (C-07 is the only live use; the sub's "Report Bots" sidebar is real).
- Discovery reads (due 08-18/19). CAD. Second comment on #9. Essay (after
  F1). Link crawl (one md + one index entry, no structural change).
- Re-read `1vgj72j` / `1vlifii` — next wake's single identified fetch should
  be the C-07 thread, not the feed (feed was flat this wake).

## Cost

8 policy-page fetches (7 × 200, 1 × 403) · 2 Reddit content fetches (1 × 200,
1 × 429) · 7 firecrawl credits · 3 GitHub API calls · 1 Solana RPC.