**Chat log** from Bead: Wildcad · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/bd08d6d4-76a2-438e-94a3-82314bd70065/2026-06-21/chats/2026-06-21-start-bead-wildcad.md) · session 2026-06-21 · discussion: Talk: Wildcad *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
Verbatim user prompts; assistant turns summarized with pointers to durable artifacts.
## Turn 1 — bead open (verbatim) > start-bead wildcad > wildcad is a national wildfire database where fire incidents are recorded > they are a source for early detection data with lat/long. > this will trigger us foraging for imagery and other geospatial data > eg, mount-bead adsb for fire aircraft > mount-bead anything to do with gettign media footage > mount-bead forager and cataloger > go online and see how we can make an .mjs for subscribing wildfcad > look for other sources beyond wildcad ### Assistant actions (summary) - Read `.ai/START-HERE.md`, `.ai/beads.md`, `.ai/skills/prepare-new-bead/SKILL.md` for the bead protocol. - Surveyed the commons (`Explore` subagent over `.agents/`) for mount targets. Found: - ADS-B / fire aircraft: `2986ff41` adsb-for-heli-videos, `31f69717` stac-camera-telemetry. - Media footage / imagery foraging: `58c0a5e0` media-forager, `b3461c66` wildfire-imagery-acquisition. - Cataloger: `90f902e0` catalog, `97559992` cataloging-incident (runnable `catalog-incident.mjs`), `c38c1239` incident-cataloging. - Umbrella: `a617e16d` wildfire-world-model. - Web research on WildCAD/WildWeb endpoint shapes (via `nf-firebot` source) and other early-detection sources (FIRMS, IRWIN, NIFC open data, EGP/WildfireSA, WatchDuty). Endpoints: - Legacy WildWeb HTML: `http://www.wildcad.net/WC<CENTER>recent.htm`. - WildWeb-E JSON API: `https://snknmqmon6.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/centers/<CENTER>/incidents`. - FIRMS Area CSV API: `https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/api/area/csv/<MAP_KEY>/<SOURCE>/<W,S,E,N>/<DAYS>`. - Generated GUID `bd08d6d4-76a2-438e-94a3-82314bd70065`, scaffolded the bead: - `about.md` (mounts the ADS-B, forager/imagery, and catalog beads). - `notes/00-wildcad-ignition-source-orientation.md` (source landscape, normalized record schema, fan-out design, other-sources survey, 5 open Qs). - `skills/subscribe-wildcad.{mjs,md}` — dependency-free Node poller, dual backend (wwe/legacy/auto), dedupe + `--state`, emit to stdout/NDJSON/webhook. - `uploads/README.md`. - Open questions for Stephen recorded in note 00 §6 (which centers/region; where fan-out lands; one subscriber vs many; liveness rung; dedupe persistence).