@lacspace/triage

Decide which news candidates to write before spending a single AI token. Write only what you'll publish, and publish it while it's fresh. Deterministic, with no AI.

import { triage, roundups } from "@lacspace/triage";

const decisions = triage(candidates, {
  now: Date.now(),
  freshnessHours: { default: 48, weather: 12, nepse: 24 },
  slots: { perHour: { en: 3, ne: 3 }, usedThisHour: { en: 1, ne: 0 } },
  quotas: { sports: 1 },
});
// [{ id, action: "write_now" | "queue" | "drop", priority, reasons, roundup?, independentSources, expiresAt }]

roundups(decisions); // { "nepse-notices": ["bonus-1", "right-2"] }

A candidate looks like { id, title, lang, category, firstSeenAt, newestKnownAt?, sources: [{ domain, primary?, trust?, at? }], trend?, novelty?, breaking?, kind?: "notice" | "news", allegation? }.

Rules

• Independent sources are distinct registrable domains: two pages from sebon.gov.np count once (www. and gov.np/co.uk-style suffixes are handled).
• Priority = 0.35 × freshness (linear decay over the category's window) + 0.25 × sources (independent domains / 3, plus a third for an official source) + 0.2 × trend + 0.15 × novelty + 0.05 × trust.
• Slots: the free slots per language are filled in priority order, respecting category quotas. The rest are queued.
• Breaking fast lane: a candidate flagged breaking, or with ≥ 3 independent sources within 60 min plus trend ≥ 0.5, is written now even when the slots are full (2 per hour by default).
• Sensitive stories (politics, courts, crime, death, communal, minors, health emergency, or any allegation against a named person) need ≥ 2 independent sources or an official one. Otherwise they're dropped with sensitive:needs_2_sources_or_official.
• Routine notices (kind: "notice", bonus/right share registered or approved, AGM/book closure, a court notice board) get priority × 0.5. They're never written alone; they get a roundup key so they can be combined.
• Dropped before any slot is used: stale items (past the freshness window), duplicates (novelty < 0.3), and queued items that would expire before the next hourly window.

Every decision carries its reasons, so the dashboard can show why a story was written, queued or dropped.

Built for WeNepal's newsroom; the tests use their live candidates from 4 Oct 2026.

Licence

Lacspace Free Licence v1.0: free for personal and commercial use.