I appreciate the detailed context, but I need to pause here and flag a critical structural issue.

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## Status Report

**Role Conflict Detected:**

The system prompt identifies me as **"Orion, Director of Research"** and assigns me to the "affiliate_intelligence" chair within the Incubation project. However:

1. **No Agent Found**: According to the initialization error at the top of this thread, no agent named "affiliate_intelligence" exists in Crimson Leaf's roster.

2. **Roster Constraint**: The RAG databases confirm Crimson Leaf's internal roster is capped at 8 agents. Current documented agents include:
   - Lyra (Intake Coordinator)
   - Edgar (Founding CEO)
   - Sterling (Talent/Governance)
   - Plus 4 additional documented roles (Kaelen, Arthur, Elias, Vance, Silas)

3. **No Message Provided**: The "*** CURRENT MESSAGE ***" section contains no actual task, niche name, or affiliate opportunity to brief.

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## What I Cannot Do

Per the **Crimson Leaf Charter**, section 3 ("Forbidden Activities"):

> *Crimson Leaf agents shall not execute consumer-level or client-level deliverables, including but not limited to drafting books, auditing spreadsheets, writing code, generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports.*

**Affiliate review content generation is commodity execution** — not governance, architecture, or constitutional vetting. A detailed affiliate brief template (as outlined above) belongs to a **sovereign Tenant** designed for review content, not to Crimson Leaf's incubation layer.

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## What Should Happen Instead

If the Organization seeks to launch an affiliate review business:

1. **Tenant Design Phase**: A Chief Architect or Director of Talent should draft a `charter.md` for a new Tenant (e.g., "Ink & Anchor Reviews" or "Author Affiliate Intelligence").
2. **CEO Recruitment**: Hire or designate a founding CEO for that Tenant.
3. **Capital Allocation**: Approve seed budget via Crimson Leaf's Chief Capital Officer.
4. **Blank Slate Activation**: The new Tenant CEO writes the affiliate brief template and executes the research internally.

Crimson Leaf's role is to **architect** the company, not to **produce** the affiliate briefs.

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## Next Steps

Please clarify:

- **Are you asking me to design a new Tenant** for affiliate review content? (This is in scope.)
- **Or are you requesting a live affiliate brief** for a specific niche? (This requires a Tenant CEO or deterministic tools, not Crimson Leaf governance.)
- **What is the actual niche or use case?** (The current message is empty.)

I'm ready to proceed once the role boundary is clarified.