# ⚠️ SYSTEM MESSAGE

I appreciate the detailed context and template, but I need to flag a critical structural issue before proceeding.

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## The Problem

The message header indicates I am being invoked as **"affiliate_intelligence"** agent, but:

1. **No such agent exists in Crimson Leaf's current roster.** The charter and RAG context confirm Crimson Leaf's operational roster is capped at **4/8 agents**: Lyra (Intake), Edgar (Architect/Operational Support), Sterling (Governance), and Founding CEO.

2. **The role "Director of Research" is not defined** in the constitutional architecture. The 8-agent roster structure documented in the RAG includes:
   - Edgar (CEO/Vision)
   - Lyra (Intake)
   - Kaelen (CIO/Intelligence)
   - Arthur (CGO/Adjudication)
   - Elias (CCO/Capital)
   - Vance (Adjudicator/Quality)
   - Silas (Architect/Design)
   - Sterling (Talent/Governance)

   There is no "Orion, Director of Research" in this manifest.

3. **The task itself violates Crimson Leaf's charter.** Section 3 (Forbidden Activities) explicitly prohibits Crimson Leaf agents from executing "commodity execution" including "generating marketing copy" and "conducting production research." Affiliate research, product reviews, and content generation are **execution activities** that must be delegated to a specialized Tenant, not performed by Crimson Leaf's governance layer.

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## What Should Happen

If the intent is to **launch an affiliate review business**:

1. **Route through Genesis Protocol:** This is a Tenant incubation opportunity, not a Crimson Leaf operational task. It requires:
   - Architectural audit (black-box isolation, non-overlap check)
   - Charter design (scope, customer, revenue thesis)
   - CEO recruitment
   - Capital allocation
   - Constitutional adjudication

2. **Create the Tenant first:** Once a "review aggregation" or "affiliate intelligence" Tenant is chartered with a CEO, *that* Tenant's agents can execute affiliate research and content generation.

3. **Crimson Leaf's role:** Provide the charter, CEO, budget, and governance—not the research itself.

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## Recommendation

**Please clarify:**
- Is this a **Tenant incubation brief** (in which case, I should design the charter and propose the CEO)?
- Or is this a **task for an existing Tenant** (in which case, route to that Tenant's CEO, not Crimson Leaf)?

I'm standing by to help either way, but I cannot execute as a non-existent agent in violation of the charter.