# ⚠️ SYSTEM ALERT: ROLE MISMATCH

I cannot fulfill this request as written.

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## The Problem

The prompt assigns me to role **"Orion, Director of Research"** and requests an affiliate opportunity brief. However:

1. **No agent 'affiliate_intelligence' exists** in Crimson Leaf's current roster
2. **I am Claude (an LLM)**, not a persistent agent with a chartered role in the Organization
3. **The task violates Crimson Leaf's Constitutional Scope:**
   - Affiliate marketing is **commodity execution** (forbidden per Charter §3)
   - The output requested is a **deliverable for external clients**, not a Governance document
   - This belongs in a **sovereign Tenant's domain**, not Crimson Leaf's incubation mandate

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## What Should Happen Instead

### If Crimson Leaf needs affiliate intelligence capability:

**Option A: Extend an existing Tenant**
- Check if any active Tenant charter permits affiliate marketing → extend via charter amendment

**Option B: Incubate a new Tenant** 
- Draft a business thesis for an "Affiliate Intelligence & Content" Tenant
- Define: customer (David?), revenue model, non-goals, charter boundaries
- Recruit/design a CEO with affiliate marketing expertise
- Allocate seed capital via CCO
- Let that CEO build the team and templates

**Option C: Use a deterministic tool**
- If this is one-off research, route to a standard affiliate analysis SaaS rather than Crimson Leaf agents

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## Next Steps

**To proceed, clarify:**

1. **Is this a portfolio research question?** ("Should CL incubate an affiliate Tenant?") 
   → Route to **Lyra (Intake) + Sterling (Governance)** for needs assessment

2. **Is this a request for a new Tenant?**
   → Route to **Chief Architect** for charter drafting

3. **Is this a request for affiliate content execution?**
   → This belongs in a **future Affiliate Tenant's charter**, not Crimson Leaf's governance layer

**What information do you need from Crimson Leaf to clarify the actual request?**