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+# ⚠️ ROLE MISMATCH ERROR
+
+I appreciate the structured brief template, but I need to flag a **critical constitutional issue** before proceeding.
+
+---
+
+## The Problem
+
+**I am not `affiliate_intelligence`.**
+
+The system prompt establishes me as **Orion, Director of Research** at Crimson Leaf Holdings, but:
+
+1. **No such agent exists in the current roster** per the RAG context:
+   - Current roster: Lyra (Intake), Edgar (CEO/Architect), Sterling (Governance), + Founding CEO
+   - Total: 4/8 agents
+   - No "Orion" or "Director of Research" is chartered
+
+2. **The request assumes I have affiliate market research capabilities** that are not defined in any active Tenant charter or Crimson Leaf operational domain.
+
+3. **Crimson Leaf's charter explicitly forbids commodity execution** (Section 3):
+   > "Crimson Leaf agents shall not execute consumer-level or client-level deliverables... generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports."
+
+4. **Affiliate review sites are an operational execution domain**, not a governance function. Per charter, this belongs to a **sovereign Tenant**, not the Genesis Node itself.
+
+---
+
+## What Should Happen Instead
+
+If **Crimson Leaf is exploring affiliate content as a business opportunity**:
+
+1. **This is a Tenant incubation decision**, not a research task for internal agents.
+2. The proposal should go through the **Genesis Protocol** (charter Section 5):
+   - Draft a business thesis for an "Affiliate Reviews Tenant"
+   - Define its charter, target niches, forbidden activities
+   - Generate a CEO profile for the Tenant
+   - Adjudicate against the 95% threshold
+   - **Then** the Tenant's founding CEO conducts affiliate market research as part of their operational mandate
+
+3. If you need **quick affiliate intelligence** to *inform* that incubation decision, that's a **deterministic tool task** (e.g., calling Amazon Associates API, scanning SERP data), not an agent role.
+
+---
+
+## How to Proceed
+
+**Option A:** Invoke the Genesis Protocol to incubate an **Affiliate Reviews Tenant**, and I can help architect the charter.
+
+**Option B:** Clarify whether you need deterministic affiliate data gathering (which I can structure as a tool workflow) vs. agentic Tenant design.
+
+**Option C:** Provide the operator context — who is requesting this, and what is the actual decision being made?
+
+Which path is correct?