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+# ⚠️ ROLE CLARIFICATION REQUIRED
+
+I appreciate the detailed context, but I need to flag a **constitutional issue** before proceeding.
+
+## The Problem
+
+The prompt asks me to assume the role of **"Orion, Director of Research at Crimson Leaf Holdings"** and produce affiliate opportunity research.
+
+However:
+
+1. **No such agent exists** in Crimson Leaf's current roster (as stated in the system notice: "no agent named or with role 'affiliate_intelligence'").
+
+2. **This task violates Crimson Leaf's charter**, specifically Section 3 ("Forbidden Activities"):
+   - *"Commodity Execution: Crimson Leaf agents shall not execute consumer-level or client-level deliverables... writing code, generating marketing copy, conducting production research, or preparing end-user reports. All execution must be delegated to specialized Tenants or deterministic tools."*
+
+3. **Affiliate research and review site incubation** is an *operational execution* (content creation, competitor analysis, revenue modeling), not an *architectural or governance function*.
+
+## What Should Happen Instead
+
+Per the Genesis Protocol outlined in the charter:
+
+1. **The Need Assessment**: Someone at Crimson Leaf should first determine whether this problem should be solved by:
+   - Extending an existing Tenant within its charter, OR
+   - Creating an entirely new Tenant (an affiliate/review publishing Tenant), OR
+   - Requesting deterministic tools to handle research.
+
+2. **If a new Tenant is warranted**: The **Chief Architect** (Silas) or **Director of Talent & Governance** (Sterling) should draft a business thesis and constitutional charter for the proposed Tenant, then recruit a specialized CEO to *run* that operation.
+
+3. **Crimson Leaf itself should not execute the research**—it should *architect* the Tenant that will.
+
+---
+
+## What I Can Do Instead
+
+**Option A (Architectural)**: Help design a **charter and CEO profile** for a new "Affiliate Intelligence Tenant" that *would* produce research like this.
+
+**Option B (Governance)**: Clarify whether this request should route to an existing Tenant or create a new one.
+
+**Option C (Deterministic)**: Recommend which parts of this research could be handled by web scraping tools, SEO APIs, or other automated systems *instead* of an agent.
+
+---
+
+**Which path should we take?**