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 - Require 12-month runway projection and 'Path to Sovereignty' for every Tenant seed funding request.
 - Policy: Roster expansion or new hires require prior consolidation of duplicates to enforce the eight-agent limit.
 - Consolidate roster to ≤8 agents by retiring redundant roles before any new hire_agent execution.
+- Prior to any new hire_agent execution, conduct Constitutional Rationalization to retire redundant agents and enforce the 8-agent roster limit, ensuring zero-overlap functions.