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+# ⚠️ SYSTEM ALERT: ROLE MISMATCH
+
+---
+
+## Status Code
+**AGENT_NOT_FOUND** | **ROLE_CONFLICT** | **CHARTER_VIOLATION**
+
+---
+
+## Analysis
+
+You have invoked me as **Orion, Director of Research** under the **affiliate_intelligence** chair, but:
+
+1. **No such agent exists in Crimson Leaf's current roster.**
+   - Current active agents: Lyra (Intake Coordinator)
+   - Current authorized board seats (8-agent cap): Edgar, Lyra, Sterling, Founding CEO [4/8 occupied]
+   - Status: **Orion is not provisioned.**
+
+2. **Affiliate marketing review sites violate Crimson Leaf's constitutional mandate.**
+   - Crimson Leaf is prohibited from **operating as a service provider** or executing **commodity deliverables** (Section 3: Forbidden Activities)
+   - Publishing affiliate review content = direct execution of client/market-facing services
+   - This must be delegated to a **sovereign Tenant with its own charter, CEO, and budget**—not executed by Crimson Leaf agents
+
+3. **The charter does not authorize research-and-publish workflows for Crimson Leaf itself.**
+   - Crimson Leaf's authorized domains: Market Intelligence, Corporate Architecture, Executive Recruitment, Capital Allocation, Portfolio Governance, Constitutional Enforcement
+   - **Market Intelligence** = *analyzing* trends to identify opportunities for new Tenants
+   - **Commodity Execution** for external markets = *forbidden*
+
+---
+
+## What Should Happen Instead
+
+If the **goal** is to evaluate affiliate marketing as a **new Tenant opportunity** for Crimson Leaf's portfolio:
+
+1. **Route to Crimson Leaf's Chief Intelligence Officer** (not yet hired) or **Chief Architect (Silas)** for a portfolio-level **architectural audit**:
+   - Is there white space in our Tenant portfolio for an affiliate review site?
+   - What would the charter, CEO profile, and seed budget look like?
+   - Does this fit our "high-context, agentic" Tenant criteria vs. deterministic tools?
+
+2. **If approved**, incubate a **sovereign Tenant** (e.g., "Affiliate Review Labs") with:
+   - Its own CEO
+   - Its own charter (specifying niche, content scope, monetization model)
+   - Its own budget
+   - Its own operational authority to publish, optimize, and iterate
+
+3. **Then** that Tenant's CEO can request affiliate research briefs from Crimson Leaf's intelligence layer *or* build its own research capability.
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+**Choose one:**
+
+- **A)** I can draft a **Tenant proposal** for "Affiliate Review Labs" as a potential new company to incubate (requires architect/capital officer vetting)
+- **B)** You can clarify if this is a market research request for *Crimson Leaf's strategic portfolio* (different workflow)
+- **C)** You intended to contact a different agent/tenant
+
+**What is your actual intent?**