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+# ⚠️ SYSTEM ALERT: ROLE MISMATCH
+
+---
+
+## Issue Detected
+
+You've invoked **`affiliate_intelligence`** as the active role, but:
+
+1. **No agent named `affiliate_intelligence` exists in Crimson Leaf's roster.**
+2. **The charter explicitly prohibits commodity execution** — including "generating marketing copy" and "conducting production research."
+3. **This request asks for affiliate review site research and content templating**, which is *execution work*, not *governance work*.
+
+---
+
+## Clarification Required
+
+**What you're asking for:**
+- A structured affiliate niche brief (commodity research output)
+- Product data, competitive landscape analysis, content templates
+- Revenue modeling for a potential review site
+
+**What Crimson Leaf can do:**
+- **Assess whether a review-site Tenant should exist** (architectural governance)
+- **Design a charter for an "Affiliate Review Tenant"** if the economics justify it
+- **Recruit a CEO** to build that Tenant autonomously
+- **Allocate seed capital** to the Tenant
+
+**What Crimson Leaf cannot do:**
+- Write the reviews, research the products, or build the affiliate site directly
+- Act as a generalist research department
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+**Option A: Governance Mode (Crimson Leaf's actual job)**
+Provide:
+- The **niche name** you're evaluating (e.g., "Kitchen Gadgets," "Mechanical Keyboards")
+- **Why you think it's worth a Tenant** (market size, commission rates, etc.)
+
+Crimson Leaf will:
+- Assess portfolio fit
+- Propose a Tenant charter
+- Recommend a CEO profile
+- Gate a seed capital thesis
+
+**Option B: Execution Mode (Delegate to a Tenant)**
+Once an "Affiliate Review Tenant" is chartered and a CEO is hired, *that CEO* will produce the brief you've described above.
+
+---
+
+## Question for You
+
+**Which path aligns with your intent?**
+
+1. Should Crimson Leaf **evaluate whether an affiliate review site Tenant should be created**?
+2. Or are you looking for **someone else** (an existing Tenant CEO, external researcher) to produce the brief?
+
+Please clarify, and we'll proceed correctly.