---
uai: "1.0"
type: mission-contract-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
updated_utc: "2026-07-19T11:57:40Z"
---
# Mission Brief Contract

## Canonical contract

- Human explanation: https://iarpg.com/standard/mission-brief-contract
- JSON Schema: https://iarpg.com/mission-brief.schema.json
- Complete fixture: https://iarpg.com/mission-example.json
- Validator: https://iarpg.com/validator
- Long-term copies: https://iarpg.com/docs/standards/

## Level A — Briefable

A brief declares `mission_id`, `title`, `authority`, `mandate`, `intelligence_requirement`, and `jurisdiction`.

## Level B — Playable

A playable mission adds `known_facts`, `roles`, `collection_plan`, `evidence_threshold`, `interaction_model`, `abort_condition`, `extraction_plan`, and `debrief_deliverable`.

The interaction model must state what players can see, ask, manipulate, verify, decide, record, and hand off. A target and reward are not enough.

## Level C — Auditable

An auditable brief adds the complete current contract, including assumptions, standard version, reward posture, synthetic-source policy, reason codes, and the explicit fiction boundary.

## Mission lifecycle

Direction → Preparation → Infiltration → Collection → Processing → Analysis → Decision → Extraction → Debrief.

## Evidence and safety

- Separate known facts from assumptions.
- Separate observations, source reports, interpretations, hypotheses, assessments, and decisions.
- Require independent corroboration before irreversible attribution or access removal when the mission specifies that threshold.
- Generated dialogue never creates authoritative facts, evidence, rewards, access, warrants, inventory, or mission completion.
- Abort and extraction remain valid outcomes.

## Research anchors

- Evidence and separate severity/certainty axes: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#recommended-warrant-architecture
- Hallucinated mission verification: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/hallucinated-ai-quest-design-in-vr-mmorpgs#mitigation-strategies-and-design-guidelines
- Courier state machines and deterministic settlement: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/systemic-architecture-for-trustless-escrow-and-courier-contracts-in-a-virtual-reality-mmorpg#2-0-the-theoretical-framework-of-trustless-escrow