---
uai: "1.0"
type: topic-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
release: "IARPG-OPS-2"
version: "2.0.13-wip"
review_state: current-until-superseded
---

# Mission Lifecycle

## Purpose

Keep the eight-state operation sequence explicit and reviewable.

## Current doctrine

- Task defines why information is required.
- Plan selects roles, collection, cover, access, thresholds, and abort conditions.
- Debrief separates what happened, what is known, what remains uncertain, and what changes next.

## Shared Constraints

- Apply [repository constraints](constraints.uai#non-negotiable-constraints).

## Relevant standards

- https://iarpg.com/standard/mission-lifecycle
- https://iarpg.com/standard/mission-event-logging
- https://iarpg.com/standard/debrief-product-contract

## Relevant mission examples

- https://iarpg.com/mission/port-access-anomaly-investigation
- https://iarpg.com/mission/internal-leak-counterintelligence-review

## Deep report links

- [Typology of Intelligence Operatives and Tradecraft Frameworks: A Comprehensive Architecture for Clandestine Behavioral Modeling](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/typology-of-intelligence-operatives-and-tradecraft-frameworks-a-comprehensive-architecture-for-clandestine-beh.md#the-case-officer-and-the-intelligence-operations-cycle)
- [Trust, Deception, and Virtual Economies](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/trust-deception-and-virtual-economies.md#behavioral-metrics-and-experiments)

## Related UAI records

- [operations.uai](operations.uai)
- [simulation.uai](simulation.uai)
- [evidence-model.uai](evidence-model.uai)