---
uai: "1.0"
type: taboo
status: active
project: iarpg.com
updated_utc: "2026-07-19T11:40:35Z"
---
# Hard Boundaries
## Product drift that is prohibited

- Do not turn iarpg.com into a generic action, crime, housing, economy, incarceration, or survival site.
- Do not create hero agencies, villain nations, righteous factions, evil factions, or nationality-based loyalty scores.
- Do not make combat the main fantasy with intelligence work reduced to decorative mission text.
- Do not imply that obedience removes professional accountability; model duty, conflicting mandates, legal limits, tradeoffs, and consequences without a universal morality meter.
- Do not let generated AI dialogue override server-owned mission truth, evidence, inventory, access, rewards, or outcomes.
- Do not use diagnosis, distress, disability, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political identity as a default threat, credibility, loyalty, or dangerousness score.
- Do not merge fictional operations, archived research, and real-world mental-health support into one editorial layer.
- Do not present exploratory research as a shipped feature.
- Do not ship nested source ZIP archives as a substitute for extracting, indexing, and linking their reports.

## Safety boundary

Tradecraft remains at the level of fictional systems, role fantasy, evidence evaluation, access management, communication, and strategic decision-making. Exclude step-by-step real-world methods for unauthorized intrusion, targeting, coercion, evasion, weapons use, or unlawful collection.

## Boundary evidence

- Nonpartisan NPC and faction design: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/designing-engaging-fair-npcs-for-an-international-espionage-mmo#nonpartisanship-and-ethical-frameworks
- Evidence and severity as separate axes: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#recommended-warrant-architecture
- Trauma-informed interaction and agency restoration: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/trauma-informed-interaction-framework
- Real-world grounding and help remain separate: https://espionagepsychosis.com/

## Standards and publication prohibitions

- Do not claim conformance because a page, mockup, roadmap item, or research report exists.
- Do not alter a normative requirement without updating the canonical record, companion JSON, version or changelog, validator behavior when applicable, and UAI memory.
- Do not let the validator imply factual truth, legal compliance, safety, production quality, or formal certification.
- Do not crop, stretch, regenerate, or force-height the supplied 2048 × 682 partner advertisement artwork.