Human-readable brief
Direction and mandate
- Authority
- Halcyon Commercial Intelligence Office
- Customer
- Board risk committee
- Mandate
- Collect and assess information within the declared fictional jurisdiction and report uncertainty without forcing a preferred conclusion.
- Jurisdiction
- Halcyon research campus and partner archive
- Intelligence requirement
- Establish the provenance of a disputed model and determine whether the conflict is independent development, contract ambiguity, or unauthorized transfer.
- Evidence threshold
- The assessment must preserve contradictory authorship evidence and identify unresolved timeline gaps.
- Extraction plan
- Deliver through counsel-reviewed channel; abort any source meeting that requires unauthorized system access.
- Debrief deliverable
- An assessment that separates observation, source report, interpretation, hypothesis, confidence, dissent, source impact, cover impact, and follow-on requirements.
Known facts
- A triggering anomaly or request has been logged.
- The authority has access to some but not all relevant records.
- At least two explanations remain plausible.
Assumptions
- Current system clocks are synchronized within the published tolerance.
- Declared access records have not yet been proven complete.
Competing hypotheses
- Administrative or technical failure
- Authorized but poorly documented activity
- Deliberate disclosure or manipulation
- Fabricated evidence intended to redirect attention
Role contract
Roles and information asymmetry
Intelligence Analyst
- Role-specific tasking
- Authorized evidence subset
Technical Operator
- Role-specific tasking
- Authorized evidence subset
Source Handler
- Role-specific tasking
- Authorized evidence subset
Liaison Officer
- Role-specific tasking
- Authorized evidence subset
Collection and interaction
What the players do
Collection plan
- Document forensics
- Experiment-log comparison
- Specialist interviews
- Contract analysis
Player interactions
- Review tasking
- Establish access
- Collect evidence
- Mark contradiction
- Request corroboration
- Choose continue, convert, or abort
- Complete extraction and debrief
Compromise and abort
- Unexpected access challenge
- Unexplained route change
- Source behavior inconsistent with prior handling
- Evidence item lacking provenance
- Role handoff not acknowledged
- Abort: Cover integrity below 35
- Abort: Source safety cannot be maintained
- Abort: Jurisdiction is exceeded
- Abort: Required evidence custody cannot be preserved
Evidence Packet JSON
EVP-003
EV-001
Origin: player observation
Provenance: role event log
OBSERVEDEV-002
Origin: declared source
Provenance: source handling record
SOURCE_CLAIMEV-003
Origin: analytic comparison
Provenance: EV-001,EV-002
CONTRADICTIONSimulation configuration
Deterministic state contract
TaskPlanAccessCollectValidateDeliverExtractDebrief
Seed: provenance-dispute
Expected terminal states: Debrief, Abort, Compromise
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Canonical implementation records
Full reports
Research lineage and limitations
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