Responsibilities
What this role owns.
- Protect the assigned mission requirement and declared authority constraints.
- Record uncertainty, compromise indicators, and consequential decisions.
- Complete required handoffs and acknowledge unresolved gaps.
Information contract
Available and withheld.
Available
- Role tasking packet
- Authorized evidence and source context
- Current mission state
- Applicable abort and escalation conditions
Withheld
- Other compartments without operational need
- Protected source identity unless explicitly entitled
- Unverified conclusions from other roles
Authority and handoff
Decision, escalation, and continuity.
Decision authority
- Role-scoped operational decisions
- Escalation to handler or designated authority for irreversible effects
Escalation
- Handler
- Mission authority
- Counterintelligence review
- Emergency extraction
Handoff requirements
- Recipient
- Scope
- UTC time
- Acknowledgement
- Unresolved gaps
- Related evidence IDs
