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Shift briefing · Research Wing
A policy incident requires a current answer from a large, partially indexed archive. Search terms, source hierarchy, and stopping rules determine whether the crew finds the right page in time.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Design and execute a search plan that finds authoritative evidence efficiently.
- Search intent
- query expansion
- source ranking
- stopping rules
Break and repair Reproduce a failure, find its cause, repair it for good.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Question RoomQuestion wall
- 02Search HallSearch station
- 03Archive StacksArchive stacks · Evidence cart
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- PerceptionNotices relevant signals, discrepancies, provenance, and system state.In 13 of 48
- ReasonModels dependencies, constraints, causal paths, and trade-offs.In 22 of 48
- ReliabilityTests, reproduces, validates, recovers, and produces consistent outcomes.In 39 of 48
Chamber II · The Operator
You set the direction. Tools do the work, and you test what they return.
Turn goals into workflows, allocate work, test outputs, retrieve sources, automate safely and make decisions under pressure.
Play Protocol 21 in first person, with the clock running.