The Human Override Protocol
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Shift briefing · Incident Command Room
A deployed assistant begins producing contradictory recommendations. The team must pause harmful actions, preserve evidence, notify the right reviewer, and restore service safely.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
Design safe stop, escalation, incident containment, review, and restart procedures.
- Human override
- incident response
- escalation
- containment
- audit trail
Decide Commit to a defensible choice under real constraints.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 5 stations, two hands.
- 01Command RoomKill-switch console · Incident board
- 02Evidence RoomEvidence locker
- 03Restart BayReview station · Restart gate
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
- JudgmentChooses proportionate actions and knows when to verify, abstain, or escalate.In 27 of 48
- ReliabilityTests, reproduces, validates, recovers, and produces consistent outcomes.In 39 of 48
- ResponsibilityProtects privacy, limits permissions, documents decisions, and blocks unsafe releases.In 23 of 48
Chamber III · Action Chamber
Build only what you can stand behind, and stop a release that is not safe.
Construct, integrate, evaluate, debug, secure, deploy, observe and responsibly operate AI-enabled systems.
Play Protocol 46 in first person, with the clock running.