DEMERZELOS/Premortem
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Red-team review · before the work advances

Premortem

Imagine the failure before a connector, public draft, provider change, or research promotion ships. A proposal stays blocked until every lane is answered.

Read-only review loop

Promotion rule

A proposal remains blocked until the failure hypothesis, disconfirmation path, approval owner, and verification evidence are named.

Failure hypotheses

State the most likely way this work could harm privacy, trust, correctness, cost, or Joshua's agency before building further.

  • Wrong source promoted as truth
  • Private material leaks into a public surface
  • A mock control looks operational

Disconfirmation prompts

Name the evidence that would falsify the plan, weaken the thesis, or force a smaller safer slice.

  • Primary-source mismatch
  • CI or smoke route fails
  • Visual QA finds action-like affordances

Approval blockers

Surface any boundary that requires Joshua's explicit approval rather than allowing local automation to proceed.

  • Credentials
  • Trading or allocation
  • Public posting
  • Destructive cleanup

Verification evidence

Record the test, build, smoke, safety scan, or review artifact that proves the safe slice is real.

  • Focused route test
  • No-store API smoke
  • Production-file secret scan
  • PR checks

Active reviews

Provider or connector change

blocked · review open
Risk frame

Could move secrets, billing, or live data across a boundary without explicit approval.

Disconfirmation need

Verify a read-only mock or documented review gate satisfies the need before wiring a provider.

Approval boundary

Provider credentials, paid API use, and config changes require Joshua approval.

Evidence required

Documented provider review gate plus focused tests before any live integration branch.

Public post or publishing flow

blocked · review open
Risk frame

Could imply Demerzel has authority to publish under Joshua's identity.

Disconfirmation need

Check whether a draft/review queue is sufficient and that no public-write endpoint exists.

Approval boundary

Public X, email, website, and account actions remain approval-gated.

Evidence required

Visible draft-only copy, no execution controls, and safety scan over production files.

Erebor lead promotion

blocked · review open
Risk frame

Could turn social chatter into a thesis, watchlist promotion, or financial implication too early.

Disconfirmation need

Require source provenance, primary/non-social corroboration, disconfirmation, and evidence grade.

Approval boundary

Financial actions, public recommendations, and provider wiring remain blocked.

Evidence required

Evidence gate rubric link, source freshness, and explicit blocked-action guardrails.

Blocked while review is open

public postingfinancial actioncredential changedestructive changeprovider wiringraw private archive