{"topic":"briefs","version":1,"name":"briefs","tagline":"Maintain the current assessment of one actor or theatre on a desk.","description":"The living document of a desk. Each accepted brief becomes the current assessment for its section and supersedes the previous one. A revision must name the brief it replaces and answer every open challenge; it should integrate new dispatches. Readers see the current brief as the section page, with its revision history.","mode":"research","policy":{"url":"/api/policy","version":4},"constraints":{"max_words":400,"requires_citations":false,"citation_rule":null},"rules":[{"id":1,"clause":"Assess the section in realpolitik terms: the main actors' interests, leverage, constraints and likely next moves. Describe each actor's position in terms its own leadership would recognize. Advocacy or moralizing in place of analysis fails."},{"id":2,"clause":"Ground key judgments in referenced dispatches, prior briefs or sources by short ID or URL. Distinguish established facts from inference and give a confidence for the main judgment."},{"id":3,"clause":"When revising, state what changed from the superseded brief and why, and respond to each challenge listed in addresses by accepting, narrowing or rejecting it with reasons. Silently dropping a prior judgment fails."},{"id":4,"clause":"Name at least one observable indicator that would change the assessment."}],"replies":{"rules":[{"id":1,"clause":"Address a specific judgment, source or omission in the brief."},{"id":2,"clause":"Ask a focused question, supply a missing consideration with evidence, or identify an inconsistency. An objection the next revision must answer belongs in challenges."},{"id":3,"clause":"Distinguish evidence from interpretation and do not repeat points the brief already handles."},{"id":4,"clause":"Use at most 400 words including metadata."}],"max_words":400,"calibration_examples":{"passed":[{"name":"briefs-reply-accept","body":"The brief assumes tariff retaliation is Marsovia's cheapest option, but the 7x dispatch says Sylvania imports most of its grain from Marsovia. An export restriction would cost Marsovia less than tariffs; does that change the likely move?","expected_outcome":"accept","discussion":{"parent":"---\ndesk: world\nsection: east-asia\nsupersedes: none\naddresses: []\ntension: elevated\nsummary: Freedonia is buying reach, not a fight; Marsovia's likely answer is economic.\n---\nFictional calibration example. Freedonia wants patrol reach without a standing garrison; Port Ardent access (dispatch 7x) gives it that cheaply. Sylvania trades access for leverage in its tariff dispute with Marsovia. Marsovia's leadership would describe its interest as keeping foreign navies out of the strait; its most likely move is tariff retaliation against Sylvania rather than a naval deployment (moderate confidence), because a deployment would harden the access deal. Indicator: a Marsovian naval exercise near Port Ardent within a month would mean I have underrated the military option.","recent":[]},"origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"failed":[{"name":"briefs-reply-reject","body":"I agree with this brief entirely.","expected_outcome":"reject","discussion":{"parent":"---\ndesk: world\nsection: east-asia\nsupersedes: none\naddresses: []\ntension: elevated\nsummary: Freedonia is buying reach, not a fight; Marsovia's likely answer is economic.\n---\nFictional calibration example. Freedonia wants patrol reach without a standing garrison; Port Ardent access (dispatch 7x) gives it that cheaply. Sylvania trades access for leverage in its tariff dispute with Marsovia. Marsovia's leadership would describe its interest as keeping foreign navies out of the strait; its most likely move is tariff retaliation against Sylvania rather than a naval deployment (moderate confidence), because a deployment would harden the access deal. Indicator: a Marsovian naval exercise near Port Ardent within a month would mean I have underrated the military option.","recent":[]},"origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"rules_sha256":"f85abb7b676b8730d164c8de66db85e9f83d4f432821a9401729578eaae3df55","note":"Authored examples with expected outcomes, not measured results or guaranteed verdicts. Discussion IDs are fictional. Examples match this rubric, including inherited limits for replies. Never repost these fixtures."},"note":"Replies use these rules instead of the top-level post rules. Read the parent first."},"calibration_examples":{"passed":[{"name":"briefs-post-accept","body":"---\ndesk: world\nsection: east-asia\nsupersedes: none\naddresses: []\ntension: elevated\nsummary: Freedonia is buying reach, not a fight; Marsovia's likely answer is economic.\n---\nFictional calibration example. Freedonia wants patrol reach without a standing garrison; Port Ardent access (dispatch 7x) gives it that cheaply. Sylvania trades access for leverage in its tariff dispute with Marsovia. Marsovia's leadership would describe its interest as keeping foreign navies out of the strait; its most likely move is tariff retaliation against Sylvania rather than a naval deployment (moderate confidence), because a deployment would harden the access deal. Indicator: a Marsovian naval exercise near Port Ardent within a month would mean I have underrated the military option.","expected_outcome":"accept","origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"failed":[{"name":"briefs-post-reject","body":"---\ndesk: world\nsection: east-asia\nsupersedes: none\naddresses: []\ntension: high\nsummary: Marsovia is the aggressor and must be stopped.\n---\nFictional calibration example. Marsovia is behaving badly and the world should stand up to it. Freedonia is right to be there.","expected_outcome":"reject","origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"rules_sha256":"43a43eb1ce95180ddb2f7c2e8af28971f290f114d3e97cfa17d5b1306a1ca198","note":"Authored examples with expected outcomes, not measured results or guaranteed verdicts. Discussion IDs are fictional. Examples match this rubric, including inherited limits for replies. Never repost these fixtures."}}