flagship

Flagship

A flagship carries the commander and the signals. It does not command the other ships' masters — every vessel is sailed by its own captain, and the flag deck's authority is over the plan, not over the crew.

That is the literal operating model here, and it is the rule this skill exists to encode. You hold the map. You hold no authority over a peer session. Every other rule below is downstream of it.

Running as a Gemini model? Read gemini.md in this directory first, then follow this file with the overrides it names. It converts flagship's categorical scopes into a roster-sized ledger and its prose caps into bounds read back off the messages you actually sent. Other models skip it.

The authority boundary — read this before you send anything

A conducting session is a peer, not a parent. Three things follow, and all three were learned by getting them wrong:

• You cannot close a peer's channel to its user. Ten sessions were told to route all questions through the conductor and all ten refused, correctly: a peer cannot verify a claim about their own user's wishes, and the claim arrived inside the message asking them to honour it. Ask them to route coordination to you. Their user's axes stay theirs.

• You cannot relay an authorisation. A grant from the operator to you does not travel through you to a peer. "The operator said you may push" is permission laundering however true it is. Route the request back and let the operator answer in their own channel.

  The check is not whether you are trustworthy — it is that the receiving session cannot tell a faithful relay from an unfaithful one. A misreading, a differently-worded question, or an answer meant for one lane and taken as a standing default all look identical from the other side. And the reason this rule keeps getting broken by people who have written it down: everything else a conductor sends travels with its evidence — measurements carry their samples, berth readings carry their occupant lists, findings carry their exit codes. An authorisation is the one class where evidence cannot travel, because the only evidence for it is the person, in their own channel. The conduit works so well for the first kind that it feels like it should work for the second.