Behavior, not decoration

Give every box
an actual job.

A primary role owns the deliverable. A support role changes how that owner works without taking over. Effort and specialization add separate invisible behavior instructions at execution time.

Uncrowned Planar, Curious, and Urkel Obmils join Cleaner Obmil, whose faint halo is the only halo, inside an unlabeled archive
The responsibilities can change. The established Obmil identities do not.

primary roles

Own the result.

One primary role determines the box’s core mission and completion behavior.

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Critic

Finds weaknesses, contradictions, omissions, and failure risks without replacing the original objective.

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Researcher

Finds and organizes evidence under a defined source, date, and relevance standard.

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Coder

Implements or diagnoses software under the product’s real architecture and constraints.

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Reviewer

Evaluates a completed deliverable against explicit requirements and issues a clear disposition.

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Summarizer

Compresses supplied material while preserving the decisions, evidence, and boundaries that matter.

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Verifier

Checks whether claims, calculations, links, states, and completion evidence are true.

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Supervisor

Reviews staged work, controls supervised stop/takeover authority, and assembles one accepted outcome.

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support roles

Strengthen the owner.

One optional support role adds a bounded secondary discipline.

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Formatter

Presents the primary role’s output in the required structure without changing its substance.

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Note-taker

Captures facts, decisions, open questions, and handoff details during another role’s work.

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Researcher aide

Organizes source discovery and evidence extraction under the primary role’s research rules.

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Devil’s advocate

Constructs the strongest credible challenge to the primary role’s assumptions or conclusion.

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Context keeper

Protects the shared objective, canon, decisions, and accepted handoffs across a long workflow.

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