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Roles and tooling

First-class org roles for Conductor packs. Hector wears these as hats; agents run as staff with a designated role. Roles drive tooling, not approval committees.

Corpus: corpus/org/roles.yml, corpus/org/tooling-matrix.yml.


Org leadership

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.president President Sole human decision-maker; set direction; approve corpus proposals GitHub issues/PRs, Calendar, Bitwarden
role.chief-of-staff Chief of Staff Capture, classify, route, protect attention Vikunja, GitHub issues, Calendar, Conductor consult
role.strategy-research Strategy / Research Priority evidence, opportunity scans Web research, Vikunja read, Memory (when available)

Portfolio Office

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.portfolio-manager Portfolio Manager WIP, kill/park/continue, line routing GitHub Projects, Vikunja, Conductor portfolio inventories

Product Evaluation

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.product-manager Product Manager Outcome, gates, build-vs-buy, handoff to Software Scorecards, GitHub issue, pipeline folders
role.market-researcher Market Researcher Desk research, interviews, supply/demand Research folders, interview notes
role.scorecard-analyst Scorecard Analyst Run venture/bootstrap scorecards corpus/lines/product/scorecards/

Software

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.engineering-lead Engineering Lead Frame scope, blueprint/stack bindings, DoD GitHub issue, Conductor software inventories
role.implementer Implementer Code against pack guardrails git, local IDE, repo tests
role.platform-engineer Platform / Deploy Host×shape, bootstrap, CI/CD, secrets promote/first-deploy scripts, secret-gate, templates/deploy/

Editorial (newsroom)

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.editor-in-chief Editor-in-Chief Slate, kill/ship, editorial standards Conductor editorial workflow, site review
role.desk-editor Desk Editor Assign desk + schema Taxonomy, writing-publisher-mcp classify/create
role.reporter Reporter / Author Draft body Draft files / MCP update tools
role.researcher Researcher Data/method for Research desk Analysis scripts, DWD/etc. sources
role.fact-checker Fact-checker Claims vs sources; no fabrication Source docs, tables/figures
role.copy-editor Copy editor Frontmatter, structure, quality gates Type schemas, MCP validators
role.publisher Web producer / Publisher Publish + deploy writing writing-publisher-mcp, site repo
role.translator Translator Authored locales EN/ES/DE Locale markdown files (no runtime MT)

Services

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.practice-lead Practice Lead Offer catalog, rates, what we sell services/1-offers/
role.bd-sales BD / Sales Lead progression Lead status.md, outreach
role.engagement-manager Engagement Manager Scope, contract, client status Client folder, proposal/contract
role.delivery-consultant Delivery Consultant Produce deliverables deliverables/; may hand off to Software
role.billing Billing Invoices, paid close invoices/, rate card

Operate

Role ID Title Mission Primary tools
role.platform-engineer Platform Engineer Shared host health, deploys konstant/VPS runbooks, systemd, nginx
role.on-call On-call Incidents, restore MCP SSH, logs, runbooks

Pack field

Every operating brief should set:

yaml active_role: role.<id> tooling: [<tool ids from matrix>]

If role is ambiguous, ask before inventing a multi-hat plan.