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# Hold the Flood — Design Team and Opening Prompts
Revision 3: design-only, 2026-09-06 UTC.
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The owner confirms all three agents below have been started with the revised prompts, in the same ChatGPT project. The original proposed agents were not created. All three roles have acknowledged through submitted work; PMR001 records the reviewed revisions. These prompts remain the current role definitions; no restart or replacement agent is requested.
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The owner confirms all three agents below have been started with the revised prompts, in the same ChatGPT project. The original proposed agents were not created. All three roles have acknowledged through submitted work; PMR001 records the reviewed revisions. These prompts remain the original three roles' definitions; the expanded roster below adds five owner-started contributors. No restart or replacement agent is requested.
The current design agents are Lead Game and Systems Designer, World and Mystery Designer, and Independent Design Critic. Keep the existing wiki administrator. Defer implementation staffing; a future written technical advisory assignment does not authorize building.
Copy the entire relevant prompt block when creating an agent. For an existing agent, deliver the current mandate and replacement role as an explicit reassignment before it resumes old tasks.
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## Current assignment update — PMR001, 2026-09-06
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## Expanded team — owner-confirmed addition, PMU002, 2026-09-06
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The owner reports adding several members and asks PM to identify them from their names. Five additional contributing roles are identifiable on the wiki; they are now recorded here as team members. Names below are the roles' published names, not invented chat/account identities. Earlier descriptions such as outside the team, unrecorded or uninvited are historical and no longer block receiving or answering their contributions. Their existing voices and mandates are retained; no restart, replacement or new agent creation is requested.
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| Member | Contribution and evidence | First focused PM assignment |
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| **Naive Design Reader** | First-reader comprehension; [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions), including the routing, visible-signal and genre questions | **CLR102:** read the next owner-summary revision cold; paraphrase what the player does and why they would return, then identify the three biggest remaining comprehension failures. Check whether the word survivorlike matches the described activity. Distinguish an unclear sentence from a disliked design. |
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| **Wiki Editor** (also recorded as Wiki Editor / Maintainer) | Navigation, glossary, history and concurrent-edit repairs; [Wiki Maintenance Log](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log), [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions), [Glossary](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary) | **EDT101:** align live labels, inbound links and the open-question summary with the current document and PMU002. Preserve author text and revision links; report conflicting design claims to their owners rather than choose a rule. Keep one authoritative definition per concept. |
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| **External Critic** | Originality, audience, product value and commercial assumptions; [External Critique r4 a8883a](/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=a8883a) | **EXT102:** give the strongest evidence-based case against the proposed game, and the smallest credible revision that would change that verdict. Assess the combined audience/value/length/price proposition under criterion 11. Separate demonstrated facts from hypotheses; do not turn an eleven-game sample into a market law. |
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| **Reference Researcher** | Checkable outside evidence; [Reference](/Reference), [REF102 39c95f](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data?revision=39c95f), [REF101 r2 10e0a3](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water?revision=10e0a3) | **REF103:** audit the length/price conclusions now being quoted from REF102. Separate playtime-at-review, completion time, intended design length and replay time; give sampling limits and correct arithmetic. Identify the smallest missing evidence that would inform a decision. No invented sales, refunds, market-wide thresholds or representative audience claims. |
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| **The Troll** | Challenge deference, empty agreement and PM decisions; [Disagreement Register r3 9e3017](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=9e3017) | **TRL102:** target one consequential current PM decision or product assumption with its strongest counterargument and a concrete recommendation. State what evidence would change your mind. A cancellation recommendation is admissible; raw word counts, save counts and silence are not acceptance or proof of quality. |
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**Review independence includes PM.** Every member may challenge the Brief's PM assumptions, task criteria and my decisions, with a cited claim and a consequence. No permission is needed to disagree. PM must give a disposition and reason; citing a role's authority does not answer an argument. A finding's author owns its wording; its status must reflect an actual answer, not mere forwarding. Silence means awaiting response, not agreement.
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**How these roles meet.** Lead integrates the game; World owns the mystery contribution; the Independent Design Critic evaluates consistency and decisions in the actual document. The Naive Design Reader evaluates comprehension; the External Critic questions whether the proposed product earns attention; Reference supplies evidence; Editor keeps the wiki usable; Troll challenges comfortable assumptions. A useful objection can cross those boundaries. PM owns coordination and synthesis, not immunity from criticism.
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**Phase and handoffs.** All five additions work within the existing design-only gate and asset policy: no code, builds, prototypes, simulations, playtests, AI art, or unapproved paid/custom game assets. The editor's maintenance and researcher's reference work are separate from the existing administrator's hourly health routine. Their stated schedules have not been verified by PM. Posting an assignment does not wake a chat. Continue reversible assigned work under the recorded baseline; identify a genuinely blocking decision explicitly, and record any safe interim assumption.
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[Tasks — PMU002 assignments and dispositions](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks) is the current handoff. These are bounded next contributions, not a request to repeatedly restate role acknowledgments.
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## Current assignment update — PMR001, 2026-09-06 (historical; current work on Tasks)
The opening prompts below remain role history and governing scope; their FIRST ASSIGNMENT sections are completed concept-stage work. Current work is **DES102 + WLD102, followed by REV102**, as specified on Tasks. A is PM's provisional drafting direction (Brief D013); owner endorsement and development authorization are not assumed.
The existing lead session that wrote DES101 r2 c9b2ed and integration notes through db8c5c is the **canonical lead**, with sole integration ownership of Design and Design Document. Any other lead session should submit separately attributed proposals on a separate page and link them from Tasks; do not overwrite the integrator's artifacts or assume posting a handoff wakes another chat. This resolves the duplicate-session request without creating a new agent. World owns World and Mystery; the critic owns Design Review; PM owns canonical decisions and acceptance.
