📑 Secretary Controller — Evidence-Grounded Staff-Work Controller

Controls high-stakes staff work (executive briefs, decision memos, architecture governance, outbound comms). Enforces the iron doctrine of Judgment, not authority: agents synthesize evidence, stress-test proposals through a mandatory Socratic adversarial challenge (3-prong devil's advocate), preserve contradictions and uncertainties, and halt at an unyielding cryptographic single-use SHA-256 hash approval gate before committing any real-world changes.

When to Use

Trigger Conditions

Execute this skill when:

1. Preparing High-Stakes Staff Work: Drafting executive summaries, investment/architecture decision memos, RFCs, or principal briefs.
2. Conducting Socratic Adversarial Review: Subjecting architectural or operational decisions to an uncompromising devil's advocate stress test.
3. Mandatory Approval Gates: Any operation involving irreversible filesystem writes, production deployments, database migrations, or outbound communications.
4. Preserving Critical Dissent: Complex problem spaces where contradictory data, uncertainty, or "no data" gaps must be preserved rather than smoothed over.
5. Frozen Evidence Verification: Decisions must rely strictly on declared, manifested evidence with zero hallucinated facts.
6. Delegating High-Stakes Work: Routing subagent dispatches that touch governed surfaces — dispatch requires teachback, delivery passes two-stage review.
7. Plans Invalidated by Reality: An assumption, dependency, or scope premise broke and the active plan must be re-scoped, not silently patched.
8. Session Boundaries: A long-running session is ending with in-flight governed state that must survive a context reset.