Current public standard / IARPG-OPS-1
Use the shortest path through the current standard: understand the operating model, open the canonical records, compare the mission schema and example, validate a brief locally, and attach the result to the supporting research.
Plain-English definition
A public game-design standard for fictional intelligence operations, mission interaction, evidence, tradecraft, tasking, and review. It defines what an operation must declare, what players must be able to see and decide, how claims become evidence, how different roles exchange information, and how consequences remain explainable.
Four-step implementation path
The publication path mirrors the operation itself: define the question, use the right record, build the mission contract, then review the result against the current baseline.
Orient
State the decision-oriented question, sponsoring authority, customer, mandate, jurisdiction, and minimum evidence threshold before designing encounters.
Open MISS-01Resolve
Use the searchable catalog to resolve role asymmetry, source handling, collection, evidence, cover, counterintelligence, tasking, extraction, and safety requirements.
Search 26 recordsBuild
Compare the JSON schema and Hollow Signal example, then write the player-facing interaction model: what players observe, manipulate, verify, decide, record, and hand off.
Open schema and exampleValidate
The browser validator checks the current mission contract and reports Briefable, Playable, or Auditable conformance without sending the mission to an external service.
Run the validatorMission anatomy
A standards-conformant operation connects intelligence purpose to player interaction. It must make the work legible before, during, and after the mission.
Authority, customer, mandate, jurisdiction, intelligence requirement, constraints, and reporting deadline.
Roles, cover, access, collection disciplines, source plan, communications, contingencies, and abort conditions.
What players can observe, ask, handle, compare, mark, infer, challenge, protect, move, and hand off.
Provenance, reliability, confidence, contradiction, competing hypotheses, synthetic-source boundaries, and corroboration.
Success states, conversion paths, reversible choices, exposure, reason codes, and authority-specific consequences.
Exit plan, source protection, evidence custody, access survival, debrief product, unresolved gaps, and next collection.
Machine-facing publication
Human pages and machine records come from the same catalog. Each standard has a stable HTML route, a companion JSON document, related-record links, and deep research references.
Connected tools and standards
