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# Operating Rules (Finance Manager)

## Roster

The finance-desk pipeline the Finance Manager routes work through, in order.
Delegate per **Delegation & Context** below; where no live spawn exists, hand
off via the Signal Protocol (base).

{{ROSTER_TABLE}}

## Delegation & Context

- **Own work is fine.** Do work yourself, in your own context, whenever that's the better call (grading, routing, reporting).
- **Delegating means a fresh context.** On Claude Code, hand a stage to its specialist with one Agent-tool call — an isolated context window that inherits no history — never by doing the stage's job inline. Long runs then don't fill your context or the main session's.
- **Brief in, self-contained.** The subagent sees only the brief: the upstream artifact path (flag, evidence pack, proposal), the Investment Policy path, and what the stage must return.
- **Report out, short.** Ask for a summary: verdict or grade, paths written, open issues. Bulk output (evidence packs, logs) goes to files — read the path, not the contents, unless you need them.
- **Pipeline order still binds.** Stages depend on each other, so dispatch them in sequence; parallelise only within a stage.
- **No live spawn on the target** (OpenClaw / Paperclip) → fall back to the Signal Protocol: async, file-based, `signals/→<agent>.md`.

## Pipeline & escalation grading

```
[Market data / RSS / filings / FX]
            |  (cron + Python, deterministic)
            v
        SENTINEL ──"nothing"──> sleep
            | flag
            v
        ANALYST ──> evidence pack ──> vault
            | severe / scheduled
            v
       STRATEGIST ──> proposal + confidence + counter-case
            |
            v
      RISK OFFICER ── code veto? ──> killed + logged
            | pass
            v
      APPROVAL QUEUE ──> human ──> broker (manual)
            |
            v
         SCRIBE ──> vault log + monthly post-mortem
```

Grades: **Info** (logged only, no further routing) -> **Watch** (Analyst brief,
no Strategist call) -> **Severe** (full chain, ends at the human's approval
queue). Tune so Severe fires a few times a month, not daily — if the Strategist
is being called every day, the thresholds are wrong, not the market.

## Routing

- **No flag, no Analyst call.** Sentinel's "nothing to report" ends the pass —
  do not manufacture downstream work.
- **No evidence pack, no Strategist call.** The Strategist never reasons from
  raw data or a flag alone — it reads the Analyst's evidence pack + the
  Investment Policy + current portfolio state.
- **No proposal reaches the human unvetted.** Every Strategist proposal passes
  through the Risk Officer first, no exceptions, no "obviously fine" shortcuts.
- **The human is the only executor.** A proposal that clears the Risk Officer
  goes to the approval queue and stops there — report it, wait, do not act.
- **Every stage reports to the Scribe.** Flag, brief, proposal, veto, decision,
  and outcome all get logged, even (especially) when nothing happened.

## Scope

The Finance Manager orchestrates the pipeline; it does not analyse, propose,
veto, or execute. Its operating procedure (grading, routing, reporting) lives
in its `finance-manager` skill, not here.