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# Fleet Role Authority and Leases

Role content describes behavior; protected authority is immutable code metadata derived only from the canonical class.

## Required workstream classes

`code`, `review`, `validator`, `orchestrator`, `team-leader`, `enhancer`, and `interaction` are required FCM classes. `merge-gate` is additionally protected because it remains the sole approve-to-land and merge authority.

| Class                                        | Authority                                         | Boundary                                                                               |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `merge-gate`                                 | Approve-to-land and merge                         | Sole merge authority.                                                                  |
| `validator`                                  | Issue independent validation evidence/certificate | Never approves landing or merges.                                                      |
| `orchestrator`                               | Orchestrate topology and issue bounded leases     | Does not gain merge authority.                                                         |
| `team-leader`                                | Use explicitly leased capacity                    | Cannot issue leases or mutate roster, credentials, topology authority, or merge state. |
| `interaction`                                | Receive requests and report status                | Cannot orchestrate, issue leases, mutate configuration, or merge.                      |
| `code`, `review`, `enhancer`, custom classes | No protected authority by default                 | Persona prose cannot grant protected powers.                                           |

A lease is capacity authorization from an orchestrator, not ownership. It must identify a bounded task or period and does not alter the leased agent's roster identity, role contract, credentials, authority, or persisted lifecycle. Expiry/revocation returns capacity; it does not rewrite the roster.

Semantic validation rejects protected class/tool-policy mismatch in either direction. An instance named Ultron with class: validator remains validation-only. An instance named Tess with class: interaction remains request/status-only. Renaming either instance changes no authority.

For resolver layering and safe customization, see [role classes](../reference/role-classes.md) and [customize roles](../how-to/customize-roles.md).
