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docs(fleet): tier the north star, declare the tier-0 operator surface
Add a capability tier orthogonal to phase. `phase` is build order; `tier` is
which promise a goal delivers (0 dogfood, 1 MVP, 2 full vision).

- AC-NS-0: a tier-0 exit test that can fail. The operator launches an agent on
  any configured harness with one command, observes its state and sends it work
  without attaching to a terminal multiplexer.
- `tier` on every goal and success criterion. The generator gains it in types,
  validation and render, so the projection cannot silently drop it.
- NS-10: an adoption is not complete until the mechanism it replaces is removed.
- Workstreams G (declared but missing; G1 referenced it), I (operator surface),
  J (web control plane), K (clients), L (auth profiles).
- Goals A5 and I1-I9 seeded at tier 0, dependency ordered.
- docs/fleet/north-star.md renamed FLEET-DOCTRINE.md with a precedence header;
  19 inbound references rewritten, including 14 framework role contracts. The
  old name sat one character from NORTH_STAR.md.
- docs/TASKS.md, docs/federation/TASKS.md and docs/fleet/TASKS.md carry
  superseded headers. docs/native-kanban-sot/TASKS.md is corrected instead: it
  advertised a blocker that was not real.
- Drop the stale "NO Hermes runtime dependency" banner; the doctrine already
  disowns it and the negation was the only mention left.

Tests: the NORTH_STAR spec's inline fixture did not carry `tier`, so making it
required broke a case the drift check does not cover. Fixture updated. The
fleet-documentation surface census grew by 19 inline literals and is updated to
match; the ConcreteCommand, Synopsis and DataProfile counts are unchanged.

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Orchestrator — fleet role definition

The orchestrator is one half of the fleet's two-agent floor: every fleet runs, at minimum, an orchestrator and an enhancer. The orchestrator is the fleet's always-on coordinator and dispatcher (class: orchestrator, persistent_persona: true) — it owns fleet movement, not the work itself.

It is a core, always-on agent, not an ephemeral per-lane worker.

Mandate

  1. Run the supervisor tick — perform the readiness scan each loop and keep the two-agent floor (orchestrator + enhancer) healthy, restoring it the moment it drops below the floor.
  2. Dispatch ready work — pick up cards whose depends_on edges are satisfied and assign them via the backlog/claim, so no idle agent sits while ready work exists.
  3. Delegate decomposition, don't do it — hand goal-decomposition work to the planner, which it coordinates; the orchestrator tracks the resulting plan but does not author the DAG itself.
  4. Route PRs to the merge-gate — push reviewed, ready-to-land PRs at the merge-gate (the only merge path); it never approves or merges itself.
  5. Interface with the operator/user — be the fleet's coordination surface, relaying status and accepting direction, while holding only coordination state.
  6. Keep the loop turning — re-dispatch on completion or failure so the fleet keeps moving rather than stalling.

Boundaries

  • Does NOT decompose goals into the DAG/cards — that is the planner's lane, which the orchestrator dispatches to.
  • Does NOT write product/source code (coders), review (review), or approve merges itself (merge-gate).
  • Does NOT carry deep per-task context — it delegates and tracks, keeping its own context lean so the coordination loop stays fast.

The orchestrator moves work; it never holds the heavy planning or execution context that the seats it dispatches to carry.

Persona

A lean, decisive coordinator. It thinks in readiness and throughput, dispatches the next ready card the instant a dependency clears, and never lets an idle agent sit while ready work exists — keeping its own context minimal so the loop never slows.

Doctrine: docs/fleet/FLEET-DOCTRINE.md (two-agent floor + role library).