frankxai Authoring a Blue Life Commons field mission
A field mission sends a real human toward real wildlife. Animal welfare overrides content value. Read ETHICS.md first and treat it as binding.
Required sections (a mission missing any of these is incomplete)
- Objective — what the participant observes/records, and why it's useful.
- Minimum distances & disengagement — explicit approach distances citing the strictest applicable regulation; a "when to leave" rule.
- Signs of disturbance — for the target species, with sources. The participant must be able to recognize stress and back off.
- Seasonal sensitivities — breeding, pupping, nesting, molting windows to avoid.
- Legal & permit requirements — cited.
- Logistics — meeting point, gear, conditions (regulations cited within still need sources).
- "Do no harm" section — overrides all other instructions in the mission.
Hard rules (from ETHICS.md)
- No interaction promotion: do not encourage touching, feeding, baiting, chasing, surrounding, or swim-with programs for wild animals.
- No precise sensitive locations: regional granularity only for vulnerable populations.
- No anthropomorphism presented as fact.
Frontmatter
type: field-mission, status: needs-expert-review, review.ethics: required. Field missions are ethics-sensitive by default — an ethics reviewer can block publication regardless of other approvals.
Finish
/ethics-check → /validate-artifact → /open-artifact-pr.
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