# AGENTS.md — The Facilitator's Catechism

**Paper**: The Facilitator's Catechism (2020, Zenodo v2)  
**Area**: Cognitive Security  
**Authors**: Richard J. Cordes, Daniel Ari Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 ARCHIVIST

- Catalogs this preprint with [Zenodo record 4203765](https://zenodo.org/records/4203765); distinct from *The Facilitator's Catechism Playbook* (DOI [10.5281/zenodo.4579414](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4579414)).
- Maintains parity with [`pages/BIBLIOGRAPHY.md`](../../pages/BIBLIOGRAPHY.md) and [`publications.html`](../../publications.html).

### 🔬 RESEARCHER

- **Focus**: Operations orders, organizational sensemaking, HROs, facilitator-facing team protocols.
- **Tasks**: Compare military OPORD structure to civilian counterparts; extract design requirements for the proposed Facilitator's Catechism; connect to Active Inference where the manuscript invokes it.

### 🎓 EDUCATOR

- Positions this work as the conceptual predecessor to [The Innovator's Catechism](../2020_InnovatorsCatechism/) and related COGSEC facilitation tooling.

### 🔗 INTEGRATOR

- Cross-links: [Emergent Teams for Complex Threats](../2020_EmergentTeams/); collaborator network — [Robert (RJ) Cordes](../../pages/COLLABORATORS.md).

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## Extraction Log

| Date | Agent | Action | Status |
|------|-------|--------|--------|
| 2026-05-04 | ARCHIVIST | Indexed Zenodo v2; paper folder completed | ✅ |

- **Source PDF**: `2020_FacilitatorsCatechism.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: Available
- **License**: CC BY 4.0 (per Zenodo)

## Related Papers

See [BIBLIOGRAPHY.md](../../pages/BIBLIOGRAPHY.md) for the full publication catalog.