> Historical July 11, 2026 planning record. Public copy redacted September 17, 2026 to remove operational details; original retained privately. This is not current operational status.

# 049-DR-STND — Mission Control non-goals (what it will NOT do)

> **What this is and why it matters.** A scope is defined as much by what it excludes as by what
> it includes. This one page lists what Mission Control **intentionally will not do** — so that
> when someone (a person or an agent) proposes one of these, the answer is a documented "no,"
> not a fresh debate. Non-goals keep a multi-year platform from sprawling into everything.
> Anything here can be revisited, but only by amending this document with a reason — never by
> quietly building it.

- **Program:** Mission Control (constitution: `038-AT-DECR`)
- **Companion:** `046` (repo/service growth criteria), `037` §10 (what the roadmap refuses)

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## Non-goals

1. **Not a public or multi-tenant product.** Mission Control is Intent Solutions' internal
   control plane. It is not sold, not offered to other companies, not multi-tenant. (The
   platform *marketplace* is a separate, external product — a different repo, different users.)

2. **Not a replacement for the tools it governs.** It does not reimplement monitoring, backup,
   CI, or a database. It orchestrates and exposes best-of-breed tools behind one interface;
   tools stay swappable implementation details. (ADR-000 §3.)

3. **Not a home for compensation, pay, comp-splits, equity, or personal data.** Ever. These are
   Jeremy-private or excluded entirely; the disclosure gate enforces it. This is a hard,
   permanent non-goal.

4. **Not a public exposure of operational internals.** The estate's topology, single-point-of-
   failure analysis, dependency graph, and risk register are not published. Only sanitized
   governance/planning documents go to any public surface.

5. **Not a heavyweight, ceremony-for-its-own-sake bureaucracy.** Governance is tiered to the
   estate's real size (a solo operator plus AI agents). It will not adopt process that costs
   more than the risk it mitigates. (`039` §7 tiered ceremony.)

[Operational detail retained in the private record]

7. **Not a general-purpose developer platform or PaaS.** It manages *this* estate's operations.
   It is not a place to run arbitrary workloads or a self-service deployment product.

8. **Not an unbounded observability sink.** It will not collect telemetry it has no consumer
   for (no traces while nothing emits them; no logs without a retention policy). Tools follow
   observed need, not fashion. (`035` Tempo/Loki verdicts.)

9. **Not a standing privileged robot.** AI agents and the future portal do not hold standing
[Operational detail retained in the private record]

10. **Not a rewrite of what already works.** The estate's fire-drilled bash-and-cron fabric is
    hardened and service-wrapped, not thrown away. The program adds interfaces over working
    capabilities; it does not replace them to feel modern.

11. **Not GCP, and not returning to it.** No `gcloud`, BigQuery, Vertex, Firebase, or Cloud Run.
    The estate exited GCP; that door is closed.

## Governance

A proposal that matches a non-goal is declined by pointing here. To pursue one anyway, amend
this document (dated, with a reason, Jeremy's sign-off) — the same discipline as an ADR-000
exception. Silent scope creep past a written non-goal is forbidden.