Indian Ocean Civic Situation Board — TLTE

The Indian Ocean Civic Situation Board (/situation) is a PUBLIC, CITATION-ONLY mirror of Tier-A signals across the Indian Ocean rim and the Northern & Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. It is NOT a military or intelligence dashboard, NOT a crime map, NOT a forecasting engine, and NOT code-gated — the Charter forbids secret operational surfaces. Architecture: an Archon (or scheduled cron) POSTs to /api/public/situation-refresh (gated by TLTE_EVAL_KEY); the endpoint iterates a host-allow-listed registry of Tier-A sources (OHCHR, OCHA, UNHCR, ICG, SIPRI, Amnesty, HRW, ITJP, PEARL, Adayaalam, CPA, IMO, FAO, IOM, named journalism of record), scrapes each main URL via Firecrawl v2, and asks Lovable AI Gateway (google/gemini-3-flash-preview) under a hard system prompt to produce a strictly-neutral two-sentence factual lead. The system prompt FORBIDS naming individuals, units or vessels; aggregating counts; forecasting; scoring; and any operational language. Off-topic pages are dropped. Rows are inserted into public.situation_signals (public read, no client writes, service_role write only) keyed by basin (western-indian-ocean / bay-of-bengal / palk-strait / northern-province / eastern-province / diaspora-corridor) and theme (humanitarian / displacement / fisheries / militarisation-reference / rights-monitoring / press-freedom / shipping-safety / natural-hazard). Two-layer rule applies: NOW = the mirrored Tier-A signals visible this era; BECOMING = if and only if all six Graduation Gates close and a qualified humanitarian-info partner (OCHA/ReliefWeb) agrees to host, this surface grows into a multilingual co-published civic awareness layer. Until then it remains Ring 1 — a mirror, never a verdict. Pairs with: /unmai, /thayagam/maritime, /unmai/desk/demilitarisation, /ecumene. The board adds no claim of its own; it routes readers to the source.