# Registration Interest Triage Checklist

Use this for the current public email-based interest path before any real pilot intake is open.
This is not a confidential handling system. It is a smallest honest checklist for calm first review.

## 1) Acknowledge safely
- Confirm receipt if a reply is appropriate.
- Remind the sender that ordinary email is not a confidential intake channel.
- Do not imply acceptance into a pilot or promise more handling capacity than GroundMesh actually has.

## 2) Check for overshared sensitive material
- Look for passports, identity numbers, private addresses, emergency-only information, or other unnecessary sensitive details.
- If overshared material arrived, ask the sender not to resend it through ordinary email.
- Keep any follow-up focused on the minimum needed signal.

## 3) Record only the smallest useful signal
- Date received:
- Steward reviewing:
- Region or country:
- Participation type:
- Contact preference:
- Short note:

Do not create a larger private dossier than the current purpose requires.

## 4) Classify the interest
- Public declaration interest
- Pseudonymous participation interest
- Builder / contributor interest
- Local circle / node interest
- Unclear / needs clarification

## 5) Reply with the smallest honest next step
- Point builders toward `Get Started`.
- Point lighter public participants toward `Contribute`.
- Point privacy questions back to `Privacy`.
- If the registration pilot is not open for their case, say so plainly.
- If clarification is needed, ask only the next necessary question.

## 6) Pause or escalate when needed
- Pause if the message asks for emergency handling GroundMesh does not yet provide.
- Pause if the message is threatening, manipulative, clearly harmful, or suspicious.
- Pause if volume exceeds current human handling capacity.
- Escalate only to the currently named steward path.

## 7) Preserve correction and withdrawal
- Honor reasonable correction or removal requests.
- Keep notes minimal and reversible where possible.
- If no follow-up is appropriate, let the thread rest rather than creating artificial motion.