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What does the containment specialist do?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Pandemicbg-30549-en-1e · Pandemic: On the Brinkbg-40849-en-1e
The Containment Specialist has the following abilities and characteristics: * When entering a city, if 2 or more disease cubes of the same color are present, he removes 1 of them [1]. * This removal occurs when he is moved by others, such as the Dispatcher or via the Events Airlift and Special Orders [1]. * If several diseases with 2 or more cubes are present, he removes 1 cube from each of these diseases [1]. * Removing a Virulent Strain disease cube using the Containment Specialist's power does not satisfy the requirement for Government Interference [2][3]. * His power is considered part of movement [4][5]. * Once during a turn, he may (with permission) take any City card from a player in the same city with him; this is not an action [6].
🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 280 ms · ask 11461 ms · total 11750 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 11750 ms
- retrieval refs (raw)
- [{"page": 8, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The Bio-Terrorist is used only in the Bio-Terrorist challenge (see page 5). The Archivist's hand limit is 8 cards. He may, once per turn, as an action, draw the City card that matches the city he is in from the Player Discard Pile into his hand. Players may not freely discard cards (for the Archivis", "headingPath": "BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.032522, "snippet": "Each player has a role with special abilities to improve your team's chances. The Contingency Planner may, as an action, take an Event card from anywhere in the Player Discard Pile and place it on his Role card. Only 1 Event card can be on his role card at a time. It does not count against his hand ", "headingPath": "ROLES · CONTINGENCY PLANNER · DISPATCHER · MEDIC · COMMONLY OVERLOOKED RULES · OPERATIONS EXPERT", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.032002, "snippet": "The Quarantine Specialist prevents both outbreaks and the placement of disease cubes in the city she is in and all cities connected to that city. She does not affect cubes placed during setup. When doing the Share Knowledge action, the Researcher may give any City card from her hand to another playe", "headingPath": "QUARANTINE SPECIALIST · RESEARCHER · SCIENTIST · CREDITS", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.031258, "snippet": "Do you have what it takes to save humanity? As skilled members of a disease-fighting team, you must keep four deadly diseases at bay while discovering their cures. You and your teammates will travel across the globe, treating infections while finding resources for cures. You must work together, usin", "headingPath": "by Matt Leacock · CONTENTS · 59 Player cards · OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.030835, "snippet": "This expansion adds a 5 th player, 6 roles, 8 events, and 3 challenges to Pandemic. Virulent Strain challenge: makes one disease particularly nasty in unpredictable ways. To get started, play the base game with the new roles and events. You may also add a challenge to vary the game some more. We sug", "headingPath": "OVERVIEW · New Roles · New Events · Borrowed Time · Mobile Hospital · New Assignment · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 1, "score": 0.030777, "snippet": "1 by Matt Leacock Do you have what it takes to save humanity? As skilled members of a disease-fighting team, you must keep four deadly diseases at bay while discovering their cures. You and your teammates will travel across the globe, treating infections while finding resources for cures. You must w", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 174}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.03031, "snippet": "Removing (but not Treating ) a Virulent Strain disease cube-with the Containment Specialist's power, the Field Operative's sample power, or the Events Remote Treatment or Rapid Vaccine Deploymentdoes not satisfy this effect's requirement. The Event Mobile Hospital does satisfy it. Other players' paw", "headingPath": "Government Interference · Rate Effect", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029958, "snippet": "OVERVIEW This expansion adds a 5th player, 6 roles, 8 events, and 3 challenges to Pandemic. To get started, play the base game with the new roles and events. You may also add a challenge to vary the game some more. We suggest you try the three challenges in order: • Virulent Strain challenge: makes ", "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}]
- citations (raw)
- [{"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Government Interference · Rate Effect", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "OVERVIEW · New Roles · New Events · Borrowed Time · Mobile Hospital · New Assignment · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 219}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 174 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 174 boosted
- layering — route
- not layered — one pooled read: the books were read together and that read answered, so re-reading them one at a time would spend the same GPU to re-derive an answer already given
- answered-before recall
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this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
- debug row retained until
- Nov 3, 2026 20:48
retrieval — what the search arm returned
score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.
per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.
token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.
| fused rank | document | heading | page | fused RRF score | snippet chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · … | p.8 | 0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174) | ROLES · CONTINGENCY PLANNER · DISPATCHER · MEDIC · COMMONLY OVERLOOKED RULES · OPERATIONS EXPERT | p.8 | 0.032522 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174) | QUARANTINE SPECIALIST · RESEARCHER · SCIENTIST · CREDITS | p.8 | 0.032002 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174) | by Matt Leacock · CONTENTS · 59 Player cards · OVERVIEW | p.1 | 0.031258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | OVERVIEW · New Roles · New Events · Borrowed Time · Mobile Hospital · New Assignment · … | p.2 | 0.030835 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Pandemic — Rulebook (corpus doc 174) | p.1 | 0.030777 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 | |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | Government Interference · Rate Effect | p.3 | 0.03031 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.2 | 0.029958 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one)) | 300 |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | BIO-TERRORIST · ARCHIVIST · CONTAINMENT SPECIALIST · EPIDEMIOLOGIST · FIELD OPERATIVE · GENERALIST · … | p.8 | no quote on the wire |
| [2] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.3 | no quote on the wire | |
| [3] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | Government Interference · Rate Effect | p.3 | no quote on the wire |
| [4] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.2 | no quote on the wire | |
| [5] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | OVERVIEW · New Roles · New Events · Borrowed Time · Mobile Hospital · New Assignment · … | p.2 | no quote on the wire |
| [6] | RULEBOOK Pandemic: On the Brink — Rulebook (corpus doc 219) | p.1 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 280 ms · first delta 10401 ms · total 11750 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
- full breakdown
- queued 0 ms · retrieval 280 ms · ask 11461 ms · gateway work 11750 ms · total 11750 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 4348
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 185
- tok/sec
- 146.4 tok/sec — 185 output tokens in 1.264 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s ago)
- stream path
- streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
- watchdog
- first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
- num_ctx · think posture
- both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.
disposition
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
- answered — no abstain rationale applies
setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render
- decision
- NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
this game registers NO errata cards (edition 43), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one
Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.