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Assess and reduce the risk of exposing a confidential journalistic source. Use when a reporter is working with a confidential source, a whistleblower, or sensitive leaked material and needs to protect the source's identity. Produces a risk assessment (how the source could be identified — metadata, comms, patterns, documents), secure-communication and handling practices, a redaction/anonymization plan for what's published, and the promises to make (and not make) about protection. Guidance is defensive; it is not legal advice.

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# Source Protection Plan Skill

A source who trusts you can be burned by a metadata field, a predictable meeting pattern, or a document only three people had. Protecting a source is operational, not just a promise. This skill maps how the source could realistically be identified and closes those channels — before, during, and after publication.

## Working from a brief

Given the situation, **produce the full plan** — reason about the specific ways *this* source could be exposed given who they are and who wants to find them. Be honest about residual risk; do not over-promise anonymity you can't guarantee. This is defensive practice, not legal advice — recommend a media lawyer for legal exposure.

## Required Inputs

Ask for (if not provided, else infer and label):
- **The source's exposure** — their access, how many people share it, and who would want to identify them (employer, state, litigant)
- **How you're communicating** and what **material** they've shared (documents, files, messages)
- **What will be published** and any deadline/legal context
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