Blackstaff, I think you're mistaking the City domain thing as being part of the Ghost in the Machine entry.  That's a Cleric thing, not part of the entry we're talking about.  Ghost in the Machine has nothing to do with city magic, except where it can mess with certain technological devices used by the city.

As for the Agenda, I see what you guys are saying about not being okay with killing tech, but that was a feature of the thing I was looking to preserve in the translation.  Not so much because of the killing tech, but because of the direct attack ability.  What if it didn't kill the tech?  In the "overloading the mook's smartphone" example, what if there was still a huge electrical surge, but instead of damaging the phone, the magic protected it and the phone acted as just a vehicle to deliver the shock to the mook?  That would preserve the direct attack feature I like about it without being quite as problematic from the Agenda standpoint.  Would that be feasible?

Yeah, that's sort of how I was coming at it.  There's also no saying it couldn't be a mix.  Maybe a hacker died and his ghost somehow bonded with a nascent digital godling or something.  Or maybe it's just straight-up American Gods-style new god of technology.

So I was reading this article and thought it had some neat ideas that could be ported to DFRPG easily enough.  The City Domain Cleric could already be pretty easily constructed using the Urban Magic sponsored magic from the resources wiki, possibly with a couple of True Faith powers thrown in if you want more of a cleric-y feel.  The one that really intrigued me, though, was the new Warlock pact option, bargaining with a digital entity called the Ghost in the Machine for power over technology.  The idea of a gray hat hacker who discovers this new entity and bargains with it for power came to mind, but I'm having trouble constructing it mechanically.

One big stumbling block I'm running into is Agenda.  What would this thing's agenda be?  On the one hand I thought, hey, if this is a new power of some sort, maybe it's Agenda is just to expand its influence and recognition.  This feels a little like a cop-out, though, since in practice anyone that just doing anything with the powers is in line with it.  Perhaps that's okay, since it is more limited in some ways than the more versatile magics, but it still feels like there should be something meatier there.

Application-wise, the abilities and new spells listed in the document give me some neat ideas for evocation and thaumaturgic applications.  Using a smartphone, tablet, or a laptop as a focus item, and apps as potions, seems like a really neat idea to me.  Evocation with it would likely utilize electricity, either directly for something really flashy, or overloading electrical devices that the victim has to cause them damage (ever seen any of those viral videos of overcharged smartphone batteries exploding?) or directly controlling them as a sort of psychomancy-for-computerized systems.  As far as the thaumaturgy end of the spectrum goes, one idea that immediately leaps to mind is a scrying ritual that uses security cameras or traffic cameras, or a locator spell that uses facial recognition software and traffic camera footage or satellite imagery.  Evothaum could be bypassing electronic locks, infecting computerized systems with various malware, etc.  If anyone has any suggestions for other applications, I'd love to hear them.

So, what say you, assembled masses?

And they named it the SCP Foundation.

Trouble:  Just Got Assigned 682 Duty.

Motivation is going to depend a lot on whether you want them to be the good guys, the bad guys, or both.  In story reality, there's (usually) very different motivations for a good guy org and a bad guy org, even if they do more or less the same thing.  If they're the good guys, they have to do some unpleasant things sometimes, but their motivations are probably pretty pure, protect the world from the monsters, keep order, etc. etc.  If they're the bad guys?  They want to use the supernatural to dominate the natural.  If you want a more nuanced approach with both good and bad?  The "boots on the ground", so to speak, are good folks that want to protect the unaware and keep order, but the bosses are often unrepentant assholes who don't like agents that ask too many questions and sometimes the field agents wonder what the real aims of the agency are...

As far as department, determine what you want their motivation to be and slot them in where appropriate.  If their main goal is observation and analysis, I'd say stick them in the CIA or NSA.  If they're going the "protect the unawares" route, I'd say either DHS or a branch of the USAF would work best.  Or you could make them part of the FBI in a way similar to what they did with Mulder in X-Files.  I think my personal favorite way of doing it, though, is the way they did it in a Cthulhu supplement called Delta Green.  It's a secret organization that has no official branch itself.  Its agents are officially agents of other branches (ATF, DHS, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, sometimes even IRS) and spend most of their lives doing the normal stuff agents from those departments do.  However, when something supernatural comes up in their area, or if they're specific skillset is needed, they get activated by DG by receiving a (usually barebones and vague) briefing.  Doing it this way means that they're so secret that most of the government doesn't even know about them.

For operations, it'll depend a bit on where you put them in the government.  If they're a branch of an existing agency (CIA, NSA, FBI, whatever) they'll likely operate similarly to that agency, with adjustments where appropriate for dealing with and covering up the supernatural.  If you make them their own thing, you'll want to look at how other agencies operate and determine which policy structures fit your idea of the MIB the best.  If you Delta Green it, operations are basically "handle this problem, don't fuck up, and lie like the devil on your after action reports".

And now I hear this in my head:

Jay: Did you ever flashy-thing me?
Kay: No.
Jay: I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
Kay: No.

Precisely what I was thinking of.   Though obviously these guys would be a bit scarier, what with repeatedly doing things that twist their soul.  I suspect that'd be a high turnover job.

Did you know that the White Court, the despair ones, have a deal going with the Zeta Reticulans to feed off the despair abduction victims feel as they struggle futilely to make the world believe what they've been through?

The president's a Changeling.  I shit you not man, I've seen the real birth certificate.

They tell you the Illuminati doesn't exist.  I tell you, look at the wizards, look at all they can do, and then wonder what might happen if a few of them got fed up with the no-politics rule.  Food for thought, dear viewers, food for thought.

Now, I'm not saying George Romero's a Black Court plant, but...

The Gatekeeper is Lovecraft.  You ever see the two of them in the same room?  Didn't think so.

This Harry Dresden guy is White Council propaganda.  Don't believe me?  Look at that guy's reputation.  Nobody could really be that crazy.

I remember reading once, back in the days of oWoD, that a vampire that Capri Sun'd a changeling would have a trip worthy of any 60s LSDathon.  That really tickled me, so I generally carry that concept over into other games that don't have a clear answer to what happens when vampires (or other phages) feed on nonhumans.  So maybe the RCI gets all hot and bothered after feeding on a lust whamp, or roid ragey after feeding on a wrath one.

As for what happens to the whamp, I'd defer to canon.  If they're human enough for Black Court turning, which Blood Rites seem to indicate, then I'd say they're probably human enough for RCI.  However, I generally dislike mashing together monster types, so I'd probably have the player choose whether to become an RCI or have a SHOCKING IMMUNITY! (gasp) to the RCI infection.  Which could be fodder for quite the interesting story in and of itself, assuming the Red Court is still around to be deeply concerned about this strange immunity...