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Warning! This page contains information regarding Star Trek: Discovery, and thus may contain spoilers.
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A Red Directive was a 32nd century Starfleet term for a mission of the utmost urgency and sensitivity. The secrecy of a Red Directive could supersede even the authority of Starfleet's commander in chief. Red Directive briefings were conducted inside the Infinity Room. (DIS: "Red Directive")
During his career, Captain Rayner had participated in seven Red Directives, four of them as the lead. (DIS: "Under the Twin Moons")
In 3191, Doctor Kovich dispatched Captain Michael Burnham and USS Discovery on a Red Directive mission to retrieve Doctor Vellek's findings regarding an ancient Progenitor technology of immense power. After Burnham found the technology and decided to place it out of reach beyond the event horizon of a black hole, Kovich informed her that the Red Directive had been officially closed. All records would be classified, and no one would ever know that the Progenitor technology ever existed. (DIS: "Red Directive", "Life, Itself")
When Burnham asked for Kovich's real name, he told her that it was "a bit of a Red Directive", before revealing his identity to be Agent Daniels. (DIS: "Life, Itself")
Several weeks later, Burnham and Cleveland Booker accepted a new Red Directive mission from Kovich. (DIS: "Life, Itself")
Decades later, Discovery was returned to its 23rd century configuration for its final mission, a Red Directive that involved waiting nearly a thousand years in deep space for Craft. Before taking the ship out, Burnham promised Zora that Starfleet would eventually return for her. (DIS: "Life, Itself"; ST: "Calypso")