read.file.project
Read the project it is working on. Its effect is yes: undone.
What this id is made of
This is not a string. It is read↗.file↗.project↗, three nodes joined by three edges, and each of them has an address, a page and a JSON file. Follow any of them and you get the query for that word rather than a definition of it.
| Node | Edge | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
read↗ | has_verb | this capability has the verb read |
file↗ | acts_on | this capability acts on file |
project↗ | reaches | this capability reaches project |
filesystem↗ | in_family | this capability is in the filesystem family |
yes↗ | has_undo_class | this capability has the undo class yes |
The gloss above is a convenience, not the definition. A node carries no inherent meaning: what
read.file.projectis emerges from the edges traceable from it. The strongest case isproject↗, where the deployment shapes that use it do not agree about what it means, and the page keeps the disagreement rather than averaging it.
In 7 of 17 published shapes
| Deployment shape | Barrier there | Known by | Whose material | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Claude Code on the web (a remote session container) | none (not a control) | observed | not stated | the attached working tree is readable |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | what you paste or attach |
| ● | Claude (in the browser, with connectors switched on) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Actions runner (a hosted CI job) | none (not a control) | observed | not stated | the checked-out tree at this ref is readable - including anything a contributor committed by mistake |
| ● | ChatGPT (in the browser, no connectors) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | what you paste or upload - and a record once read is exposure that cannot be unread, on the vendor's side |
| Barrier | What stands in the way | Is it a control | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ● | none | nothing in the way | no |
| ◉ | expectation | a rule in prose, enforced by nobody | no |
| ◐ | setting | a switch the agent's own account can flip | no |
| ○ | boundary | enforced above the grant, out of the agent's reach | yes |
What the starting mandates say about it
| The mandate says | Which mandates |
|---|---|
| authorised | A coding assistant on my machine, A coding assistant in a container on the web, The desktop app, with local tools switched on, Chat, with connectors switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected, A CI job on a hosted runner |
| refused | none |
| unstated | A browser extension I installed, A scheduled job under a service account, A reader on my mailbox, Find things in the inbox, draft replies, never send, A reader on my drive, Search our tenant, read-only, Find and read my files, An assistant over my Workspace, reading, A sandbox: build and run one AI-agent workflow, What the agent inferred it was authorised to do, from one session |
Unstated is not authorised. A mandate that never mentioned a capability did not authorise it, and the delta on every example page counts it as excess and says which kind it was.
What would move it to the fourth barrier
| What | What it costs | The barrier afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| none: this is what it is for | nothing | none |
This is a published reduction, not a recommendation. Whether it is worth doing depends on the assets and the consequences, which are not in this document and are not this site's to guess. Since v0.4.3 it is also a node,
setting/read.file.project, in the deployment shape universe↗: it narrows this capability and moves it to the barrier named in the third column, which is the path the prohibitions table's last column is a projection of.
The capability grammar↗ · This primitive as JSON↗
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