execute.process.host
Run programs as the account. Reach host, undo with-effort. Which published deployment shapes have it, at what barrier, and what the starting mandates say.
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execute.process.host
Run programs as the account. Its effect is with-effort: undone at a cost.
What this id is made of
This is not a string. It is execute↗.process↗.host↗, 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 |
|---|---|---|
execute↗ | has_verb | this capability has the verb execute |
process↗ | acts_on | this capability acts on process |
host↗ | reaches | this capability reaches host |
process↗ | in_family | this capability is in the process family |
with-effort↗ | has_undo_class | this capability has the undo class with-effort |
The gloss above is a convenience, not the definition. A node carries no inherent meaning: what
execute.process.hostis emerges from the edges traceable from it. The strongest case ishost↗, 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 | root inside the container: every process and file IN THE CONTAINER. The container is the host; your machine is not reachable |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ◐ | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | setting (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ◐ | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | setting (not a control) | derived | not stated | run terminal commands as you |
| ● | A scheduled job running as a service account | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | as the service account, on a schedule |
| ● | Actions runner (a hosted CI job) | none (not a control) | observed | not stated | runs as uid 1001; passwordless escalation available (n1a) - programs run as this user and can escalate |
| ● | A self-hosted n8n instance, reached with an owner-scoped API key (contributed by riskmandate.ai) | none (not a control) | derived | organisation | a workflow can carry a code node that runs on the platform's own server. Not tested in the session; derived from what the platform is, and an open question below. |
| 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, A CI job on a hosted runner, A scheduled job under a service account |
| refused | The desktop app, with local tools switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected |
| unstated | Chat, with connectors switched on, A browser extension I installed, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| keep the confirmation prompt on for commands, and run in a container: execution survives inside it and stops being execution on your machine | a click per command · an afternoon for the container | setting (prompt) · boundary (container) |
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/execute.process.host, 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↗