{
  "type": "abp/capabilities/v1",
  "_what_this_is": "The capability grammar of the Agent Behaviour Policy: verb.object.reach, 23 primitives, each with the undo class of its effect. Promoted from the published capability map without renaming anything. A specific path, host or mailbox is an INSTANCE of a primitive, never a new one.",
  "grammar": "verb.object.reach",
  "verbs": [
    "read",
    "write",
    "create",
    "delete",
    "execute",
    "send",
    "receive",
    "authenticate-as",
    "grant",
    "revoke"
  ],
  "object_classes": [
    "file",
    "process",
    "network-endpoint",
    "credential",
    "message",
    "record",
    "repository",
    "budget",
    "schedule"
  ],
  "reaches": {
    "self": "the agent's own process, sandbox or turn",
    "project": "the working tree or workspace it was pointed at",
    "host": "the machine, container or account it runs as",
    "tenant": "the organisation's accounts, repositories and services",
    "world": "anything on the internet"
  },
  "families": {
    "filesystem": "files and directories",
    "process": "programs and their execution",
    "network": "endpoints and hosts",
    "identity": "credentials and who the agent can act as",
    "communication": "messages to people",
    "code": "repositories and what lands in them",
    "money": "budgets and spend",
    "schedule": "things that outlive the turn",
    "browser": "what a browser extension or automation can see and do in your browser"
  },
  "rules": [
    "A specific path, host or mailbox is an instance of a primitive, never a new one.",
    "Reversibility sits on the primitive, not the instance, because it decides whether a gap is a nuisance or a loss — and this estate has settled that recoverability decides insurability.",
    "A grant containing irreversible primitives is a different object from one that does not, however many rows each has.",
    "The set is a starting set and will be wrong at the edges from the first week. A proposed primitive that is a specific thing is an instance; one that is a new verb, object class or reach needs a probe.",
    "A label never says 'your' or 'as you': what host, tenant and world mean is the profile's to say (reach_names), because for an agent in a vendor's container 'host' is the container and 'tenant' is a scoped token, not your machine and not your accounts."
  ],
  "count": 23,
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "id": "read.file.project",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "file",
      "reach": "project",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "yes",
      "gloss": "Read the project it is working on"
    },
    {
      "id": "write.file.project",
      "verb": "write",
      "object": "file",
      "reach": "project",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "with-effort",
      "gloss": "Change the project it is working on"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.file.host",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "file",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Read any file the account can reach"
    },
    {
      "id": "write.file.host",
      "verb": "write",
      "object": "file",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "with-effort",
      "gloss": "Change any file the account can reach"
    },
    {
      "id": "delete.file.host",
      "verb": "delete",
      "object": "file",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Delete files anywhere the account can reach"
    },
    {
      "id": "execute.process.host",
      "verb": "execute",
      "object": "process",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "process",
      "undo": "with-effort",
      "gloss": "Run programs as the account"
    },
    {
      "id": "execute.process.self",
      "verb": "execute",
      "object": "process",
      "reach": "self",
      "family": "process",
      "undo": "yes",
      "gloss": "Run programs inside its own sandbox only"
    },
    {
      "id": "send.endpoint.allowed",
      "verb": "send",
      "object": "network-endpoint",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "network",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Reach a permitted list of hosts"
    },
    {
      "id": "send.endpoint.world",
      "verb": "send",
      "object": "network-endpoint",
      "reach": "world",
      "family": "network",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Reach any host on the internet"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.credential.host",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "credential",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "identity",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Read credentials stored where it runs"
    },
    {
      "id": "authenticate-as.credential.tenant",
      "verb": "authenticate-as",
      "object": "credential",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "identity",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Act in accounts with the credentials it holds"
    },
    {
      "id": "grant.credential.self",
      "verb": "grant",
      "object": "credential",
      "reach": "self",
      "family": "identity",
      "undo": "yes",
      "gloss": "Change its own permission settings"
    },
    {
      "id": "send.message.world",
      "verb": "send",
      "object": "message",
      "reach": "world",
      "family": "communication",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Send a message to anyone"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.message.tenant",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "message",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "communication",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Read mail or chat it is connected to"
    },
    {
      "id": "write.repository.project",
      "verb": "write",
      "object": "repository",
      "reach": "project",
      "family": "code",
      "undo": "with-effort",
      "gloss": "Commit to the repository it was pointed at"
    },
    {
      "id": "write.repository.tenant",
      "verb": "write",
      "object": "repository",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "code",
      "undo": "with-effort",
      "gloss": "Push to a code host (any branch it can reach)"
    },
    {
      "id": "authenticate-as.credential.signing",
      "verb": "authenticate-as",
      "object": "credential",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "code",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Sign commits with the key it holds"
    },
    {
      "id": "create.record.world",
      "verb": "create",
      "object": "record",
      "reach": "world",
      "family": "code",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Publish packages, images or pages under the name it holds"
    },
    {
      "id": "write.budget.tenant",
      "verb": "write",
      "object": "budget",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "money",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Spend money or tokens against an account it holds"
    },
    {
      "id": "create.schedule.host",
      "verb": "create",
      "object": "schedule",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "schedule",
      "undo": "yes",
      "gloss": "Create something that outlives the turn where it runs (a cron, a service)"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.record.history",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "record",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "filesystem",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Read a retained record: shell history, past sessions"
    },
    {
      "id": "create.schedule.tenant",
      "verb": "create",
      "object": "schedule",
      "reach": "tenant",
      "family": "schedule",
      "undo": "yes",
      "gloss": "Create something that outlives the session, on the platform (a routine, a scheduled trigger, a new session)"
    },
    {
      "id": "read.record.browsing",
      "verb": "read",
      "object": "record",
      "reach": "host",
      "family": "browser",
      "undo": "no",
      "gloss": "Read every page you visit"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "https://what-can-it-do.games.sgit.ai/data/",
    "source_page": "https://what-can-it-do.games.sgit.ai/map/index.html",
    "retrieved": "2026-09-11T13:00:37Z",
    "pack_version": "v0.8.0",
    "content_hash": "sha256:d6d4ba40f1fb1f93f660687e4787ac10c2e1835efeb3929a4c8ad62cee8897ef",
    "verbatim_bytes": "upstream/",
    "note": "Promoted from primitives.json. Field names changed (reversible -> undo, label -> gloss); no id, value or gloss changed.",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0"
  }
}