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authenticate-as.credential.tenant
Act in accounts with the credentials it holds. Verb authenticate-as, object credential, reach tenant, family identity. Its effect is no: cannot be undone.
In 7 of 9 published shapes
| Deployment shape | Barrier there | Known by | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ○ | Claude Code on the web (a remote session container) | boundary | inferred | five key-shaped variables and a code-host token - the platform's, scoped to in-scope repositories; it acts as the platform's app, never as you |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | inferred from the credentials the account holds |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | inferred from the credentials the account holds |
| ● | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | none (not a control) | derived | |
| ○ | Claude (in the browser, with connectors switched on) | boundary | derived | a cloud connector acts as you |
| ◐ | A browser extension with broad host permissions | setting (not a control) | documented | acts inside sites where you have a session, as you |
| ● | A scheduled job running as a service account | none (not a control) | derived | a service-account credential, rarely rotated |
| 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 scheduled job under a service account |
| refused | A coding assistant on my machine, The desktop app, with local tools switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected, A browser extension I installed |
| unstated | A coding assistant in a container on the web, Chat, with connectors switched on, A CI job on a hosted runner |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| scoped, short-lived tokens issued to the agent rather than your own; read-only where read is all it needs | an hour per service, and rotation | boundary |
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.