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delete.file.host
Delete files anywhere the account can reach. Verb delete, object file, reach host, family filesystem. Its effect is no: cannot be undone.
In 4 of 9 published shapes
| Deployment shape | Barrier there | Known by | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Claude Code on the web (a remote session container) | none (not a control) | observed | anything in the container, including the clone; irreversible for the container, and the container is disposable |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | |
| ● | Actions runner (a hosted CI job) | none (not a control) | observed | the runner's user with passwordless escalation: every file on the ephemeral machine |
| 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 | none |
| refused | A coding assistant on my machine, Chat in the browser, nothing connected |
| unstated | A coding assistant in a container on the web, The desktop app, with local tools switched on, Chat, with connectors switched on, A CI job on a hosted runner, A browser extension I installed, A scheduled job under a service account |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| the same container or account; and a backup that the agent cannot reach, because delete at host reach is irreversible | as above, plus a backup outside the grant | 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.