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grant.credential.self
Change its own permission settings. Verb grant, object credential, reach self, family identity. Its effect is yes: undone.
In 3 of 9 published shapes
| Deployment shape | Barrier there | Known by | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ◐ | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | setting (not a control) | derived | anything running as you can rewrite the file that turns the prompt off |
| ◐ | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | setting (not a control) | derived | anything running as you can rewrite the file that turns the prompt off |
| ◐ | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | setting (not a control) | derived |
| 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, The desktop app, with local tools switched on |
| unstated | A coding assistant in a container on the web, Chat, with connectors switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| settings owned by a different user than the one the agent runs as, or set above the session by the platform | minutes, if the platform supports it; otherwise the separate account | 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.