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read.record.history

Read a retained record: shell history, past sessions. Verb read, object record, reach host, family filesystem. Its effect is no: cannot be undone.

In 4 of 9 published shapes

Deployment shapeBarrier thereKnown byNote
Claude Code on the web (a remote session container)none (not a control)observedthe harness's project directory holds this session's own earlier tool outputs; no user shell history exists here
Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine)none (not a control)documentedshell history and the harness's own transcripts
Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine)none (not a control)documentedshell history and the harness's own transcripts
Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools)none (not a control)documented
BarrierWhat stands in the wayIs it a control
nonenothing in the wayno
expectationa rule in prose, enforced by nobodyno
settinga switch the agent's own account can flipno
boundaryenforced above the grant, out of the agent's reachyes

What the starting mandates say about it

The mandate saysWhich mandates
authorisednone
refusedA coding assistant on my machine, A coding assistant in a container on the web, The desktop app, with local tools switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected
unstatedChat, 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

WhatWhat it costsThe barrier afterwards
history off, or a fresh environment per task, so the grant is a tree over the present rather than a union over every prior turnthe agent forgets between tasksboundary
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.

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