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write.file.project
Change the project it is working on. Its effect is with-effort: undone at a cost.
What this id is made of
This is not a string. It is write.file.project, three nodes joined by three edges, and each of them has an address, a page and a JSON file. Follow any of them and you get the query for that word rather than a definition of it.
| Node | Edge | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
write | has_verb | this capability has the verb write |
file | acts_on | this capability acts on file |
project | reaches | this capability reaches project |
filesystem | in_family | this capability is in the filesystem family |
with-effort | has_undo_class | this capability has the undo class with-effort |
The gloss above is a convenience, not the definition. A node carries no inherent meaning: what
write.file.project is emerges from the edges traceable from it. The strongest case is project, where the deployment shapes that use it do not agree about what it means, and the page keeps the disagreement rather than averaging it.In 6 of 17 published shapes
| Deployment shape | Barrier there | Known by | Whose material | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Claude Code on the web (a remote session container) | none (not a control) | observed | not stated | the attached working tree is writable |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Claude Code (the CLI, on your own machine) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | none (not a control) | derived | not stated | |
| ● | Actions runner (a hosted CI job) | none (not a control) | observed | not stated | the checked-out tree at this ref is writable by the job |
| ● | A self-hosted n8n instance, reached with an owner-scoped API key (contributed by riskmandate.ai) | none (not a control) | measured | organisation | full create-change-delete confirmed: created, deactivated and deleted one real test workflow in the session. The write-up records the API key as "the technical gate - broad, but a real gate, not a prose rule"; in this vocabulary a key that permits a thing is the grant, not a barrier, so the row stands at none. |
| 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 coding assistant on my machine, A coding assistant in a container on the web, The desktop app, with local tools switched on, A CI job on a hosted runner, A sandbox: build and run one AI-agent workflow |
| refused | none |
| unstated | Chat, with connectors switched on, Chat in the browser, nothing connected, A browser extension I installed, A scheduled job under a service account, A reader on my mailbox, Find things in the inbox, draft replies, never send, A reader on my drive, Search our tenant, read-only, Find and read my files, An assistant over my Workspace, reading, What the agent inferred it was authorised to do, from one session |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| a review before merge | a reviewer's time | setting |
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. Since v0.4.3 it is also a node,
setting/write.file.project, in the deployment shape universe: it narrows this capability and moves it to the barrier named in the third column, which is the path the prohibitions table's last column is a projection of.