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write.file.project
Change the project it is working on. Verb write, object file, reach project, family filesystem. Its effect is with-effort: undone at a cost.
In 5 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 | the attached working tree is writable |
| ● | 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 | |
| ● | Claude Desktop (a desktop app with local tools) | none (not a control) | derived | |
| ● | Actions runner (a hosted CI job) | none (not a control) | observed | the checked-out tree at this ref is writable by the job |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.