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The graph

An ABP is a graph and every document is a projection of it. The five rules that govern it are published at graphs.sgit.ai and they govern the model rather than the styling. This page says what each one forces here.

Rule	What it forces on this model
Every edge is a verb with a distinct inverse.	`is-granted` and `granted-to` are different edges with different fan out. The inverse is not the same edge walked backwards.
The generic association edge is banned.	There is no `relates-to` anywhere in this model. It constrains nothing and costs fan out.
Never render the whole graph. Render the result of a query.	There is no map of everything on this site. Each page answers one query: this shape's grant, this mandate's delta, this capability across every shape.
Rich nodes are acceptable.	A capability node carries its verb, object, reach, undo class and gloss. The blob is a rendering failure, not a modelling one.
If a path does not read as a sentence in the reader's own language, the edges are wrong.	The acceptance test, below. If a path fails it, the model changes and not the renderer.

The sentence test

agent claude-code-cli-confirmations-disabled is-granted capability execute.process.host bounded-by barrier a-rule-somebody-wrote-down which-exceeds mandate ship-a-feature and-is undo no

Every example page ends with that path, built from its own data, so the test is applied on every build rather than asserted once here.

The five layers, and the tension in them

A five level compression hierarchy says a class name does not mean the same thing two levels up. The variant rule says every rendering must produce the same fact set, with an empty diff. Both are true, and the resolution is precise:

The fact set is the leaf assertions: this shape has this capability, at this barrier, with this undo class; this mandate contains these capabilities; therefore this delta. Identical in every rendering, and the diff is over these.
The classes are how those facts are grouped for a reader. An executive rendering groups by business consequence, an engineer's by reach and barrier. Different at different altitudes, and that is correct rather than a defect.

So the fact diff is over leaf assertions, not over structure. The label and the leaflet on every example page are two renderings of one fact set, and keeping them that way is why both are generated from the same call.

Altitude is for stakeholder, depth is for detail. The layers here are altitudes.

The interchange vocabulary

The W3C has had a rights expression vocabulary since 2018: a policy carries permissions, prohibitions and duties, constraints cover time, purpose, count and place, the conflict strategy says prohibitions win, and a policy inherits from a parent, which is how a policy for an agent in an environment extends a policy for an agent. Use it as the interchange form through a profile that adds these capability primitives as actions.

Do not claim it enforces anything, because it does not. It is a vocabulary for expressing a policy, not a thing that stands in the way. In the barrier's terms an interchange document is a rule somebody wrote down until something above the grant compiles it and enforces it.