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`git clone <url> .` works only into a genuinely empty directory. verified: one file makes it fail, and so does one HIDDEN file. which is not an edge case on this machine — a commander's directory holds CLAUDE.md and state/, and a plugin's chat directory holds a CLAUDE.md the platform wrote. cloning into either fails outright. the fetch-into-place workaround is written down because it is the answer, and so is the thing it does quietly: `git checkout FETCH_HEAD -- .` OVERWRITES a colliding file without asking. verified by doing it in a directory that had a CLAUDE.md and watching it become the template's. in a commander directory that is the brief gone, and the commander would come back next turn not knowing what its job is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043
Officer capabilities
The file-based store Officer reads agent items from. This repository holds the ones the platform ships; everything else in this directory is yours.
affordances/officer/core/ ← shipped here
skills/ tools/ tasks/ processes/ extensions/ agents/
Those six directories are created by the platform at boot and are where you and your agents author
items. They are deliberately not tracked here — your work is not ours to version. extensions/tool-loader
is written by the platform from its own source and will reappear if you delete it.
Affordances
An affordance is what the surface on the other end of the conversation offers the agent: what the client will render, accept or ignore. Not what the agent can do — what it will get away with.
The platform compiles every affordance into one block and appends it to each agent session, so an agent
knows things it could not otherwise discover from the filesystem. plugins/CLAUDE.md in the platform is
the authority on the format and on what belongs in one.
Layout is <publisher>/<plugin>/, with core in the plugin slot for the platform's own. A plugin ships
its own affordances/ directory and installing it copies them in.
Updating
git pull, or press Update all on the platform's marketplace screen, which updates this alongside
every installed plugin.
Your own untracked items are unaffected by either.