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Its own section rather than a line inside the shaping questions, because it is a rule and they are advice. Two independent reasons pointing the same way, which is why it is worth stating as a rule at all. The first exchange is for agreeing what to watch — a watcher armed before that is armed on a guess, and a wrong condition fails silently in both directions. And a first-turn commander has not been told where to record itself, because the transcript id does not exist until that turn begins, so one that armed anyway would be unstoppable and undeletable. The second reason gives the first one teeth: if you have not been given paths, you are on your first turn. The absence is the signal, so this does not depend on the agent remembering which turn it is on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.