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pastilhas 027b10bd6e step 4/4: the docs say permissions too, and capability means one thing again
44 files of prose — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, TODO.md, 20 docs, both plugin design
documents, and the comment surface the earlier steps could not reach.

Applied against an explicit keep-list, not swept, because the word turned out to
have SIX meanings in this repository rather than the three the offscale doc
recorded:

  permissions          renamed (steps 1–2)
  $OFFICER_ROOT/capabilities/  KEPT — the item store, and now the only thing
                               the word means that is ours
  sidecar routing keys renamed to `handles` (step 3)
  Lightning wallet     KEPT — a domain term, and on the wire to the mobile apps
  terminfo queries     KEPT — XTGETTCAP, in the pty sidecar
  InvoiceShelf         KEPT — per-resource { write, bulkDelete } flags

The sweep still falsified two things, both caught by checking rather than by
review, and both in prose that discusses more than one meaning at once:

CLAUDE.md began claiming the item store lives at `$OFFICER_ROOT/permissions`.
It does not; that directory is on disk and full of skills and tools.

And the offscale doc's own note about the collision became
"Named `permissions`, NOT `permissions`" — a sentence that had eaten the thing
it existed to warn about.

Both restored, and the note rewritten to say what is now true: capability means
one thing of ours, and three that belong to somebody else's vocabulary.

Verified live after restart: self and admin permission endpoints 200, gated
route 200, agent-status 200, 9 grants intact with 6 permissions offered.
tsgo clean, 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7.

The rename is done. Four steps, no data lost, no client break that survived
the step it was introduced in.
2026-08-15 16:31:11 +00:00

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AGENTS.md

Guidance for any coding agent working in the Officer platform repo.

The instructions live in CLAUDE.md. Read it first — this file only points there.

Kept separate so agents that look for AGENTS.md by convention find the same guidance as those that look for CLAUDE.md, without the two drifting apart.

Orientation

Officer is a self-hosted platform built around one owner (user id 1, role Super Admin, who bypasses every permission check), which since 2026-08-07 also admits additional accounts holding a strict subset of it. Roles are Admin / Member / Developer; what each may reach is decided by per-role permission grants, resolved on every request.

If a design question turns on "which user", the answer depends on the surface: real for the app permissions (gitea, music, photos, email, calendar…), and still always the owner for anything that executes code or touches the disk — terminal, chat, tasks, files, desktop, browser are kind: 'execution' and can never be granted. src/servers/permissions/registry.ts is the authority.

Mounting a router without a registry entry makes the server refuse to boot. Read the "Permissions" section of CLAUDE.md before adding one.

This file previously described Officer as strictly single-user with "no tenancy, no roles, no user management". That was written to correct an older drift in the opposite direction — a fictional multi-user intranet with a user-invitation API — and it overshot. Both are now superseded by the paragraph above; treat the permission registry as the source of truth over either.

This repo is one of two. The other, permissions/, holds the agent's tasks, tools and skills as plain files, and is where most changes belong — adding or changing a task needs no code change here and no restart.

  • CLAUDE.md — this repo's architecture, conventions and code style
  • docs/working-on-officer.md — the deployment-wide guide: which directory a change belongs in, how to run and verify it, the task system, and the failure modes worth knowing about
  • CONVENTIONS.md — component organisation and React patterns, with rationale
  • TODO.md — current direction; takes precedence where it disagrees with anything else

Treat the code as the source of truth where anything disagrees with it.