A trigger proposed from Slack or Telegram was always read only, and
the person had no way to let its runs act except to edit the trigger
on the Triggers page afterwards.
The approval of a binding now has an acts list, the act.* permissions
that a proposal from its chats may carry. It is empty by default, so
nothing changes until the owner sets it. It is stored in the same
approval JSON (no migration), checked against the closed list in the
API, and always limited to what the agent holds.
The acts of a proposal are what the model asks for, within the list of
the binding and the grants of the agent. The rest is dropped and
named in the proposal text, and the model is told which acts it may
ask for and to ask the person first when the job changes things. A
read only proposal now says what the person can do next.
For a proposal with acts, auto_readonly still asks. auto starts it at
once only when every act is allowed for the binding, nothing was
dropped and every sender of the turn is paired; otherwise it asks. A
trigger made without asking also keeps to the acts of its binding at
run time.
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A trigger run with nobody present only reads unless its trigger holds
act.* grants, and until now only the REST API could set them. An agent
that proposes a trigger can now ask for acts too:
- propose_trigger takes an optional acts list. The names must be
act.* grants the agent of the chat holds; anything else is refused
and nothing is stored. A read_only proposal cannot carry acts.
- The proposal stores the list. Confirming it, in Studio, by a plain
yes or by confirm CODE, grants exactly that list. No tool changes
the acts of a trigger afterwards. Two proposals that differ only in
their acts are kept apart.
- The text of a proposal in a messaging app now has a Permissions
line, in plain words with sensitive classes marked: read only, or
what a run may do. The confirmation repeats it. A proposal that asks
for acts is never set up without a yes, whatever the approval mode.
- The trigger REST object gains acts_held, read_only and
read_only_why, computed with the same rules as the run, so a client
can show why a run only reads.
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A trigger run or an agent job has nobody to approve a step, and so far
the approval mode auto_readonly and the act.* grants were only recorded.
The prompt was the only thing that kept such a run from acting.
Every tool call of an unattended run now goes through one check at the
call. A tool that only reads runs. Any other tool needs the grant of its
class, and the check fails closed:
- act.files for write_file, edit_file, move_file, delete_file and the
built-in bash;
- act.addons, or act.addons:<id>, for add-on tools whose declared kind is
not read, plus act.spend when the add-on gates the tool with a
permission;
- act.spend for MCP tools.
A trigger holds its new acts list within the grants of its agent. A
trigger that declared read only runs, or that a binding in auto_readonly
mode made without asking, is refused every non-read tool whatever it
holds. A binding that cannot be read counts as auto_readonly. A job
holds the act grants of its agent. Sub-agents follow their parent, and a
saved agent cannot be started from an unattended run.
A refused call answers with a plain sentence the model can pass on, not
an error, and writes one audit log line. Triggers set acts through the
REST API; a model never can. A trigger whose plan names a file it writes
keeps act.files.
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Ettore Di Giacinto