# The mandates

> What a reasonable person wanted from each kind of setup, stated per capability — a starting set, written to be argued with.

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# What people wanted — the mandates

A **grant** is what the system allows. A **mandate** is what you meant to authorise. Nobody writes the second one down, so here are starting drafts: for each kind of setup, what a reasonable person wanted the agent to do, what they did not, and what they never thought about.

> **These were not measured or surveyed.** Each is a first draft written by the site to have something to show a delta against. They are meant to be wrong in places, and a pull request that changes one is the intended way to say so. The game hands every player a mandate of their own at the end of a run; what we learn from those, anonymously, will change these.

| Mandate | Surface | Wants | Does not want | Profiles | Excess | Shortfall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [A coding assistant on my machine](../../map/mandates/coding-assistant-on-my-machine/index.md) | cli | 5 | 11 | 2 | ▲ 20 | ▼ 2 |
| [A coding assistant in a container on the web](../../map/mandates/coding-assistant-in-a-container/index.md) | agentbox | 6 | 3 | 1 | ▲ 3 | ▼ 0 |
| [The desktop app, with local tools switched on](../../map/mandates/desktop-app-with-local-tools/index.md) | desktop | 3 | 6 | 1 | ▲ 6 | ▼ 1 |
| [Chat, with connectors switched on](../../map/mandates/chat-with-connectors/index.md) | web | 3 | 2 | 1 | ▲ 1 | ▼ 0 |
| [Chat in the browser, nothing connected](../../map/mandates/chat-no-connectors/index.md) | web | 1 | 14 | 1 | ▲ 0 | ▼ 0 |
| [A CI job on a hosted runner](../../map/mandates/ci-job/index.md) | ci | 5 | 1 | 1 | ▲ 0 | ▼ 1 |
| [A browser extension I installed](../../map/mandates/browser-extension-i-installed/index.md) | extension | 1 | 2 | 1 | ▲ 2 | ▼ 0 |
| [A scheduled job under a service account](../../map/mandates/scheduled-job-under-a-service-account/index.md) | service | 4 | 2 | 1 | ▲ 2 | ▼ 1 |

Excess and shortfall are totals across the profiles a mandate applies to. [The deltas, as matrices](../../map/deltas/index.md).

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