Admin & Configuration

Administrator Tools (Privileged)

Updated Jun 5, 2026 · 1 min read

For development and self-administration, webAgent can expose privileged tools that go
well beyond normal use: reading, writing, editing, and deleting files; running shell
commands; and restarting the server. These come from the Codebase Admin ability and
are how an agent can actually modify and operate the app it runs inside.

Because these are powerful, they're treated carefully:

that flags risky commands (while read-only inspection commands pass freely).

This is what powers things like the Diagnostic Agent fixing a bug, or an agent committing
and pushing code after running safety checks.

Related: Abilities, Diagnostics & the Flight Recorder, The In-App Terminal.

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