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No separate permission check needed. This was correct. 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None correctly identified what the reader needed to be. They all assumed that if the data format was rich enough, clients would evolve to use it. They did not. The lesson: protocol design must account for the cognitive capacity of the consumer. 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Security](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-capability-security)\n- [What Is a Capability Token](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-capability-token)\n- [What Is a Confused Deputy](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-confused-deputy)\n- [What Is Context as Cursor](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-context-as-cursor)\n- [What Is a Convergence Catalogue](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-convergence-catalogue)\n- [What Is a Falsification Surface](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-falsification-surface)\n- [What Is HATEOAS](https://miscsubjects.com/a/what-is-hateoas)","status":"active","vx_hash":"3071d8eb96310706c6bd2be26dcb3689de26179d8e152f7fc47ccf3c28403c30","semantic_hash":null,"version_hash":null,"version":1,"sources":[],"falsifiers":[],"tier":null,"backed":null,"transcludes":null,"chain_head":"074774ae904415f3f3ec8683273909976b362b3501cba369a2b59be89e1b6671","chain_length":1,"chain":[{"n":1,"op":"genesis","ts":"2026-07-17T02:43:38.539Z","actor":"owner","text_sha":"44717d9c70b2e3d15cac264195c0465bc11f73d7109b5288ff1d5dedc016f13b","detail":{"divided_from":"body","block":35,"kind":"list"},"prev":"genesis","hash":"074774ae904415f3f3ec8683273909976b362b3501cba369a2b59be89e1b6671"}],"claim_ids":[],"last_op":{"op":"genesis","actor":"owner","ts":"2026-07-17T02:43:38.539Z"},"consolidated_into":null,"stable_url":"https://miscsubjects.com/i/div/what-is-missing-reader/d35"},{"id":"d36","kind":"h","type":null,"order":36,"text":"## Machine 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