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@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ exists to answer the question that drove the whole CLI — *which verbs are wort
 adding next* — with data instead of one maintainer's habits (the earlier mining
 covered a single user's ~51k commands, so the surface is shaped to that user).
 
+> **Update (2026-06-26) — the cross-user privacy *norm* below is superseded by
+> [ADR-0015](0015-os-is-the-authorization-boundary.md).** The prohibition this
+> ADR leaned on ("reading another user's `~/.claude` is off-limits even for an
+> owner in-session") no longer holds: the managed-settings policy now **defers
+> to OS/sudo authorization**. The `usage top` telemetry design itself is
+> unchanged and still current — only the "never read homes" framing in the
+> third decision below is overtaken.
+
 ## Decisions
 
 - **Emit on dispatch, in `dispatch()`.** The longest-prefix match already knows
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+# OS is the authorization boundary: agents defer to Unix/sudo, not a stricter in-policy rule
+
+Supersedes the cross-user privacy *norm* that the devvm managed-settings policy
+carried and that ADR-0011 leaned on ("never read another user's home /
+`~/.claude`, off-limits even for an owner in-session"). ADR-0011's actual
+subject — `usage top` telemetry and its emit design — is unchanged and still
+current; only the privacy prohibition it referenced is superseded here.
+
+## Context
+
+The devvm managed-settings policy (`/etc/claude-code/managed-settings.json`,
+`claudeMd`) carried two rules that were, in practice, *stricter than the OS*:
+"you are not the admin, do not escalate privileges" and "never read another
+user's home directory, credentials, tokens, or `~/.claude`." The OS told a
+different story: `wizard` holds `(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL` — full passwordless root.
+The kernel had already granted total read access; the policy was layering an
+artificial refusal on top of an authorization the OS already permits, and the
+"not the admin" framing was factually wrong for a NOPASSWD-root user.
+
+Two honest ways to resolve the inconsistency: tighten sudo to match the policy,
+or loosen the policy to match the OS. The owner chose the latter on 2026-06-26,
+for analytics/debugging across the shared box.
+
+## Decision
+
+- **Authorization follows the OS, not this policy.** Agents may access whatever
+  their OS user can access — directly or via `sudo` where they hold sudo rights
+  — and must not impose restrictions stricter than the OS. On this box that
+  includes other users' home directories and `~/.claude` for users who hold
+  broad sudo.
+- **No separate prompt or carve-out** for OS-authorized access. The Unix
+  permission model + sudoers is the single source of truth for who may read
+  what. Other homes are `0750`-owned, so a cross-home read necessarily transits
+  `sudo` and is therefore captured in the sudo/auth audit log.
+- **Cluster/infra RBAC tiering is unchanged.** kubectl / Vault / infra access
+  stays scoped to each user's RBAC tier; "defer to the OS" is about OS-level
+  file access, not a licence to exceed cluster RBAC.
+- **Scope is symmetric and multi-user.** The rule lives in the *shared*
+  managed-settings, so every user's agents defer to that user's own sudo grant.
+  Any user with broad sudo gets the same cross-home read capability over other
+  users' files. Accepted by the owner with that understanding; emo's and
+  ancamilea's `~/.claude` is now agent-readable by sudo-holders.
+- **Takes effect in a fresh session.** managed-settings loads at session start;
+  the session that made the change keeps running under the old policy.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The privacy-preserving telemetry rationale in ADR-0011 (`usage top` as the
+  "cross-user analytics without reading homes" answer) remains useful but is no
+  longer the *only* sanctioned path; direct reads via `sudo` are now permitted.
+- Larger blast radius: if an agent session running as a sudo-holder is
+  prompt-injected or otherwise compromised, it can now read every user's secrets
+  with no in-agent friction (sudo here is passwordless). The sudo/auth audit log
+  is the remaining accountability control.
+- Reversible: restore the prior `claudeMd` bullets (backup kept at
+  `/etc/claude-code/managed-settings.json.bak-2026-06-26`) and start a fresh
+  session.