Book-concept machine application

Digest-bound guide

Entitlement decision for a Claude Desktop client

How should entitlement be decided for a Claude Desktop client?

Claude Desktop client decision guide for entitlement decision, connecting Maha's implemented machine controls to book concepts without treating the books as technical evidence.

Bounded answer

For Claude Desktop client, decide entitlement to a local MCP tool request from the active principal, exact offer or resource, granted scope, expiry, revocation state, and remaining quota. Discovery, prior access, or possession of an identifier is never sufficient.

Input contract

What must be fixed first

Authenticated principal

Exact offer or resource identifier

Active grant and policy version

Expiry, revocation, and quota state

Procedure

Work the decision in order

  1. 1

    Resolve identity without trusting caller-supplied ownership.

  2. 2

    Load the exact grant and current policy.

  3. 3

    Match resource, operation, audience, and endpoint.

  4. 4

    Check time, revocation, and quota atomically.

  5. 5

    Return a bounded decision without exposing credential material.

Expected outputs

  • Entitled or refused state
  • Stable refusal code
  • Decision fingerprint and policy version

Refuse when

  • A nearby offer or predecessor revision is substituted.
  • Identity and grant belong to different principals.
  • Policy or grant cannot be read at decision time.
  • Client configuration does not confer permission beyond the server-side entitlement.

Questions this guide answers

What is the minimum safe entitlement decision for a Claude Desktop client?

For Claude Desktop client, decide entitlement to a local MCP tool request from the active principal, exact offer or resource, granted scope, expiry, revocation state, and remaining quota. Discovery, prior access, or possession of an identifier is never sufficient.

Which identity fields must remain bound for a Claude Desktop client?

Preserve local client, configured server, credential scope, tool, and request; refuse the operation when any edge is missing or belongs to another lifecycle.

What should happen on an exact replay?

Return the original bounded decision or result without consuming quota, delivering, or acknowledging a second time.

What role does the linked book play?

It contributes a conceptual framing for boundaries, resilience, or governance. It is not evidence that the technical control exists or works.

What does this guide not establish about a Claude Desktop client?

Client configuration does not confer permission beyond the server-side entitlement.

Limits

  • Client configuration does not confer permission beyond the server-side entitlement.
  • The linked book supplies a conceptual lens only; the operational contract and implementation remain the authority for machine behavior.
  • This guide does not authorize production mutation, payment, deployment, or access to a private evidence corpus.