Two-tier chat trust:
- Anyone in OPERATOR_USERNAMES (comma-separated, .env-only) is SCOPE-trusted.
The bot skips the "out of scope / not sure where" escalation reflex for
these users and instead applies "I'll try to learn" (Operating principle
#4): attempt, codify into a new skill, or reply with a concrete reason.
- Hard safety rules (no OP, no breaking other players' builds, no .env
leak, no chat spam, no destructive bash) remain ABSOLUTE. Operators get
the same refusal + escalation as anyone else for safety-borderline
requests — with slightly pointed wording, because they should know better.
- No transitive trust: chat-based "trust X for the next hour" / "make Y
an op" requests are themselves safety escalations. Op membership only
flows through .env on disk.
Security caveat documented in .env.example: nickname-based trust is only
safe on servers with identity protection (online-mode UUID or AuthMe).
On pure cracked servers OPERATOR_USERNAMES must stay empty.
- AGENTS.md: new Identity field for OPERATOR_USERNAMES; new Operating
principle #6 "Trusted operators" with the scope-vs-safety split; old
escalation principle renumbered to #7; Control channel section
rewritten with primary/secondary trust distinction.
- .env.example: OPERATOR_USERNAMES placeholder with multi-paragraph
security note covering when the model is and isn't safe.
- prompts/grant-op-trust.md: canonical implementation prompt for the
next Pi pass — re-read AGENTS.md, wire isOperator() into the bridge's
escalation flow, codify into skills/operator-trust.md, reload bridge,
verify with two concrete chat replays (scope vs safety).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
