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AFS

How does an agent learn what a path supports?

Discover the resource, inspect its explanation, then use supported operations.

AFS

How does an MCP client operate AFS?

MCP supplies the connection contract; AFS supplies the resource environment and semantics.

AFS

Are AFS prompts and explain the same thing?

Prompts orient the caller; explain supplies guidance for a particular path.

AFS

What makes an agent’s AFS task inspectable?

Observe discovery, reads, operation choice and result verification separately.

AFS

What are the two directions of MCP integration?

Exposing AFS to MCP clients differs from mounting an MCP server into AFS.

AFS

Why did Plan 9 make namespaces local?

A participant can assemble a resource view that includes remote services.

AFS

How do you expose a discoverable action?

An action needs discoverable arguments, effects and failures as well as a handler.

AFS

What do conformance tests establish?

Check declared shared contracts, not merely whether a demonstration runs.

AFS

How do you start a read-only provider?

Begin with one explicit resource and its path contract before adding operations.

AFS

Why test rejection as well as success?

Success-only examples miss over-broad access, swallowed errors and lost updates.

AFS

Check a read-only provider

Mount a report at /work and check it with shared tests and an actual read.

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How should you navigate the providers?

Classify resources and responsibilities before repository directories.

AFS

Should a provider return its mount prefix?

Providers use their own relative paths; the dispatcher restores the mount prefix.

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How does a remote resource enter a namespace?

A local path can represent a remote service without removing network and authority boundaries.

AFS

What is reversed in a reverse mount?

Connection or registration direction changes; authority does not automatically reverse.

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What remains different behind a service provider?

Permissions, latency and side effects remain part of the service contract.

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How do FS, JSON, KV and DID Space differ?

Common operations preserve differences in location, structure and persistence.

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Why expose system capabilities as providers?

Runtime state and capabilities can have structured entry points with their own lifetimes.

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What does AFS borrow from Unix?

Common names and operations let tools work across resource implementations.