# Host affordances (https://jackin.tailrocks.com/research/product/operator-experience/host-affordances/)



This category organizes the jackin❯ research on host affordances. Choose a page by the question you need to answer.

## Browse [#browse]

<Card title="Host Affordance Bridge Preflight" href="/research/product/operator-experience/host-affordances/host-affordance-bridge-preflight/">
  Validates host-bridge feasibility across clipboard, image, URL, file, diagnostics, and export interactions.
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<Card title="Custom Operator Tools (`[[tool]]`): Design Exploration" href="/research/product/operator-experience/host-affordances/custom-operator-tools-design/">
  Designs manifest-defined operator tools with explicit inputs, host actions, timeouts, and safe presentation.
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<Card title="Host Affordance Bridge — Design Rationale" href="/research/product/operator-experience/host-affordances/host-affordance-bridge-design/">
  Explains the architecture and rejected alternatives for safely exposing selected host affordances to capsule sessions.
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<Card title="Operator Handler System: Design Exploration" href="/research/product/operator-experience/host-affordances/operator-handler-system-design/">
  Defines a typed operator-handler system for routing agent requests to visible, controllable host actions.
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## How to read [#how-to-read]

Start with the page closest to your current question. Follow its related-work links for evidence in adjacent categories and its Roadmap links for implementation commitments.