---
title: "Permission"
description: "the smallest thing that can be allowed: one verb on one kind of thing; generated, never written by hand"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/permission
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Permission

the smallest thing that can be allowed: one verb on one kind of thing; generated, never written by hand

[figure: Permission is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | the verb and the kind |
| store | postgres |
| family | people |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes | the reading's or the kind of action's own name, which a grant and an access scope name |
| `verb` | `text` | yes | the family of the call: read, ask, act, work, session, files |
| `kind` | [Kind](/concepts/kind) | yes | the kind the call gives |
| `from_row` | `text` | yes | the reading or the kind of action that brought it |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Permission directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.