Draft capability entry (reuse-surface REUSE-WP-0017-T04, cohort 1)

Honest first-pass maturity vector grounded in README/docs/tests present
in this repo; no invented evidence. Flagged for human review before
publish. See reuse-surface history/2026-07-06-coverage-classification.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

registry/capabilities/capability.agents.cli-assistant.md

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+---
+id: capability.agents.cli-assistant
+name: Console-Native LLM Assistant (cya)
+summary: Console-native, backend-agnostic assistant CLI that expresses user intent in natural language
+  and returns safe, explainable, context-aware help.
+owner: can-you-assist
+status: draft
+domain: agents
+tags:
+- cli
+- assistant
+- llm
+- safety
+maturity:
+  discovery:
+    current: D2
+    target: D4
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: README documents the MVP slice (CYA-WP-0001), the LLMAdapter seam, and the rule-based risk-classification
+      safety layer; no separate INTENT/SCOPE file found.
+  availability:
+    current: A2
+    target: A3
+    confidence: medium
+    rationale: Installable today via `pip install -e .`; ships a working CLI (`cya "..."`, `--explain-context`)
+      with a FakeLLMAdapter default and optional real llm-connect backend.
+external_evidence:
+  completeness:
+    level: C1
+    confidence: low
+    basis: scope_vs_intent_and_consumer_expectations
+    satisfied_expectations:
+    - natural-language CLI entry point
+    - context-explain mode
+    - mandatory confirmation for destructive/privileged/mass-edit/network actions
+    broken_expectations: []
+    out_of_scope_expectations: []
+  reliability:
+    level: R0
+    confidence: low
+    basis: consumer_quality_signals
+    known_reliability_risks:
+    - MVP slice only; real llm-connect backend optional/not always configured
+discovery:
+  intent: Let users express intent in natural language from the terminal and receive safe, explainable,
+    context-aware help, without owning LLM inference or memory storage itself.
+  includes:
+  - CLI orchestration and UX
+  - rule-based risk classification and confirmation gating
+  - LLMAdapter seam to llm-connect
+  excludes:
+  - LLM inference (owned by llm-connect)
+  - memory storage (owned by phase-memory)
+  assumptions: []
+  use_cases: []
+  research_memos: []
+availability:
+  current_level: A2
+  target_level: A3
+  current_artifacts:
+  - '`cya` CLI package, pip-installable'
+  target_artifacts: []
+  consumption_modes:
+  - cli
+relations:
+  depends_on: []
+  supports: []
+  related_to: []
+evidence:
+  documentation:
+  - README.md
+  tests:
+  - tests/
+  consumer_feedback: []
+  bug_reports: []
+  incidents: []
+consumer_guidance:
+  recommended_for:
+  - shell-based workflows wanting a safety-gated natural-language assistant
+  not_recommended_for:
+  - needs beyond the first MVP slice (CYA-WP-0001)
+  known_limitations:
+  - first narrow MVP slice; FakeLLMAdapter is the default, real backend is optional
+promotion_history: []
+---
+
+# Console-Native LLM Assistant (cya)
+
+## Overview
+
+`cya` is the CLI surface for the capabilities domain: it owns orchestration, UX, and a safety layer, and talks to `llm-connect` only through a stable `LLMAdapter` boundary, keeping memory under `phase-memory`.
+
+## Assessment notes
+
+### Discovery
+
+README documents the MVP slice (CYA-WP-0001), the LLMAdapter seam, and the rule-based risk-classification safety layer; no separate INTENT/SCOPE file found.
+
+### Availability
+
+Installable today via `pip install -e .`; ships a working CLI (`cya "..."`, `--explain-context`) with a FakeLLMAdapter default and optional real llm-connect backend.
+
+### Completeness
+
+First-pass honest assessment from the REUSE-WP-0017 coverage campaign
+(reuse-surface). No external consumer feedback exists yet; levels reflect
+scope-vs-intent documentation quality, not internal code quality.
+
+### Reliability
+
+No production consumer telemetry exists yet; reliability level is
+intentionally conservative pending REUSE-WP-0019 reuse-telemetry evidence.
+
+## Promotion checklist
+
+- [x] ID follows `capability.<domain>.<name>` pattern
+- [x] Maturity enums match `specs/CapabilityMaturityStandard.md`
+- [x] `external_evidence` is populated separately from `maturity`
+- [ ] Relations reference valid capability IDs (none yet)
+- [x] Index entry added in `registry/indexes/capabilities.yaml`

registry/indexes/capabilities.yaml

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 version: 1
-updated: '2026-06-16'
+updated: '2026-07-06'
 domain: helix_forge
-capabilities: []
+capabilities:
+- id: capability.agents.cli-assistant
+  name: Console-Native LLM Assistant (cya)
+  summary: Console-native, backend-agnostic assistant CLI that expresses user intent in natural language
+    and returns safe, explainable, context-aware help.
+  vector: D2 / A2 / C1 / R0
+  domain: agents
+  status: draft
+  owner: can-you-assist
+  path: registry/capabilities/capability.agents.cli-assistant.md
+  tags:
+  - cli
+  - assistant
+  - llm
+  - safety
+  consumption_modes:
+  - cli