Disclosures

Contributors to the Wolfram Language Paclet Repository can include a list of disclosures with their paclet. These disclosures tell users how to expect the paclet to interact with their environment.

Typical disclosures include: “Local Files”, “Wolfram Account”, “External Services”, “WL System”, “OS Configuration” and “Local System Interactions”.

Disclosure Actions

A summary of actions corresponding to each disclosures is below:

Local Files

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Creates, deletes or modifies local files

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Imports data from local files

Wolfram Account

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Requires, uses or records any information related to user’s Wolfram ID

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Interacts with the user’s user’s Wolfram Cloud account or Wolfram Account

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Creates, deletes or modifies the user’s cloud objects

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Creates or executes cloud-deployed scheduled tasks

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Uses cloud credits or service credits

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Makes Wolfram|Alpha calls

External Services

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Makes requests to external services (http, ftp, ssh, etc.)

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Creates or uses service connection

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Sends emails

Wolfram Language System Configuration

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Creates persistent local scheduled tasks

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Modifies Wolfram Language system or environment settings

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Modifies $Path, Directory or similar

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Installs additional paclets or dependencies

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Creates, modifies or deletes symbols outside of the Publisher`PacletBaseName` context

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Creates or imports non-public ResourceObject content

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Makes front end modifications

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Defines or modifies internal handlers

OS Configuration

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Modifies OS settings

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Makes any use of SystemCredential

Local System Interactions

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Executes Shell or RUN commands

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Uses external evaluators via ExternalEvaluate

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Interacts with external libraries

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Reads or writes to streams or sockets

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Launches parallel kernels, subkernels or GPUs