docs: clarify automation profile showcase workflow

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CleverAgents ships with a rich configuration system and a set of **automation
profiles** that control how much autonomy the agent has when executing plans.
This example walks through the complete workflow: inspecting configuration
values, understanding the five-level resolution chain, switching automation
values, understanding the six-level resolution chain, switching automation
profiles, and creating a custom profile with guard constraints.
## Prerequisites
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from the built-in default. Secret values (API keys, tokens, passwords) are
automatically masked as `****`.
**Tip:** Add `--filter-values "."` to highlight only settings whose values
deviate from defaults — we'll use this flag later in the "Try It Yourself"
section.
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### Step 2: Filter settings by key pattern
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### Step 4: Inspect the full five-level resolution chain
### Step 4: Inspect the full six-level resolution chain
```bash
$ agents config get core.automation-profile --verbose --format json
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**What's Happening:**
The `--verbose` flag exposes the **five-level precedence chain** (highest →
The `--verbose` flag exposes the **six-level precedence chain** (highest →
lowest priority):
| Priority | Source | Description |
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- `name` must be a bare name (`my-profile`) or namespaced (`namespace/name`)
- `schema_version` must be `"1.0"` (quoted string)
- All threshold fields are floats in `[0.0, 1.0]`
- Values outside `[0.0, 1.0]` are rejected immediately — the CLI returns a
validation error at registration time
- `guards` is optional — omit it for a profile without hard limits
- `tool_denylist` blocks specific tools from being called
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### Step 14: Remove the custom profile
### Step 14: Reset to a safe default before removal
```bash
$ agents config set core.automation-profile supervised --scope global --format json
```
**Expected Output:**
```json
{
"data": {
"key": "core.automation-profile",
"value": "supervised",
"previous_value": "acme/cautious",
"source": "config_file",
"scope": "global"
}
}
```
Resetting the config ensures there is no dangling reference to a profile that is
about to be removed. Future plan executions immediately fall back to the
built-in `supervised` profile.
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### Step 15: Remove the custom profile
```bash
$ agents automation-profile remove acme/cautious --yes --format json
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**What's Happening:**
`--yes` skips the interactive confirmation prompt — useful in scripts. Built-in
profiles cannot be removed; attempting to do so returns an error. The response
includes the full profile data with `removed: true` so you can confirm what was
deleted.
`--yes` skips the interactive confirmation prompt — useful in scripts. Because
the config was reset in Step 14, no automation profile setting points to the now
deleted profile.
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### Step 16 (Optional): Understand the error when removing a built-in profile
```bash
$ agents automation-profile remove supervised --yes --format json
```
**Expected Output (excerpt):**
```
Error: Built-in profiles cannot be removed.
```
Built-in profiles are immutable safeguards. The CLI responds with an error and a
non-zero exit code, keeping the profile intact. This is the behavior referenced
in Step 15.
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# 14. Activate the custom profile
$ agents config set core.automation-profile acme/cautious --scope global --format json
# 15. Remove the custom profile
# 15. Reset to supervised before removal
$ agents config set core.automation-profile supervised --scope global --format json
# → previous_value: "acme/cautious"
# 16. Remove the custom profile
$ agents automation-profile remove acme/cautious --yes --format json
# → removed: true
# 17. (Optional) Attempt to remove a built-in profile
$ agents automation-profile remove supervised --yes --format json
# → exits with error: Built-in profiles cannot be removed.
```
</details>
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## Key Takeaways
- **Config uses a five-level precedence chain**: `cli_flag` > `env_var` >
- **Config uses a six-level precedence chain**: `cli_flag` > `env_var` >
`local` > `project` > `global` > `default`. Use `--verbose` to see which
level wins for any key.
- **Three file scopes**: `--scope global` writes to `~/.cleveragents/config.toml`,