Capabilities

This directory contains documentation about the various capability types in the component framework.

Capabilities grant the ability to a component to connect to and access resources from other components.

• Event capabilities: receive lifecycle events about components at a certain scope.
• Directory capabilities: connect to directories provided by other components.
• Protocol capabilities: connect to FIDL protocols provided by other components or the framework itself.
• Service capabilities: connect to FIDL services (groups of protocols) provided by other components or the framework itself.
• Storage capabilities: special-cased directories with different semantics.