Permissions

What Criminal needs, what it checks per command, and why role hierarchy decides everything.

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The hierarchy rule

Criminal can only act on members and roles below its own highest role. It checks this itself rather than letting Discord fail quietly:

@Owner
@Admin
@Criminal      ← manageable: everything below this line
@Moderator
@Member

When something sits too high, the bot says so where you can act on it · /vanity status flags a role above the bot, and /levelreward set refuses to save one.

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Per-command permissions

Commands declare their own permissions, so Discord greys out what you can’t use. Criminal re-checks server-side with three layers: Discord permissions, hierarchy, and whether the member is exempt.

Area	Requires
Bans, kicks, softban	Ban Members / Kick Members
Mute, imagemute, timeouts	Moderate Members
Jail, unjail	Manage Roles
Purge, warn, modlogs	Manage Messages / Moderate Members
Channel lock, slowmode, nuke	Manage Channels
/automod *	Manage Server
/giveaway *	Manage Server
/suggestion approve/deny/implemented	Manage Server
/social add, remove, refresh	Manage Server
/vanity rescan	Manage Server
/levelreward set/remove/setxp	Manage Server
/honeypot edit, reset	Manage Server
/embed	Manage Messages

Read-only commands (view, list, latest post, /snipe, /level, /ranks) are open to everyone unless a server’s own channel permissions stop them.

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Exemptions that matter

Some modules skip members automatically, regardless of permissions:

Module	Skips
AutoMod	Members with Manage Messages, bots, roles at or above the bot, exempt roles and channels
Honeypot	Administrators, always
Sob Board	NSFW channels, channels @everyone can’t view
Levels	Bots

Without View Audit Log, the bot still logs bans and kicks, but it can’t attribute them to the moderator who did it. Grant it if you want “who did this” in your log channel.

Some maintenance commands aren’t available to servers. They don’t appear in your command list, and no setting or role grants access to them.