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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:
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. 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:
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.