pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 003613872d provision <root>/media, beside the checkout
where the images and the files will live. same row shape as the checkout above it,
because it is the same kind of fact: a thing that either is or is not at a known
path under the root, with one button that puts it there.

BESIDE `website`, never inside it, and that is the point of it being here rather
than a folder in the repository:

  - it must SURVIVE the checkout. deleting `website` and cloning it again is a
    normal thing to do when something is wrong with it, and it must never be the
    thing that destroys the client's photographs.
  - it must never be TRACKED. media in git is a repository nobody can clone a year
    from now, and a .gitignore is a promise somebody eventually breaks with
    `git add -f`.

both under one root, so a backup of the root is the whole site — the code and the
things it serves. that is the property that makes the root worth being a setting.

NOTHING ABOUT ITS INSIDES IS DECIDED. this creates the directory and reports
whether it is there; the layout, who writes to it and what goes where are still
being described. inventing a folder tree now would settle that in the file least
able to change its mind, because directories on disk are not a migration you can
run.

`mkdir -p`, so it also creates a root that is still only a default — saving a root
creates nothing, and provisioning into a path that does not exist is the ordinary
first run. idempotent by the same flag, which is what makes the button safe to
offer next to a status that might be stale.

no console for this one: making a directory either works or gives one line about
why not, and a black transcript box for a single sentence makes a small thing look
like a large one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 01:03:28 +01:00
2026-08-28 22:32:23 +01:00
2026-08-28 22:32:23 +01:00

Fofos Admin

An Officer plugin. It puts the fofos website's admin inside Officer, as panels.

Status: nothing is built yet. This repository is a name and a README. What it will be is below, and the API it consumes already exists — see The other half.


What this is

fofos is a website with three surfaces in one process: a public site generated to static files, a JSON API, and an admin that has until now been its own server-rendered application on its own subdomain, behind its own password.

That third one is moving here. Editing the site becomes something you do inside Officer, with Officer's accounts, Officer's permissions and Officer's workspace — rather than a second login on a second domain that has to be told separately who is allowed in.

Why a plugin, rather than leaving it where it was

One place to sign in. The admin had its own argon2 passwords, its own session cookie and its own /admin/setup bootstrap. All of it duplicated something Officer already does properly, and none of it could be shared: a person given access to the machine still had to be given access to the admin, separately, by hand.

Officer's permissions instead of a second answer. One grantable permission, per role, at read or write — the same page as every other plugin, with no special case to learn.

The site keeps its own data. This plugin stores nothing of the client's. Content, uploads and every photograph stay in fofos's own database and media store; the only thing in Officer's database is the connection to reach them. So deleting this plugin — with or without the "delete its data" checkbox — cannot lose a single line of copy or a single image. That is a deliberate property, not a happy accident.

What it will look like

A nav down the left and a detail panel beside it, following plugins/proxy-manager rather than plugins/gitea — a list of sections over a remote service whose credential the plugin holds, which is this problem exactly.

Nine sections, in the order they will be built:

Messages contact form submissions. Read only, and there is no delete
Site settings partners, social links, contact details
About one page of copy and a header photograph
Home the hero, the intro, and an ordered gallery
Gallery · Drops · Collabs pieces, each with ordered media
Collections the nested one — collections hold items, items hold media
Services a fixed tree. Content only: no adding, no removing, no reordering

Messages is first on purpose. It is one read-only route, so it proves the whole path — Officer panel, through this plugin, to fofos and back — before anything harder is attempted.

The other half

The API this consumes is already built and running, in the fofos repository at /api/admin. It covers all nine sections, authenticates with a bearer token, and its full route reference is in docs/SURFACES.md.

It lives there rather than here for one reason worth stating: the query layer is the only thing the site and the admin share, and a plugin carrying its own copy of fofos's database schema would be a second definition of the same tables in a different repository, drifting from the day it was written. So this plugin holds a URL and a token and knows nothing about Postgres.

Configuration

One connection: where fofos is, and a token to reach it. Stored in a plugin-owned table, encrypted under this plugin's own purpose key, and never returned across the API boundary — to anybody, including the owner. A settings form asking "is one set" gets a boolean.

/_config is ownerOnly. The token is write authority over the whole public site, so while reading what is on the site is reasonable to delegate, handing over the credential is not.

Not in the marketplace

This is a plugin for one website, and it is useless without that website. It installs from its git URL and has no catalogue entry.


Files

Nothing yet. What Officer requires, once there is something:

manifest.ts          identity, the permission, ownerOnly on /_config
db/schema.ts         ONE table: the fofos connection
api/router.ts        mounted at /api/fofos-admin — forwards to fofos
web/panels.ts        the panels. REQUIRED alongside web/
web/layout.ts        how they are arranged. REQUIRED alongside web/

Presence is the declaration — Officer discovers a plugin by what is on disk, and manifest.ts holds only what a directory listing cannot say. A web/ missing either of its two files is refused at discovery, by name.

Conventions

master, not main.

Every colour is a semantic token — bg-muted, text-muted-foreground, border-border — and never a Tailwind palette class. Palette classes do not follow the theme, so a plugin using them looks correct under exactly one theme and wrong under the rest.

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