A component that lives at the PLUGIN level and appears on the site's page: an empty drop zone with an Add section button, injected into the frame at runtime. Nothing of it exists in the website's source, so the site never carries code only an editor would see, and the builder can change without the site being rebuilt. It works because the preview frame is SAME ORIGIN — through the platform's dev proxy, on Officer's own host — so contentDocument is readable and writable. That single fact is what the page builder rests on, and it is why swapping this plugin's hand-rolled cross-origin proxy for the platform's mattered beyond the bugs it fixed. SitePreview grew one prop, `onDocument`, called with the frame's document after every load and returning a cleanup that runs before the next one. So a reload never leaves two sets of controls behind, and nothing injected outlives the document it went into. Plain DOM rather than React. Portalling would mean running a reconciler against a document that reloads underneath it whenever the dev server rebuilds; these are a handful of elements with a click handler, and this way a reload is a document that no longer exists rather than a tree React still thinks it owns. Inline styles, not classes. The frame carries the SITE's stylesheet, built by scanning the site's own templates — a class invented in this file was never scanned and would silently do nothing. The button takes its colours from --site-fg and --site-bg, so it belongs to whatever theme the site is wearing. The page's existing content is HIDDEN rather than removed, so the same call will leave real blocks visible once there are any. The panel counts the presses for now. That is the only visible proof the wire runs both ways, and it becomes the section picker when there are sections to pick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.