manifest, one table, a router and two panels. Discovery is by convention, so
this is the point at which the directory stops being a directory and becomes
something Officer can install.
The manifest holds only what a listing cannot say. One permission, grantable,
with ownerOnly on /_config — reading and editing the site is exactly what a
member might be brought in for, but the token is unrestricted write authority
over everything the public sees, so handing it over is the owner's.
db/schema.ts is ONE table and should stay that way. fofos owns its own Postgres
and its own media store; this holds a URL and a token. That is what makes the
strongest thing about this plugin true: no operation on it can destroy the
client's work, checkbox ticked or not, because none of it was ever here. A cache
would be the thin end of that.
The router mostly forwards. fofos's /api/admin already answers in the shape a
panel wants, so re-wrapping it would be a second place for the contract to drift.
Two things in it are load-bearing rather than style:
registerProxiedPrefix('/api/fofos-admin/media'). bodyParser calls parseBody on
multipart across the whole protected router, and Hono then caches the parsed
FormData — so asking for the bytes afterwards re-serialises them under a NEW
boundary while the ORIGINAL content-type header is what gets forwarded. Header
and body disagree and every upload fails with "Unexpected end of form".
Narrow to the one route: everything else is JSON that is fine to parse.
The catch-all is LAST in the file. Hono runs matching handlers in registration
order, so /* above /_config would swallow it and the settings form would
forward itself to fofos, which has no such endpoint — a 404 from a plugin that
is working perfectly.
Panels are a nav and a detail pane that never speak to each other: the nav writes
?section=, the detail pane reads it. Real <Link>s rather than the buttons
proxy-manager uses — AGENTS.md says nav items are links, and the file documenting
that pattern says not to copy the older one. <Link> and not <NavLink> because
active state here is a query parameter and NavLink compares paths, which would
light every row at once.
Which component renders which section is a MAP, not a conditional on `built`.
The first version read `built ? <MessagesPanel/> : <Planned/>`, which is correct
only while exactly one section exists — the second one finished would have
rendered Messages under its own name.
Messages is the only section built, chosen because it is one read-only route: it
proves the path from an Officer panel through this proxy to fofos and back with
nothing else able to be wrong at the same time. The other eight are in the nav,
dimmed and labelled, saying what they will do and that the old admin still edits
them. A nav that hides what is unfinished gives no sense of what the thing is for.
Typechecked against the platform — and the typechecker was verified to actually
cover plugins/ by planting an error and watching it fail, because a clean run
that does not include your files is worse than no run.
NOT yet: installed, or run against a live fofos. Nothing here has been through
the permission gate or a real request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <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.