every plugin route renders a workspace, and it is not a rule you can forget

an exclusionary rule, made structural. a plugin does not render a screen: it
contributes panels and says how they are arranged, and the shell renders
WorkspaceView around them.

    web/panels.ts   appRegistryMetas — at least one panel
    web/layout.ts   defaultLayout — how they are arranged

both required the moment web/ exists, and missing either is refused at discovery
by name and with the reason. tested:

    probeplug: has a web/ directory but is missing web/layout.ts.
    Every plugin route renders a Workspace: contribute panels and a layout,
    not a screen.

there is deliberately no way to export a component. one that could would be free
to render a bare div, a full-page form, or its own navigation, and the platform
would become a shell hosting strangers' layouts rather than one application.
non-compliance is not so much refused as unrepresentable — there is nowhere to
put a screen.

the shell registers <prefix> and <prefix>/:section, exactly as the core screens
do, so a plugin's sections stay addressable and cmd-clickable, and panels read
useParams independently rather than passing state between themselves.
appTypes.allowed is pinned to that plugin's own keys, so a persisted layout
naming something else falls back instead of rendering another plugin's panel
inside this screen.

the example plugin is rebuilt to model it — two panels, a layout, one of them
calling its own /api/example/ping through useClient — because the reference
implementation is what everyone copies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ export const ApifyConfig = () => {
<div className="grid gap-5">
{status && (
<div className="flex items-center gap-2 rounded-lg border border-duck-dark/10 dark:border-foreground/10 p-3">
<div className={`h-2.5 w-2.5 rounded-full shrink-0 ${status.configured ? 'bg-green-500' : 'bg-duck-dark/20 dark:bg-foreground/20'}`} />
<div
className={`h-2.5 w-2.5 rounded-full shrink-0 ${status.configured ? 'bg-green-500' : 'bg-duck-dark/20 dark:bg-foreground/20'}`}
/>
<span className="text-sm text-duck-dark dark:text-foreground">
{status.configured ? 'API token configured' : 'Not configured'}
</span>
@@ -70,7 +72,12 @@ export const ApifyConfig = () => {
/>
<span className="text-xs text-duck-dark/40 dark:text-foreground/40">
Get your token at{' '}
<a href="https://console.apify.com/account/integrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className="text-duck-teal underline">
<a
href="https://console.apify.com/account/integrations"
target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"
className="text-duck-teal underline"
>
console.apify.com/account/integrations
</a>
</span>