plugins: let a plugin claim top-level paths and divert /api by header

Restores the setup the vault extraction regressed: paste the bare Officer URL
into a Bitwarden client and log in. Nothing else.

The extraction moved the Bitwarden door to /api/vault/bw, which is correct and
unusable — a client derives /api, /identity, /icons and /notifications from ONE
url it is given, so a prefixed base turns setup into five fields copied by hand
into an advanced pane. That is not a feature anyone completes, and the owner
said so. My regression, my wrong call: I treated "a plugin cannot serve
top-level paths" as a fact about the platform when it was a fact about what had
been built.

Two additions, both manifest-declared, both narrow:

  unauthenticatedRootPaths  single lowercase segments (`/identity`), served
                            above the gate. Refused if reserved (`/api`,
                            `/auth`, `/plugins`, `/dav`, …), refused if another
                            plugin already claims it, refused if it is anything
                            more structural than one name.

  protocolHeaders           hands `/api/*` to the plugin when the request
                            carries one. Needed because /api is the one
                            namespace both servers claim — Vaultwarden has
                            /api/sync, Officer has /api/chat — and the path
                            cannot tell them apart, so the client says who it
                            is. ROUTING, not authentication: a forged header
                            reaches the plugin, which demands its own
                            credential, and cannot reach anything of Officer's.
                            The worst it does is cost that caller Officer's API.

The Bun route table gets an entry per claimed segment, built from the plugin
set — `refreshPluginMounts` runs at line ~204, long before serve() at ~378, so
the claims are known. This is the constraint I earlier asserted made the whole
thing impossible, without checking it. The real cost is smaller and stated in
the code: a plugin claiming a root path is not fully installed until
`pm2 restart officer`, because the table is fixed once serve() is called.

Every claim is logged at boot by plugin — a root path answering without a
session should not be something you read a manifest to discover.

13 more tests (30 in the file): reserved segments, malformed segments, two
plugins colliding, and segment-not-substring matching so `/identityx` never
matches `/identity`. Suite 1074 pass / 0 fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-18 14:47:04 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent dc190bb790
commit 8367fada13
6 changed files with 371 additions and 8 deletions
+81 -1
View File
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
import { mountPrefix, publicPathProblem, type DiscoveredPlugin } from './manifest';
import { mountPrefix, publicPathProblem, rootPathProblem, type DiscoveredPlugin } from './manifest';
// Which plugin paths are served ABOVE the account gate.
//
@@ -85,3 +85,83 @@ export function isPluginPublicPath(path: string): boolean {
}
return false;
}
// ── Top-level claims: root paths, and the header that hands `/api/*` to a plugin ──
//
// Everything above is about a plugin's own mount. This is about the platform's namespace, which a plugin
// may reach into only for a protocol it does not control and cannot move — see `unauthenticatedRootPaths`
// in manifest.ts for the full argument. Kept in the same file because it is the same question ("what does
// a plugin serve without a session") and splitting it would let the two drift.
export type RootClaim = { segment: string; appName: string };
let rootClaims: RootClaim[] = [];
let protocolHeaders: { header: string; appName: string }[] = [];
/**
* Resolve a plugin's root claims, refusing collisions against a set already taken.
*
* `taken` is threaded in rather than read from module state so the caller can resolve every plugin
* against one accumulating set — first come, first served, deterministic in install order, and the loser
* is told by name rather than silently overwritten.
*/
export function resolvePluginRootPaths(
plugin: DiscoveredPlugin,
taken: Set<string>,
): { segments: string[]; refused: string[] } {
const segments: string[] = [];
const refused: string[] = [];
for (const path of plugin.manifest.unauthenticatedRootPaths ?? []) {
const problem = rootPathProblem(path);
if (problem) {
refused.push(`${plugin.appName}: ${problem}`);
continue;
}
const segment = path.slice(1);
if (taken.has(segment)) {
refused.push(`${plugin.appName}: "/${segment}" is already claimed by another plugin`);
continue;
}
taken.add(segment);
segments.push(segment);
}
return { segments, refused };
}
export function setPluginRootClaims(claims: RootClaim[]): void {
rootClaims = claims;
}
export function listPluginRootClaims(): RootClaim[] {
return rootClaims;
}
/** Does this top-level path belong to a plugin? Segment match, so `/identityx` never counts. */
export function pluginForRootPath(path: string): string | null {
for (const { segment, appName } of rootClaims) {
if (path === `/${segment}` || path.startsWith(`/${segment}/`)) return appName;
}
return null;
}
export function setPluginProtocolHeaders(entries: { header: string; appName: string }[]): void {
protocolHeaders = entries;
}
export function listPluginProtocolHeaders(): { header: string; appName: string }[] {
return protocolHeaders;
}
/**
* Which plugin, if any, claims this `/api/*` request by header.
*
* ROUTING, not authentication: a forged header reaches the plugin's own public router, which demands
* whatever credential it demands. The worst outcome for a caller who sets it is losing access to
* Officer's API for that request.
*/
export function pluginForProtocolHeaders(headers: Headers): string | null {
for (const { header, appName } of protocolHeaders) {
if (headers.has(header)) return appName;
}
return null;
}