plugins declare the host binaries they need, and the installer checks

Offscale was self-sufficient. Music is not — it shells out to ffmpeg and
ffprobe — and the way it fails without them is the reason this is a check
rather than a line in a README.

It does not fail. Missing ffprobe means the indexer catches the spawn error
and returns a track carrying its filename and nothing else: no title, artist,
album, duration or embedded lyrics. It then walks the whole library, writes a
complete cache tree and reports success. Five swallowed catches, no log, no
counter, and the only tell is coversSaved: 0 in a report nobody reads.

So `osDependencies` is a manifest field: the binary to probe on PATH, why it
is needed, and a package name per package manager. The shape is taken from
scripts/setup-old/setup.sh rather than invented — probe the binary, case on
$PM — and the names are per-manager rather than canonical-with-overrides
because lib/packages.sh already recorded why that indirection was rejected.
Probing the binary is what makes "built-in on this OS" free: on PATH means the
package map is never consulted.

Four decisions worth naming.

Missing and uninstallable REFUSES the install, first, before a table is
created or a row written — so there is nothing to undo, and the alternative is
a plugin that installs, answers 200 and quietly produces nothing.

The status is on GET /api/plugins and rendered before the button, because the
owner is deciding whether to let the server run a package manager as root and
that needs answering first. Installing by hand and watching it flip to present
is the escape hatch on a machine without passwordless sudo.

Package names get a deliberately narrow regex and reach Bun.spawn as an argv
ARRAY, never a shell. Both halves are load-bearing: the regex means a
metacharacter cannot get there, argv means it would be an argument rather than
syntax if it did. Narrower than package managers actually accept — no `:`, no
`+` version pins — because a plugin needing one wants a conversation.

Success is OBSERVED, not inferred: after installing, the binaries are re-probed.
A package manager exiting 0 having installed something that does not provide
the binary is exactly the failure this exists to catch.

installCommand mirrors lib/packages.sh's pkg_install_now exactly, including
apt's non-interactive environment, so there is one definition of "install a
package" rather than two that drift. sudo always gets -n: under PM2 a password
prompt is not a slow path, it is a hang. brew never escalates.

Verified live. ffmpeg and ffprobe were absent on this machine all evening; the
page showed both missing with the exact root command, the install streamed
`dependencies: installing ffmpeg with apt` then `ffprobe, ffmpeg now on PATH`,
and X-Audio-Duration appeared on a stream response for the first time. The
refusal path was exercised against a temporary probe dependency: HTTP 400,
steps: [], reason named.

THIS CHANGED THE MACHINE: ffmpeg 6.1.1-3ubuntu5 is now installed via apt.

Found on the way: a manifest is read once per process. Discovery does
`await import()` and the module cache holds it, so editing a manifest changes
nothing until pm2 restart officer — including `outdated`. Cost ten minutes and
is now in the runbook.

bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, 7 fail — the same seven, +25 new.
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { addPluginToEcosystem, pluginProcessName, removePluginFromEcosystem } fr
import { discoverPlugins } from './discover';
import { refreshPluginMounts, snapshotPlugins } from './mount';
import { generatePluginSchemas, pushSchema } from './schema';
import { installDependencies, manualInstallHint, reportDependencies, stillMissing } from './os-deps';
import type { DiscoveredPlugin } from './manifest';
// The install runner: the four verbs, each as a short ordered list of effects.
@@ -19,11 +20,15 @@ import type { DiscoveredPlugin } from './manifest';
//
// ── What each verb touches ──
//
// ecosystem PM2 row mounts tables
// install add start upsert rebuild (see below)
// uninstall remove delete delete rebuild untouched
// enable — start enabled=t rebuild untouched
// disable — stop enabled=f rebuild untouched
// host deps ecosystem PM2 row mounts tables
// install install add start upsert rebuild (see below)
// uninstall untouched remove delete delete rebuild untouched
// enable untouched — start enabled=t rebuild untouched
// disable untouched — stop enabled=f rebuild untouched
//
// Host dependencies are installed and never removed. A package is a machine-wide resource that other
// things may have started depending on the moment it appeared, so uninstalling a plugin has no business
// deciding that `ffmpeg` should go — the same reasoning as tables, one level down.
//
// Nothing here drops a table, ever. Uninstall means "stop running this", and for a plugin holding a
// user's data the two are unrecoverably different — see `plugin_installs` schema.
@@ -94,6 +99,59 @@ export async function installPlugin(appName: string, onStep?: OnStep): Promise<P
const steps: string[] = [];
try {
// HOST BINARIES FIRST, before a table is created or a row is written.
//
// Music is why. Without `ffprobe` its indexer does not fail — it writes a complete library where
// every track is a bare filename with no cover, and reports success. So a plugin whose dependencies
// cannot be satisfied must not install at all: the alternative is a plugin that runs, answers 200,
// and quietly produces nothing, which is far harder to diagnose than a refusal.
//
// First because it is the only step that can refuse for a reason the owner can act on, and refusing
// before any effect means there is nothing to undo. Everything below this line changes the machine.
const deps = reportDependencies(plugin);
if (deps.missing.length) {
if (!deps.canInstall) {
const hint = manualInstallHint(deps.manager, deps.packagesToInstall);
return {
ok: false,
appName,
steps,
error:
`${appName} needs ${deps.missing.map((d) => d.binary).join(', ')}, which ${deps.missing.length === 1 ? 'is' : 'are'} not installed. ` +
`${deps.blockedReason ?? ''}${hint ? ` Run: ${hint}` : ''}`.trim(),
};
}
await step(steps, onStep, `dependencies: installing ${deps.packagesToInstall.join(', ')} with ${deps.manager}`);
const installed = await installDependencies(deps.manager!, deps.packagesToInstall);
if (!installed.ok) {
return {
ok: false,
appName,
steps,
error: `dependency install failed: ${installed.error ?? installed.output}`,
};
}
// Observed, not inferred. A package manager exiting 0 having installed something that does not
// provide the binary the plugin spawns is exactly the failure this whole check exists to catch,
// and trusting the exit code would reproduce it one layer up.
const absent = stillMissing(plugin);
if (absent.length) {
return {
ok: false,
appName,
steps,
error: `installed ${deps.packagesToInstall.join(', ')}, but ${absent.join(', ')} still ${absent.length === 1 ? 'is' : 'are'} not on PATH`,
};
}
await step(steps, onStep, `dependencies: ${deps.missing.map((d) => d.binary).join(', ')} now on PATH`);
} else if (deps.dependencies.length) {
// Said out loud rather than skipped silently: "it was already there" and "we never looked" are
// different facts, and only one of them is reassuring.
await step(steps, onStep, `dependencies: ${deps.dependencies.map((d) => d.binary).join(', ')} already present`);
}
if (plugin.schema) {
// The barrel first, then the push. It is generated from the DIRECTORIES on disk rather than from
// what is installed — see schema.ts for why that difference is the whole safety property.