'capabilities' already means three things in this codebase — the permission
registry, the officer-items store, and the sidecar's routing keys. a fourth
would be one too many, and the field is really just permissions. the name is
free: the old permissions table went in 044aacf4.
and the kind enum is gone with it. the first draft handed a plugin the
platform's own five-value CapabilityKind and then forbade three of them. those
five exist because the platform has five sorts of surface; a plugin has two —
grantable to members, or owner-only. a boolean says it, and says it without
needing a prohibition: a plugin cannot claim core if core is not a word it can
say.
offscale is ownerOnly: true, which is what kind: 'admin' meant.
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written against the real plugin rather than invented as a field list, on the
theory that an abstract one includes what nothing needs and misses what is
awkward. that paid off on the first field that mattered.
the rule here said a plugin may declare `app` and nothing else. offscale's
capability is `admin` — owner only — and should stay that way, so the rule was
wrong. the distinction is direction, not privilege: `core` means every account
and not deniable, so claiming it grants yourself to everyone; `admin` means
owner only, which is a plugin restricting itself. corrected table in the doc.
core, execution and confined stay the platform's to assign.
`publisher` is the only input to the mount prefix, through one function, so
first-party and third-party cannot drift into two code paths.
sidecar.runtime is a field because officer-pty needs node for node-pty's abi
while everything else is bun — one plugin already needs it, so not speculative.
dependsOn is informational and unenforced. code dependencies need no declaration
now that a plugin builds inside the workspace, and service dependencies already
degrade; this exists so the store can say the console section wants the terminal
plugin, rather than the section silently doing nothing.
health is marked deferred rather than open, with the reasoning, so it does not
get re-raised. migrations likewise.
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everything moves to the plugin, frontend included, so federation stopped being
a later problem and had to be answered. it is answered by not needing it: bun
builds the spa into build/ at start and rebuilds it on install, serving from
that directory instead of compiling through the html import. Bun.build is a
runtime call, so an install needs no restart — just a refresh. same origin
throughout, which is why there is no cors work and no rewrite of useClient.
App.tsx keeps core routes and gains one map over `plugins`, each mounted at a
wildcard delegating to the plugin's own router. that list comes from a generated
Plugins.tsx, because a bundler cannot follow import(runtimeString) — the
specifier has to be concrete before the build. the six places the shell
currently hardcodes headscale collapse into that one file, dock included; the
runtime dockItemsFromPlugins path follows rather than competing with it.
presentation moves to build time, permission stays runtime.
dependencies turned out to be two different problems wearing one word. a service
dependency (assist → anthropic-proxy) is a wire call and already degrades. a
code dependency (ConsoleView → TerminalView) is in the bundle and cannot. rule:
may depend, must degrade. service calls go through the api carrying the user's
token, with the user's own permissions, which also deletes the state-file read
claude-proxy uses today to lift the proxy's secret.
no per-plugin permission list: a plugin is part of the app and bounded by the
account calling it. that makes marketplace review a security boundary rather
than a naming one, which is worth knowing rather than discovering.
and the developer environment is a platform checkout — clone it, run dev, build
the plugin inside. the 13 workspace packages resolve by name because bun links
them, so `import { useClient } from 'hooks/useClient'` just works with no
registry and no versioning. dev-time and build-time become the same mechanism.
also writes down the headscale inventory now that it has been read end to end,
including that assist.ts travels unwired as a marker and must not be tidied away
as dead code.
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the name looks like branding on someone else's project, which is exactly how it
gets 'corrected' back later. it is not: offscale is the stock headscale server
plus the companion that ships beside it, and the invite flow is the first thing
that only exists there.
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closes the one open item left by deleting /api/vpn. removing the vpn capability
leaves no member-grantable headscale surface and that is correct: the owner
mints an invite from the headscale app, the companion turns it into the redirect
the phone claims, and the device joins. no per-member permission on officer is
involved at any step.
recorded as decided rather than open so nobody reintroduces a member-facing
enrolment route believing something was lost. nothing was — /api/vpn/enroll was
the design the invite flow replaced, and it never had a UI.
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it had no caller. verified three ways before removing: nothing in the mobile
monorepo reaches it (enrollVpn's only call site is behind `if (embedded)`, and
the one app rendering VpnScreen never passes embedded), nothing in the officer
web app references it, and the live database holds no vpn grants. the companion
was checked separately by its own author — zero references there either.
and it will not come back. offscale is permanently standalone: the thing that
gets you to the platform cannot itself need the platform, or a broken tailnet
locks you out of both.
gone: api/vpn/router.ts, its mount, and the `vpn` capability. the registry keeps
a comment where the capability was, because its removal has a cost worth
recording — headscale is admin-only, so no member-grantable headscale surface
remains, and reintroducing one is a deliberate act rather than an oversight.
kept: the sidecar's enroll.ts. its bare POST /_officer/enroll handler is now
unreachable, but the file is also the dispatcher for /enroll/invites, which is
live and fundamental. the header comment now says so, so nobody deletes it
looking for dead code.
also records the third component in the doc. two of the three have an "enroll"
surface and only one is ours: /api/v1/enroll/* belongs to the companion, is
where the phone actually goes, and must not be collapsed into /api/offscale/*.
capabilities tests: 17 pass / 8 fail both before and after, stash-verified — the
8 are pre-existing, in totality and path-to-capability, which is precisely the
machinery dynamic mounting will rework.
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first step of extracting headscale into a plugin. CORE_PROCESSES is five now,
and the catalogue.test CORE[] mirror follows it — not optional, since that list
asserts "the catalogue must not offer a core process" and would have blocked
adding offscale to the catalogue later.
the local generated ecosystem file lost its entry too, and officer-headscale was
stopped and deleted from pm2 by hand. the platform still mounts /api/headscale
and still declares the headscale and vpn capabilities, so the feature is
present-but-unavailable rather than gone.
docs/offscale-plugin.md is a live document for the rest of it. what it records
that nothing else does: core is now `officer` alone and everything else is a
plugin; routes are /api/<app-name> for ours and /api/p/<creator>/<app-name> for
third parties, derived by one function so the two can never become two systems;
tables stay in public with an app-name prefix; mounting becomes genuinely
dynamic, which retires the "every route stays mounted" premise and relocates
assertCapabilityTotality from a boot check to a per-mount transaction.
it also records a rejected experiment with evidence — a postgres schema per
plugin works completely, including cross-schema FK, idempotent push and
DROP SCHEMA CASCADE as uninstall — and the reason not to: drizzle-kit 0.31.8
needs schemaFilter naming every schema, contradicting its own docs, and without
it push reports "No changes detected" and creates nothing. a plugin install that
reports success and makes no tables is the exact failure shape we have hit three
times this week.
and /api/vpn is dead: no caller in the mobile monorepo, none in the web app, no
grants in the database. offscale is permanently standalone, so it never comes
back. the invite flow is unaffected — the phone claims from the Companion, not
from officer.
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