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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