The owner read the code and asked why `plugins/music/api/router.ts` was three
lines importing `@@/api/music/router` — platform code that knows the string
'music'. He was right, and tracing it found the justification was hollow.
The chain: server.tsx:20 imported the cliamp relay's two exports, which are
used only on commented-out lines; so the relay's functions were never invoked;
so its call to getMusicServerWsUrl never ran; and the file's other export,
getMusicServerUrl, had no consumers at all. A dead import held a music-named
file in the platform, and I documented that as a "seam" last night after
checking the import existed and stopping there.
Everything cliamp now lives in plugins/music/cliamp/:
sidecar/music/{cliamp-ws,pulse-audio}.ts, asoundrc, the test
api/cliamp/relay.ts
apps/FileBrowser/{CliampPanel,AudioStreamPlayer}.tsx
src/servers/sidecar/music/, src/servers/api/cliamp/ and src/servers/api/music/
are gone. server.tsx has no cliamp import, provider name, handler entry or
route. The platform contains no file named for music or cliamp.
Two of the things that moved were live, not inert.
The file browser's `Play` context-menu item, on any audio file or folder, set
?play= and rendered a cliamp terminal pointed at /api/cliamp/ws — a route that
upgraded into a handlers entry that was commented out, so handlers[provider]!
asserted non-null on undefined. Using that menu item crashed the socket
handler. Removed: the action, the layout, the panel wiring and both menu
entries. Verified the routes now 404 rather than crash.
That closed the totality drift as a side effect. server.tsx's route table and
its handlers map agree again for the first time since 2026-08-13, and
registry.test.ts now asserts it rather than pinning the hole.
The proxy is built in the plugin now, and its prefix is DERIVED. It was the
literal '/api/music', which the proxy uses to strip characters off the path —
correct only because mountPrefix returns /music for a first-party publisher.
The same plugin published by anyone else mounts at /api/p/<publisher>/music and
would have forwarded /alice/music/stream to a sidecar expecting /stream. A
latent bug only third parties would ever hit, and a quiet violation of the rule
that mountPrefix is the one function allowed to know about provenance. Offscale
has the identical hardcode and still needs it.
Still open there: appName is passed as a literal, because a plugin's router
cannot see its own directory name — the platform imports the module and reads
`router`, so there is nowhere to inject it. The fix is a factory the installer
calls with the plugin's identity.
Plugin backend coupling is down to 7 imports, all of them "a plugin talks to
its host": data-path, sidecar/connect, sidecar/protocol, officer-url, the
manifest type, officerdb/db and the users.id FK. Nothing music-shaped left.
bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7 pre-existing failures. Verified
live: manifest 200, favorites 200, stream 206, /api/cliamp/ws 404.
MusicBrowser lists folders with GET /file-browser/ls rather than through the
music sidecar. /file-browser belongs to `files`, which is `confined` — so a
member granted `music` and not `files` gets a working player, working
favourites and an empty library, and `files` is not a grant that can simply be
handed over, since authorize.ts drops a confined grant for an account with no
Linux user.
First cross-plugin PERMISSION dependency in the system, and a different animal
from offscale's. That one is ConsoleView → TerminalView: code, resolved at
build time, worst case a plugin that will not compile. This resolves at request
time, per account, and fails as a screen that renders perfectly and shows
nothing.
Three shapes written down, none chosen. Moving the listing into the sidecar is
probably right — it is the same rule offscale follows, that the sidecar absorbs
everything — but it is tomorrow's call.
Recorded now rather than trusted to memory: it was found by reading, after the
extraction was already verified and pushed, so nothing was going to surface it
again on its own.
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.
Ran the whole table against platform.officer.dev rather than reasoning about
it. install / API / range requests / dock / permissions / disable / enable /
uninstall / db:push-while-uninstalled / reinstall / pm2 restart officer — all
pass, recorded in plugins/music/PLUGIN.md with the actual numbers.
Two results worth naming. The reinstall was a RESTORE: a favourite and a
playlist seeded before uninstall came back untouched, which is the whole point
of the barrel following directories rather than the install table. And
`bun db:push` while uninstalled said `No changes detected` with the rows still
there — the property that makes running push by hand safe at any moment.
Range survives the proxy hop: 206 with a correct Content-Range and exactly the
bytes asked for, 416 unsatisfiable, 400 on a path escaping the Music root.
Two findings from the machine rather than the code. ffmpeg and ffprobe are not
installed here, so X-Audio-Duration never appears and indexing would produce no
tags or covers — the manifest already says a host binary cannot be declared, and
now says it was checked. And ~/Music did not exist at all, so the library is
empty; the sidecar handles both absences and logs them rather than failing.
Music is left INSTALLED and enabled. It had been switched off since 2026-08-13,
so this restores it.
The runbook gains what generalises: map what the PLATFORM still needs from your
feature before planning the split, because two imports pointing the wrong way
dictated music's boundary rather than any judgement about what music is.
Offscale had none, which made the job look cleaner than it is. Also two new
traps — delete the app-store catalogue entry or the screen goes blank, and
compare test FILE COUNTS across a run, since that is the only thing that shows
a test which stopped being discovered.
The global-overlay question is recorded as answered: no. A shell slot for a
plugin-provided component reopens "there is no way to export a component", and
that rule is what the frontend contract rests on.
Seeded rows and the audio fixture removed; ~/Music deleted again.
bunx tsgo clean. 772 tests, 762 pass, 7 fail — all pre-existing.
The whole of music moves to plugins/music/: the sidecar (index, indexer,
stream-audio, nightly-reindex), the four Postgres tables and their queries,
the /music workspace panels, MUSIC_API.md and the reindex CLI. The platform
keeps no music routes, no music capability entry, no music screen and no
music schema.
Three things stayed, each on purpose.
cliamp and the widget were out of scope by the owner's decision. The plugin's
sidecar still serves the two cliamp sockets, so it imports cliamp-ws.ts and
pulse-audio.ts from @@/sidecar/music/ — the files stay where they were.
The player did not move, and that was the open judgement call. Deciding it
took one fact: the dashboard widget imports useMusicPlayer and PlayerTrack
from officerdev, and the platform cannot import from a plugin. So the player
STATE stays whatever is decided about the UI around it, and two copies would
mean two audio engines. Given that, the engine and the bar stayed with the
state rather than being split from the thing they drive. Moving them would
also have needed a shell slot rendering a plugin-provided component on every
route — the one escape hatch this system deleted on purpose. MusicPlayerHost
gates on can('music'), which is now the plugin's permission, so the seam
switches itself off with the plugin.
api/music/router.ts stays too: api/cliamp/relay.ts imports getMusicServerWsUrl
from it. The plugin's api/router.ts re-exports that proxy rather than building
a second one — two subscribers to the one-shot music:server port announcement
would work today and 503 on the first reconnect where only one was listening.
Two bugs found on the way, neither visible from reading.
The app-store catalogue still listed music. Availability is derived from
sidecar_installs and a PLUGIN never gets a row there, so `music` would have
been permanently unavailable — which puts /music into deniedRoutes and blanks
the screen on a server where the plugin was installed and healthy. Exactly
the headscale bug documented six lines above it in the same file, and it would
have fired on the first install. Entry removed.
[test] root was "./src", so moving lyrics.test.ts into plugins/ stopped it
running and said nothing — the count fell by nine and the suite still read
green. Root is now the repo. Positional filters cannot fix this: `bun test
plugins` matches under root and finds src/servers/plugins/ instead.
registry.test.ts tested the `personal` mechanism THROUGH the music capability.
Re-anchored on a fixture rather than on another entry, because borrowing a
feature only moves the problem to the next extraction — and three of those
four tests had been passing for the wrong reason since music's api was
commented out on 2026-08-13, when everything started resolving to "refused
because nothing is claimed". The cliamp sockets being claimed by nothing is
now pinned by a test instead of being rediscovered.
music's `personal` paths ride across on readOnlyWrites, the one field a
manifest has. isRequestAllowedAtLevel concatenates the two lists, so a read
grant permits exactly the four paths it permitted yesterday, and no field was
added to the manifest to design a per-user model that is not this work.
bunx tsgo clean. 772 tests, 762 pass, 7 fail — all seven pre-existing and
unrelated (cliamp, pty, and five capability tests that other switched-off
plugins break). Baseline was 757/10; the three that went green are the ones
re-anchored above.
Not yet verified on the live server — that is next.
personal, the four user-scoped tables, and what a member's grant means all stay
exactly as they are. it gets built inside the plugin later, which is the entire
reason the platform's answer is a uniform read/write and nothing more.
leaving it alone is safe rather than lazy: the web frontend does not use those
routes at all — favourites, playlists and now-playing are used only by the phone
and tablet apps — so nothing visible in a browser can regress by carrying them
across verbatim. and /queue, which is in that list, has no route anywhere. dead
or aspirational; carried as-is, not investigated.
the one unavoidable consequence stays named: registry.test.ts tests the personal
mechanism through the music entry, so removing it breaks those tests. re-anchor
on another entry that has personal. a test fix, not a redesign.
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widgets/MusicPlayer stays in its third workspace package, registered where it
is. plugins cannot contribute widgets and are not going to learn how tonight.
with cliamp and the widget both cut, exactly one judgement is left in the music
extraction: whether the global MusicPlayerHost overlay gets a contribution slot
in the shell or stays in DashboardLayout gated as it already is. either is fine.
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the two websocket providers exist for one thing: running the cliamp TUI on the
server and piping its terminal and audio to the browser, via a pulseaudio null
sink tapped by parec. a second, separate playback path — and the least important
part of music. wanted eventually, not tonight.
that removes the hardest of the three homeless parts entirely. no plugin can own
a socket yet, and now none needs to: both sockets are already inert, and
cliamp-ws.ts, pulse-audio.ts, asoundrc, the relay and the two providers all stay
exactly where they are. if the relay's import is the only thing keeping
api/music/router.ts alive, that stays too — a small documented seam.
what music actually is: the /music screen, the library, and the phone and tablet
apps that stream from it. that is what has to work.
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it previously said 'decide before moving a file, and tell me the decision',
which turns an overnight run into a blocked one. every open call here has two
defensible answers, a corrected decision is cheap, and a stalled extraction is
not.
adds a default for each of the three homeless parts — close the platform gap
when there is runway, because every later plugin needs it too, but a working
music with cliamp left in the platform beats a perfect design that did not land.
the bar at the end is unchanged: install, enable, disable, uninstall cleanly. a
piece left in the platform is a documented seam; a piece left dangling is a bug.
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plugins/EXTRACTING-A-PLUGIN.md: the rules that are not preferences, the order
that worked, the verification cycle the owner actually ran, and the traps that
each cost real time.
the music section is the important half. music is NOT a bigger offscale — three
of its parts have nowhere to go: two websocket providers (and no plugin can own
a socket), a global UI overlay rendered by DashboardLayout on every route, and a
dashboard widget in a third workspace package. its relay is platform code that
imports the music router, so deleting that router breaks the platform. it also
needs six external binaries a manifest cannot declare, ships a non-TS asset, and
is the worked example the capability tests are written through.
recorded before starting rather than discovered halfway, because a half-extracted
music is worse than an unextracted one.
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docs/offscale-plugin.md becomes plugins/offscale/PLUGIN.md. most of it is about
the plugin system generally rather than about offscale, which is exactly why it
belongs with the worked example — the reasoning is most useful beside the code
it produced, and the platform's docs should not carry the history of something
it no longer knows exists.
every reference updated.
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three things wrong in one paragraph: it named ecosystem.light.config.cjs, which
no longer exists; it called officer-headscale core, which it stopped being on
2026-08-14; and it said installing a plugin 'will have to uncomment its line and
push, and building that is still ahead of us', which was built yesterday.
now it says what is true — a plugin owns its schema at plugins/<name>/db and
install generates the barrel and pushes — and keeps the commented lines for the
sidecars still waiting their turn, which is what they are actually for.
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i named the field permissions and then narrated in the overloaded one anyway,
which is worse than either — the whole reason for the rename was that the word
already means three things here.
renamed what was mine: setPluginCapabilities -> setPluginPermissions,
pluginCapabilities -> pluginPermissions, and the prose throughout.
what remains is the platform's own vocabulary, not the plugin system's: the
type it imports, and the field on a dock manifest,
which is the shape the shell already renders. renaming those is a separate
change to a separate system and is the owner's to make.
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offscale was missing from the permissions page because it declared ownerOnly,
which mapped to kind admin, and admin capabilities are never offered for
granting. correct by the old rule and wrong by the standard: every plugin
follows the same platform-level permission model, appearing on the same page
with the same read/write/none per role.
so the field is gone rather than flipped. a plugin has no way to say owner-only,
which makes the standard structural instead of remembered — the same move as the
workspace rule. core, execution, confined and admin stay the platform's to
assign and a plugin cannot name any of them, so the escalation question is
removed rather than answered.
this is the second draft of this decision to be deleted: first a full
CapabilityKind with three of five values forbidden, then an ownerOnly boolean,
now nothing. the doc records all three so the reasoning is visible rather than
just the conclusion.
finer visibility stays the plugin's job. offscale is the worked example of the
gap that leaves and its manifest says so: it is grantable now, and its queries
still scope by the caller, so a granted member would see their own empty server
list rather than the owner's. closing that is a change inside the plugin.
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offscale had no dock tile: that field comes from the app store's catalogue, so a
plugin installed through the plugin system was reachable only by typing its url
or following the link on /plugins.
built at runtime rather than baked into the generated bundle, deliberately —
WHO sees a tile is a permission question, and a grant takes effect on the next
request rather than the next build. presentation comes from the manifest and the
route from mountPrefix, so there is one source for both, and is the
plugin's first permission so the endpoint can filter a tile out for an account
that cannot reach the screen.
two sources for tiles today, because the app store still has its own catalogue.
one when it is rebuilt on this.
the doc now records the system as complete rather than half-stubbed, including
the three bugs the extraction found — the sidecar-before-mount ordering, the
missing tailwind, and the build that could delete its own shell — and what is
genuinely still open.
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the last unwired step. install now generates a drizzle barrel of plugin schemas
and runs db:push, so a plugin with db/schema.ts brings its tables with it.
the barrel follows the plugin DIRECTORIES on disk, not the install table, and
that difference is the entire safety property. push drops what it cannot see, so
a barrel tracking installs would delete a plugin's tables the moment it was
uninstalled — turning "stop running this" into "delete my data", which is the
one thing the install model refuses to do. following the directory means:
directory present, not installed in the barrel, tables exist unused
installed in the barrel, tables in use
uninstalled STILL in the barrel, every row survives
directory deleted out of the barrel, a push may drop them
so reinstall is a restore, and losing data requires deliberately deleting a
plugin's source.
proved end to end rather than argued. with offscale uninstalled and its entry
removed from the barrel, db:push DROPPED headscale_servers. installing it
recreated the table in 1882ms — columns, both unique indexes including the
partial one that enforces a single active server, and the fk. a canary row then
survived an uninstall AND a subsequent manual db:push, which reported "No
changes detected".
it shells out to the same `bun db:push` a human runs rather than driving
drizzle-kit in-process: one definition of applying the schema instead of two
that can disagree, and an owner can reproduce exactly what an install did.
--force because the barrel only ever gains entries unless source is deleted, and
a prompt with no terminal would hang an install rather than fail it.
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headscale leaves the platform. 45 files move to plugins/offscale/ and the
platform stops knowing it exists.
api/router.ts the thin auth-gated proxy, now at /api/offscale
sidecar/ 18 files, the whole headscale contract and its admin keys
db/ schema + queries, offscale_servers
web/ 26 files as panels and a layout — no screen, per the rule
removed from the platform: the hono mount, the `headscale` capability, the
App.tsx route pair, the screen and its barrel, the AppRegistry spread, the
officerdev re-exports, the dock tile, the page-title rule, and both database
barrels. tsgo is clean and nothing references it.
the imports tell the story of what the plugin↔host API actually is. the sidecar
takes @@/sidecar/protocol, @@/sidecar/connect, @@/data-path and
@@/officer-url.mjs; the queries take officerdb/db and officerdb/crypto; the
schema takes officerdb/auth/schema for the one reference a plugin may make; the
web half takes useClient, copyToClipboard, WorkspaceView and TerminalView from
the officerdev barrel. all of it resolves because a plugin lives inside the repo
— no publishing, no version negotiation.
AND IT FOUND A REAL BUG IN THE INSTALLER. createSidecarProxy learns its port
from a one-shot `<name>:server` event and subscribes when the plugin's router is
first imported — at mount. install started the sidecar BEFORE mounting, so the
announcement fired into a void: process online, routes mounted, every request
answering `503 sidecar not available` until something forced a reconnect. it
would have hit every plugin with an http sidecar. `example` never caught it
because it has no listener to announce.
install and enable now mount before starting; disable still unmounts before
stopping. neither direction leaves a mounted route in front of a sidecar that
cannot be reached.
verified live: /api/offscale/_officer/servers answers {"servers":[]}, /offscale
and /offscale/nodes serve, the old /api/headscale is 404, the offscale
capability is registered from the manifest, and officer-offscale is online.
757 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.
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installing something and then having to guess its url is a small thing that
makes the whole flow feel unfinished. the detail panel now links to the plugin's
screen.
shown only while installed AND enabled, and only when the plugin has a frontend
at all. a link to an unmounted route lands on the home page, because the shell
redirects an unknown path — which reads as a broken link rather than a plugin
that is switched off. a backend-only plugin has no screen to open and gets no
link rather than a dead one.
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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.
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three fixes to last night's build switch, all found by using it.
THE CSS. bunfig.toml declares the tailwind plugin under [serve.static], which
applies to bun's static SERVING — the html-import path the app used until
yesterday — and not to a programmatic Bun.build(). so the first build emitted
the xterm css and no tailwind at all: layout intact, every utility class
missing. a plugin list is not inherited from bunfig; it has to be passed. css
goes 110KB to 278KB, 1127 --tw- variables, .flex present, --color-duck present.
THE BUILD DIRECTORY. clearing it before building was meant to stop 20MB of
content-hashed chunks accumulating per install, and instead meant a FAILED build
left nothing — the exact opposite of the promise in the comment directly above
it. it was also a race: two builds overlapping had one process's rm delete the
other's shell, leaving js and css with no html and a 503 that read as a build
failure when the build had succeeded.
now it builds into build.next/ and swaps only a complete, successful build into
place, and refuses to swap one that produced no shell at all — a build can
report success and emit no html, and serving that is worse than serving the
previous one.
AND IT SAYS WHICH PATH IS SERVING. "is it serving the build I just made, or the
one bundled at import?" was answerable only by hiding the shell and watching for
a 503, which is how it got answered once. the distinction matters precisely
where it is hardest to see: the html import is fixed when the module graph
loads, so an install would rebuild build/ and serve something else entirely.
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the last piece. installing a plugin now brings its UI with it.
a bundler cannot follow import(runtimeString), so which plugins have a frontend
cannot be answered from the database at render time — it has to be written into
source first. Plugins.gen.tsx is that file: concrete imports, generated from
what is installed, gitignored because it describes THIS machine.
App.tsx keeps its core routes and gains one map. the wildcard hands the whole
subtree to the plugin's own router, which react-router nests natively.
serving moved to build/ in production. the html import is bundled once when the
module graph loads and can never change after, which is precisely why a plugin's
frontend needed a restart; Bun.build measures ~900ms for a 25MB bundle, so an
install can just rebuild. development keeps the html import, because that is
what gives HMR and bun --watch restarts on every source change anyway.
verified end to end against a running server, no restart at any point: install
regenerated the module, rebuilt the bundle (chunk hash changed), and the
plugin's own markup was in it; /example and /example/deeper both served; disable
took it back out of both the module and the bundle and 404'd the api; enable put
it back.
three things worth recording because they were found rather than reasoned:
the shell output is named after the ENTRYPOINT — index.gen.html, not index.html
— and naming: { entry: '[name].[ext]' } does not change it because [name] is
'index.gen'. found as a 503 on the first boot after the switch.
App.tsx already destructured a `plugins`, from useServerSettings — the DEAD
plugin system that scans a directory which does not exist and always returns [].
it silently shadowed the import. the new one is `installedPlugins` and says why.
seedAppRegistry takes plugin panels as an argument rather than importing them:
officerdev is a dependency of the shell, so importing upward would invert that.
756 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.
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two gaps between "a plugin can mount routes" and "a plugin is part of the
platform". both closed.
FIRST: nothing registered a plugin's declared permissions, so the capability
gate could not resolve a plugin path at all. it resolved to null, and null is
denied — the owner never noticed because isSuperAdmin short-circuits every
check, which is exactly the shape of bug that reaches a member first.
the registry is now rebuildable the same way the hono app is: CORE_REGISTRY
holds the platform's own, CAPABILITIES is core plus whatever the installed
plugins declare, and setPluginCapabilities replaces the plugin half wholesale
rather than diffing it. two invariants hold by construction — DEFAULT_ROLE_-
CAPABILITIES and CORE_CAPABILITIES derive from CORE_REGISTRY, so a plugin can
never put itself in the fresh-install baseline and can never become `core`
(every account, undeniable). a key colliding with a core one is refused and
logged, because a plugin able to redefine `chat` could widen it.
ownerOnly maps to admin, everything else to app. those are the only kinds a
manifest can express, and it has no field for a kind at all.
capabilities are registered BEFORE routes are mounted: the gate runs ahead of
every router, so mounting a route whose permission is not yet registered would
403 the freshly installed plugin until something else happened to refresh.
SECOND: nothing mounted plugins at boot. honoServer is built with none at
import, because discovery reads disk and database and neither can be awaited at
module scope, and every install verb rebuilt — so it tested perfectly and would
have silently unmounted everything on the first restart.
server.tsx now refreshes before serve(), so there is no window where an
installed plugin 404s, and a plugin that will not load is logged rather than
fatal.
verified: after a restart, [plugins] mounted /example, the row survived,
officer-example came back online from its ecosystem entry, capabilityForApiPath
resolves /api/example/ping to the example capability at kind=app, and it appears
in the owner's grantable list. 756 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.
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the comment called it cosmetic and worth being honest about, which reads like an
apology and invites the next reader to delete it as a pointless sleep.
the real reason is better. some of this work is genuinely slow — pm2 start
measures ~770ms — and some is effectively instant. without a pause the fast
steps land in one frame, the log jumps from empty to finished, and you cannot
tell 'it worked' from 'nothing happened'. the interval is what makes a step
something you saw happen rather than something you found already done.
only applied when something is listening, so the json path still runs flat out.
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ubuntu's default umask is 002 with user-private groups, so everything the owner
creates lands 775/664. alone on a machine that is harmless. it stops being
harmless the moment a member has a login — and member homes are NESTED inside
the owner's, so the owner's home must stay traversable AND readable (the
ancestor-read requirement bun exposed today) and every dotfile in it is legible
by default.
measured as green before writing this: ~/.pm2/logs (all 12 files, every log the
platform has written), ~/.pm2/dump.pm2, ~/.claude/projects (names every
directory the owner works in), ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.cache, ~/.npm, ~/.bun,
~/.opencode — all listable. assertSecretsClosed was already holding the line
that matters: .env, .ssh, .zsh_history, .claude.json and the credentials are
denied, and dump.pm2 turned out to hold no secret values because bun loads .env
at runtime rather than through pm2.
so this is the tier below fatal: not tokens, but logs and the shape of the
owner's work.
it runs from PROVISIONING, not from setup, and that is the point. ~/.claude does
not exist until the agent has run once; a chmod at install time finds half the
list missing and silently does nothing — the same failure mode as the ACL mask
earlier today. every member's arrival re-closes whatever appeared since.
two directories are left open on purpose, and both are the same latent bug:
/usr/local/bin/bun -> /home/pastilhas/.bun/bin/bun
/usr/local/bin/gh -> /home/pastilhas/.local/bin/gh
system-wide tools installed into one user's home, so every member resolves them
through it. i found this by closing them and breaking bun and gh for green.
~/.local/share and ~/.local/state ARE closed; only the bin directory is
reachable. the honest fix is installing them outside the owner's home.
verified both directions on this host: green is denied .claude, .pm2, .config,
.local/share, .local/state, .cache — and still has working bun, gh, psql, their
own claude, and their own project tree.
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each verb now reports its steps as they complete, over server-sent events, and
the detail panel renders them arriving.
POST rather than GET, so EventSource is unavailable — it sends no Authorization
header and these routes are owner-only. The client reads the body and parses
frames by hand, which is what useCompanionLogStream already does for the
headscale container logs; the parser only has to understand what our own
endpoint emits.
the runner does not know whether anyone is listening. it takes an optional
onStep and calls it, so the non-streaming path is the same code with no callback
rather than a second implementation of the same four verbs.
there is a 220ms beat between steps and it is cosmetic — worth saying out loud.
pm2 start genuinely takes ~770ms, measured, but writing a row and rebuilding the
router do not, and four lines landing in one frame look like a stall followed by
a jump. small enough not to matter to a script, long enough to follow.
writing to a closed stream is caught rather than fatal: navigating away
mid-install must not abort the install, because by then it is the server's work
and half an install is the one outcome the ordering was designed to avoid.
verified over the wire with timestamps — frames arrive incrementally, the
sidecar step showing its real duration rather than the beat. afterwards pm2
holds the five core apps, plugin_installs is zero, and ecosystem.config.cjs is
byte-identical.
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three separate faults behind "reconnecting gets weird and the keyboard is not
natural".
── the replay typed into the shell ──
the pty buffer was stored raw and replayed verbatim on every re-attach. anything
in it that ASKS the terminal a question — DSR, DA, DECRQM, XTVERSION, XTGETTCAP,
the OSC colour queries — got asked again, and xterm answered correctly by writing
the reply to its input. the pty receives that as a keystroke nobody typed.
stripped on the way IN, since the buffer is the thing that gets replayed and a
live client already answered them once when they were legitimately asked. only
questions are removed; everything that draws is untouched. where a control shares
its final byte with one that draws, the parameter is enumerated rather than
wildcarded — CSI 18 t asks the window size, CSI 22 t pushes the title, and
stripping the second would change what a replay renders. 36 tests, both
directions, because both fail silently.
── two sockets on one session ──
handleClose armed a reconnect timer; handleVisibilityChange fired on tab focus
whenever readyState was CLOSED — which is exactly what a pending timer leaves.
both ran. every keystroke went twice, two replay frames fought over the screen,
and only one socket was ever cleaned up because __terminalCleanup is overwritten
by whichever connect ran last. connect() is now the single guard, and a stale
socket's close no longer speaks for the session.
── the keyboard ──
alt-arrow was dead for everyone: xterm.js 5 rewrote it into the ctrl-arrow
sequence, xterm.js 6 removed that rewrite and emits the honest ^[[1;3C/D
(verified — the string 1;3D does not appear anywhere in the 6.0 bundle). nothing
bound it. so it broke on a dependency bump, with no shell config changed.
bound in zsh rather than translated in the browser, deliberately: tmux.conf
claims M-Left/M-Right for pane switching, and a client-side rewrite would send
^[b to tmux and break it. the real sequence lets tmux handle it inside a session
and zsh outside.
ctrl-arrow was worse and more embarrassing: it worked for MEMBERS and not for the
OWNER. shell-skel/zshrc has had the bindings all along; the owner's .zshrc is
assembled in machine-setup and never got them. the owner had a strictly worse
shell than the accounts they provision. confirmed with `zsh -i -c bindkey`
before and after.
also: escape-time 10 in tmux.conf. the 500ms default delays every Alt chord and
every Escape, which is most of what "not natural" felt like.
applied to this host by hand — setup only runs at install. cmd+arrow is left
alone: xterm emits nothing for it, so there is no sequence to bind.
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closes the hole app-store/pm2.ts has carried since 2026-08-13 — "installing a
plugin has to append its entry here before starting it, that is the plugin
system's job and it is not built". this is that job, and it is why nothing in
the app-store catalogue installs end to end either.
verified against a running server with a sidecar in the tree:
install ecosystem added · sidecar started · recorded · mounted /example
route 200, pm2 online
disable sidecar stopped · unmounted
route 404, pm2 stopped
enable sidecar started · mounted
route 200, pm2 online
uninstall record removed · unmounted · sidecar stopped, deleted, entry gone
route 404, not in pm2, tables untouched
afterwards ecosystem.config.cjs is byte-identical to before, pm2 holds the same
five core apps, and plugin_installs is back to zero rows.
the ecosystem file is edited rather than regenerated: the core entries come from
officer-setup's shell array, so the platform does not know that list and a copy
here would be a second thing to drift. the header above module.exports is
preserved verbatim too — officer-setup's explains that bun auto-loads .env from
the working directory and that data-path derives the install root from its
PARENT, so a wrong cwd relocates the whole install rather than failing. losing
that to a plugin install would be a poor trade.
order is the design. bringing up goes outside-in, taking down goes inside-out,
so the worst intermediate state is "recorded but not running" — visible, and
fixed by a retry — never "running but forgotten", which nothing can see.
each verb returns what it actually did, in order, and the detail panel shows it.
an install that mounted routes but could not start a sidecar is a different
outcome from one that worked, and a spinner that stops cannot say which.
the schema push is still deliberately not wired, and the reason is now in the
code: db:push DROPS tables absent from the schema it is given, so an uninstall
that regenerated the barrel would delete a plugin's data as a side effect of
stopping it. offscale does not need it — headscale_servers already ships in the
platform schema.
720 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.
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the plugin system works end to end for a plugin with an api/router.ts, at
runtime, with no restart. what is wired, what is not (schema push, the sidecar's
pm2 entry, websocket providers, totality across plugin routes), and what was
deliberately left: offscale is not extracted, because moving it deletes working
code across ~50 files and that wants someone watching.
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the management surface for what the last commit made possible. two panels either
side of a selection that lives in ?selected= and is read by both independently,
so neither can be telling the other something stale — rows are real Links, not
buttons holding the name in a closure.
the detail panel shows what the tree declared (api, schema, sidecar, web),
because "installed and nothing happened" is otherwise a mystery, and it names
what uninstall does NOT do: neither disable nor uninstall deletes anything the
plugin stored, and the screen says so rather than leaving someone to guess
whether a button destroys their data.
a directory whose manifest will not parse is listed with its error rather than
skipped. a malformed plugin that simply does not appear is indistinguishable
from one nobody wrote.
`outdated` is surfaced as an Update button: the version on disk moving after an
install is the normal state on a developer's machine, and it should be visible
rather than inferred.
the four mutations are written out rather than generated in a loop — useMutation
is a hook, and a hook called from inside a helper is a rules-of-hooks violation
even when the call order happens to be stable. caught before it shipped.
verified against a running server: the spa builds (19.8 MB bundle containing the
new screen), / serves 200, /api/plugins answers authenticated and 401s without a
token. full suite 719 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures. live server and
plugin_installs left untouched.
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the rest of the mechanism, and it works end to end. against a real server, with
no restart at any point:
/api/example/ping BEFORE install 404
AFTER install 200 {"plugin":"example","ok":true}
AFTER disable 404
AFTER enable 200
AFTER uninstall 404
core route throughout 200
plugin_installs is a new table rather than a reuse of sidecar_installs. that one
belongs to the app store's model, where installing means provisioning a
container or pointing at a remote instance, and it carries mode, compose_dir and
completed_steps to say so. a plugin install has none of those, and reusing it
would have meant a `mode` that lies about every plugin. the two models coexist
until the app store is rebuilt on this one.
the row is needed because presence is not installation: plugins live in the
repository, so a developer writing one has the directory there and has installed
nothing. the tree says what could run, the table says what does.
mount.ts joins the two and rebuilds. an install row whose directory has gone is
dropped from the snapshot rather than reported — but the row is left in the
database, because deleting it there would turn "somebody moved the checkout"
into silent data loss. a plugin whose router will not load stays unmounted and
says why, rather than taking the other nine down with it.
/api/plugins is owner-only in its own right, like /api/app-store, and its
capability guards the MANAGEMENT surface only — a plugin's own permissions come
from its manifest, so a member can hold one at read without being able to
install anything.
plugins/example is the reference implementation and is meant to be read: the
smallest thing that is still a real plugin, with the directory layout as its own
documentation.
not wired yet, and marked [open] in the router: the schema push and the
sidecar's pm2 entry. a plugin with db/schema.ts or sidecar/ needs both before it
works end to end.
full suite: 719 pass, same 10 pre-existing failures.
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installed on this host already; verified round-tripping from a member shell.
same package name on apt, pacman and dnf. on brew it is there because macOS
ships the library but not the CLI.
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first piece of the plugin system: the platform can now be rebuilt with a
different set of plugins mounted, at runtime, without restarting.
hono cannot do this the obvious way. its default SmartRouter throws "Can not add
a route since the matcher is already built" the moment a route is added after
serving begins, RegExpRouter does the same, and hono has no api to REMOVE a
route at all — so uninstall was impossible even with TrieRouter, which does
allow adding. tested all four.
so nothing is added to a live app. buildHonoApp(plugins) constructs a fresh one
and honoServer is reassigned, which keeps the default fast router and makes
uninstall expressible. server.tsx now serves it through a closure rather than
the bound honoServer.fetch — that one line is the whole mechanism, since the
bound method would capture whichever app existed at serve() and every rebuild
would silently do nothing.
buildHonoApp is pure: everything it needs arrives as an argument, so an app for
a hypothetical plugin set can be built without a database, a filesystem or a
running server.
alongside it, discovery. plugins live at platform/plugins/<app-name>/ — inside
the repo, because bun links the workspace packages into the root node_modules
and that is what lets a plugin author write `import { useClient } from
'hooks/useClient'` with no publishing and no version negotiation. verified with
Bun.resolveSync from a directory there.
discovery is by convention and presence is the declaration: api/router.ts,
db/schema.ts, sidecar/index.ts, web/Router.tsx. the app name comes from the
directory, so it cannot disagree with where the code sits, and the sidecar
runtime comes from the extension — .mjs is node, .ts is bun — which is already
the rule here and cannot contradict the file it describes.
a broken plugin is collected, never thrown: one unreadable manifest must not
stop the boot or hide the nine beside it that are fine.
verified by booting the refactored server on a spare port — /api answers 200,
protected routes still 401. full suite: 719 pass, and the same 10 failures as
before this change (8 in capabilities, plus cliamp and pty), stash-verified
earlier as pre-existing.
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there was no psql on this machine. the server runs in a container, so nothing
ever put a client on the host, and `docker exec officer-postgres psql` is the
owner's tool — a member has their own Postgres role and no access to the owner's
Docker socket.
the version is derived from PG_IMAGE rather than typed again, because the
pairing is load-bearing: pg_dump refuses a server newer than itself, and Ubuntu
24.04 ships client 16 against this 18 server. so the archive package is not
merely old, it is unusable for dumps. that is also why this sits beside the
server definition instead of in machine-setup's package list — one constant, one
place to bump.
PGDG added the same way docker.sh adds Docker's: key in its own file, one
sources.list.d entry, no add-apt-repository. non-fatal, and the exit status is
not the gate — apt can succeed while holding an older client back, so the check
is that psql is present AND is the major we asked for.
installed by hand on this host already: psql/pg_dump 18.6, verified as green
connecting with their own role.
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offscale is deliberately the simple case — one shared resource, read or write.
music is the next extraction and the right place to build the in-plugin
visibility system, because it has real per-user data (favourites, playlists,
now-playing) on top of a real shared one (a single global library index). so
'whose is this row' has a non-uniform answer there, where offscale's is just
'the owner's'.
not designed yet and deliberately not designed here. recorded so the intent
survives the gap.
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the platform's contract is what it already has: a role holds read or write on a
capability, stored in role_capabilities and enforced by the gate. anything
beyond — who sees whose rows, per-user isolation, record ownership, visibility
of any kind — is the plugin author's job, inside the plugin. the platform should
not grow machinery for it. a plugin knows what its data means; the platform only
knows whether this account got through the door.
offscale v1 uses that exactly. one shared resource: read sees what the owner
sees, write can change it including deleting a server the owner registered. that
is dangerous on purpose — the stored credential is a headscale admin key with no
read-only equivalent, so write is close to full control of the tailnet, and that
is the owner's call. expected use is read for most roles.
two consequences, both inside the plugin. the queries stop scoping by the caller
and resolve to the owner's id, leaving the per-user shape in the table unused as
the seam if isolation is ever wanted. and two POSTs are really reads —
/ssh-test probes and /policy/assist explicitly never saves — so they need
readOnlyWrites, or a read-level account finds a broken feature where a withheld
permission should be.
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`bun run` from anywhere inside a member's home died with
error loading current directory
error: An internal error occurred (CouldntReadCurrentDirectory)
before it looked at package.json, bun.lock or .git — all of which were present.
it is not walking up looking for a workspace root. it primes its resolver cache
by walking DOWN from / and opening every component of the cwd for READING:
openat("/home/pastilhas/officerdev/") = 6
openat(".../officerdev/data/") = -1 EACCES
openat(".../officerdev/data/<email>/") = -1 EACCES
those two are 711 — traversable, not listable — which is enough to cd into a
home and not enough for a program that reads its ancestors. `getcwd` succeeds;
the ancestor read is what fails. `O_PATH` would need only `x`, so this is
arguably bun's bug, but it presents as a member's project being mysteriously
unbuildable and nothing here can fix it from the other side.
so DATA_PATH and the account dir now carry a named ACL entry per member. that
gives up the property the old comment named — a member can now `ls` DATA_PATH
and learn the other accounts' email addresses — and keeps everything that
matters: every home is still 700 and owned by its member, every platform
sibling still 700 and owned by the service user. verified as green: the account
list is visible, and email_accounts, another home, the repo .env, the owner's
ssh key, .pgpass and ~/.claude/.credentials.json are all still denied.
the mask is set explicitly to rx alongside the entry. chmod recomputes the mask
from the group bits, which for 711 is --x, so without that the next member's
provisioning would silently clamp every earlier member back to traverse-only.
applied by hand to the one existing account; provisioning covers new ones.
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offscale needs none of the install fields the catalogue carries — no modes, no
existingFields, no configFields, no composeTemplate, no members. nothing to
provision, nothing to point at. install is put the code there, push the schema,
start the sidecar, swap the routes, and it is available.
configuration happens afterwards inside the app, which is already how headscale
works: a server is registered at runtime and lands in offscale_servers.
so no-questions is the default rather than offscale's special case, and the
prompting machinery gets designed against the first extracted plugin that
actually needs docker or a remote instance. part of why this was the right
pilot — it exercises mounting, schema and sidecar without install being a
variable at the same time.
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yesterday's fix routed transcript CONTENT through the member's identity and
stopped there, on the strength of a comment in ChatIdentity saying enumeration
never needed it — "their directories are 775 and the platform holds an ACL
entry, so readdirSync and statSync have always worked".
there are no 775 directories on this path. claude creates ~/.claude/projects/
and every project group at mode 700, and a 700 directory clamps the ACL mask to
--- exactly as a 600 file does:
user:officer:rwx #effective:---
mask::---
measured against a real member home:
existsSync(projects) -> true (stat only needs traverse on .claude)
readdirSync(projects) -> EACCES
existsSync(projects/<slug>) -> false
statSync(<transcript>) -> EACCES
existsSync answering false rather than throwing is why this was invisible: every
caller read it as "no such session". one root cause, three reported symptoms —
an empty conversation list, no title on a new chat, and a /chat/<id> deep link
that never restored the conversation. a fourth nobody had reported yet: delete
removed nothing and still answered ok, because unlink needs w+x on the group
directory too.
so enumeration goes through the same door as content, as ONE call rather than a
spawn per entry: listTranscriptsAs runs a single `find` as the member and
returns every transcript with its mtime, which readdir+stat could not do without
dozens of setpriv forks per request and a matching pile of auth.log lines. the
owner keeps a fork-free path — that process already IS the owner. removeAs does
the same for unlink, and readTailAs no longer stats a file it cannot stat.
summarizeTranscript now takes the mtime it is given instead of stat'ing again,
which is both the fix and one less syscall per file.
verified against jg@pertento.ai on this machine: 6 conversations listed with
titles from their first prompts, and a deep link by id alone loads 71 messages.
owner path re-checked and unchanged.
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the last gap. six ws providers live in bun's route table rather than hono's, so
the app swap does not reach them — but server.reload({routes}) does, and in both
directions: refused before, connected after install, refused again after
uninstall, with core routes untouched throughout.
so a plugin can own a socket from the start, and no part of an install needs the
process restarted.
still untested: whether connections already open across a reload survive it.
that matters before an install is allowed to interrupt somebody's terminal.
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this went round twice — runtime dynamic, then generated-plus-restart on the
belief that hono could not mount after serving, then back once that was actually
tested. the doc keeps the route rather than just the destination.
tested: SmartRouter (hono's default) and RegExpRouter both throw 'Can not add a
route since the matcher is already built'. TrieRouter and PatternRouter accept
it. so runtime adding is possible but costs the fast matcher, and hono has no
remove-route api at all, which uninstall needs.
what solves both is not adding routes but rebuilding: construct a fresh app from
the current plugin set and reassign the variable. the fetch closure reads it per
request, so the reassignment is the swap — atomic, no dropped connections, no
server.reload, and the default SmartRouter is kept. verified 404 before install,
200 after, 404 again after uninstall, with core routes unaffected throughout.
the mechanical cost is one line: server.tsx:322 is '/api/*': honoServer.fetch, a
bound method evaluated once at serve(), and has to become a closure or the swap
does nothing.
websockets stay open: six providers live in bun's route table rather than
hono's, so a plugin owning a socket needs server.reload({routes}), untested.
offscale has none.
and totality stops being a boot check — buildApp() is now the single place
routes are mounted, so it is where the assertion belongs, refusing the swap
rather than refusing the boot.
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this reverses the earlier decision for C (mount and unmount at runtime) and says
so rather than quietly overwriting it.
the requirement behind C was that the platform must not need to know a plugin in
advance. that is met either way: what it reads is a generated file listing the
installed routers, analogous to Plugins.tsx on the frontend — nothing hardcoded,
nothing read from a table at boot, the imports made concrete at install. C would
have bought only the absence of a restart.
and a restart is close to free here, because sidecars are pm2 peers rather than
children — a property that was fought for, since officer used to spawn the agent
and pm2's tree-kill took the owner's chat down on every restart. what a restart
costs is websockets, which reconnect, and in-memory session records, which
claude:list already recovers.
the happy consequence is that assertCapabilityTotality stays a boot check
instead of becoming a per-mount transaction. it does need to be fed the route
table rather than Object.keys(handlers) first — generated mounts widen that gap
rather than closing it, so that is a prerequisite and not a tidy-up beside it.
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lean it to identity facts and human choices: publisher, version, platform range,
the four presentation fields, and permissions. everything structural becomes
convention, where presence is the declaration — sidecar/, api/router.ts,
db/schema.ts, web/Router.tsx, web/panels.ts. appName comes from the directory
name, so the id cannot disagree with where the code sits.
the dock tile and page title needed no fields at all: the tile is label + icon +
color + mountPrefix, and the title is label. writing them again was duplication
that could only drift.
runtime is the file extension. index.mjs is node, index.ts is bun — implicit,
but already the rule here, since officer-pty runs under node for node-pty's abi
and everything else is bun. better than a field that can contradict the file.
dependsOn is gone; nothing read it.
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a turn on the opencode harness ran as the owner, in the owner's home, whoever
asked. handleOpenCodeChat resolves its cwd against getOwnerHomeDir(email), which
discards the email it is given, and the sidecar runs one shared `opencode serve`
as the service user — sendOpenCodeStreaming accepts userId/email/username and
forwards none of them. it carried a comment calling itself owner-only; nothing
enforced it.
reachable by any account with the `chat` grant, which every role holds by
default (DEFAULT_ROLE_CAPABILITIES), and isClaudeModel is a startsWith, so a
typo'd model string landed there too. the model is client-supplied and never
checked against the catalogue.
the same gap on the read side: opencode's session store has no per-user scoping
at all, so loadOpenCodeSession/delete/rename take an id and no identity, and the
list and live routes returned other people's conversations.
so: ChatIdentity carries isOwner as its own fact (not inferred from
osUser === null, which holds only while resolveHomeDir refuses a member without
one), and every opencode door in chat.ts checks it — list, load, live, delete,
rename — plus a refusal on the execution path in handleChat. /chat/models hides
opencode from non-owners as a courtesy; the socket refuses regardless.
a stopgap, not a design. the fix is to thread identity through the opencode
sidecar the way spawnClaudeAsMember does, and TODO.md has been saying so.
not fixed here, and worth knowing: a member's session list is still empty and
/chat/pwds still 500s, because readdirSync on their ~/.claude/projects is EACCES
— claude creates it at mode 700, which zeroes the ACL mask. visible in
officer-error.log right now.
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'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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