A plugin with no web/ has no route, no dock tile and no panel — so it had
nowhere to put a setting. transcribe shipped exactly like that: installed,
running, and configurable only by an HTTP call somebody had to already know
about.
The plugin DECLARES its fields and the platform renders them, on the plugin
detail page — the one screen that exists for every plugin whether or not it has
a frontend. A component would have survived settings too complicated to
describe, at the cost of every backend plugin carrying a frontend to draw one
text field, each looking slightly different.
The platform stores nothing. It is a form over the plugin's own /config: GET to
populate, PUT to save. So a plugin that validates before saving still does, and
one that keeps a credential keeps it where it already kept it.
A `secret` field is write-only across the boundary — never read back, rendered
as a password, and left out of the PUT when untouched so an untyped box is not
read as "clear it". The plugin reports whether it HAS one, never the value.
Eight strings across all six locales, because the key type refuses anything
else — which is the localisation work from earlier tonight doing its job.
1426 pass, tsgo clean, docs:check green.
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Speech-to-text leaves the platform for the transcribe plugin. No schema, no
dependencies — a removal plus a catalogue entry.
The plan says explicitly not to install the plugin during the rollout. Which
hosts get transcription is the owner's call, made per host, and an install now
grants access to every role. Removing and installing in one unattended pass
would decide that for five machines at once.
Nothing is lost anywhere: no host had an STT endpoint configured, so the routes
this removes have never answered on any of them.
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Without an entry the plugin is invisible to every server but the one it was
built on — the catalogue is what a remote host reads, and the bundled constant
is only the fallback when marketplace.officer.dev cannot be reached.
Declares no osDependencies, matching the plugin's own manifest: it reaches
whisper.cpp with fetch and shells out to nothing. An entry claiming ffmpeg would
make an install demand a binary the code never calls.
Synced. 19 in the catalogue, and the repository answers an anonymous https clone.
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Speech-to-text is now plugins/transcribe — sidecar, its own config, its own
skill and a task for the file browser's context menu. The transcription logic
moved BYTE FOR BYTE: 416 lines whose every decision has a reason attached, from
the two-pass detect-then-transcribe to the 25 language priming prompts to
timeout:false. Verified identical rather than assumed.
Removed here: api/stt/, server-settings/stt.ts and its mount, POST /chat/stt,
POST /file-browser/transcribe, the FileViewer handler behind the button hidden
last release, the Settings screen, the dead useAudioRecording hook and the
orphaned locale keys across all six locales.
blobToWav stayed. It lived in the same file as the dead hook and is still used
by DictateDialog — unrelated to STT, and deleting by file rather than by use is
how that would have gone.
No permission entry to remove: STT never had one, living under server-admin,
chat and files. The registry count is unchanged and docs:check is green.
The plugin ships a task that will not appear in the menu yet — the platform
loads a plugin's skills, affordances and notifications from its own directory
but not its tasks. That loader is the remaining piece of docs/plugin-capabilities.md
and is deliberately not built here.
1426 pass, tsgo clean, 18 plugins discovered with none broken.
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One frontend file — the transcribe button hidden in the file viewer. No schema,
no dependencies, nothing to verify by query.
Also the first real firing of the rebuilt Platform Deployer commander, which is
why this is the release it gets: if the loop misbehaves the blast radius is a
button that was already invisible.
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It calls POST /file-browser/transcribe, which refuses on every server here — no
STT endpoint is configured anywhere, so it is a control that can only fail. One
of those teaches people to distrust the controls beside it, and OCR and extract
audio sit right there.
Hidden rather than deleted. Speech-to-text is leaving the platform for a plugin,
and the wiring is the useful part: the handler, the loading state and the
sibling-markdown behaviour in FileViewerProvider are all still correct, so when
the plugin exists this becomes a call to it rather than a rediscovery.
It may not come back here at all — the other route to the same job is the file
browser's context menu, which a plugin reaches with a task, and that needs no
button in this header. The comment says so, so whoever finds `false &&` knows it
is a decision rather than debugging left behind.
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Swedish, plugin capabilities read where they live, dev tools as a property of a
role, a commander as a directory, and atomic uploads.
TWO schema changes and bun db:push can apply neither. Both drop a column while
adding others, which is the shape drizzle-kit cannot tell from a rename — it
asks, bails with no terminal to answer, and the wrapper still exits 0. The plan
carries both blocks, guarded and idempotent, tested against a scratch database:
they apply, re-apply cleanly once already applied, and the roles guard still
refuses a host where anything wrote a provisioning_script.
The command_hq block DELETES every commander rather than migrating one. That is
the owner's call and the plan says to tell people what was removed and put it in
the report — a commander is somebody's standing job, not a row.
Also carries a cleanup no plan format covers: three hosts hold a copy of gitea's
affordance published by the mechanism this release removes, and affordances are
deliberately not de-duplicated, so without the removal the agent reads the same
guidance twice.
The verification step is a conversation rather than a query. The capability
refactor's failure mode is an agent that quietly knows less, which no schema
check can see.
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Implements phase 1 of docs/commander-directory.md. The row owns its own identity
and its own directory; session_id becomes a nullable pointer to whichever
conversation is current.
The ordering was the bug. POST /command-hq/commanders took a sessionId the caller
already held, so a chat existed first and was filed as a commander second — and
the working directory is fixed when that session spawns, before any id exists. It
now takes {name, referencePath}, creates the row, its directory and its CLAUDE.md,
and returns the cwd to start the chat in. Nothing waits on the CLI.
commander-block.ts is deleted. Claude Code reads a CLAUDE.md from the working
directory, so what it injected per turn is written once at creation and the
commander extends it as the job is agreed. resolveChatCwd no longer trusts
msg.cwd at all: it looks the row up server-side. The containment reasoning that
made a client-chosen path safe still holds — it just no longer applies, because
the client has nothing left to choose.
Four things found in review, none of which the build had.
Ownership. confineUserTree chowns commanders/ once, at provisioning, so anything
created afterwards belongs to the service user — a MEMBER's commander directory
would be one their own claude cannot write into, failing as an agent that dies on
its first command in a directory it can see. Invisible because it works perfectly
for the owner, who has no osUser. Handed over on creation, best effort, and the
error is returned as well as logged.
getCommanderDir is guarded. Two callers rm -rf what it returns, and createCommander
inserts dir_name as '' before fixing it up from the serial id — an empty name
resolves to the commanders ROOT and would take every commander the account has.
The transaction closes that window; the guard means it does not have to.
The fallback in resolveChatCwd was silent. A commander whose row is not found runs
in the account's home with no CLAUDE.md, which reads as an agent that forgot its
job rather than a lookup that missed. It says so now.
And sv-SE is renamed alongside the other five locales. It did not exist when this
work was written.
Verified: SQL applied against a scratch database first — idempotent, several
commanders can hold a null pointer at once, one-per-transcript still enforced.
Then here: db:push emits no DDL and does not prompt, officer restarts clean, and
POST /commanders returns a real directory holding state/ and a CLAUDE.md.
1428 pass, tsgo clean.
The single existing commander was deleted rather than migrated, per the design.
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master was out of parity and every test was green. sv-SE named
commandHq.referencePath and referencePathHint; en-GB named workingDirectory and
cwdHint. Two reasons neither was caught.
The three parity tests LISTED their locales literally, so adding a sixth added a
file none of them looked at. A guard that has to be maintained to keep guarding
is the thing it exists to prevent — the same shape as the bug that made three
locales ship dead last night. They now read the directory.
And findMissingKeys is one-directional: it asks whether every English key is
present, so a rename reports half of itself. The new key is missing and caught;
the stale one the translation still carries is invisible. findExtraKeys is the
other half, and both are asserted.
Realigns sv-SE onto the committed key names. It was translated from a working
tree where that rename existed and was not yet committed — the commander
directory work, still unreviewed — so on master it named keys English did not
have. The rename will land across all six locales together when that work does.
Also asserts there IS at least one locale besides en-GB, because otherwise every
assertion passes over an empty set and reports nothing.
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538 app.* + 541 panel.* + 43 ui.* = 1122 keys, full parity with en-GB. Registered in
catalogues.ts, locales.ts SHIPPED_LOCALES, and both workspace locales/index.ts —
the four-edit checklist docs/localization.md calls out, since a missed import is
what shipped es-ES/de-DE/fr-FR dead the first time.
files.menu.selected (officerdev) was number-invariant in English ("selected") but
needs one/other in Swedish ("vald"/"valda"), same class of bug as the "1
seleccionados" fix in es-ES — split it rather than copying the English shape.
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The default was deny-everything: a newly installed plugin reached nobody, and
every grant had to be added by hand, per role, on a different screen, by the
owner. That made sense while the permission model was being built and there were
no members. It stopped making sense once installing a plugin became a deliberate
administrative act — somebody who installs a thing has already decided the server
should have it, and a second decision elsewhere has one reliable outcome: it gets
forgotten and the plugin looks broken.
So install grants, the owner revokes. uninstallPlugin already removed those
grants, so the pair is symmetric.
ROWS, NOT A RULE CHANGE. authorize.ts still denies on absence. The other way to
get this behaviour is to make absence mean allow, and that is the version that
bites in a year: every capability with no row for any reason — a failed write, a
half-finished install, a bug — becomes permitted and nothing looks wrong. The
blast radius here is only ever a plugin's own keys; core, execution, admin and
confined are unreachable from it.
Super Admin is skipped because ck_role_permissions_not_owner refuses it outright
and would fail the whole insert. The owner bypasses grants anyway.
Also fixes something older that would have made this half-true. A role created
through /api/roles began with NOTHING — DEFAULT_ROLE_PERMISSIONS was only ever
applied in bootstrap, so a new role could not reach chat, files or terminal while
Member could, and nothing said why. A new role now starts where Member does, plus
every installed plugin. Leaving it would mean the policy held for roles that
existed when a plugin was installed and not for any created after, which reads as
a bug in whichever half you meet first.
Verified against the live database with a throwaway role and a throwaway plugin:
the new role seeded with the confined baseline plus every installed plugin, the
grant reached all four roles and never Super Admin, and cleanup left the table
exactly as it was. 1417 pass.
NOT done: existing installs. browser, email and offscale are installed here and
granted to nobody, because they predate this. A backfill is one query and is the
owner's call.
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The two kinds of work in a commander have opposite economics. A script runs per
event and costs nothing, so volume has no ceiling. An agent runs per batch on
material a script assembled, and costs a turn each time. So the rule for building
any commander is to push as much as possible into the script and let the agent
see only what needs judgement.
The tiers are not fixed, and that is the part that matters. The commander owns
its scripts — they are files in its own directory — so every correction moves
work downward: "this one was missed, it had eight digits" turns a judgement into
a rule. The agent tier thins as the free tier improves.
A commander that runs for six months should cost less per event than it did in
week one, not more. That is the opposite of how automation usually ages, and it
follows from two decisions rather than from hope: the agent owns its scripts, and
corrections arrive through dialogue rather than a ticket to somebody else.
Nothing improves a system it cannot edit.
Records the two requirements that make it safe. A verdict is reproduced rather
than logged, because the input is still on disk and the script is deterministic.
And a change is re-run over the existing corpus before it ships, or the fix for
eight-digit codes quietly starts flagging every order confirmation, unattended,
at three in the morning.
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Framed this as a credential-safety rule; it is a boundary. A commander does not
hold a Whisper URL, does not name one and has no parameter for it — it knows the
platform can transcribe and asks the platform. So there is usually nothing
sensitive in a commander to leak, and sharing is simple for a reason rather than
by luck. The credential rule survives for the case where a commander genuinely
needs a secret of its own.
Also records a scope decision. Whether the platform is configured at all is a
system administration problem, not something to solve with a capability
registry — and the commander skill already covers it: do the first run by hand,
then arm. An unconfigured endpoint fails in front of the person doing it, and the
same rule catches somebody forking the commander onto a machine that lacks it.
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The directory holds two kinds of thing and they must not mix. The definition —
CLAUDE.md, parameters, procedures, scripts — is what travels. The instance state
— what it has handled, what it spawned, its loop's pid — must never, or a
recipient's commander starts up believing it already handled somebody else's
recordings and silently does nothing.
Structural from the first commit rather than sorted out later, for the same
reason plugin capabilities are read in place: a directory boundary beats a
convention, because a convention is what a tired person violates.
Parameters separate from procedure, too. With a path baked into a script, a fork
is a debugging session; declared in one place, a fork is a conversation — the new
owner is asked where their memos land and the commander rewrites its own file.
Phase 2, recorded and NOT being built: a commander turns itself into a git
repository when asked, in conversation. No button — it git inits, ignores state/
and commits, which is the same shape as everything else here. What it needs to
know goes in the commander SKILL rather than an affordance, because an
affordance's body is charged to every turn of every commander forever and this
earns that approximately never.
Two rules that belong in the design now because both are awkward later. A
credential is definition-shaped — it looks like configuration — so gitignoring
state/ does not protect it; commanders name what must be configured and the
platform holds the value. And a shared commander declares what it requires, or it
lands on an install without a Whisper server, arms cleanly and fails silently at
3am, which is the worst failure this system has.
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The one commander here is unarmed and has never fired, so a migration would be a
code path that runs once and never again. Deleting it and re-arming on the new
system also exercises the flow the design exists to fix, which a migration would
route around.
Notes the shelf life: free while nothing depends on a commander, not free after.
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Its identity is borrowed — command_hq_sessions.session_id is Claude's transcript
id, minted by the CLI as the first turn begins. Verified: the id on the live row
has a transcript file on disk. Three problems fall out of that.
The working directory is fixed when the session spawns, before the id exists, so
there is no point in the current flow where a commander can start in a directory
named after itself. The first-turn interlock is a side effect being used as a
signal — commanderBlock cannot resolve its paths on turn one, and the skill turns
that emptiness into "you must be on your first turn". And losing the conversation
loses the commander, because its state lives in the transcript and in a second
tree keyed on the same borrowed id.
So the platform owns the id, creates the directory first, writes CLAUDE.md into
it, and spawns the session there. The transcript id becomes a pointer on the row
rather than the thing the commander IS. Nothing waits on the CLI, so the ordering
problem stops existing.
Two things it buys beyond that. Claude Code reads a CLAUDE.md from the working
directory, so the living document needs no mechanism at all and commanderBlock's
per-turn injection goes away. And a commander survives its conversation: a dead
session can be replaced in the same directory, with its scripts, procedures and
record of what it has handled intact.
The API does not change. The server just gets to do things in an order that works.
Flags the consequence nobody would notice until it bit: the skill's "turn one is
orientation, read where you are" assumes cwd is the target. Under this design the
commander's own directory is nearly empty and the interesting thing is elsewhere,
so that guidance moves with the code or every new commander orients on nothing.
One commander exists on this machine and it is not armed, so the migration is
cheap now and gets dearer with each one started.
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Bun.write(filePath, file) streams to the name the file will end up with, so for
as long as an upload takes, that name exists holding a partial file and nothing
watching the folder can tell. The failure is silent rather than loud — a
truncated m4a decodes fine, it is just short — so a watcher transcribing voice
memos as they arrive would produce a clean transcript of the first few seconds
of a two-minute recording and report success.
Writing to <name>.part and renaming makes the final name either absent or
complete. Every consumer gets that for free: the phone's own uploadVerified, a
watcher, an agent reading the folder. The alternative was each of them inventing
"the size stopped changing", which cannot tell a finished upload from a stalled
one.
SendOff had the same shape and it matters more there, because that is a folder
things arrive in unattended — neither a recipient watching it nor the push
notification may name a file still being written.
.part rather than a dotfile, deliberately: a leftover should be VISIBLE, named
for what it was going to be, beside where it belongs. A failed write cleans up
after itself; only an interrupted process leaves a fragment, which is the case
worth being able to see. Nothing sweeps them — a job deleting files it did not
create is a worse trade than a fragment somebody can spot.
Server-side only. The phone uploads exactly as before and its verification read
happens after the response, by which time the rename has landed. No new build.
Verified: a watcher polling every millisecond through a 40 MB write never saw a
partial file under the final name, and a real 8 MB upload through the live route
left the file complete with no .part behind. 1422 pass.
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Carries the SQL, because bun db:push cannot apply this one and will not say so:
dropping provisioning_script while adding two columns makes drizzle-kit ask
whether it is a rename, and with no terminal it bails while the wrapper exits 0.
Tested against a scratch database — applies, re-applies cleanly once the column
is already gone, and refuses to drop a provisioning_script anything actually
wrote.
Also carries a one-off cleanup that no plan format covers. alpha, fofos and
production-pertento-bridge each hold capabilities/affordances/officerdev/gitea/,
a copy from the mechanism this release removes. The gitea plugin still ships that
affordance in its own directory and affordances are deliberately not
de-duplicated, so without the removal the agent reads the same guidance twice.
The verification step is a chat rather than a query, because the failure mode of
the capability refactor is an agent that quietly knows less rather than an error.
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Four publishers copied a plugin's affordances, notifications and skills into
capabilities/ at install. That directory is meant to be forked — core's work
plus the owner's — so a fork accumulated files it did not author with nothing on
disk saying which, and there was no good answer: commit them and carry another
plugin's work, leave them and git status stays dirty.
Copying was also wrong in two ways unrelated to git. A copy goes stale, because
plugins:update pulls the plugin's directory and the copy keeps describing the
old version. And a copy survived plugins:disable, so a disabled plugin's skill
stayed in the agent's index — off, and still being announced.
Now the loaders take a list of roots: the owner's store, plus each installed AND
enabled plugin's own directory. capability-sources.ts resolves that list. No
namespace is needed to keep them apart, because separate directories do it
structurally rather than by convention.
The owner's own win a skill name collision — their root is first and the merge
keeps the first of each id — so a plugin cannot take over a name already in use.
Affordances are deliberately NOT de-duplicated: several can be true at once.
Notifications needed more than a root list, and it would have failed silently.
Their codes were derived from the COPY'S PATH, <publisher>/<appName>/file.yaml.
Read in place the path is just notifications/catalogue.yaml and carries no
identity, so every plugin code would have vanished with nothing raised.
loadPluginEntries takes the identity from the manifest instead, which is better
provenance anyway — publisher and appName are validated at discovery, where a
path was only ever a directory somebody chose. A yaml key still cannot claim
another namespace, and that is pinned by test.
createSession is async now, only because resolving enabled plugins reads the
database. Once per session; its single caller already awaited.
Deletes all four publishers including api/tasks/publish.ts from earlier today,
superseded before it shipped. app-store/assets stays — images served over HTTP,
where the copy is what makes them reachable.
NOT done: tasks. That store is read-write, so reads must span sources while
writes stay in the owner's directory, and a plugin's task has to be read-only in
the UI. Next.
Two things the design predicted as orphans turned out not to be, and both were
checked before deleting rather than after. capabilities/extensions/tool-loader
is written by the platform's own bootstrap every boot, not published by a
plugin. And skills/email-db has no source to fall back on — the email plugin
ships no skills directory, so that file exists in exactly one place and was
hand-written. Neither was touched.
1422 pass, tsgo clean, officer restarts and serves.
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capabilities/ is meant to be forked — core's work plus the owner's, and nothing
else. Four publishers copy plugin files into it at install, so a fork
accumulates files it did not author with nothing on disk saying which. On this
machine skills/email-db/ and extensions/ are sitting untracked in that
repository right now, and there is no good answer: commit them and the fork
carries another plugin's work, leave them and git status is permanently noisy.
Copying is wrong a second way that has nothing to do with git. A copy goes
stale — plugins:update pulls new plugin code while the copied capability keeps
describing the old one — and a copy survives plugins:disable, so a disabled
plugin's skill stays in the agent's index.
So the platform reads them where they are: the capabilities directory, plus each
installed and enabled plugin's own. Nothing is copied, and nothing needs a
namespace to stay apart because separate directories already do that
structurally rather than by convention.
Four bugs stop existing: forks stay clean, capabilities update with the plugin,
disable actually disables, and uninstall needs no cleanup — so there is no list
of filenames to get wrong and delete the owner's work with.
Deletes all four publishers when built, including api/tasks/publish.ts from
earlier today, superseded before it shipped anywhere. app-store/assets stays —
those are images served over HTTP, and the copy is what makes them reachable.
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Assets, affordances, notification catalogues and skills each had a publisher.
Tasks did not, which is the one that matters for reaching the FILE BROWSER'S
CONTEXT MENU: a task carrying `{ type: 'file', extensions: [...] }` already
appears on a right-click with no platform change, because matchesTrigger in
useTasks.ts does that work. What was missing was only delivery — the capability
had to be installed by hand beside the plugin and removed by hand after.
Flat rather than namespaced by publisher, matching skills. A task's directory
name is its identity everywhere: the taskDirName in a job row, the path a script
runner materialises, the label in a run history. Wrapping that in a publisher
would put one in all of those for a collision nobody has had, and a task claims
no authority — it is a menu entry behind a permission that already exists. That
trade is NOT available to affordances, which stay namespaced, because one that
could claim `officer/core:` would be claiming the platform's voice.
The test that earns its keep is the uninstall one. `tasks/` is the owner's own
directory and nothing on disk marks which entries came from a plugin, so the
scope of that delete is the only thing standing between an uninstall and
somebody's hand-written work. Proven rather than reasoned about.
Written for the Whisper extraction, where the transcribe entry has to arrive
with the plugin instead of being seeded separately.
1429 pass, tsgo clean.
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The table had two entries, en and pt. Every other language got no prompt at
all, which is why Swedish transcription had nothing steering it.
The prompt is not an instruction — whisper.cpp conditions on it and IMITATES it.
So it carries three things: punctuation style, which is the largest effect;
the language's diacritics, which is the one that fails silently, because a
Swedish prompt without å ä ö teaches it to omit them; and register, which here
is one person talking into a phone rather than prose from a book.
Each entry is an original scenario in that language's idiom rather than a
translation of the English, because a literal rendering produces translationese
and primes badly. Diacritic coverage was verified per language rather than
eyeballed, and the CJK and Arabic entries use native punctuation — 。and 、for
Japanese, full-width for Chinese, ، and ؟ for Arabic, ; as the Greek question
mark.
Three are lower confidence and worth a native read before they are trusted: ar,
he and hi. Arabic is the structural one — it is written in Modern Standard,
which is not how anyone dictates a voice memo, though it is close to how Arabic
is written down and to what Whisper emits anyway. Kept on that reasoning; cut ar
first if it reads wrong.
Detection still chooses the language and the prompt still follows the detected
one, not the UI locale. Keying it on the interface language would prime
Portuguese audio with an English paragraph whenever someone runs the UI in
English, and an initial prompt biases output rather than merely hinting.
tsgo clean, prettier clean, 11 stt tests pass.
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Per-user and per-team storage limits need the kernel, not the platform. Members
hold terminal at write and have their own Linux accounts, so a quota counted
through the file browser is decorative — they open a shell and write past it.
The plan is usrquota and grpquota, deliberately not project quotas: every case
here is "this user" or "this team", both already identities the kernel knows,
and a team is already a Linux group. Skipping prjquota also skips the
inode-size trap, since project quotas need 256-byte inodes and cannot be added
to a filesystem that has 128.
Includes the pre-flight that decides whether the procedure applies at all, the
rescue-boot steps, and a throwaway-account test that proves enforcement — because
enabling quotas and setting none looks exactly like success.
The easiest thing to get wrong is recorded prominently: a team folder that is
not setgid charges its files to each member's own group, so the team limit counts
nothing.
For edge-pertento, which is the first real multi-user host and already has one
account. officer-dev will not be multi-user and alpha is the owner's own;
neither needs it.
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A team owns a shared folder. Any Admin may create one. A team may grant a
capability the member's role lacks, capped so the creator cannot attach
anything they do not hold themselves. Deleting a role is refused while anyone
holds it in a team, same as globally.
Dashboards deferred deliberately: they need editor-versus-viewer, which is a
permission shape nothing here has, since every grant today is read-or-write over
a whole capability.
Also records two things phase 4 must not get wrong. The folder boundary is a
Linux group, not the grant — every role already holds files at write, so the
capability was never what kept teams apart. And the grant cache is keyed on role
today; teams make it per-user, which is easy to lose silently.
Plus the quota model and its prerequisite: enforcement is the kernel's, because
members have terminal and can write past anything the platform counts. Neither
officer-dev nor alpha can carry filesystem quotas today and neither can be fixed
while running. edge-pertento is where it matters — the first real multi-user
host — and it should be checked before it gains accounts.
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rolePermitsDevTools() was `role === 'Developer'` — one line gating two real
grants, a Postgres login role with CREATEDB and a rootless Docker daemon. A role
the owner created at runtime could never have either, which defeats the point of
roles being data.
Two boolean columns on `roles` now carry it, and roleDevGrants() reads the row.
A role that no longer exists reads as neither grant, matching "absence denies"
everywhere else.
NOT the `provisioningScript` D8 asked for, and that column is removed rather
than left dead. A shell script stored on a role row and run at provisioning time
is arbitrary root-level code in a database column, and D8's own warning says why
that is worse than it looks: `usermod -aG docker` is root by a longer route. So
the row CHOOSES from a vocabulary the platform already knows how to carry out —
the same shape as `multiarch` on a plugin's osDependencies, for the same reason.
The seed re-asserts both flags on every run for system roles, and only for them.
Without that, existing rows take the column default of false the moment it lands
and Developer silently loses its tools on the next deploy — every host already
has these four rows, so an insert-only seed would have shipped that. `description`
stays insert-only, because an edit made on one server must survive a deploy.
`db:push` could not apply this and said nothing. Dropping a column while adding
another makes drizzle-kit ask whether it is a rename; with no terminal it bails
and the wrapper still exits 0, leaving the seed to fail against an unchanged
schema. Recorded in src/databases/CLAUDE.md with the SQL, because it will hit
every host on the next deploy and no agent driving a rollout has a terminal.
Verified here: SQL applied guarded, Developer keeps both grants and no other role
gained any, second push emits zero DDL and no prompt, 1423 pass / 0 fail.
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Three files said there was no way to create a second account. There is:
POST /api/users, owner-gated, with a form under Settings -> User Management,
plus role change, password reset, Linux provisioning and delete. The plan went
further and sequenced a whole phase around building it.
It cost something today. A recommendation to "do phase 5 first, it unblocks
everything" was made from this text, and withdrawn only because opening
api/users/ to write the spec found the route already there.
Worth naming the shape rather than just fixing the sentences: docs:check
compares numbers, so the counts stay honest while the prose rots. Both times
this has bitten, the stale claim was a paragraph nothing could verify. A phase
marked "not built" is worth checking against the tree before planning around
it — a plan is written once, the code moves daily.
The root CLAUDE.md carries the same correction plus the roles-as-a-table state;
it is not in a git repo, so it is fixed on disk only.
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-m/-F goes before the --, or git reads the message as a pathspec. And it only
works on tracked files, so a commit introducing a new one needs git add first.
Got the second wrong cutting 2026.08.23.05: the commit failed, the tag went onto
the previous commit, and the release had no plan in it. Caught only by checking
what the tag pointed at afterwards, which is now the reason to always check.
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Five languages, roles behind a foreign key, and Minesweeper out of the platform.
This one has a SCHEMA CHANGE, which is why the plan is longer than usual: two
foreign keys onto roles.name with ON UPDATE CASCADE, and the CHECK that
hardcoded four role names dropped. The plan carries the exact SQL, guarded and
idempotent, and treats bun db:push as verification rather than the mechanism —
push can fail and still exit 0, and this is precisely the create-then-constrain
shape that catches it.
Checked before cutting the tag, so the plan can state it rather than hope:
every host is on deploy/2026.08.23.04, which is the release that created and
seeded `roles`. alpha, fofos, production-pertento-bridge and
deadpool-rezio-bridge each report roles=4 and zero orphans. macbookpro has no
psql client, so only its tag could be read — the plan says so and tells the
commander to check it there rather than assume.
The SQL was run against a scratch database first: applies, applies again
unchanged, produces both FKs with ON UPDATE CASCADE and no ON DELETE, drops
ck_role_permissions_role, leaves ck_role_permissions_not_owner. Seeded with an
orphan role it raises and creates nothing, which is the case that would
otherwise half-apply.
tsgo clean, 1409 tests, docs:check green.
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Minesweeper could not be installed by the plugin flow at all. Its game is an
i386 PE, so it needs wine32:i386 — and that package does not exist on a 64-bit
host until dpkg has been told the architecture does. No package name can say
that, so the step fell outside the manifest entirely and had to be run by hand,
which meant an install that reported success and left a game dying with
`Bad EXE format` several steps from anything mentioning architectures.
Two fields, both declarative:
`multiarch: 'i386'` on an osDependency. The platform runs `dpkg
--add-architecture` and `apt-get update` before installing, apt hosts only,
skipped when already enabled. It is a closed enum rather than a command
because it runs as root: a manifest that could supply the string could run
anything as root on every machine that installs the plugin, which is a much
larger grant than "may install wine". Same principle as a plugin websocket
naming a sidecar rather than a port.
`packages.apt` may now be a LIST. One binary really can need more than one
package — `wine` provides the launcher on PATH and `wine32:i386` the 32-bit
loader, and either alone gives a wine that cannot run what the plugin came for.
Every element goes through the same regex and reaches apt as separate argv, so
a list is no more powerful than the names in it. The regex also now accepts an
architecture suffix from the same closed set.
Enabling an architecture is system-wide and permanent — nothing here ever
disables one, including plugins:delete, because by then something else may
depend on it. So it is reported before the owner consents rather than mentioned
in a log afterwards, and only for dependencies actually being installed: a
binary already present had its architecture enabled at some point in the past.
multiarch.test.ts pins the enum against shell-shaped input, the suffix against
an unknown arch, and the report against re-announcing a change that is not
happening. 1409 pass.
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`git add <path>` then a bare `git commit` commits the whole index, so a
concurrent session's staged work rides along under your message and your session
trailer. Two agents share this tree most nights and it happened tonight —
6e092c32 names one file and holds ten.
`git commit -- <paths>` is the form that does what the two-step version looks
like it does. Note the argument order: -m or -F comes BEFORE the --, or git
reads the message as a pathspec.
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That commit's message describes one file and it contains ten. Nine of them are
platform-72's roles phase 2 work — the two foreign keys, the dropped CHECK, and
UserRole becoming a string — staged and about to be committed when my own
commit landed on top of them.
The cause is mine and it is worth writing down, because this tree is shared by
more than one agent routinely: `git add <path>` followed by a bare `git commit`
commits the whole INDEX, not the path just named. Whatever a peer had staged
goes with it, under my message and my session trailer. `git commit -- <paths>`
is the form that does what the first one looks like it does.
Not amended. It is pushed, another session is working against this branch, and
rewriting shared history to fix a commit message is a worse trade than a note
that makes the history searchable. The code in it was reviewed line by line and
is correct.
Applied and verified since: both FKs exist named with ON UPDATE CASCADE and no
ON DELETE, ck_role_permissions_role is dropped, ck_role_permissions_not_owner
survives, and a probe role proved the cascade really moves grants. Second
db:push emits zero DDL, so the FK naming holds. 1403 tests pass, tsgo clean,
docs:check green.
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Without an entry the plugin is invisible to every server but this one — the
catalogue is what a remote host reads, and the bundled constant is only the
fallback when marketplace.officer.dev cannot be reached.
Its git remote was the tailnet address, which marketplace-sync would have
published verbatim: a clone URL that works on this network and nowhere else,
failing at authentication in a way that reads as a broken plugin rather than a
wrong catalogue. Repointed at gitea.officer.dev, which is the rule the sync
script's own comment already spells out.
Synced. 18/18, and the entry is live with the right source, permissions and six
osDependencies; the repo answers an anonymous https clone.
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Neither was visible from the source or from any test — both only showed up
switching the live UI to es-ES/de-DE/fr-FR in a browser, which is what
turned up the catalogue-wiring bug this builds on top of (see prior commit).
1. FileItem.tsx had two `isDir ? 'Folder' : ...` ternaries the scanner
cannot see (values computed inside a JSX expression, not JSX text) —
the Type column and the grid-view size line both showed the English
word "Folder" regardless of locale. New key files.grid.folderType,
translated in all five catalogs.
2. files.menu.selected was a single hardcoded string ("selected" /
"seleccionados" / "sélectionnés" / ...), not a plural form. English
doesn't inflect "selected" for number so this was invisible in the
source locale, but Spanish and French do: "1 seleccionados" and
"1 sélectionnés" are both wrong, should be singular. Converted to a
{one, other} pair in all five locales (pt-PT included — same bug,
pre-existing) and updated SelectionActions.tsx to pass count. German
was fine either way ("ausgewählt" doesn't inflect here).
Verified by minting a token for the owner's own account, driving a
headless browser through es-ES/de-DE/fr-FR at /settings/profile, /files,
and the file context menu, and reading the screenshots — not just running
the test suite. Owner's real settings were read before and restored after.
Minesweeper is now plugins/minesweeper (gitea.officer.dev/plugins/minesweeper).
Removes /api/minesweeper, the Dashboard screen, the officerdev panel, the
permission registry entry, the App.tsx route and the hand-written websocket
provider in server.tsx. Registry entries: 22 -> 21, execution 4 -> 3.
The relay changed transport, and that is the part worth reading.
A sidecar announces exactly one port. That single announcement is the whole
provenance argument in target.ts — the platform watched the port arrive at
registration, which is the only thing separating it from a number a manifest
asserted. But a raw-TCP relay requires that port to BE a raw TCP listener, so
the sidecar cannot also serve HTTP on it, and the plugin's ordinary routes
have to fall back to the typed command vocabulary over the registration
socket. That is the mechanism the fleet has spent months retiring, and
Minesweeper would have been the first thing to go back to it.
Relaying websocket-to-websocket dissolves the conflict. The sidecar serves
HTTP and /ws on the one port it announced, exactly as the pty sidecar already
does; createSidecarProxy handles the HTTP half; and the conversion from frames
to whatever the plugin actually speaks happens inside the plugin, which is the
only process that knows. The relay is still ignorant of the payload — the
ignorance sits one layer up.
Also: the caller's JWT is no longer forwarded upstream. A sidecar has no use
for it and forwarding one puts a bearer token into whatever that process logs.
X-Officer-User carries the only part it needs. (The terminal relay still
forwards its token to the pty sidecar; not touched here.)
Verified: bunx tsgo clean, bun test 1403 pass / 0 fail, bun run docs:check
green.
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es-ES, de-DE and fr-FR shipped dead. Every one of their 1,129 keys was
translated and in parity, all three were in SHIPPED_LOCALES so the picker
offered them, and choosing one rendered the whole UI in raw keys.
All three catalogue files still imported only en-GB and pt-PT, so
`catalogues[code]` resolved to `{}` in every namespace — present, and useless.
Adding a locale is four edits across four files and nothing knew whether all
four had happened.
The parity tests could not have caught this and never will. They compare the
JSON files against each other, and a file nobody imports is exactly as
parity-correct as one that is loaded. The gap was between "the translation
exists" and "the app can reach it".
Registers all three in appCatalogs, panelCatalogs and uiCatalogs, moves the
merge out of I18nBridge into lib/catalogues.ts so it is testable without
mounting React, and adds catalogues.test.ts as the place that knows: every
shipped locale must resolve to a populated catalogue in all three namespaces,
and be the same size as the fallback.
Verified the test fails against the shipped code — 6 failures, panel.* for
each of the three — and passes after. 26 pass.
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Complete Spanish catalog across all three namespaces, 1129 keys,
machine-translated then reviewed for terminology and plurals.
Fixed on review: an awkward literal fragment in settings.accounts.description
("Quién tiene acceso, y como qué") reworded to use the established
role → "función" glossary term instead of an ad-hoc phrase. Everything
else held up — "compositor" for the chat composer avoided the same
Editor-collision German needed fixing for, Minesweeper stayed
untranslated matching pt-PT/fr-FR/de-DE precedent, and the impersonal
"se" constructions used for the file-operation plurals (Se copió /
Se copiaron) read correctly at both n=1 and n=0 — Spanish's plural
rule is one/other like English, count=0 takes the plural branch.
All 17 plural entries verified at count 0/1/2.
This closes out the three-locale rollout: es-ES, de-DE and fr-FR all
now in SHIPPED_LOCALES and all three parity tests, each shipped in
its own commit only after passing review. pt-BR stays out per the
owner's call — European Portuguese first, Brazilian is a separate
decision.
Complete German catalog across all three namespaces, 1129 keys,
machine-translated then reviewed for terminology and plurals.
Fixed on review: "composer" (the chat input box) had been translated
as "Editor" in two shortcuts strings, colliding with this app's actual
Editor/Code-Editor feature — changed to "Eingabefeld". scopeDockers
had drifted from the lowercase, untranslated "dockers" every other
locale (including this one's own pt-PT/fr-FR precedent) uses for that
filter-scope label. All 17 plural entries verified at count 0/1/2 —
German uses the same one/other split as English, so this was mostly
confirming "0 Elemente" reads right, not hunting for a CLDR surprise
the way French needed.
SHIPPED_LOCALES and the three parity tests now include de-DE. es-ES
is drafted and under review — held out of the picker until it passes
its own pass.
Complete French catalog across all three namespaces (app/panel/ui),
1129 keys, machine-translated then reviewed for the two things that
go wrong automatically: technical vocabulary and plurals.
Fixed on review: a gender-agreement slip ("décrivez-la" referring to
the masculine "Prompt", should be "décrivez-le") and an incomplete
verb construction in agentRunner.keepsGoing. Also reverted "Minesweeper"
→ "Démineur" back to the untranslated proper name, matching pt-PT's
own precedent of not translating this bundled app's name.
French is the language where the 0/1/2 plural check actually bites:
Intl.PluralRules puts count=0 in the SAME category as count=1 ("one"),
unlike English/Portuguese/German/Spanish where 0 is "other". All 17
plural entries were verified against 0, 1 and 2 rather than trusting
the category names — the "one" branch is phrased as a plain singular
so it reads correctly for both 0 and 1.
Parity tests now check every non-en locale in one assertion instead
of hardcoding pt-PT; SHIPPED_LOCALES gains fr-FR so the picker offers
it. es-ES and de-DE catalogs are drafted and under review — held out
of this commit and out of SHIPPED_LOCALES until each passes its own
review, so a half-translated locale never reaches the picker.
Last stretch of phase 3: FileBrowserWidget's five components (tabs,
search, empty states), FileGrid (column headers, sort labels, empty
folder), UploadProgress, DictateDialog and AgentRunnerModal. Reused
ui.button.cancel/close from the shared catalog where the word was
already there instead of adding panel-local duplicates.
The two remaining scanner hits — useTaskRunner's "Running:"/"Error:"
framing — are marked i18n-exempt rather than converted: they're
interleaved with raw stdout/stderr inside one monospace <pre> feed,
so translating the frame alone would read as broken mid-buffer. Same
reasoning as the never-translate thrown-Error list, just not a thrown
Error.
officerdev (panels) added to the scanner's ZEROED guard — the check
now holds three areas at zero.
Toolbar, ActionButtons, SelectionActions and DefaultActions. Almost every string
here reused an existing files.menu.* key from the last two commits rather than
adding a duplicate — cut/copy/paste/download/delete/newFolder/uploadFiles/
uploadFolder/hideHiddenFiles were all already there. Three new: gitClone,
searchFiles, clearSelection, refresh, selected.
The clone-URL placeholder here is the same hint as NewEntryDialog's, reused rather
than restated with different example names (user/repo vs owner/repo) — one key per
meaning, not per occurrence.
The "N selected" count splits the number and the word across two spans (the word
hidden on mobile); only the word needed a key, so files.menu.selected is standalone
prose rather than an interpolated frame.
URL/playlist fetch, per-item preview, and the download-all flow.
Most of what the scanner flagged here was the smaller half — the bulk was ternaries
and text following a `}` rather than a `>` (the same structural miss "Open" and
"Fetch" hit in FileItem), found by reading the file. dlLabel's three-way ternary,
Retry/Download, Audio only/Video, and the "· N items" count were all invisible to
the tool.
Distinguished two classes of error string carefully. `pl.error` and `info.error`
from a successful-but-failed server response are LEFT AS IS — server content,
same as apiError.message in phase 1's ServerError dialog. Our own fallback
defaults for a network failure the server never got to respond to ("Could not
fetch info", "Timed out", "Could not start the download") are ours and are
translated.
One real plural, itemCount, checked at 0/1/2 in both locales.
New file / new folder / clone repository, one dialog for all three.
nameProblem and urlProblem are pure functions with no hook in scope, called on every
keystroke — so they cannot call t() themselves. They now return a closed union
(NameProblem, a discriminated key plus params where one is needed) rather than an
English string, and the component resolves it. Same shape as RfbError in the
Minesweeper panel: a lower layer emits a code, the UI layer owns the words.
NewEntryDialog.test.ts asserted on the literal English message; updated to assert on
the key instead. That is a strict improvement independent of localisation — the old
test would have failed the moment anyone tightened the wording, for a change that
touched no logic. It now only fails if the LOGIC picks the wrong problem.
The COPY table (title/description/label/placeholder/submit per kind) is module-level
data, so it carries key names now and the component resolves them — same pattern as
the settings sections and the shortcut registry in earlier phases.
Example placeholders "documents" and "notes.txt" are translated ("documentos",
"notas.txt") rather than left as identifiers: unlike a credential format or a model
filename, these are prose hints meant to guide the reader, and the scanner's own
isHuman heuristic only skipped them because they happen to be lowercase with no
spaces, not because they are not content.
The single row menu shared by the dropdown and the context-menu variants: open,
edit, paste-into, read aloud, extract, run task/agent, cut/copy/duplicate/rename,
compress, copy path, download, pin, chat, create dashboard, delete.
Four strings the scanner cannot see, converted anyway since the file was open:
"Open" sits after a conditional icon expression (`{cond ? <A/> : <B/>}`) rather than
directly after a tag's `>`, which is outside the jsx-text pattern's reach. "Cut" is
three characters and the pattern requires four. "Open in editor"/"(too large)" and
"Compress"/"Compress selection" are both ternaries, which the scanner's own docs
already say it cannot see.
formatDate() called toLocaleDateString(undefined, {...}) — the browser-locale
contradiction D7 describes, same shape as ApiKeys and DavAppPasswords in phase 2.
Replaced with useFormat().date, threaded from the exported FileItem component since
the old helper was module-level and a hook cannot be called from one. Verified the
two locales now genuinely differ: "14 Nov 2023" against "14/11/2023", not "whatever
the browser happens to be set to".
task.name, agent.name and group.category stay untouched — content, not chrome.
Reused files.menu.copyPath, .createDashboardHere and .download from the previous
commit rather than adding duplicates for the same words.
The folder right-click menu and the search-results menu: copy path, chat about this,
paste, new file/folder, upload, clone, hidden-files toggle, create dashboard,
download video, dictate, open folder, show location, and the drop-to-upload overlay.
"Hide hidden files" / "Show hidden files" was a ternary inside JSX, which the
scanner's own docs say it cannot see — found by reading the file rather than by the
tool. Two keys, one per branch, since English and Portuguese verbs differ by more
than a negation.
files.menu.* is a new sub-namespace under the existing files.* group rather than a
flat name, since a bare "download" would otherwise collide with nothing today but
reads as ambiguous next to files.downloadFailed.
The batch prompt sent when running a task against files: subtitle/audio track
pickers, pipeline status, and the multi-group conflict UI.
Three module-level helpers (trackLabel, defaultGroupSel, groupChanges) take `t` as
a parameter rather than calling a hook, because they are plain functions, not
components — same shape as the status-badge helpers from phase 2.
defaultInput, built from the task name and directory, is exempt: it becomes the
brief sent to the agent, never shown as editable text (unlike CapabilityPage's
composer suggestion, which is exactly that and stays translated). Two lines marked,
both with the reason.
Two real plurals: "Track {{n}}" and "Run from step {{n}}", checked in both locales.
The fixed-port form shipped this morning and lasted about an hour. The owner asked
whether declaring a port was safe, and it is not: nothing stopped a manifest naming
a port it does not own, so `websocket: { port: 5432 }` plus a grant would have been
a raw TCP relay onto Postgres — authenticated by the platform, available to anyone
that plugin was granted to. Port 22 and officer's own port are the same sentence.
The relay checked that the HOST was loopback and I mistook that for having checked
anything about the port. They are different questions and only the second one
matters: loopback is exactly where everything worth reaching already is.
So the only form is `{ sidecar }`. A sidecar's port is trustworthy for a reason a
declaration can never be — the platform watched it arrive at registration, so the
association between a port and a plugin is observed rather than asserted. The same
distinction that decides the delegation problem in todo/agent-coordination: a claim
is not evidence, whoever is making it.
The cost is that a plugin wanting a socket needs a sidecar. That is not ceremony,
it is the thing that makes the port mean anything. It was added as a shortcut for
Minesweeper, whose x11vnc listens on a known port — which is precisely the case
that looked harmless and generalised into a hole.
Nothing had used it. Minesweeper is still whole in the platform and its extraction
had not started.
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