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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5	4efc2552d0	os-deps: a dependency declares who has to be able to run it The probe asked the owner's login shell where a binary was, and the install reported that as a fact about the machine. For a confined plugin the work happens as the member's own Linux user, in their own home, where the owner's ~/.local/bin is neither on PATH nor reliably reachable. On alpha it worked — because /home/pastilhas happens to be mode 751, world-traversable, so an absolute path resolved. At 750, the more usual default, every member would have lost every binary with nothing reporting it: the install would still have said satisfied, having only ever asked the owner. Nobody chose 751, and that is the part worth fixing. `scope: 'owner' \| 'shared'` on an osDependency, defaulting to owner, an unrecognised value being a manifest error rather than a silent fall back to the permissive one. Shared changes three things. It is searched for on system directories only — asking the owner's shell would find the copy in the owner's home and call it satisfied, the exact false pass this exists to stop. Reachability is checked as world-executable AND every parent traversable to the root, because a binary at 755 inside a home at 700 is unreachable and stat on the file alone says it is fine. And a release binary goes to /usr/local/bin through sudo -n install, staged in the owner's space first so the download itself never runs as root. An unreachable shared dependency gets its own state and refuses the install ahead of every other check, because no package manager fixes it: the binary is installed and works, and what is wrong is where it lives — reinstalling would report success and change nothing. Not a security boundary, and docs/plugin-dependency-scope.md says so: anything in /usr/local/bin is runnable by any account with a shell, grant or no grant. That is already true of ffmpeg. The plugin's data is gated; its executable is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-21 00:15:38 +00:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5	09f2cfa267	a plugin can depend on a release binary, and prove it is the right one osDependencies could only say "this package, from this manager". Gitea's `tea` is not in any distribution — it is a Go binary from dl.gitea.com — and Debian has an UNRELATED package of that name: a graphical text editor. So the one dependency gitea actually wants could not be expressed, and its marketplace page showed no dependencies at all while music's showed two. `release: { url, identify }` covers it. {os} and {arch} are filled from the host in the spelling Go releases use, and the binary is fetched to ~/.local/bin — no root, and nothing a plugin downloaded from the internet sitting beside what the distribution installed. Written to a temporary name and moved into place, so a half-downloaded file is never on PATH under the real one. `identify` is the part that matters. Bun.which('tea') cannot tell Gitea's CLI from the text editor, so presence was never the same question as identity — and reporting the wrong program as satisfied is worse than reporting it missing, because the install succeeds and every call afterwards fails strangely. A binary that fails to identify is now `present: false, imposter: true`. Found while testing: Bun.which() with no options reads the PATH the PROCESS started with, which under PM2 frequently excludes ~/.local/bin entirely. A release binary fetched during an install would have been reported missing seconds later by stillMissing, failing an install that had just succeeded. The search now passes PATH explicitly, with ~/.local/bin first. Verified against the real binaries on this machine: the genuine tea identifies, a fake that prints text-editor output is caught as an imposter, and both dl.gitea.com URLs (linux-amd64, darwin-arm64) answer 200. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-19 08:48:18 +00:00
pastilhas	e930586878	plugins declare the host binaries they need, and the installer checks Offscale was self-sufficient. Music is not — it shells out to ffmpeg and ffprobe — and the way it fails without them is the reason this is a check rather than a line in a README. It does not fail. Missing ffprobe means the indexer catches the spawn error and returns a track carrying its filename and nothing else: no title, artist, album, duration or embedded lyrics. It then walks the whole library, writes a complete cache tree and reports success. Five swallowed catches, no log, no counter, and the only tell is coversSaved: 0 in a report nobody reads. So `osDependencies` is a manifest field: the binary to probe on PATH, why it is needed, and a package name per package manager. The shape is taken from scripts/setup-old/setup.sh rather than invented — probe the binary, case on $PM — and the names are per-manager rather than canonical-with-overrides because lib/packages.sh already recorded why that indirection was rejected. Probing the binary is what makes "built-in on this OS" free: on PATH means the package map is never consulted. Four decisions worth naming. Missing and uninstallable REFUSES the install, first, before a table is created or a row written — so there is nothing to undo, and the alternative is a plugin that installs, answers 200 and quietly produces nothing. The status is on GET /api/plugins and rendered before the button, because the owner is deciding whether to let the server run a package manager as root and that needs answering first. Installing by hand and watching it flip to present is the escape hatch on a machine without passwordless sudo. Package names get a deliberately narrow regex and reach Bun.spawn as an argv ARRAY, never a shell. Both halves are load-bearing: the regex means a metacharacter cannot get there, argv means it would be an argument rather than syntax if it did. Narrower than package managers actually accept — no `:`, no `+` version pins — because a plugin needing one wants a conversation. Success is OBSERVED, not inferred: after installing, the binaries are re-probed. A package manager exiting 0 having installed something that does not provide the binary is exactly the failure this exists to catch. installCommand mirrors lib/packages.sh's pkg_install_now exactly, including apt's non-interactive environment, so there is one definition of "install a package" rather than two that drift. sudo always gets -n: under PM2 a password prompt is not a slow path, it is a hang. brew never escalates. Verified live. ffmpeg and ffprobe were absent on this machine all evening; the page showed both missing with the exact root command, the install streamed `dependencies: installing ffmpeg with apt` then `ffprobe, ffmpeg now on PATH`, and X-Audio-Duration appeared on a stream response for the first time. The refusal path was exercised against a temporary probe dependency: HTTP 400, steps: [], reason named. THIS CHANGED THE MACHINE: ffmpeg 6.1.1-3ubuntu5 is now installed via apt. Found on the way: a manifest is read once per process. Discovery does `await import()` and the module cache holds it, so editing a manifest changes nothing until pm2 restart officer — including `outdated`. Cost ten minutes and is now in the runbook. bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, 7 fail — the same seven, +25 new.	2026-08-15 02:33:18 +00:00

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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5

4efc2552d0

os-deps: a dependency declares who has to be able to run it

The probe asked the owner's login shell where a binary was, and the install reported that as a fact
about the machine. For a confined plugin the work happens as the member's own Linux user, in their own
home, where the owner's ~/.local/bin is neither on PATH nor reliably reachable.

On alpha it worked — because /home/pastilhas happens to be mode 751, world-traversable, so an
absolute path resolved. At 750, the more usual default, every member would have lost every binary with
nothing reporting it: the install would still have said satisfied, having only ever asked the owner.
Nobody chose 751, and that is the part worth fixing.

`scope: 'owner' | 'shared'` on an osDependency, defaulting to owner, an unrecognised value being a
manifest error rather than a silent fall back to the permissive one.

Shared changes three things. It is searched for on system directories only — asking the owner's shell
would find the copy in the owner's home and call it satisfied, the exact false pass this exists to
stop. Reachability is checked as world-executable AND every parent traversable to the root, because a
binary at 755 inside a home at 700 is unreachable and stat on the file alone says it is fine. And a
release binary goes to /usr/local/bin through sudo -n install, staged in the owner's space first so
the download itself never runs as root.

An unreachable shared dependency gets its own state and refuses the install ahead of every other
check, because no package manager fixes it: the binary is installed and works, and what is wrong is
where it lives — reinstalling would report success and change nothing.

Not a security boundary, and docs/plugin-dependency-scope.md says so: anything in /usr/local/bin is
runnable by any account with a shell, grant or no grant. That is already true of ffmpeg. The plugin's
data is gated; its executable is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-21 00:15:38 +00:00

pastilhasandClaude Opus 5

09f2cfa267

a plugin can depend on a release binary, and prove it is the right one

osDependencies could only say "this package, from this manager". Gitea's `tea`
is not in any distribution — it is a Go binary from dl.gitea.com — and Debian
has an UNRELATED package of that name: a graphical text editor. So the one
dependency gitea actually wants could not be expressed, and its marketplace
page showed no dependencies at all while music's showed two.

`release: { url, identify }` covers it. {os} and {arch} are filled from the
host in the spelling Go releases use, and the binary is fetched to
~/.local/bin — no root, and nothing a plugin downloaded from the internet
sitting beside what the distribution installed. Written to a temporary name and
moved into place, so a half-downloaded file is never on PATH under the real
one.

`identify` is the part that matters. Bun.which('tea') cannot tell Gitea's CLI
from the text editor, so presence was never the same question as identity —
and reporting the wrong program as satisfied is worse than reporting it
missing, because the install succeeds and every call afterwards fails
strangely. A binary that fails to identify is now `present: false, imposter:
true`.

Found while testing: Bun.which() with no options reads the PATH the PROCESS
started with, which under PM2 frequently excludes ~/.local/bin entirely. A
release binary fetched during an install would have been reported missing
seconds later by stillMissing, failing an install that had just succeeded. The
search now passes PATH explicitly, with ~/.local/bin first.

Verified against the real binaries on this machine: the genuine tea identifies,
a fake that prints text-editor output is caught as an imposter, and both
dl.gitea.com URLs (linux-amd64, darwin-arm64) answer 200.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-19 08:48:18 +00:00

pastilhas

e930586878

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

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

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

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

Four decisions worth naming.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

bunx tsgo clean. 797 tests, 787 pass, 7 fail — the same seven, +25 new.

2026-08-15 02:33:18 +00:00