// What a plugin declares about itself, and what the tree declares for it. // // ── The manifest holds only what a directory listing cannot say ── // // Everything structural is convention, and presence is the declaration: `sidecar/index.ts` means there is // a sidecar, `api/router.ts` means there are routes, `db/schema.ts` means there are tables, `web/` means // there is a frontend. The manifest carries the residue — an identity fact, or something a human chose. // // That is why there is no `sidecar`, `schema` or `frontend` field here, and no dock or title field either: // the tile is `{ label, icon, color, to: mountPrefix() }` and the title is `label`, all of which are // already below. Writing them twice could only ever drift. // // The reasoning behind every decision here is recorded in plugins/offscale/PLUGIN.md — the worked // example, kept next to the plugin it produced rather than in the platform's docs. /** * A permission the plugin adds to the platform's permission system. * * Called `permissions`, and the plugin system used that word first — before the platform did. On * 2026-08-15 the rest of the codebase followed: the registry moved to `permissions/`, its table to * `role_permissions`, and the sidecar's routing keys became `handles`. * * `capability` now means exactly one thing, the file-based item store under `$OFFICER_ROOT/capabilities` * — skills, tools, tasks. Three other uses survive because they are somebody else's vocabulary rather * than ours: the wallet's Lightning backend features, the pty sidecar's terminfo queries, and * InvoiceShelf's per-resource flags. */ export type PluginPermission = { /** Stable identifier, stored as the grant's subject. Renaming one is a data change. */ key: string; label: string; description: string; // There is deliberately NO `ownerOnly`, and no kind of any sort. // // Every plugin permission is grantable, per role, at read or write — the same configuration the // platform's own permissions get, on the same page, with no special cases to learn. A plugin that // wanted to be owner-only would be a plugin the owner cannot delegate, and "which members may reach // this" is a decision belonging to whoever runs the server rather than whoever wrote the code. // // Finer visibility — whose rows a member sees, what a read means for this plugin's data — is the // PLUGIN's business and lives in its own queries. The platform's answer is uniform: read, write, or // nothing. See plugins/offscale/PLUGIN.md. /** * Requests that look like writes and are not — `POST /ssh-test` probes, `POST /policy/assist` proposes * a document and never saves one. Without declaring them, a read-level account meets what reads as a * broken feature where a withheld permission should be. */ readOnlyWrites?: string[]; }; /** The package managers the platform knows how to drive. Mirrors `PM` in machine-setup's lib/base.sh. */ export type PackageManager = 'apt' | 'pacman' | 'dnf' | 'brew'; /** * A host binary the plugin shells out to, and how to get it. * * ── Why a BINARY plus per-manager package names, and not a package name ── * * Offscale needed nothing. Music needs `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe`, and without them its indexer does not * fail — it writes a complete library where every track is a bare filename with no cover, and reports * success. A refusal wearing the costume of a normal result, which is the failure shape this codebase * keeps finding. So a plugin has to be able to say what it needs, and the platform has to check. * * The shape is taken from `scripts/setup-old/setup.sh`, which had already solved this: * * if has ; then skip; else * case $PM in apt) …; pacman) …; brew) skip "built-in" ;; esac * fi * * Probing the BINARY rather than the package is what makes that `brew) built-in` case free: if it is on * PATH we never look at `packages` at all, so a manager needing no package simply has no entry. * * And the names are per manager rather than canonical-with-overrides, deliberately. `packages.sh` says * why, having tried the alternative: `build-essential`/`base-devel`, `fd`/`fd-find`, and some things are * not a package elsewhere at all. A translation table hides both behind indirection; a per-manager map * says what each system actually gets. */ export type OsDependency = { /** Looked up on PATH. The name the plugin's code actually spawns, not a package. */ binary: string; /** Shown to the owner before they install. What breaks without it, in their words not a package's. */ reason: string; /** * Package to install per manager. A manager left out means "cannot be installed automatically here" — * which for a binary that is present anyway is correct and silent, and otherwise becomes an instruction * to the owner rather than a guess. */ packages: Partial>; }; export type PluginManifest = { /** * Who published it. The ONLY input to `mountPrefix`, so first-party and third-party can never become two * code paths. Constant today; the seam third parties hang off later. */ publisher: string; /** The plugin's own semver. Updates compare against this. */ version: string; /** Which platform versions this build is good for. Refused at install when it does not match. */ platform: string; label: string; summary: string; /** * A lucide icon name, resolved at render — the FALLBACK, used only when the plugin ships no * `assets/icon.png`. Optional for that reason: a plugin with its own artwork has nothing to say here. */ icon?: string; /** * Accent colour. Four jobs, not one: the dock tile's background in `badge` style, the active glow, * the active indicator dot, and the tint on the plugins list. Required even for a plugin whose tile * draws no background, because the other three still use it. */ color: string; /** * How the dock draws this plugin's tile. * * badge a rounded square filled with `color`, the icon inset — what a lucide GLYPH needs, since a * white glyph on nothing is invisible. * bare no background; the artwork fills the tile — what a brand mark wants, since a logo framed * in an arbitrary swatch reads as a mistake. * * DEFAULTED from whether the plugin ships `assets/icon.png`: artwork gets `bare`, a glyph gets * `badge`. Presence is the declaration here as everywhere else, and this field only exists to * override that — a plugin whose artwork genuinely wants a coloured backdrop can say `badge`. */ tile?: 'badge' | 'bare'; permissions: PluginPermission[]; /** * Host binaries this plugin needs. Absent means it is self-sufficient, which offscale and example are. * * Checked before anything else happens on install: present ones are never named on a command line, and * a missing one that cannot be installed here refuses the install rather than proceeding to a plugin * that runs and quietly produces nothing. */ osDependencies?: OsDependency[]; }; /** What the platform knows about a plugin on disk: its manifest, plus everything the tree said. */ export type DiscoveredPlugin = { /** * THE id — route segment, table prefix, sidecar suffix, install key. * * Taken from the DIRECTORY NAME rather than declared, so the id cannot disagree with where the code * sits. The cost is that renaming a directory re-identifies the plugin; the benefit is that the two can * never drift, and a wrong table prefix is a much quieter failure than a missing directory. */ appName: string; /** Absolute path to the plugin's directory. */ dir: string; manifest: PluginManifest; /** * `assets/icon.png` — the dock tile's image, published to `public/plugins//` on install. * * Null means the plugin ships none and falls back to `manifest.icon`, a lucide NAME. The file wins * because it has no ceiling: `resolveIcon` knows 106 glyphs out of lucide's ~1,500, and a plugin * naming one outside that set silently renders a neutral box. */ icon: string | null; /** `api/router.ts` — a backend router, mounted at `mountPrefix`. */ api: string | null; /** `db/schema.ts` — tables, pushed on install. Every name must be prefixed `_`. */ schema: string | null; /** `sidecar/index.{ts,mjs}` — a process for PM2. */ sidecar: { script: string; runtime: 'bun' | 'node' } | null; /** * A frontend, as PANELS AND A LAYOUT — never a free-form component. * * The rule: every plugin route renders a Workspace with at least one panel. It is enforced by shape * rather than by review — the plugin does not get to render the screen, it contributes panels and says * how they are arranged, and the shell renders `WorkspaceView` around them. A plugin that wanted to draw * something else has nowhere to put it. * * Both files are required when `web/` exists at all. Missing either is a broken plugin, not a plugin * with a partial frontend. */ web: { panels: string; layout: string } | null; }; /** * Where a plugin's routes live, on both the API and the frontend. * * `publisher` is the only input, deliberately. First-party plugins sit at the root because Officer Dev * owns that namespace anyway and provenance is then legible at a glance in a log; third-party plugins sit * under `/p//`, which is what makes it impossible for any plugin to shadow a core route — and * therefore what lets the platform keep adding core routes forever without breaking an install. * * NOTHING else in the codebase may branch on provenance. If that difference leaks past this one function * — a special case in the router, a bypassed check, a different install branch — first-party and * third-party become two systems, and only one of them gets tested. */ export const FIRST_PARTY_PUBLISHER = 'officerdev'; export function mountPrefix(plugin: { appName: string; manifest: { publisher: string } }): string { const { appName } = plugin; return plugin.manifest.publisher === FIRST_PARTY_PUBLISHER ? `/${appName}` : `/p/${plugin.manifest.publisher}/${appName}`; } /** An app name has to be a URL segment, a SQL identifier prefix and a directory name at once. */ const APP_NAME_RE = /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]{0,38}$/; /** Every package manager the installer can drive. Anything else in a manifest is refused by name. */ export const PACKAGE_MANAGERS: PackageManager[] = ['apt', 'pacman', 'dnf', 'brew']; /** * What may appear in an `osDependencies` entry — and this is the strictest rule in the file, on purpose. * * These two strings are the only values in a manifest that reach a root command line. They are passed to * `Bun.spawn` as an argv array and never through a shell, so a metacharacter could not be interpreted * even if one got here — but "could not be interpreted by the shell we happen to use today" is not a * property to rest a root install on. So the characters are not there to be interpreted. * * Deliberately narrower than what package managers actually accept. No `+`, no `~`, no `:` — so `apt`'s * `pkg:arch` qualifier and any version pin are refused. A plugin that needs one wants a conversation, * not a regex that already allows it. */ const BINARY_RE = /^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9._-]{0,63}$/; const PACKAGE_RE = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.+-]{0,63}$/; /** Reasons an `osDependencies` list is unusable. Empty when it is fine. */ function osDependencyProblems(deps: unknown): string[] { if (deps === undefined) return []; if (!Array.isArray(deps)) return ['osDependencies must be an array when present']; const problems: string[] = []; for (const [i, dep] of deps.entries()) { const at = `osDependencies[${i}]`; if (!dep || typeof dep !== 'object') { problems.push(`${at} must be an object`); continue; } const { binary, reason, packages } = dep as Partial; if (typeof binary !== 'string' || !BINARY_RE.test(binary)) { problems.push(`${at}.binary must be a plain command name — letters, digits, dot, dash, underscore`); } // Required rather than optional: it is what the owner reads when deciding whether to let this // machine install something as root, and "ffprobe" alone does not answer that question. if (typeof reason !== 'string' || !reason.trim()) { problems.push(`${at}.reason is required — say what stops working without it`); } if (!packages || typeof packages !== 'object') { problems.push(`${at}.packages must be an object keyed by package manager`); continue; } for (const [manager, name] of Object.entries(packages)) { if (!PACKAGE_MANAGERS.includes(manager as PackageManager)) { problems.push( `${at}.packages has unknown package manager "${manager}" — one of ${PACKAGE_MANAGERS.join(', ')}`, ); continue; } if (typeof name !== 'string' || !PACKAGE_RE.test(name)) { problems.push(`${at}.packages.${manager} must be a plain package name — lowercase, digits, dot, plus, dash`); } } } return problems; } /** A publisher shares the app name's constraints — it is a path segment too. */ const PUBLISHER_RE = /^[a-z][a-z0-9-]{0,38}$/; /** * Validate a manifest read off disk. Returns the reasons it is unusable, empty when it is fine. * * Returns every problem rather than the first, because an install that fails one field at a time is an * install someone retries four times. */ export function manifestProblems(appName: string, manifest: Partial | null): string[] { const problems: string[] = []; if (!manifest) return ['no manifest, or it did not export `manifest`']; if (!APP_NAME_RE.test(appName)) { problems.push(`directory name "${appName}" must be lowercase letters, digits and dashes, starting with a letter`); } if (typeof manifest.publisher !== 'string' || !PUBLISHER_RE.test(manifest.publisher)) { problems.push('publisher must be lowercase letters, digits and dashes'); } for (const field of ['version', 'platform', 'label', 'summary', 'color'] as const) { if (typeof manifest[field] !== 'string' || !manifest[field]) problems.push(`${field} is required`); } if (!Array.isArray(manifest.permissions)) { problems.push('permissions must be an array (use [] when the plugin gates nothing)'); } else { for (const [i, permission] of manifest.permissions.entries()) { if (!permission || typeof permission.key !== 'string' || !permission.key) { problems.push(`permissions[${i}].key is required`); continue; } // The key shares the platform's permission namespace, so a plugin colliding with a built-in one // would silently widen or narrow it. Prefixing is not enforced here — the installer checks against // the live registry, which is the only thing that knows what is taken. if (typeof permission.label !== 'string' || !permission.label) { problems.push(`permissions[${i}].label is required`); } } } problems.push(...osDependencyProblems(manifest.osDependencies)); return problems; }