Installing Music left the dock unchanged. The tile existed server-side the moment the plugin was enabled, and the only way to see it was Profile → Dock, by hand, after a page refresh. Installing something is already the decision to use it; saying so twice is the bug. Three separate causes, which is why it looked like one stubborn one: 1. `dock_configs.paths` is a COMPLETE ordered list, not a diff — useDock renders the saved list rather than everything available, so anything not named in it is invisible. Nothing in the plugin system had ever written to that table. installPlugin now appends the new route, for the caller (threaded through the route) rather than a guessed owner id. Only for a user who HAS a row. A user without one is left alone deliberately: there is nothing to append to, and writing one would freeze today's defaults into their account permanently. That case is (2). 2. The fallback for a user who never customised was DEFAULT_DOCK_PATHS, which is core-only — so a plugin tile was hidden there too. `defaultDockPaths(plugins)` is now that list plus a tile per installed plugin, and the dock and its settings screen both call it so they cannot disagree about what "default" means. 3. useDock holds ['DOCK'] at staleTime: Infinity and the plugin verbs invalidated only ['plugins'] and ['self-permissions']. So even once the server wrote the path, nothing asked again — that is the part that made a reload necessary. Also fixes a guard I broke reaching for this: typing VERBS as Record<string, VerbFn> widens keyof to `string`, which makes `isVerb` prove nothing and lets an unknown verb index the map. `satisfies` instead, and there is now a check that Verb is still the four-member union. Uninstall deliberately does not remove the path. A stale path with no item behind it is dropped by useDock, and keeping it means disable/enable and reinstall put the tile back where the user had it rather than at the end. tsgo clean, frontend builds. 787 pass / 7 fail — 6 identical to before; the 7th is plugins/music/cliamp, which install pulled into test discovery and which the manifest documents as parked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The documentation, triaged
2026-08-13. A map of what is in here, what it is for, and what should happen to it. Made because there are 42 documents and 13,000 lines, and no way to tell from the filenames which describe the system as it is and which are a record of an afternoon in July.
How much I verified: the classifications below are from filenames, status lines, and greps for things that changed on 2026-08-13. Where I actually read the document or checked the code, it says so. The rest is a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.
Living — these describe the system and must stay true
| doc | state |
|---|---|
working-on-officer.md |
updated 2026-08-13. Operational guide. |
secret-store.md |
updated 2026-08-13. Built; rotation still open. |
install-variants.md |
new. The branch tree, for discussion. |
http-secure-context-audit.md |
new. What breaks over plain http. |
install-container-testing.md |
new. First container pass and its findings. |
per-user-linux-accounts.md |
partly updated. OFFICER_OS_USERS is gone; check the rest. |
navigation-audit.md |
authoritative on routing. Unverified against tonight's route removals. |
workspace-panels.md + workspace-panel-todo.md |
the panel framework. 1,300 lines combined — likely the biggest cleanup here. |
agent-coordination.md |
the north star for panel work. |
deprovision-os-account.md |
implemented; the 'disabled' stage it may mention was deleted tonight. |
Stale — describe things that changed on 2026-08-13
Each of these references something that no longer exists. Not yet corrected.
sidecar-topology.md— "ecosystem.config.cjs is the source of truth". It is generated now, and holds six processes.sidecar-app-store.md— derives the catalogue fromfull − light. Those files are gone, andcatalogue.test.tswas rewritten.sidecar-bootstrapping.md— "20 PM2 entries, 18 sidecar dirs". Six entries now.mobile-api-keys.md— partly corrected; recheck the origin-checking claims.wallet-key-custody.md—VAULT_STORE_KEYis now the per-purposewalletkey.push-notifications.md— "agreed design, 2026-07-31". Notify is a plugin and unmounted.chat-session-lifetime.md,chat-ui-walkthrough.md— referenceofficer-agent, renamed.
Historical — a record of a moment, and should stay one
Do not rewrite these to match today's code. They document how a decision was reached, and editing them destroys the reasoning. If they mislead, add a dated header pointing forward.
sidecar-audit-2026-07.md(1,377 lines)claude-sidecar-isolation.md— records theofficer-claude→officer-agentrename that preceded tonight'sofficer-agent→officer-claude-codeopen-threads-after-per-user-claude.mdtwo-agent-field-report-2026-08-12.mdapi-method-changes-2026-08-06.md
The opencode cluster — nine documents for one migration
opencode-fork-decision · -parity · -api-2-assessment · -phase0-review · -phase1-report ·
-phase1-review · -serve-migration-plan · -serve-path · -testing-checklist
The migration landed — opencode serve is in the sidecar, verified. So
opencode-serve-migration-plan.md saying "Nothing here is implemented" is false.
This is the clearest consolidation candidate in the whole directory: one document recording what was decided and what shipped, replacing nine that describe stages of getting there. I did not do it because it needs reading all nine, and deleting documents unread is not a thing to do at 4am.
The mobile-dav thread — three documents, one conversation
mobile-dav-provisioning · -feedback · -reply. A correspondence. Almost certainly one document.
Unclassified — I have not looked
design-language-interface · file-sync · jobs-unification · mobile-photo-sync-api ·
nextcloud-replacement · agent-git-identity
The plugin split, which affects most of the above
A core install is six processes. Everything else is a plugin, switched off tonight but present on disk. Most documents here were written when the estate was twenty processes and every one of them was simply "there", so they describe availability that no longer holds.
The useful rewrite is usually one line, not a rewrite: say whether the thing described is core or a plugin, and if a plugin, that it is not mounted on a fresh install.