`unauthenticatedPaths` has been in PluginManifest since it was designed, with
validation (`publicPathProblem`), a long docstring, and a promise that
`assertPluginPublicPaths` re-checks it at boot. Nothing read the field. No
function by that name existed. Kiosk, the plugin it was written for, declares
none — so it validated, documented itself, and did nothing, and no plugin has
ever actually been served above the gate.
Vault is the first real user: a stock Bitwarden client speaks Vaultwarden's
protocol and has nowhere to put a platform JWT, so it cannot use the
authenticated /api/vault router at all.
── What was missing, and where it had to go ──
Two places, not one, and the second is the one that matters:
• the permission gate skips declared paths — but that gate only runs when a
token WAS presented (`payload && !isOwner && …`), so it is what stops a
valid non-owner reaching something ungranted.
• `protectedRouter.use(userMiddleware)` is what stops an ANONYMOUS request.
A path meant to answer without a session has to skip that too, so it is now
conditional on the same predicate. Fixing only the gate would have left
every declared path returning 401 — passing its own tests and failing in
the one case it exists for.
── Containment ──
Paths resolve against the plugin's own mount (`/api` + mountPrefix + path) and
containment is re-checked there, so a plugin cannot name `/auth` or another
plugin's routes however it edits its manifest. Refusal is per-path: one bad
entry does not take the good ones with it, and each is logged by name.
Matching is on segments rather than characters — `/api/vault/bwx` must not
match `/api/vault/bw/*`, the same class of bug `permissionForApiPath` guards
against with `/user` vs `/username`.
Every plugin with public paths is logged at boot: a route that answers without
a session should not be something you have to read a manifest to discover.
17 tests, pinning the containment rules rather than the happy path. Suite
1061 pass / 0 fail.
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.