one section, not two. a provider serves many domains so the lists differ, but a
person thinks in DOMAINS — the provider is something the check discovers, and a
key only matters as the answer to "can officer do anything for THIS domain".
two tabs would make somebody hold that join in their head, and the providers
tab would be two rows most of the time. so the key is entered from the row that
needs one and stored against its provider: add it for one cloudflare domain and
every other cloudflare domain turns green at once.
THE CHECK runs before you commit, because its answer is usually the reason you
would or would not add it, and a list of unchecked rows is a list somebody has
to remember to revisit.
it reports five verdicts, not two, and the extra three are the interesting
ones. `private` — atelier.officer.dev resolves to 100.64.x, which is CORRECT
and reads as broken against any public-IP comparison. `unknown` — we could not
establish our own address, so "is that us" has no answer and saying so beats a
confident wrong one. `nowhere` — a name bought ten minutes ago. plus
maybeProxied, because a cloudflare domain resolving to cloudflare is a working
setup rather than a misconfiguration.
NS gives the DNS HOST, not the registrar. officer.dev is godaddy on both counts
here, but a domain bought at godaddy and delegated to cloudflare answers
cloudflare — and that is the one that matters, since its API is what places an
ACME challenge. the UI says so where it would otherwise be read as wrong.
only an apex has NS records, so the lookup walks up to find them. verified
live: platform.officer.dev now answers godaddy instead of nothing.
CREDENTIALS are keyed on the provider, encrypted under this plugin's purpose
key, never returned by any route. scope is narrow|broad and NOT read|write —
DNS-01 works by WRITING a TXT record, so no read-only key can ever issue a
certificate, and offering one would produce a setup that looks configured and
fails at the first renewal sixty days later. the dialog says that out loud.
the form is generated from NPM's own dns-providers template, so the field names
are the provider's and it stays right for providers we have never heard of.
the routes live under /_config, which the manifest already marks ownerOnly: a
DNS key can rewrite every record for a domain, which is strictly more than the
NPM login kept there, and declaring it once beats checking it twice.
tables verified by query rather than by db:push's exit code.
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the order is a claim about what people come here for: proxy hosts,
certificates, streams, then the rest. this file argued the opposite yesterday
— "NPM's words in NPM's order" — and half of that was wrong. the VOCABULARY is
worth keeping, because somebody will end up in NPM's UI eventually and better
names just mean learning both. the ORDER is an accident of how NPM grew, and
reproducing it gives up the one thing a plugin is for.
and two new entries, listed and not built: Domains, and DNS Providers. they sit
below a line, with Connection, because they are OFFICER's own rather than
things NPM owns — what it knows about your domains, and the registrar keys it
holds.
shown rather than hidden on purpose. a nav that shows them says what this is
FOR, including to whoever opens it in six months wondering what was decided.
the pane says plainly that it does not exist and then what it will be — "not
built" alone reads as an error, a description alone reads as something broken,
and together they read as a plan.
the planned check runs BEFORE the connection check: "you have not connected
NPM" is not why Domains is empty, and would be a misleading thing to be told.
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an agent deleted two proxy hosts and both stayed on screen. the person had the
answer in the transcript and a stale list six inches above it — which is the
one thing a chat beside a list has to get right, and the reason it is beside
the list at all.
so the chat panel bumps the refresh channel when a turn ran tools, and every
section re-reads. gated on hadToolCalls: a turn that only talked changed
nothing, and re-reading after every sentence would put six requests behind
every reply.
the channel is renamed with it. it was proxy-manager:connection-changed, named
after its only publisher; it has two now and the second is the bigger one, so
it says what it MEANS — something at NPM changed, read it again.
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two fixed panels could show two of NPM's seven sections and had nowhere to put
the other five. now the left column is the section list — proxy hosts,
redirections, streams, 404 hosts, access lists, certificates, connection — and
the right renders whichever is chosen.
NPM's own vocabulary, in NPM's own order. somebody who has used it should find
the same words, and somebody who has not will end up in NPM's UI eventually
anyway; better names would just mean learning both. "404 hosts" reads oddly and
is theirs, so the hint under it says what it means.
the two panels never speak. the nav writes ?section= and the detail pane reads
it — navigation-audit's rule, and it is what makes a section linkable and
survive a reload. changing section clears ?host=, which belonged to the list
that was open.
three things folded up while doing it. the unconfigured check moved to the
detail pane and happens once, so all seven sections say "no connection yet" the
same way instead of six saying it badly. the settings gear is gone: connection
is a nav row now. and the four list-only sections are one component, differing
only in what a row says — proxy hosts and certificates stay separate because
they have real behaviour, and folding them in would be a props bag that is a
worse version of both.
the counts in the nav are one request each. affordable against a local NPM, and
they answer "is this worth opening" without a click. a count that fails is
absent rather than zero — zero is a fact about NPM, a failure is a fact about
the request, and the detail pane reports that properly.
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chat/CLAUDE.md replaces the promptPrefix. the platform copies it into the chats
directory on every chat that starts there.
it says more than the prefix could afford to, and the part worth having is the
rule the prefix had no room for: a refusal is an answer, not an obstacle to
route around. no hunting for another credential, no reaching NPM another way,
no deciding the refusal is a bug and working around it while investigating.
that rule is written rather than enforced, and the file says why: the agent runs
with a shell, so most of those would work. stepping over the line is worse than
the thing it was asked to do, because the person ends up with neither the
outcome nor an accurate account of what happened.
prompted by a real turn today: a 403 on a delete, followed by a hunt for a
broader-scoped credential, ended by the owner interrupting it.
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ChatPanelWrapper, not EmbeddableChat — one level up, and the session
persistence, the agent identity bar, the spawned-by bar and resume-the-newest
all come with it. mounting the composer directly meant reimplementing those or
going without.
and a header: the conversation picker, scoped to this plugin's own directory,
with new chat, inline rename and delete. none of it is new — it is what a
dashboard's chat panel has always had, pointed at a context instead of a path.
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context='plugin' + contextId='proxy-manager', and the platform turns that into
$DATA_PATH/<email>/plugins/proxy-manager/chats. the path is never sent from
here — see resolveChatCwd and docs/commander-directory.md.
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EmbeddableChat is handed flex-1 min-h-0, which needs a flex column with a real
height above it. shipped without one, so the composer floated mid-panel and the
transcript ran below the fold. ChatPanelWrapper has the same div and I copied
the child without it.
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this plugin refused to create, edit or delete anything, and argued the refusal
was care: NPM's own UI does those well and each is a form with real
consequences. the owner's call on 2026-08-25 is that the argument ends up
somewhere else —
"even though we are assuming users that don't know how to operate nginx, the
last thing I want to do is treat users as stupid"
and a curated surface cannot keep up anyway. every NPM feature we did not wrap
is one the owner cannot reach through Officer at all, so the plugin becomes a
worse NPM rather than a way into the real one.
so /api/proxy-manager/npm/* forwards method, path, query and body, attaches a
token, and returns NPM's own status and body unchanged — errors included. a
proxy that improves the answers is not a proxy. authentication is the only
thing it does not pass through, which is the entire job.
the permission gate needed nothing: isRequestAllowedAtLevel already returns
true for safe methods and false otherwise, so read level IS a read-only view of
NPM through here, with no code in this file deciding it twice.
the curated routes stay, for the panels. a screen wants sorted hosts and a
computed daysUntilExpiry; an agent wants NPM.
what replaces the refusal is confirmation, and it lives in the skill because
that is what it is — an instruction, not a boundary. saying so is better than a
boundary that only looks like one. the skill now carries NPM's API, names what
must be confirmed before it happens (deleting, editing a live upstream,
touching a certificate in use), says creating needs no ceremony, and forbids
reaching NPM any way but this route.
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naming officerdev/chat in layout.ts rendered a second Hosts panel. the shared
registry is not the thing that decides: PluginScreen renders the workspace with
appTypes={{ allowed, fallback: allowed[0] }} where allowed is THIS plugin's own
panel keys, so an unrecognised appType silently becomes the first panel. that
boundary is deliberate — its comment says a persisted layout must not be able
to render another plugin's panel inside this screen — and it is a different
mechanism from seedAppRegistry merging the panels, which is what the last
commit's reasoning confused it with.
so the panel is ours and EmbeddableChat inside it is the platform's. it is
exported from officerdev for exactly this: the whole composer, transcript,
queue and model picker, with no second implementation to fall behind the
first.
it carries a two-sentence promptPrefix, which is per-panel and costs nobody
else's conversation anything. deliberately short: the skill holds the
knowledge and reaches every session for two lines, so anything longer here
would be the skill written twice and this would be the stale copy. all it says
is where the agent is standing, which is the one thing the skill cannot know.
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the layout gains a third node across the bottom, a third of the height. a
conversation reads badly in a narrow column and the two lists do not, so the
chat gets width rather than a column of its own.
it is officerdev/chat, the platform's own panel, not a simplified one of ours.
seedAppRegistry merges the platform's panels and every plugin's into one
registry, so naming it is all it takes — and a second chat maintained here
would be the one that falls behind.
the skill is deliberately NOT scoped to these routes. that was considered and
dropped once it was clear what a skill costs: compileSkills emits a name, a
description and a path, and the body is only read if the agent decides it is
relevant. two lines in every conversation. scoping would have meant a platform
change to buy back nothing.
(affordances are the opposite — loaded in full, every conversation — so this
plugin ships none. by docs/affordances.md's own test the 404 quirk does not
qualify: it CAN be fixed instead, and the platform route already fixes it.)
what the skill carries: the routes, that meta.nginx_online is the field for
"is it down", that renewal is at 30 days so under 14 is a real failure worth
raising unprompted and nothing else will raise it, that the 404 has already
been interpreted before it reaches you, and that disabling a host takes a
domain off the internet so it is confirmed and never inferred. plus what is
not built, so it does not get offered.
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reported on the first successful save: everything still showed no data and the
form stayed open, and a manual page refresh was the only way through.
two faults, one report. the form did not close itself — nothing cleared
?config, so a save left the settings view sitting on top of a plugin that now
worked. and the two reader panels are SIBLINGS in a workspace layout: they are
mounted independently, neither owns the other, and ConnectionPanel cannot call
into them. so they went on showing the failure they had loaded back when no
connection existed.
a channel is the sanctioned answer for exactly this — docs/navigation-audit.md
puts addressable state in the URL and leaves channels for "something changed,
re-read it". nobody wants to link to the moment after a save.
the nonce is a plain module counter, copied deliberately from officerdev's
channels.ts along with the reason: setSignal(n => n + 1) applies against the
value captured at render, so two bumps in one render window both compute
snapshot + 1 and the second overwrites the first — and nobody re-reads.
Date.now() is the same bug at millisecond scale.
disconnect bumps it too. the panels must stop showing hosts they can no longer
reach.
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first real test of the settings form returned openresty's 502 Bad Gateway
document, markup and all, into the panel. installing this plugin restarts
officer, and a request made inside that window reaches nginx proxy manager,
finds nothing behind it, and gets a web page back. useClient throws the
response body as the message, so the panel printed it.
worth keeping the irony: this plugin manages the proxy whose error page it
could not read.
the check is the body's SHAPE, not the status, because there is no status that
separates them — api/router.ts uses 502 for "NPM answered and refused", which
is a real answer we must not swallow. ours arrives as a sentence, theirs as a
document. gateway status AND html means the hop in front of officer answered;
html on its own still is not a sentence and says so without the tags.
all three panels go through it now.
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the plugin could not be configured. /_config had GET, PUT, DELETE and a test
that validates without storing, and nothing rendered any of it — the
connection had to be inserted by hand.
ConnectionPanel is both the wizard and the settings page, one component, the
same choice jellyfin's ConnectionSection makes and for the same reason: a
connection edited months later goes through exactly the path that stored the
first one. HostsPanel shows it when nothing is configured and on ?config=1,
which is in the URL so it survives a refresh. test comes before save and
stores nothing, so a wrong password cannot replace a working one. the secret
field starts empty even when one is stored, and empty means keep — that is
what lets a typo in the URL be fixed without going to find the password.
and while wiring the unconfigured case, it turned out that case never fired.
both panels read `(error as { body?: Failure }).body` to decide whether a
failure was unconfigured, unauthenticated or unreachable. useClient throws
ApiError(status, message) and has no `.body` at all, so that was always
undefined: every failure fell through to the generic message, and the careful
explanation of NPM's 404-means-credential quirk was written, shipped and
unreachable. asFailure now reads the STATUS, which the router already chooses
deliberately — 409 nothing stored, 503 no answer, 502 answered and refused.
owner-only is explained rather than reported. a member hitting 403 here reads
why: it is an admin login and NPM has no read-only role.
still not installed, still no db:push.
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GET /nginx/certificates/dns-providers, authenticated, 86 entries on the 2.15.1
image here. verified against the live instance and against the file it reads
from, /app/certbot/dns-plugins.json in the container.
which settles how the provider picker gets built. the list is per install —
whatever certbot plugins that image carries — so curating one centrally and
shipping it as the truth would offer somebody a provider their NPM has never
heard of, take their API key, and fail at issue time with an error that does
not explain itself. ask the instance.
and NPM hands back each provider's credential TEMPLATE, carrying its own field
names. so the form is generated rather than written per provider, and it stays
right for providers we have never heard of. a curated list of ours is left with
the human half only: which we recommend, and how you actually get a key.
also noted: this endpoint answers 403 unauthenticated, not 404. the 404-means-
auth quirk is per route, not a property of the API. the client's heuristic
stays correct; the documentation of it was too broad.
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two conclusions from working through it.
the agent never touches NPM and never holds a credential. it calls this
plugin, which owns keeping up with NPM's API — that is what having a plugin
is for. the reads stay a thin proxy; the expose route deliberately is not,
because that is where "reachable only from the private network" gets turned
into a DNS record, a certificate and a proxy host. writing that down once
here is the safety argument: the alternative puts it in the agent's memory,
and you find out it forgot when a hostname is reachable that should not be.
and "tailnet" was too specific. officer can set up tailscale and knows its
range, so it can prefill — but a company with a VPN already in place has
their own, and must be able to say so. what gets stored is a named network
and its address ranges; NPM access lists take ranges, so it costs nothing.
the certificate half is unchanged, because what forces the DNS proof is that
the name is not publicly reachable, whoever runs the network.
also recorded: NPM's DNS provider list is fixed and unverified here, and so
is whether a godaddy account still gets DNS API access.
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the brief that produced this plugin was "build me an NPM proxy", in full. no
vision was given, so the agent inferred one — a careful read-only window onto
NPM, with creating and editing deliberately excluded — and inferred it wrong.
the point is the handover. two paths, and setup should ask out loud which one
you are on: give Officer your NPM login and your DNS provider key and then ask
for what you want in a sentence, or keep them and manage NPM yourself on a
public address. strip the credentials out and what remains is a list NPM
already shows plus a warning you could set up yourself — a notifier, not a
plugin. it exists for the handover.
which makes the clearest case worth stating on its own: TLS on a tailnet-only
name is impossible without the DNS credential. let's encrypt cannot visit a
private address, so the only check left is a DNS record, which needs the
provider's API. that is not a limitation of the design, it is the shape of the
problem.
half the old principle survives. creating is additive and cannot break a host
that already works, so it is the write path the agent should get and it is the
product rather than a later phase. editing and deleting are not, and stay in
NPM's UI until there is a reason they should not.
nothing here is built. said so.
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four fixes from a review, and the first one was leaking out of the plugin.
TYPING. `respond` derived its context from `Parameters<typeof router.get>[1]`.
hono's .get is overloaded, `Parameters<>` resolves the FIRST overload — `[path:
string]` — so index 1 was `undefined`, ctx was `never`, and all nine handlers
errored. twelve errors from one line, in a tree where `bunx tsgo` is shared with
the platform and expected clean. imports hono's `Context` instead. tsgo now
exits 0 tree-wide, which it has not done since this plugin landed.
READONLYWRITES. `/_config/test` was declared as a read-only write so a member
would not meet a 403 on the test button. they always would: authorize.ts asks
isOwnerOnlyRoute before isRequestAllowedAtLevel, and ownerOnly is prefix
matched, so `/_config` already covered it and the entry was inert. removed, and
the reason it SHOULD be inert written down — that request carries the admin
secret in its body, so a member who could call it would hold an oracle pointed
at somebody else's password.
STATUS WROTE ON EVERY POLL. recordProbe ran unconditionally on a GET whose own
comment invites polling, so a read endpoint issued an UPDATE per poll per open
panel. the probe is cached 30s and the row is written only when the verdict or
the version changes — a flapping NPM still records every transition, which is
the case the column exists for. the cache is dropped when the credential does.
DEAD TERNARY. `likelyAuth ? 502 : 502`.
and the tests. 22 over a stubbed fetch, 99% of npm-client.ts. the two that
matter are the 404-means-credential rule and the mint-once-and-retry: both are
silent when broken, and a refactor of either turns a working panel into one
that says "not found" forever. every test uses its own credential because the
token cache is module state — sharing one would let an earlier test's token
satisfy the retry test, which would then pass for the wrong reason.
still not installed, still no settings form, still no db:push. README says so.
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reads hosts and certificates against a live NPM 2.15.1. one grantable
permission, with /_config owner-only — reading which hosts are healthy
is worth sharing, an NPM admin login is not, and NPM has no read-only
role.
the quirk that shapes the whole plugin: NPM answers an unauthenticated
read with 404, not 401, because its router only registers a resource
once a token is present. so 'not signed in' and 'no such endpoint' are
the same response, and a naive client tells you a feature is missing
when your password is wrong. the client mints a fresh token and retries
once, then reports a persistent 404 as likelyAuth.
certificates sort by expiry rather than name, which is the only ordering
that answers a question.
no create/edit/delete and no cert issuance: NPM's own UI does those and
a wrong proxy host takes a domain off the internet.
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