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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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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Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043
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