feat: establish the module product contract
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Ekklesia's module model has been backend-only since ADR 0001: a module
owns domain behavior and data, and every presentation concern belongs to
a surface. That prevents a module author — the person who knows the
domain — from shipping the screen that makes their module useful, and it
guarantees a module and its own UI drift apart. It also pushes toward two
codebases for one domain the moment a module needs to run standalone.

ADR 0021 replaces that rule. A module is an independently versioned
product that owns its domain behavior, data, permissions, routes,
migrations, and its own UI, hostable inside Ekklesia and — from the same
implementation — by a later standalone host. Core keeps the containing
application shell and every platform policy: authentication,
authorization enforcement, platform context, top-level routing,
navigation, global theme, error boundaries, and trusted-origin/CORS. The
module graph stays flat: modules are peers, genuine module and capability
dependencies remain the only relationships, and Dashboard folders are
presentation configuration an administrator can reorganize, never module
architecture.

This pass implements the static contract only. `manifestVersion` moves to
4 and `entrypoints` gains one optional field, `ui`. Version 3's
`entrypoints` is strict and rejects `ui`, so this is an incompatible
shape change and version 3 is now rejected outright rather than
reinterpreted, exactly as version 1 was by version 2 and version 2 by
version 3. Every field version 4 adds is optional, so upgrading a
backend-only manifest is a one-character edit.

Discovery resolves and validates `ui` under the same rules as `server`
and `schema` — package-relative, inside the package before and after
symlink resolution, a real file, compiled ESM `.js`/`.mjs`, so source
TypeScript is rejected rather than assumed to be compiled later.
Discovery stays inert: nothing imports, evaluates, mounts, or renders a
UI entrypoint, and a test proves a throwing artifact still discovers
successfully. This follows `entrypoints.jobs`, declared and resolved
since ADR 0006 with no runtime consumer.

The name is `ui`, not `dashboard`, because a module's UI must be hostable
by Ekklesia's shell and by a standalone host, so the contract cannot be
named after one of them; and not `surface`, because `surfaces/*` is a
separate ownership layer. No widget, route, icon, folder, menu, layout,
or standalone-metadata field is added, and tests assert the manifest
still rejects every unknown entrypoint key and offers no hierarchy field.

Deliberately unchanged: `scripts/check-boundaries.ts` still enforces
`modules-do-not-own-ui`. Relaxing that guard depends entirely on the UI
authoring model a later pass chooses, and weakening a working protection
before that decision exists would trade real coverage for nothing. A
module may therefore declare `ui` today only for a framework-neutral
compiled artifact, and the docs say so rather than implying otherwise.
Restart-based discovery, explicit operator-invoked migrations, and the
trusted compiled-module model are untouched — a module that ships UI is
exactly as trusted as one that does not.

No Dashboard shell, UI runtime, renderer, framework choice, navigation
registry, grouping system, standalone host, installer, hot-loading, or
feature module is added by this pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ These rules map platform ownership to filesystem and package boundaries. The exe
| --- | --- | --- |
| `apps/*` | Thin deployable composition roots | Public Core APIs, generated bootstrap, or a surface as required by the app |
| `core` | Feature-agnostic platform implementations | Public contracts and external infrastructure libraries |
| `modules/*` | Backend domain capability and data | Module SDK, public contracts, and external backend libraries |
| `modules/*` | Domain capability, data, and (per ADR 0021) the module's own UI | Module SDK, public contracts, and external backend libraries |
| `surfaces/*` | UI, renderers, navigation, and interaction | Surface SDK, API/auth clients, public contracts, and design packages |
| `builders/*` | Declarative surface composition tooling | Builder/surface SDKs and public contracts |
| `packages/*` | Explicitly scoped SDKs, contracts, clients, design, testing, or tooling | Only dependencies appropriate to the package's declared level |
@@ -19,7 +19,12 @@ These rules map platform ownership to filesystem and package boundaries. The exe
- A module never imports Core implementations, another module, a surface, Builder code, or an app.
- A module cannot contain presentation source, including JSX/TSX, single-file components,
Astro/Marko/MDX/HTML views, stylesheets, or SVG presentation assets, and cannot depend on UI
frameworks or shared UI-role packages. Modules expose data and behavior only.
frameworks or shared UI-role packages. **This rule is still enforced, but it is no longer the
architectural direction.** [ADR 0021](decisions/0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md) establishes
that a module may own its own UI and declare a compiled `entrypoints.ui` artifact. The deny list
above stays in force until a later Phase 6 pass chooses the module UI authoring model and decides
what replaces it; until then a module UI must be a framework-neutral compiled artifact. Core still
owns the containing application shell and all platform policy.
- A surface never imports Core or a feature module. It uses public API/client contracts.
- Separate surfaces do not import each other's internals.
- Builder code composes contracts and surface renderer identifiers; it does not import module or
@@ -39,7 +44,8 @@ The boundary test suite includes intentionally invalid fixture graphs. This prov
rejects every currently machine-checkable repository rule even before production packages fill
every directory. The UI guard rejects component, view, template, stylesheet, shared UI-role, and
common UI-framework dependencies inside modules. This deny list is defense in depth; package
review remains required when adopting a new frontend technology.
review remains required when adopting a new frontend technology — and revisiting the guard itself is
an explicit prerequisite of the module UI authoring pass (ADR 0021).
The Phase 3 schema validator complements source boundaries by checking table ownership, foreign-key
targets, and physical table namespaces in compiled Drizzle metadata. Offline migration validation