feat: mount discovered module UI in a minimal Ekklesia browser host
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Phase 6C pass 2. Every link in the module UI chain existed except the one
that closes it: a module could be authored, built, validated, published at a
browser URL, and loaded by a generic loader — and nothing in Ekklesia did any
of it. There was no browser application at all.

Two pieces were missing. A browser could not discover what to mount, and it
must not work that out for itself.

GET /api/v1/module-ui is the inventory: per publishable module, its id and
version, the server-produced artifact URL, the server-produced root of the
module's own API, and the subset of that module's declared permissions the
caller holds. Five fields, each because building a ModuleUiHostContext needs
it — no filesystem paths, and no name/icon/folder/order, because navigation
metadata is a design that does not exist yet. Its module set is the ADR 0025
publication registry rather than a rescan, so the inventory and the artifact
route cannot disagree. It requires a new Core permission, core.modules.ui.read
(baseline authenticated), because it is precisely the enumeration the anonymous
artifact route deliberately withholds.

Both URLs are server-produced. moduleUiArtifactUrl already existed;
moduleApiBaseUrl is now exported and moduleRoutePath builds on it, so each URL
shape has exactly one author. Without it the shell would hardcode
/api/v1/modules/<id> — the prefix ADR 0022 forbids a module UI from spelling,
reappearing in the host instead.

surfaces/shell (@ekklesia/shell) is the repository's first surface: a small
React application built to static files by its own esbuild script. It resolves
the principal, fetches the inventory, builds the host context entirely from
server-derived data, and hands the artifact URL to @ekklesia/module-ui-host.
One frame per selection — keyed by module identity — defeats the stale-load
race; the host owns the container, the loading state, and every failure, so a
broken module costs its own panel rather than the shell.

The shell statically imports no module, and both levels are checked: no source
import may name a module, and the emitted bundle must contain exactly one
dynamic import (the loader's) with no module id, no /api/v1/modules, no eval,
and no blob URL. Permission hints come from Core's own evaluator and stay
presentation-only — the end-to-end test has a UI holding no grant call its API
anyway and still receive 403.

Surfaces may now depend only on browser-safe shared roles; @ekklesia/contracts
is deliberately excluded, since its barrel pulls Drizzle's types and Node's
globals into the browser — the hole ADR 0024 closed one layer down.

Not the Dashboard: no navigation, grouping, icons, ordering, design system, or
routing. The selector is a list of module ids.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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@@ -240,9 +240,36 @@ so the route is not an enumeration oracle. Caching is `no-cache` with a strong `
`immutable`, because without an installer a version can be rebuilt with different bytes. The server
reads and writes bytes; it never imports, evaluates, or transforms the artifact.
**A host could now obtain a URL, and nothing uses one.** There is no Dashboard shell, no navigation,
no module metadata endpoint, and no code that calls the URL helper outside its own tests. A design
system, stylesheet and general asset publication, and the standalone host remain future work.
**Phase 6C pass 2 builds the browser host that consumes it.**
[ADR 0026](decisions/0026-minimal-ekklesia-module-ui-host.md) adds `surfaces/shell`
(`@ekklesia/shell`), the repository's first surface: a small React application, built to static files
by its own esbuild script, that discovers installed module UIs and mounts them.
The missing piece was discovery. `GET /api/v1/module-ui` — the collection root of the same prefix the
artifact route already owns — returns, per publishable module, its id and version, the server-produced
artifact URL, the server-produced root of the module's own API, and the subset of that module's
declared permissions the caller actually holds. Nothing else: no filesystem paths, and no display or
navigation metadata, since ADR 0021 keeps Dashboard grouping an administrator's presentation
configuration. The module set is the publication registry, never a rescan, so the inventory and the
artifact route cannot disagree. It requires `core.modules.ui.read` (baseline `authenticated`) because
it is precisely the enumeration ADR 0025 withheld from the anonymous artifact route.
Both URLs being server-produced is the load-bearing part. `moduleUiArtifactUrl` and the newly exported
`moduleApiBaseUrl` are each the single construction of their URL shape, so the browser is a consumer
of both — it never rebuilds `/api/v1/modules/<id>`, the prefix ADR 0022 forbids a module UI from
spelling, and neither prefix is pinned by having a second author.
The shell builds a `ModuleUiHostContext` entirely from server-derived data, resolves a module's
relative API calls onto its own API root (refusing anything that escapes it), and hands the artifact
URL to `@ekklesia/module-ui-host`. It statically imports no module: one frame per selection defeats
the stale-load race, the host owns the container and every loading and error state, and the bundle is
checked to contain exactly one dynamic import with no module identity baked in. Permission hints come
from Core's own evaluator and stay presentation-only — server authorization is proven unchanged by a
test in which a UI holding no grant calls its API anyway and is refused.
**This is not the Dashboard.** No navigation, grouping, icons, ordering, design system, or routing;
the selector lists module ids. A production CSP and a deployment for the built shell, sign-in UI,
general asset publication, and the standalone host remain future work.
Restart-based discovery, explicit operator-invoked migrations, and the trusted compiled-module model
are all unchanged.