feat: define the module UI authoring model and host contract
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ADR 0021 established that a module may own UI and added a statically
validated, never-executed `entrypoints.ui` path, but deliberately left
five questions open: what the artifact exports, what a host provides,
how one artifact runs under both Ekklesia and a standalone host, what
the browser-side trust model is, and how module UI avoids being welded
to a Dashboard that does not exist. This answers them.

React and TypeScript are the supported module UI authoring model. The
repository already leaned this way: `packages/typescript-config` ships a
`browser.json` preset and a `react-native.json` preset with
`"jsx": "react-jsx"`, and ADR 0002 names browser and React Native
configurations. One framework is supported; every other stays rejected.

React is deliberately not part of the contract. A module's compiled
artifact default-exports `defineModuleUi({ id, version, mount })`, and
`mount(container, context)` takes a DOM element and returns an unmount
function. `id` and `version` are build-artifact identity markers a host
verifies against the manifest, mirroring `defineModuleRuntime` exactly.
A host needs an element and a context, never a matching rendering
library, so a module's framework, a host's framework, and the platform
boundary between them stay independent.

The contract lives in a new `@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk` rather than in
`@ekklesia/module-sdk`, for a concrete reason: that package re-exports
all of `@ekklesia/contracts`, so routing module UI through it would drag
Zod, Drizzle, and semver into every browser bundle. The new package has
no runtime dependencies, and its one dependency on contracts is
type-only — the emitted `host-context.js` is `export {};`, and a test
pins that so it cannot regress.

The host context is four members: `moduleId`, `api`, `principal`, and
`permissions`. Navigation, theme, module configuration, organization
context, and diagnostics are deliberately absent; each needs a design
that does not exist. Module UI reaches its backend through
`api.request(path)` with a path relative to its own API root and never
constructs `/api/v1/modules/<id>/...`, which is Ekklesia's private
deployment detail — a module that builds that URL is silently unhostable
anywhere else. One fixture artifact is mounted under two hosts with
different origins and URL shapes to prove it.

Client-side permission hints are presentation only, and both the docs
and a test say so plainly: a denied hint does not stop the module from
calling its API, because server-side `requirePermission` is the only
authority. Module UI is trusted code in the host's own browser realm —
no iframe, no sandbox — which matches the backend model rather than
overstating it, since a module's server half already holds the API's
database authority.

The boundary guard is narrowed precisely, not removed: `.tsx`, `react`,
and `react-dom` are un-denied and modules may depend on the new
`module-ui-sdk` role. `.jsx`, `.css`, every other framework,
`react-router-dom`, `react-native`, and `@vitejs/plugin-react` stay
denied, layer rules are untouched, and an unsupported framework aliased
behind an allowed name (`"react": "npm:vue@3"`) is resolved and rejected
by its real target. Fixtures prove each case, including that module UI
source still cannot import Core.

Core, apps/api, and the manifest contract are untouched. Discovery still
validates the `entrypoints.ui` path and never evaluates it; hosts
perform their own dynamic import and validate the result with
`parseModuleUiExport`. No Dashboard shell, UI runtime, navigation,
grouping, standalone host, build or styling pipeline, installer,
hot-loading, or feature module is added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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import type { ModuleUiHostContext } from "./host-context.js";
export type Awaitable<Value> = Value | PromiseLike<Value>;
/**
* Released by a host when the module UI should be torn down. A module that acquires anything during
* `mount` — a framework root, a subscription, a timer, an event listener — must return one of these
* and release that work here, exactly as a backend module releases resources in its `stop` hook
* (ADR 0006). Returning nothing declares that the mount acquired nothing to release.
*/
export type ModuleUiUnmount = () => Awaitable<void>;
/**
* What a module's compiled `entrypoints.ui` artifact default-exports (ADR 0021, ADR 0022).
*
* `id` and `version` are build-artifact identity markers, mirroring `ModuleRuntimeDefinition`
* exactly (ADR 0006): they let a host prove the UI bundle it imported was built from the module it
* thinks it is, and catch a stale artifact. They do not duplicate anything else from the manifest.
*
* `mount` is intentionally the whole behavioral contract. The host supplies a container element and
* the host context; what happens inside is the module's business. React is the supported way to
* write that (ADR 0022), but React appears nowhere in this type — the contract is a mount function,
* so a module's internal framework choice, and a host's, can each change without renegotiating the
* platform boundary.
*/
export interface ModuleUiDefinition {
readonly id: string;
readonly version: string;
readonly mount: (
container: Element,
context: ModuleUiHostContext,
) => Awaitable<ModuleUiUnmount | void>;
}
export type ModuleUiContractErrorCode =
| "MODULE_UI_EXPORT_MISSING"
| "MODULE_UI_DEFINITION_INVALID"
| "MODULE_UI_IDENTITY_MISMATCH";
const errorMessages: Readonly<Record<ModuleUiContractErrorCode, string>> = Object.freeze({
MODULE_UI_EXPORT_MISSING:
"A module UI entrypoint must have a default export produced by defineModuleUi.",
MODULE_UI_DEFINITION_INVALID:
"A module UI definition must declare a non-empty id and version and a mount function, and nothing else.",
MODULE_UI_IDENTITY_MISMATCH:
"The module UI artifact's id and version do not match the module it was loaded for.",
});
/**
* Carries a stable code and a fixed message, never the offending value, the artifact URL, a
* filesystem path, or a caught cause — matching the sanitization rule every other Ekklesia error
* boundary follows.
*/
export class ModuleUiContractError extends Error {
readonly code: ModuleUiContractErrorCode;
constructor(code: ModuleUiContractErrorCode) {
super(errorMessages[code]);
this.name = "ModuleUiContractError";
this.code = code;
this.stack = `${this.name}: ${this.message}`;
Object.freeze(this);
}
}
const definitionKeys = new Set(["id", "mount", "version"]);
function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
return typeof value === "object" && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
}
function isNonEmptyString(value: unknown): value is string {
return typeof value === "string" && value.trim().length > 0;
}
/**
* Structural check only. The identity a definition claims is verified against the manifest by
* {@link parseModuleUiExport}, so this never needs a copy of Core's module-id or semantic-version
* grammar — there is exactly one place each of those is defined, and it is not here.
*/
export function isModuleUiDefinition(value: unknown): value is ModuleUiDefinition {
if (!isRecord(value)) {
return false;
}
if (Object.keys(value).some((key) => !definitionKeys.has(key))) {
return false;
}
return (
isNonEmptyString(value.id) &&
isNonEmptyString(value.version) &&
typeof value.mount === "function"
);
}
export function parseModuleUiDefinition(value: unknown): ModuleUiDefinition {
if (!isModuleUiDefinition(value)) {
throw new ModuleUiContractError("MODULE_UI_DEFINITION_INVALID");
}
return Object.freeze({
id: value.id,
mount: value.mount,
version: value.version,
});
}
/** The identity a host already knows from the module's validated manifest. */
export interface ModuleUiIdentity {
readonly id: string;
readonly version: string;
}
/**
* The one entry point a host uses after importing a module's UI artifact.
*
* Deliberately does **not** import anything itself. Each host performs its own dynamic import — a
* browser host from a served URL, a test host from a file URL — and passes the resulting module
* namespace here. That keeps this package free of any loader, bundler, or URL assumption, and keeps
* Core out of the business of evaluating browser code entirely: module discovery still only
* resolves and validates the `entrypoints.ui` path and never executes it (ADR 0021).
*/
export function parseModuleUiExport(
namespace: unknown,
expected: ModuleUiIdentity,
): ModuleUiDefinition {
if (!isRecord(namespace) || !("default" in namespace)) {
throw new ModuleUiContractError("MODULE_UI_EXPORT_MISSING");
}
const definition = parseModuleUiDefinition(namespace.default);
if (definition.id !== expected.id || definition.version !== expected.version) {
throw new ModuleUiContractError("MODULE_UI_IDENTITY_MISMATCH");
}
return definition;
}