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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 44e676f0df feat: close the browser boundary and add the generic UI host loader
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Two gaps stood between the module UI contract and a host that could use
it. ADR 0023 recorded the first honestly but never diagnosed it: a module
UI file compiled with `"types": []` could still typecheck `process.env`.
The second was simply missing — nothing imported a compiled artifact,
checked its identity, mounted it, or tore it down.

The leak was one type-only import, bisected against the real type graph
rather than guessed. `@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk` imported
`type { EkklesiaPrincipal } from "@ekklesia/contracts"`. Importing
contracts/identity alone is clean and importing Zod alone is clean, but
contracts exposes a single barrel entry, so that one import reached
module-database, whose Drizzle types re-introduce Node's globals. The
runtime was never affected — the import was erased and host-context.js is
`export {}` — but a type-graph leak is still a real boundary failure,
because it silently permits code that cannot run in its target
environment.

The fix is not a narrower import path. The SDK now has no dependencies at
all, so there is no graph to leak through and no future contracts change
can reopen this. It owns `ModuleUiPrincipal`: the same shape ADR 0022
chose, with the Zod brand dropped. That brand encodes a server-side
parsing guarantee a browser cannot produce, and it is the same reason
`permissions.has` already took a plain string. An Ekklesia host still
passes its own `EkklesiaPrincipal` straight through — a branded string is
assignable to `string` — while a standalone host builds the literal.
Proven the way an author experiences it: two fixtures compiled under the
exact project a module uses, one supported and one deliberately reaching
for `process`, with the second required to fail on that specific name.

`@ekklesia/module-ui-host` is the generic loader, in its own package
because the SDK is bundled into every module artifact and host-only
loader code has no business shipping there. The boundary checker enforces
both directions: modules may not depend on the loader, and the loader may
depend only on the SDK plus dev-time tooling.

The distinction that shaped the design: Core resolves `entrypoints.ui` to
an absolute path on the server's disk, and a browser needs a URL. A
loader that accepted the path would test green on a server and fail in
every real host, and would quietly own asset publication. So the loader
takes a browser-loadable URL and knows nothing about how one is obtained.
Ekklesia has no route that publishes installed artifacts, so this is
precisely: loader complete, publication deferred. Nothing can mount an
installed module UI yet, and the docs say so rather than implying
otherwise.

Dynamic import is `(url) => import(url)` with a non-analyzable specifier,
kept as a runtime import so a host does not statically bundle every
installed module or need a hardcoded registry. It is injectable for
bundlers needing their own escape hatch, and deliberately not `eval` or
`new Function`, which would cost a host `unsafe-eval` in its CSP.

Identity is validated through the SDK's existing parser before `mount`
runs, so a stale or mismatched bundle never renders. Contract violations
propagate unwrapped; the loader adds only import and mount failure codes,
sanitized, with the cause attached. Unmount is idempotent, safe when a
module returned no cleanup, and marks an instance unmounted before
running cleanup so a throwing cleanup surfaces once and never re-runs. A
failed mount registers no cleanup. Each instance owns its own state, so
two mounts coexist. The loader never mutates the host's container — not
on success, failure, or unmount.

Tests prove all of it against real module URLs (`data:`, which both
browsers and Node import natively) rather than filesystem paths,
including one artifact built by the canonical Pass 2 pipeline and run
under both an Ekklesia-shaped and a standalone-shaped context. Core,
apps/api, and the contracts package are untouched; discovery remains
inert.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-21 21:44:42 -05:00
ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 1e5866504e feat: build module UI into its declared browser artifact
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ADR 0022 defined what a module UI is and selected React and TypeScript
as the authoring model, but closed by recording that it was not buildable
end to end: `browser.json` preserves JSX, bundler plugins are denied, and
nothing turned a module's `.tsx` into the artifact its manifest declares.
This closes exactly that gap.

esbuild produces the artifact. It was already the right answer before it
was chosen: this workspace resolves esbuild 0.28.1 through Vite/Vitest
today and `pnpm-workspace.yaml` already carries `allowBuilds: esbuild`,
so the pinned dependency adds no second copy and no new trust decision.
It is also the smallest tool that covers TSX, ESM, browser platform,
bundling, source maps, and a define-time constant with no plugin
ecosystem. Vite library mode would drag in `@vitejs/plugin-react`, which
the module boundary denies on purpose; `tsc` alone cannot bundle, so its
output would carry bare `react/jsx-runtime` imports no browser resolves.

React is bundled, not externalized. That follows from ADR 0022 rather
than from convenience: `mount()` was made the ABI precisely so React
would not be part of the host contract, and externalizing it would
reverse that through the build system — every host would have to supply
a compatible React, and a standalone host might not use React at all.
The cost is real and accepted: duplicate runtimes and a ~570 KB
unminified artifact. Sharing one runtime later is a build optimization
that cannot change the contract, because the contract is a mount
function.

Output is browser ESM at `es2022`, unminified so an operator can review
what they install, with `process.env.NODE_ENV` substituted — React reads
it at module scope and would otherwise touch a Node global that does not
exist in a browser. The output path is read from the module's own
manifest rather than a build convention, so declared and produced
artifacts cannot drift, and it is validated with the same
`packageRelativePathSchema` discovery enforces, so a build can never
write where discovery would later reject.

`@ekklesia/module-ui-build` owns every option; modules own none. It uses
the existing `tooling` role that modules could already depend on, so this
pass required no boundary relaxation at all. Its `bin` points at a
committed launcher rather than compiled output because pnpm links bins
during install, before Turborepo builds anything — a bin targeting
`dist/cli.js` fails to link on a fresh clone and breaks every module's UI
build in CI. A module with no `entrypoints.ui` is not an error; the CLI
reports nothing to build and exits zero, so one script serves both kinds
of module.

Styling is React inline style objects. A stylesheet import fails the
build rather than emitting a sidecar `.css` that no manifest declares and
no host loads — an undeclared asset would appear to work in tests and
silently do nothing in a real host.

`templates/module` is the canonical example and now ships optional UI.
Its tests build the artifact from source, validate it with
`parseModuleUiExport`, mount it into a real DOM, assert the rendered
output, and unmount it; the artifact is rebuilt per run so the proof can
never pass against stale output, and `dist/` stays gitignored. Because
verify runs both `pnpm test` and `pnpm build`, a UI that cannot be
produced fails CI through two independent paths.

One correction worth stating plainly: the UI TypeScript project declares
`"types": []`, and a UI file referencing `process` does fail in
isolation, but TypeScript still pulls Node globals in transitively — a
file importing `@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk` reaches `@ekklesia/contracts`
and through its Zod and Drizzle types `process.env` typechecks again.
The docs and ADR describe this as the convention it is rather than the
guard it is not.

Core is untouched. Building is an authoring step; discovery still only
validates the artifact a module shipped and never executes or produces
one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-21 21:24:18 -05:00