Records a core principle: Ekklesia's branding is never forced on an
installation. Anything a member, visitor, or volunteer can see (titles,
sign-in and auth screens, emails, display and offline screens, error
messages, app names and icons, attribution) is configurable and removable
entirely. With no name configured, wording is neutral, so the default
names nothing and the rule is testable. Internal identifiers, operator
tooling, and developer diagnostics are exempt. Modules follow the same
rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Records how an installation runs the Dashboard and the API on sibling
hostnames (dash./api.) beside the default same-origin topology, from one
image: the API origin reaches the Dashboard at run time in a meta element,
the display host stays on the API's origin (device cookies and the offline
code cache depend on it), the API trusts its own origin as Better Auth
already does, cookies stay host-only, CORS stays narrow and becomes part of
the module UI contract, the reference proxy gains per-hostname routing, and
the deploy smoke test proves both topologies, the split one in a real
browser.
Amends ADR 0034 and extends ADR 0044.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
PR #51's migration-smoke failed 0.7 s after the build: the suite pinned
PostgreSQL to an ephemeral port but inherited S3_PORT=8333 from
.env.example, so concurrent runs on one runner (Gitea ignores workflow
concurrency) contended for one host port. Compose's own error was
discarded, so the failure said only that the services "did not become
ready".
Isolation, from an audit of every script CI runs:
- test-migrations-integration.sh: S3_PORT=0, like POSTGRES_PORT=0.
- test-migrations-integration.sh and smoke-infrastructure.sh: project names
gain a random suffix; run id plus PID alone is not unique when job
containers share low PIDs.
- smoke-deploy.sh: the edge /24 is chosen from those no network on the
daemon uses, and the first `up` chooses again when a concurrent run wins
a race for the same subnet (Docker's address-pool overlap), up to five
times.
- CI image-build: the image tag includes the run id and attempt, so a pull
request and a push of the same commit cannot remove each other's image.
- Already isolated: every other published port (ephemeral), the TLS
suite's container and network (random), smoke staging directories and
image tags (random).
Diagnostics: scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh prints the failed `up`
command's output, `docker compose ps`, and the last 40 log lines of each
service, all redacted (supplied literals, credential-looking NAME=value
pairs, URL user information, Authorization headers) with terminal control
sequences stripped. All three scripts use it at every readiness check; the
infrastructure smoke's unredacted full-log dump is replaced by it.
tests/ci-scripts.test.ts pins ephemeral ports, unique project names, the
subnet choice, the CI image tag, the diagnostics, and the redaction itself
(run through bash).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Bump the root and every platform workspace package from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1, so
the platform reports the version the v0.1.1 tag will carry. Module discovery
checks compatibility.platform against the root version and
compatibility.moduleSdk against @ekklesia/module-sdk; both stay inside every
existing ^0.1.0 range, so no module needs a new range. Everything since v0.1.0
is additive (health endpoints, Dashboard serving, production dependency
declarations, the deployment image and Compose project).
templates/module keeps 0.1.0: it is a module, versioned on its own, and its
manifest, source, and tests carry its own product version.
Mark ADR 0044 Accepted. Slices 1-4 are implemented and proven by CI's image
build and deploy smoke; slice 6 (scheduled backups and the restore
procedure) remains its open item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Implement ADR 0044's reference deployment as a base Compose file plus
overlays, so an installation that already runs a proxy can use the base
alone.
- compose.yaml: api, postgres, object-storage, and the operator-only
migrate (profile ops, plan by default). No published port. api and
migrate run init, read-only, tmpfs /tmp, cap_drop ALL,
no-new-privileges. postgres is only on the internal data network.
- TLS everywhere from one installation-private CA: PostgreSQL TLS 1.3
only, with pg_hba rejecting every non-TLS connection, and the API on
verify-full via EKKLESIA_DATABASE_CA (PEM text). SeaweedFS serves S3
over HTTPS (ADR 0030 requires https in production), trusted by the
API through NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS. No Core change.
- compose.proxy.yaml + Caddyfile.example: Caddy pinned by digest, ACME
HTTP-01 (DNS-01 documented), routes /, /api/*, /display/*, /assets/*
to api and refuses everything else; the storage hostname preserves
Host. The API trusts exactly the proxy's fixed /32 on an edge network
whose dynamic range excludes the fixed addresses; Caddy overwrites
X-Forwarded-For and strips caller-supplied forwarding headers.
- compose.tunnel.yaml: cloudflared pinned by digest, token from its own
env file; Caddy honors CF-Connecting-IP only from its fixed address.
- Four per-service root-owned env files, examples with no values;
scripts/init-tls.sh (idempotent, never overwrites a key) and
scripts/gen-secrets.sh (prints only).
- CI: pnpm deploy:config in ci:verify for all three combinations, and a
deploy-smoke job (scripts/smoke-deploy.sh) proving readiness, the
Dashboard, signed storage delivery, the client-address chain, initial
owner sign-in/out, verify-full database TLS, and Doctor through the
proxy, against disposable services. tests/deploy.test.ts pins the
structural guarantees.
- ADR 0044 (still Proposed) amended to match: API-to-storage HTTPS,
DNS-01 needs a custom Caddy build and tunnel-only needs DNS-01, the
tunnel's origin TLS settings live in the Cloudflare dashboard, port
80 serves HTTP-01, and secrets are one env file per service.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A module that imports a package at run time without declaring it a
production dependency now fails the image build instead of the API's
startup, since the runtime receives production dependencies only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Add deploy/Dockerfile and .dockerignore (ADR 0044): one image for the
api service and every operator-run CLI, built from an already-assembled
workspace (the platform plus whatever modules/<id> the context holds).
- node:24.18.0-trixie-slim pinned by index digest; pnpm via Corepack at
the root packageManager version.
- Build stage: frozen install, modules:validate, migrations:validate,
build. Runtime: production-only node_modules plus every dist/, core
migrations, and each module directory, in the repository layout the
API and CLIs resolve paths from; root-owned, run as node.
- NODE_ENV=production and EKKLESIA_API_HOST=0.0.0.0 inside the image
only; the platform default stays 127.0.0.1. Configuration comes only
from the environment; no .env enters the context or any layer.
- HEALTHCHECK on /api/v1/health/ready with Node's fetch; OCI labels for
source, revision, and version.
- CI builds the image without modules: build only, no credentials, no
push.
- deploy/README.md documents the image, the read-only production
posture (verified), init: true, and the exact CLI commands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
@ekklesia/module-sdk imports drizzle-orm at run time but declared it
only as a peer and a development dependency. A workspace package is
linked into its consumers as a directory, so its imports resolve from
its own node_modules, where a consumer never satisfies a peer; a
production install omits development dependencies. In the production
image this made every module with a schema fail: the API exited at
startup and Doctor reported NOT READY.
- Move drizzle-orm to module-sdk's dependencies, keeping the peer.
- Move react to @ekklesia/ui's dependencies, keeping the peer. The new
guard flags it the same way; it is bundled at build time today, so
it was not a live failure. Both lockfile entries keep the identical
resolution, so nothing new is installed and the shell bundles still
contain one React.
- Add the boundary rule runtime-imports-are-production-dependencies:
code a package ships (src/, bin/, excluding tests and .d.ts) must
declare every runtime import in dependencies or optionalDependencies.
Type-only imports are exempt; .tsx/.jsx implies react (automatic
JSX runtime). Fixtures cover peer-only, dev-only, JSX, undeclared,
and the accepted cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Serve surfaces/shell's built Dashboard from apps/api on the same origin
as /api (ADR 0044), exactly as the display host is served: a closed set
of files read once at startup, never a static directory, never a path
built from request input.
- The shell exports @ekklesia/shell/dashboard-assets (the exact built
index.html and script URLs), emits the script at
assets/ekklesia-dashboard/app.js, and index.html names that absolute
path so dev and production serve the same URLs.
- GET / and GET /assets/ekklesia-dashboard/app.js answer from a frozen
snapshot: no-cache with a strong ETag and 304 on match. Source maps
are never served; every other path is the ordinary sanitized 404.
- The page sets nosniff, X-Frame-Options: DENY, Content-Security-Policy:
frame-ancestors 'none' (that directive only), and Referrer-Policy:
no-referrer, on 200 and 304 alike.
- A missing or empty shell build fails startup with a fixed
DashboardHostAssetError before any module code is imported.
- The If-None-Match comparison moves to conditional-request.ts, shared
with the display host routes.
- The emailed-link token stripping moves from browser/main.tsx into
consumeAuthLanding (location and history injected) so it is tested;
behavior is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Add GET /api/v1/health/live and GET /api/v1/health/ready per ADR 0044.
- live returns a fixed 200 {"status":"live"} whenever the process serves.
- ready returns 200 {"status":"ready"} only when module startup has
completed (and shutdown has not begun) and a database ping succeeds
within 2s; otherwise a fixed 503 {"code":"NOT_READY"}.
- The ping runs on the shared pool as one simple-protocol message with
a transaction-local statement_timeout, so PostgreSQL cancels a stalled
statement; the pool discards the connection on failure.
- At most one ping is ever unsettled: probes share its outcome and, once
its deadline passes, answer 503 immediately until it settles.
- Both routes set Cache-Control: no-store, accept GET only (405 with
Allow: GET otherwise, HEAD included), never resolve a principal, and
are mounted in app.ts beside, never inside, /api/v1/modules/.
- createApiApp gains a required `health` option; startApi supplies it
and clears module readiness when shutdown begins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Add ADR 0044 (Status: Proposed), the single self-hosted reference
deployment composed from pinned sources, and list it in the ADR index.
Correct CLAUDE.md, which described manifest v6; the contracts accept
only manifestVersion 7 (MODULE_MANIFEST_VERSION in
packages/contracts/src/module-manifest.ts).
No code changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The fetch listener called `respondWith` for every request and re-issued the
unrecognized ones itself. That routes the whole page through the worker,
re-sends request bodies from a different context, and makes the worker's
presence observable on requests it has no interest in.
Classify synchronously and respond only for the shell and artifact URLs this
worker actually owns. Not responding is what leaves the browser doing exactly
what it would have done without a worker at all — which is the property the
allowlist was written to preserve.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Bring the living documentation in line with what the five passes actually
shipped, and correct the claims they superseded rather than leaving them to
mislead: the module UI context is six members, not five; module styling is
compiled CSS, not inline objects only; the strict manifest is version 7.
Also close a silent failure the new contribution mechanism introduces. A
contribution whose target capability nobody provides — or whose provider moved
outside its declared range — is not published, and the manifest is valid and
the artifact exists, so an operator sees a screen that renders nothing with no
error anywhere. `pnpm modules:validate` now lists each declared contribution
with its capability and range and says whether a compatible provider is
installed, and Doctor's discovery check reports the same per module. Both
derive from the publication registry the API serves from, so neither can
disagree with what a running platform would actually publish.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
A display is the one surface expected to outlive its network: a television on
a wall in a building whose uplink is a consumer router, with nobody standing
in front of it. When that uplink drops and the screen reboots, the browser
shows its own error page — not the display shell, not an Ekklesia message,
nothing that recovers on its own, because there is no Ekklesia code left
running to recover.
Cache the shell and the declared code, in a service worker scoped to
`/display/`: the page, the host script, the module's display artifact, and
every contributed renderer that display actually mounted. All of them are code
whose bytes already confer no authority, and all of them are addressed by a
URL carrying an exact version.
Cache nothing else, ever. Not the descriptor, not `/api/v1/principal`, not a
module or platform API response, not the realtime stream, not a pairing
exchange, and not any cross-origin request — which is what a signed
object-delivery URL is. It is an allowlist rather than a deny list, so the
cost of forgetting a new endpoint is that code goes uncached rather than that
a permission decision gets stored.
The consequence is stated rather than papered over: a display cannot render
module content while offline. Mounting needs a descriptor, a descriptor is
authorization-bearing, and it is never cached — so a revoked device stays
revoked and cached code can never manufacture current authorization. What the
cache buys is that a kiosk rebooting mid-outage boots into Ekklesia's own
offline state and keeps retrying, that reconnecting mounts with nothing left
to download, and that a hiccup fetching 600 KB of artifact after the tiny
descriptor already resolved falls back to identical bytes instead of failing
the display.
Network-first everywhere, so a screen picks up new code the moment the server
returns and can never be trapped on an obsolete build — the failure mode a
cache-first worker produces on a screen nobody visits. Only a complete
same-origin 200 is stored. Cache names carry a policy version and superseded
generations are deleted; artifacts are pruned to the current version per
module, keeping every artifact belonging to that version because a display
artifact and its contributed renderers share one. The worker never caches
itself.
The page gets a small signal built from two sources, because either alone
lies: `navigator.onLine` is optimistic behind a captive portal, and only the
worker knows it actually served from cache. A display shows a quiet corner
indicator rather than blanking a lobby wall, and resolves its descriptor again
by itself when the network returns — nobody presses Retry on a lobby TV.
Every caching decision lives in a module that touches no global, so the
behaviour is exercised directly rather than through a worker a test runner
cannot host. Registration is an enhancement: no service workers, plain HTTP,
or a refusing policy all leave a display that works exactly as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
ADR 0017 capped a module route at 1 MiB and said large media belonged to a
future storage design. That design arrived — ADR 0030 gave modules a bucket,
ADR 0031 took Ekklesia out of the read path — and it did not solve the write
path: signed write URLs were deliberately declined, so the only way bytes
reach a bucket is a module's own route, and a photograph is not 1 MiB.
Extend the route contract rather than adding a second HTTP system. A route
declares `bodyMode`: `buffered` (the default, and what every existing route
already meant) keeps the 1 MiB ceiling and materializes the body before the
handler runs; `streamed` raises the ceiling to 32 MiB and counts bytes as the
handler consumes them, holding nothing. The mode is explicit rather than
inferred from the size, because inferring it would mean an author who raised a
limit silently changed how their own handler receives its body and when a 413
can reach their own code.
32 MiB holds one 25 MiB image plus bounded overhead and is also the platform's
absolute ceiling: no route in any mode may declare more, and no unbounded
option exists in the contract. The unit is one file per request — twenty
images are twenty individually bounded requests, and nothing here can express
a 500 MiB aggregate whose failure would waste everything already sent.
Replace the buffering dependency with the platform's own limiter. A declared
Content-Length over the limit is refused synchronously, before authorization
and before a byte is read. Buffered mode now counts what actually arrives
rather than trusting the header, which closes a gap the previous
implementation had. Streamed mode wraps the body in a counting transform;
on overflow the stream errors, the source is cancelled, and the response is
replaced with the same sanitized 413 even if the handler swallowed the error —
a limit a handler can swallow is not a limit. An unread body is cancelled so
an abandoned upload releases its socket, and an abort stays an ordinary failed
request rather than becoming a 413.
Ordering is unchanged and now strictly better: in streamed mode no byte is
read until the handler reads it, and the handler runs only after authorization
succeeds, so an unauthorized caller cannot push an upload through at all.
The live suite uploads a real 25 MiB body over a real socket end to end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
The platform has had a complete story for one module using another's
*backend* since ADR 0006 — capabilities, versioned ranges, provider
registration. It has had none at all for one module using another's *browser*
code, and every workaround is wrong in a way that matters: a consumer cannot
import a peer module, it cannot re-implement a renderer for a domain it does
not own, and a second `entrypoints` role would put the platform in charge of
deciding when a slot inside someone else's screen should be filled.
Add a generic browser contribution. `manifestVersion: 7` declares one:
namespaced id, its own version, a target capability, a compatible range, and
one artifact. That is the complete list, and the omissions are the decision —
no payload schema, slot, ordering, or rendering hint exists anywhere, so Core
cannot learn what a slide is because the declaration cannot express it.
Discovery resolves a contribution artifact through the *identical* loop every
other compiled entrypoint uses, inheriting the path, containment, symlink,
extension, and file-kind checks rather than getting a weaker copy of them. The
registry publishes one only when another eligible module provides the target
capability within the declared range; otherwise it is absent rather than
mounted and broken. `apps/api` serves it as a sibling of the artifact and
display routes, with the same policy: three lookup keys, one exact match, one
already-validated path, and one indistinguishable 404 for unknown, undeclared,
stale, and incompatible alike.
A consumer discovers through the host, never through a URL. Its descriptor
carries identity, version, and capability; the URL stays server-side and is
resolved exactly as `api.request("records")` is. A module can only ever see
contributions aimed at a capability it itself provides, and cannot name its
way to anything else — a mount for a withheld id fails without fetching.
The consumer owns the domain contract entirely. Input is opaque JSON, checked
structurally so a Date, a function, a cycle, or `undefined` fails at the
boundary rather than vanishing somewhere far from the mistake, and checked for
nothing else. A contributed renderer receives its own id and that input: no
API client, realtime, principal, configuration, database, storage, or
credential. Loading one grants its module nothing.
The contribution ABI is versioned separately from the module UI ABI, because
the two have different shapes and lifecycles and coupling them would force
every module to rebuild whenever either moved. It supports asynchronous
readiness, update-without-remount (a screen that remounted per tick would
restart animations and reload media), deterministic cleanup in a `finally`,
and sanitized failure that never carries the consumer's domain data. Each
renderer mounts in its own isolated root with its own stylesheet.
The template now declares a contribution, so `pnpm build` exercises the whole
authoring path, and the shell suite drives the full relationship — one module
discovering, mounting, updating, and unmounting another's React renderer with
neither importing the other.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
ADR 0023 refused stylesheet imports for a good reason: esbuild would emit a
`.css` sidecar beside the artifact, nothing would declare it, no host would
fetch it, and it would work in a local test and silently do nothing in a real
host. Inline style objects were the whole story. They cannot express
`:hover`, `:focus-visible`, `:disabled`, `@media`, or `@keyframes` — so an
accessible focus treatment was not expressible, and the shared elements added
in the previous commit are built from real CSS for exactly that reason.
Compile the stylesheet into the artifact instead of beside it. A module
imports plain `.css`; the canonical builder resolves local `@import`s through
a nested bundle and turns each file into its compiled text, which the author
declares as `defineModuleUi({ styles })`. One declared file still contains
everything: nothing extra to publish, nothing to fetch, and no way for CSS to
become an asset nobody serves. The build additionally fails if a CSS output
ever appears beside an artifact, so a future loader change cannot bring the
sidecar back. Two rules are enforced with their own codes: a module stylesheet
may reference `--ekklesia-*` and never declare one, and every `@import` must
resolve locally or the artifact would fetch styles at run time. Plain `.css`
only; other dialects are a toolchain decision needing their own ADR.
Then make the isolation real. The generic loader mounts every browser artifact
— primary, display, and later a contributed renderer — inside an open Shadow
DOM root it creates, installs the artifact's stylesheet there, and hands the
artifact an element inside it. Shadow DOM is the one mechanism a browser
actually enforces; a class prefix or a "scope your selectors" instruction is a
convention one mistake defeats, and the failure mode is a module silently
restyling the Dashboard. It applies unconditionally, including to artifacts
with no stylesheet, because a conditional boundary is one a module can fall
out of by editing a source file. Both wrappers are `display: contents` through
base rules installed before the artifact's own, so layout is unchanged and a
full-viewport display can still override `:host`. Unmount removes the whole
root in a `finally`, so a cleanup that throws cannot leave styles behind, and
remounting cannot accumulate a second copy.
This is a correctness boundary for styles and is not described as a sandbox:
the root is `open` precisely because module code is trusted, same-realm code
that could reach `document` anyway.
An artifact's DOM is no longer a direct child of the host's element, so the
mount ABI is versioned explicitly. `defineModuleUi` stamps
`MODULE_UI_ABI_VERSION` so it can never drift from the SDK the artifact
compiled against, and a version-1 artifact fails with its own code — "rebuild
your module", not a typo hunt. No dual acceptance, matching every manifest
cutover here. Migration is one `pnpm build`.
`pnpm boundaries` allows `.css` only under `src/ui/` and `src/display/`: a
stylesheet anywhere else in a module is the undeclared sidecar again, just
relocated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Modules have owned their own UI since ADR 0021, but the platform has never
said what that UI should look like. Every screen here — the Dashboard shell,
the display host, the module template — invented its own hex colours, font
stack, spacing, and radii, and they already disagreed. A module author had no
vocabulary for "the ordinary panel background", so the only available answer
was to invent one, and two modules would invent two.
Add `@ekklesia/design-tokens`: one validated, enumerable registry of semantic
tokens. A token declares a name, label, description, and default value; its
category and `--ekklesia-*` identifier are derived from the name, so it can
never claim one category while being named for another. Construction rejects
duplicates, malformed names, unknown categories, empty or overlong text, and
any value that is not a bounded literal — no declaration terminator, rule
block, comment, at-rule, `url(`, `!important`, escape, control character, or
markup. A registry that constructs can therefore be emitted as CSS without
escaping, because nothing needing escaping can be in it. That validation is
also what makes a future theme editor implementable rather than aspirational.
Add `@ekklesia/ui`: button, icon button, text input, select, checkbox, field
wrapper, panel, dialog, tabs, table and list primitives, badge, toast, and
empty/error/loading states — every value a token reference, with real
`:focus-visible` treatment and status that never depends on colour alone.
Deliberately small: an element earns its place when two consumers need it.
The stylesheet is a string rather than a `.css` file so the identical bytes
install into a document or an isolated artifact root, and so hover, disabled,
and focus-visible are real CSS rather than JavaScript approximations of them.
`pnpm boundaries` opens exactly two shared roles to modules, by name — every
other role stays rejected — and pins both design packages to the bottom of the
presentation stack. Both are browser-safe by construction, proven by a real
compile of module-shaped source in which `process.env` must fail to typecheck.
The shell installs the defaults at its document root for the Dashboard and the
display; custom properties inherit into module artifacts, so a module reads
`var(--ekklesia-…)` with nothing to import at run time and nothing for a host
to forget to pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
A real deployment could not send mail through an IP-authorized relay.
Every attempt surfaced as MAIL_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE while the relay was
healthy and swaks sent from the same machine.
The cause was the greeting, and it is generic rather than tied to any
provider. An SMTP client identifies itself in EHLO, and with nothing
configured Nodemailer derives that from the machine hostname —
substituting the address literal [127.0.0.1] whenever the hostname is
not fully qualified, which is the normal state of a container. The relay
closed the connection on it with a 421 before any message was offered,
which is indistinguishable from the relay being down.
EKKLESIA_SMTP_HELO_NAME now lets the deployment say what to greet as. It
is validated as a fully qualified domain name — no scheme, port,
brackets, whitespace, or control characters, and at least one dot, since
a single unqualified label is exactly the input Nodemailer already
discards. It is not a credential: it travels in the clear on every
connection, so Doctor prints it where an operator can compare it against
what the relay expects, and Doctor's probe performs the same greeting the
runtime does.
Absent preserves Nodemailer's behaviour exactly. It is deliberately not
defaulted to the sender's domain: a machine whose hostname is already a
valid FQDN may be greeting correctly, and some relays check that against
reverse DNS, so replacing it silently would trade one deployment's bug
for another's.
The regression guard is a raw SMTP server that refuses any greeting but
the expected one, because smtp-server exposes no EHLO hook and its
earliest hook is never reached by a send-nothing probe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Ekklesia could authenticate a person and, since Pass 1, send a
transactional email — but it had no way to establish that an address
belonged to whoever claimed it, and no way back in for someone who
forgot their password.
A verified address is now a precondition for holding a session. Better
Auth enforces that after the password check and before any session
exists, so an unverified sign-in returns 403 with no cookie. That is why
no "unverified principal" was needed: a correct password on an
unverified address carries exactly the authority of no password, and
/api/v1/principal is unchanged.
Better Auth keeps every token. Ekklesia adds no token table, no hashing,
and no expiry clock. It supplies a recipient, a subject, and two bodies,
and the mail provider supplies everything about SMTP.
Verification and reset links are rebuilt from a validated Dashboard
origin, taking only the token — never the URL Better Auth prebuilds from
a caller-supplied callbackURL — so no request can steer where a
recipient lands. Following a verification link mints no session, because
mail infrastructure dereferences links. Reset revokes that person's
other sessions and leaves managed devices alone.
Recovery answers identically for an address with an account, without
one, already verified, or undeliverable — including when SMTP is broken,
which is why the delivery adapter never throws.
The initial platform owner is the one exception: created already
verified by an operator command with no mail prerequisite, so a fresh
server can be signed in to before a relay exists. Migration 0007 extends
that to owners of installations that already exist. Public signup stays
disabled; verification is not a licence to self-register.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
`pnpm doctor` and `startApi` each read their own subset of the same
environment variables, and the subsets had drifted. Doctor never read
`S3_*` or module secrets at all, so a correctly configured installation
was told its object storage was "not configured" and every module
requiring a bucket or a secret was reported blocked -- while the runtime,
from the identical environment, bound those buckets and ran the modules.
Both executables now map the environment through one
`loadHostConfiguration(env)` in Core, which takes the environment as an
argument and never reads `process.env` itself. Validation stays with the
existing per-domain validators, so each caller keeps its own failure
behaviour: startup refuses a rejected value, Doctor reports it as a
sanitized code.
Doctor's storage option becomes raw input like its mail option, so a
half-configured provider is reported as a blocking configuration failure
instead of throwing before a report exists. The outbound-email check --
computed, counted toward the result, but absent from every rendered
section -- is now printed, and the rendered set is asserted against a
real report so a future check cannot go missing the same way.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Ekklesia could authenticate people and pair devices but could not send a
single message. Better Auth has been configured with emailAndPassword
since ADR 0011 and neither of its mail hooks — sendResetPassword and
emailVerification.sendVerificationEmail — was ever implemented, so email
verification, password recovery, and invitations were all blocked on the
same missing thing.
That missing thing is a transport, not a Google Workspace integration.
Email is now a host-provided infrastructure service with a provider seam,
shaped exactly like object storage: feature code says "send this
transactional message" and the provider owns the host, port, TLS,
credentials, connection behaviour, and every transport error. No
provider's hostname appears anywhere in Core, and a test asserts it.
Google Workspace SMTP Relay is the expected first deployment and a
compatibility target — the same variables address Microsoft 365, a
transactional provider, or a local Postfix.
The contract is deliberately tiny: one recipient or a small bounded list,
a subject, text and/or HTML, an optional reply-to, and nothing else. There
is no `from` field at all — the sender is host configuration, so no
feature and no future module can choose who mail appears to come from,
which is how a platform otherwise acquires an impersonation primitive.
Control characters are refused rather than stripped in addresses, display
names, subjects, and reply-to values; writing that rule down was not
enough, because the first implementation trimmed an address before
checking it and silently accepted a trailing carriage return until a test
caught it.
Security modes are named rather than inferred from a boolean and a port,
which is genuinely ambiguous: `secure: false` on 587 means "connect in the
clear and hope STARTTLS is offered". `starttls` sets requireTLS so a
stripped upgrade fails the send instead of continuing in plaintext,
production refuses `plaintext` outright, and certificate verification has
no off switch. Credentials are optional as a pair, because a relay
authorized by source IP has neither and requiring them would make the
intended production arrangement unconfigurable; half a pair fails loudly.
Connection, greeting, and socket timeouts are all explicit — the
object-storage pass already showed what a network client on library
defaults does to a request. Nothing retries: a failure after the message
data has gone out is ambiguous, and retrying it turns one password-reset
request into several emails, so this is a single bounded attempt and
deliberately not an exactly-once promise.
Email stays optional. An installation with no SMTP host is a complete
deployment, nothing sends at startup, and constructing the transport opens
no socket. There is no POST /api/v1/send-email and no route that touches
the provider — an authenticated send endpoint is an open relay with extra
steps. Modules get nothing either; services are added one at a time when
something real needs one, and nothing does yet.
Proven against a real in-process SMTP server rather than a mock: delivery
with the host's sender on the wire, authentication and its sanitized
refusal, a rejected mailbox distinguished from an outage, a refused
connection, a silent server hitting its deadline, and a starttls transport
refusing to continue when the upgrade is not offered. No test sends real
email and no live credential exists in this repository or in CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
ADR 0033 gave Ekklesia a display host and ADR 0034 gave it a login page.
Together, the only way to light a television in a foyer was to sign a
human being into it and leave that session running on a screen anyone can
walk up to: a person's credentials on a wall, a person's session as the
thing signage depends on, and the display going dark when they are
revoked or their session simply expires.
A screen is not a person. Ekklesia now recognizes three principal classes
— anonymous, authenticated human, and managed device — and a device is a
first-class principal with its own credential and its own explicit
permissions. It has no email, no password, and no row in the identity
tables, and it satisfies the `authenticated` baseline never, so every
route that settles for "somebody is signed in" stays closed to it.
Device permissions live in their own table because
ekklesia_core_grant.user_id is a non-null foreign key into the user table
and making it polymorphic would rewrite the platform's central
authorization record to serve one narrow case. That is a schema decision,
not a second decision point: the evaluator gained one branch, so a device
is allowed or denied by the same function, with the same deny-by-default,
as anyone else — with no owner path it could reach and no baseline that
stands in for a grant.
The six-digit code is not the credential. It is printed across a screen in
a public hallway, so it is treated as public: it identifies a request to
an administrator and is worth nothing alone. Collecting the credential
also requires a 256-bit claim secret held only in the requesting browser's
HttpOnly cookie, and approving requires the restricted core.devices.manage
permission. Without that split, reading a code off a wall would hand over
the screen's identity.
The permission a pairing asks for is read from the module's validated
display declaration, never from the request, so a browser cannot ask to be
granted core.devices.manage or another module's permission. Approval
grants exactly that one permission.
Credentials are stored only as SHA-256; the raw value exists in the
Set-Cookie that issues it and the device's own cookie jar, and is never
logged, returned in JSON, or placed in a URL. The cookie is HttpOnly, so
the module display code running in that same page cannot read it.
Revocation is a server-side column checked on every principal resolution,
and re-pairing mints a new identity so an old credential can never come
back. State transitions are conditional updates, so one code cannot be
approved twice or claimed into two credentials under a race.
/api/v1/principal still reports a device as anonymous: it is what the
Dashboard uses to decide whether a person is signed in. Displays read
their viewer from the descriptor instead, which already performed the
authorization — so displays are descriptor-first while the Dashboard stays
principal-first, and neither infers an identity by elimination.
Proven end to end against real PostgreSQL and real HTTP: an unpaired
screen shows a code, an owner approves it, the device opens the display
descriptor and a realtime stream, and revocation closes both while the
device still holds its cookie. An already-open SSE stream is bounded by
realtime's existing five-minute reconnect rather than closed instantly,
and that bound is documented rather than called immediate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
A fresh production installation deadlocked. ADR 0034 gave Ekklesia a login
page and ADR 0019 gave it a single-use platform-owner bootstrap, but that
bootstrap grants ownership to a user id that already exists and has no way
to bring one into being. Public signup is disabled by default and
production cannot enable it at all, so a newly deployed instance had a
login page, no account, and no supported way to create one — only hand-
written SQL or briefly opening public registration.
pnpm identity:create-initial-owner -- --email [email protected]
creates the identity and grants it ownership, in the same shape as the
other operator commands: trusted local tooling, reachable only by someone
who already holds the database credentials, serving no HTTP route. No
/signup, /register, or /setup route is added, no bootstrap endpoint, and
no setup token; public signup stays disabled in every environment and a
test asserts a freshly bootstrapped deployment still refuses
/api/auth/sign-up/email.
The identity is created through Better Auth's own sign-up path, so
hashing, salting, normalization and the 8-128 bound are the identity
system's rather than a second implementation that could drift. Because the
server's instance refuses account creation, the command builds its own
in-process instance; nothing in apps/api imports it and the running
server's posture is untouched.
The sign-up result is verified rather than trusted. Better Auth returns a
fabricated success for an already-registered address — a user object whose
id was never persisted, database unchanged. That is correct enumeration
defence on a public endpoint and a trap here, so the identity is always
read back from the database and that read, not the response, is what the
grant uses.
An existing usable identity is adopted: ownership is granted and its
password left alone, reported as an adoption rather than a creation. This
is the recovery path for the one partial failure possible, since sign-up
commits on Better Auth's connection and the grant is a separate
transaction. A credential-less row is refused instead — making it an owner
would consume the single use on an identity nobody can authenticate as. A
password is never reset and an account is never taken over.
Whole invocations are serialized by an advisory lock on their own key, so
a race cannot leave a stray signable-in account behind; the grant's own
locked single-use transaction is unchanged. There is no --force or reset.
The password is prompted for invisibly or read from stdin, never from
argv (--password is refused with an explanation) and never from an
environment variable, so nothing about it becomes permanent deployment
configuration. The command needs DATABASE_URL and nothing else — verified
that sign-up needs no secret, base URL, or trusted origins, and that the
resulting account signs in through a separately configured server — so the
first owner can be created before TLS or DNS exist. It never migrates.
Proven end to end rather than at the database: a fresh installation is
bootstrapped, signed in through the real browser login transport with
signup disabled, its principal read, and used to open an owner-protected
resource that stays closed to anonymous callers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
