Merge pull request 'docs: propose ADR 0049, Ekklesia Module Package v1' (#65) from docs/adr-0049-module-package into main

Reviewed-on: https://git.riverofglorymn.org/River_of_Glory_Church/Ekklesia/pulls/65
Reviewed-by: The_River <[email protected]>

.dockerignore

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` and builds its own outputs, so nothing installed or built on the
 # host may enter the context, and no secret or environment file may enter any layer.
 
+# Installed modules never enter the platform image (ADR 0048): an installation keeps them in its own
+# module storage, mounted at run time. Excluding the checkout's `modules/` is what makes a build
+# identical whether or not modules happen to be present in the source tree.
+/modules
+
 # Host-installed dependencies and build outputs: the image produces its own.
 **/node_modules
 **/dist

.env.example

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
 # The plaintext loopback DATABASE_URL below is therefore only usable with this set.
 NODE_ENV=development
 
+# Installed modules (ADR 0048). Unset, the checkout's own modules/ is used, as module development
+# and the platform's tests expect. Set, it must be an absolute path to an existing directory;
+# anything else stops the API and every module command with a sanitized error. The production
+# image sets /var/lib/ekklesia/modules.
+# EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=/absolute/path/to/modules
+
 POSTGRES_DB=ekklesia
 POSTGRES_USER=ekklesia
 POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ekklesia-development-only

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,18 +1,13 @@
 name: CI
 
-# IMPORTANT — the currently inventoried server is Gitea 1.24.2, which *ignores* several keys used
-# below. Per https://docs.gitea.com/1.24/usage/actions/comparison, its unsupported workflow syntax
-# includes `permissions` / `jobs.<job_id>.permissions`, `concurrency`, and
-# `jobs.<job_id>.timeout-minutes`. They are declared here deliberately, so the workflow is already
-# correct on a supported release and on GitHub Actions, but on this server they are inert:
+# The server runs Gitea 1.27.2 (docs/development/security.md, "What this server honours"):
 #
-#   * `permissions:` does NOT restrict the in-job `GITEA_TOKEN`. Job-token permission controls,
-#     repository/owner defaults, and server-side maximum-permission clamping arrive in the 1.26
-#     feature line (https://docs.gitea.com/1.26/usage/actions/token-permissions). Until the server
-#     is upgraded and configured, the token's authority is whatever the server grants — not what
-#     this file requests.
-#   * `concurrency:` and `timeout-minutes:` are NOT bounded-execution guarantees here. Cancellation,
-#     timeout, and teardown must be enforced by the trusted runner provisioner/reaper.
+#   * `concurrency:` is honoured: a newer push to a pull request cancels the run it supersedes, so a
+#     cancelled run's own cleanup is never guaranteed (see the CI stack sweep in each stack job).
+#   * `permissions:` is supported by 1.27 with Gitea's own scopes, but what the job token can do on
+#     this server is not yet proven, so nothing here relies on it being read-only.
+#   * `timeout-minutes:` is no longer listed as unsupported, but is not verified here either;
+#     teardown relies on the stack sweep and the runner's own reaper.
 #
 # `persist-credentials: false` below is unaffected by any of this and is enforced by the action
 # itself. See docs/development/security.md.
@@ -63,6 +58,9 @@ jobs:
     needs: verify
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 10
+    env:
+      # Names this job's stacks, so its final step removes exactly these (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh).
+      EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY: infrastructure-smoke
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
@@ -72,13 +70,29 @@ jobs:
           # in this workflow pushes, so the credential is never needed after checkout.
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      # A job the runner killed (cancelled, or past the runner's own time limit) never ran its
+      # cleanup. Anything a CI job left on this shared daemon more than three hours ago goes first.
+      - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
+
+      - name: Prove the sweep removes exactly what it should, against real Docker resources
+        run: bash scripts/test-ci-sweep.sh
+
       - name: Exercise PostgreSQL and S3 infrastructure
         run: bash scripts/smoke-infrastructure.sh
 
+      # Whatever happened above, this job's own stacks do not outlive it.
+      - name: Remove this job's CI stacks
+        if: always()
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job
+
   migration-smoke:
     needs: verify
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 15
+    env:
+      # Names this job's stacks, so its final step removes exactly these (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh).
+      EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY: migration-smoke
     steps:
       - name: Check out repository
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
@@ -88,6 +102,11 @@ jobs:
           # in this workflow pushes, so the credential is never needed after checkout.
           persist-credentials: false
 
+      # A job the runner killed (cancelled, or past the runner's own time limit) never ran its
+      # cleanup. Anything a CI job left on this shared daemon more than three hours ago goes first.
+      - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
+
       - name: Set up Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
         with:
@@ -104,11 +123,18 @@ jobs:
       - name: Exercise transactional migrations against PostgreSQL
         run: pnpm test:migrations:integration
 
+      # Whatever happened above, this job's own stacks do not outlive it.
+      - name: Remove this job's CI stacks
+        if: always()
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job
+
   image-build:
     needs: verify
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 20
     env:
+      # Names this job's stacks, so its final step removes exactly these (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh).
+      EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY: image-build
       # Cache mounts in deploy/Dockerfile need BuildKit; this selects it even where the Docker CLI
       # has no buildx plugin.
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
@@ -121,29 +147,32 @@ jobs:
           # in this workflow pushes, so the credential is never needed after checkout.
           persist-credentials: false
 
-      # The platform-only image (ADR 0044): a checkout has no `modules/`, so this proves the image
-      # builds, validates, and assembles with zero modules. Build only — no registry login, no
-      # credentials, no push, no tag anywhere but this runner's local image store.
-      # Tagged per run and attempt, not only per commit: a pull request and a push of the same commit
-      # can build at once on one runner's Docker daemon, and neither may remove the other's image.
-      - name: Build the production image without modules
-        run: >-
-          docker build
-          --file deploy/Dockerfile
-          --build-arg REVISION="$GITHUB_SHA"
-          --tag ekklesia-ci:"$GITHUB_SHA-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}"
-          .
+      # A job the runner killed (cancelled, or past the runner's own time limit) never ran its
+      # cleanup. Anything a CI job left on this shared daemon more than three hours ago goes first.
+      - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
 
-      - name: Remove the image from the runner
+      # The one generic platform image (ADR 0044, ADR 0048), proved rather than assumed: it contains no
+      # module, no module template, and no module manifest; its module storage mount point is empty;
+      # EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR names it; and a checkout with a populated modules/ directory builds an
+      # identical runtime file system. Build only — no registry login, no credentials, no push, no tag
+      # anywhere but this runner's local image store. Tagged per run and attempt, and labeled like
+      # every CI stack, so this job's final step removes the images even if a build is killed.
+      - name: Build the generic platform image and prove it holds no modules
+        run: bash scripts/check-image.sh
+
+      # Whatever happened above, this job's own stacks do not outlive it.
+      - name: Remove this job's CI stacks
         if: always()
-        run: docker image rm --force ekklesia-ci:"$GITHUB_SHA-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}" || true
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job
 
   deploy-smoke:
     needs: verify
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 30
-    # Both topologies (ADR 0045): same-origin, the default every installation gets, and split, which
-    # adds a test-only module and drives a real headless browser across the two origins.
+    # Both topologies (ADR 0045), each on the one generic image: same-origin, the default every
+    # installation gets, and split, which installs a test-only module into module storage, removes
+    # it, and restores it (ADR 0048), and drives a real headless browser across the two origins.
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -151,6 +180,8 @@ jobs:
           - same-origin
           - split
     env:
+      # Names this job's stacks, so its final step removes exactly these (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh).
+      EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY: deploy-smoke-${{ matrix.topology }}
       DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
       EKKLESIA_SMOKE_TOPOLOGY: ${{ matrix.topology }}
     steps:
@@ -162,10 +193,20 @@ jobs:
           # in this workflow pushes, so the credential is never needed after checkout.
           persist-credentials: false
 
-      # The reference deployment end to end (ADR 0044): a platform-only image, base + proxy with
+      # A job the runner killed (cancelled, or past the runner's own time limit) never ran its
+      # cleanup. Anything a CI job left on this shared daemon more than three hours ago goes first.
+      - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
+
+      # The reference deployment end to end (ADR 0044): the generic platform image, base + proxy with
       # Caddy's internal CA (test-only), an explicit migration apply against this job's own fresh
       # PostgreSQL, then the API, Dashboard, storage delivery, client-address chain, and verify-full
       # database TLS through the proxy. Every secret is generated for this run and discarded with
       # it; nothing is pushed, published, or logged in to.
       - name: Smoke-test the reference deployment (${{ matrix.topology }})
         run: bash scripts/smoke-deploy.sh
+
+      # Whatever happened above, this job's own stacks do not outlive it.
+      - name: Remove this job's CI stacks
+        if: always()
+        run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job

README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ concurrency and release, exact destructive approvals, and sanitization against t
 adapter. A Core-owned `pnpm doctor` dashboard combines the existing static discovery and read-only
 migration-planning services into one concise readiness report.
 
+**Ekklesia ships one generic image, and installed modules live outside it
+([ADR 0048](docs/architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)).** The
+production image built from [`deploy/Dockerfile`](deploy/Dockerfile) contains zero feature modules
+and is the same for every installation. Installed modules live in installation-owned module storage,
+selected by `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` (`/var/lib/ekklesia/modules` in the image, the checkout's
+`modules/` when unset) and mounted read-only by the reference deployment. Each installed module is a
+self-contained directory carrying its own production dependencies. Installing, updating, or removing
+a module needs only a controlled restart and, when it has migrations, an explicit plan and apply.
+Nothing is hot loaded. Removing a module's code keeps its data and its stored state; its applied
+migration history is retained and reported, and blocks no other migration. Purge, a package format,
+signing, and any installer or marketplace do not exist yet.
+
 Phase 4A added Core-owned identity foundations: a Core-owned Better Auth database schema
 (`ekklesia_core_user`, `ekklesia_core_session`, `ekklesia_core_account`,
 `ekklesia_core_verification`), a first-class Core-owned migration source that coexists with
@@ -218,9 +230,10 @@ undeployed state, and the launch checklist in a single place. **CI is accepted a
 trusted-code-only boundary**: the self-hosted Gitea runner executes only code controlled and
 reviewed by trusted repository collaborators, and unknown or untrusted pull requests must not
 execute on it automatically. What remains is operational and cannot be proven from this repository —
-upgrading Gitea past 1.24.2 (which *ignores* the workflow's `permissions`, `concurrency`, and
-`timeout-minutes` declarations), clamping job-token authority server-side, enforcing timeout and
-teardown in a trusted provisioner/reaper, and proving disposable runner isolation. Those are
+configuring and proving job-token authority server-side (the server now runs Gitea 1.27.2, which
+honours `concurrency` and documents `permissions`, but neither token limits nor `timeout-minutes` are
+verified on it yet), enforcing timeout and teardown in a trusted provisioner/reaper, and proving
+disposable runner isolation. Those are
 prerequisites for **executing untrusted contributions**, alongside the deployment checklist that
 gates a **public launch**; moving future public contribution workflows to a service with isolated
 hosted runners is an acceptable alternative. **Neither set of requirements blocks Phase 6** — Surface

apps/api/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/api",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "files": [

apps/api/src/platform-permissions.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   composePlatformPermissionRegistry,
   discoverModules,
   type DiscoveredModule,
+  resolveModulesDirectory,
 } from "@ekklesia/core/modules";
 
 export type PlatformPermissionConfigurationErrorCode = "PLATFORM_PERMISSION_CONFIGURATION_INVALID";
@@ -55,10 +56,18 @@ async function readPackageVersion(packagePath: string): Promise<string> {
 }
 
 export interface PrepareStartupModuleInventoryOptions {
+  /**
+   * The deployment's `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`, raw, exactly as host configuration read it (ADR 0048).
+   * A production input, not a test seam: the executable entry point always passes it. Unset means
+   * the repository's own `modules/`; set means that absolute directory, which must exist. It is
+   * resolved by Core's one resolver, so an unusable value fails startup with a sanitized
+   * `ModuleDiscoveryError` before any pool exists.
+   */
+  readonly configuredModulesDirectory?: string | undefined;
   /** Test-only escape hatch: overrides the directory module discovery scans for installed
-   * modules. Never set by the executable entry point — production always discovers the real
-   * repository's `modules/` directory. Platform and Module SDK versions are always read from the
-   * real repository's own `package.json` files regardless of this override. */
+   * modules, taking precedence over `configuredModulesDirectory`, which is then never resolved.
+   * Never set by the executable entry point. Platform and Module SDK versions are always read from
+   * the real repository's own `package.json` files regardless of this override. */
   readonly modulesDirectoryOverride?: string;
   /** Test-only escape hatch: supplies an already-discovered module list directly, skipping the
    * filesystem discovery step entirely, while still running the real `composePlatformPermissionRegistry`
@@ -109,6 +118,11 @@ export async function prepareStartupModuleInventory(
   }
 
   const repositoryRoot = resolveRepositoryRoot();
+  // Chosen before anything is read, so an unusable configured directory fails first and alone.
+  const modulesDirectory =
+    options.modulesDirectoryOverride === undefined
+      ? resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: options.configuredModulesDirectory, repositoryRoot })
+      : { modulesDirectory: options.modulesDirectoryOverride, modulesDirectoryRequired: false };
   const [platformVersion, moduleSdkVersion] = await Promise.all([
     readPackageVersion(path.join(repositoryRoot, "package.json")),
     readPackageVersion(path.join(repositoryRoot, "packages/module-sdk/package.json")),
@@ -116,7 +130,7 @@ export async function prepareStartupModuleInventory(
 
   const modules = await discoverModules({
     moduleSdkVersion,
-    modulesDirectory: options.modulesDirectoryOverride ?? path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+    ...modulesDirectory,
     platformVersion,
   });
 

apps/api/src/server.ts

@@ -154,8 +154,12 @@ export interface StartApiOptions {
    * test needs somewhere to observe the operational failure the user is never shown.
    */
   readonly reportNotificationFailure?: IdentityNotificationReporter;
-  /** Test-only escape hatch: overrides the directory module discovery scans. Never set by the
-   * executable entry point. See `prepareStartupModuleInventory`. */
+  /** The deployment's raw `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` (ADR 0048), a production input the executable
+   * entry point always passes from host configuration. See `prepareStartupModuleInventory`. */
+  readonly configuredModulesDirectory?: string | undefined;
+  /** Test-only escape hatch: overrides the directory module discovery scans, taking precedence
+   * over `configuredModulesDirectory`. Never set by the executable entry point. See
+   * `prepareStartupModuleInventory`. */
   readonly modulesDirectoryOverride?: string;
   /** Test-only escape hatch: supplies an already-discovered module list directly, skipping
    * filesystem discovery entirely — this exact list drives both permission composition and module
@@ -429,6 +433,7 @@ export async function startApi(
   options: StartApiOptions = {},
 ): Promise<RunningApi> {
   const inventory = await prepareStartupModuleInventory({
+    configuredModulesDirectory: options.configuredModulesDirectory,
     ...(options.modulesDirectoryOverride === undefined
       ? {}
       : { modulesDirectoryOverride: options.modulesDirectoryOverride }),
@@ -769,6 +774,7 @@ export function readConfigFromEnvironment(processEnvironment: HostEnvironment):
   readonly input: Parameters<typeof createApiRuntimeConfig>[0];
   readonly environment: "development" | "production";
   readonly moduleSecrets: ModuleSecretSource;
+  readonly modulesDirectory: string | undefined;
 } {
   const host = loadHostConfiguration(processEnvironment);
   return {
@@ -784,13 +790,19 @@ export function readConfigFromEnvironment(processEnvironment: HostEnvironment):
       storage: host.storage,
     },
     moduleSecrets: host.moduleSecrets,
+    modulesDirectory: host.modulesDirectory,
   };
 }
 
 export async function main(): Promise<void> {
-  const { environment, input, moduleSecrets } = readConfigFromEnvironment(process.env);
+  const { environment, input, moduleSecrets, modulesDirectory } = readConfigFromEnvironment(
+    process.env,
+  );
   const config = createApiRuntimeConfig(input, { environment });
-  const running = await startApi(config, { moduleSecrets });
+  const running = await startApi(config, {
+    configuredModulesDirectory: modulesDirectory,
+    moduleSecrets,
+  });
 
   const address = running.server.address();
   const boundPort = address && typeof address === "object" ? address.port : config.port;

apps/api/tests/api-http.integration.ts

@@ -2590,6 +2590,7 @@ describe.sequential("live API — installed module permission end-to-end", () =>
     });
 
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory,
       moduleDiscovery: {
         moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
         modulesDirectory,
@@ -2599,10 +2600,8 @@ describe.sequential("live API — installed module permission end-to-end", () =>
       runtimeVersion: process.versions.node,
     });
 
-    // Only the module-discovery and permission-composition checks are asserted here — this
-    // fixture's temporary directory has no `core/drizzle` sibling for migrations discovery to
-    // find, which is unrelated to what this scenario proves and would otherwise make the check
-    // fail for a reason that has nothing to do with permission composition.
+    // Only the module-discovery and permission-composition checks are asserted here; nothing else
+    // in the report bears on what this scenario proves.
     const moduleCheck = report.checks.find((entry) => entry.id === "modules.discovery");
     const permissionsCheck = report.checks.find((entry) => entry.id === "modules.permissions");
     expect(moduleCheck).toMatchObject({ status: "pass" });

apps/api/tests/host-configuration-parity.test.ts

@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ describe("host configuration parity between startApi and Doctor", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("hands the API the same modules directory Doctor and the operator commands read", () => {
+    expect(readConfigFromEnvironment(environment()).modulesDirectory).toBeUndefined();
+    const env = environment({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules" });
+    expect(readConfigFromEnvironment(env).modulesDirectory).toBe("/var/lib/ekklesia/modules");
+    expect(loadHostConfiguration(env).modulesDirectory).toBe("/var/lib/ekklesia/modules");
+  });
+
   it("reads only this listener's own address and port outside the shared loader", () => {
     const config = apiView(
       environment({ EKKLESIA_API_HOST: "0.0.0.0", EKKLESIA_API_PORT: "8080" }),

apps/api/tests/lifecycle.test.ts

@@ -1004,6 +1004,73 @@ describe("Ekklesia API module permission composition at startup", () => {
     expect(poolEnd).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   });
 
+  it("discovers installed modules from the configured modules directory (ADR 0048)", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createTemporaryModulesDirectory();
+    await createFixtureModule(modulesDirectory, "incompatible", {
+      compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: ">=99.0.0" },
+    });
+
+    // The module that fails discovery lives only in the configured directory, so this rejection
+    // proves discovery read it rather than the repository's own `modules/`.
+    await expect(
+      startApi(validConfig(), { configuredModulesDirectory: modulesDirectory }),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+    expect(poolConstructor).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("starts with zero modules from an empty configured modules directory", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createTemporaryModulesDirectory();
+    poolConstructor.mockImplementation(function fakePool() {
+      return { end: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined), on: vi.fn(), query: emptyQuery() };
+    });
+    betterAuthMock.mockReturnValue({ api: { getSession: vi.fn() }, handler: vi.fn() });
+    mockSuccessfulServe();
+
+    const running = await startApi(validConfig(), { configuredModulesDirectory: modulesDirectory });
+
+    expect(poolConstructor).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    await running.shutdown();
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["a relative path", "relative/private-mount-5b2a", "MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID"],
+    ["a missing directory", "/nonexistent/private-mount-5b2a", "MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE"],
+  ])("fails closed on %s, before any pool exists, naming no path", async (_label, configured, code) => {
+    let captured: unknown;
+    try {
+      await startApi(validConfig(), { configuredModulesDirectory: configured });
+    } catch (error) {
+      captured = error;
+    }
+
+    expect(captured).toBeInstanceOf(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+    const issues = (captured as ModuleDiscoveryError).issues;
+    expect(issues.map((issue) => issue.code)).toEqual([code]);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(issues)).not.toContain("private-mount-5b2a");
+    expect((captured as Error).message).not.toContain("private-mount-5b2a");
+    expect(poolConstructor).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(betterAuthMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(serveMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("lets the test-only override take precedence over a configured directory", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createTemporaryModulesDirectory();
+    poolConstructor.mockImplementation(function fakePool() {
+      return { end: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined), on: vi.fn(), query: emptyQuery() };
+    });
+    betterAuthMock.mockReturnValue({ api: { getSession: vi.fn() }, handler: vi.fn() });
+    mockSuccessfulServe();
+
+    // The configured value is unusable; the override wins, so it is never even resolved.
+    const running = await startApi(validConfig(), {
+      configuredModulesDirectory: "relative/never-resolved",
+      modulesDirectoryOverride: modulesDirectory,
+    });
+
+    expect(poolConstructor).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    await running.shutdown();
+  });
+
   it("does not perform module discovery merely by importing the platform-permissions module", async () => {
     const module = await import("../src/platform-permissions.js");
 

core/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/core",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "files": [

core/src/cli/doctor.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   formatDoctorReport,
 } from "../diagnostics/index.js";
 import { type HostEnvironment, loadHostConfiguration } from "../host/index.js";
+import { type ModulesDirectorySelection, resolveModulesDirectory } from "../modules/index.js";
 
 interface ModuleSdkPackageDocument {
   readonly version?: unknown;
@@ -25,8 +26,10 @@ interface RootPackageDocument extends ModuleSdkPackageDocument {
  */
 export interface DoctorCommandMetadata {
   readonly moduleSdkVersion: string;
-  readonly modulesDirectory: string;
   readonly platformVersion: string;
+  /** Where the platform is installed: Core's migrations live beneath it, and so does the
+   * development default modules directory. Installed modules may live anywhere else. */
+  readonly repositoryRoot: string;
   readonly runtimeRange: string;
   readonly runtimeVersion: string;
 }
@@ -49,6 +52,22 @@ function requiredString(value: unknown): string {
   return value;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The modules directory exactly as `startApi` would choose it. An unusable configured value is not
+ * thrown here, because Doctor must still produce a report: it is handed on as a required directory
+ * for discovery to refuse, which reports it as a sanitized module-discovery failure.
+ */
+function doctorModulesDirectory(
+  configured: string | undefined,
+  repositoryRoot: string,
+): ModulesDirectorySelection {
+  try {
+    return resolveModulesDirectory({ configured, repositoryRoot });
+  } catch {
+    return { modulesDirectory: configured ?? "", modulesDirectoryRequired: true };
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Turns one deployment environment into Doctor's inputs.
  *
@@ -69,6 +88,7 @@ export function createDoctorOptions(
   const host = loadHostConfiguration(environment);
   return {
     clientAddress: host.clientAddress,
+    coreMigrationsDirectory: path.join(metadata.repositoryRoot, "core", "drizzle"),
     databaseEnvironment: host.environment,
     databaseTransport: host.databaseTransport,
     databaseUrl: host.databaseUrl,
@@ -76,7 +96,7 @@ export function createDoctorOptions(
     mailConfiguration: host.mail,
     moduleDiscovery: {
       moduleSdkVersion: metadata.moduleSdkVersion,
-      modulesDirectory: metadata.modulesDirectory,
+      ...doctorModulesDirectory(host.modulesDirectory, metadata.repositoryRoot),
       platformVersion: metadata.platformVersion,
     },
     moduleSecrets: host.moduleSecrets,
@@ -97,8 +117,8 @@ export async function runDoctorCommand(repositoryRoot = process.cwd()): Promise<
   const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
     createDoctorOptions(process.env, {
       moduleSdkVersion: requiredString(moduleSdkPackage.version),
-      modulesDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
       platformVersion: requiredString(rootPackage.version),
+      repositoryRoot,
       runtimeRange: requiredString(rootPackage.engines?.node),
       runtimeVersion: process.versions.node,
     }),

core/src/cli/migration-command-support.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
+import type { HostEnvironment } from "../host/index.js";
 import { discoverAllMigrations } from "../migrations/index.js";
 import type { ModuleMigrationAggregate } from "../modules/index.js";
+import { resolveCommandModulesDirectory } from "./modules-directory-environment.js";
 
 interface PackageVersion {
   readonly version?: unknown;
@@ -15,9 +17,16 @@ async function readPackageVersion(packagePath: string): Promise<string> {
   return packageData.version;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Core's migrations come from the platform (`<repositoryRoot>/core/drizzle`); installed modules'
+ * come from the configured modules directory, wherever it is (ADR 0048). Neither is ever derived
+ * from the other.
+ */
 export async function discoverRepositoryMigrations(
   repositoryRoot = process.cwd(),
+  environment: HostEnvironment = process.env,
 ): Promise<ModuleMigrationAggregate> {
+  const modulesDirectory = resolveCommandModulesDirectory(environment, repositoryRoot);
   const [platformVersion, moduleSdkVersion] = await Promise.all([
     readPackageVersion(path.join(repositoryRoot, "package.json")),
     readPackageVersion(path.join(repositoryRoot, "packages/module-sdk/package.json")),
@@ -27,7 +36,7 @@ export async function discoverRepositoryMigrations(
     coreMigrationsDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "drizzle"),
     moduleDiscovery: {
       moduleSdkVersion,
-      modulesDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+      ...modulesDirectory,
       platformVersion,
     },
   });

core/src/cli/migration-report.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import type { ModuleMigrationAggregate } from "../modules/index.js";
-import type { MigrationApplyResult, MigrationPlanResult } from "../migrations/index.js";
+import type {
+  MigrationApplyResult,
+  MigrationPlanResult,
+  RetainedMigrationHistory,
+} from "../migrations/index.js";
 
 function plural(count: number, singular: string): string {
   return count === 1 ? singular : `${singular}s`;
@@ -28,10 +32,19 @@ export function formatMigrationValidationReport(
   return Object.freeze(lines);
 }
 
+/** An absent module's applied history (ADR 0048): kept, reported, and never a reason to stop. */
+function retainedLines(retained: readonly RetainedMigrationHistory[]): readonly string[] {
+  return retained.map(
+    (module) =>
+      `- [retained] ${module.moduleId}: ${module.appliedCount} applied ${plural(module.appliedCount, "migration")} kept; the module is not installed`,
+  );
+}
+
 export function formatMigrationPlanReport(plan: MigrationPlanResult): readonly string[] {
   const readyCount = plan.pendingCount - plan.approvalRequiredCount;
+  const retainedSummary = plan.retained.length === 0 ? "" : `, ${plan.retained.length} retained`;
   const lines = [
-    `Migration plan (${plan.appliedCount} applied, ${readyCount} pending, ${plan.approvalRequiredCount} approval-blocked):`,
+    `Migration plan (${plan.appliedCount} applied, ${readyCount} pending, ${plan.approvalRequiredCount} approval-blocked${retainedSummary}):`,
   ];
 
   for (const entry of plan.entries) {
@@ -40,6 +53,7 @@ export function formatMigrationPlanReport(plan: MigrationPlanResult): readonly s
   if (plan.entries.length === 0) {
     lines.push("- No installed module migrations.");
   }
+  lines.push(...retainedLines(plan.retained));
   lines.push(
     "Informational only: this plan is read-only and may become stale; apply revalidates history under the migration lock.",
   );
@@ -49,7 +63,10 @@ export function formatMigrationPlanReport(plan: MigrationPlanResult): readonly s
 
 export function formatMigrationApplyReport(result: MigrationApplyResult): readonly string[] {
   if (result.noOp) {
-    return Object.freeze(["Migration apply completed: database is already current (no changes)."]);
+    return Object.freeze([
+      "Migration apply completed: database is already current (no changes).",
+      ...retainedLines(result.retained),
+    ]);
   }
 
   const lines = [
@@ -58,5 +75,6 @@ export function formatMigrationApplyReport(result: MigrationApplyResult): readon
   for (const migration of result.applied) {
     lines.push(`- ${migration.identity} sha256=${migration.checksum}`);
   }
+  lines.push(...retainedLines(result.retained));
   return Object.freeze(lines);
 }

core/src/cli/modules-directory-environment.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { type HostEnvironment, loadHostConfiguration } from "../host/index.js";
+import { type ModulesDirectorySelection, resolveModulesDirectory } from "../modules/index.js";
+
+/**
+ * The modules directory an operator command discovers, read through the same host configuration
+ * `startApi` and Doctor use and resolved by the one Core resolver (ADR 0048). Throws the resolver's
+ * sanitized `ModuleDiscoveryError` for an unusable value, which every command already reports.
+ */
+export function resolveCommandModulesDirectory(
+  environment: HostEnvironment,
+  repositoryRoot: string,
+): ModulesDirectorySelection {
+  return resolveModulesDirectory({
+    configured: loadHostConfiguration(environment).modulesDirectory,
+    repositoryRoot,
+  });
+}

core/src/cli/set-module-enabled.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
   resolveModuleEligibility,
 } from "../modules/index.js";
 import { resolveExecutableDatabaseTransport } from "./database-transport-environment.js";
+import { resolveCommandModulesDirectory } from "./modules-directory-environment.js";
 
 /**
  * Enables or disables one installed module, out of band from the running API.
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
   // configurable here, which is the case this command exists for.
   const discovered = await discoverModules({
     moduleSdkVersion,
-    modulesDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+    ...resolveCommandModulesDirectory(process.env, repositoryRoot),
     platformVersion,
   });
   if (!discovered.some((module) => module.manifest.id === moduleId)) {

core/src/cli/validate-modules.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   ModulePermissionCompositionError,
   ModuleSchemaDiscoveryError,
 } from "../modules/index.js";
+import { resolveCommandModulesDirectory } from "./modules-directory-environment.js";
 
 interface PackageVersion {
   version?: unknown;
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
   ]);
   const schemaAggregate = await discoverModuleSchemas({
     moduleSdkVersion,
-    modulesDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+    ...resolveCommandModulesDirectory(process.env, repositoryRoot),
     platformVersion,
   });
   const modules = schemaAggregate.discoveredModules;

core/src/diagnostics/doctor.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import path from "node:path";
 import {
   capabilityIdSchema,
   EMPTY_MODULE_SECRET_SOURCE,
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ import {
 } from "../mail/index.js";
 import {
   createPostgresMigrationDatabase,
+  type DiscoverAllMigrationsOptions,
   discoverAllMigrations,
   type MigrationDatabase,
   type MigrationPlanResult,
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ import {
   isConfigurationBlockedDetail,
   isStorageBlockedDetail,
   type ModuleConfigurationSettings,
+  ModuleDiscoveryError,
   type ModuleDiscoveryOptions,
   type ModuleEligibility,
   type ModuleLifecycleConfiguration,
@@ -126,6 +127,9 @@ export interface DoctorIdentityConfigurationOptions {
 
 export interface DoctorOptions {
   readonly clientAddress?: ClientAddressConfigInput | undefined;
+  /** Core's own migrations, where the platform is installed. Never derived from the modules
+   * directory: installed modules live in installation-owned storage, anywhere at all (ADR 0048). */
+  readonly coreMigrationsDirectory: string;
   /** The environment the executable resolved, used only for transport policy evaluation; identity
    * configuration keeps its own `identityConfiguration.environment` for the same purpose. */
   readonly databaseEnvironment?: DatabaseTransportEnvironment | undefined;
@@ -170,7 +174,7 @@ export interface DoctorDependencies {
     options: PostgresMigrationDatabaseOptions,
   ) => MigrationDatabase;
   readonly discoverMigrations: (
-    options: ModuleDiscoveryOptions,
+    options: DiscoverAllMigrationsOptions,
   ) => Promise<ModuleMigrationAggregate>;
   readonly discoverModules: (
     options: ModuleDiscoveryOptions,
@@ -207,15 +211,6 @@ const checksumPattern = /^[a-f0-9]{64}$/u;
 const migrationIdentityPattern =
   /^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*:\d{4,}_[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:_[a-z0-9]+)*$/u;
 
-async function discoverAllMigrationsForRuntime(
-  options: ModuleDiscoveryOptions,
-): Promise<ModuleMigrationAggregate> {
-  return discoverAllMigrations({
-    coreMigrationsDirectory: path.join(path.dirname(options.modulesDirectory), "core", "drizzle"),
-    moduleDiscovery: options,
-  });
-}
-
 /** Opens its own short-lived connection, reads, and always closes it — Doctor never leaves a pool
  * behind, and never shares one with the migration planner's, whose lifetime it does not control. */
 async function readModuleLifecycleForRuntime(
@@ -273,7 +268,7 @@ async function probeMailForRuntime(config: MailProviderConfig): Promise<void> {
 const productionDependencies: DoctorDependencies = Object.freeze({
   composePermissions: composePlatformPermissionRegistry,
   createMigrationDatabase: createPostgresMigrationDatabase,
-  discoverMigrations: discoverAllMigrationsForRuntime,
+  discoverMigrations: discoverAllMigrations,
   discoverModules,
   discoverSchemas: discoverModuleSchemas,
   planMigrations: planModuleMigrations,
@@ -633,11 +628,23 @@ function storageBindingsCheck(
     details,
   );
 }
+function moduleDiscoveryFailureDetail(error: unknown): string {
+  if (!(error instanceof ModuleDiscoveryError)) {
+    return "Static module discovery could not be completed.";
+  }
+  // The modules directory itself, rather than anything in it (ADR 0048). Fixed wording, never the
+  // configured value: a path is machine detail.
+  if (error.issues.some((issue) => issue.code === "MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID")) {
+    return "The configured modules directory is not usable.";
+  }
+  if (error.issues.some((issue) => issue.code === "MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE")) {
+    return "The configured modules directory could not be read.";
+  }
+  return "The installed module inventory is invalid.";
+}
+
 function moduleDiscoveryFailure(error: unknown): DoctorCheck {
-  const details =
-    error instanceof Error && error.name === "ModuleDiscoveryError"
-      ? ["The installed module inventory is invalid."]
-      : ["Static module discovery could not be completed."];
+  const details = [moduleDiscoveryFailureDetail(error)];
   return freezeCheck("modules.discovery", "failure", "Module discovery failed", details);
 }
 
@@ -733,6 +740,14 @@ function migrationPlanCheck(plan: MigrationPlanResult): DoctorCheck {
       }
       return `${entry.status} · ${safeMigrationReference(entry.identity, entry.checksum)}`;
     }),
+    // An absent module's applied history (ADR 0048) is information, never attention: removing a
+    // module's code keeps its data, and nothing here is pending.
+    ...plan.retained.map((module) => {
+      if (!/^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$/u.test(module.moduleId)) {
+        throw new TypeError("Unsafe migration plan diagnostic value.");
+      }
+      return `retained · ${module.moduleId} · ${module.appliedCount} applied ${plural(module.appliedCount, "migration")} kept; the module is not installed`;
+    }),
   ];
 
   if (pendingCount + blockedCount === 0) {
@@ -905,17 +920,25 @@ function databaseTransportCheck(
   }
 }
 
+/** Doctor reads only its own process's environment, so it says so: run as the reference
+ * deployment's `migrate`, it is given the API's values by the proxy overlay, but run any other way
+ * it may be checking a configuration the API is not running. */
+const CLIENT_ADDRESS_SCOPE =
+  "Checked: the environment Doctor runs with. In the reference deployment `migrate` is given the API's client-address values; a running API's own value is shown by `docker compose exec api printenv EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE`.";
+
 function clientAddressCheck(input: ClientAddressConfigInput | undefined): DoctorCheck {
   try {
     const config = createClientAddressConfig(input, TRUSTED_CLIENT_ADDRESS_HEADER);
     if (config.mode === "direct") {
       return freezeCheck("identity.client-address", "pass", "Direct client-address mode", [
         "Trusts only the actual immediate socket peer for rate limiting; no forwarded header is trusted.",
+        CLIENT_ADDRESS_SCOPE,
       ]);
     }
     return freezeCheck("identity.client-address", "pass", "Trusted-proxy client-address mode", [
       `Trusts header "${config.header}" only from a request whose immediate socket peer matches one of ${config.trustedProxies.length} configured trusted ${plural(config.trustedProxies.length, "proxy")}.`,
       "The reverse proxy must overwrite (never append to) this header, and the origin must not be reachable except through it.",
+      CLIENT_ADDRESS_SCOPE,
     ]);
   } catch (error) {
     const code =
@@ -926,7 +949,7 @@ function clientAddressCheck(input: ClientAddressConfigInput | undefined): Doctor
       "identity.client-address",
       "failure",
       "Client-address configuration invalid",
-      [`[${code}] Configured client-address values failed validation.`],
+      [`[${code}] Configured client-address values failed validation.`, CLIENT_ADDRESS_SCOPE],
     );
   }
 }
@@ -1124,7 +1147,10 @@ export async function diagnoseEkklesia(
     }
 
     try {
-      migrations = await dependencies.discoverMigrations(options.moduleDiscovery);
+      migrations = await dependencies.discoverMigrations({
+        coreMigrationsDirectory: options.coreMigrationsDirectory,
+        moduleDiscovery: options.moduleDiscovery,
+      });
       const inventory = migrations.migrations.map((migration) =>
         safeMigrationReference(migration.identity, migration.checksum),
       );

core/src/host/configuration.ts

@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ export interface HostConfiguration {
   /** The deployment's module secrets, resolvable only under names Core derives from a module's own
    * declared keys — there is no arbitrary variable lookup. */
   readonly moduleSecrets: ModuleSecretSource;
+  /** `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`, raw and unvalidated: `undefined` only when the variable is unset. Every
+   * executable passes it to `resolveModulesDirectory`, the one place it is interpreted (ADR 0048),
+   * so a relative or blank value is refused there rather than repaired here. */
+  readonly modulesDirectory: string | undefined;
   readonly storage: StorageProviderConfigInput;
 }
 
@@ -144,6 +148,7 @@ export function loadHostConfiguration(environment: HostEnvironment): HostConfigu
       username: environment.EKKLESIA_SMTP_USERNAME,
     },
     moduleSecrets: createEnvironmentModuleSecretSource(environment),
+    modulesDirectory: environment.EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR,
     // The `S3_*` names ADR 0004 already established for this repository's Compose stack. Absent
     // endpoint means this installation has no object storage, which is a complete deployment
     // (ADR 0030).

core/src/migrations/runner.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type {
   DiscoveredModuleMigration,
   ModuleMigrationAggregate,
 } from "../modules/migration-discovery.js";
+import { CORE_MIGRATION_SOURCE_ID } from "./core-source.js";
 
 const DEFAULT_MIGRATION_LOCK_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
 
@@ -86,11 +87,24 @@ export interface MigrationPlanEntry {
   readonly tag: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Applied history kept for a module that is not installed (ADR 0048): the module id and how many of
+ * its migrations were applied. It is reported, never matched against an inventory, and never a
+ * reason to refuse planning or applying anything else.
+ */
+export interface RetainedMigrationHistory {
+  readonly appliedCount: number;
+  readonly moduleId: string;
+}
+
 export interface MigrationPlanResult {
   readonly appliedCount: number;
   readonly approvalRequiredCount: number;
   readonly entries: readonly MigrationPlanEntry[];
   readonly pendingCount: number;
+  /** Absent modules' applied history, ordered by module id; empty when every applied migration
+   * belongs to Core or an installed module. */
+  readonly retained: readonly RetainedMigrationHistory[];
 }
 
 export interface AppliedMigrationResult {
@@ -105,6 +119,8 @@ export interface MigrationApplyResult {
   readonly applied: readonly AppliedMigrationResult[];
   readonly appliedCount: number;
   readonly noOp: boolean;
+  /** The same report as `MigrationPlanResult.retained`, read under the migration lock. */
+  readonly retained: readonly RetainedMigrationHistory[];
 }
 
 export interface PlanModuleMigrationsOptions {
@@ -204,10 +220,38 @@ function validateHistoryRecordShape(record: AppliedMigrationRecord): void {
   }
 }
 
+interface ValidatedAppliedHistory {
+  /** Identities of applied migrations that belong to Core or an installed module. */
+  readonly applied: ReadonlySet<string>;
+  readonly retained: readonly RetainedMigrationHistory[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every module id this inventory treats as installed: each discovered module, whether or not it
+ * owns migrations, every module that contributed migrations, and always Core. A module counts as
+ * absent only when it is none of these, so a module that is installed but no longer ships its old
+ * migrations stays strict, and Core's history can never be classified as an absent module's.
+ */
+function installedMigrationSources(aggregate: ModuleMigrationAggregate): ReadonlySet<string> {
+  return new Set<string>([
+    CORE_MIGRATION_SOURCE_ID,
+    ...aggregate.discoveredModules.map((module) => module.manifest.id),
+    ...aggregate.modules.map((module) => module.moduleId),
+  ]);
+}
+
+function freezeRetained(counts: ReadonlyMap<string, number>): readonly RetainedMigrationHistory[] {
+  return Object.freeze(
+    [...counts.entries()]
+      .sort(([left], [right]) => (left < right ? -1 : left > right ? 1 : 0))
+      .map(([moduleId, appliedCount]) => Object.freeze({ appliedCount, moduleId })),
+  );
+}
+
 function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
   aggregate: ModuleMigrationAggregate,
   history: readonly AppliedMigrationRecord[],
-): ReadonlySet<string> {
+): ValidatedAppliedHistory {
   if (!Array.isArray(history)) {
     throw runnerError("MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID");
   }
@@ -215,6 +259,9 @@ function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
   const inventory = new Map(
     aggregate.migrations.map((migration) => [migration.identity, migration]),
   );
+  const installed = installedMigrationSources(aggregate);
+  const applied = new Set<string>();
+  const retained = new Map<string, number>();
   const seenOrders = new Set<number>();
   const seenIdentities = new Set<string>();
   const seenModuleIndexes = new Set<string>();
@@ -240,7 +287,19 @@ function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
 
     const migration = knownMigration(inventory, record.identity);
     if (!migration) {
-      throw runnerError("MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED");
+      if (installed.has(record.moduleId)) {
+        // Core, or a module that is installed now: its history is strict, exactly as ADR 0009
+        // established. A migration it no longer ships is a downgrade or a rewritten package.
+        throw runnerError("MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED");
+      }
+      // An absent module's history (ADR 0048): retained and reported, never repaired, deleted, or
+      // matched against anything. It must still name its own module and tag, so a corrupt row is
+      // never mistaken for one.
+      if (record.identity !== `${record.moduleId}:${record.tag}`) {
+        throw runnerError("MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID");
+      }
+      retained.set(record.moduleId, (retained.get(record.moduleId) ?? 0) + 1);
+      continue;
     }
     if (
       record.moduleId !== migration.moduleId ||
@@ -252,11 +311,12 @@ function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
     if (record.checksum !== migration.checksum) {
       throw runnerError("MIGRATION_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH", migration.identity);
     }
+    applied.add(record.identity);
   }
 
   for (const module of aggregate.modules) {
-    const applied = history.filter((record) => record.moduleId === module.moduleId);
-    for (const [position, record] of applied.entries()) {
+    const moduleHistory = history.filter((record) => record.moduleId === module.moduleId);
+    for (const [position, record] of moduleHistory.entries()) {
       if (record.identity !== module.migrations[position]?.identity) {
         const migration = knownMigration(inventory, record.identity);
         throw runnerError("MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID", migration?.identity);
@@ -264,13 +324,13 @@ function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
     }
   }
 
-  return seenIdentities;
+  return Object.freeze({ applied, retained: freezeRetained(retained) });
 }
 
 function validateAppliedHistory(
   aggregate: ModuleMigrationAggregate,
   history: readonly AppliedMigrationRecord[],
-): ReadonlySet<string> {
+): ValidatedAppliedHistory {
   try {
     return validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(aggregate, history);
   } catch (error) {
@@ -285,7 +345,7 @@ function planFromHistory(
   aggregate: ModuleMigrationAggregate,
   history: readonly AppliedMigrationRecord[],
 ): MigrationPlanResult {
-  const applied = validateAppliedHistory(aggregate, history);
+  const { applied, retained } = validateAppliedHistory(aggregate, history);
   const entries = Object.freeze(
     aggregate.migrations.map((migration): MigrationPlanEntry => {
       const isApplied = applied.has(migration.identity);
@@ -314,6 +374,7 @@ function planFromHistory(
     approvalRequiredCount,
     entries,
     pendingCount: entries.length - appliedCount,
+    retained,
   });
 }
 
@@ -472,14 +533,14 @@ export async function applyModuleMigrations(
     } catch {
       throw runnerError("MIGRATION_HISTORY_READ_FAILED");
     }
-    const applied = validateAppliedHistory(options.aggregate, history);
+    const { applied, retained } = validateAppliedHistory(options.aggregate, history);
     const pending = Object.freeze(
       options.aggregate.migrations.filter((migration) => !applied.has(migration.identity)),
     );
     await preflightApprovals(pending, options.approvals ?? denyAllMigrationApprovals);
 
     if (pending.length === 0) {
-      return Object.freeze({ applied: Object.freeze([]), appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+      return Object.freeze({ applied: Object.freeze([]), appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained });
     }
 
     let executingIdentity: string | undefined;
@@ -508,6 +569,7 @@ export async function applyModuleMigrations(
       applied: resultMigrations,
       appliedCount: resultMigrations.length,
       noOp: false,
+      retained,
     });
   } catch (error) {
     primaryError = error;

core/src/modules/discovery.ts

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ export type ModuleDiscoveryIssueCode =
   | "MODULE_PLATFORM_INCOMPATIBLE"
   | "MODULE_SDK_INCOMPATIBLE"
   | "MODULE_VERSION_MISMATCH"
+  | "MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID"
   | "MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE";
 
 export interface ModuleDiscoveryIssue {
@@ -117,9 +118,35 @@ export interface DiscoveredModule {
 export interface ModuleDiscoveryOptions {
   readonly moduleSdkVersion: string;
   readonly modulesDirectory: string;
+  /**
+   * True when an operator configured the directory explicitly (`EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`, ADR 0048).
+   * A configured directory that is missing, not a directory, or not an absolute path then fails
+   * discovery closed rather than reading as zero modules: a mistyped mount must never quietly start
+   * the platform with nothing installed. False or omitted keeps the development default lenient,
+   * where a checkout with no `modules/` simply has no modules.
+   */
+  readonly modulesDirectoryRequired?: boolean;
   readonly platformVersion: string;
 }
 
+/** The one sanitized message for an unusable configured modules directory. It never carries the
+ * value: a path is machine detail, and a misplaced value could be anything at all. */
+export const MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID_MESSAGE = "EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR must be an absolute path.";
+
+/**
+ * Whether a configured modules directory is usable as given: a non-empty absolute path with no
+ * surrounding whitespace and no NUL byte. Deliberately strict rather than forgiving, because
+ * trimming or resolving a near-miss would silently pick a directory the operator did not name.
+ */
+export function isUsableModulesDirectoryPath(value: string): boolean {
+  return (
+    value.length > 0 &&
+    value.trim() === value &&
+    !value.includes("\u0000") &&
+    path.isAbsolute(value)
+  );
+}
+
 interface ModulePackageData {
   name: string;
   version: string;
@@ -695,6 +722,13 @@ export async function discoverModules(
       });
     }
   }
+  if (options.modulesDirectoryRequired && !isUsableModulesDirectoryPath(options.modulesDirectory)) {
+    issues.push({
+      code: "MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID",
+      message: MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID_MESSAGE,
+      moduleDirectory: ".",
+    });
+  }
   if (issues.length > 0) {
     throw new ModuleDiscoveryError(issues);
   }
@@ -703,7 +737,7 @@ export async function discoverModules(
   try {
     directoryEntries = await readdir(options.modulesDirectory, { withFileTypes: true });
   } catch (error) {
-    if (errorCode(error) === "ENOENT") {
+    if (errorCode(error) === "ENOENT" && !options.modulesDirectoryRequired) {
       return Object.freeze([]);
     }
     throw new ModuleDiscoveryError([

core/src/modules/index.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export * from "./lifecycle.js";
 export * from "./lifecycle-schema.js";
 export * from "./lifecycle-store.js";
 export * from "./migration-discovery.js";
+export * from "./modules-directory.js";
 export * from "./permissions.js";
 export * from "./realtime.js";
 export * from "./runtime.js";

core/src/modules/modules-directory.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import path from "node:path";
+import {
+  isUsableModulesDirectoryPath,
+  MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID_MESSAGE,
+  ModuleDiscoveryError,
+} from "./discovery.js";
+
+/** The host environment variable that selects the installed-modules directory (ADR 0048). */
+export const MODULES_DIRECTORY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE = "EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR";
+
+export interface ResolveModulesDirectoryOptions {
+  /** The raw configured value, exactly as the host environment supplied it; `undefined` when the
+   * variable is unset. */
+  readonly configured: string | undefined;
+  /** Where the platform itself is installed. Only consulted for the development default. */
+  readonly repositoryRoot: string;
+}
+
+/** Spreads directly into `ModuleDiscoveryOptions`, so every consumer discovers through the same
+ * selection, including whether a missing directory is an error. */
+export interface ModulesDirectorySelection {
+  readonly modulesDirectory: string;
+  readonly modulesDirectoryRequired: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The one place an installation's modules directory is chosen (ADR 0048).
+ *
+ * - Unset: `<repositoryRoot>/modules`, the development checkout's own directory. A checkout without
+ *   one has no modules, exactly as before.
+ * - Set: an absolute path, normalized and used as given — never resolved against the repository or
+ *   the working directory — and required to exist when discovery reads it. The shipping image sets
+ *   it to `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`.
+ *
+ * Anything else throws a `ModuleDiscoveryError` carrying `MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID` and a fixed
+ * message, so every executable already reports it through the discovery error path it has, and the
+ * supplied value never reaches an error, a log, or a report.
+ *
+ * Nothing here — and nothing that calls it — locates the platform's own files relative to the
+ * result: Core's migrations and package metadata live under `repositoryRoot`, wherever modules are.
+ */
+export function resolveModulesDirectory(
+  options: ResolveModulesDirectoryOptions,
+): ModulesDirectorySelection {
+  if (options.configured === undefined) {
+    return Object.freeze({
+      modulesDirectory: path.join(options.repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+      modulesDirectoryRequired: false,
+    });
+  }
+  if (!isUsableModulesDirectoryPath(options.configured)) {
+    throw new ModuleDiscoveryError([
+      {
+        code: "MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID",
+        message: MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID_MESSAGE,
+        moduleDirectory: ".",
+      },
+    ]);
+  }
+  const normalized = path.normalize(options.configured);
+  return Object.freeze({
+    modulesDirectory:
+      normalized.length > 1 && normalized.endsWith(path.sep) ? normalized.slice(0, -1) : normalized,
+    modulesDirectoryRequired: true,
+  });
+}

core/tests/doctor-host-configuration.test.ts

@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ import {
   diagnoseEkklesia,
   formatDoctorReport,
 } from "../src/diagnostics/index.js";
-import type {
-  DiscoveredModule,
-  ModuleMigrationAggregate,
-  ModuleSchemaAggregate,
+import {
+  type DiscoveredModule,
+  discoverModules,
+  type ModuleMigrationAggregate,
+  type ModuleSchemaAggregate,
 } from "../src/modules/index.js";
 
 /**
@@ -34,8 +35,8 @@ const moduleSecret = "module-secret-material";
 
 const metadata = Object.freeze({
   moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
-  modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",
   platformVersion: "0.1.0",
+  repositoryRoot: "/not-rendered",
   runtimeRange: ">=24.11.0 <25",
   runtimeVersion: "24.15.0",
 });
@@ -454,3 +455,33 @@ describe("Doctor host-configuration parity — sanitization", () => {
     expect(JSON.stringify(report)).not.toContain("S3_ACCESS_KEY");
   });
 });
+
+describe("Doctor reads the modules directory from the same host configuration (ADR 0048)", () => {
+  it("uses the repository's own modules directory when EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR is unset", () => {
+    const doctorOptions = createDoctorOptions(environment(), metadata);
+    expect(doctorOptions.moduleDiscovery.modulesDirectory).toBe("/not-rendered/modules");
+    expect(doctorOptions.moduleDiscovery.modulesDirectoryRequired).toBe(false);
+    expect(doctorOptions.coreMigrationsDirectory).toBe("/not-rendered/core/drizzle");
+  });
+
+  it("uses a configured directory, and still finds Core's migrations under the platform", () => {
+    const doctorOptions = createDoctorOptions(
+      environment({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules" }),
+      metadata,
+    );
+    expect(doctorOptions.moduleDiscovery.modulesDirectory).toBe("/var/lib/ekklesia/modules");
+    expect(doctorOptions.moduleDiscovery.modulesDirectoryRequired).toBe(true);
+    expect(doctorOptions.coreMigrationsDirectory).toBe("/not-rendered/core/drizzle");
+  });
+
+  it("hands an unusable value to discovery to report, rather than throwing before a report exists", async () => {
+    const doctorOptions = createDoctorOptions(
+      environment({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "relative/private-mount-91aa" }),
+      metadata,
+    );
+    expect(doctorOptions.moduleDiscovery.modulesDirectoryRequired).toBe(true);
+    const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(doctorOptions, dependencies({ discoverModules }));
+    expect(report.checks.find((entry) => entry.id === "modules.discovery")?.status).toBe("failure");
+    expect(JSON.stringify(report)).not.toContain("private-mount-91aa");
+  });
+});

core/tests/doctor-report.test.ts

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ describe("Ekklesia Doctor terminal report", () => {
   it("renders the real zero-module and no-database shape exactly", async () => {
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
       {
+        coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
         moduleDiscovery: {
           moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
           modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ Identity
     Identity runtime configuration (signing key, base URL, trusted origins) is not set.
   ✓ Direct client-address mode
     Trusts only the actual immediate socket peer for rate limiting; no forwarded header is trusted.
+    Checked: the environment Doctor runs with. In the reference deployment \`migrate\` is given the API's client-address values; a running API's own value is shown by \`docker compose exec api printenv EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE\`.
 
 Object storage
   ○ Object storage not configured
@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@ Result: READY WITH WARNINGS`);
   it("renders every check the report contains, so none can silently affect the result", async () => {
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
       {
+        coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
         moduleDiscovery: {
           moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
           modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",
@@ -158,6 +161,7 @@ Result: READY WITH WARNINGS`);
   it("does not depend on NO_COLOR or terminal interactivity", async () => {
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
       {
+        coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
         moduleDiscovery: {
           moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
           modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",
@@ -206,6 +210,7 @@ Result: READY WITH WARNINGS`);
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
       {
         databaseUrl: "postgresql://another:[email protected]/db",
+        coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
         moduleDiscovery: {
           moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
           modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",

core/tests/doctor.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import { type ModuleManifest, parsePermissionId } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { createPermissionRegistry, PermissionRegistryError } from "../src/authorization/index.js";
 import {
   type DoctorCheck,
@@ -114,7 +118,10 @@ function emptyDatabase(): MigrationDatabase {
   });
 }
 
-function plan(entries: MigrationPlanResult["entries"] = []): MigrationPlanResult {
+function plan(
+  entries: MigrationPlanResult["entries"] = [],
+  retained: MigrationPlanResult["retained"] = [],
+): MigrationPlanResult {
   const appliedCount = entries.filter((entry) => entry.status === "applied").length;
   const approvalRequiredCount = entries.filter(
     (entry) => entry.status === "approval-blocked",
@@ -124,6 +131,7 @@ function plan(entries: MigrationPlanResult["entries"] = []): MigrationPlanResult
     approvalRequiredCount,
     entries: Object.freeze([...entries]),
     pendingCount: entries.length - appliedCount,
+    retained: Object.freeze([...retained]),
   });
 }
 
@@ -151,6 +159,7 @@ function dependencies(overrides: Partial<DoctorDependencies> = {}): DoctorDepend
 function options(databaseUrl?: string): DoctorOptions {
   return {
     ...(databaseUrl === undefined ? {} : { databaseUrl }),
+    coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
     moduleDiscovery: {
       moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
       modulesDirectory: "/not-rendered/modules",
@@ -958,6 +967,21 @@ describe("Ekklesia Doctor diagnostics", () => {
     expect(report.result).toBe("ready-with-warnings");
   });
 
+  it("says whose client-address configuration it checked: this process's, not a running API's", async () => {
+    for (const clientAddress of [
+      undefined,
+      { header: "x-forwarded-for", mode: "trusted-proxy" as const, trustedProxies: ["10.0.0.1"] },
+      { header: "x-forwarded-for", mode: "trusted-proxy" as const, trustedProxies: ["bad"] },
+    ]) {
+      const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
+        { ...options(), ...(clientAddress ? { clientAddress } : {}) },
+        dependencies(),
+      );
+      const details = check(report, "identity.client-address").details;
+      expect(details.some((detail) => detail.includes("environment Doctor runs with"))).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
   it("passes client-address configuration with an explicitly configured trusted-proxy mode", async () => {
     const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
       {
@@ -1642,3 +1666,113 @@ describe("Doctor reports declared browser contributions", () => {
     ]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("Doctor with installation-owned module storage (ADR 0048)", () => {
+  const platformCoreMigrations = path.join(
+    path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)),
+    "..",
+    "drizzle",
+  );
+  const temporaryDirectories: string[] = [];
+
+  afterEach(async () => {
+    await Promise.all(
+      temporaryDirectories.splice(0).map((directory) => rm(directory, { recursive: true })),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("finds Core's migrations where the platform is installed, not beside the modules", async () => {
+    // A modules directory far from the platform, as the image mounts /var/lib/ekklesia/modules. Its
+    // parent has no `core/drizzle`, so a Doctor that still derived Core's migrations from the
+    // modules directory would fail migration discovery here.
+    const external = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-external-modules-"));
+    temporaryDirectories.push(external);
+    const report = await diagnoseEkklesia({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: platformCoreMigrations,
+      moduleDiscovery: {
+        moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
+        modulesDirectory: external,
+        modulesDirectoryRequired: true,
+        platformVersion: "0.1.0",
+      },
+      runtimeRange: ">=24.11.0 <25",
+      runtimeVersion: "24.15.0",
+    });
+
+    expect(check(report, "modules.discovery").status).toBe("pass");
+    const migrations = check(report, "migrations.discovery");
+    expect(migrations.status).toBe("pass");
+    expect(migrations.details.some((detail) => detail.startsWith("core:0000_"))).toBe(true);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(report)).not.toContain(external);
+  });
+
+  it("reports an unusable configured modules directory as a discovery failure, naming no path", async () => {
+    const report = await diagnoseEkklesia({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: platformCoreMigrations,
+      moduleDiscovery: {
+        moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
+        modulesDirectory: "relative/private-mount-3c9d",
+        modulesDirectoryRequired: true,
+        platformVersion: "0.1.0",
+      },
+      runtimeRange: ">=24.11.0 <25",
+      runtimeVersion: "24.15.0",
+    });
+
+    const discovery = check(report, "modules.discovery");
+    expect(discovery.status).toBe("failure");
+    expect(discovery.details).toEqual(["The configured modules directory is not usable."]);
+    expect(check(report, "migrations.discovery").status).toBe("skipped");
+    expect(JSON.stringify(report)).not.toContain("private-mount-3c9d");
+  });
+
+  it("reports a configured modules directory that does not exist, naming no path", async () => {
+    const parent = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-missing-modules-"));
+    temporaryDirectories.push(parent);
+    const report = await diagnoseEkklesia({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: platformCoreMigrations,
+      moduleDiscovery: {
+        moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
+        modulesDirectory: path.join(parent, "absent"),
+        modulesDirectoryRequired: true,
+        platformVersion: "0.1.0",
+      },
+      runtimeRange: ">=24.11.0 <25",
+      runtimeVersion: "24.15.0",
+    });
+
+    const discovery = check(report, "modules.discovery");
+    expect(discovery.status).toBe("failure");
+    expect(discovery.details).toEqual(["The configured modules directory could not be read."]);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(report)).not.toContain(parent);
+  });
+
+  it("reports an absent module's retained history without blocking readiness", async () => {
+    const report = await diagnoseEkklesia(
+      options("postgres://[email protected]/ekklesia"),
+      dependencies({
+        planMigrations: vi.fn(async () =>
+          plan(
+            [planEntry("core:0000_identity_core_tables", "a".repeat(64), "applied")],
+            [Object.freeze({ appliedCount: 2, moduleId: "calendar" })],
+          ),
+        ),
+      }),
+    );
+
+    const planCheck = check(report, "postgresql.plan");
+    expect(planCheck.status).toBe("pass");
+    expect(planCheck.details).toContain(
+      "retained · calendar · 2 applied migrations kept; the module is not installed",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("passes Core's own migration directory to migration discovery", async () => {
+    const discoverMigrations = vi.fn(async () => migrationAggregate());
+    await diagnoseEkklesia(options(), dependencies({ discoverMigrations }));
+    expect(discoverMigrations).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: "/not-rendered/core/drizzle",
+      moduleDiscovery: options().moduleDiscovery,
+    });
+  });
+});

core/tests/host-configuration-boundaries.test.ts

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ const INTERPRETED_VARIABLES = Object.freeze([
   "EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_BASE_URL",
   "EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_SECRET",
   "EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_TRUSTED_ORIGINS",
+  "EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR",
   "EKKLESIA_PUBLIC_SIGNUP_ENABLED",
   "EKKLESIA_SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS",
   "EKKLESIA_SMTP_FROM_NAME",

core/tests/host-configuration.test.ts

@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ describe("host configuration loading", () => {
     expect(host.identity.secret).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  it("carries the configured modules directory verbatim, and nothing when it is unset", () => {
+    expect(loadHostConfiguration({}).modulesDirectory).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(
+      loadHostConfiguration({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules" }).modulesDirectory,
+    ).toBe("/var/lib/ekklesia/modules");
+    // Validation is the resolver's job (ADR 0048). The loader neither repairs a relative or blank
+    // value nor treats a set-but-empty variable as unset, so the resolver can refuse it.
+    expect(
+      loadHostConfiguration({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "relative/modules" }).modulesDirectory,
+    ).toBe("relative/modules");
+    expect(loadHostConfiguration({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "" }).modulesDirectory).toBe("");
+  });
+
   it("carries every object-storage field the storage passes established", () => {
     const host = loadHostConfiguration(productionEnvironment);
 

core/tests/migration-report.test.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ describe("migration command reports", () => {
         }),
       ]),
       pendingCount: 2,
+      retained: Object.freeze([]),
     });
 
     expect(formatMigrationPlanReport(plan)).toEqual([
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ describe("migration command reports", () => {
       ]),
       appliedCount: 1,
       noOp: false,
+      retained: Object.freeze([]),
     });
 
     expect(formatMigrationApplyReport(applied)).toEqual([
@@ -72,7 +74,12 @@ describe("migration command reports", () => {
     ]);
     expect(
       formatMigrationApplyReport(
-        Object.freeze({ applied: Object.freeze([]), appliedCount: 0, noOp: true }),
+        Object.freeze({
+          applied: Object.freeze([]),
+          appliedCount: 0,
+          noOp: true,
+          retained: Object.freeze([]),
+        }),
       ),
     ).toEqual(["Migration apply completed: database is already current (no changes)."]);
   });
@@ -85,6 +92,7 @@ describe("migration command reports", () => {
           approvalRequiredCount: 0,
           entries: Object.freeze([]),
           pendingCount: 0,
+          retained: Object.freeze([]),
         }),
       ),
     ).toEqual([
@@ -93,4 +101,62 @@ describe("migration command reports", () => {
       "Informational only: this plan is read-only and may become stale; apply revalidates history under the migration lock.",
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("reports an absent module's retained history without treating it as work (ADR 0048)", () => {
+    const retained = Object.freeze([
+      Object.freeze({ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "calendar" }),
+      Object.freeze({ appliedCount: 3, moduleId: "signage" }),
+    ]);
+    const retainedLines = [
+      "- [retained] calendar: 1 applied migration kept; the module is not installed",
+      "- [retained] signage: 3 applied migrations kept; the module is not installed",
+    ];
+
+    expect(
+      formatMigrationPlanReport(
+        Object.freeze({
+          appliedCount: 0,
+          approvalRequiredCount: 0,
+          entries: Object.freeze([]),
+          pendingCount: 0,
+          retained,
+        }),
+      ),
+    ).toEqual([
+      "Migration plan (0 applied, 0 pending, 0 approval-blocked, 2 retained):",
+      "- No installed module migrations.",
+      ...retainedLines,
+      "Informational only: this plan is read-only and may become stale; apply revalidates history under the migration lock.",
+    ]);
+    expect(
+      formatMigrationApplyReport(
+        Object.freeze({ applied: Object.freeze([]), appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained }),
+      ),
+    ).toEqual([
+      "Migration apply completed: database is already current (no changes).",
+      ...retainedLines,
+    ]);
+    expect(
+      formatMigrationApplyReport(
+        Object.freeze({
+          applied: Object.freeze([
+            Object.freeze({
+              checksum: "e".repeat(64),
+              identity: "core:0007_later",
+              index: 7,
+              moduleId: "core",
+              tag: "0007_later",
+            }),
+          ]),
+          appliedCount: 1,
+          noOp: false,
+          retained,
+        }),
+      ),
+    ).toEqual([
+      "Migration apply completed (1 migration applied):",
+      `- core:0007_later sha256=${"e".repeat(64)}`,
+      ...retainedLines,
+    ]);
+  });
 });

core/tests/module-migration-discovery.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-import { mkdir, mkdtemp, rm, symlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { mkdtemp, rm, symlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
@@ -10,34 +10,15 @@ import {
   ModuleMigrationDiscoveryError,
   type ModuleMigrationDiscoveryIssueCode,
 } from "../src/modules/index.js";
+import {
+  createMigrationModule,
+  manifestFor,
+  originSnapshotId,
+  snapshotId,
+} from "./support/migration-module-fixture.js";
 
-const originSnapshotId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
 const temporaryDirectories: string[] = [];
 
-interface MigrationFixture {
-  readonly breakpoints?: boolean;
-  readonly destructive?:
-    | { readonly mode: "none" }
-    | { readonly mode: "approval-required"; readonly reason: string };
-  readonly snapshotId?: string;
-  readonly sql: string | Uint8Array;
-  readonly tag: string;
-  readonly timestamp?: number;
-}
-
-interface MigrationModuleFixture {
-  readonly dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
-  readonly manifest?: Record<string, unknown>;
-  readonly migrations?: readonly MigrationFixture[] | false;
-  readonly schemaSource?: string;
-  readonly serverSource?: string;
-}
-
-interface CreatedMigrationModule {
-  readonly migrationDirectory?: string;
-  readonly moduleDirectory: string;
-}
-
 afterEach(async () => {
   await Promise.all(
     temporaryDirectories
@@ -52,139 +33,6 @@ async function createModulesDirectory(): Promise<string> {
   return directory;
 }
 
-function snapshotId(index: number): string {
-  return `10000000-0000-4000-8000-${(index + 1).toString(16).padStart(12, "0")}`;
-}
-
-function manifestFor(
-  id: string,
-  options: {
-    readonly dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
-    readonly migrations?: boolean;
-    readonly schema?: boolean;
-  } = {},
-): Record<string, unknown> {
-  return {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
-    id,
-    name: `${id} module`,
-    version: "0.1.0",
-    compatibility: { platform: "^0.1.0", moduleSdk: "^0.1.0" },
-    ...(options.dependencies ? { dependencies: options.dependencies } : {}),
-    capabilities: [],
-    permissions: [],
-    entrypoints: {
-      server: "./dist/server/index.js",
-      ...(options.schema ? { schema: "./dist/schema/index.js" } : {}),
-      ...(options.migrations === false ? {} : { migrations: "./drizzle" }),
-    },
-  };
-}
-
-function defaultMigrations(id: string): readonly MigrationFixture[] {
-  return [
-    {
-      sql: `CREATE TABLE "${id.replaceAll("-", "_")}_records" ("id" integer);\n`,
-      tag: "0000_initial",
-    },
-  ];
-}
-
-async function createMigrationModule(
-  modulesDirectory: string,
-  id: string,
-  fixture: MigrationModuleFixture = {},
-): Promise<CreatedMigrationModule> {
-  const migrations =
-    fixture.migrations === false ? undefined : (fixture.migrations ?? defaultMigrations(id));
-  const moduleDirectory = path.join(modulesDirectory, id);
-  const migrationDirectory = migrations ? path.join(moduleDirectory, "drizzle") : undefined;
-  await mkdir(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/server"), { recursive: true });
-  if (fixture.schemaSource !== undefined) {
-    await mkdir(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/schema"), { recursive: true });
-  }
-  if (migrationDirectory) {
-    await mkdir(path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta"), { recursive: true });
-  }
-
-  await Promise.all([
-    writeFile(
-      path.join(moduleDirectory, "package.json"),
-      JSON.stringify({
-        name: `@test/module-${id}`,
-        version: "0.1.0",
-        type: "module",
-        ekklesia: { layer: "module" },
-      }),
-    ),
-    writeFile(
-      path.join(moduleDirectory, "ekklesia.module.json"),
-      JSON.stringify(
-        fixture.manifest ??
-          manifestFor(id, {
-            ...(fixture.dependencies ? { dependencies: fixture.dependencies } : {}),
-            migrations: migrations !== undefined,
-            schema: fixture.schemaSource !== undefined,
-          }),
-      ),
-    ),
-    writeFile(
-      path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/server/index.js"),
-      fixture.serverSource ?? `export default { id: ${JSON.stringify(id)}, version: "0.1.0" };`,
-    ),
-    ...(fixture.schemaSource === undefined
-      ? []
-      : [writeFile(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/schema/index.js"), fixture.schemaSource)]),
-  ]);
-
-  if (!migrationDirectory || !migrations) {
-    return { moduleDirectory };
-  }
-
-  const journalEntries = migrations.map((migration, index) => ({
-    idx: index,
-    version: "7",
-    when: migration.timestamp ?? 1_700_000_000_000 + index,
-    tag: migration.tag,
-    breakpoints: migration.breakpoints ?? true,
-  }));
-  const policyEntries = migrations.map((migration) => ({
-    tag: migration.tag,
-    destructive: migration.destructive ?? { mode: "none" },
-  }));
-  await Promise.all([
-    writeFile(
-      path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta/_journal.json"),
-      JSON.stringify({ version: "7", dialect: "postgresql", entries: journalEntries }),
-    ),
-    writeFile(
-      path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta/_ekklesia.json"),
-      JSON.stringify({ version: 1, moduleId: id, entries: policyEntries }),
-    ),
-    ...migrations.flatMap((migration, index) => {
-      const idForSnapshot = migration.snapshotId ?? snapshotId(index);
-      const previousId =
-        index === 0
-          ? originSnapshotId
-          : (migrations[index - 1]?.snapshotId ?? snapshotId(index - 1));
-      return [
-        writeFile(path.join(migrationDirectory, `${migration.tag}.sql`), migration.sql),
-        writeFile(
-          path.join(migrationDirectory, `meta/${index.toString().padStart(4, "0")}_snapshot.json`),
-          JSON.stringify({
-            version: "7",
-            dialect: "postgresql",
-            id: idForSnapshot,
-            prevId: previousId,
-          }),
-        ),
-      ];
-    }),
-  ]);
-
-  return { migrationDirectory, moduleDirectory };
-}
-
 function discoveryOptions(modulesDirectory: string) {
   return {
     moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",

core/tests/module-migration-runner.test.ts

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   type MigrationTransaction,
   planModuleMigrations,
 } from "../src/migrations/runner.js";
+import type { DiscoveredModule } from "../src/modules/discovery.js";
 import type {
   DiscoveredModuleMigration,
   ModuleMigrationAggregate,
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ describe("module migration planning", () => {
         },
       ],
       pendingCount: 1,
+      retained: [],
     });
     expect(database.events).toEqual(["session:open", "history:read", "session:close"]);
     expect(database.historyTableExists).toBe(false);
@@ -344,10 +346,11 @@ describe("module migration planning", () => {
       approvalRequiredCount: 0,
       entries: [],
       pendingCount: 0,
+      retained: [],
     });
     expect(Object.isFrozen(result)).toBe(true);
     expect(Object.isFrozen(result.entries)).toBe(true);
-    expect(applyResult).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+    expect(applyResult).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained: [] });
     expect(database.historyTableExists).toBe(false);
     expect(database.events).not.toContain("transaction:begin");
   });
@@ -548,6 +551,7 @@ describe("module migration apply", () => {
       ],
       appliedCount: 1,
       noOp: false,
+      retained: [],
     });
   });
 
@@ -580,7 +584,7 @@ describe("module migration apply", () => {
       database,
     });
 
-    expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+    expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained: [] });
     expect(Object.isFrozen(result)).toBe(true);
     expect(Object.isFrozen(result.applied)).toBe(true);
     expectNoPersistentMutation(database);
@@ -601,7 +605,7 @@ describe("module migration apply", () => {
       database,
     });
 
-    expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+    expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained: [] });
     expect(database.historyTableExists).toBe(false);
     expect(database.events).toEqual([
       "session:open",
@@ -980,3 +984,250 @@ describe("module migration failures and side effects", () => {
     expect(database.committedHistory).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * Marks modules as present in the discovered inventory without giving them migrations, the way a
+ * real aggregate lists every discovered module whether or not it owns migration history. Only the
+ * manifest id is read by the runner.
+ */
+function withDiscovered(
+  inventory: ModuleMigrationAggregate,
+  ...moduleIds: readonly string[]
+): ModuleMigrationAggregate {
+  return Object.freeze({
+    ...inventory,
+    discoveredModules: Object.freeze(
+      moduleIds.map((id) => ({ manifest: { id } }) as unknown as DiscoveredModule),
+    ),
+  });
+}
+
+describe("retained history for absent modules (ADR 0048)", () => {
+  it("retains and reports an absent module's applied history without failing the plan", async () => {
+    const coreInitial = migration("core", 0);
+    const calendarInitial = migration("calendar", 0);
+    const calendarLater = migration("calendar", 1);
+    const history = [
+      historyRecord(coreInitial, 1),
+      historyRecord(calendarInitial, 2),
+      historyRecord(calendarLater, 3),
+    ];
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history });
+
+    const result = await planModuleMigrations({
+      aggregate: aggregate({ id: "core", migrations: [coreInitial] }),
+      database,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.appliedCount).toBe(1);
+    expect(result.pendingCount).toBe(0);
+    expect(result.entries.map((entry) => entry.identity)).toEqual([coreInitial.identity]);
+    expect(result.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 2, moduleId: "calendar" }]);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(result.retained)).toBe(true);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(result.retained[0])).toBe(true);
+    expect(database.committedHistory).toEqual(history);
+    expectNoPersistentMutation(database);
+  });
+
+  it("applies a later Core migration while a module is absent, leaving its history intact", async () => {
+    const coreInitial = migration("core", 0);
+    const coreLater = migration("core", 1);
+    const calendarInitial = migration("calendar", 0);
+    const history = [historyRecord(coreInitial, 1), historyRecord(calendarInitial, 2)];
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history });
+
+    const result = await applyModuleMigrations({
+      aggregate: aggregate({ id: "core", migrations: [coreInitial, coreLater] }),
+      database,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.applied.map((applied) => applied.identity)).toEqual([coreLater.identity]);
+    expect(result.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "calendar" }]);
+    expect(database.executedStatements).toEqual([coreLater.sql]);
+    expect(database.committedHistory.map((record) => record.identity)).toEqual([
+      coreInitial.identity,
+      calendarInitial.identity,
+      coreLater.identity,
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("applies a present module's migrations while another module is absent", async () => {
+    const peopleInitial = migration("people", 0);
+    const calendarInitial = migration("calendar", 0);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(calendarInitial, 1)] });
+
+    const result = await applyModuleMigrations({
+      aggregate: aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [peopleInitial] }),
+      database,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.applied.map((applied) => applied.identity)).toEqual([peopleInitial.identity]);
+    expect(result.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "calendar" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("reports retained modules in a stable order with exact counts", async () => {
+    const zeta = [migration("zeta", 0), migration("zeta", 1), migration("zeta", 2)];
+    const alpha = migration("alpha", 0);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({
+      history: [
+        historyRecord(zeta[0] as DiscoveredModuleMigration, 1),
+        historyRecord(alpha, 2),
+        historyRecord(zeta[1] as DiscoveredModuleMigration, 3),
+        historyRecord(zeta[2] as DiscoveredModuleMigration, 4),
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const result = await planModuleMigrations({ aggregate: aggregate(), database });
+
+    expect(result.retained).toEqual([
+      { appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "alpha" },
+      { appliedCount: 3, moduleId: "zeta" },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns a module to strict validation: valid history plans cleanly and nothing is retained", async () => {
+    const initial = migration("people", 0);
+    const later = migration("people", 1);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(initial, 1)] });
+
+    const result = await planModuleMigrations({
+      aggregate: aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [initial, later] }),
+      database,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.retained).toEqual([]);
+    expect(result.entries.map((entry) => [entry.identity, entry.status])).toEqual([
+      [initial.identity, "applied"],
+      [later.identity, "pending"],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("fails when a returning module no longer ships a previously applied migration", async () => {
+    const initial = migration("people", 0);
+    const later = migration("people", 1);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({
+      history: [historyRecord(initial, 1), historyRecord(later, 2)],
+    });
+    const downgraded = aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [initial] });
+
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({ aggregate: downgraded, database }),
+      "MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED",
+    );
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      applyModuleMigrations({ aggregate: downgraded, database }),
+      "MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED",
+    );
+    expect(database.executedStatements).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("fails when a returning module's applied migration has different contents", async () => {
+    const initial = migration("people", 0);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(initial, 1)] });
+    const edited = aggregate({
+      id: "people",
+      migrations: [migration("people", 0, { sql: "SELECT 'edited';\n" })],
+    });
+
+    const error = await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({ aggregate: edited, database }),
+      "MIGRATION_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH",
+    );
+    expect(error.migrationIdentity).toBe(initial.identity);
+  });
+
+  it("fails when a returning module's history is no longer a prefix of its journal", async () => {
+    const initial = migration("people", 0);
+    const later = migration("people", 1);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(later, 1)] });
+
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [initial, later] }),
+        database,
+      }),
+      "MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a present module that no longer ships any migrations strict", async () => {
+    const initial = migration("people", 0);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(initial, 1)] });
+
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({ aggregate: withDiscovered(aggregate(), "people"), database }),
+      "MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("never treats Core's history as an absent module's", async () => {
+    const coreInitial = migration("core", 0);
+    const coreGhost = migration("core", 1);
+
+    // An inventory with no Core source at all: Core's rows are still strict, never retained.
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [] }),
+        database: new FakeMigrationDatabase({ history: [historyRecord(coreInitial, 1)] }),
+      }),
+      "MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED",
+    );
+    // A Core row missing from Core's own inventory.
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: aggregate({ id: "core", migrations: [coreInitial] }),
+        database: new FakeMigrationDatabase({
+          history: [historyRecord(coreInitial, 1), historyRecord(coreGhost, 2)],
+        }),
+      }),
+      "MIGRATION_UNKNOWN_APPLIED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    [
+      "an identity that does not name its own module and tag",
+      (source: DiscoveredModuleMigration) => [
+        historyRecord(source, 1, { identity: "calendar:0099_elsewhere" }),
+      ],
+    ],
+    [
+      "a duplicate applied order",
+      (source: DiscoveredModuleMigration) => [
+        historyRecord(source, 1),
+        historyRecord(migration("calendar", 1), 1),
+      ],
+    ],
+    [
+      "a duplicate index",
+      (source: DiscoveredModuleMigration) => [
+        historyRecord(source, 1),
+        historyRecord(migration("calendar", 1), 2, { index: 0 }),
+      ],
+    ],
+  ])("still rejects retained rows with %s", async (_label, makeHistory) => {
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({
+      history: makeHistory(migration("calendar", 0)),
+    });
+
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({ aggregate: aggregate(), database }),
+      "MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a retained row that claims a present module's migration identity", async () => {
+    const peopleInitial = migration("people", 0);
+    const database = new FakeMigrationDatabase({
+      history: [historyRecord(peopleInitial, 1, { moduleId: "calendar" })],
+    });
+
+    await captureRunnerError(
+      planModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: aggregate({ id: "people", migrations: [peopleInitial] }),
+        database,
+      }),
+      "MIGRATION_HISTORY_INVALID",
+    );
+  });
+});

core/tests/modules-directory-commands.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
+import { mkdtemp, readdir, readFile, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { discoverRepositoryMigrations } from "../src/cli/migration-command-support.js";
+import { resolveCommandModulesDirectory } from "../src/cli/modules-directory-environment.js";
+import { discoverCoreMigrations } from "../src/migrations/index.js";
+import { ModuleDiscoveryError } from "../src/modules/index.js";
+import { createMigrationModule } from "./support/migration-module-fixture.js";
+
+const repositoryRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "..");
+const temporaryDirectories: string[] = [];
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await Promise.all(
+    temporaryDirectories.splice(0).map((directory) => rm(directory, { recursive: true })),
+  );
+});
+
+async function externalModulesDirectory(): Promise<string> {
+  const directory = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-installed-modules-"));
+  temporaryDirectories.push(directory);
+  return directory;
+}
+
+describe("operator commands select the modules directory through host configuration", () => {
+  it("defaults to the repository's own modules directory", () => {
+    expect(resolveCommandModulesDirectory({}, "/opt/ekklesia")).toEqual({
+      modulesDirectory: "/opt/ekklesia/modules",
+      modulesDirectoryRequired: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("honours EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR", () => {
+    expect(
+      resolveCommandModulesDirectory(
+        { EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules" },
+        "/opt/ekklesia",
+      ),
+    ).toEqual({ modulesDirectory: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules", modulesDirectoryRequired: true });
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a relative EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR without echoing it", () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      resolveCommandModulesDirectory({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "modules-9e1f" }, "/opt/ekklesia"),
+    ).toThrow(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+    try {
+      resolveCommandModulesDirectory({ EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: "modules-9e1f" }, "/opt/ekklesia");
+    } catch (error) {
+      expect(JSON.stringify((error as ModuleDiscoveryError).issues)).not.toContain("9e1f");
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("plans migrations for modules installed outside the repository, with Core's from the platform", async () => {
+    // A minimal installed module generated from nothing in the repository, so this test never
+    // depends on build output or ignored files: a clean checkout runs it before anything is built.
+    const modulesDirectory = await externalModulesDirectory();
+    const installed = await createMigrationModule(modulesDirectory, "example");
+    expect(path.relative(repositoryRoot, modulesDirectory).startsWith("..")).toBe(true);
+
+    const aggregate = await discoverRepositoryMigrations(repositoryRoot, {
+      EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: modulesDirectory,
+    });
+
+    expect(aggregate.modules.map((module) => module.moduleId)).toEqual(["core", "example"]);
+
+    // Core's migrations are exactly the platform's own, byte for byte, from `core/drizzle`.
+    const platformCore = await discoverCoreMigrations({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "drizzle"),
+    });
+    const fingerprint = (migrations: readonly { identity: string; checksum: string }[]) =>
+      migrations.map((migration) => `${migration.identity} ${migration.checksum}`);
+    expect(platformCore.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(fingerprint(aggregate.modules[0]?.migrations ?? [])).toEqual(fingerprint(platformCore));
+
+    // The module's migration is the one installed outside the repository, byte for byte.
+    const installedSql = await readFile(
+      path.join(installed.migrationDirectory ?? "", "0000_initial.sql"),
+    );
+    expect(fingerprint(aggregate.modules[1]?.migrations ?? [])).toEqual([
+      `example:0000_initial ${createHash("sha256").update(installedSql).digest("hex")}`,
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("fails closed when the configured directory does not exist", async () => {
+    const parent = await externalModulesDirectory();
+    await expect(
+      discoverRepositoryMigrations(repositoryRoot, {
+        EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: path.join(parent, "absent"),
+      }),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("no source chooses a modules directory except the resolver", () => {
+  async function sourceFiles(directory: string): Promise<readonly string[]> {
+    const entries = await readdir(directory, { recursive: true, withFileTypes: true });
+    return entries
+      .filter((entry) => entry.isFile() && entry.name.endsWith(".ts"))
+      .map((entry) => path.join(entry.parentPath, entry.name));
+  }
+
+  it("never joins `modules` onto a root anywhere else in Core or the API", async () => {
+    const files = [
+      ...(await sourceFiles(path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "src"))),
+      ...(await sourceFiles(path.join(repositoryRoot, "apps", "api", "src"))),
+    ];
+    const resolver = path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "src", "modules", "modules-directory.ts");
+    for (const file of files) {
+      if (file === resolver) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const text = await readFile(file, "utf8");
+      expect(text, path.relative(repositoryRoot, file)).not.toMatch(/,\s*"modules"\s*\)/u);
+    }
+  });
+});

core/tests/modules-directory.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+import { mkdtemp, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  discoverModules,
+  ModuleDiscoveryError,
+  type ModuleDiscoveryIssueCode,
+  resolveModulesDirectory,
+} from "../src/modules/index.js";
+
+const versions = { moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0", platformVersion: "0.1.0" } as const;
+const repositoryRoot = path.join(path.sep, "opt", "ekklesia");
+const temporaryDirectories: string[] = [];
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await Promise.all(
+    temporaryDirectories.splice(0).map((directory) => rm(directory, { recursive: true })),
+  );
+});
+
+async function temporaryDirectory(): Promise<string> {
+  const directory = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-modules-directory-"));
+  temporaryDirectories.push(directory);
+  return directory;
+}
+
+function captureDiscoveryError(operation: () => unknown): ModuleDiscoveryError {
+  try {
+    operation();
+  } catch (error) {
+    expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+    return error as ModuleDiscoveryError;
+  }
+  throw new Error("Expected a ModuleDiscoveryError.");
+}
+
+async function captureAsyncDiscoveryError(
+  operation: Promise<unknown>,
+): Promise<ModuleDiscoveryError> {
+  try {
+    await operation;
+  } catch (error) {
+    expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(ModuleDiscoveryError);
+    return error as ModuleDiscoveryError;
+  }
+  throw new Error("Expected a ModuleDiscoveryError.");
+}
+
+function codes(error: ModuleDiscoveryError): readonly ModuleDiscoveryIssueCode[] {
+  return error.issues.map((issue) => issue.code);
+}
+
+/** Everything an operator, a log, or a test report could ever see from this error. */
+function rendered(error: ModuleDiscoveryError): string {
+  return JSON.stringify({ issues: error.issues, message: error.message, stack: error.stack });
+}
+
+describe("resolveModulesDirectory", () => {
+  it("defaults to the repository's own modules directory when nothing is configured", () => {
+    expect(resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: undefined, repositoryRoot })).toEqual({
+      modulesDirectory: path.join(repositoryRoot, "modules"),
+      modulesDirectoryRequired: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("accepts an explicit absolute path, normalized, and requires it to exist", () => {
+    expect(
+      resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules/", repositoryRoot }),
+    ).toEqual({ modulesDirectory: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules", modulesDirectoryRequired: true });
+    expect(
+      resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: "/var/lib/./ekklesia//modules", repositoryRoot }),
+    ).toEqual({ modulesDirectory: "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules", modulesDirectoryRequired: true });
+  });
+
+  it("never resolves a configured path against the repository or the working directory", () => {
+    const resolved = resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: "/srv/modules", repositoryRoot });
+    expect(resolved.modulesDirectory).toBe("/srv/modules");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["a relative name", "modules"],
+    ["a dot-relative path", "./modules"],
+    ["a parent-relative path", "../private/modules"],
+    ["a home-relative path", "~/modules"],
+    ["the empty string", ""],
+    ["whitespace only", "   "],
+    ["an absolute path with surrounding whitespace", " /var/lib/ekklesia/modules"],
+    ["a NUL byte", "/var/lib/ekklesia/\u0000modules"],
+  ])("rejects %s with a sanitized MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID", (_label, configured) => {
+    const error = captureDiscoveryError(() =>
+      resolveModulesDirectory({ configured, repositoryRoot }),
+    );
+    expect(codes(error)).toEqual(["MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID"]);
+    expect(error.issues[0]?.message).toBe("EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR must be an absolute path.");
+  });
+
+  it("never echoes the supplied value in the error", () => {
+    const configured = "relative/secret-token-a1b2c3/postgresql://admin:hunter2@db/modules";
+    const error = captureDiscoveryError(() =>
+      resolveModulesDirectory({ configured, repositoryRoot }),
+    );
+    const text = rendered(error);
+    expect(text).not.toContain("secret-token-a1b2c3");
+    expect(text).not.toContain("hunter2");
+    expect(text).not.toContain("relative/");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("module discovery against a configured modules directory", () => {
+  it("fails closed, without the path, when a configured directory does not exist", async () => {
+    const parent = await temporaryDirectory();
+    const missing = path.join(parent, "private-mount-name-7f3e");
+    const error = await captureAsyncDiscoveryError(
+      discoverModules({ ...versions, modulesDirectory: missing, modulesDirectoryRequired: true }),
+    );
+    expect(codes(error)).toEqual(["MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE"]);
+    expect(rendered(error)).not.toContain("private-mount-name-7f3e");
+    expect(rendered(error)).not.toContain(parent);
+  });
+
+  it("fails closed when a configured path is a file rather than a directory", async () => {
+    const parent = await temporaryDirectory();
+    const file = path.join(parent, "modules");
+    await writeFile(file, "not a directory");
+    const error = await captureAsyncDiscoveryError(
+      discoverModules({ ...versions, modulesDirectory: file, modulesDirectoryRequired: true }),
+    );
+    expect(codes(error)).toEqual(["MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE"]);
+    expect(rendered(error)).not.toContain(parent);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a relative configured path even when it bypasses the resolver", async () => {
+    const error = await captureAsyncDiscoveryError(
+      discoverModules({ ...versions, modulesDirectory: "modules", modulesDirectoryRequired: true }),
+    );
+    expect(codes(error)).toEqual(["MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID"]);
+  });
+
+  it("treats an existing, empty configured directory as zero installed modules", async () => {
+    const directory = await temporaryDirectory();
+    await expect(
+      discoverModules({ ...versions, modulesDirectory: directory, modulesDirectoryRequired: true }),
+    ).resolves.toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the development default lenient: a missing default directory is zero modules", async () => {
+    const parent = await temporaryDirectory();
+    await expect(
+      discoverModules({ ...versions, modulesDirectory: path.join(parent, "modules") }),
+    ).resolves.toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("discovers through the resolver's own selection unchanged", async () => {
+    const directory = await temporaryDirectory();
+    const selection = resolveModulesDirectory({ configured: directory, repositoryRoot });
+    await expect(discoverModules({ ...versions, ...selection })).resolves.toEqual([]);
+  });
+});

core/tests/postgres-migration.integration.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
+import { cp, mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import net from "node:net";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { Client, type QueryResult, type QueryResultRow } from "pg";
@@ -8,6 +10,7 @@ import { reportMigrationCommandError } from "../src/cli/migration-command-errors
 import {
   applyModuleMigrations,
   createPostgresMigrationDatabase,
+  discoverAllMigrations,
   discoverCoreMigrations,
   type MigrationApproval,
   type MigrationApprovalProvider,
@@ -764,7 +767,7 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL module migration execution", () => {
         database: migrationDatabase,
       });
 
-      expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+      expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained: [] });
       expect(await databaseState(database.client)).toEqual(before);
       const afterData = await safeQuery<QueryResultRow>(
         database.client,
@@ -834,7 +837,48 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL module migration execution", () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it("rejects an unknown applied identity without repair or further execution", async () => {
+  it("retains an absent module's history and still applies later work (ADR 0048)", async () => {
+    await withIsolatedDatabase("absent_history", async (database) => {
+      const initial = peopleInitial();
+      const later = peopleLater();
+      const initialInventory = aggregate(moduleFixture("people", [initial]));
+      const completeInventory = aggregate(moduleFixture("people", [initial, later]));
+      const migrationDatabase = createPostgresMigrationDatabase(database.url);
+      await applyModuleMigrations({ aggregate: initialInventory, database: migrationDatabase });
+      // History left by a module that is no longer installed: kept, reported, never fatal.
+      await safeQuery(
+        database.client,
+        `
+          INSERT INTO public.ekklesia_core_migrations
+            (identity, module_id, migration_tag, migration_index, checksum)
+          VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5)
+        `,
+        ["ghost:0000_unknown", "ghost", "0000_unknown", 0, "f".repeat(64)],
+      );
+
+      const plan = await planModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: completeInventory,
+        database: migrationDatabase,
+      });
+      expect(plan.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "ghost" }]);
+      expect(plan.pendingCount).toBe(1);
+
+      const result = await applyModuleMigrations({
+        aggregate: completeInventory,
+        database: migrationDatabase,
+      });
+      expect(result.applied.map((migration) => migration.identity)).toEqual([later.identity]);
+      expect(result.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "ghost" }]);
+      expect(await columnExists(database.client, "people_records", "email")).toBe(true);
+      expect((await readHistory(database.client)).map((row) => row.identity)).toEqual([
+        initial.identity,
+        "ghost:0000_unknown",
+        later.identity,
+      ]);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("rejects an unknown applied identity of an installed module without repair or further execution", async () => {
     await withIsolatedDatabase("unknown_history", async (database) => {
       const initial = peopleInitial();
       const later = peopleLater();
@@ -849,7 +893,7 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL module migration execution", () => {
             (identity, module_id, migration_tag, migration_index, checksum)
           VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5)
         `,
-        ["ghost:0000_unknown", "ghost", "0000_unknown", 0, "f".repeat(64)],
+        ["people:0099_unknown", "people", "0099_unknown", 99, "f".repeat(64)],
       );
       const corrupted = await databaseState(database.client);
 
@@ -866,7 +910,7 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL module migration execution", () => {
       expect(await columnExists(database.client, "people_records", "email")).toBe(false);
       expect((await readHistory(database.client)).map((row) => row.identity)).toEqual([
         initial.identity,
-        "ghost:0000_unknown",
+        "people:0099_unknown",
       ]);
     });
   });
@@ -1358,7 +1402,7 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL Core identity migration execution", () => {
         database: migrationDatabase,
       });
 
-      expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true });
+      expect(result).toEqual({ applied: [], appliedCount: 0, noOp: true, retained: [] });
       expect(await databaseState(database.client)).toEqual(before);
     });
   });
@@ -1851,3 +1895,151 @@ describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL migration timeout precedence", () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * ADR 0048 end to end, with real discovery: Core's committed migrations, the module template
+ * installed in a modules directory outside the repository, and a real PostgreSQL. Core's newest
+ * migration is withheld from a copy of `core/drizzle` at first, so a genuinely later Core migration
+ * can be applied while the module is absent.
+ */
+describe.sequential("live PostgreSQL retained history for an uninstalled module", () => {
+  const repositoryRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "..");
+  const templateModule = path.join(repositoryRoot, "templates", "module");
+  const versions = { moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0", platformVersion: "0.1.0" } as const;
+
+  async function coreWithoutNewestMigration(directory: string): Promise<string> {
+    const target = path.join(directory, "core-drizzle");
+    await cp(coreMigrationsDirectory, target, { recursive: true });
+    const journalPath = path.join(target, "meta", "_journal.json");
+    const policyPath = path.join(target, "meta", "_ekklesia.json");
+    const journal = JSON.parse(await readFile(journalPath, "utf8")) as {
+      entries: { idx: number; tag: string }[];
+    };
+    const policy = JSON.parse(await readFile(policyPath, "utf8")) as { entries: unknown[] };
+    const newest = journal.entries.pop();
+    policy.entries.pop();
+    if (!newest) {
+      throw harnessError("Core has no migration to withhold.");
+    }
+    await writeFile(journalPath, `${JSON.stringify(journal, null, 2)}\n`);
+    await writeFile(policyPath, `${JSON.stringify(policy, null, 2)}\n`);
+    await rm(path.join(target, `${newest.tag}.sql`));
+    await rm(path.join(target, "meta", `${String(newest.idx).padStart(4, "0")}_snapshot.json`));
+    return target;
+  }
+
+  async function installExample(modulesDirectory: string): Promise<void> {
+    for (const entry of ["package.json", "ekklesia.module.json", "drizzle", "dist"]) {
+      await cp(path.join(templateModule, entry), path.join(modulesDirectory, "example", entry), {
+        recursive: true,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  async function inventory(coreDirectory: string, modulesDirectory: string) {
+    return discoverAllMigrations({
+      coreMigrationsDirectory: coreDirectory,
+      moduleDiscovery: { ...versions, modulesDirectory, modulesDirectoryRequired: true },
+    });
+  }
+
+  async function exampleValues(client: Client): Promise<readonly string[]> {
+    const result = await safeQuery<{ readonly value: string } & QueryResultRow>(
+      client,
+      "SELECT value FROM public.example_records ORDER BY value",
+    );
+    return result.rows.map((row) => row.value);
+  }
+
+  it("keeps an uninstalled module's data and history, applies later Core work, and restores it", async () => {
+    const scratch = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-retained-history-"));
+    try {
+      const earlyCore = await coreWithoutNewestMigration(scratch);
+      const modulesDirectory = path.join(scratch, "modules");
+      await mkdir(modulesDirectory);
+      await installExample(modulesDirectory);
+
+      await withIsolatedDatabase("retained_module", async (database) => {
+        const migrationDatabase = createPostgresMigrationDatabase(database.url);
+
+        // 1. Core (minus its newest migration) and the installed module, applied together.
+        const first = await applyModuleMigrations({
+          aggregate: await inventory(earlyCore, modulesDirectory),
+          database: migrationDatabase,
+        });
+        expect(first.applied.map((migration) => migration.identity)).toContain(
+          "example:0000_initial",
+        );
+        expect(first.retained).toEqual([]);
+
+        // 2. Module-owned data.
+        await safeQuery(
+          database.client,
+          "INSERT INTO public.example_records (id, value) VALUES (gen_random_uuid(), 'kept')",
+        );
+
+        // 3. The module is uninstalled: its directory is gone from module storage.
+        await rm(path.join(modulesDirectory, "example"), { recursive: true });
+
+        // 4. A later Core migration plans and applies while the module is absent.
+        const absentInventory = await inventory(coreMigrationsDirectory, modulesDirectory);
+        const absentPlan = await planModuleMigrations({
+          aggregate: absentInventory,
+          database: migrationDatabase,
+        });
+        expect(absentPlan.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "example" }]);
+        expect(
+          absentPlan.entries.filter((entry) => entry.status === "pending").map((e) => e.moduleId),
+        ).toEqual(["core"]);
+        const later = await applyModuleMigrations({
+          aggregate: absentInventory,
+          database: migrationDatabase,
+        });
+        expect(later.applied).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(later.applied[0]?.moduleId).toBe("core");
+        expect(later.retained).toEqual([{ appliedCount: 1, moduleId: "example" }]);
+
+        // 5. The module's table and rows are untouched, and so is its history.
+        expect(await exampleValues(database.client)).toEqual(["kept"]);
+        expect((await readHistory(database.client)).map((row) => row.identity)).toContain(
+          "example:0000_initial",
+        );
+
+        // 6. The module is reinstalled.
+        await installExample(modulesDirectory);
+        const restored = await inventory(coreMigrationsDirectory, modulesDirectory);
+
+        // 7. Its history is strict again, and valid; its data is where it left it.
+        const restoredPlan = await planModuleMigrations({
+          aggregate: restored,
+          database: migrationDatabase,
+        });
+        expect(restoredPlan.retained).toEqual([]);
+        expect(restoredPlan.pendingCount).toBe(0);
+        expect(
+          restoredPlan.entries.find((entry) => entry.identity === "example:0000_initial")?.status,
+        ).toBe("applied");
+        const noOp = await applyModuleMigrations({
+          aggregate: restored,
+          database: migrationDatabase,
+        });
+        expect(noOp.noOp).toBe(true);
+        expect(await exampleValues(database.client)).toEqual(["kept"]);
+
+        // A returning package whose applied migration changed is refused, exactly as before.
+        const sqlPath = path.join(modulesDirectory, "example", "drizzle", "0000_initial.sql");
+        await writeFile(sqlPath, `${await readFile(sqlPath, "utf8")}-- edited\n`);
+        await captureRunnerError(
+          planModuleMigrations({
+            aggregate: await inventory(coreMigrationsDirectory, modulesDirectory),
+            database: migrationDatabase,
+          }),
+          "MIGRATION_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH",
+        );
+        expect(await exampleValues(database.client)).toEqual(["kept"]);
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await rm(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+});

core/tests/support/migration-module-fixture.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+import { mkdir, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+/**
+ * A minimal, valid installed module written into a directory the caller owns: `package.json`,
+ * `ekklesia.module.json`, a compiled-ESM server stub at `dist/server/index.js`, and, unless
+ * disabled, a native Drizzle migration directory (journal, `_ekklesia.json` policy, snapshot chain,
+ * and SQL) that passes Core's migration discovery.
+ *
+ * Everything is generated here, from nothing in the repository: no build output, no ignored file,
+ * and no `node_modules`. Migration discovery imports no module code, so the stub is never run.
+ */
+
+export const originSnapshotId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
+
+export interface MigrationFixture {
+  readonly breakpoints?: boolean;
+  readonly destructive?:
+    | { readonly mode: "none" }
+    | { readonly mode: "approval-required"; readonly reason: string };
+  readonly snapshotId?: string;
+  readonly sql: string | Uint8Array;
+  readonly tag: string;
+  readonly timestamp?: number;
+}
+
+export interface MigrationModuleFixture {
+  readonly dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  readonly manifest?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  readonly migrations?: readonly MigrationFixture[] | false;
+  readonly schemaSource?: string;
+  readonly serverSource?: string;
+}
+
+export interface CreatedMigrationModule {
+  readonly migrationDirectory?: string;
+  readonly moduleDirectory: string;
+}
+
+export function snapshotId(index: number): string {
+  return `10000000-0000-4000-8000-${(index + 1).toString(16).padStart(12, "0")}`;
+}
+
+export function manifestFor(
+  id: string,
+  options: {
+    readonly dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    readonly migrations?: boolean;
+    readonly schema?: boolean;
+  } = {},
+): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return {
+    manifestVersion: 7,
+    id,
+    name: `${id} module`,
+    version: "0.1.0",
+    compatibility: { platform: "^0.1.0", moduleSdk: "^0.1.0" },
+    ...(options.dependencies ? { dependencies: options.dependencies } : {}),
+    capabilities: [],
+    permissions: [],
+    entrypoints: {
+      server: "./dist/server/index.js",
+      ...(options.schema ? { schema: "./dist/schema/index.js" } : {}),
+      ...(options.migrations === false ? {} : { migrations: "./drizzle" }),
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+export function defaultMigrations(id: string): readonly MigrationFixture[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      sql: `CREATE TABLE "${id.replaceAll("-", "_")}_records" ("id" integer);\n`,
+      tag: "0000_initial",
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+export async function createMigrationModule(
+  modulesDirectory: string,
+  id: string,
+  fixture: MigrationModuleFixture = {},
+): Promise<CreatedMigrationModule> {
+  const migrations =
+    fixture.migrations === false ? undefined : (fixture.migrations ?? defaultMigrations(id));
+  const moduleDirectory = path.join(modulesDirectory, id);
+  const migrationDirectory = migrations ? path.join(moduleDirectory, "drizzle") : undefined;
+  await mkdir(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/server"), { recursive: true });
+  if (fixture.schemaSource !== undefined) {
+    await mkdir(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/schema"), { recursive: true });
+  }
+  if (migrationDirectory) {
+    await mkdir(path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta"), { recursive: true });
+  }
+
+  await Promise.all([
+    writeFile(
+      path.join(moduleDirectory, "package.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        name: `@test/module-${id}`,
+        version: "0.1.0",
+        type: "module",
+        ekklesia: { layer: "module" },
+      }),
+    ),
+    writeFile(
+      path.join(moduleDirectory, "ekklesia.module.json"),
+      JSON.stringify(
+        fixture.manifest ??
+          manifestFor(id, {
+            ...(fixture.dependencies ? { dependencies: fixture.dependencies } : {}),
+            migrations: migrations !== undefined,
+            schema: fixture.schemaSource !== undefined,
+          }),
+      ),
+    ),
+    writeFile(
+      path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/server/index.js"),
+      fixture.serverSource ?? `export default { id: ${JSON.stringify(id)}, version: "0.1.0" };`,
+    ),
+    ...(fixture.schemaSource === undefined
+      ? []
+      : [writeFile(path.join(moduleDirectory, "dist/schema/index.js"), fixture.schemaSource)]),
+  ]);
+
+  if (!migrationDirectory || !migrations) {
+    return { moduleDirectory };
+  }
+
+  const journalEntries = migrations.map((migration, index) => ({
+    idx: index,
+    version: "7",
+    when: migration.timestamp ?? 1_700_000_000_000 + index,
+    tag: migration.tag,
+    breakpoints: migration.breakpoints ?? true,
+  }));
+  const policyEntries = migrations.map((migration) => ({
+    tag: migration.tag,
+    destructive: migration.destructive ?? { mode: "none" },
+  }));
+  await Promise.all([
+    writeFile(
+      path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta/_journal.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({ version: "7", dialect: "postgresql", entries: journalEntries }),
+    ),
+    writeFile(
+      path.join(migrationDirectory, "meta/_ekklesia.json"),
+      JSON.stringify({ version: 1, moduleId: id, entries: policyEntries }),
+    ),
+    ...migrations.flatMap((migration, index) => {
+      const idForSnapshot = migration.snapshotId ?? snapshotId(index);
+      const previousId =
+        index === 0
+          ? originSnapshotId
+          : (migrations[index - 1]?.snapshotId ?? snapshotId(index - 1));
+      return [
+        writeFile(path.join(migrationDirectory, `${migration.tag}.sql`), migration.sql),
+        writeFile(
+          path.join(migrationDirectory, `meta/${index.toString().padStart(4, "0")}_snapshot.json`),
+          JSON.stringify({
+            version: "7",
+            dialect: "postgresql",
+            id: idForSnapshot,
+            prevId: previousId,
+          }),
+        ),
+      ];
+    }),
+  ]);
+
+  return { migrationDirectory, moduleDirectory };
+}

deploy/Caddyfile.example

@@ -70,18 +70,57 @@
 
 # Browsers fetch signed object URLs here (S3_DELIVERY_ENDPOINT, ADR 0031).
 {$EKKLESIA_STORAGE_HOSTNAME} {
-	reverse_proxy https://object-storage:8443 {
-		# An S3 signature covers the Host header: pass the original through unchanged, or every signed
-		# URL fails verification.
-		header_up Host {host}
-		header_up -CF-Connecting-IP
-		header_up -X-Real-IP
-		header_up -Forwarded
-		header_up -True-Client-IP
-		transport http {
-			# object-storage presents a certificate from the installation-private CA.
-			tls_trust_pool file /etc/caddy/ekklesia-ca.crt
-			tls_server_name object-storage
+	# Delivery-layer CORS belongs to the deployment, not to the object store: this block decides it,
+	# so it stays the same with any S3 backend behind it. Only the origins whose pages read objects
+	# with fetch() get CORS: the Ekklesia origin, which serves the Dashboard and the displays. An <img> needs none. Every object
+	# URL is still a signed, expiring capability; CORS only decides which pages may read the bytes.
+	@cors_origin header Origin https://{$EKKLESIA_HOSTNAME}
+
+	# A preflight is answered here and never reaches storage. Only GET and HEAD are ever allowed, and
+	# no request header beyond the CORS-safelisted ones.
+	@preflight method OPTIONS
+	handle @preflight {
+		header @cors_origin {
+			Access-Control-Allow-Origin {http.request.header.Origin}
+			Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, HEAD"
+			Access-Control-Max-Age 600
+		}
+		header Vary Origin
+		respond 204
+	}
+
+	handle {
+		# Set when the response is written, after the upstream's own CORS headers were removed below.
+		header @cors_origin >Access-Control-Allow-Origin {http.request.header.Origin}
+		header >Vary Origin
+
+		reverse_proxy https://object-storage:8443 {
+			# An S3 signature covers the Host header: pass the original through unchanged, or every
+			# signed URL fails verification.
+			header_up Host {host}
+			header_up -CF-Connecting-IP
+			header_up -X-Real-IP
+			header_up -Forwarded
+			header_up -True-Client-IP
+			# The object store's own CORS answer (SeaweedFS reflects any origin, with every method)
+			# is not the deployment's policy.
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Origin
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Methods
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Headers
+			header_down -Access-Control-Expose-Headers
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Credentials
+			header_down -Access-Control-Max-Age
+			header_down -Vary
+			transport http {
+				# object-storage presents a certificate from the installation-private CA.
+				tls_trust_pool file /etc/caddy/ekklesia-ca.crt
+				tls_server_name object-storage
+				# HTTP/1.1 only. Over HTTP/2, SeaweedFS answers a conditional request with a 304 that
+				# declares a Content-Length it never sends; Caddy then aborts the browser's stream,
+				# which a browser reports as ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR on every revalidation. Its
+				# HTTP/1.1 304 is clean. Browsers still reach this proxy over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
+				versions 1.1
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }

deploy/Caddyfile.split.example

@@ -92,18 +92,61 @@
 
 # Browsers fetch signed object URLs here (S3_DELIVERY_ENDPOINT, ADR 0031).
 {$EKKLESIA_STORAGE_HOSTNAME} {
-	reverse_proxy https://object-storage:8443 {
-		# An S3 signature covers the Host header: pass the original through unchanged, or every signed
-		# URL fails verification.
-		header_up Host {host}
-		header_up -CF-Connecting-IP
-		header_up -X-Real-IP
-		header_up -Forwarded
-		header_up -True-Client-IP
-		transport http {
-			# object-storage presents a certificate from the installation-private CA.
-			tls_trust_pool file /etc/caddy/ekklesia-ca.crt
-			tls_server_name object-storage
+	# Delivery-layer CORS belongs to the deployment, not to the object store: this block decides it,
+	# so it stays the same with any S3 backend behind it. Only the origins whose pages read objects
+	# with fetch() get CORS: the API origin, where displays run, and the Dashboard origin,
+	# where a module's preview may cache images too. An <img> needs none. Every object
+	# URL is still a signed, expiring capability; CORS only decides which pages may read the bytes.
+	@cors_origin {
+		header Origin https://{$EKKLESIA_HOSTNAME}
+		header Origin https://{$EKKLESIA_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME}
+	}
+
+	# A preflight is answered here and never reaches storage. Only GET and HEAD are ever allowed, and
+	# no request header beyond the CORS-safelisted ones.
+	@preflight method OPTIONS
+	handle @preflight {
+		header @cors_origin {
+			Access-Control-Allow-Origin {http.request.header.Origin}
+			Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, HEAD"
+			Access-Control-Max-Age 600
+		}
+		header Vary Origin
+		respond 204
+	}
+
+	handle {
+		# Set when the response is written, after the upstream's own CORS headers were removed below.
+		header @cors_origin >Access-Control-Allow-Origin {http.request.header.Origin}
+		header >Vary Origin
+
+		reverse_proxy https://object-storage:8443 {
+			# An S3 signature covers the Host header: pass the original through unchanged, or every
+			# signed URL fails verification.
+			header_up Host {host}
+			header_up -CF-Connecting-IP
+			header_up -X-Real-IP
+			header_up -Forwarded
+			header_up -True-Client-IP
+			# The object store's own CORS answer (SeaweedFS reflects any origin, with every method)
+			# is not the deployment's policy.
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Origin
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Methods
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Headers
+			header_down -Access-Control-Expose-Headers
+			header_down -Access-Control-Allow-Credentials
+			header_down -Access-Control-Max-Age
+			header_down -Vary
+			transport http {
+				# object-storage presents a certificate from the installation-private CA.
+				tls_trust_pool file /etc/caddy/ekklesia-ca.crt
+				tls_server_name object-storage
+				# HTTP/1.1 only. Over HTTP/2, SeaweedFS answers a conditional request with a 304 that
+				# declares a Content-Length it never sends; Caddy then aborts the browser's stream,
+				# which a browser reports as ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR on every revalidation. Its
+				# HTTP/1.1 304 is clean. Browsers still reach this proxy over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
+				versions 1.1
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }

deploy/Dockerfile

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-# Ekklesia's one production image (ADR 0044): the `api` service and every operator-run CLI, from one
-# build. See deploy/README.md for how to build and run it.
+# Ekklesia's one generic platform image (ADR 0044, ADR 0048): the `api` service and every operator-run
+# CLI, from one build, for every installation. See deploy/README.md for how to build and run it.
 #
-# The build context is an already-assembled workspace: the platform, zero or more module packages in
-# `modules/<id>`, and the `pnpm-lock.yaml` that describes exactly that set. This file clones nothing
-# and chooses no modules. With an empty or absent `modules/`, it builds the platform alone.
+# The build context is this repository. The image contains **zero feature modules**: installed
+# modules live in installation-owned storage, mounted read-only at /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
+# (EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR) and discovered when a process starts. `.dockerignore` keeps a checkout's
+# `modules/` out of the context, so a build is the same whether or not one is present.
 #
 # No `# syntax=` directive, deliberately: it would make BuildKit pull an unpinned frontend image.
 # The built-in frontend supports everything below, including cache mounts.
@@ -28,9 +29,10 @@ COPY package.json ./
 RUN corepack enable && corepack install
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# manifests: the lockfile, workspace configuration, and every workspace package.json, at their
-# repository paths. Dependency installation keys on these alone, so a source-only change reuses the
-# installed layers.
+# manifests: the lockfile, workspace configuration, and the package.json of every platform package
+# the runtime needs, at their repository paths. Dependency installation keys on these alone, so a
+# source-only change reuses the installed layers. The module template is a workspace package but not
+# part of the platform, so neither its manifest nor its dependencies reach the runtime.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 FROM base AS manifests
 WORKDIR /context
@@ -38,9 +40,8 @@ COPY . .
 RUN set -eu; \
     mkdir /manifests; \
     cp package.json pnpm-lock.yaml pnpm-workspace.yaml .npmrc /manifests/; \
-    for manifest in apps/*/package.json builders/*/package.json core/package.json \
-                    modules/*/package.json packages/*/package.json surfaces/*/package.json \
-                    templates/*/package.json; do \
+    for manifest in apps/*/package.json core/package.json packages/*/package.json \
+                    surfaces/*/package.json; do \
       if [ -f "$manifest" ]; then install -D -m 0644 "$manifest" "/manifests/$manifest"; fi; \
     done
 
@@ -52,37 +53,38 @@ FROM toolchain AS build
 # module UI builder's, which every module build invokes), and pnpm links a bin only when its target
 # already exists. The store cache mount keeps a rebuild off the network all the same.
 COPY . .
+# A second line of defence behind `.dockerignore`: a context that still carries installed modules is
+# refused rather than built into a platform image.
+RUN if [ -e modules ]; then \
+      echo "The build context contains modules/. Installed modules never enter the platform image (ADR 0048)." >&2; \
+      exit 1; \
+    fi
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=ekklesia-pnpm-store,target=/pnpm/store \
     pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --store-dir /pnpm/store
-# The same gates `pnpm verify` runs for boundaries, modules, and migrations, against exactly the
-# module set in this context. `pnpm boundaries` comes first and reads only sources: among its rules,
-# a module that imports something at run time without declaring it a production dependency fails
-# here, because the production-only install below would leave it unresolvable at API startup. Each
+# The same gates `pnpm verify` runs for boundaries, modules, and migrations. With no modules in the
+# context, module validation covers the empty set and migration validation covers Core's own. Each
 # validate script builds first; the final build is a Turbo cache hit that keeps the intent explicit.
 RUN pnpm boundaries && pnpm modules:validate && pnpm migrations:validate && pnpm build
 # What the runtime resolves at startup, at the paths it resolves them from:
-#   - every workspace package's `dist/` (every package exports only from `dist/`), which includes
+#   - every platform package's `dist/` (every package exports only from `dist/`), which includes
 #     the Dashboard and display host assets under `surfaces/shell/dist/browser/`;
-#   - Core's migrations, `core/drizzle/` with its `meta/` journal;
-#   - each module directory whole, minus `node_modules`, because each manifest names its own
-#     entrypoints, UI artifacts, and migrations directory.
-# `node_modules` comes from the production-only install below, never from this stage.
+#   - Core's migrations, `core/drizzle/` with its `meta/` journal.
+# Never a module and never the module template. `node_modules` comes from the production-only
+# install below, never from this stage.
 RUN set -eu; \
-    mkdir -p /runtime/core /runtime/modules; \
+    mkdir -p /runtime/core; \
     for package in apps/* core packages/* surfaces/*; do \
       if [ -d "$package/dist" ]; then \
         mkdir -p "/runtime/$package"; \
         cp -a "$package/dist" "/runtime/$package/dist"; \
       fi; \
     done; \
-    cp -a core/drizzle /runtime/core/drizzle; \
-    if [ -d modules ]; then \
-      tar -C modules --exclude='node_modules' -cf - . | tar -C /runtime/modules -xf -; \
-    fi
+    cp -a core/drizzle /runtime/core/drizzle
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# prod-deps: the same lockfile, production dependencies only. No compiler, bundler, or test runner
-# reaches the runtime image.
+# prod-deps: the same lockfile, production dependencies only, for the platform packages alone. No
+# compiler, bundler, or test runner reaches the runtime image, and neither does anything only the
+# module template depends on.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 FROM toolchain AS prod-deps
 COPY --from=manifests /manifests/ ./
@@ -109,13 +111,19 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="Ekklesia" \
 # the API still binds 127.0.0.1. `production` is stated rather than relied on as the default.
 ENV NODE_ENV=production \
     EKKLESIA_API_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
-    EKKLESIA_API_PORT=3000
+    EKKLESIA_API_PORT=3000 \
+    EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=/var/lib/ekklesia/modules
 
 # The repository layout, preserved: the API finds the repository root three directories above
-# `apps/api/dist/`, and every CLI uses its working directory as the root.
+# `apps/api/dist/`, and every CLI uses its working directory as the root. Installed modules are not
+# under it: they are read from EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR.
 WORKDIR /opt/ekklesia
 COPY --from=prod-deps /opt/ekklesia/ ./
 COPY --from=build /runtime/ ./
+# The mount point for installation-owned module storage (ADR 0048), empty in the image. An image run
+# with nothing mounted there has zero modules; the reference deployment mounts host storage
+# read-only over it.
+RUN install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
 
 # Files stay root-owned: the unprivileged runtime user can read the installation, never modify it.
 USER node

deploy/README.md

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ TLS is everywhere, without any exception in Core:
 | `/etc/ekklesia/object-storage.env` | The S3 key pair | `object-storage` |
 | `/etc/ekklesia/tunnel.env` | `TUNNEL_TOKEN` | `tunnel` |
 | `/etc/ekklesia/tls/` | The CA and server certificates and keys | mounted file by file |
+| `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules/` | Installed modules ([Installed modules](#installed-modules)); not a secret | `api`, `migrate`, read-only |
 
 The secret files are owned by root with mode 600, one per service, so no container receives another
 service's credentials. None is committed, and `deploy/.env` is ignored by Git. `EKKLESIA_ENV_DIR`
@@ -94,10 +95,19 @@ and `EKKLESIA_TLS_DIR` in `deploy/.env` move the directories.
 
    `EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_BASE_URL` and `EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_TRUSTED_ORIGINS` are `https://` and your
    Ekklesia hostname. `S3_DELIVERY_ENDPOINT` is `https://` and your storage hostname.
-5. **Configure the proxy:** copy `Caddyfile.example` to `Caddyfile`, and set `EKKLESIA_HOSTNAME`,
+5. **Create module storage**, empty, even if you install no module yet:
+
+   ```sh
+   sudo install -d -o root -g root -m 755 /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
+   ```
+
+   `api` and `migrate` refuse to start without it: Compose never creates it for you, so a mistyped
+   path cannot quietly become an empty directory. `EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR` in `deploy/.env`
+   moves it.
+6. **Configure the proxy:** copy `Caddyfile.example` to `Caddyfile`, and set `EKKLESIA_HOSTNAME`,
    `EKKLESIA_STORAGE_HOSTNAME`, and `EKKLESIA_ACME_EMAIL` in `deploy/.env`. Both hostnames must
    resolve to this host with ports 80 and 443 reachable for HTTP-01, or see [DNS-01](#dns-01).
-6. **Start the data services, then migrate explicitly:**
+7. **Start the data services, then migrate explicitly:**
 
    ```sh
    docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.proxy.yaml up -d --wait postgres object-storage
@@ -107,8 +117,8 @@ and `EKKLESIA_TLS_DIR` in `deploy/.env` move the directories.
 
    Nothing ever applies migrations automatically: the API never does, and `migrate` runs only when
    you run it.
-7. **Start everything:** `docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.proxy.yaml up -d --wait`.
-8. **Check it:** `curl https://<hostname>/api/v1/health/ready` answers `{"status":"ready"}`, and
+8. **Start everything:** `docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.proxy.yaml up -d --wait`.
+9. **Check it:** `curl https://<hostname>/api/v1/health/ready` answers `{"status":"ready"}`, and
    `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/doctor.js` reports `READY` (with warnings
    for anything optional you left unconfigured, such as email).
 
@@ -123,25 +133,93 @@ is created already verified, so they can sign in before any email relay exists
 ([ADR 0035](../docs/architecture/decisions/0035-initial-platform-owner-bootstrap.md)). To supply the
 password from a secret manager instead, pipe it on standard input and use `-T` instead of `-it`.
 
+### Installed modules
+
+The image contains no modules
+([ADR 0048](../docs/architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)).
+Installed modules live on the host, in module storage: `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`, or
+`EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR`. Compose mounts it **read-only** at `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules` in `api`
+and `migrate`, which is where `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` points. Ekklesia never writes there.
+Installing, updating, or removing a module never needs a new image, only a restart.
+
+**What belongs there.** One directory per module, each a self-contained installed module: its
+`package.json`, `ekklesia.module.json`, built artifacts, migrations, and the production
+dependencies its server code imports, in its own `node_modules`
+([Module development](../docs/module-development/README.md#an-installed-module-is-self-contained)).
+Copying a module's `dist/` alone is not enough. Files are owned by root and readable by everyone
+(directories 755, files 644), so the API's unprivileged user can read them and never change them.
+
+**Nothing else belongs there.** Every non-hidden directory must be a valid module, or the API does
+not start. That includes `lost+found`, so if module storage is a file system of its own, mount it
+one level up and point `EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR` at a directory inside it. Hidden entries are
+ignored, which is what makes staging possible.
+
+**Changes take effect only at a restart.** A running API never notices module storage changing, and
+never loads or unloads a module while it runs. Change module storage only while the API is stopped:
+it reads browser artifacts from disk as it serves them, so files changed under a running API would
+serve one version's browser code beside another's server code.
+
+To **install or update** a module, with `<id>` its module id:
+
+```sh
+docker compose stop api
+# Stage under a hidden name, which discovery ignores, then rename it into place in one step.
+sudo cp -R ./<id> /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/.incoming-<id>
+sudo chown -R root:root /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/.incoming-<id>
+sudo chmod -R a+rX,go-w /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/.incoming-<id>
+sudo mv /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/<id> /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/.previous-<id>   # update only
+sudo mv /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/.incoming-<id> /var/lib/ekklesia/modules/<id>
+docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/validate-modules.js
+docker compose run --rm migrate                                         # plan: review it
+docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/apply-migrations.js  # only when the plan is right
+docker compose up -d --wait api
+```
+
+Back up before an update that brings migrations: migrations are forward-only. A newly installed
+module is enabled unless an administrator disabled it before; set its configuration and grants as
+its documentation says. Keep `.previous-<id>` until the update has proven itself, then delete it.
+
+To **remove** a module, stop the API, delete (or move away) its directory, and start the API again.
+Remove first any module that *requires* it, or the API refuses to start. Removing a module's code
+deletes nothing else. Its tables and rows, its buckets and objects, its enablement, configuration,
+Dashboard placement, and grants all stay. Its applied migration history stays too, and the
+migration plan and Doctor report it as `retained` history for a module that is not installed. That
+is information, not a problem, and it blocks no other migration. To stop a module without removing
+it, disable it instead (`set-module-enabled.js --disable`, [Operator commands](#operator-commands)).
+There is no purge: deleting a module's data is a separate operation that does not exist yet.
+
+To **restore** a removed module, install it again as above, at the same version or a newer one. It
+finds its data, its settings, and its history where it left them. Its history is strict again: a
+package that no longer contains a migration that was applied, or contains one with different
+contents, is refused by the migration plan, so an older version cannot be installed over newer data.
+
+Module storage is installation state: back it up with the database and the buckets.
+
 ### Upgrading
 
 1. **Pull or build the new image**, and change `EKKLESIA_IMAGE` in `deploy/.env`. Keep the old tag.
+   Installed modules stay where they are, in module storage.
 2. **Back up** ([Backups](#backups)).
-3. **Plan, review, then apply:** `docker compose run --rm migrate` with the new image, then
+3. **Check the installed modules against the new platform:**
+   `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/validate-modules.js`. A module whose
+   `compatibility.platform` range excludes the new version fails here, and would stop the API from
+   starting: update it first, or stay on the old image.
+4. **Plan, review, then apply:** `docker compose run --rm migrate` with the new image, then
    `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/apply-migrations.js`.
-4. **Restart on the new image:** `docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.proxy.yaml up -d --wait`.
+5. **Restart on the new image:** `docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.proxy.yaml up -d --wait`.
 
 ### Rolling back
 
 Set `EKKLESIA_IMAGE` back to the previous tag and run `up -d --wait` again. That is enough only when
-the upgrade applied no migrations (the plan in step 3 showed none pending). Migrations are
+the upgrade applied no migrations (the plan in step 4 showed none pending). Migrations are
 forward-only. If any were applied, restore the backup taken in step 2 before starting the previous
-image, because it was not built for the newer schema.
+image, because it was not built for the newer schema. Module storage is not part of the image, so a
+rollback does not change installed modules.
 
 ### Backups
 
 Slice 6 adds the scheduled backup job and the restore procedure (ADR 0044, Backups). Until then,
-take a `pg_dump` and a copy of every bucket before each upgrade by hand.
+take a `pg_dump`, a copy of every bucket, and a copy of module storage before each upgrade by hand.
 
 ### Split Dashboard and API origins
 
@@ -178,6 +256,29 @@ the topology and warns when the two hostnames are not siblings.
 The Dashboard learns the API's origin at run time: the API writes its identity base URL into the page
 it serves (`<meta name="ekklesia-api-origin">`). Nothing about the topology is built into the image.
 
+### Storage delivery: CORS is the deployment's
+
+Browsers fetch objects directly from the storage hostname through signed, expiring URLs (ADR 0031).
+**Which pages may read those bytes with `fetch()` is decided by the delivery layer, the proxy, and
+never by the object store.** That policy therefore stays the same with SeaweedFS, R2, or any other
+S3 backend behind it, and an installation that changes backends changes nothing about CORS.
+
+The reference proxy's storage block:
+
+- grants CORS only to the origins whose pages read objects with `fetch()`: the Ekklesia origin in the
+  same-origin topology; the API origin (displays) and the Dashboard origin (a module's preview) in
+  the split topology. An `<img>` needs no CORS and is unaffected;
+- allows `GET` and `HEAD` only, and no request header beyond the CORS-safelisted ones, always with
+  `Vary: Origin`;
+- answers preflight `OPTIONS` requests itself, so they never reach storage;
+- removes the object store's own CORS headers. SeaweedFS's default reflects any origin and
+  advertises `PUT`, `POST`, and `DELETE`.
+
+The proxy reaches storage over **HTTP/1.1 only**. Over HTTP/2, SeaweedFS answers a conditional
+request with a `304` that declares a `Content-Length` it never sends. The proxy then resets the
+browser's stream, and every reload of a cached image fails with `ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR`.
+Browsers still reach the proxy itself over HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
+
 ### Behind an existing reverse proxy
 
 Run the base alone and attach `api` and `object-storage` to your proxy's network with an overlay of
@@ -213,6 +314,8 @@ Then make your proxy do what `Caddyfile.example` does:
 - forward the storage hostname to `https://object-storage:8443`, verifying it against
   `/etc/ekklesia/tls/ca.crt` with server name `object-storage`, and **pass the original `Host`
   through unchanged**, or every signed URL fails (ADR 0031).
+- reach `object-storage` over **HTTP/1.1** only, and own the storage hostname's CORS as described in
+  [Storage delivery](#storage-delivery-cors-is-the-deployments).
 
 The proxy's address must be fixed and must never be handed to anything else. With Docker, give its
 network an explicit subnet, limit `ip_range` to part of it, and fix the proxy's address outside that
@@ -284,11 +387,18 @@ deployment:
 
 - `pnpm deploy:config` validates the base, base + proxy, and base + proxy + tunnel with the example
   env files. CI runs it in `pnpm ci:verify`.
-- `pnpm deploy:smoke` (`scripts/smoke-deploy.sh`) runs the whole deployment end to end, against a
-  platform-only image and a disposable PostgreSQL and SeaweedFS that exist only for that run. It
-  follows the first boot above and checks the following through the proxy:
+- `bash scripts/check-image.sh` builds the image and proves it is generic: no `/opt/ekklesia/modules`,
+  no module template, no `ekklesia.module.json` outside installed dependencies, an empty root-owned
+  `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`, and `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` set. It then builds again from a checkout
+  with a populated `modules/` directory and requires an identical runtime file system. CI runs it.
+- `pnpm deploy:smoke` (`scripts/smoke-deploy.sh`) runs the whole deployment end to end, against the
+  generic image, empty module storage, and a disposable PostgreSQL and SeaweedFS that exist only for
+  that run. It follows the first boot above and checks the following through the proxy:
   - readiness and the Dashboard;
-  - a signed object URL fetched through the storage hostname;
+  - a signed object URL fetched through the storage hostname, and the same image loaded twice over
+    HTTP/2, the second time as a conditional request that must be a clean `304`;
+  - storage CORS: exactly the allowed origins, `GET` and `HEAD` only, preflights answered by the
+    proxy, and none of the object store's own CORS headers;
   - the client-address chain, both from an ordinary peer and from the tunnel connector's address;
   - initial-owner sign-in and sign-out;
   - that the API's database connection is TLS 1.3, and that it is refused by a foreign CA and by a
@@ -296,12 +406,23 @@ deployment:
   - Doctor.
 
   `EKKLESIA_SMOKE_TOPOLOGY=split` runs the [split topology](#split-dashboard-and-api-origins)
-  instead: an image with the repository's module template installed as a test-only module, every
-  hostname's served and refused paths, exact CORS for the Dashboard's origin and none for others,
-  and then a real headless Chromium (pinned by digest, driven over the DevTools protocol) that signs
-  in on the Dashboard's hostname, checks the session cookie lives only on the API's, mounts the
-  module's UI from the API's origin and sees its own credentialed requests succeed, mounts its display
-  on the API's hostname with its service worker, and signs out.
+  instead, on the **same generic image**, and also proves [Installed modules](#installed-modules)
+  end to end:
+  - the image boots with no module;
+  - the repository's module template, packaged as a self-contained test module
+    (`scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile`, test-only and not a package format), is installed
+    into module storage, its migration is planned and explicitly applied, the API restarts, and the
+    module reads data it owns;
+  - every hostname's served and refused paths, exact CORS for the Dashboard's origin and none for
+    others;
+  - a real headless Chromium (pinned by digest, driven over the DevTools protocol) signs in on the
+    Dashboard's hostname, checks the session cookie lives only on the API's, mounts the module's UI
+    from the API's origin and sees its own credentialed requests succeed, mounts its display on the
+    API's hostname with its service worker, and signs out;
+  - the module is removed and the API restarted: Core still runs, the module's routes are gone,
+    migration planning and applying succeed and report its retained history, and its data is intact;
+  - the module is restored and the API restarted: its history validates strictly and it returns its
+    previous data.
 
   CI runs both topologies on every change.
 - **Test-only:** the smoke test runs Caddy with its internal CA (`local_certs`), because a test run
@@ -322,44 +443,47 @@ is no second image and no second build.
 
 ### What it builds
 
-The build context is an **already-assembled workspace**: this repository, plus zero or more module
-packages already present in `modules/<id>`, plus a `pnpm-lock.yaml` describing exactly that set.
-The Dockerfile clones nothing and chooses no modules. It builds what it is given. With no
-`modules/` directory, it builds the platform alone; CI builds that case on every change.
+The build context is **this repository**, and the image is the same for every installation
+([ADR 0048](../docs/architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)). It
+contains **zero feature modules**: installed modules live in module storage outside it
+([Installed modules](#installed-modules)). No input is specific to an installation: no module list,
+no lockfile of its own, no branding, no configuration.
 
-Assembling the context (checking out the platform at a release tag, each module at a pinned tag or
-commit, and the instance's own lockfile) belongs to the installation's instance composition, not to
-this file.
+A `modules/` directory in the checkout never reaches the image. `.dockerignore` keeps it out of the
+build context, and the build refuses a context that still contains one. The module template is a
+workspace package, so it is built and validated with everything else, but neither its files nor its
+dependencies reach the runtime image. `scripts/check-image.sh` proves all of this on every change
+([Testing this deployment](#testing-this-deployment)).
 
 | Stage | Does |
 | --- | --- |
 | `base` | `node:24.18.0-trixie-slim`, pinned by its multi-architecture index digest. Debian, so glibc, because module dependencies such as sharp ship glibc prebuilt binaries. Every stage starts here. |
 | `toolchain` | Enables pnpm through Corepack, at exactly the root `packageManager` version. |
-| `manifests` | Collects the lockfile, workspace configuration, `.npmrc`, and every workspace `package.json` at its repository path. |
-| `build` | `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`, then `pnpm boundaries`, `pnpm modules:validate`, `pnpm migrations:validate`, and `pnpm build`, against exactly the modules in the context. Never uses host `node_modules`: `.dockerignore` excludes them. |
-| `prod-deps` | The same lockfile with `--prod`: production dependencies only. |
-| `runtime` | Production dependencies plus built outputs, owned by root and run as the unprivileged `node` user (uid 1000). No pnpm, no compiler, no curl. |
+| `manifests` | Collects the lockfile, workspace configuration, `.npmrc`, and the `package.json` of every platform package (not the module template's) at its repository path. |
+| `build` | Refuses a context containing `modules/`, then `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`, `pnpm boundaries`, `pnpm modules:validate`, `pnpm migrations:validate`, and `pnpm build`. Never uses host `node_modules`: `.dockerignore` excludes them. |
+| `prod-deps` | The same lockfile with `--prod`, for the platform packages only: production dependencies only. |
+| `runtime` | Production dependencies plus built outputs, owned by root and run as the unprivileged `node` user (uid 1000), and an empty, root-owned `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`. No pnpm, no compiler, no curl. |
 
 The runtime keeps the repository layout at `/opt/ekklesia`, because that layout is how the platform
 finds its files:
 
 - the API takes the repository root as three directories above `apps/api/dist/`, and reads
-  `package.json`, `packages/module-sdk/package.json`, and `modules/` beneath it;
+  `package.json` and `packages/module-sdk/package.json` beneath it;
 - every CLI takes its **working directory** as the root and also reads Core's migrations in
   `core/drizzle/`, so commands must run from `/opt/ekklesia`, the image's `WORKDIR`;
 - the Dashboard and display host files are read from `surfaces/shell/dist/browser/`;
-- each module directory is copied whole, minus `node_modules`, because each manifest names its
-  own entrypoints, UI artifacts, and migrations directory.
+- installed modules are read from `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`, `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`, never from
+  under `/opt/ekklesia`. With nothing mounted there, the image runs with no modules.
 
 ### Building
 
 ```sh
 docker build \
   --file deploy/Dockerfile \
-  --build-arg VERSION=0.1.1 \
+  --build-arg VERSION=0.1.2 \
   --build-arg REVISION="$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
   --build-arg SOURCE=https://git.example.org/your-org/ekklesia \
-  --tag ekklesia:0.1.1 \
+  --tag ekklesia:0.1.2 \
   .
 ```
 
@@ -371,30 +495,37 @@ set `DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1` if your Docker CLI has no buildx plugin.
 No secret is a build argument, and none enters any layer. `.env` files are excluded from the build
 context entirely, and no registry credentials are needed.
 
-**A module missing a production dependency fails the build, not the API.** The runtime receives
-production dependencies only, so a module that imports a package at run time but declares it only
-as a development or peer dependency would build and then fail at startup. `pnpm boundaries` runs
-in the build stage and rejects that module first
-(`runtime-imports-are-production-dependencies`, see
-[Repository boundaries](../docs/architecture/repository-boundaries.md)). The same applies to every
-other boundary rule: a module the platform's own CI would reject cannot be built into an image.
+### The runtime an installed module targets
 
-**A platform-only image does not exercise native module dependencies.** With no modules in the
-context, nothing like sharp is installed, so the CI image build proves nothing about them. An
-instance build that includes such a module must smoke-test the built image itself: start it,
-confirm `/api/v1/health/ready` answers `200`, and exercise the module's native code path (for
-example, process one image).
+An installed module runs on the image's Node.js, inside the API process, from its own directory
+([ADR 0048](../docs/architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)):
+
+- **Node.js 24.18.0 on Debian 13, so glibc**, for the architecture the image was built for. A native
+  dependency such as sharp must be built or downloaded for exactly that.
+- **Its own dependencies only.** Node resolves a module's imports from the module's directory, and
+  the platform's `node_modules` is never on that path. A module whose server code imports something
+  its directory does not contain stops the API from starting, with a sanitized
+  `MODULE_RUNTIME_IMPORT_FAILED`.
+- **The platform's exact Drizzle version, for now.** Core runs a module's queries through its own
+  Drizzle instance over tables the module defined with its own copy, so the two copies must be
+  interchangeable. That is a constraint of the current implementation, not a permanent contract.
+
+The repository's boundary checks (`pnpm boundaries`) prove only the source modules in a workspace.
+An installed module's conformance is its own CI's job, so check a module before installing it:
+`validate-modules.js` ([Operator commands](#operator-commands)) validates what can be checked on an
+installed directory, and the API's startup refuses anything it cannot load.
 
 ### Configuration
 
 Configuration comes **only from the container environment**, never from a file inside the image.
-The image sets exactly three variables itself:
+The image sets exactly four variables itself:
 
 | Variable | Image value | Why |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `NODE_ENV` | `production` | Stated rather than relied on. Anything other than `development` already validates as production. |
 | `EKKLESIA_API_HOST` | `0.0.0.0` | Reachable from other containers. Outside a container the platform default stays `127.0.0.1`. |
 | `EKKLESIA_API_PORT` | `3000` | The platform default, made explicit; `EXPOSE 3000`. |
+| `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` | `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules` | Where installed modules are read from (ADR 0048). Outside a container, unset means the checkout's own `modules/`. Compose states the same value beside the mount. |
 
 Everything else is the ordinary host configuration in
 [API § Required configuration](../docs/development/api.md#required-configuration), supplied by the
@@ -415,8 +546,8 @@ Never publish the API's port to the host or the Internet. Only the proxy publish
 - **Read-only:** the image was verified under exactly these flags. The API reached `healthy`, and
   the migration and Doctor commands ran. Nothing wrote to `/tmp`, which stays mounted as headroom
   for module code that needs scratch space. The installation, `/home/node` included, is not
-  writable, so anything that needs a writable path other than `/tmp` is a defect to report, not to
-  work around.
+  writable, and neither is module storage, which is mounted read-only. Anything that needs a
+  writable path other than `/tmp` is a defect to report, not to work around.
 
 ### Health
 
@@ -440,20 +571,30 @@ for a development checkout, not for the image.
 `migrate` has `profiles: ["ops"]`, so `up` never starts it. It never restarts, has no health check,
 and its default command is the read-only plan. **Nothing applies migrations automatically.**
 
+Run operator commands with the same Compose files as the stack. `COMPOSE_FILE` in `deploy/.env`
+(set in [`env/compose.env.example`](env/compose.env.example)) does that for every plain
+`docker compose` command below. It matters for Doctor in particular: Doctor checks the
+client-address configuration of the process it runs in. The proxy overlay gives `migrate` the
+API's trusted-proxy settings, so Doctor reports what the API runs. Without the overlay, Doctor
+reports direct mode for an API that trusts its proxy. The running API's own value is shown by
+`docker compose exec api printenv EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE`.
+
 | Task | Command (from `deploy/`) |
 | --- | --- |
 | Plan migrations (read-only) | `docker compose run --rm migrate` |
 | Apply migrations | `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/apply-migrations.js` |
 | Doctor (read-only report) | `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/doctor.js` |
 | Create the initial owner (interactive) | `docker compose run --rm -it migrate node core/dist/cli/create-initial-owner.js --email [email protected]` |
+| Validate the installed modules (read-only) | `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/validate-modules.js` |
 | Enable or disable a module | `docker compose run --rm migrate node core/dist/cli/set-module-enabled.js --enable --module <id>` (or `--disable`) |
 
-The plan, apply, Doctor, and initial-owner commands are exercised by the smoke test; module
-enablement is not.
+Every command reads installed modules from the same `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` the API does. The plan,
+apply, Doctor, and initial-owner commands are exercised by the smoke test, and so are installing,
+removing, and restoring a module; module validation and enablement are not.
 
 ### Size
 
-The platform-only image is about 378 MB: the Debian slim Node base (about 230 MB), production
+The image is about 378 MB, and it contains no module: the Debian slim Node base (about 230 MB), production
 dependencies (about 141 MB), and built outputs (about 6 MB). A rebuild that reuses a warm pnpm store
 cache can come out about 21 MB larger. When esbuild's install script runs, it hard-links its
 `bin/esbuild` to the native binary it ships beside it; when pnpm restores esbuild from the store's

deploy/compose.proxy.yaml

@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
 # its lower half; the proxy (and the tunnel connector, if used) take addresses from the upper half,
 # which Docker never hands to another container.
 
+# Exactly one trusted peer: this proxy. Set from the same variable that fixes the proxy's address,
+# so the two cannot drift apart. These override any value in ekklesia.env.
+x-ekklesia-client-address: &ekklesia-client-address
+  EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE: trusted-proxy
+  EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_HEADER: x-forwarded-for
+  EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_TRUSTED_PROXIES: ${EKKLESIA_PROXY_ADDRESS:-10.249.250.254}/32
+
 services:
   proxy:
     image: caddy:2.11.4-alpine@sha256:6aeddd44c3078b0f9a35206472a11420648a79c184603ef95957d0a20044cb2b
@@ -59,12 +66,12 @@ services:
   api:
     networks:
       edge: {}
-    environment:
-      # Exactly one trusted peer: this proxy. Set here from the same variable that fixes the proxy's
-      # address, so the two cannot drift apart. These override any value in ekklesia.env.
-      EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE: trusted-proxy
-      EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_HEADER: x-forwarded-for
-      EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_TRUSTED_PROXIES: ${EKKLESIA_PROXY_ADDRESS:-10.249.250.254}/32
+    environment: *ekklesia-client-address
+
+  # Operator commands (migrations, Doctor) run as `migrate`. It gets the API's client-address
+  # configuration too, so that Doctor checks what the API actually runs rather than an empty one.
+  migrate:
+    environment: *ekklesia-client-address
 
   object-storage:
     networks:

deploy/compose.yaml

@@ -32,8 +32,20 @@ x-ekklesia-app: &ekklesia-app
     # without any storage TLS exception. The database CA travels separately, as PEM text in
     # EKKLESIA_DATABASE_CA, and is the only CA the database connection trusts.
     NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS: /run/ekklesia/tls/ca.crt
+    # Installed modules (ADR 0048). The image sets the same value; stating it beside the mount below
+    # keeps the variable and the mount target from ever drifting apart.
+    EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR: /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
   volumes:
     - ${EKKLESIA_TLS_DIR:-/etc/ekklesia/tls}/ca.crt:/run/ekklesia/tls/ca.crt:ro
+    # Installation-owned module storage, outside the image (ADR 0048). Read-only: Ekklesia never
+    # writes installed code. The host directory must already exist; a missing one stops the
+    # container from starting instead of Compose quietly creating an empty, root-owned directory.
+    - type: bind
+      source: ${EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR:-/var/lib/ekklesia/modules}
+      target: /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
+      read_only: true
+      bind:
+        create_host_path: false
   networks:
     data: {}
     storage: {}

deploy/env/compose.env.example

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 # Compose reads automatically from this directory. Nothing here is a secret; secrets live in the
 # per-service files under EKKLESIA_ENV_DIR.
 
+# Which Compose files make up this installation, so that every plain `docker compose …` command
+# run from this directory, operator commands through `migrate` included, sees the same services and
+# settings as the running stack. Add compose.tunnel.yaml if you use the tunnel connector. Without
+# the proxy overlay here, Doctor checks a `migrate` that lacks the API's client-address settings.
+COMPOSE_FILE=compose.yaml:compose.proxy.yaml
+
 # The image to run, by registry, name, and tag (or digest). Required.
 EKKLESIA_IMAGE=
 
@@ -9,6 +15,12 @@ EKKLESIA_IMAGE=
 EKKLESIA_ENV_DIR=/etc/ekklesia
 EKKLESIA_TLS_DIR=/etc/ekklesia/tls
 
+# Installed modules (ADR 0048): the host directory mounted read-only into `api` and `migrate` at
+# /var/lib/ekklesia/modules. It must already exist; Compose never creates it. Create it once, owned
+# by root, before the first `up`:
+#   sudo install -d -o root -g root -m 755 /var/lib/ekklesia/modules
+# EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR=/var/lib/ekklesia/modules
+
 # --- compose.proxy.yaml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The Ekklesia hostname and the storage hostname (signed object URLs). In the default same-origin
 # topology (Caddyfile.example) EKKLESIA_HOSTNAME serves the Dashboard, the API, and displays.

deploy/env/ekklesia.env.example

@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@
 # Never commit the filled-in file. Generate secrets with scripts/gen-secrets.sh, and the database CA
 # line with scripts/init-tls.sh.
 #
-# The image already sets NODE_ENV=production, EKKLESIA_API_HOST=0.0.0.0, and EKKLESIA_API_PORT=3000.
-# Compose sets NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS. The proxy overlay sets the three EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_*
-# variables. None of those belong here.
+# The image already sets NODE_ENV=production, EKKLESIA_API_HOST=0.0.0.0, EKKLESIA_API_PORT=3000, and
+# EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=/var/lib/ekklesia/modules. Compose sets NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS and mounts module
+# storage at that path. The proxy overlay sets the three EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_* variables. None of
+# those belong here.
+#
+# Installed modules (ADR 0048) are read from EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR, which must name the mounted
+# directory. Move the host directory with EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR in deploy/.env instead.
+# EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=/var/lib/ekklesia/modules
 #
 # Values that are part of the reference topology are filled in; everything installation-specific is
 # blank. Full reference: docs/development/api.md#required-configuration.

docs/architecture/decisions/0047-module-ci-harness.md

@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+# 0047: Every module proves itself inside Ekklesia, with one harness the platform publishes
+
+- Status: Proposed
+- Date: 2026-10-05
+- Supersedes: none
+- Related: [ADR 0016](0016-module-database-access.md),
+  [ADR 0021](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md),
+  [ADR 0028](0028-module-operational-lifecycle.md),
+  [ADR 0030](0030-host-provided-module-object-storage.md),
+  [ADR 0033](0033-display-kiosk-host-contract.md),
+  [ADR 0036](0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md),
+  [ADR 0041](0041-module-browser-contributions.md),
+  [ADR 0043](0043-display-offline-code-fallback.md),
+  [ADR 0044](0044-self-hosted-reference-deployment.md),
+  [ADR 0045](0045-split-dashboard-and-api-origins.md)
+- Must be revised against: [ADR 0048](0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md) —
+  steps 1 and 3 below build the module into a deployment image, which ADR 0048 rules out. Before
+  this proposal is accepted, the harness must run the module from module storage in the generic
+  image.
+- Should consume: [ADR 0049](0049-module-package-v1.md), when accepted — the harness installs the
+  module's canonical package, the artifact a church would install, rather than a workspace build.
+
+## Context
+
+Modules are independently versioned products (ADR 0021). They live in their own repositories, and
+none of them can be built, run, or rendered without Ekklesia. The first production module, Signage,
+reached a church with three defects that only show when it runs **inside** Ekklesia, in a real
+browser:
+
+- every heartbeat its display sent was refused with a 400, because the display and the server
+  disagreed about `null`;
+- a display that failed one request at start-up never recovered without a reload;
+- its media cache leaked one blob per slide per refresh, until the browser refused the display's own
+  requests.
+
+Signage had unit tests, browser tests against a stubbed host, and no CI. Every test passed, because
+each half was tested against its own idea of the other, and nothing ever ran the module in the
+platform it ships into.
+
+The platform's own deployment smoke (ADR 0044, ADR 0045) does run a module in a real browser, but
+only the repository's template, and only far enough to mount it. The instance repository runs the
+smoke against its real modules, but only at release time, after a module has already been tagged.
+Each module repository that wants more than that has to assemble the platform, build an image,
+start a deployment, and drive a browser itself. Signage is about to do exactly that by hand. The
+second module, Classroom, would copy it, and the copies would drift from the platform they test.
+
+## Decision
+
+### The platform publishes a versioned module harness
+
+Each platform release publishes one OCI image, `ekklesia-module-harness:<platform version>`. It is
+built from the platform at that release tag by the platform's own release CI, and pushed to the
+organization's registry. A version is never overwritten. Modules reference it **by digest**.
+
+The harness contains the platform source at that version: its `deploy/` directory, its Dockerfile,
+its lockfile, and its smoke scripts. It also contains the pinned Node.js and pnpm, the browser
+driver, and the pinned headless Chromium image reference. Given a module checkout, it:
+
+1. **assembles** the module into the platform at `modules/<id>`, exactly as an instance does (ADR
+   0044), and installs with `--frozen-lockfile`;
+2. runs the platform's own gates against that set: `pnpm boundaries`, `modules:validate`,
+   `migrations:validate`, and the build;
+3. **builds** the deployment image from the assembled workspace with the platform's Dockerfile;
+4. starts the **reference deployment** in the split topology (ADR 0045), with a disposable
+   PostgreSQL and object store, Caddy's internal CA, and freshly generated secrets;
+5. plans, then **explicitly applies**, migrations against that fresh database. This is the only
+   database the harness ever migrates;
+6. creates the initial owner, grants the module's declared permissions to a test person, and
+   **mounts every UI surface the manifest declares**, in headless Chromium. That covers:
+   - the primary UI in the Dashboard;
+   - the display, paired as a device with no human session (ADR 0036);
+   - each browser contribution, whenever the module that hosts it is present (ADR 0041);
+7. runs a short **display soak**, and the **no-dead-ends** injections below;
+8. tears everything down: containers, networks, volumes, and the work directory.
+
+It **fails** on any of the following:
+
+- a `console.error` or uncaught exception on any page;
+- an unhandled promise rejection;
+- any 4xx or 5xx response that the harness did not itself expect. Expected ones are listed in the
+  harness, for example a display's descriptor before it is paired;
+- a page that never mounts;
+- a failed or refused request (CORS, blocked, network error);
+- a soak leak.
+
+Each failure line names the surface, the request path (never its query), and the step.
+
+### The display soak and the no-dead-ends checks are generic
+
+These checks come from what Signage got wrong, and they apply to any module with a display.
+
+- **Soak**, two minutes by default. The display stays mounted with no remount and no offline
+  indicator. Its realtime streams stay healthy. Live object URLs stay bounded. JavaScript heap
+  growth, measured over DevTools, stays within a fixed ratio.
+- **No dead ends.** One at a time, the harness refuses the first request to each module route the
+  display calls at start-up, and the first realtime connection. Within a bounded time and with no
+  reload, the display must make that request again and succeed. A display has nobody to press
+  Retry.
+
+Module-specific behaviour, such as Signage's heartbeat being recorded, is not guessed by the
+harness. A module declares it (below).
+
+### A module is tested against both ends of its compatibility range
+
+A module's CI runs the harness twice: against the **lowest** and the **newest** published platform
+version within its manifest's `compatibility.platform` range. Testing every version in between adds
+cost and finds little. Testing only the newest misses the floor the manifest promises to work on.
+
+The two versions, and their harness digests, are pinned in the module's repository. The harness
+refuses to run if:
+
+- a pinned version lies outside the module's range;
+- the lowest pinned version is not the range's floor.
+
+Moving to a newer platform is a deliberate, reviewed pin change, as an instance's is (ADR 0044). It
+is never a moving tag.
+
+A frozen install of the module assembled into each of those two platforms needs a lockfile per
+pinned version. The module keeps them (`ci/lock/<platform version>.yaml`), and the harness provides
+the one command that regenerates them inside its own pinned Node.js. A stale lockfile fails the
+frozen install, which is the signal to regenerate it in a reviewed change.
+
+### Modules declare extra smoke steps, beside their manifest rather than in it
+
+A module may add steps of its own in `ekklesia.harness.json`, next to `ekklesia.module.json`. Steps
+are declarative first:
+
+- open a surface;
+- wait for a test id;
+- call one of the module's routes as a named role, expecting a status;
+- soak for N minutes;
+- inject a failure into a named route;
+- check a value in the module's own table, through its own route.
+
+For what a declaration cannot express, a step may name a driver script in the module's repository.
+The harness runs that script with the same DevTools client and the same failure rules.
+
+**This is deliberately not a manifest field.** Manifest versions are strict, hard cutovers that every
+host validates (ADR 0033). A test step is not a runtime contract, and a host must never read one.
+Putting steps in the manifest would force a manifest version bump on every module for something
+that has no meaning outside CI.
+
+### Later: the harness checks what a module actually touches against what it declares
+
+In a later phase, the harness records what the module does while it runs:
+
+- the tables and schemas it reads and writes;
+- the buckets it uses;
+- its outbound network connections, with the egress network blocked and every attempt logged.
+
+It compares them with what the manifest declares (ADR 0016, ADR 0030). A module that touches what it
+did not declare fails. This is the module-trust check. The egress half needs a manifest declaration
+of outbound destinations that does not exist yet, and is a separate decision. This ADR fixes only
+the harness's shape, so that the recording phases can be added without changing how modules call
+it.
+
+### The template's workflow stays short, and calls the harness by digest
+
+`templates/module` ships a workflow that:
+
+- checks out the module with `persist-credentials: false` and pinned actions;
+- runs the module's own unit tests, typecheck, and lint;
+- sweeps stale CI stacks from the runner, then runs the harness, once per pinned platform version,
+  with one `docker run` of the harness image **by digest**, and finally, always, removes this job's
+  own stacks. The module directory is mounted read-only, and the runner's Docker is used exactly
+  as the platform's smoke uses it.
+
+It references no secret, needs no registry credential (the harness image is public within the
+organization), and uses no `pull_request_target`. The trusted-code-only rule for self-hosted runners
+applies to module repositories exactly as it does to the platform (see `docs/development/security.md`).
+
+**Why `docker run`, and not a reusable workflow or a composite action.** The server runs Gitea
+1.27.2. (This proposal first assumed 1.24.2; the reasons below hold on the actual version.)
+
+- Its runner can call a reusable workflow from another repository by cloning that repository, and
+  since 1.26 that includes private repositories (go-gitea/gitea#32562). That support is still thinly
+  documented, and has known problems in practice.
+- A reusable workflow would make the harness's behaviour depend on how this server and runner
+  version expand it. An image runs the same everywhere it runs.
+- Composite actions from another repository work through absolute `uses:` URLs. That would still
+  wrap the same `docker run`, adding a second pinned reference and nothing else.
+
+An image digest is the one reference that is equally immutable, equally reviewable, and works
+unchanged on any Gitea release and on GitHub Actions. A composite action can be added later as a
+convenience over the same image, without changing what a module pins.
+
+### Nothing the harness starts outlives the job that started it
+
+The harness starts Docker stacks on a shared runner, and a runner can kill a job outright: a
+cancelled or superseded job (`concurrency` cancels superseded runs on this server), or the runner's
+own time limit. A script's own cleanup trap does not run then. The platform's CI leaked a whole
+migration stack that way, and it ran until someone removed it by hand. So the harness follows the
+platform's rule (`scripts/ci-sweep.sh`, `docs/development/security.md`):
+
+- everything it starts is named and labeled as a CI stack of its run, attempt, and job key;
+- it removes its own stacks in a trap;
+- the template workflow runs the harness's **stale sweep** before the harness starts, and its
+  **job sweep** in a final `if: always()` step, so a killed run's stacks are removed by that run's
+  last step, or failing that by the next job on the runner.
+
+The sweep ships inside the harness image, so a module never copies it.
+
+### Publishing follows the instance's release pattern
+
+The harness image is pushed only by a `publish` job that runs on `v*` tags, after the platform's CI
+has built and tested that exact image (checked by image ID). That job:
+
+- uses a write-only package token, the only secret in the platform's workflow;
+- refuses to overwrite an existing version;
+- prints the digest.
+
+Pull requests and branch builds build the harness and run it against the template, but never push.
+The registry is reached exactly as the instance's publish job reaches it.
+
+### Adoption
+
+- **Signage** uses an interim CI job until the first harness is published. That job assembles
+  Signage into a pinned platform commit and runs the platform's display-device smoke scenarios.
+  Signage switches to the harness as soon as one is published.
+- **Classroom** follows.
+- **The template** carries the workflow from the first harness release on, so every new module has
+  it from its first commit.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- A module cannot reach a release without having run inside Ekklesia, in a real browser, at both
+  ends of the platform range it claims.
+- The defects that reached the first production Signage deployment fail a module's CI instead:
+  refused requests, dead ends, leaks, and console errors.
+- The platform owns one harness, versioned with itself. Modules do not copy deployment scripts that
+  then drift.
+- Every module's CI needs Docker on its runner, and takes minutes rather than seconds. The harness
+  runs as separate jobs from the unit tests, so a quick failure still reports quickly.
+- The platform's release process gains one published artifact, one credential, and one more failure
+  mode at release time.
+- A module now carries a lockfile for each pinned platform version. The harness makes regenerating
+  them one command, and a stale one fails visibly.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+- **Each module keeps its own copy of the smoke scripts.** Rejected. That is today's situation in
+  embryo, and it drifts.
+- **A reusable workflow in the platform repository.** Rejected for now, for the reasons above: thin
+  support in practice, and a harness whose behaviour depends on whichever runner and server version
+  happens to expand it.
+- **Publish the harness as an npm package.** Rejected. The harness needs Docker, a browser, and the
+  platform's deployment files anyway, so a package would ship a fraction of it and assume the rest.
+- **Test only the newest platform version.** Rejected. A module's range floor would go untested
+  until an installation that has not upgraded meets it.
+- **Put smoke steps in the manifest.** Rejected. Manifest versions are hard cutovers with runtime
+  meaning, and test steps have neither.
+- **Run the harness in the platform's CI against every known module.** Rejected. The platform would
+  need every module's source and would fail on modules it does not own. The direction is module
+  tests platform, not the reverse.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- The data-access and egress recording phases, and the manifest declaration egress needs.
+- A composite action over the harness image.
+- Running the harness against a module's declared dependencies at their own pinned versions, for
+  contributions hosted by another module.
+- Visual regression of mounted surfaces.

docs/architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md

@@ -0,0 +1,311 @@
+# 0048: Ekklesia ships one generic image, and installed modules live outside it
+
+- Status: Accepted
+- Date: 2026-10-07
+- Supersedes (partial): [0044](0044-self-hosted-reference-deployment.md) — only its "Composition
+  from pinned sources" section, its topology table's statement that the `api` image contains "the
+  enabled modules", and its consequence that modules are built inside a platform workspace with a
+  per-instance lockfile. The one reference deployment, its topology, TLS everywhere, object storage,
+  explicit migrations, health endpoints, backups, and secrets remain accepted and unchanged.
+- Supersedes (partial): [0009](0009-transactional-module-migrations.md) — only its rule that an
+  applied migration absent from the current inventory is rejected, which that ADR left to "a future
+  explicit platform policy". This ADR is that policy, for modules only. The fixed history contract,
+  the per-module exact-prefix rule, checksums, locking, the single transaction, approvals, and
+  forward-only execution remain accepted and unchanged.
+- Amends: [0006](0006-versioned-capabilities-and-compiled-module-runtime.md) — installing a module
+  "by cloning it into `modules/`, installing workspace dependencies, building the workspace" becomes
+  the development workflow only. Inert manifests, atomic discovery, compiled ESM entrypoints, and
+  the trusted-plugin model remain accepted and unchanged.
+- Extends: [0028](0028-module-operational-lifecycle.md),
+  [0030](0030-host-provided-module-object-storage.md)
+- Related: [ADR 0007](0007-module-owned-drizzle-schemas.md),
+  [ADR 0008](0008-module-owned-migration-contracts.md),
+  [ADR 0016](0016-module-database-access.md),
+  [ADR 0021](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md),
+  [ADR 0027](0027-dashboard-navigation-and-flat-modules.md),
+  [ADR 0029](0029-module-configuration-and-secrets.md),
+  [ADR 0047](0047-module-ci-harness.md)
+
+## Context
+
+ADR 0044 builds an installation's image from an **instance composition**: a separate repository
+per installation pins the platform and each module, commits its own lockfile, assembles them into
+one workspace, and builds the platform's Dockerfile over it. River of Glory Church runs exactly
+that. In practice:
+
+- Every module change, however small, is a new image build and a new image. The image an
+  installation runs is never the image the platform's CI built and tested.
+- The Dockerfile copies whatever `modules/` contains into the image. What a platform build
+  produces therefore depends on what happens to be in the source checkout.
+- A module resolves its runtime dependencies only through the platform's own workspace install. No
+  module can run anywhere except inside an Ekklesia workspace built together with it.
+- Each installation needs its own assembly repository, lockfile, and build pipeline.
+
+Removing a module has a further problem. Its stored platform state (enablement, configuration,
+Dashboard placement, grants) and its data (tables, buckets) are already retained by design
+(ADR 0027, ADR 0028, ADR 0029, ADR 0030). Its migration history is not: ADR 0009 rejects any
+applied migration that is missing from the current inventory. Once a module with migrations is
+removed, no migration can be planned or applied again, including Core's own on a platform upgrade,
+until the module's code is put back.
+
+Ekklesia will eventually install modules from a marketplace. That needs a platform whose image does
+not change when its modules do. Designing the marketplace is not part of this decision.
+
+## Decision
+
+### One generic platform image, with no modules in it
+
+Ekklesia produces **one** platform image for every installation. It contains Core, `apps/api`, the
+Dashboard and display host, the operator commands, and the platform packages they need. It contains
+**zero feature modules**: not the module template, and not a test module.
+
+Building the image does not depend on which modules exist in the source checkout. A `modules/`
+directory in the build context is never a build input: a platform build produces the same platform
+whether or not one is present.
+
+The build takes no installation-specific input: no module list, no per-installation lockfile, no
+branding, no configuration. Per-installation application images and per-installation assembly
+repositories are not part of the deployment model. An installation that already runs one may keep
+it as a rollback path until it has moved; the platform does not support building new ones.
+
+### Installed modules live in installation-owned storage
+
+Installed modules live **outside the image**, in persistent storage the installation owns.
+
+- **`EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`** selects the modules directory, as an absolute path. It is read once,
+  through the host configuration the API and Doctor already share. The API and every operator
+  command (migration plan and apply, module and migration validation, module enablement, Doctor)
+  honour the same value. There is one modules directory and one discovery path; discovery itself is
+  unchanged.
+- **The shipping image sets it to `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`.**
+- **Unset**, as in a development checkout, it defaults to `<repository>/modules`. Workspace
+  development, module CI, and the platform's tests keep working as they do now.
+- **A configured directory that is missing or unreadable fails closed** with a sanitized error. A
+  mistyped mount must never quietly start the platform with no modules.
+- **Nothing in the platform locates its own files relative to the modules directory.** Core's
+  migrations and the platform's package metadata are found where the platform is installed, never
+  beside the modules.
+
+In the reference deployment, the modules directory is persistent host storage mounted into the
+`api` and `migrate` containers, and the mount is **read-only to Ekklesia**. The Ekklesia process
+never writes to module storage. Whatever installs a module writes to that storage from outside the
+process: today an operator, later perhaps an installer. Giving Ekklesia itself write access is a
+separate, future decision. Module storage is installation state, so it belongs in the
+installation's backups beside the database and the buckets.
+
+Changes to module storage are discovered **only when a process starts**. The API sees them at a
+controlled restart, and an operator command sees them when it runs. There is no file watching, hot
+loading, or hot unloading. Changing modules is therefore a sequence, never an edit to a running
+API: stop the API, change module storage, plan and explicitly apply migrations, start the API. A
+running API may still read browser artifacts from disk, so changing files under it is unsupported.
+
+Discovery's existing rules carry over unchanged. Core scans the immediate, non-hidden directories,
+rejects a symbolic-link module directory, and rejects the whole inventory if any entry is invalid.
+Two consequences matter for anything that writes module storage:
+
+- the directory holds nothing but module directories;
+- hidden entries are ignored, so a module can be staged under a hidden name and then renamed into
+  place in one step.
+
+### An installed module directory is self-contained
+
+An installed module directory is **self-contained for runtime use**: every file the platform reads
+or loads from it, and everything those files import at run time, resolves inside that directory.
+
+It contains:
+
+- `package.json`, whose version matches the manifest's;
+- `ekklesia.module.json`;
+- every built artifact its manifest declares: the server entrypoint, the schema entrypoint when it
+  owns tables, the jobs entrypoint, and the primary, display, and contribution browser artifacts;
+- its migrations directory, with the journal and Ekklesia metadata, when it has migration history;
+- the **production runtime dependencies** of its server, schema, and jobs code, inside the module
+  directory. That includes `@ekklesia/module-sdk`, `@ekklesia/contracts`, Drizzle, and every
+  third-party package the module imports.
+
+Copying `dist/` alone does not produce an installed module. Source, tests, and development
+dependencies are not required.
+
+**The platform lends a module nothing.** Node resolves a module's imports from the module's own
+directory upwards, and the platform's own `node_modules` is never on that path. Ekklesia does not
+add it there through links, `NODE_PATH`, loader hooks, aliases, or import maps. A module whose
+imports do not resolve fails to load, and because startup is atomic, the API does not start. That
+failure is sanitized like any other.
+
+**Native dependencies** must be built for the platform image's runtime: its Node.js version and ABI,
+its C library, and its CPU architecture. The platform documents that runtime for each image.
+
+**Browser artifacts** are already self-contained bundles (ADR 0023, ADR 0040). Nothing changes for
+them.
+
+**Drizzle, for now.** A module defines its tables with its own copy of Drizzle, and Core runs that
+module's queries through the platform's Drizzle instance (ADR 0016). Objects from two copies of the
+library only interoperate when the copies are interchangeable. **The current implementation may
+therefore require a module to carry exactly the Drizzle version the platform uses.** This is a
+constraint of the current implementation, not a permanent part of the module contract. A stable
+module database ABI, or a compatibility rule that permits a range, replaces it when one exists.
+
+Core already validates a module's runtime and schema definitions structurally, against its own
+contracts. It never relies on object identity with the module's copy of the SDK. The module's
+`compatibility.moduleSdk` range continues to be checked against the platform's SDK version.
+
+The archive or package format a module is delivered in, how a package is signed, and how it is
+transported to an installation are deferred.
+
+### Disable, uninstall, and purge are different operations
+
+| Operation | Module code | Stored platform state | Module data |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| **Disable** (ADR 0028) | Stays installed; not loaded | Enablement record set to disabled | Kept |
+| **Uninstall** | Removed from module storage | Kept and ignored: enablement, configuration, Dashboard placement, grants | Kept: tables and rows, buckets and objects, migration history |
+| **Purge** | Not installed | Deleted | Deleted |
+
+**Purge is deferred.** Until it exists, nothing in the platform deletes module data, and removing
+module code never does. No table is dropped, no bucket or object is deleted (ADR 0030), and no
+migration history or stored platform record is removed just because a module is absent. There are
+no down migrations (ADR 0008, ADR 0009).
+
+**A removed module may be reinstalled** with the same module id, and it recovers its retained state:
+
+- its enablement decision, configuration, Dashboard placement, and grants apply again;
+- its tables and objects are where it left them;
+- its migration history is validated strictly again (next section).
+
+Reinstalling a newer version plans that version's new migrations on top of the retained history.
+
+**Dependencies are unchanged.** A present module whose *required* dependency is absent still fails
+discovery, and the API does not start. Dependents are removed first. An optional dependency may be
+absent, exactly as before.
+
+### Migration history for an absent module is retained and reported
+
+A module is **absent** when no module in the current discovered inventory has its module id.
+
+**Applied history belonging to an absent module is retained and reported, not treated as fatal.**
+
+- Its rows are still checked for shape and for global consistency: unique identities, and unique,
+  increasing applied order. A corrupt row still fails.
+- They are not matched against any inventory. Migration plan, apply, and Doctor report them as
+  retained history for an absent module: the module id and how many migrations it has.
+- Their presence never blocks planning or applying Core's migrations, or those of any present
+  module.
+
+**History belonging to a present module stays strict, including a module that has just returned.**
+Its applied history must be an exact prefix of its current journal, and every row must match its
+migration's module, tag, index, and checksum. Therefore:
+
+- a previously applied migration missing from the package fails;
+- a checksum mismatch fails;
+- a downgrade to a version with fewer migrations, or any incomplete or gapped history, fails.
+
+A different package that claims a retained module id is held to that history in exactly the same
+way.
+
+**Core's history is never treated as absent.** Rows belonging to Core's migration source are always
+validated strictly; an applied Core migration missing from Core's inventory is still fatal.
+
+Applying migrations never touches an absent module's database objects, and nothing runs a down
+migration or deletes data because a module is absent. Deleting retained history belongs to purge.
+
+This is safe because nothing applied in the platform can depend on an absent module's objects:
+
+- a module may not hold a foreign key into another module's tables (ADR 0007);
+- a module's migrations may change only its own objects (ADR 0008);
+- Core never depends on a module's tables.
+
+### The trust boundary does not move
+
+Installed modules remain **trusted backend code** (ADR 0006, ADR 0015, ADR 0021). They run inside
+the API process with its database role. Module storage, the read-only mount, and self-contained
+packages are integrity and operational properties. **They are not a security sandbox.** The
+read-only mount stops the Ekklesia process from modifying installed code. It does not limit what
+installed code can do.
+
+What the platform can still check against an installed directory is unchanged:
+
+- discovery: the manifest, the package, entrypoint containment, compatibility ranges, and the
+  dependency graph;
+- module, schema, and migration validation, run against module storage.
+
+The repository's boundary checks (`pnpm boundaries`) can only prove **source** modules present in a
+workspace. That includes the rule that every runtime import is a declared production dependency. An
+installed package normally ships no source, so the platform cannot run those checks on it.
+Conformance of a published or installed module must therefore be enforced:
+
+- by the module's own CI;
+- by packaging validation;
+- by the module harness (ADR 0047).
+
+Until packaging validation exists, installing a module means trusting that module's CI and the
+operator who installed it, exactly as installing trusted code always has.
+
+### Development keeps the workspace
+
+In a development checkout, `<repository>/modules` remains the default, and a module is still
+developed as a workspace package there. Module CI and the module harness may still assemble a module
+into a platform workspace to build and test it. A deployment image is never built from such a
+workspace.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- Every installation runs the same platform image, and that image is the one the platform's CI
+  tested. Installing, updating, or removing a module needs no image build. It needs only a
+  controlled restart and, when the module has migrations, an explicit migration plan and apply.
+- Per-installation assembly repositories become unnecessary. River of Glory Church's instance
+  repository keeps running its pinned image as a rollback path until the new model is proven there.
+  Once the platform image stops accepting modules from its build context, that repository cannot
+  move to a newer platform release, which is intended.
+- Module authors gain a packaging step: a self-contained directory with production dependencies and,
+  where needed, native binaries built for the image's runtime. Packages grow, and modules that share
+  a library each carry their own copy. That cost is accepted.
+- Removing a module no longer blocks migrations. Its data stays, and reinstalling restores it.
+- Operators own module storage: they create it, keep it in backups, and keep anything but module
+  directories out of it.
+- ADR 0047, still proposed, assembles a module into the platform and builds a deployment image from
+  it. Before it is accepted, it must instead run the module from module storage in the generic
+  image.
+- This ADR records the decision; it changes no code. Selecting `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`, the image
+  build, the retained-history policy, the read-only mount, and the CI proof that the image is
+  independent of installed modules follow in separate changes. Until they land, the repository
+  behaves as `deploy/README.md` and the development guides describe.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+- **Keep per-installation images (ADR 0044).** Rejected: every module change is an image build, no
+  two installations run the same image, and a platform build depends on its checkout.
+- **Lend modules the platform's dependencies** through links, `NODE_PATH`, loader hooks, or import
+  maps. Rejected:
+  - it couples every installed module to the platform's private dependency graph, so upgrading a
+    platform dependency could silently break an installed module;
+  - ESM ignores `NODE_PATH`;
+  - a resolution hook would be a second module-loading mechanism beside Node's own.
+- **Require one bundled file per entrypoint as the package format.** Not adopted as a requirement:
+  native dependencies cannot be bundled, and the package format is deferred. Bundling is one
+  permitted way to produce a self-contained directory, not the definition of one.
+- **Let the API write module storage, so it can install modules itself.** Deferred, not adopted:
+  code that can rewrite the code it executes is a larger trust decision, and it belongs with the
+  marketplace.
+- **Hot loading and unloading.** Rejected: ES modules cannot be unloaded, and atomic discovery,
+  dependency-ordered startup, and immutable permission composition all assume a fresh process.
+- **Delete data, or run down migrations, on uninstall.** Rejected: migrations are forward-only, and
+  a mistaken removal must never destroy data. Deleting data is purge, and purge is explicit.
+- **Keep rejecting history for absent modules (ADR 0009 as written).** Rejected: removing any module
+  with migrations would block every later migration, including Core's.
+- **Accept history for absent modules only behind an operator flag.** Rejected: applying migrations
+  with a module absent cannot harm that module's data, and the plan already reports what is
+  retained. A flag would turn every routine uninstall into a special case.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- The module archive or package transport format.
+- Package signatures and trust roots.
+- A marketplace or catalog.
+- An installer UI.
+- Installation by the running platform, and any write access for Ekklesia to module storage.
+- Hot loading, hot unloading, and file watching.
+- The purge workflow: deleting a module's tables, buckets and objects, migration history, and stored
+  platform records.
+- A stable module database ABI, or a compatibility rule wider than the current exact Drizzle
+  requirement.
+- A platform-provided packaging and package-validation command.
+- Publishing the platform image and automated deployment from CI, still deferred from ADR 0044.

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+# 0049: A module release is one immutable, self-contained package: Ekklesia Module Package v1
+
+- Status: Proposed
+- Date: 2026-10-07
+- Supersedes: none
+- Extends: [0048](0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)
+- Related: [ADR 0006](0006-versioned-capabilities-and-compiled-module-runtime.md),
+  [ADR 0007](0007-module-owned-drizzle-schemas.md),
+  [ADR 0008](0008-module-owned-migration-contracts.md),
+  [ADR 0009](0009-transactional-module-migrations.md),
+  [ADR 0016](0016-module-database-access.md),
+  [ADR 0021](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md),
+  [ADR 0023](0023-module-ui-build-pipeline.md),
+  [ADR 0028](0028-module-operational-lifecycle.md),
+  [ADR 0040](0040-module-stylesheets-and-artifact-isolation.md),
+  [ADR 0041](0041-module-browser-contributions.md),
+  [ADR 0044](0044-self-hosted-reference-deployment.md),
+  [ADR 0047](0047-module-ci-harness.md)
+
+## Context
+
+ADR 0048 took modules out of the platform image. An installation keeps them in its own module
+storage, mounted read-only, and discovers them at a controlled restart. Each installed module must
+be a self-contained directory: the platform lends it no dependencies. ADR 0048 deferred the format
+a module is delivered in.
+
+That gap is now the obstacle. Nothing yet produces an installed module directory except a test-only
+Dockerfile, so a module release cannot be built, distributed, and installed on its own. An
+investigation against the module template and Signage 0.1.2 established:
+
+- **`dist/` alone does not run.** Compiled server and schema code imports `@ekklesia/module-sdk`
+  (and through it `@ekklesia/contracts`, zod, and semver) and `drizzle-orm` by name, and Node never
+  resolves those from the platform's `node_modules`.
+- **Bundling works.** Bundling the template's server and schema with esbuild gave about 720 KB of
+  backend code and no `node_modules` at all. Inside the generic image, run as its unprivileged
+  user from a read-only mount at `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`, it passed module, schema, and
+  migration validation, and its server entrypoint imported. Core's own Drizzle instance built a
+  query over the bundled module's table.
+- **Native dependencies cannot be bundled.** Signage needs `sharp`, a Node-API addon whose
+  platform packages carry an 18.6 MB `libvips` shared library for one operating system, CPU, and
+  C library (Linux, x64, glibc ≥ 2.28). With its backend bundled and only `sharp` and its own
+  dependencies kept beside it, Signage was 22 MB and contained no link. It validated and processed
+  an image inside the same image.
+- **`pnpm deploy` is the wrong tool.** Non-legacy mode refuses unless the whole workspace switches
+  to injected workspace packages. Legacy mode leaves a link escaping the package. Every mode
+  ships packages nothing loads at run time (React and its DOM, type packages, database drivers
+  pulled in as peers) and leaves `workspace:` ranges in copied manifests. Running it inside a
+  workspace rewrites that workspace's install state to production-only, which then breaks the
+  workspace's own builds. It did so in the investigation's scratch workspaces, and earlier in a
+  developer's own checkout.
+- **A deterministic archive is cheap.** A tar archive with sorted paths, fixed owner and
+  timestamps, and a gzip header without a name or time produced the same SHA-256 twice. Gzip packed
+  Signage to 8.5 MB.
+
+Module releases also need a contract that does not depend on where they are hosted. Ekklesia's
+source and CI live on a Gitea server today; a marketplace, another host, object storage, or offline
+media may carry the same release tomorrow.
+
+## Decision
+
+### Purpose
+
+A separately versioned Ekklesia module is distributed as an **Ekklesia Module Package**: one
+immutable, self-contained archive. Installing, updating, or removing a module never rebuilds the
+platform image (ADR 0048).
+
+The package contract is independent of marketplace discovery, of the source-code host, of any
+artifact registry, of the church installing it, and of the URL it was fetched from. Catalogues,
+marketplaces, and signing are separate concerns, and none of them is decided here.
+
+### The artifact is a deterministic `.tar.gz`
+
+Module Package v1 is a gzip-compressed tar archive. Its identity is its contents, never its
+transport: the same archive may travel through Gitea, GitHub, an OCI registry, object storage,
+offline media, or a future Ekklesia marketplace without any change to what it installs. No registry,
+host, or OCI concept is part of the package format.
+
+The canonical packager produces the archive **deterministically**: the same packager version and
+the same inputs produce byte-identical output. At minimum:
+
+- **Entries.** Every directory and regular file appears in byte-wise sorted path order, directories
+  before their contents.
+- **Ownership.** uid and gid are 0 and the user and group names are empty.
+- **Timestamps.** Every entry's modification time is 0, and the archive holds no access, change, or
+  creation time.
+- **Modes.** Directories are `0755` and files `0644` (see [Archive safety](#archive-safety)).
+- **No host metadata.** No extended attributes, ACLs, or archive-level headers that carry host or
+  time information.
+- **gzip.** The header has no file name and a modification time of 0, at a fixed compression level.
+
+The SHA-256 of the complete archive is distributed beside it, as a separate `.sha256` file in the
+`sha256sum` format. The **recommended** file name is `<module id>-<module version>-<target>.tar.gz`,
+for example `signage-0.1.2-linux-x64-glibc.tar.gz`. A file name is a convenience, never trusted:
+what the archive is comes from its contents and its digest.
+
+### What a package contains
+
+A v1 archive contains exactly one top-level directory, named with the module id. Its contents are
+the installed module directory ADR 0048 requires:
+
+```text
+<module id>/
+  package.json             generated runtime metadata
+  ekklesia.module.json     the module's manifest, unchanged
+  ekklesia.package.json    package metadata (below)
+  THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES      licence and notice material for everything bundled or included
+  dist/                    bundled backend entrypoints, their shared chunks, and the declared
+                           UI, display, and contribution artifacts
+  drizzle/                 migration SQL, journal, snapshots, and _ekklesia.json, when declared
+  node_modules/            only when the package needs a native runtime dependency (below)
+```
+
+Every entrypoint the manifest declares exists at its declared path.
+
+It contains nothing else, and in particular:
+
+- source files, unless something at run time reads them;
+- tests;
+- TypeScript declarations;
+- source maps, until a later decision permits them;
+- development dependencies;
+- any `workspace:` reference;
+- any link (see [Archive safety](#archive-safety)).
+
+**The runtime `package.json` is generated by the packager, never copied** from the module's
+development workspace. It holds only what module discovery reads:
+- `name` and `version` (equal to the manifest's version);
+- `"private": true`;
+- `"type": "module"`;
+- `"ekklesia": { "layer": "module" }`.
+
+It declares no dependencies, scripts, exports, or imports, because nothing at run time resolves
+through them.
+
+The manifest is copied unchanged. It stays the module's authoritative runtime contract, and its
+`compatibility.platform` and `compatibility.moduleSdk` ranges stay the only place those are stated.
+
+### Backend code is bundled
+
+The canonical packager bundles the module's backend entrypoints (server, schema, and jobs) with
+every pure-JavaScript dependency they use. That includes `@ekklesia/module-sdk`,
+`@ekklesia/contracts`, and ordinary libraries. The bundles are ES modules at the manifest's declared
+paths, and they may share chunks under `dist/`. Browser artifacts are already self-contained bundles
+(ADR 0023, ADR 0040, ADR 0041) and are packaged as built.
+
+The platform lends an installed module nothing (ADR 0048). **`node_modules` in a package is the
+exception, not the default.** A dependency stays outside the bundle only when it must exist as
+separate files at run time: a native Node addon, or a package that is equally platform-specific.
+Then the package carries it, and exactly its own runtime dependencies, flat under
+`node_modules/<name>`.
+
+**The canonical packager decides what stays external, and validates it.** It refuses to package a
+module whose bundled code still needs a file it did not include, or whose externals are not native
+or platform-specific. Choosing which dependencies to leave unbundled is not part of the module
+author's interface.
+
+### Targets
+
+Every package has one **target**:
+
+- **`any`**: the package contains no native or platform-specific file. It runs wherever its declared
+  Node.js range is met.
+- **`<platform>-<arch>[-<libc>]`**: the package contains native code for exactly one environment.
+  - `<platform>` and `<arch>` use Node.js's own `process.platform` and `process.arch` names.
+  - On Linux, `<libc>` is required and is `glibc` or `musl`. On other platforms it is omitted.
+
+Examples: `linux-x64-glibc`, `linux-arm64-glibc`, `linux-x64-musl`. Signage, because of `sharp`, is
+`linux-x64-glibc` for the current production image.
+
+A package has exactly one target. A module that ships for several environments publishes one
+package per target. Packages carrying several architectures at once are not part of v1.
+
+### `ekklesia.package.json`
+
+For example (the values are illustrative):
+
+```json
+{
+  "packageFormat": 1,
+  "module": { "id": "signage", "version": "0.1.2" },
+  "target": "linux-x64-glibc",
+  "runtime": {
+    "node": ">=24.11.0 <25",
+    "nodeApi": 9,
+    "libcVersion": ">=2.28"
+  },
+  "provenance": {
+    "revision": "86ae907f59458508e3277666cdd214f5bd7c1078",
+    "repository": "https://example.org/your-org/signage.git",
+    "packager": { "name": "@ekklesia/module-pack", "version": "0.2.0" }
+  },
+  "incorporates": {
+    "@ekklesia/module-sdk": "0.1.2",
+    "@ekklesia/contracts": "0.1.2"
+  },
+  "transitional": {
+    "databaseRuntime": { "drizzle-orm": "0.45.2" }
+  },
+  "files": [
+    { "path": "THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES", "size": 48211, "sha256": "…" },
+    { "path": "dist/server/index.js", "size": 1346, "sha256": "…" }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+The fields are:
+
+- **`packageFormat`**: the integer `1`. An installer refuses a format it does not implement. Format
+  versions are strict cutovers, like manifest versions.
+- **`module.id`, `module.version`**: must equal the manifest's and the runtime `package.json`'s.
+  The top-level directory must be named with the id.
+- **`target`**: as defined above.
+- **`runtime`**: what the package needs from the Node.js runtime that will load it.
+  - `node`, a semantic-version range, is always present.
+  - A native package also states:
+    - `nodeApi`: the minimum Node-API version, for Node-API addons;
+    - or `nodeAbi`: the exact `process.versions.modules`, for an addon built against one Node
+      ABI;
+    - and on Linux, `libcVersion`: the minimum C library version.
+- **`provenance`**: how the package was built.
+  - `revision`: the exact source revision, always present.
+  - `repository`: informational only. Nothing trusts it, and it ties the package to no host.
+  - `packager`: the packager's name and version.
+- **`incorporates`**: the exact versions of the Ekklesia SDK and runtime libraries bundled into the
+  package. The packager refuses a package whose incorporated `@ekklesia/module-sdk` does not satisfy
+  the manifest's own `compatibility.moduleSdk` range, so the two can never disagree.
+- **`transitional`**: compatibility facts that today's implementation needs and that are not part
+  of the long-term contract. See [Database runtime compatibility](#database-runtime-compatibility).
+  An installer must understand every key it finds there or refuse the package.
+- **`files`**: one entry for every regular file in the module directory **except
+  `ekklesia.package.json` itself**, sorted by path. Each entry has its path relative to the module
+  directory, its size in bytes, and its SHA-256. The set is exact: a payload file missing from the
+  list, or a listed file missing from the payload, invalidates the package.
+
+The archive's `.sha256` covers the whole archive, `ekklesia.package.json` included. The per-file
+digests let an installer, or an operator later, check an extracted directory without the archive.
+
+Platform and Module SDK compatibility stay in `ekklesia.module.json` and are not repeated here.
+
+### Database runtime compatibility
+
+Core runs a module's queries through the platform's Drizzle instance over tables the module defined
+with its own copy of Drizzle (ADR 0016, ADR 0048). Those objects only interoperate when the two
+copies are interchangeable. So while it is needed, a package bundles Drizzle with its backend code,
+records the version in `transitional.databaseRuntime`, and an installer refuses a package whose
+Drizzle version differs from the platform's.
+
+**This is an implementation constraint of today's platform, not the Ekklesia Module Database ABI.**
+Object identity and version agreement between two Drizzle copies are not a contract this ADR
+establishes or that module authors may rely on. A separate Module Database ABI decision will replace
+it, and that ABI will make the platform's ORM an implementation detail. When it lands, the
+`transitional.databaseRuntime` requirement goes away under the format-versioning rules here.
+
+### Licence obligations
+
+Bundling copies third-party code into the module's own files, where the licence headers that came
+with it may not survive. **Every package therefore carries `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES`**: a generated
+plain-text file at the module directory's root. It names each third-party package bundled into
+or included in the package, with its version and licence, and holds the licence and notice text
+that redistribution requires.
+
+The packager's implementation must establish exactly how licence and notice material is collected
+and preserved, including licence comments that bundling would otherwise strip. Until it does, no
+package is treated as a distributable release.
+
+### Archive safety
+
+**v1 packages contain no links of any kind.** Neither symbolic nor hard links are permitted, so no
+link can escape the package, and there is no case where one is allowed. Native dependencies were
+packaged without any.
+
+A conforming archive also contains no:
+
+- absolute path;
+- `..` path segment;
+- path outside the single top-level module directory;
+- device node, FIFO, or socket;
+- setuid, setgid, or sticky bit.
+
+It holds only directories and regular files.
+
+**Extraction normalizes ownership and modes.** Everything is owned by the installation, not by the
+uid or gid in the archive. Directories are `0755` and files `0644`, readable by the API's
+unprivileged user and writable by nobody but the installer. No file in a v1 package is executable.
+Loading JavaScript and native addons needs no execute bit.
+
+An installer refuses an archive that breaks any of these rules, and never extracts it partially into
+module storage.
+
+### Installation model
+
+This ADR records the intended installation lifecycle; it does not implement it.
+
+```text
+acquire the archive
+→ verify the archive's SHA-256
+→ extract into a hidden staging directory inside module storage
+→ validate ekklesia.package.json, then every file's size and SHA-256
+→ validate the target and runtime against this platform and host
+→ validate the manifest and the complete candidate inventory: the installed modules, with this
+  candidate in place of any version of the same module
+→ load the backend entrypoints once in an isolated, short-lived validation process
+→ produce the migration plan
+→ stop the API
+→ swap the candidate into the active module directory, keeping the previous version
+→ apply migrations, only with explicit operator approval
+→ start the API
+→ verify readiness
+```
+
+Details:
+
+- **Hidden directories.** Staging and previous versions live in dot-prefixed directories inside
+  module storage. Module discovery ignores hidden entries (ADR 0048), so neither is ever loaded.
+- **The swap.** It happens only while the API is stopped. It is as close to atomic as the
+  filesystem allows, and an interrupted swap is recoverable from the kept previous version.
+- **Who writes.** Module storage stays read-only to Ekklesia. Whatever performs the installation
+  writes it from outside the API process (ADR 0048).
+- **No hot loading.** Discovery still happens only when a process starts.
+- **Migrations stay explicit.** Nothing in this lifecycle applies a migration on its own (ADR 0009,
+  ADR 0044).
+
+### Rollback
+
+- **Before any migration from the new version is applied,** restoring the previous module directory
+  and restarting is a supported rollback.
+- **After forward migrations are applied,** restoring older code is **not** a supported rollback.
+  The older package lacks the newer migrations, so migration planning refuses it as a downgrade
+  (ADR 0048). Even running it would mean old code against a newer schema. A true rollback then
+  means restoring the matching database and storage backup, unless a future, module-specific
+  compatibility mechanism says otherwise.
+
+There are no down migrations (ADR 0008, ADR 0009). An installer must make the point of no return
+explicit: back up before applying, and offer code-only rollback only while no new migration has been
+applied.
+
+### Trust
+
+The SHA-256 digest proves integrity: the archive is the one whose digest you were given. It says
+nothing about who published it. Package signatures, publisher trust roots, marketplace verification,
+and trust levels for third-party modules are deferred.
+
+Installed modules remain trusted backend code under ADR 0048. A conforming package is not sandboxed,
+and passing validation does not make a module safe; it makes it well-formed.
+
+### Canonical tooling
+
+Packages are produced by one Ekklesia-owned packager, proposed as the workspace package
+`packages/module-pack` with the command `ekklesia-pack-module`, run in a module's CI. Its command
+line is an implementation detail; this ADR defines what it must produce.
+
+**`pnpm deploy` is not the packaging mechanism**, for the reasons in Context:
+- it includes runtime dependencies nothing loads;
+- it leaves `workspace:` metadata;
+- it leaves links that escape the package, or needs a workspace-wide linking change to avoid them;
+- it rewrites the install state of the workspace it runs in.
+
+The repository's test-only packaging of the module template
+(`scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile`) is replaced by the canonical packager when one
+exists.
+
+### Relationship to the module CI harness
+
+ADR 0047, still proposed, is already marked for revision against ADR 0048. Its harness should
+consume canonical module packages: a module's CI builds its package, and the harness installs that
+exact archive into module storage of the generic image. The harness then tests the artifact a church
+would install, not a workspace build of it. Until the packager exists, the harness and smoke tests
+may keep their current test-only packaging.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- A module release becomes one file plus its digest, built once by the module's CI and installable
+  on any compatible Ekklesia installation without touching the platform image.
+- Module authors gain a packaging step and a target per native environment. A pure-JavaScript
+  module ships one `any` package; Signage ships `linux-x64-glibc` packages for the current fleet.
+- Packages are small and auditable: bundled code plus, only where needed, a native dependency
+  tree. There are no links and no development dependencies, and every file is listed with its
+  digest.
+- Each package carries its own copy of the SDK and contracts. Version agreement with the platform is
+  checked when the package is built, against the manifest's `moduleSdk` range, and Core keeps
+  validating module definitions structurally (ADR 0048).
+- Rolling back after a schema-changing update is a backup restore. Operators must take a backup
+  before approving migrations.
+- Licence handling becomes the packager's responsibility, and until it is proven no package
+  counts as a release.
+- The Drizzle requirement is visible in package metadata as `transitional`, so its eventual removal
+  is a recorded format change and not a silent behaviour change.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+- **`pnpm deploy` as the packager.** Rejected for the reasons in Context.
+- **Copying the workspace's dependency tree without bundling.** Rejected as the default. It ships
+  far more than runs (49 MB against 22 MB for Signage), keeps `workspace:` ranges, and makes every
+  pure-JavaScript dependency a file-layout concern. Bundling is already how browser artifacts are
+  built.
+- **Platform-lent runtime dependencies.** Rejected by ADR 0048.
+- **Installing the SDK from a registry when the module is installed.** Rejected: installation would
+  need network access and a resolver on every installation, and an installation's code would depend
+  on what a registry served that day. Publishing the SDK packages for module *builds* is a separate,
+  compatible future step.
+- **Module-author-chosen externals.** Rejected: an arbitrary external is an undeclared runtime
+  dependency the platform cannot verify, and it reintroduces the `node_modules` layout as a
+  contract.
+- **An OCI artifact as the package format.** Not adopted for v1: it needs registry tooling and login
+  to install, and adds nothing to integrity that the digest does not already give. Nothing here
+  prevents carrying the same `.tar.gz` inside an OCI artifact.
+- **`.tar.zst`.** Not adopted for v1: about 17 % smaller for Signage at a high compression level,
+  but about three times slower to produce there, and less universally available than gzip. A later
+  format version may add it.
+- **Packages carrying several architectures at once.** Not adopted for v1: each extra architecture
+  adds about 18.5 MB for Signage, for a fleet that runs one architecture. A later format version may
+  allow it.
+- **Permitting internal symbolic links.** Rejected: links are where escape checks are subtle, and
+  the native dependencies that motivated the question were packaged without any.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- Package signatures and publisher trust roots.
+- A marketplace or catalogue, and registry or hosting-provider integration.
+- An installer, and any installer UI; an automatic update service.
+- The purge workflow (ADR 0048).
+- Packages carrying several architectures at once.
+- The stable Module Database ABI that retires `transitional.databaseRuntime`.
+- Source maps and other debugging material in or beside packages.
+- Publishing the Ekklesia SDK packages for module builds outside a platform workspace.
+- Moving Signage to the new package format.

docs/architecture/decisions/README.md

@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@ ADRs capture durable choices that affect more than one package or phase.
 - [0044: Ekklesia ships one self-hosted reference deployment, composed from pinned sources](0044-self-hosted-reference-deployment.md) — Accepted
 - [0045: The Dashboard and the API may live on separate origins](0045-split-dashboard-and-api-origins.md) — Accepted
 - [0046: Ekklesia's branding is never forced on an installation](0046-installation-owned-branding.md) — Proposed
+- [0047: Every module proves itself inside Ekklesia, with one harness the platform publishes](0047-module-ci-harness.md) — Proposed
+- [0048: Ekklesia ships one generic image, and installed modules live outside it](0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md) — Accepted
+- [0049: A module release is one immutable, self-contained package: Ekklesia Module Package v1](0049-module-package-v1.md) — Proposed

docs/architecture/platform-architecture.md

@@ -652,3 +652,23 @@ Still deliberately absent after Phase 8: a theme editor, a brand builder, or any
 module store or installer; a standalone host; signed write URLs, resumable uploads, or any body above
 the absolute ceiling; module-owned offline *content*; and every real feature module, Signage
 included. Nothing in this pass claims any of them exists.
+
+[ADR 0048](decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md) separates the platform
+artifact from what an installation installs:
+
+- **One generic image.** `deploy/Dockerfile` builds one image with zero feature modules, the same
+  for every installation; a checkout's `modules/` never reaches it.
+- **Module storage.** Installed modules live in installation-owned storage that one Core resolver
+  selects from `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`. The API, every operator command, and Doctor use the same
+  resolver, and Core's own migrations are always found under the platform, never beside the
+  modules. A configured directory that is relative, blank, missing, or unreadable fails closed
+  with a sanitized error.
+- **Self-contained modules.** An installed module is a self-contained directory with its own
+  production dependencies; the platform lends it none. Discovery still happens only when a process
+  starts, so module changes take effect at a controlled restart and nothing is hot loaded.
+- **Removing keeps data.** Removing a module's code keeps its data and stored state. The migration
+  runner retains and reports the applied history of a module that is absent, instead of refusing
+  to plan, while Core's history and every installed module's history stay strict, so a returning
+  module that lost or changed an applied migration is still refused.
+- **Trust is unchanged.** Installed modules are still trusted code; module storage is mounted
+  read-only, which keeps Ekklesia from modifying installed code but does not sandbox it.

docs/development/api.md

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ No real values are shown here — configure per environment and never commit the
 | `EKKLESIA_DATABASE_CA` | Optional. PEM text of a private certificate authority to trust in addition to the system store, for a database using an internal CA. |
 | `EKKLESIA_API_HOST` | Optional. Listen address. Defaults to loopback (`127.0.0.1`). An explicit non-loopback address is permitted for future deployment. |
 | `EKKLESIA_API_PORT` | Optional. Listen port, `0`–`65535` (`0` requests an OS-assigned port). Defaults to `3000`. |
+| `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` | Optional. The installed-modules directory, as an absolute path ([ADR 0048](../architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)). Unset means the checkout's own `modules/`, where a missing directory is simply zero modules. Set, the directory must exist: a relative, blank, or unreadable value, or a missing directory, stops startup before any database connection with a sanitized `MODULES_DIRECTORY_INVALID` or `MODULES_DIRECTORY_UNREADABLE` that never contains the value. The production image sets `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`. Every operator command and Doctor read the same value. |
 | `EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_SECRET` | At least 32 characters, high entropy (for example `openssl rand -base64 32`). Same requirement as Phase 4A. |
 | `EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_BASE_URL` | Exactly one canonical `http`/`https` origin — scheme, host, and non-default port only, with no path, trailing slash, query, fragment, credentials, or explicit default port. `https` is required in production; loopback and unspecified hosts are rejected in production. |
 | `EKKLESIA_IDENTITY_TRUSTED_ORIGINS` | Comma-separated list of canonical origins, validated identically to the base URL (no wildcards). Used for both Better Auth's own CSRF/origin checks and the API's CORS policy — there is only one trusted-origin list. The base URL's own origin is always trusted as well and need not be listed ([ADR 0045](../architecture/decisions/0045-split-dashboard-and-api-origins.md)). |

docs/development/authorization.md

@@ -173,8 +173,9 @@ integration layer depends on authorization).
 exact same installed-module inventory every time it starts, in a fixed order, before anything
 else:
 
-1. Resolve module-discovery configuration (the repository's `modules/` directory, and the
-   platform/Module SDK versions from their own `package.json` files).
+1. Resolve module-discovery configuration: the installed-modules directory, chosen by Core's one
+   resolver from `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` (the repository's own `modules/` when it is unset, ADR
+   0048), and the platform/Module SDK versions from the platform's own `package.json` files.
 2. Discover installed modules exactly once (`discoverModules`).
 3. Compose the platform permission registry from that exact discovered list
    (`composePlatformPermissionRegistry`).
@@ -199,7 +200,8 @@ never falls back to `CORE_PERMISSION_REGISTRY` or any Core-only registry. The re
 resolved from this compiled/source file's own location (two directories up from
 `apps/api/dist/*.js` or `apps/api/src/*.ts`, which sit at identical depth), never `process.cwd()`
 — a package-scoped test run has `apps/api` as its working directory, which would otherwise point
-discovery at the wrong `modules/` directory.
+discovery at the wrong `modules/` directory. A configured `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` that is not an
+absolute path to an existing directory fails at step 1, before anything else exists.
 
 The resulting registry is a **static, immutable snapshot** taken once at startup. There is no hot
 installation, removal, or dynamic mutation of installed modules or their permissions while the

docs/development/repository-workflow.md

@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ The lint, typecheck, and test commands run both repository-root checks and every
 package-level Turborepo task. New packages add their own `lint`, `typecheck`, and `test` scripts;
 the root verification command discovers them automatically.
 
-`pnpm modules:validate` builds the workspace, then scans `modules/*` without a central registry. A
-missing or empty modules directory is valid and reports zero installed modules. Installed modules
+`pnpm modules:validate` builds the workspace, then scans the installed-modules directory without a
+central registry: the checkout's own `modules/`, or `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` when it is set (ADR
+0048). A missing or empty `modules/` is valid and reports zero installed modules; a configured
+directory must exist. Installed modules
 must produce the compiled JavaScript entrypoints declared by their static manifests. Each module's
 declared browser contributions are listed with their target capability and range, and marked
 according to whether a compatible provider is installed — a contribution nobody provides is otherwise
@@ -113,9 +115,12 @@ identity secret, not a module secret value.
 
 Every check has a stable ID and one of four states: pass, warning, failure, or skipped. Independent
 checks continue after a failure; a failed prerequisite causes only its dependent checks to be
-skipped. Pending or approval-blocked migrations are warnings and are never applied. Invalid
-history, checksum disagreement, unknown applied migrations, or a failed configured connection are
-failures. If `DATABASE_URL` is missing, PostgreSQL is skipped and all static checks still run.
+skipped. Pending or approval-blocked migrations are warnings and are never applied. Applied
+history that belongs to a module which is not installed is reported as `retained` and is neither a
+warning nor a failure (ADR 0048). Invalid history, checksum disagreement, an applied migration that
+an installed module or Core no longer contains, or a failed configured connection are failures. An
+unusable configured `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` fails module discovery. If `DATABASE_URL` is missing,
+PostgreSQL is skipped and all static checks still run.
 
 `READY` means every check passed. `READY WITH WARNINGS` means no check failed but at least one check
 warned or was skipped. Both results exit zero. `NOT READY` means at least one check failed and exits

docs/development/security.md

@@ -472,6 +472,15 @@ CI builds and smoke-tests end to end on every change against disposable services
 publishes, or runs it against a real installation. No `.env` has ever been committed; only
 `.env.example`, which the image build context excludes.
 
+The image contains no modules
+([ADR 0048](../architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)).
+Installed modules come from installation-owned module storage, which the reference deployment mounts
+**read-only** into `api` and `migrate`, so the Ekklesia process cannot modify installed code. That
+is an integrity property, not a sandbox: an installed module is still trusted code with the API's
+database role, exactly as above. The repository's boundary checks prove only source modules in a
+workspace, and an installed package usually ships none, so installing one means trusting that
+module's own CI and whoever placed it in module storage.
+
 Two production defaults are relevant but are **not** by themselves a deployment guarantee:
 
 - `apps/api` defaults its listen address to loopback (`127.0.0.1`), so it is not reachable off-host
@@ -693,8 +702,10 @@ public Dashboard login must be assessed with the actual edge/proxy controls befo
 
 ## Continuous integration boundary
 
-CI runs on self-hosted Gitea Actions runners. The inventoried server is **Gitea 1.24.2**, and that
-version determines which parts of the workflow are real guarantees and which are not.
+CI runs on self-hosted Gitea Actions runners. The server reports **Gitea 1.27.2** (`GET
+/api/v1/version`, checked 2026-10-06; this document previously said 1.24.2, which was stale). The
+server's actual version, not the documentation of an earlier one, determines which parts of the
+workflow are real guarantees and which are not.
 
 ### The current operating rule: trusted code only
 
@@ -727,24 +738,53 @@ so a later step in the same job cannot read or reuse it from there.
 It does **not** remove the short-lived `GITEA_TOKEN` from the job environment, and it does **not**
 reduce that token's server-side authority. A step that wants the token can still read it.
 
-### What Gitea 1.24 ignores — so the branch cannot claim it
+### What this server honours, and what is not yet verified
 
-Per the official comparison for this version
-(<https://docs.gitea.com/1.24/usage/actions/comparison>), Gitea 1.24's unsupported workflow syntax
-includes `permissions` and `jobs.<job_id>.permissions`, `concurrency`, and
-`jobs.<job_id>.timeout-minutes`. On this server those declarations are inert. Therefore:
+Each item separates what Gitea documents for 1.27
+(<https://docs.gitea.com/1.27/usage/actions/comparison>) from what has been observed on this server:
 
-- **The workflow's `permissions: contents: read` does not restrict the job token.** This branch
-  cannot claim the `GITEA_TOKEN` is read-only, because nothing in workflow YAML makes it so on
-  1.24. Job-token permission controls, repository/owner defaults, and server-side
-  maximum-permission clamping arrive in the 1.26 feature line
-  (<https://docs.gitea.com/1.26/usage/actions/token-permissions>).
-- **`concurrency` and `timeout-minutes` are not bounded-execution guarantees here.** Cancellation,
-  timeout, and teardown must be enforced by a trusted provisioner and reaper outside the workflow.
+- **`concurrency` is honoured.** Gitea supports it since 1.26 (go-gitea/gitea#32751), and on this
+  server a newer push to a pull request cancels the run it supersedes. Observed: Ekklesia run 133 was
+  cancelled when run 134 started for the same pull request, and run 135 when run 137 did. A
+  superseded run's own cleanup is therefore never guaranteed to run, which is one reason for the
+  stack sweep below.
+- **`permissions` is supported by 1.27, with Gitea's own scopes, but is not verified here.** The
+  server-side token-permission settings are not visible through the API, and nothing has yet proven
+  what the job token can and cannot do on this server. Until that proof exists (requirement 3
+  below), this repository still does not claim the `GITEA_TOKEN` is read-only.
+- **`timeout-minutes` is no longer listed as unsupported for 1.27, but is not verified here.**
+  Teardown does not rely on it: the stack sweep and a trusted reaper do.
+- **Still ignored:** `jobs.<job_id>.environment`, and any `runs-on` other than a single label.
 
-The declarations are kept deliberately: they are already correct for a supported Gitea release and
-for GitHub Actions, and keeping them means the upgrade does not require re-deriving the intent. They
-are documented as ignored, not removed.
+The declarations stay in the workflow either way: they state the intent, and are correct on GitHub
+Actions as well.
+
+### Disposable stacks never outlive their job
+
+Every CI script removes its own Compose stack in an `EXIT` trap, but a trap never runs when the runner
+kills the job container: a cancelled job, or the runner's own time limit. One such stack ran on the
+shared runner for two days. So stack cleanup has three layers:
+
+- **The script's own trap**, for every ordinary failure.
+- **A final `if: always()` step** in every job that starts stacks: `scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job` removes
+  everything that job started, at any age, even after a failed step.
+- **A sweep before every such job starts**: `scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale` removes anything a CI job
+  left more than three hours ago, which catches whatever a killed job could not clean up itself.
+
+A stack is found by name and label, never by guesswork (`scripts/lib/ci-project.sh`):
+
+- every CI Compose project is named `ekklesia-ci-<run>-<attempt>-<job key>-…`, and Compose labels
+  its containers, networks, and volumes with that name;
+- anything a script starts outside Compose carries `org.riverofglorymn.ekklesia.ci.project`;
+- images also carry the time CI built them, because an image's own creation time can be its base's.
+
+The job key is per matrix leg, so one leg's cleanup cannot match another's running stack. Nothing
+outside the `ekklesia-ci-` prefix is ever removed. A job container attached to a stack's network is
+disconnected, never removed.
+
+**This is not a substitute for a runner-side reaper.** A stack killed with its job is removed only
+when another job that sweeps runs on the same runner. Bounded execution and teardown are still the
+runner host's to enforce, as above.
 
 ### Runner topology is not verified
 
@@ -766,16 +806,17 @@ they are not conditions on merging trusted, reviewed work.
 None of them can be satisfied by editing this repository; each requires access to the Gitea server
 and runner hosts, and each must be proven there.
 
-1. Upgrade Gitea to a reviewed supported release with job-token permission controls — at least the
-   1.26 feature line. Select the actual release during infrastructure work, after backup and
-   compatibility review; do not pin a version from this document.
+1. ~~Upgrade Gitea to a reviewed supported release with job-token permission controls — at least
+   the 1.26 feature line.~~ **Done:** the server runs 1.27.2. Items 2 and 3 now configure and prove
+   what it makes possible.
 2. Configure repository and owner defaults, and the server-side maximum permission, so workflow
    code cannot request more than read-only repository access.
 3. Prove against the real server that the job's `GITEA_TOKEN` cannot push code, create or update
    releases, packages, issues, or pull requests, change Actions configuration, or reach another
    private repository.
-4. Enforce job timeout, cancellation, concurrency, and teardown in the trusted
-   provisioner/reaper rather than relying on the ignored workflow keys above.
+4. Enforce job timeout and teardown in the trusted provisioner/reaper. `concurrency` is honoured
+   by the server; `timeout-minutes` is not yet verified, and the in-workflow stack sweep only
+   complements a reaper.
 5. Complete a disposable-guest runner isolation proof: one throwaway guest per job, torn down by a
    trusted reaper outside workflow YAML, holding no deployment credential, registration token, or
    reusable key.

docs/development/testing.md

@@ -159,12 +159,28 @@ also receives a safely named disposable database. Direct host runs use a Docker-
 port bound only to `127.0.0.1`; a containerized Gitea job joins the isolated Compose network and
 uses the PostgreSQL service name.
 
+In CI, a stack whose job was killed before its own cleanup ran is still removed: by that job's final
+`if: always()` step, or by the stale sweep before a later job starts (`scripts/ci-sweep.sh`, see
+[Disposable stacks never outlive their job](security.md#disposable-stacks-never-outlive-their-job)).
+`bash scripts/test-ci-sweep.sh` proves what the sweep removes and what it leaves alone, against real
+Docker resources.
+
 The live suite proves fresh read-only planning, initial and incremental application, genuine
 no-op behavior, exact applied checksums and history, edited or corrupt history rejection,
 whole-batch DDL rollback, Drizzle breakpoint execution, real advisory-lock concurrency and
 timeouts, lock release after failure, exact destructive approvals, and public-error sanitization.
 It does not make migrations automatic during Core startup.
 
+It also proves ADR 0048's retained history for an uninstalled module end to end, with real
+discovery: Core's committed migrations (the newest one withheld at first) and the module template
+installed in a modules directory outside the repository are applied, the module writes a row, and
+its directory is removed. Planning then reports the module's history as retained, and the withheld
+Core migration applies with the module absent. The module's table and row survive. Reinstalled, the
+module's history validates strictly again with nothing pending, its row is intact, and a reinstalled
+package whose applied migration changed is refused. A history row for an absent module is retained
+and reported, never fatal, while an unknown row belonging to an installed module is still rejected
+without repair.
+
 A dedicated set of scenarios exercises the committed Core identity migration against real
 PostgreSQL: read-only planning on a fresh database, applying it and confirming exactly the four
 expected `ekklesia_core_*` tables and their indexes exist, a genuine no-op on a second apply, Core
@@ -548,6 +564,33 @@ the following pull-request status context to `main` branch protection:
 CI / migration-smoke (pull_request)
 ```
 
+## The generic platform image and the reference deployment
+
+These need Docker and build images locally; nothing is pushed or published.
+
+- `bash scripts/check-image.sh` builds the production image and proves it is the one generic
+  platform artifact ADR 0048 requires. It checks that the image has:
+  - no `/opt/ekklesia/modules`;
+  - no module template;
+  - no `ekklesia.module.json` outside installed dependencies;
+  - an empty, root-owned `/var/lib/ekklesia/modules`;
+  - `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` set, in the image configuration and in a running process.
+
+  It then builds again from the same checkout with a populated `modules/` directory, and requires
+  the same checks and an identical runtime file system. CI's `image-build` job runs it.
+- `pnpm deploy:smoke` (`scripts/smoke-deploy.sh`) runs the reference deployment end to end on the
+  generic image with empty module storage. With `EKKLESIA_SMOKE_TOPOLOGY=split`, the same image also
+  runs the installed-module lifecycle:
+  - the module template, packaged as a self-contained test module
+    (`scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile`, test-only), is installed into module storage;
+  - its migration is planned and explicitly applied, and the API restarted;
+  - a real browser mounts it;
+  - it is removed and the API restarted, and Core still runs, migrations still plan and apply, and
+    its data survives;
+  - it is restored, with its data.
+
+  See [deploy/README.md](../../deploy/README.md#testing-this-deployment).
+
 ## Safe troubleshooting
 
 Confirm the prerequisites without printing configuration:

docs/module-development/README.md

@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ application's. A module consumes those; it never redefines or bypasses them.
 
 ## Required package shape
 
-Each immediate child of `modules/` must be an ESM workspace package with a unique package name, a
+A module is developed as an ESM workspace package in a checkout's `modules/` directory, and it is
+installed, self-contained, into an installation's module storage
+([An installed module is self-contained](#an-installed-module-is-self-contained)). In a checkout,
+each immediate child of `modules/` must be an ESM workspace package with a unique package name, a
 strict semantic version, and the module layer marker:
 
 ```text
@@ -66,6 +69,73 @@ module with no migration history omits `entrypoints.migrations` and needs no pla
 The package version must match the manifest and runtime-definition versions. Internal package
 dependencies use `workspace:` ranges and supported public package entrypoints.
 
+### An installed module is self-contained
+
+Ekklesia's image contains no modules
+([ADR 0048](../architecture/decisions/0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)). An
+installation keeps installed modules in its own module storage, the directory `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR`
+names (`/var/lib/ekklesia/modules` in the production image, the checkout's `modules/` when it is
+unset). Discovery reads it only when a process starts. Nothing is hot loaded, and an installed module
+is read-only to the platform.
+
+An installed module directory is **self-contained for runtime use**. Everything the platform reads
+or loads from it, and everything those files import at run time, resolves inside it:
+
+- `package.json`, with no `workspace:` range needed at run time, and `ekklesia.module.json`;
+- every built artifact the manifest declares: `dist/server`, `dist/schema`, jobs, and the UI,
+  display, and contribution bundles;
+- the `drizzle/` migrations directory, with its journal and `_ekklesia.json`;
+- a `node_modules` holding the production dependencies of your server, schema, and jobs code,
+  including your own copies of `@ekklesia/module-sdk`, `@ekklesia/contracts`, and `drizzle-orm`.
+
+**Copying `dist/` is not an installed module.** Your compiled server code imports
+`@ekklesia/module-sdk` and `drizzle-orm` by name, and Node resolves those only from your module's
+own directory upwards. The platform's `node_modules` is never on that path, and Ekklesia adds it
+through no link, `NODE_PATH`, loader hook, or alias. A module whose imports do not resolve stops the
+API from starting with a sanitized `MODULE_RUNTIME_IMPORT_FAILED`, so test the directory you ship,
+not your workspace.
+
+**Native dependencies** must match the platform image's runtime: Node.js 24.18.0 on Debian 13
+(glibc), on the image's CPU architecture.
+
+**Drizzle, for now.** You define tables with your own copy of Drizzle, and Core runs your queries
+through the platform's Drizzle instance (see [Database access](#database-access)). Objects from two
+copies interoperate only when the copies are interchangeable, so the current implementation requires
+**exactly the Drizzle version the platform uses**: the one `@ekklesia/module-sdk` depends on. This is
+a constraint of today's implementation, not a permanent contract.
+
+Browser artifacts are already self-contained bundles, so nothing changes for them.
+
+The format modules are delivered in is proposed in
+[ADR 0049](../architecture/decisions/0049-module-package-v1.md): one deterministic archive per
+target, with bundled backend code, produced by an Ekklesia-owned packager that does not exist yet.
+Until it does, the repository's smoke test packages the module template with `pnpm deploy` in a
+disposable Docker build (`scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile`), a test fixture and not a
+package format. Never run `pnpm deploy` in your own workspace: it rewrites that workspace's install
+state to production-only, and the next build or `pnpm verify` then fails until a normal
+`pnpm install` repairs it.
+
+The repository's boundary checks (`pnpm boundaries`) prove only source modules in a workspace. An
+installed package normally has no source, so the platform cannot check it the same way. Your
+module's own CI is where its boundary rules, its production dependencies, and its behaviour inside
+Ekklesia are proven ([ADR 0047](../architecture/decisions/0047-module-ci-harness.md)).
+
+### Removing a module keeps its data
+
+Removing your module's directory from module storage is not deleting its data:
+
+- your tables and rows, buckets and objects stay;
+- the platform keeps its enablement decision, your configuration, its Dashboard placement, and
+  permission grants;
+- your applied migration history stays, and the migration plan reports it as retained history for
+  a module that is not installed.
+
+Reinstalled with the same module id, your module finds all of it again. Its history is validated
+strictly again, so a reinstalled package must still contain every migration that was ever applied,
+unchanged. Never delete or edit a released migration, and never ship an older version over newer
+data. Disabling is different from removing: a disabled module stays installed and is simply not
+loaded. Deleting a module's data (purge) does not exist yet.
+
 ## Canonical manifest
 
 `ekklesia.module.json` is inert and authoritative, so Core can validate every installed module
@@ -1447,7 +1517,8 @@ pnpm migrations:plan
 pnpm verify
 ```
 
-`pnpm modules:validate` builds the workspace and then atomically validates every installed module.
+`pnpm modules:validate` builds the workspace and then atomically validates every installed module,
+from the checkout's `modules/` or from `EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR` when it is set.
 It rejects malformed manifests, duplicate IDs or package names, version mismatches, incompatible
 platform or SDK ranges, missing required modules or capabilities, incompatible installed
 dependencies, cycles, and missing, escaping, or non-JavaScript server or schema entrypoints.

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ekklesia",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Open, modular church technology platform",

packages/contracts/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/contracts",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/design-tokens/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/design-tokens",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/module-sdk/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/module-sdk",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/module-ui-build/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/module-ui-build",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "bin",

packages/module-ui-host/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/module-ui-host",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/module-ui-sdk/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/typescript-config/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/typescript-config",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "private": true,
   "files": [
     "base.json",

packages/ui/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/ui",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

scripts/check-image.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Proves that Ekklesia's image is the one generic platform artifact ADR 0048 requires:
+#
+#   - it contains zero feature modules: no /opt/ekklesia/modules, no module template, and no
+#     ekklesia.module.json anywhere outside installed dependencies;
+#   - its module storage mount point, /var/lib/ekklesia/modules, exists, is root-owned, and is empty;
+#   - EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR names that directory, in the image configuration and in a running process;
+#   - a checkout with a populated modules/ directory builds the same image: the runtime file system
+#     of both builds is identical, and no module from that directory enters it.
+#
+#   bash scripts/check-image.sh                        builds both images from this checkout
+#   EKKLESIA_CHECK_IMAGE=<image> bash scripts/check-image.sh   checks one existing image's contents
+#
+# Both builds use a copy of the files Git would track (committed, staged, or untracked but not
+# ignored), so they differ in exactly one thing: the second context also has modules/example. Images
+# are built and inspected locally only; nothing is pushed, published, or logged in to.
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+repository_root="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "$repository_root"
+
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
+
+command -v docker >/dev/null || {
+  echo "check-image: docker is required." >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+project="$(ci_project_name image)"
+modules_directory="/var/lib/ekklesia/modules"
+work="$(mktemp -d)"
+built_images=()
+
+cleanup() {
+  local status=$?
+  trap - EXIT INT TERM
+  for built in "${built_images[@]}"; do
+    docker image rm --force "$built" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  done
+  rm -rf "$work" || true
+  exit "$status"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
+
+step() {
+  echo "==> $*"
+}
+
+fail() {
+  echo "check-image: $*" >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+# check_contents <image>: every content guarantee, inside the image and in its configuration.
+check_contents() {
+  local image="$1" configured
+  configured="$(docker image inspect --format '{{range .Config.Env}}{{println .}}{{end}}' "$image")" ||
+    fail "could not inspect ${image}."
+  grep -qx "EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=${modules_directory}" <<<"$configured" ||
+    fail "the image does not set EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=${modules_directory}."
+
+  # As root, so a directory the runtime user cannot read cannot hide a manifest. No network.
+  docker run --rm --network none --user 0:0 --entrypoint sh "$image" -ec '
+    fail() { echo "check-image: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
+    [ ! -e /opt/ekklesia/modules ] || fail "/opt/ekklesia/modules exists in the image."
+    [ ! -e /opt/ekklesia/templates ] || fail "the module template is in the image."
+    [ -d /var/lib/ekklesia/modules ] || fail "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules is missing."
+    [ "$(stat -c %U:%G:%a /var/lib/ekklesia/modules)" = "root:root:755" ] ||
+      fail "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules is not root-owned with mode 755."
+    [ -z "$(ls -A /var/lib/ekklesia/modules)" ] || fail "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules is not empty."
+    manifests="$(find / -xdev -name ekklesia.module.json -not -path "*/node_modules/*" 2>/dev/null)"
+    [ -z "$manifests" ] || fail "a module manifest is in the image: ${manifests}"
+    [ "$EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR" = /var/lib/ekklesia/modules ] ||
+      fail "a process in the image does not see EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR."
+  ' || fail "${image} is not the generic platform image."
+  echo "ok   ${image}: no modules, no template, empty root-owned module storage, EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR set"
+}
+
+# runtime_listing <image>: every path the platform and its module storage consist of, with its
+# type, mode, and size, in a stable order. Two builds that differ here differ in content.
+runtime_listing() {
+  docker run --rm --network none --user 0:0 --entrypoint sh "$1" -ec \
+    'find /opt/ekklesia /var/lib/ekklesia -xdev -printf "%y %m %s %p\n" | LC_ALL=C sort'
+}
+
+if [[ -n "${EKKLESIA_CHECK_IMAGE:-}" ]]; then
+  check_contents "$EKKLESIA_CHECK_IMAGE"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+command -v git >/dev/null || fail "git is required to copy the build context."
+
+# context_copy <directory>: the files Git would track, and nothing it ignores.
+context_copy() {
+  mkdir -p "$1"
+  git ls-files -z --cached --others --exclude-standard |
+    tar --null --files-from=- --create --file=- |
+    tar -C "$1" -xf -
+}
+
+tag_base="ekklesia-ci:${GITHUB_SHA:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}-"
+generic_image="${tag_base}generic-$$"
+populated_image="${tag_base}populated-$$"
+
+# build_image <context> <tag>
+build_image() {
+  built_images+=("$2")
+  DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --quiet --file "$1/deploy/Dockerfile" \
+    --build-arg REVISION="${GITHUB_SHA:-}" \
+    --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL}=$(date +%s)" \
+    --tag "$2" "$1" >/dev/null || fail "the image did not build from ${1##*/}."
+}
+
+step "Building the platform image from this checkout"
+context_copy "$work/generic"
+[[ ! -e "$work/generic/modules" ]] || fail "this checkout itself has a modules/ directory."
+build_image "$work/generic" "$generic_image"
+check_contents "$generic_image"
+
+step "Building again from the same checkout with a populated modules/ directory"
+context_copy "$work/populated"
+mkdir -p "$work/populated/modules"
+cp -R "$work/populated/templates/module" "$work/populated/modules/example"
+printf 'must never reach an image\n' >"$work/populated/modules/example/canary.txt"
+build_image "$work/populated" "$populated_image"
+check_contents "$populated_image"
+
+step "Comparing the two images' runtime file systems"
+runtime_listing "$generic_image" >"$work/generic.listing"
+runtime_listing "$populated_image" >"$work/populated.listing"
+[[ -s "$work/generic.listing" ]] || fail "could not list the image's file system."
+if ! diff -u "$work/generic.listing" "$work/populated.listing" >"$work/listing.diff"; then
+  head -40 "$work/listing.diff" >&2
+  fail "a populated modules/ directory changed the image."
+fi
+echo "ok   both builds have the identical runtime file system ($(wc -l <"$work/generic.listing") paths)"
+if [[ "$(docker image inspect --format '{{json .RootFS.Layers}}' "$generic_image")" == \
+  "$(docker image inspect --format '{{json .RootFS.Layers}}' "$populated_image")" ]]; then
+  echo "ok   both builds share every layer"
+else
+  echo "note the two builds' layers differ (a cold build cache); their file systems do not"
+fi
+
+echo "Generic platform image check passed."

scripts/ci-sweep.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Removes disposable CI stacks from the Docker daemon: containers, networks, volumes, images, and
+# staging directories on the Docker host.
+#
+#   bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale [--max-age-seconds N]   any CI stack older than N (default 3 h)
+#   bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job                           this job's own stacks, at any age
+#
+# Every CI script already removes its own stack in an EXIT trap, but a trap never runs when the runner
+# kills the job container: a cancelled or superseded job (the server honours `concurrency`), or
+# the runner's own time limit. So each workflow job that starts stacks ends with `--job` in an
+# `if: always()` step, and begins with `--stale`, which catches whatever a killed job left before
+# it could clean up.
+#
+# What a stack is, and how it is found, is defined in scripts/lib/ci-project.sh: a Compose project
+# named with the `ekklesia-ci-` prefix (Compose labels everything it creates with that name), plus
+# anything labeled EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL. Nothing outside that prefix is ever touched, at any age.
+#
+# --stale's threshold is far above any job's run time, so a stack another job on this daemon is using
+# right now is never young enough to match. --job refuses to run outside CI: locally, its prefix would
+# match a developer's own stacks.
+#
+# Best effort by design: a resource that cannot be removed is reported, and the sweep goes on. Output
+# names resources only; nothing a stack holds is printed.
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+repository_root="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
+
+compose_label="com.docker.compose.project"
+mode=""
+max_age_seconds="${EKKLESIA_CI_SWEEP_MAX_AGE_SECONDS:-10800}"
+
+usage() {
+  echo "usage: ci-sweep.sh --stale [--max-age-seconds N] | --job" >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+
+while (($# > 0)); do
+  case "$1" in
+  --stale | --job)
+    [[ -z "$mode" ]] || usage
+    mode="${1#--}"
+    ;;
+  --max-age-seconds)
+    [[ "${2:-}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || usage
+    max_age_seconds="$2"
+    shift
+    ;;
+  *) usage ;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+[[ -n "$mode" ]] || usage
+
+if [[ "$mode" == job ]]; then
+  [[ -n "${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-}" ]] || {
+    echo "ci-sweep: --job runs only in CI (GITHUB_RUN_ID is unset); locally it would match your own stacks." >&2
+    exit 2
+  }
+  prefix="$(ci_job_prefix)"
+  cutoff=""
+else
+  prefix="$EKKLESIA_CI_PREFIX"
+  cutoff="$(($(date +%s) - max_age_seconds))"
+fi
+
+if ! docker info >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "ci-sweep: no Docker daemon reachable; nothing to sweep."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+removed=0
+warn() {
+  echo "ci-sweep: warning: $*" >&2
+}
+
+# selected <project> <created>: whether a resource belongs to the sweep.
+selected() {
+  local project="$1" created="$2" seconds
+  [[ -n "$project" && "$project" == "$prefix"* ]] || return 1
+  [[ -z "$cutoff" ]] && return 0
+  seconds="$(date -d "$created" +%s 2>/dev/null)" || return 1
+  ((seconds <= cutoff))
+}
+
+# --- Containers: Compose's own, and those a script started itself --------------------------------
+mapfile -t containers < <(
+  {
+    docker ps --all --quiet --no-trunc --filter "label=${compose_label}"
+    docker ps --all --quiet --no-trunc --filter "label=${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}"
+  } | sort -u
+)
+for id in "${containers[@]}"; do
+  [[ -n "$id" ]] || continue
+  record="$(docker inspect --format \
+    "{{index .Config.Labels \"${compose_label}\"}}|{{index .Config.Labels \"${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}\"}}|{{.Created}}|{{.Name}}" \
+    "$id" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
+  IFS='|' read -r compose_project ci_project created name <<<"$record"
+  project="${compose_project:-$ci_project}"
+  selected "$project" "$created" || continue
+  if docker rm --force --volumes "$id" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ci-sweep: removed container ${name#/} (${project})"
+    removed=$((removed + 1))
+  else
+    warn "could not remove container ${name#/}"
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- Networks: anything still attached (a job container) is disconnected, never removed ---------
+mapfile -t networks < <(docker network ls --quiet --no-trunc --filter "label=${compose_label}")
+for id in "${networks[@]}"; do
+  [[ -n "$id" ]] || continue
+  # A network's creation time is a time value, not a string: ask for RFC 3339, which `date` reads.
+  record="$(docker network inspect --format \
+    "{{index .Labels \"${compose_label}\"}}|{{.Created.Format \"2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00\"}}|{{.Name}}" \
+    "$id" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
+  IFS='|' read -r project created name <<<"$record"
+  selected "$project" "$created" || continue
+  for endpoint in $(docker network inspect --format '{{range $id, $_ := .Containers}}{{$id}} {{end}}' "$id" 2>/dev/null); do
+    docker network disconnect --force "$id" "$endpoint" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
+      warn "could not disconnect a container from network ${name}"
+  done
+  if docker network rm "$id" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ci-sweep: removed network ${name} (${project})"
+    removed=$((removed + 1))
+  else
+    warn "could not remove network ${name}"
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- Volumes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+mapfile -t volumes < <(
+  {
+    docker volume ls --quiet --filter "label=${compose_label}"
+    docker volume ls --quiet --filter "label=${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}"
+  } | sort -u
+)
+for name in "${volumes[@]}"; do
+  [[ -n "$name" ]] || continue
+  record="$(docker volume inspect --format \
+    "{{index .Labels \"${compose_label}\"}}|{{index .Labels \"${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}\"}}|{{.CreatedAt}}" \
+    "$name" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
+  IFS='|' read -r compose_project ci_project created <<<"$record"
+  project="${compose_project:-$ci_project}"
+  selected "$project" "$created" || continue
+  if docker volume rm --force "$name" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ci-sweep: removed volume ${name} (${project})"
+    removed=$((removed + 1))
+  else
+    warn "could not remove volume ${name}"
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- Images built for a stack ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+mapfile -t images < <(docker image ls --quiet --no-trunc --filter "label=${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}" | sort -u)
+for id in "${images[@]}"; do
+  [[ -n "$id" ]] || continue
+  # Judged by when CI built it (EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL), never by the image's own creation time,
+  # which BuildKit may have taken from its base. An image without that label is never swept by age.
+  record="$(docker image inspect --format \
+    "{{index .Config.Labels \"${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}\"}}|{{index .Config.Labels \"${EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL}\"}}" \
+    "$id" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
+  IFS='|' read -r project built <<<"$record"
+  if [[ -n "$cutoff" ]]; then
+    [[ "$built" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || continue
+    selected "$project" "@${built}" || continue
+  else
+    selected "$project" "" || continue
+  fi
+  if docker image rm --force "$id" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "ci-sweep: removed image ${id#sha256:} (${project})"
+    removed=$((removed + 1))
+  else
+    warn "could not remove image ${id#sha256:}"
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- Staging directories on the Docker host ------------------------------------------------------
+# A deploy smoke run inside a job container stages its mounted files under the Docker host's /tmp,
+# named for its project, as root-owned files; they hold that run's disposable secrets and keys. They
+# are removed with the same pinned image that created them. If that image is not on this daemon, no
+# smoke has staged anything here.
+image="$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*image: \(postgres:[^[:space:]]*\)$/\1/p' "$repository_root/deploy/compose.yaml" | head -1)"
+if [[ -n "$image" ]] && docker image inspect "$image" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  age=()
+  # `find -mmin +0` does not match something younger than a minute, so a threshold under a minute
+  # sweeps without an age filter, like the rest of this script.
+  if [[ -n "$cutoff" ]] && ((max_age_seconds >= 60)); then
+    age=(-mmin "+$((max_age_seconds / 60))")
+  fi
+  if staged="$(docker run --rm --entrypoint find -v /tmp:/host-tmp "$image" \
+    /host-tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "${prefix}*" "${age[@]}" \
+    -print -exec rm -rf {} + 2>/dev/null)"; then
+    while IFS= read -r directory; do
+      [[ -n "$directory" ]] || continue
+      echo "ci-sweep: removed staging directory /tmp/${directory#/host-tmp/}"
+      removed=$((removed + 1))
+    done <<<"$staged"
+  else
+    warn "could not sweep staging directories on the Docker host"
+  fi
+fi
+
+echo "ci-sweep: ${mode} sweep removed ${removed} resource(s)."

scripts/lib/ci-project.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# shellcheck shell=bash
+# How CI names, labels, and later finds the disposable stacks it starts.
+#
+# Every Compose project a CI script starts is named
+#
+#   ekklesia-ci-<run id>-<run attempt>-<job key>-<kind>-<pid><random>
+#
+# and Compose labels every container, network, and volume it creates with that name. What a script
+# creates outside Compose (a browser container, a volume, an image) gets EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL with the
+# same name. scripts/ci-sweep.sh finds stacks by those labels: this job's own, by the prefix up to
+# the job key (in a final `if: always()` step), and any CI stack by age (before a job starts).
+#
+# The job key is EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY, which the workflow sets per job, and per matrix leg where a job
+# has one, so that one leg's cleanup cannot match another leg's running stack. Outside CI the
+# identifiers are "local".
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034 # read by the scripts that source this
+EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL="org.riverofglorymn.ekklesia.ci.project"
+# On images, when they were built, in Unix seconds. An image's own creation time is not that: BuildKit
+# gives an image that only adds metadata its base's time, and a reproducible build a fixed one. A
+# stale sweep that trusted it could remove an image another job is using right now.
+EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL="org.riverofglorymn.ekklesia.ci.created"
+EKKLESIA_CI_PREFIX="ekklesia-ci-"
+
+# ci_name_safe <text>: lower case, and only what a Compose project name may contain.
+ci_name_safe() {
+  local text="${1//[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/-}"
+  printf '%s' "${text,,}"
+}
+
+# ci_job_prefix: every project this job starts begins with exactly this.
+ci_job_prefix() {
+  ci_name_safe "ekklesia-ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-0}-${EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY:-${GITHUB_JOB:-local}}-"
+}
+
+# ci_project_name <kind>: a project name unique to this invocation. Not only per run: several runs,
+# and several jobs of one run, share a runner's Docker daemon, and job containers often share a PID.
+ci_project_name() {
+  ci_name_safe "ekklesia-ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-0}-${EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY:-${GITHUB_JOB:-local}}-${1:?ci_project_name needs a kind}-$$-${RANDOM}${RANDOM}"
+}

scripts/lib/deploy-smoke-client.mjs

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 //   node deploy-smoke-client.mjs edge     an ordinary, untrusted peer of the proxy
 //   node deploy-smoke-client.mjs tunnel   the Cloudflare Tunnel connector's fixed address
 //   node deploy-smoke-client.mjs session  the initial owner signing in and out through the proxy
+//   node deploy-smoke-client.mjs module   the test module `example` as the initial owner sees it:
+//                                          SMOKE_MODULE_EXPECT is "absent", or a JSON array of the
+//                                          exact values its records route must return (ADR 0048)
 //
 // Either topology (ADR 0045): SMOKE_HOSTNAME is the API's hostname, and SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME,
 // when set, the Dashboard's. Unset means the same-origin topology, where both are one hostname. Every
@@ -14,6 +17,8 @@
 // Output is one line per check; any failed check exits non-zero. Nothing printed carries a
 // credential, cookie, signed URL, or response body beyond the fixed shapes asserted here.
 
+import { connect as connectHttp2 } from "node:http2";
+
 const mode = process.argv[2];
 const apiOrigin = `https://${required("SMOKE_HOSTNAME")}`;
 const dashboardOrigin = process.env.SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME
@@ -192,6 +197,46 @@ async function splitCorsChecks() {
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * One GET over a real HTTP/2 connection. Node's fetch speaks HTTP/1.1, and the failure this guards
+ * against exists only on HTTP/2: a reset stream, which a browser reports as ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR.
+ */
+function http2Get(url, headers = {}) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const session = connectHttp2(url.origin);
+    const finish = (result) => {
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      session.close();
+      resolve(result);
+    };
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => finish({ error: "timeout" }), 10_000);
+    session.on("error", () => finish({ error: "session" }));
+    const stream = session.request({
+      ":method": "GET",
+      ":path": `${url.pathname}${url.search}`,
+      ...headers,
+    });
+    let status;
+    let responseHeaders = {};
+    let bytes = 0;
+    stream.on("response", (received) => {
+      status = received[":status"];
+      responseHeaders = received;
+    });
+    stream.on("data", (chunk) => {
+      bytes += chunk.length;
+    });
+    stream.on("error", (error) => finish({ error: error.code ?? "stream" }));
+    stream.on("end", () => finish({ bytes, headers: responseHeaders, status }));
+    stream.end();
+  });
+}
+
+/** The CORS headers of a response, by name: what a browser would act on. */
+function corsOf(response) {
+  return [...response.headers.keys()].filter((name) => name.startsWith("access-control-"));
+}
+
 async function storageDeliveryCheck() {
   // Core's own provider, from the image, exactly as the API composes it: it reaches object-storage
   // over HTTPS on the private network and signs read URLs for the storage hostname.
@@ -238,6 +283,79 @@ async function storageDeliveryCheck() {
       "a delivered object is Cache-Control: private",
     );
     await provider.delete(bucket, "smoke/object.txt");
+
+    // The same image, twice, over HTTP/2: a browser's second load of a signed URL it has cached is a
+    // conditional request, and must come back as a clean 304, not a reset stream.
+    const png = Buffer.from(
+      "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR42mP8z8BQDwAEhQGAhKmMIQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==",
+      "base64",
+    );
+    await provider.put(bucket, "smoke/image.png", png, {
+      contentLength: png.byteLength,
+      contentType: "image/png",
+    });
+    const image = new URL(
+      (await provider.createReadUrl(bucket, "smoke/image.png", { expiresInSeconds: 300 })).url,
+    );
+    const first = await http2Get(image);
+    check(
+      first.status === 200 && first.bytes === png.byteLength && Boolean(first.headers?.etag),
+      "an image loads over HTTP/2 through the proxy, with a validator (200, ETag)",
+    );
+    const revalidated = await http2Get(image, { "if-none-match": first.headers?.etag ?? "" });
+    check(
+      revalidated.status === 304 && revalidated.error === undefined,
+      `the same image loaded again over HTTP/2 revalidates cleanly (${revalidated.status ?? revalidated.error})`,
+    );
+    const sinceModified = await http2Get(image, {
+      "if-modified-since": first.headers?.["last-modified"] ?? "",
+    });
+    check(
+      sinceModified.status === 304 && sinceModified.error === undefined,
+      `a revalidation by date over HTTP/2 is a clean 304 too (${sinceModified.status ?? sinceModified.error})`,
+    );
+
+    // Delivery-layer CORS is the deployment's own, set by the proxy: exactly the origins whose pages
+    // read objects with fetch(), GET and HEAD only, and nothing of the object store's own answer.
+    const fromApi = await fetch(image, { headers: { origin: apiOrigin } });
+    check(
+      fromApi.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === apiOrigin &&
+        (fromApi.headers.get("vary") ?? "").toLowerCase().includes("origin") &&
+        corsOf(fromApi).length === 1,
+      "a read from the API origin is allowed for exactly that origin, with Vary: Origin and nothing else",
+    );
+    if (split) {
+      const fromDashboard = await fetch(image, { headers: { origin: dashboardOrigin } });
+      check(
+        fromDashboard.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === dashboardOrigin,
+        "a read from the Dashboard origin is allowed for exactly that origin",
+      );
+    }
+    const fromElsewhere = await fetch(image, { headers: { origin: untrustedOrigin } });
+    check(
+      fromElsewhere.status === 200 && corsOf(fromElsewhere).length === 0,
+      "a read from any other origin gets no CORS header at all",
+    );
+    const preflight = await fetch(image, {
+      headers: { "access-control-request-method": "GET", origin: apiOrigin },
+      method: "OPTIONS",
+    });
+    check(
+      preflight.status === 204 &&
+        preflight.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === apiOrigin &&
+        preflight.headers.get("access-control-allow-methods") === "GET, HEAD" &&
+        preflight.headers.get("x-amz-request-id") === null,
+      "the proxy answers a preflight itself (204, GET and HEAD only), never the object store",
+    );
+    const foreignPreflight = await fetch(image, {
+      headers: { "access-control-request-method": "GET", origin: untrustedOrigin },
+      method: "OPTIONS",
+    });
+    check(
+      foreignPreflight.status === 204 && corsOf(foreignPreflight).length === 0,
+      "a preflight from any other origin is answered without permission",
+    );
+    await provider.delete(bucket, "smoke/image.png");
   } finally {
     await provider.close();
   }
@@ -328,14 +446,72 @@ async function sessionChecks() {
   );
 }
 
+/** Signs the initial owner in, through the proxy, and returns the session cookie. */
+async function ownerCookie() {
+  const signIn = await fetch(`${apiOrigin}/api/auth/sign-in/email`, {
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      email: required("SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL"),
+      password: required("SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD"),
+    }),
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json", origin: dashboardOrigin },
+    method: "POST",
+  });
+  await signIn.arrayBuffer();
+  check(signIn.status === 200, "the initial owner signs in");
+  return (signIn.headers.get("set-cookie") ?? "").split(";")[0] ?? "";
+}
+
+/**
+ * The installed-module checks (ADR 0048): whether `example` is in the module inventory, and what
+ * its own route returns. Absent, it is in no inventory and its routes are not mounted at all;
+ * present, its records route returns exactly the expected values, which proves its tables, its
+ * dependencies, and the platform's database facade all work from module storage.
+ */
+async function moduleChecks() {
+  const expectation = required("SMOKE_MODULE_EXPECT");
+  const cookie = await ownerCookie();
+  const headers = { cookie, origin: dashboardOrigin };
+
+  const inventory = await fetch(`${apiOrigin}/api/v1/module-ui`, { headers });
+  const inventoryBody = await inventory.json();
+  const installed =
+    inventory.status === 200 && inventoryBody.modules.some((module) => module.id === "example");
+  const records = await fetch(`${apiOrigin}/api/v1/modules/example/records`, { headers });
+
+  if (expectation === "absent") {
+    check(inventory.status === 200 && !installed, "the module inventory has no `example` module");
+    check(
+      records.status === 404 && (await records.text()) === '{"code":"NOT_FOUND"}',
+      "the absent module's routes are not mounted",
+    );
+  } else {
+    const expected = JSON.parse(expectation);
+    check(installed, "the module inventory lists the `example` module");
+    const values = records.status === 200 ? (await records.json()).map((row) => row.value) : null;
+    check(
+      JSON.stringify(values) === JSON.stringify(expected),
+      `the module's records route returns ${JSON.stringify(expected)}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  const signOut = await fetch(`${apiOrigin}/api/auth/sign-out`, {
+    body: "{}",
+    headers: { ...headers, "content-type": "application/json" },
+    method: "POST",
+  });
+  await signOut.arrayBuffer();
+}
+
 if (mode === "edge") {
   await edgeChecks();
 } else if (mode === "tunnel") {
   await tunnelChecks();
 } else if (mode === "session") {
   await sessionChecks();
+} else if (mode === "module") {
+  await moduleChecks();
 } else {
-  throw new Error('Mode must be "edge", "tunnel", or "session".');
+  throw new Error('Mode must be "edge", "tunnel", "session", or "module".');
 }
 
 if (failures > 0) {

scripts/lib/deploy-smoke-display.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,979 @@
+// Real-browser display-device scenarios for scripts/smoke-deploy.sh in the split topology (ADR 0036,
+// ADR 0045). Runs inside a disposable container on the deployment's `edge` network and drives two
+// headless Chromiums over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, with Node.js's own fetch and WebSocket and no
+// other dependency: the smoke run's browser, where the owner signs in, and a "kiosk" browser whose
+// profile directory is a Docker volume that outlives the kiosk container.
+//
+//   node deploy-smoke-display.mjs <step>
+//
+//   pair               seed content, pair the kiosk, then close its browser cleanly
+//   restart            same profile, new browser process: still paired and live?
+//   two-pages          two pages, one device credential: does either flap?
+//   connectivity-blip  the browser reports offline then online: is a live display remounted?
+//   session-blip       Signage's first viewer-session request fails once: does the display recover?
+//   stream-failure     the first realtime connection is refused: is realtime re-established?
+//   caching-probe      can a display on the API origin store storage-origin images in Cache Storage?
+//   stream-recycle     one page past the five-minute realtime recycle, with a timestamped timeline
+//   revoke             revoke the paired kiosk while its display is open
+//
+// Every DevTools command and every page-side request has its own deadline, and a step has an overall
+// budget. A call that never answers fails the step with a line naming that exact call, because a call
+// that can hang the driver may be a request that can hang a real display.
+//
+// Output is one line per check or observation; nothing printed carries a credential, cookie value,
+// signed URL, query string, or response body.
+
+function required(name) {
+  const value = process.env[name];
+  if (!value) {
+    throw new Error(`${name} is required.`);
+  }
+  return value;
+}
+
+/** A positive whole number of milliseconds from the environment, or the default. */
+function milliseconds(name, fallback) {
+  const raw = process.env[name];
+  const value = raw === undefined || raw === "" ? fallback : Number(raw);
+  if (!Number.isSafeInteger(value) || value <= 0) {
+    throw new Error(`${name} must be a positive whole number of milliseconds.`);
+  }
+  return value;
+}
+
+const mode = process.argv[2];
+const apiOrigin = `https://${required("SMOKE_HOSTNAME")}`;
+const dashboardOrigin = `https://${required("SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME")}`;
+const ownerAddress = required("SMOKE_CDP_ADDRESS");
+const kioskAddress = required("SMOKE_KIOSK_CDP_ADDRESS");
+const watchMs = milliseconds("SMOKE_WATCH_MS", 120_000);
+const recycleWatchMs = milliseconds("SMOKE_RECYCLE_WATCH_MS", 330_000);
+const stepBudgetMs = milliseconds("SMOKE_STEP_BUDGET_MS", 180_000);
+/** How long one DevTools command may go unanswered. */
+const callTimeoutMs = milliseconds("SMOKE_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS", 10_000);
+/** How long one page-side HTTP request may go unanswered; shorter than the call deadline, so a hung
+ * request is reported as the request rather than as the evaluation that awaited it. */
+const requestTimeoutMs = Math.max(1_000, callTimeoutMs - 2_000);
+const waitTimeoutMs = 30_000;
+const deviceCookie = "ekklesia_device_session";
+/** Far above what three cached slides need, which is one object URL each. */
+const MAX_LIVE_OBJECT_URLS = 50;
+const stepStartedAt = Date.now();
+
+let failures = 0;
+function check(condition, description) {
+  console.log(`${condition ? "ok  " : "FAIL"} ${description}`);
+  if (!condition) {
+    failures += 1;
+  }
+}
+function note(description) {
+  console.log(`     ${description}`);
+}
+const clock = (ms = Date.now()) => new Date(ms).toISOString().slice(11, 19);
+const since = (from) => `+${Math.round((Date.now() - from) / 1000)}s`;
+function progress(description) {
+  console.log(`···· ${clock()} ${since(stepStartedAt)} ${description}`);
+}
+const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+/** A URL's path only: a signed delivery URL's query is a credential. */
+const pathOf = (url) => {
+  try {
+    return new URL(url).pathname;
+  } catch {
+    return "(unparseable)";
+  }
+};
+
+// --- Hang guards ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class HangError extends Error {
+  constructor(label, ms) {
+    super(`HANG ${label}: no answer within ${ms / 1000}s`);
+    this.name = "HangError";
+  }
+}
+
+/** Everything awaited right now, by name, so a step that overruns its budget says what it was
+ * waiting for. */
+const inFlight = new Map();
+let nextOperation = 1;
+
+function guard(label, promise, ms = callTimeoutMs) {
+  const id = nextOperation;
+  nextOperation += 1;
+  inFlight.set(id, { at: Date.now(), label });
+  let timer;
+  return Promise.race([
+    promise,
+    new Promise((_, reject) => {
+      timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new HangError(label, ms)), ms);
+    }),
+  ]).finally(() => {
+    clearTimeout(timer);
+    inFlight.delete(id);
+  });
+}
+
+function describeInFlight() {
+  const pending = [...inFlight.values()].map(
+    (operation) => `${operation.label} (${Math.round((Date.now() - operation.at) / 1000)}s)`,
+  );
+  return pending.length === 0 ? "nothing — the step itself overran" : pending.join("; ");
+}
+
+setTimeout(() => {
+  console.log(
+    `FAIL ${mode}: step budget of ${stepBudgetMs / 1000}s exceeded; in flight: ${describeInFlight()}`,
+  );
+  process.exit(2);
+}, stepBudgetMs).unref();
+
+// --- DevTools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/** The same minimal DevTools client as deploy-smoke-browser.mjs, with a deadline on every command. */
+async function connect(devtools, name) {
+  const deadline = Date.now() + 30_000;
+  let version;
+  while (version === undefined) {
+    try {
+      const response = await fetch(`http://${devtools}/json/version`, {
+        signal: AbortSignal.timeout(2_000),
+      });
+      version = await response.json();
+    } catch {
+      if (Date.now() > deadline) {
+        throw new HangError(`the ${name} browser's DevTools endpoint`, 30_000);
+      }
+      await sleep(500);
+    }
+  }
+  const socketUrl = version.webSocketDebuggerUrl.replace(/^ws:\/\/[^/]+/u, `ws://${devtools}`);
+  const socket = new WebSocket(socketUrl);
+  await guard(
+    `the ${name} browser's DevTools socket`,
+    new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      socket.addEventListener("open", resolve, { once: true });
+      socket.addEventListener("error", () => reject(new Error("DevTools connection failed.")), {
+        once: true,
+      });
+    }),
+  );
+  let nextId = 1;
+  const pending = new Map();
+  const listeners = [];
+  socket.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
+    const message = JSON.parse(String(event.data));
+    if (message.id !== undefined) {
+      const waiter = pending.get(message.id);
+      pending.delete(message.id);
+      if (message.error) {
+        waiter?.reject(new Error(`DevTools ${waiter.method} failed.`));
+      } else {
+        waiter?.resolve(message.result);
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    for (const listener of listeners) {
+      listener(message);
+    }
+  });
+  return {
+    close: () => socket.close(),
+    on: (listener) => listeners.push(listener),
+    send(method, params = {}, sessionId = undefined, where = name) {
+      const id = nextId;
+      nextId += 1;
+      socket.send(JSON.stringify({ id, method, params, ...(sessionId ? { sessionId } : {}) }));
+      return guard(
+        `DevTools ${method} on ${where}`,
+        new Promise((resolve, reject) => pending.set(id, { method, reject, resolve })),
+      );
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/** Finds a test id anywhere in the document, including inside module artifacts' open shadow roots
+ * (ADR 0040). */
+const deepFind = `((testId) => {
+  const walk = (root) => {
+    const found = root.querySelector('[data-testid="' + testId + '"]');
+    if (found) return found;
+    for (const element of root.querySelectorAll("*")) {
+      if (element.shadowRoot) {
+        const inner = walk(element.shadowRoot);
+        if (inner) return inner;
+      }
+    }
+    return null;
+  };
+  return walk(document);
+})`;
+const find = (testId) => `${deepFind}(${JSON.stringify(testId)})`;
+
+/** Installed before any page script: the browser's own connectivity events and the display service
+ * worker's fallback reports, which are what the display host remounts on (ADR 0043). */
+const instrumentation = `(() => {
+  const events = [];
+  // Object URLs created and revoked in this document. Each live one pins its blob in the browser's
+  // blob storage until it is revoked or the document goes away.
+  const blobs = { created: 0, revoked: 0 };
+  Object.defineProperty(window, "__displayRepro", { value: { blobs, events } });
+  const create = URL.createObjectURL.bind(URL);
+  const revoke = URL.revokeObjectURL.bind(URL);
+  URL.createObjectURL = (object) => { blobs.created += 1; return create(object); };
+  URL.revokeObjectURL = (url) => { blobs.revoked += 1; return revoke(url); };
+  const record = (kind) => events.push({ at: Date.now(), kind });
+  addEventListener("online", () => record("online"));
+  addEventListener("offline", () => record("offline"));
+  navigator.serviceWorker?.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
+    const status = event.data && event.data.ekklesiaDisplayOffline;
+    if (status) record(status.usingFallback ? "sw-fallback:" + (status.kind || "") : "sw-network");
+  });
+})()`;
+
+/** One page target with its own flat session, and what it does on the network. */
+async function openPage(cdp, url, label) {
+  const { targetId } = await cdp.send("Target.createTarget", { url: "about:blank" });
+  const { sessionId } = await cdp.send("Target.attachToTarget", { flatten: true, targetId });
+  const send = (method, params) => cdp.send(method, params, sessionId, `page "${label}"`);
+  const requests = new Map();
+  const page = {
+    label,
+    /** Every realtime connection: when it opened, its status, and when and how it ended. */
+    streams: [],
+    /** Signage viewer-session requests: one per module mount. */
+    sessionRequests: [],
+    /** Heartbeat statuses, by status code. */
+    heartbeats: new Map(),
+    /** Channel-state fetches and how they went. */
+    stateFetches: [],
+    /** Non-2xx responses and failed requests, by path only. */
+    problems: [],
+  };
+  cdp.on((message) => {
+    if (message.sessionId !== sessionId) {
+      return;
+    }
+    const params = message.params ?? {};
+    if (message.method === "Network.requestWillBeSent") {
+      const path = pathOf(params.request.url);
+      const entry = { at: Date.now(), path, type: params.type };
+      requests.set(params.requestId, entry);
+      if (params.type === "EventSource") {
+        entry.stream = {
+          openedAt: Date.now(),
+          path,
+          status: undefined,
+          endedAt: undefined,
+          how: undefined,
+        };
+        page.streams.push(entry.stream);
+      } else if (path.endsWith("/viewers/session")) {
+        page.sessionRequests.push(Date.now());
+      } else if (path.endsWith("/display-state") && !path.includes("module-realtime")) {
+        entry.state = { at: Date.now(), outcome: "pending" };
+        page.stateFetches.push(entry.state);
+      }
+    } else if (message.method === "Network.responseReceived") {
+      const entry = requests.get(params.requestId);
+      const { status } = params.response;
+      if (entry?.stream) {
+        entry.stream.status = status;
+      }
+      if (entry?.state) {
+        entry.state.outcome = String(status);
+      }
+      if (entry?.path.endsWith("/heartbeat")) {
+        page.heartbeats.set(status, (page.heartbeats.get(status) ?? 0) + 1);
+      }
+      if (status >= 400 || status === 0) {
+        page.problems.push(`${clock()} ${status} ${pathOf(params.response.url)}`);
+      }
+    } else if (message.method === "Network.loadingFinished") {
+      const entry = requests.get(params.requestId);
+      if (entry?.stream) {
+        entry.stream.endedAt = Date.now();
+        entry.stream.how = "finished";
+      }
+    } else if (message.method === "Network.loadingFailed") {
+      const entry = requests.get(params.requestId);
+      if (entry?.stream) {
+        entry.stream.endedAt = Date.now();
+        entry.stream.how = params.canceled ? "canceled" : `failed ${params.errorText}`;
+      }
+      if (entry?.state) {
+        entry.state.outcome = params.canceled ? "canceled" : `failed ${params.errorText}`;
+      }
+      if (entry && !params.canceled) {
+        page.problems.push(`${clock()} failed ${params.errorText} ${entry.path}`);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+  await send("Network.enable");
+  await send("Page.enable");
+  await send("Runtime.enable");
+  await send("Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument", { source: instrumentation });
+  await send("Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride", {
+    deviceScaleFactor: 1,
+    height: 1080,
+    mobile: false,
+    width: 1920,
+  });
+  page.send = send;
+  /** Runs an expression in the page. `what` names it if it never comes back. */
+  page.evaluate = async (expression, what = "an evaluation") => {
+    const result = await guard(
+      `page "${label}": ${what}`,
+      send("Runtime.evaluate", { awaitPromise: true, expression, returnByValue: true }),
+    );
+    if (result.exceptionDetails) {
+      throw new Error(`A page expression threw (${what}).`);
+    }
+    return result.result.value;
+  };
+  page.waitFor = async (expression, description, ms = waitTimeoutMs) => {
+    const deadline = Date.now() + ms;
+    while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+      if (
+        await page
+          .evaluate(`Boolean(${expression})`, `waiting for ${description}`)
+          .catch((error) => {
+            if (error instanceof HangError) throw error;
+            return false;
+          })
+      ) {
+        return true;
+      }
+      await sleep(250);
+    }
+    note(`timed out waiting for ${description}`);
+    return false;
+  };
+  /** A credentialed request from this page, bounded in the page itself, so a request that never
+   * answers is reported as that request. */
+  page.request = async (method, url, body) => {
+    const result = await page.evaluate(
+      `fetch(${JSON.stringify(url)}, {
+        credentials: "include",
+        method: ${JSON.stringify(method)},
+        signal: AbortSignal.timeout(${requestTimeoutMs}),
+        ${body === undefined ? "" : `headers: { "content-type": "application/json" }, body: ${JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify(body))},`}
+      }).then(
+        async (response) => ({ status: response.status, body: await response.json().catch(() => null) }),
+        (error) => ({ status: error && error.name === "TimeoutError" ? "timeout" : "network-error" }),
+      )`,
+      `${method} ${pathOf(url)}`,
+    );
+    if (result.status === "timeout") {
+      throw new HangError(`HTTP ${method} ${pathOf(url)} from page "${label}"`, requestTimeoutMs);
+    }
+    return result;
+  };
+  page.close = () => cdp.send("Target.closeTarget", { targetId });
+  page.navigate = (to) => send("Page.navigate", { url: to });
+  if (url) {
+    await page.navigate(url);
+  }
+  return page;
+}
+
+/** The owner, signed in on the Dashboard hostname of the smoke run's own browser. */
+async function ownerPage() {
+  const cdp = await connect(ownerAddress, "owner");
+  const page = await openPage(cdp, `${dashboardOrigin}/`, "owner");
+  await page.waitFor(`${find("login-email")} || ${find("host-shell")}`, "the Dashboard");
+  if (!(await page.evaluate(`Boolean(${find("host-shell")})`, "checking the session"))) {
+    await page.evaluate(
+      `(() => {
+        const setValue = (element, value) => {
+          Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(HTMLInputElement.prototype, "value").set.call(element, value);
+          element.dispatchEvent(new Event("input", { bubbles: true }));
+        };
+        setValue(${find("login-email")}, ${JSON.stringify(required("SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL"))});
+        setValue(${find("login-password")}, ${JSON.stringify(required("SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD"))});
+        ${find("login-email")}.form.requestSubmit();
+      })()`,
+      "submitting the sign-in form",
+    );
+    check(await page.waitFor(find("host-shell"), "the signed-in Dashboard"), "the owner signs in");
+  }
+  page.api = (method, path, body) => page.request(method, `${apiOrigin}${path}`, body);
+  return { cdp, page };
+}
+
+/** Closes the owner's tab as well as the connection: the owner browser is shared by every step, and a
+ * tab left behind by each one accumulates until the Dashboard no longer renders in time. */
+async function finishOwner(owner) {
+  await owner.page.close().catch(() => undefined);
+  owner.cdp.close();
+}
+
+async function displayModuleId(owner) {
+  const navigation = await owner.api("GET", "/api/v1/dashboard/navigation");
+  const entries = [
+    ...navigation.body.ungrouped,
+    ...navigation.body.groups.flatMap((group) => group.modules),
+  ];
+  const withDisplay = entries.filter((entry) => entry.module.display !== null);
+  const signage = withDisplay.find((entry) => entry.module.id === "signage");
+  return (signage ?? withDisplay[0])?.module.id;
+}
+
+/** Three slides of plain colour, on a five-second rotation, so a display has real content to persist
+ * and continue from, as the production screen did. Signage only. */
+async function seedSignage(owner) {
+  const base = "/api/v1/modules/signage";
+  const images = [];
+  for (const [index, colour] of ["#b03030", "#3060b0", "#30a050"].entries()) {
+    const uploaded = await owner.evaluate(
+      `(async () => {
+        const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+        canvas.width = 640;
+        canvas.height = 360;
+        const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
+        context.fillStyle = ${JSON.stringify(colour)};
+        context.fillRect(0, 0, 640, 360);
+        const blob = await new Promise((resolve) => canvas.toBlob(resolve, "image/png"));
+        const response = await fetch(${JSON.stringify(`${apiOrigin}${base}/images?filename=slide-${index}.png&displayName=Slide%20${index}`)}, {
+          body: blob, credentials: "include", headers: { "content-type": "image/png" }, method: "POST",
+          signal: AbortSignal.timeout(${requestTimeoutMs}),
+        });
+        return { status: response.status, body: await response.json().catch(() => null) };
+      })()`,
+      `uploading slide ${index}`,
+    );
+    images.push(uploaded.body?.image?.id);
+  }
+  check(
+    images.every((id) => typeof id === "string"),
+    "three slides are uploaded to Signage",
+  );
+  const timeline = await owner.api("POST", `${base}/timelines`, { name: "Display repro" });
+  const timelineId = timeline.body?.timeline?.id ?? timeline.body?.id;
+  for (const itemId of images) {
+    await owner.api("POST", `${base}/timelines/${timelineId}/slots`, {
+      durationOverrideMs: 5_000,
+      itemId,
+      providerId: "signage.native-images",
+    });
+  }
+  const groups = await owner.api("GET", `${base}/channel-groups`);
+  const groupId = groups.body?.groups?.[0]?.id;
+  const activated = await owner.api("POST", `${base}/playback/${groupId}/activate`, {
+    timelineId,
+  });
+  check(activated.status === 200, "a three-slide timeline is playing on the default channel group");
+}
+
+async function signageViewers(owner) {
+  const listed = await owner.api("GET", "/api/v1/modules/signage/viewers");
+  return listed.body?.viewers ?? [];
+}
+
+async function coreDevices(owner) {
+  const listed = await owner.api("GET", "/api/v1/devices");
+  return listed.body?.devices ?? [];
+}
+
+/** The display's own view of itself: which host state is showing, and Signage's offline flag. */
+function displayState(page) {
+  return page.evaluate(
+    `(() => {
+      const stage = ${find("signage-stage")};
+      return {
+        pairing: Boolean(${find("display-pairing")}),
+        hostLoading: Boolean(${find("display-host-loading")}) || Boolean(${find("display-loading")}),
+        hostError: Boolean(${find("display-host-error")}) || Boolean(${find("display-error")}),
+        hostOffline: Boolean(${find("display-offline")}),
+        mounted: (${find("display-module-container")}?.childElementCount ?? 0) > 0,
+        signageOffline: stage ? stage.dataset.offline === "true" : null,
+      };
+    })()`,
+    "reading the display state",
+  );
+}
+
+async function blobCounts(page) {
+  return page.evaluate(
+    "window.__displayRepro ? window.__displayRepro.blobs : { created: 0, revoked: 0 }",
+    "reading object-URL counts",
+  );
+}
+
+async function connectivityEvents(page) {
+  return page.evaluate(
+    "window.__displayRepro ? window.__displayRepro.events : []",
+    "reading connectivity events",
+  );
+}
+
+async function describeDeviceCookie(cdp) {
+  const { cookies } = await cdp.send("Storage.getCookies");
+  const cookie = cookies.find((candidate) => candidate.name === deviceCookie);
+  if (!cookie) {
+    note(`${deviceCookie}: absent from the profile`);
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const days = cookie.session
+    ? "session"
+    : `${((cookie.expires * 1000 - Date.now()) / 86_400_000).toFixed(1)} days`;
+  note(
+    `${deviceCookie}: domain=${cookie.domain} session=${cookie.session} lifetime=${days} httpOnly=${cookie.httpOnly} secure=${cookie.secure} sameSite=${cookie.sameSite}`,
+  );
+  return cookie;
+}
+
+const liveExpression = `(() => {
+  const stage = ${find("signage-stage")};
+  const mounted = (${find("display-module-container")}?.childElementCount ?? 0) > 0;
+  return mounted && !${find("display-pairing")} && (stage === null || stage.dataset.offline === "false");
+})()`;
+
+function waitLive(page, description, ms = 45_000) {
+  return page.waitFor(liveExpression, description, ms);
+}
+
+/** A page's network story, one line each, by path only. */
+function summarize(page, from) {
+  const at = (ms) => (ms === undefined ? "-" : `${clock(ms)} (${Math.round((ms - from) / 1000)}s)`);
+  note(`${page.label}: viewer sessions opened ${page.sessionRequests.length} (= module mounts)`);
+  note(
+    `${page.label}: heartbeats ${[...page.heartbeats].map(([status, count]) => `${status}×${count}`).join(" ") || "none"}`,
+  );
+  const states = page.stateFetches.reduce((tally, fetch) => {
+    tally[fetch.outcome] = (tally[fetch.outcome] ?? 0) + 1;
+    return tally;
+  }, {});
+  note(`${page.label}: channel-state fetches ${JSON.stringify(states)}`);
+  for (const stream of page.streams) {
+    const lived =
+      stream.endedAt === undefined
+        ? "open"
+        : `${Math.round((stream.endedAt - stream.openedAt) / 1000)}s`;
+    note(
+      `${page.label}: stream opened ${at(stream.openedAt)} status ${stream.status ?? "-"} ended ${at(stream.endedAt)} ${stream.how ?? ""} lived ${lived}`,
+    );
+  }
+  note(`${page.label}: problems ${page.problems.slice(-12).join(" | ") || "none"}`);
+}
+
+/** Samples display state on an interval for a fixed time, printing progress, and returns a tally. */
+async function watch(pages, ms, { onSample, viewerOwner } = {}) {
+  const from = Date.now();
+  const tally = new Map(
+    pages.map((page) => [
+      page.label,
+      { loading: 0, offline: 0, pairing: 0, samples: 0, transitions: [] },
+    ]),
+  );
+  const last = new Map();
+  let nextProgress = from + 15_000;
+  const roster = [];
+  while (Date.now() - from < ms) {
+    for (const page of pages) {
+      const state = await displayState(page);
+      const t = tally.get(page.label);
+      t.samples += 1;
+      if (state.signageOffline || state.hostOffline) t.offline += 1;
+      if (state.pairing) t.pairing += 1;
+      if (state.hostLoading) t.loading += 1;
+      const key = JSON.stringify(state);
+      if (last.get(page.label) !== key) {
+        last.set(page.label, key);
+        t.transitions.push(`${clock()} ${since(from)} ${key}`);
+      }
+      if (onSample && (await onSample(page, state))) {
+        return { from, roster, stopped: true, tally };
+      }
+    }
+    if (Date.now() >= nextProgress) {
+      nextProgress = Date.now() + 15_000;
+      if (viewerOwner) {
+        const viewers = await signageViewers(viewerOwner);
+        roster.push(
+          `${since(from)} ${viewers.map((v) => `${v.name}:${v.online ? "Online" : "Offline"}`).join(",")}`,
+        );
+      }
+      const lines = [];
+      for (const page of pages) {
+        const t = tally.get(page.label);
+        const blobs = await blobCounts(page);
+        lines.push(
+          `${page.label}: ${t.samples} samples, offline ${t.offline}, mounts ${page.sessionRequests.length}, streams ${page.streams.length}, live object URLs ${blobs.created - blobs.revoked}`,
+        );
+      }
+      progress(lines.join(" · "));
+    }
+    await sleep(2_000);
+  }
+  return { from, roster, stopped: false, tally };
+}
+
+function printTally(result) {
+  for (const [label, t] of result.tally) {
+    note(
+      `${label}: ${t.samples} samples, offline in ${t.offline}, pairing in ${t.pairing}, loading in ${t.loading}`,
+    );
+    for (const transition of t.transitions.slice(0, 30)) {
+      note(`  ${label} ${transition}`);
+    }
+  }
+  if (result.roster.length > 0) {
+    note(`roster over time: ${result.roster.join(" ; ")}`);
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Steps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+async function run() {
+  if (mode === "pair") {
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    check(moduleId !== undefined, `a module publishes a display (${moduleId})`);
+    if (moduleId === "signage") {
+      await seedSignage(owner.page);
+    }
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const display = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "kiosk");
+    check(
+      await display.waitFor(find("display-pairing-code"), "a pairing code"),
+      "an unpaired kiosk shows a pairing code",
+    );
+    const code = (
+      await display.evaluate(`${find("display-pairing-code")}.textContent`, "reading the code")
+    ).replace(/\D/gu, "");
+    const approved = await owner.page.api("POST", "/api/v1/device-pairing/approvals", {
+      code,
+      deviceName: "Repro kiosk",
+    });
+    check(approved.status === 200, "the owner approves the code");
+    check(
+      await waitLive(display, "the paired display to go live"),
+      "the paired kiosk mounts the display and is live",
+    );
+    await describeDeviceCookie(kiosk);
+    progress("letting heartbeats, a persisted snapshot, and media prefetch happen (20s)");
+    await sleep(20_000);
+    for (const viewer of await signageViewers(owner.page)) {
+      note(
+        `signage viewer "${viewer.name}" online=${viewer.online} offlineReady=${viewer.offlineReady} cachedAssets=${viewer.cachedAssetCount} error=${viewer.lastError?.code ?? "none"}`,
+      );
+    }
+    summarize(display, stepStartedAt);
+    // A clean exit: the browser shuts down normally, exactly as a systemd stop of a well-behaved kiosk.
+    await kiosk.send("Browser.close").catch(() => undefined);
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "restart") {
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const cookie = await describeDeviceCookie(kiosk);
+    check(cookie !== undefined, "the device credential survived a clean browser exit");
+    const display = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "kiosk");
+    const live = await waitLive(display, "the restarted display to go live");
+    const state = await displayState(display);
+    check(
+      live && !state.pairing,
+      `after a clean restart the kiosk is still paired and live (${JSON.stringify(state)})`,
+    );
+    summarize(display, stepStartedAt);
+    await display.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "two-pages") {
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const url = `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`;
+    const first = await openPage(kiosk, url, "first");
+    check(await waitLive(first, "the first page"), "the first page is live");
+    const second = await openPage(kiosk, url, "second");
+    check(await waitLive(second, "the second page"), "the second page is live");
+    const result = await watch([first, second], watchMs, { viewerOwner: owner.page });
+    printTally(result);
+    for (const page of [first, second]) {
+      summarize(page, result.from);
+      note(`${page.label}: connectivity events ${JSON.stringify(await connectivityEvents(page))}`);
+    }
+    check(
+      [...result.tally.values()].every((t) => t.offline === 0),
+      `neither page showed an offline state while both were open (${watchMs / 1000}s)`,
+    );
+    check(
+      [first, second].every((page) => page.sessionRequests.length === 1),
+      "neither page was remounted while both were open",
+    );
+    await first.close();
+    await second.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "connectivity-blip") {
+    // The browser's own offline/online events, as a Wi-Fi reassociation or a link flap produces. The
+    // display host re-resolves its descriptor on "online" (ADR 0043); this measures what that costs.
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "blip");
+    check(await waitLive(page, "the display"), "the display is live");
+    const mountsBefore = page.sessionRequests.length;
+    await page.evaluate(
+      `dispatchEvent(new Event("offline")); setTimeout(() => dispatchEvent(new Event("online")), 1000)`,
+      "dispatching offline then online",
+    );
+    let firstOfflineAt;
+    let lastOfflineAt;
+    const result = await watch([page], 30_000, {
+      onSample: (_page, state) => {
+        if (state.signageOffline || state.hostOffline || state.hostLoading || !state.mounted) {
+          firstOfflineAt ??= Date.now();
+          lastOfflineAt = Date.now();
+        }
+        return false;
+      },
+    });
+    printTally(result);
+    const remounts = page.sessionRequests.length - mountsBefore;
+    note(`remounts caused by one offline/online pair: ${remounts}`);
+    note(
+      firstOfflineAt === undefined
+        ? "nothing visible changed"
+        : `visible disruption from ${clock(firstOfflineAt)} to ${clock(lastOfflineAt)} (sampled every 2s)`,
+    );
+    summarize(page, result.from);
+    check(remounts === 0, "a connectivity blip does not remount a live display");
+    check(
+      firstOfflineAt === undefined,
+      "a connectivity blip does not show an offline state on a live display",
+    );
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "session-blip") {
+    // One transient failure of Signage's viewer-session request at start-up, as a kiosk booting
+    // before its network settles, or an API restart, would produce. Everything else reaches the
+    // server.
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, undefined, "session-blip");
+    let blocked = 0;
+    kiosk.on((message) => {
+      if (message.method === "Fetch.requestPaused") {
+        const { requestId, request } = message.params;
+        if (blocked === 0 && pathOf(request.url).endsWith("/viewers/session")) {
+          blocked += 1;
+          page
+            .send("Fetch.failRequest", { errorReason: "ConnectionRefused", requestId })
+            .catch((error) => note(`interception reply failed: ${error.message}`));
+        } else {
+          page
+            .send("Fetch.continueRequest", { requestId })
+            .catch((error) => note(`interception reply failed: ${error.message}`));
+        }
+      }
+    });
+    await page.send("Fetch.enable", { patterns: [{ urlPattern: "*/api/v1/modules/*" }] });
+    await page.navigate(`${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`);
+    await page.waitFor(
+      `(${find("display-module-container")}?.childElementCount ?? 0) > 0`,
+      "the module to mount",
+    );
+    note(`viewer-session requests failed on purpose: ${blocked}`);
+    const recovered = await page.waitFor(
+      `${find("signage-stage")}?.dataset.offline === "false"`,
+      "recovery from one failed viewer-session request",
+      90_000,
+    );
+    summarize(page, stepStartedAt);
+    check(
+      recovered,
+      `one failed viewer-session request does not leave the display offline (${JSON.stringify(await displayState(page))})`,
+    );
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "stream-failure") {
+    // The first realtime connection is refused with a 503, as an API mid-restart or a proxy with no
+    // upstream answers. A non-200 ends an EventSource for good; the question is whether anything
+    // re-establishes realtime without a reload.
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, undefined, "stream-failure");
+    let refused = 0;
+    kiosk.on((message) => {
+      if (message.method === "Fetch.requestPaused") {
+        const { requestId } = message.params;
+        if (refused === 0) {
+          refused += 1;
+          page
+            .send("Fetch.fulfillRequest", {
+              body: Buffer.from('{"code":"REALTIME_UNAVAILABLE"}').toString("base64"),
+              requestId,
+              responseCode: 503,
+              responseHeaders: [
+                { name: "content-type", value: "application/json" },
+                { name: "cache-control", value: "no-store" },
+              ],
+            })
+            .catch((error) => note(`interception reply failed: ${error.message}`));
+        } else {
+          page
+            .send("Fetch.continueRequest", { requestId })
+            .catch((error) => note(`interception reply failed: ${error.message}`));
+        }
+      }
+    });
+    await page.send("Fetch.enable", { patterns: [{ urlPattern: "*/api/v1/module-realtime/*" }] });
+    await page.navigate(`${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`);
+    await page.waitFor(
+      `(${find("display-module-container")}?.childElementCount ?? 0) > 0`,
+      "the module to mount",
+    );
+    note(`realtime connections refused on purpose: ${refused}`);
+    const result = await watch([page], 90_000, {
+      onSample: () => page.streams.some((stream) => stream.status === 200),
+    });
+    printTally(result);
+    summarize(page, result.from);
+    check(
+      page.streams.some((stream) => stream.status === 200),
+      "after one refused realtime connection, realtime is re-established without a reload",
+    );
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "caching-probe") {
+    // Whether a display on the API origin can store an image from the storage origin in Cache
+    // Storage, which is what Signage's offline media relies on. Reports only statuses, response
+    // types, and whether CORS headers were present — never a URL.
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const groups = await owner.page.api("GET", "/api/v1/modules/signage/channel-groups");
+    const channelId = groups.body?.groups?.[0]?.channels?.[0]?.id;
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "probe");
+    check(await waitLive(page, "the display"), "the display is live");
+    progress("letting the display prefetch its slides (15s)");
+    await sleep(15_000);
+    const probe = await page.evaluate(
+      `(async () => {
+        const result = {};
+        const state = await fetch(${JSON.stringify(`${apiOrigin}/api/v1/modules/signage/channels/${channelId}/display-state`)}, { credentials: "include", signal: AbortSignal.timeout(${requestTimeoutMs}) }).then((r) => r.json());
+        const url = (state.selections || []).map((s) => s.media && s.media.display && s.media.display.url).find(Boolean);
+        result.selections = (state.selections || []).length;
+        result.haveUrl = Boolean(url);
+        if (!url) return result;
+        result.sameOrigin = new URL(url).origin === location.origin;
+        try {
+          const response = await fetch(url, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(${requestTimeoutMs}) });
+          result.cors = { status: response.status, type: response.type, allowOrigin: response.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === null ? "absent" : (response.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === location.origin || response.headers.get("access-control-allow-origin") === "*" ? "matches" : "other") };
+          try {
+            const cache = await caches.open("display-repro-probe");
+            await cache.put("/display-repro-probe/cors", response.clone());
+            result.cors.cachePut = "stored";
+          } catch (error) { result.cors.cachePut = "refused: " + error.name; }
+        } catch (error) { result.cors = { error: error.name }; }
+        try {
+          const response = await fetch(url, { mode: "no-cors", signal: AbortSignal.timeout(${requestTimeoutMs}) });
+          result.noCors = { status: response.status, type: response.type, ok: response.ok };
+          try {
+            const cache = await caches.open("display-repro-probe");
+            await cache.put("/display-repro-probe/opaque", response.clone());
+            result.noCors.cachePut = "stored";
+          } catch (error) { result.noCors.cachePut = "refused: " + error.name; }
+        } catch (error) { result.noCors = { error: error.name }; }
+        result.imgPlain = await new Promise((resolve) => { const i = new Image(); i.onload = () => resolve("loaded"); i.onerror = () => resolve("error"); i.src = url; });
+        result.imgCors = await new Promise((resolve) => { const i = new Image(); i.crossOrigin = "anonymous"; i.onload = () => resolve("loaded"); i.onerror = () => resolve("error"); i.src = url + (url.includes("?") ? "&" : "?") + "cors-probe=1"; });
+        await caches.delete("display-repro-probe");
+        result.signageCachedEntries = await caches.open("ekklesia-signage-media-v1").then((c) => c.keys()).then((k) => k.length).catch(() => "unavailable");
+        return result;
+      })()`,
+      "probing cross-origin image caching",
+    );
+    note(`caching probe: ${JSON.stringify(probe)}`);
+    summarize(page, stepStartedAt);
+    check(probe.signageCachedEntries > 0, "Signage has stored slide images in Cache Storage");
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "stream-recycle") {
+    // One page, past the five-minute realtime connection age, with every stream's open and end
+    // time in UTC so they can be laid against the proxy's own log.
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "recycle");
+    check(await waitLive(page, "the display"), "the display is live");
+    const result = await watch([page], recycleWatchMs, { viewerOwner: owner.page });
+    printTally(result);
+    summarize(page, result.from);
+    note(`connectivity events ${JSON.stringify(await connectivityEvents(page))}`);
+    const blobs = await blobCounts(page);
+    const exhausted = page.stateFetches.filter((fetch) =>
+      fetch.outcome.includes("INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES"),
+    );
+    note(
+      `object URLs: created ${blobs.created}, revoked ${blobs.revoked}, live ${blobs.created - blobs.revoked}; channel-state fetches refused for insufficient resources: ${exhausted.length}`,
+    );
+    check(
+      blobs.created - blobs.revoked <= MAX_LIVE_OBJECT_URLS,
+      `live object URLs stay bounded (at most ${MAX_LIVE_OBJECT_URLS}; ${blobs.created - blobs.revoked} live)`,
+    );
+    check(
+      result.tally.get("recycle").offline === 0,
+      `the display stayed live for the whole ${recycleWatchMs / 1000}s watch${recycleWatchMs > 300_000 ? ", across a realtime recycle" : ""}`,
+    );
+    check(page.sessionRequests.length === 1, "the display was never remounted during the watch");
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else if (mode === "revoke") {
+    const owner = await ownerPage();
+    const moduleId = await displayModuleId(owner.page);
+    const kiosk = await connect(kioskAddress, "kiosk");
+    const page = await openPage(kiosk, `${apiOrigin}/display/${moduleId}`, "revoked");
+    check(
+      await waitLive(page, "the display before revocation"),
+      "the display is live before revocation",
+    );
+    const devices = (await coreDevices(owner.page)).filter((device) => !device.revoked);
+    for (const device of devices) {
+      await owner.page.api("POST", `/api/v1/devices/${device.id}/revoke`);
+    }
+    note(`revoked ${devices.length} device(s) at ${clock()}; watching the open page`);
+    const result = await watch([page], watchMs, { onSample: (_page, state) => state.pairing });
+    printTally(result);
+    summarize(page, result.from);
+    check(
+      result.stopped,
+      `a revoked display returns to the pairing screen without a reload (within ${watchMs / 1000}s)`,
+    );
+    await page.close();
+    kiosk.close();
+    await finishOwner(owner);
+  } else {
+    throw new Error(
+      "usage: deploy-smoke-display.mjs pair|restart|two-pages|connectivity-blip|session-blip|stream-failure|caching-probe|stream-recycle|revoke",
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+try {
+  await run();
+} catch (error) {
+  if (error instanceof HangError) {
+    console.log(`FAIL ${mode}: ${error.message}; also in flight: ${describeInFlight()}`);
+  } else {
+    console.log(`FAIL ${mode}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : "an unexpected error"}`);
+  }
+  process.exit(2);
+}
+
+if (failures > 0) {
+  console.error(`${failures} check(s) failed`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+process.exit(0);

scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# TEST-ONLY. Builds the repository's module template as one self-contained installed-module directory
+# for scripts/smoke-deploy.sh, which installs it into a deployment's module storage (ADR 0048). It is
+# not a module package format and defines none: the archive format, signing, and transport of real
+# module packages are deferred. No image is produced; the build's only output is the directory:
+#
+#   DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --file scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile \
+#     --output type=local,dest=<directory> .
+#
+# writes <directory>/example: the module's package.json, manifest, built artifacts, migrations, and a
+# node_modules holding exactly its production dependencies, including its own copies of the Module
+# SDK, the contracts, and Drizzle. Nothing in it resolves to anything outside it, because the
+# platform lends an installed module nothing.
+#
+# The same pinned Node.js base as deploy/Dockerfile, so the package targets the runtime it is
+# installed into. Drizzle comes from the platform's own lockfile, which is what keeps it the exact
+# version the platform uses: a constraint of the current implementation (ADR 0048), not a contract.
+FROM node:24.18.0-trixie-slim@sha256:ae91dcc111a68c9d2d81ff2a17bda61be126426176fde6fe7d08ab13b7f50573 AS build
+ENV COREPACK_ENABLE_DOWNLOAD_PROMPT=0 \
+    PNPM_HOME=/pnpm \
+    TURBO_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 \
+    DO_NOT_TRACK=1
+WORKDIR /opt/source
+COPY package.json ./
+RUN corepack enable && corepack install
+COPY . .
+RUN --mount=type=cache,id=ekklesia-pnpm-store,target=/pnpm/store \
+    pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --store-dir /pnpm/store
+RUN pnpm exec turbo run build --filter=@ekklesia/module-template
+# `--legacy` deploys from this workspace without switching it to injected workspace packages; the
+# Module SDK and every other workspace dependency are still copied into the package, built.
+RUN --mount=type=cache,id=ekklesia-pnpm-store,target=/pnpm/store \
+    set -eu; \
+    pnpm --filter @ekklesia/module-template deploy --prod --legacy --store-dir /pnpm/store \
+      /package/example; \
+    rm -f /package/example/README.md; \
+    # pnpm's hoisted self-reference points back into this workspace; an installed module has none.
+    rm -f /package/example/node_modules/.pnpm/node_modules/@ekklesia/module-template; \
+    escaping=""; \
+    for link in $(find /package/example -type l); do \
+      case "$(realpath -m "$link")" in \
+        /package/example/*) ;; \
+        *) escaping="$escaping $link" ;; \
+      esac; \
+    done; \
+    if [ -n "$escaping" ]; then echo "Links escape the package:$escaping" >&2; exit 1; fi; \
+    chmod -R a+rX,go-w /package/example; \
+    cd /package/example && node -e 'import("./dist/server/index.js").then((m) => { if (m.default.id !== "example") process.exit(1); })'
+
+FROM scratch AS package
+COPY --from=build /package/ /

scripts/smoke-deploy.sh

@@ -1,19 +1,36 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# End-to-end smoke test of the reference deployment (ADR 0044): deploy/compose.yaml with
-# deploy/compose.proxy.yaml, a platform-only image, and a disposable PostgreSQL and SeaweedFS that
-# exist only for this run. CI runs it; it is safe to run on a workstation.
+# End-to-end smoke test of the reference deployment (ADR 0044, ADR 0048): deploy/compose.yaml with
+# deploy/compose.proxy.yaml, the one generic platform image, installation-owned module storage, and
+# a disposable PostgreSQL and SeaweedFS that exist only for this run. CI runs it; it is safe to run
+# on a workstation.
 #
 #   bash scripts/smoke-deploy.sh                 builds the image first
 #   EKKLESIA_SMOKE_IMAGE=<image> bash scripts/smoke-deploy.sh
 #   EKKLESIA_SMOKE_TOPOLOGY=split bash scripts/smoke-deploy.sh
 #
-# Either topology (ADR 0045). `same-origin` (the default) serves the Dashboard, the API, and displays
-# from one hostname with Caddyfile.example and a platform-only image. `split` serves the Dashboard on
-# its own hostname with Caddyfile.split.example, builds an image with the repository's module
-# template installed as a test-only module (so a module UI, its API routes, and a display exist), and
-# then drives a real headless Chromium through the Dashboard, the module, the display, and sign-out.
-# With EKKLESIA_SMOKE_IMAGE, the given image is used as is in either topology; a split run then
-# exercises whichever of its modules publishes UI and a display.
+# Either topology (ADR 0045), and in both the same generic image, built once from deploy/Dockerfile.
+# It contains no module; module storage starts empty, as on a fresh installation. `same-origin` (the
+# default) serves the Dashboard, the API, and displays from one hostname with Caddyfile.example.
+# `split` serves the Dashboard on its own hostname with Caddyfile.split.example and then exercises
+# ADR 0048 end to end with that same image:
+#
+#   - it boots with no modules;
+#   - the repository's module template, packaged as one self-contained directory
+#     (scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile, TEST-ONLY), is installed into module storage, its
+#     migrations are planned and explicitly applied, and the API is restarted;
+#   - a real headless Chromium drives the Dashboard, the module, its display, and sign-out;
+#   - the module is removed and the API restarted: Core still runs, migration planning reports the
+#     module's retained history, and its data survives;
+#   - the module is restored and the API restarted: it returns with its previous data.
+#
+# EKKLESIA_SMOKE_IMAGE uses the given image instead of building one. It must be a generic image
+# (ADR 0048): modules come from module storage, never from the image.
+#
+# Opt-in, split topology only: EKKLESIA_SMOKE_DISPLAY_DEVICE=1 adds the display-device scenarios in
+# scripts/lib/deploy-smoke-display.mjs (pairing a kiosk browser with a persistent profile, a clean
+# restart, two pages, injected network failures, revocation), each with its own time budget.
+# EKKLESIA_SMOKE_DISPLAY_SCENARIOS selects a subset; EKKLESIA_SMOKE_WATCH_MS and
+# EKKLESIA_SMOKE_RECYCLE_WATCH_MS change how long they watch. Several scenarios expect Signage.
 #
 # TEST-ONLY: the proxy runs with Caddy's internal CA (`local_certs`) instead of ACME, because a test
 # run has no public hostname. Never use that option in an installation.
@@ -33,6 +50,8 @@ cd "$repository_root"
 
 # shellcheck source=scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh
 source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh"
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
 
 for command in docker openssl awk; do
   command -v "$command" >/dev/null || {
@@ -61,7 +80,10 @@ same-origin | split) ;;
 esac
 
 run_id="$(openssl rand -hex 4)"
-project="ekklesia-deploy-smoke-${run_id}"
+# Unique per invocation, and findable by run and job if this script is killed before its trap runs
+# (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh, scripts/ci-sweep.sh). Everything started outside Compose below carries
+# the same name in EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL.
+project="$(ci_project_name "deploy-${topology}")"
 work="$(mktemp -d)"
 image="${EKKLESIA_SMOKE_IMAGE:-}"
 built_image=""
@@ -102,6 +124,8 @@ choose_edge_network() {
       session_client_address="10.249.${octet}.252"
       # The headless browser's fixed address, likewise (split topology only).
       browser_address="10.249.${octet}.251"
+      # The installed-module checks' own client address, so their sign-ins have their own bucket.
+      module_client_address="10.249.${octet}.249"
       return 0
     fi
   done
@@ -141,6 +165,12 @@ cleanup() {
   if [[ -n "$browser_container" ]]; then
     docker rm --force "$browser_container" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
   fi
+  if [[ -n "${kiosk_container:-}" ]]; then
+    docker ps --all --quiet --filter "name=${project}-display-" | xargs -r docker rm --force \
+      >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker rm --force "$kiosk_container" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker volume rm --force "$kiosk_volume" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  fi
   if [[ -f "$work/compose.env" ]]; then
     "${compose[@]}" --profile ops down --volumes --remove-orphans --timeout 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 || status=1
   fi
@@ -149,7 +179,7 @@ cleanup() {
   # job itself runs as root), so only the staged copy on the Docker host needs this.
   if [[ "$daemon_work" == "$work" ]]; then
     docker run --rm --entrypoint rm -v "$work:/work" "$postgres_image" -rf /work/tls /work/env \
-      >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+      /work/modules >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
   else
     docker run --rm --entrypoint rm -v /tmp:/host-tmp "$postgres_image" -rf "/host-tmp/${project}" \
       >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
@@ -171,38 +201,38 @@ fail() {
   exit 1
 }
 
-if [[ -z "$image" && "$topology" == same-origin ]]; then
-  step "Building the platform-only image"
+if [[ -z "$image" ]]; then
+  # The one generic platform image, for both topologies. Nothing about either topology, and no
+  # module, is built into it.
+  step "Building the generic platform image"
   built_image="ekklesia-deploy-smoke:${run_id}"
-  DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --quiet --file deploy/Dockerfile --tag "$built_image" . >/dev/null
-  image="$built_image"
-elif [[ -z "$image" ]]; then
-  # TEST-ONLY: the repository's module template, installed as the module `example`, in a copy of the
-  # working tree. Its lockfile importer moves with it; the depth is the same, so every relative link
-  # in that importer stays correct and the install stays frozen.
-  step "Building an image with the module template installed as a test-only module"
-  command -v git >/dev/null || fail "git is required to build the split topology's test image."
-  context="$work/build-context"
-  mkdir -p "$context"
-  git ls-files -z --cached --others --exclude-standard |
-    tar --null --files-from=- --create --file=- |
-    tar -C "$context" -xf -
-  mkdir -p "$context/modules"
-  mv "$context/templates/module" "$context/modules/example"
-  [[ "$(grep -c '^  templates/module:$' "$context/pnpm-lock.yaml")" == 1 ]] ||
-    fail "the lockfile has no single templates/module importer to move."
-  sed -i 's|^  templates/module:$|  modules/example:|' "$context/pnpm-lock.yaml"
-  built_image="ekklesia-deploy-smoke:${run_id}"
-  DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --quiet --file "$context/deploy/Dockerfile" --tag "$built_image" \
-    "$context" >/dev/null || fail "the test-module image did not build."
-  rm -rf "$context"
+  DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --quiet --file deploy/Dockerfile --tag "$built_image" \
+    --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL}=$(date +%s)" \
+    . >/dev/null
   image="$built_image"
 fi
 
+if [[ "$topology" == split ]]; then
+  # TEST-ONLY: the module template as one self-contained installed-module directory, built outside
+  # the platform image and installed into module storage below. Never a second platform image.
+  step "Packaging the module template as a self-contained test module"
+  DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --quiet --file scripts/lib/test-module-package.Dockerfile \
+    --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" \
+    --output "type=local,dest=${work}/module-package" . >/dev/null ||
+    fail "the test module package did not build."
+  [[ -f "$work/module-package/example/ekklesia.module.json" ]] ||
+    fail "the test module package has no manifest."
+fi
+
 # The compose project directory: its relative bind mount (postgres/pg_hba.conf) resolves here.
 cp -R deploy "$work/deploy"
 stage deploy
 
+# Installation-owned module storage (ADR 0048), empty, as an operator creates it before the first
+# `up`: Compose refuses to start `api` or `migrate` without it, and never creates it.
+mkdir -m 755 "$work/modules"
+stage modules
+
 step "Creating the installation-private CA and server certificates"
 init_status=0
 sh deploy/scripts/init-tls.sh "$work/tls" >/dev/null 2>&1 || init_status=$?
@@ -289,6 +319,7 @@ EKKLESIA_EDGE_SUBNET=${edge_subnet}
 EKKLESIA_EDGE_DYNAMIC_RANGE=${edge_range}
 EKKLESIA_PROXY_ADDRESS=${proxy_address}
 EKKLESIA_TUNNEL_ADDRESS=${tunnel_address}
+EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR=${daemon_work}/modules
 EOF
 
 step "Starting PostgreSQL and object storage"
@@ -350,6 +381,7 @@ client() {
   local mode="$1"
   shift
   docker run --rm --read-only --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges \
+    --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" \
     --network "$edge_network" "$@" "${host_mappings[@]}" \
     -e NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=/smoke/client-ca.pem -e SMOKE_HOSTNAME="$hostname" \
     -e SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME="$dashboard_hostname" \
@@ -377,7 +409,70 @@ client session --ip "$session_client_address" \
   -e SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL="$owner_email" -e SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD="$owner_password" ||
   fail "session checks failed."
 
+psql_as_superuser() {
+  "${compose[@]}" exec -T postgres psql -U ekklesia -d ekklesia -Atc "$1"
+}
+
+# module_storage <script>: runs a root shell over this run's module storage, as an operator changing
+# installed modules on the host would. The API never writes it; it is mounted read-only.
+module_storage() {
+  docker run --rm -i --network none --entrypoint sh -v "$daemon_work/modules:/modules" \
+    "$postgres_image" -ec "$1"
+}
+
+# install_test_module: stages the package under a hidden name, which discovery ignores, then renames
+# it into place in one step, owned by root and readable by the API's unprivileged user.
+install_test_module() {
+  tar -C "$work/module-package" -cf - example |
+    module_storage 'rm -rf /modules/.incoming && mkdir /modules/.incoming &&
+      tar -xf - -C /modules/.incoming && chown -R 0:0 /modules/.incoming/example &&
+      chmod -R a+rX,go-w /modules/.incoming/example &&
+      mv /modules/.incoming/example /modules/example && rmdir /modules/.incoming' ||
+    fail "the test module could not be installed into module storage."
+}
+
+# restart_api <command...>: stops the API, runs the command, and starts the API again. A controlled
+# restart is the only way a module change is picked up; nothing is ever hot loaded.
+restart_api() {
+  "${compose[@]}" stop api >/dev/null 2>&1 || fail "the API did not stop."
+  "$@"
+  if ! up_output="$("${compose[@]}" up --detach --wait --wait-timeout 180 api 2>&1)"; then
+    compose_report_not_ready "$up_output" "${compose[@]}"
+    fail "the API did not become healthy after a restart."
+  fi
+}
+
+# module_check <expectation>: "absent", or the exact JSON array of values `example` must return.
+module_check() {
+  client module --ip "$module_client_address" -e SMOKE_MODULE_EXPECT="$1" \
+    -e SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL="$owner_email" -e SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD="$owner_password"
+}
+
+# plan_output: the read-only migration plan, as `docker compose run --rm migrate` prints it.
+plan_output() {
+  "${compose[@]}" run --rm --no-deps migrate 2>&1 || fail "migration planning failed."
+}
+
 if [[ "$topology" == split ]]; then
+  step "Booting the generic image with empty module storage"
+  module_check absent || fail "the image without modules did not run module-free."
+
+  step "Installing the test module into module storage, migrating explicitly, and restarting the API"
+  install_module_and_migrate() {
+    install_test_module
+    local plan
+    plan="$(plan_output)"
+    grep -q '^- \[pending\] example:0000_initial ' <<<"$plan" ||
+      fail "the plan does not list the installed module's migration as pending."
+    "${compose[@]}" run --rm --no-deps migrate node core/dist/cli/apply-migrations.js >/dev/null ||
+      fail "applying the installed module's migration failed."
+  }
+  restart_api install_module_and_migrate
+  module_check '[]' || fail "the installed module did not run from module storage."
+  psql_as_superuser "INSERT INTO example_records (id, value) VALUES (gen_random_uuid(), 'kept')" \
+    >/dev/null || fail "could not write the module's own data."
+  module_check '["Hello, kept"]' || fail "the installed module did not read its own data."
+
   step "Driving a real browser through the split Dashboard, a module, its display, and sign-out"
   # Chromium trusts this run's proxy through the public-key hash of Caddy's internal intermediate CA,
   # which signs every certificate the test proxy serves: no CA is installed anywhere, and nothing but
@@ -389,7 +484,7 @@ if [[ "$topology" == split ]]; then
   browser_container="${project}-browser"
   # The image's entry script passes its arguments on unquoted, so none may contain a space: the
   # hostnames reach Chromium through /etc/hosts, which it reads, rather than a resolver rule.
-  docker run --detach --rm --name "$browser_container" \
+  docker run --detach --rm --name "$browser_container" --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" \
     --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --tmpfs /tmp \
     --network "$edge_network" --ip "$browser_address" "${host_mappings[@]}" \
     "$browser_image" \
@@ -398,12 +493,113 @@ if [[ "$topology" == split ]]; then
   cp scripts/lib/deploy-smoke-browser.mjs "$work/browser.mjs"
   stage browser.mjs
   docker run --rm --read-only --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges \
+    --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" \
     --network "$edge_network" \
     -e SMOKE_CDP_ADDRESS="${browser_address}:9222" \
     -e SMOKE_HOSTNAME="$hostname" -e SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME="$dashboard_hostname" \
     -e SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL="$owner_email" -e SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD="$owner_password" \
     -v "$daemon_work/browser.mjs:/smoke/browser.mjs:ro" \
     --entrypoint node "$image" /smoke/browser.mjs || fail "browser checks failed."
+
+  if [[ -n "${EKKLESIA_SMOKE_DISPLAY_DEVICE:-}" ]]; then
+    # A kiosk: a second browser whose profile directory is a volume, so it outlives the container
+    # exactly as a kiosk's --user-data-dir outlives a browser restart.
+    kiosk_container="${project}-kiosk"
+    kiosk_volume="${project}-kiosk-profile"
+    kiosk_address="10.249.${octet}.250"
+    docker volume create --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" "$kiosk_volume" >/dev/null
+    start_kiosk() {
+      docker run --detach --rm --name "$kiosk_container" --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}" \
+        --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges --tmpfs /tmp \
+        --network "$edge_network" --ip "$kiosk_address" "${host_mappings[@]}" \
+        -v "${kiosk_volume}:/profile" \
+        "$browser_image" \
+        "--ignore-certificate-errors-spki-list=${spki}" \
+        --user-data-dir=/profile >/dev/null || fail "the kiosk browser did not start."
+    }
+    wait_kiosk_exit() {
+      for _ in $(seq 1 60); do
+        docker inspect "$kiosk_container" >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
+        sleep 0.5
+      done
+      fail "the kiosk browser did not exit after a clean close."
+    }
+    cp scripts/lib/deploy-smoke-display.mjs "$work/display.mjs"
+    stage display.mjs
+    # display_driver <budget seconds> <step>: one scenario with a hard budget. The driver enforces it
+    # itself and names whatever call was still waiting; `timeout` is the backstop if it cannot.
+    display_driver() {
+      local budget="$1" step_name="$2" driver="${project}-display-${2}"
+      timeout --signal=TERM "$((budget + 30))" \
+        docker run --rm --name "$driver" --read-only --cap-drop ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges \
+        --network "$edge_network" \
+        -e SMOKE_CDP_ADDRESS="${browser_address}:9222" \
+        -e SMOKE_KIOSK_CDP_ADDRESS="${kiosk_address}:9222" \
+        -e SMOKE_STEP_BUDGET_MS="$((budget * 1000))" \
+        -e SMOKE_WATCH_MS="${EKKLESIA_SMOKE_WATCH_MS:-120000}" \
+        -e SMOKE_RECYCLE_WATCH_MS="${EKKLESIA_SMOKE_RECYCLE_WATCH_MS:-330000}" \
+        -e SMOKE_HOSTNAME="$hostname" -e SMOKE_DASHBOARD_HOSTNAME="$dashboard_hostname" \
+        -e SMOKE_OWNER_EMAIL="$owner_email" -e SMOKE_OWNER_PASSWORD="$owner_password" \
+        -v "$daemon_work/display.mjs:/smoke/display.mjs:ro" \
+        --entrypoint node "$image" /smoke/display.mjs "$step_name"
+      local status=$?
+      if ((status == 124)); then
+        echo "FAIL ${step_name}: the driver did not stop within its budget plus 30s; removed it"
+        docker rm --force "$driver" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+      fi
+      return "$status"
+    }
+    display_status=0
+    step "Pairing a kiosk display, then closing its browser cleanly"
+    start_kiosk
+    display_driver 180 pair || display_status=1
+    wait_kiosk_exit
+    step "Restarting the kiosk browser on the same profile"
+    start_kiosk
+    display_driver 120 restart || display_status=1
+    for scenario in ${EKKLESIA_SMOKE_DISPLAY_SCENARIOS:-two-pages connectivity-blip session-blip stream-failure caching-probe stream-recycle revoke}; do
+      case "$scenario" in
+      two-pages) budget=240 ;;
+      stream-recycle) budget=420 ;;
+      revoke) budget=210 ;;
+      *) budget=150 ;;
+      esac
+      step "Display scenario: ${scenario} (budget ${budget}s)"
+      display_driver "$budget" "$scenario" || display_status=1
+    done
+    step "Proxy: streams aborted with an incomplete response (UTC time, path only)"
+    # Captured, never printed: only each line's time and path (no query, so no signature) leave it.
+    proxy_logs="$("${compose[@]}" logs --no-color proxy 2>/dev/null)" || proxy_logs=""
+    grep -o '{.*"aborting with incomplete response".*}' <<<"$proxy_logs" |
+      sed -E 's/.*"ts":([0-9]+)[^,]*,.*"uri":"([^"?]*)[^"]*".*/\1 \2/' |
+      while read -r ts uri; do echo "     $(date -u -d "@${ts}" +%T) ${uri}"; done || true
+    ((display_status == 0)) || fail "display-device checks failed."
+  fi
+
+  step "Removing the module from module storage and restarting: Core runs, its data stays"
+  restart_api module_storage 'rm -rf /modules/example'
+  module_check absent || fail "the removed module is still running."
+  plan="$(plan_output)"
+  grep -q '^- \[retained\] example: 1 applied migration kept; the module is not installed$' \
+    <<<"$plan" || fail "migration planning did not report the removed module's retained history."
+  grep -q '^Migration plan (.*0 pending, 0 approval-blocked, 1 retained):$' <<<"$plan" ||
+    fail "migration planning did not succeed cleanly with the module absent."
+  "${compose[@]}" run --rm --no-deps migrate node core/dist/cli/apply-migrations.js >/dev/null ||
+    fail "applying migrations failed with the module absent."
+  [[ "$(psql_as_superuser "SELECT value FROM example_records")" == "kept" ]] ||
+    fail "the removed module's data did not survive."
+  echo "ok   the module is gone, Core runs, its history is retained, and its data survives"
+
+  step "Restoring the module and restarting: it returns with its previous data"
+  restart_api install_test_module
+  plan="$(plan_output)"
+  grep -q '^- \[applied\] example:0000_initial ' <<<"$plan" ||
+    fail "the restored module's migration history is not valid."
+  if grep -q '\[retained\]\|\[pending\]' <<<"$plan"; then
+    fail "the restored module left retained or pending migrations."
+  fi
+  module_check '["Hello, kept"]' || fail "the restored module did not return with its data."
+  echo "ok   the restored module runs again, with its history strict and its data intact"
 fi
 
 step "Proving the API's database connection is certificate-verified TLS"
@@ -413,9 +609,6 @@ api_data_address="$(
     "$api_container"
 )"
 [[ -n "$api_data_address" ]] || fail "could not find the API's database-network address."
-psql_as_superuser() {
-  "${compose[@]}" exec -T postgres psql -U ekklesia -d ekklesia -Atc "$1"
-}
 tls_connections="$(psql_as_superuser "SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_ssl s JOIN pg_stat_activity a USING (pid) WHERE a.client_addr = '${api_data_address}' AND s.ssl AND s.version = 'TLSv1.3'")"
 plain_connections="$(psql_as_superuser "SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_ssl s JOIN pg_stat_activity a USING (pid) WHERE a.client_addr = '${api_data_address}' AND NOT s.ssl")"
 ((tls_connections > 0)) || fail "the API holds no TLS 1.3 database connection."
@@ -468,12 +661,16 @@ grep -q 'TLS required with certificate and hostname verification (explicit priva
   <<<"$doctor_output" || fail "Doctor did not report verify-full with the private CA."
 grep -q '✓ Object storage reachable' <<<"$doctor_output" ||
   fail "Doctor could not reach object storage over HTTPS."
+# Doctor runs as `migrate`; it must check the client-address configuration the API runs with, which
+# behind the proxy is trusted-proxy mode, not the direct mode an unconfigured process reports.
+grep -q 'Trusted-proxy client-address mode' <<<"$doctor_output" ||
+  fail "Doctor did not check the API's trusted-proxy client-address configuration."
 for value in "$postgres_password" "$s3_secret_key" "$identity_secret"; do
   if grep -qF -- "$value" <<<"$doctor_output"; then
     fail "Doctor output contains a secret."
   fi
 done
-echo "ok   Doctor: READY, verify-full with the private CA, storage reachable, no secret printed"
+echo "ok   Doctor: READY, verify-full with the private CA, storage reachable, the API's client-address mode, no secret printed"
 
 api_logs="$("${compose[@]}" logs --no-color api 2>&1)"
 for value in "$postgres_password" "$s3_secret_key" "$identity_secret" "$owner_password"; do

scripts/smoke-infrastructure.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ cd "$repository_root"
 source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/compose-job-network.sh"
 # shellcheck source=scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh
 source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh"
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
 
 command -v docker >/dev/null || {
   echo "Docker is required for the infrastructure smoke test." >&2
@@ -30,11 +32,9 @@ if [[ "$curl_help" != *"--aws-sigv4"* ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-# Unique per invocation, not only per run: several runs can share a runner's Docker daemon at once,
-# and the shell's PID is often identical across job containers.
-raw_project="ekklesia-smoke-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-0}-$$-${RANDOM}${RANDOM}"
-project="${raw_project//[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/-}"
-project="${project,,}"
+# Unique per invocation, and findable by run and job if this script is killed before its trap runs
+# (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh, scripts/ci-sweep.sh).
+project="$(ci_project_name infrastructure)"
 temporary_directory="$(mktemp -d)"
 payload_file="$temporary_directory/payload.txt"
 download_file="$temporary_directory/download.txt"

scripts/test-ci-sweep.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Proves scripts/ci-sweep.sh against real Docker resources: what it removes, and above all what it
+# leaves alone. CI runs it before trusting the sweep with a shared runner's daemon.
+#
+#   bash scripts/test-ci-sweep.sh
+#
+# Every resource it creates is named and labeled for this run alone, under fake run identifiers, so
+# it can never touch a real stack; and it removes all of them on exit, whatever happens.
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+repository_root="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "$repository_root"
+
+image="$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*image: \(postgres:[^[:space:]]*\)$/\1/p' deploy/compose.yaml | head -1)"
+[[ -n "$image" ]] || {
+  echo "test-ci-sweep: no pinned PostgreSQL image in deploy/compose.yaml." >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+docker image inspect "$image" >/dev/null 2>&1 || docker pull --quiet "$image" >/dev/null
+
+nonce="$(openssl rand -hex 4)"
+compose_label="com.docker.compose.project"
+ci_label="org.riverofglorymn.ekklesia.ci.project"
+failures=0
+created=()
+
+check() {
+  if eval "$1"; then
+    echo "ok   $2"
+  else
+    echo "FAIL $2"
+    failures=$((failures + 1))
+  fi
+}
+
+# project_exists <project>: any container, network, volume, or image still carries its label.
+project_exists() {
+  local project="$1"
+  [[ -n "$(
+    docker ps --all --quiet --filter "label=${compose_label}=${project}"
+    docker ps --all --quiet --filter "label=${ci_label}=${project}"
+    docker network ls --quiet --filter "label=${compose_label}=${project}"
+    docker volume ls --quiet --filter "label=${compose_label}=${project}"
+    docker image ls --quiet --filter "label=${ci_label}=${project}"
+  )" ]]
+}
+
+staging_exists() {
+  docker run --rm --entrypoint test -v /tmp:/host-tmp "$image" -d "/host-tmp/$1"
+}
+
+# make_stack <project>: what a CI script leaves behind when it is killed: a Compose-labeled network,
+# volume, and running container; a CI-labeled container and image; and a staging directory on the
+# Docker host.
+make_stack() {
+  local project="$1"
+  created+=("$project")
+  docker network create --label "${compose_label}=${project}" "${project}_default" >/dev/null
+  docker volume create --label "${compose_label}=${project}" "${project}_data" >/dev/null
+  docker run --detach --name "${project}-db" --label "${compose_label}=${project}" \
+    --network "${project}_default" -v "${project}_data:/data" --entrypoint sleep "$image" 600 >/dev/null
+  docker run --detach --name "${project}-browser" --label "${ci_label}=${project}" \
+    --entrypoint sleep "$image" 600 >/dev/null
+  printf 'FROM %s\nLABEL %s=%s %s=%s\n' "$image" "$ci_label" "$project" \
+    "org.riverofglorymn.ekklesia.ci.created" "$(date +%s)" |
+    docker build --quiet --tag "${project}-image:test" - >/dev/null
+  docker run --rm --entrypoint mkdir -v /tmp:/host-tmp "$image" -p "/host-tmp/${project}"
+}
+
+job_container="test-ci-sweep-job-${nonce}"
+cleanup() {
+  local status=$?
+  trap - EXIT INT TERM
+  docker rm --force "$job_container" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  for project in "${created[@]}"; do
+    docker ps --all --quiet --filter "label=${compose_label}=${project}" | xargs -r docker rm --force >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker ps --all --quiet --filter "label=${ci_label}=${project}" | xargs -r docker rm --force >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker network rm "${project}_default" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker volume rm --force "${project}_data" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker image rm --force "${project}-image:test" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    docker run --rm --entrypoint rm -v /tmp:/host-tmp "$image" -rf "/host-tmp/${project}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  done
+  exit "$status"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
+
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
+
+# Fake run identifiers: nothing here can match a real run's stacks.
+export GITHUB_RUN_ID="sweeptest${nonce}"
+export GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT="1"
+mine="$(EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY=alpha ci_project_name mine)"
+sibling="$(EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY=beta ci_project_name sibling)"
+foreign="ekklesia-sweep-control-${nonce}"
+for project in "$mine" "$sibling" "$foreign"; do
+  make_stack "$project"
+done
+# A job container connected to this job's stack network, exactly as compose-job-network.sh does.
+docker run --detach --name "$job_container" --entrypoint sleep "$image" 600 >/dev/null
+docker network connect "${mine}_default" "$job_container"
+
+echo "--- --job removes this job's stacks, at any age, and nothing else"
+EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY=alpha bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job
+check '! project_exists "$mine"' "this job's containers, network, volume, and image are gone"
+check '! staging_exists "$mine"' "this job's staging directory on the Docker host is gone"
+check 'project_exists "$sibling"' "another job's stack in the same run is left alone"
+check 'project_exists "$foreign"' "a stack outside the CI prefix is left alone"
+check 'docker inspect "$job_container" >/dev/null 2>&1' \
+  "a job container connected to the stack's network is disconnected, never removed"
+
+echo "--- --job refuses to run outside CI, where it could remove a developer's own stacks"
+check '! env -u GITHUB_RUN_ID bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job >/dev/null 2>&1' \
+  "--job without GITHUB_RUN_ID fails"
+
+echo "--- --stale removes only CI stacks older than its threshold"
+bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
+check 'project_exists "$sibling"' "a young CI stack survives the default threshold"
+bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale --max-age-seconds 0
+check '! project_exists "$sibling"' "a CI stack older than the threshold is removed"
+check '! staging_exists "$sibling"' "its staging directory too"
+check 'project_exists "$foreign"' "a stack outside the CI prefix is never removed, at any age"
+
+if ((failures > 0)); then
+  echo "test-ci-sweep: ${failures} check(s) failed." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "CI sweep checks passed."

scripts/test-migrations-integration.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ cd "$repository_root"
 source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/compose-job-network.sh"
 # shellcheck source=scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh
 source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/compose-diagnostics.sh"
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
+source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"
 
 command -v docker >/dev/null || {
   echo "Docker is required for the PostgreSQL migration integration suite." >&2
@@ -27,11 +29,9 @@ if ! compose_job_network_initialize; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-# Unique per invocation, not only per run: several runs (and several jobs of one run) can share a
-# runner's Docker daemon at once, and the shell's PID is often identical across job containers.
-raw_project="ekklesia-migration-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-0}-${GITHUB_JOB:-job}-$$-${RANDOM}${RANDOM}"
-project="${raw_project//[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/-}"
-project="${project,,}"
+# Unique per invocation, and findable by run and job if this script is killed before its trap runs
+# (scripts/lib/ci-project.sh, scripts/ci-sweep.sh).
+project="$(ci_project_name migration)"
 
 export POSTGRES_DB="ekklesia_migration_test"
 export POSTGRES_USER="ekklesia_migration_test"

surfaces/shell/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/shell",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "files": [

templates/module/README.md

@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ To create a module inside this repository:
    root. The declared production entrypoint is the compiled `dist/server/index.js`, not source
    TypeScript; the schema entrypoint is likewise compiled to `dist/schema/index.js`.
 
+That `modules/<module-id>` directory is where a module is **developed**. An installation never runs
+it from there: Ekklesia's image contains no modules, and an installation installs a self-contained
+copy of the module, with its own production dependencies, into its module storage
+([An installed module is self-contained](../../docs/module-development/README.md#an-installed-module-is-self-contained),
+ADR 0048). Copying `dist/` alone is not enough, because the compiled server code imports the Module
+SDK and Drizzle by name.
+
 The module owns its feature screens and display renderer. Do not add platform navigation, the
 containing shell, global theme, authentication screens, or top-level routing; those belong to
 surfaces and Core. A module UI asks its host for relative API paths and realtime state, and never

tests/ci-scripts.test.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import path from "node:path";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { parse } from "yaml";
 
 /**
  * The scripts CI runs against a shared Docker daemon. Several runs, and several jobs of one run, can
@@ -59,21 +60,68 @@ describe("CI scripts on a shared Docker daemon", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it("give every Compose project a name unique to the invocation, not only the run", async () => {
-    expect(await source("scripts/test-migrations-integration.sh")).toMatch(
-      /raw_project="ekklesia-migration-[^"\n]*\$\$-\$\{RANDOM\}\$\{RANDOM\}"/u,
+  it("name every stack through one helper: the reserved CI prefix, the job's key, and a unique suffix", async () => {
+    const helper = await source("scripts/lib/ci-project.sh");
+    // Run, attempt, job key, kind, then a per-invocation suffix: unique even when job containers
+    // share a PID, and findable later by run and job alone (scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job).
+    expect(helper).toContain(
+      "ekklesia-ci-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-0}-${EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY:-${GITHUB_JOB:-local}}-",
     );
-    expect(await source("scripts/smoke-infrastructure.sh")).toMatch(
-      /raw_project="ekklesia-smoke-[^"\n]*\$\$-\$\{RANDOM\}\$\{RANDOM\}"/u,
-    );
-    const deploy = await source("scripts/smoke-deploy.sh");
-    expect(deploy).toContain('run_id="$(openssl rand -hex 4)"');
-    expect(deploy).toContain('project="ekklesia-deploy-smoke-${run_id}"');
+    expect(helper).toContain("$$-${RANDOM}${RANDOM}");
     for (const relativePath of ciScripts) {
-      expect(await source(relativePath), relativePath).toContain('--project-name "$project"');
+      const text = await source(relativePath);
+      expect(text, relativePath).toContain('source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"');
+      expect(text, relativePath).toMatch(/^project="\$\(ci_project_name [a-z"${}_-]+\)"$/mu);
+      expect(text, relativePath).not.toContain("raw_project=");
+      expect(text, relativePath).toContain('--project-name "$project"');
     }
   });
 
+  it("label everything the deploy smoke creates outside Compose, so a sweep can find it", async () => {
+    // Continuation lines joined, so each command is checked whole.
+    const deploy = (await source("scripts/smoke-deploy.sh")).replace(/\\\n\s*/gu, " ");
+    const creating = deploy
+      .split("\n")
+      .filter((line) => /\bdocker (?:run --detach|volume create|build)\b/u.test(line));
+    expect(creating.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(4);
+    for (const line of creating) {
+      expect(line).toContain('--label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}"');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("sweep stale stacks before, and this job's own stacks after, every job that starts any", async () => {
+    const workflow = parse(await source(".github/workflows/ci.yml")) as {
+      jobs: Record<
+        string,
+        { env?: Record<string, string>; steps: { if?: string; run?: string; name?: string }[] }
+      >;
+    };
+    const startsStacks =
+      /smoke-infrastructure\.sh|test:migrations:integration|smoke-deploy\.sh|check-image\.sh|docker build/u;
+    const jobs = Object.entries(workflow.jobs).filter(([, job]) =>
+      job.steps.some((step) => startsStacks.test(step.run ?? "")),
+    );
+    expect(jobs.map(([id]) => id).sort()).toEqual(
+      ["deploy-smoke", "image-build", "infrastructure-smoke", "migration-smoke"].sort(),
+    );
+    for (const [id, job] of jobs) {
+      expect(job.env?.EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY, id).toBeTruthy();
+      const runs = job.steps.map((step) => step.run ?? "");
+      const firstStack = runs.findIndex((run) => startsStacks.test(run));
+      const stale = runs.findIndex((run) => run.includes("bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale"));
+      const own = job.steps.findIndex(
+        (step) =>
+          step.if === "always()" && (step.run ?? "").includes("bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --job"),
+      );
+      expect(stale, `${id}: stale sweep`).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+      expect(stale, `${id}: stale sweep runs first`).toBeLessThan(firstStack);
+      expect(own, `${id}: its own cleanup, always`).toBeGreaterThan(firstStack);
+      expect(own, `${id}: cleanup is the last step`).toBe(job.steps.length - 1);
+    }
+    // One matrix leg's cleanup must never remove the other leg's running stack.
+    expect(workflow.jobs["deploy-smoke"]?.env?.EKKLESIA_CI_JOB_KEY).toContain("matrix.topology");
+  });
+
   it("choose the deploy smoke's edge subnet from those not in use, and choose again on a race", async () => {
     const deploy = await source("scripts/smoke-deploy.sh");
     expect(deploy).not.toMatch(/^octet=\$\(\(RANDOM/mu);
@@ -84,12 +132,37 @@ describe("CI scripts on a shared Docker daemon", () => {
 
   it("tag the CI image per run and attempt, so concurrent runs of one commit cannot remove it", async () => {
     const workflow = await source(".github/workflows/ci.yml");
-    expect(workflow).toContain(
-      'ekklesia-ci:"$GITHUB_SHA-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}"',
+    const imageCheck = await source("scripts/check-image.sh");
+    expect(workflow).toContain("bash scripts/check-image.sh");
+    expect(imageCheck).toContain(
+      'tag_base="ekklesia-ci:${GITHUB_SHA:-local}-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}-"',
     );
     expect(workflow).not.toContain('ekklesia-ci:"$GITHUB_SHA"');
   });
 
+  it("label every image the image check builds, so a sweep can find it", async () => {
+    const imageCheck = (await source("scripts/check-image.sh")).replace(/\\\n\s*/gu, " ");
+    expect(imageCheck).toContain('source "$repository_root/scripts/lib/ci-project.sh"');
+    expect(imageCheck).toMatch(/^project="\$\(ci_project_name image\)"$/mu);
+    const builds = imageCheck.split("\n").filter((line) => /\bdocker build\b/u.test(line));
+    expect(builds.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
+    for (const line of builds) {
+      expect(line).toContain('--label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=${project}"');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("run every deploy smoke against the one generic image, never a second image with a module in it", async () => {
+    // ADR 0048: the split topology installs its test module into module storage at run time.
+    const deploy = (await source("scripts/smoke-deploy.sh")).replace(/\\\n\s*/gu, " ");
+    const imageBuilds = deploy
+      .split("\n")
+      .filter((line) => /\bdocker build\b/u.test(line) && line.includes("deploy/Dockerfile"));
+    expect(imageBuilds).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(deploy).not.toContain('mv "$context/templates/module" "$context/modules/');
+    expect(deploy).not.toMatch(/sed -i 's\|\^ {2}templates\/module:/u);
+    expect(deploy).toContain("EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR=");
+  });
+
   it("report every readiness failure with the project's containers and logs, through the redactor only", async () => {
     for (const relativePath of ciScripts) {
       const text = await source(relativePath);

tests/deploy.test.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ interface ComposeService {
   read_only?: boolean;
   security_opt?: string[];
   tmpfs?: string[];
+  volumes?: (string | ComposeVolume)[];
+}
+
+interface ComposeVolume {
+  bind?: { create_host_path?: boolean };
+  read_only?: boolean;
+  source?: string;
+  target?: string;
+  type?: string;
 }
 
 interface ComposeDocument {
@@ -153,6 +162,11 @@ describe("reference deployment compose files", () => {
       EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_MODE: "trusted-proxy",
       EKKLESIA_CLIENT_ADDRESS_TRUSTED_PROXIES: `${proxyAddress}/32`,
     });
+    // Doctor runs as `migrate`. Given anything else, it validates a configuration the API is not
+    // running, and reports "Direct" for an installation that trusts its proxy.
+    expect(proxyOverlay.services?.migrate?.environment).toEqual(
+      proxyOverlay.services?.api?.environment,
+    );
     expect(proxyOverlay.networks?.edge?.ipam?.config).toEqual([
       {
         ip_range: "${EKKLESIA_EDGE_DYNAMIC_RANGE:-10.249.250.0/25}",
@@ -229,3 +243,68 @@ describe("reference deployment env examples", () => {
     expect(example).toContain("EKKLESIA_MODULE_SECRET__<MODULE_ID>__<KEY>=");
   });
 });
+
+describe("installation-owned module storage (ADR 0048)", () => {
+  const modulesTarget = "/var/lib/ekklesia/modules";
+
+  function moduleMount(service: ComposeService | undefined): ComposeVolume | undefined {
+    return (service?.volumes ?? []).find(
+      (volume): volume is ComposeVolume =>
+        typeof volume === "object" && volume.target === modulesTarget,
+    );
+  }
+
+  it.each([
+    "api",
+    "migrate",
+  ])("mounts host module storage read-only into %s, and never lets Compose create it", async (name) => {
+    const service = (await compose("compose.yaml")).services?.[name];
+    expect(moduleMount(service)).toEqual({
+      bind: { create_host_path: false },
+      read_only: true,
+      source: "${EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR:-/var/lib/ekklesia/modules}",
+      target: modulesTarget,
+      type: "bind",
+    });
+    // The process reads exactly the directory the mount provides.
+    expect(service?.environment?.EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR).toBe(modulesTarget);
+    // Read-only everywhere else too: the mount is the only module storage there is.
+    expect(service?.read_only).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("mounts module storage into nothing but the API and the operator commands", async () => {
+    const services = (await compose("compose.yaml")).services ?? {};
+    for (const [name, service] of Object.entries(services)) {
+      if (name !== "api" && name !== "migrate") {
+        expect(moduleMount(service), name).toBeUndefined();
+      }
+    }
+    for (const overlay of ["compose.proxy.yaml", "compose.tunnel.yaml"]) {
+      for (const [name, service] of Object.entries((await compose(overlay)).services ?? {})) {
+        expect(moduleMount(service), `${overlay} ${name}`).toBeUndefined();
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("names the host-side directory with its own variable, never EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR", async () => {
+    const composeEnvironment = await text("env/compose.env.example");
+    expect(composeEnvironment).toMatch(
+      /^# ?EKKLESIA_MODULES_HOST_DIR=\/var\/lib\/ekklesia\/modules$/mu,
+    );
+    expect(composeEnvironment).not.toMatch(/^#? ?EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=/mu);
+    // The API's own env file must not move the directory away from the mount.
+    expect(envAssignments(await text("env/ekklesia.env.example")).has("EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR")).toBe(
+      false,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("builds an image that holds no modules and points at empty module storage", async () => {
+    const dockerfile = await text("Dockerfile");
+    const ignore = await readFile(path.join(repositoryRoot, ".dockerignore"), "utf8");
+    expect(ignore).toMatch(/^\/modules$/mu);
+    expect(dockerfile).toMatch(/EKKLESIA_MODULES_DIR=\/var\/lib\/ekklesia\/modules/u);
+    expect(dockerfile).toContain("install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 /var/lib/ekklesia/modules");
+    // Nothing from a module or the module template is copied into, or installed for, the runtime.
+    expect(dockerfile).not.toMatch(/\/runtime\/modules|modules\/\*\/package\.json|templates\/\*/u);
+  });
+});