Merge pull request 'docs: propose ADR 0051 module package licensing' (#73) from docs/adr-0051-module-package-licensing into main

Reviewed-on: https://git.riverofglorymn.org/River_of_Glory_Church/Ekklesia/pulls/73
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

@@ -152,23 +152,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
         run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
 
-      # 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.
-      # Labeled like every CI stack, so this job's final step removes it even if the build is killed.
-      - name: Build the production image without modules
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          source scripts/lib/ci-project.sh
-          docker build \
-            --file deploy/Dockerfile \
-            --build-arg REVISION="$GITHUB_SHA" \
-            --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_LABEL}=$(ci_project_name image)" \
-            --label "${EKKLESIA_CI_CREATED_LABEL}=$(date +%s)" \
-            --tag ekklesia-ci:"$GITHUB_SHA-${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-0}-${GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT:-1}" \
-            .
+      # 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
@@ -179,8 +170,9 @@ jobs:
     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:
@@ -206,7 +198,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Sweep stale CI stacks from the runner
         run: bash scripts/ci-sweep.sh --stale
 
-      # The reference deployment end to end (ADR 0044): a platform-only image, base + proxy with
+      # 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

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README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ 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. A module is distributed
+as one **Ekklesia Module Package v1**
+([ADR 0049](docs/architecture/decisions/0049-module-package-v1.md)): a deterministic `.tar.gz` and
+its SHA-256, produced by the canonical packager (`@ekklesia/module-pack`) with the module's backend
+bundled, and checked by Core's verifier before it is installed. Only the portable `any` target exists
+so far. ABI-v1 packages may bundle a module-owned Drizzle version without coupling it to Core;
+legacy-v8 packages retain their transitional exact-version check. Purge, native-target packages,
+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
@@ -490,8 +508,8 @@ reported `blocked · configuration_missing · bucket` — never imported, never
 from inside its own `start` hook — and its required dependents block behind it through ADR 0028's
 existing mechanism. Doctor and `pnpm modules:validate` report the same thing while still importing no
 module code. That change introduced `manifestVersion: 5` as a hard cutover; the current strict
-manifest is version 7 after ADR 0033 added the optional display declaration and ADR 0041 added
-browser contributions.
+manifest is version 8 after ADR 0050 added the optional database ABI declaration. Version 8 is a
+hard cutover; a version 7 source module or package must be updated and rebuilt.
 
 **Ekklesia does not store secrets, and does not pretend to.** There is no encryption at rest here and
 no key management, so a `secret` key's value is supplied by the deployment
@@ -825,7 +843,7 @@ is versioned with no dual acceptance; migrating is one `pnpm build`.
 
 Phase 8 pass 3 lets one module contribute a browser renderer to a capability another module provides
 ([ADR 0041](docs/architecture/decisions/0041-module-browser-contributions.md)) — the browser half of
-the capability system Core has had since Phase 1. `manifestVersion: 7` declares a namespaced id, its
+the capability system Core has had since Phase 1. `manifestVersion: 8` declares a namespaced id, its
 own version, a target capability, a compatible range, and one artifact, and nothing else: there is no
 payload schema, slot, ordering, or rendering hint anywhere, so Core cannot learn what any of it
 means. Publication requires that another eligible module provides the capability inside the declared
@@ -1056,5 +1074,27 @@ environment.
 - [Module development](docs/module-development/README.md)
 - [Architecture decisions](docs/architecture/decisions/README.md)
 
-No open-source license has been selected yet. A license should be added only after the project
-owner makes that decision.
+## License
+
+Ekklesia is licensed under the **GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or any later version**
+(SPDX `AGPL-3.0-or-later`). The full text of version 3 is in [LICENSE](LICENSE). Its source is
+available to you under the terms of that license.
+
+> Ekklesia is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
+> Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
+> the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+>
+> Ekklesia is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+> the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero
+> General Public License for more details.
+>
+> You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with Ekklesia. If
+> not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Section 13 of the license adds an obligation for network use: if you modify Ekklesia and run your
+modified version for users who interact with it remotely over a network, your version must offer
+those users the opportunity to receive its Corresponding Source.
+
+Official Ekklesia modules, published by the Ekklesia project, are licensed under `AGPL-3.0-or-later`
+as well. Each module's own repository declares its license. The module template declares it in its
+`package.json`, so a module started from the template begins with the same license.

apps/api/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/api",
   "version": "0.1.2",
+  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "files": [

apps/api/src/app.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import type {
   ModuleLifecycleSnapshot,
   ModuleLifecycleStore,
   ModuleRealtimeRegistry,
+  ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup,
   ModuleStorageLookup,
   ModuleUiPublicationRegistry,
 } from "@ekklesia/core/modules";
@@ -62,11 +63,10 @@ export interface CreateApiAppOptions {
   /** The started runtime's immutable module-owned realtime registry. Required explicitly even when
    * empty, for the same reason as module routes: application composition never guesses what ran. */
   readonly moduleRealtime: ModuleRealtimeRegistry;
-  /** The same frozen services object the caller's started module runtime already passed to every
-   * module's `start`/`stop` hooks (`apps/api/src/server.ts`) — reference-identical, never a fresh
-   * object built here, so a module's HTTP handlers and lifecycle hooks share exactly one
-   * `ModuleDatabase` for the lifetime of this API runtime. */
-  readonly moduleServices: ModuleRuntimeServices;
+  /** The same per-module service lookup the caller's started module runtime used for every
+   * module's `start`/`stop` hooks (`apps/api/src/server.ts`) — each handler receives its module's
+   * reference-identical service object, never a fresh facade or executor built per request. */
+  readonly moduleServices: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup | ModuleRuntimeServices;
   /** The platform's module UI publication policy — always the one Core builds from the exact
    * discovered inventory this runtime started (`createModuleUiPublicationRegistry`,
    * `apps/api/src/server.ts`). Required rather than defaulted, for the same reason `moduleRoutes`

apps/api/src/database.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { ModuleDatabase } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+import type { ModuleDatabase, ModuleDatabaseExecutor, ModuleId } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
 import {
   type AuthorizationDrizzleDatabase,
   createAuthorizationDrizzleView,
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { createDeviceDrizzleView, type DeviceDrizzleDatabase } from "@ekklesia/c
 import { createIdentityDrizzleView, type IdentityDrizzleDatabase } from "@ekklesia/core/identity";
 import {
   createModuleConfigurationView,
+  createModuleDatabaseExecutor,
   createModuleDatabaseView,
   createModuleLifecycleView,
   type ModuleConfigurationDrizzleDatabase,
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@ export interface ApiDatabaseHandle {
   readonly dashboard: DashboardDrizzleDatabase;
   readonly identity: IdentityDrizzleDatabase;
   readonly module: ModuleDatabase;
+  /** Builds one ABI-v1 executor attributed to exactly one module, over this handle's shared pool. */
+  readonly moduleExecutor: (moduleId: ModuleId) => ModuleDatabaseExecutor;
   readonly moduleConfiguration: ModuleConfigurationDrizzleDatabase;
   readonly moduleLifecycle: ModuleLifecycleDrizzleDatabase;
   /**
@@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ export function createApiDatabase(
     dashboard: createDashboardDrizzleView(pool),
     identity: createIdentityDrizzleView(pool),
     module: createModuleDatabaseView(pool),
+    moduleExecutor: (moduleId: ModuleId) => createModuleDatabaseExecutor(pool, { moduleId }),
     moduleConfiguration: createModuleConfigurationView(pool),
     moduleLifecycle: createModuleLifecycleView(pool),
     ping: async (statementTimeoutMs: number) => {

apps/api/src/module-http-routes.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import {
   EMPTY_MODULE_CONFIGURATION,
   EMPTY_MODULE_STORAGE,
+  type ModuleDatabase,
+  type ModuleDatabaseExecutor,
   type ModuleId,
   type ModuleRouteHandlerContext,
   type ModuleRuntimeServices,
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@ import {
 import type {
   ModuleConfigurationLookup,
   ModuleRealtimeRegistry,
+  ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup,
   ModuleStorageLookup,
 } from "@ekklesia/core/modules";
 import type { Context, Hono } from "hono";
@@ -37,14 +40,14 @@ export interface ModuleHttpRoutesOptions extends AuthorizationMiddlewareOptions
    * received for this API runtime — never a fresh one built per request, and never touched for a
    * denied, trusted-origin-rejected, or `OPTIONS` request, since a handler is only ever invoked
    * after authorization succeeds. */
-  readonly services: ModuleRuntimeServices;
+  readonly services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup | ModuleRuntimeServices;
   /**
    * Per-module frozen configuration snapshots — the exact map the module runtime started from
    * (ADR 0029), so a handler and that module's `start`/`stop` hooks receive the identical object
    * rather than two independently resolved values. A module with no entry receives
    * `EMPTY_MODULE_CONFIGURATION`, so `context.config` is always present.
    *
-   * Unlike `services`, which is one shared object, this is keyed by module id: a handler can only
+   * Like `services`, this is keyed by module id: a handler can only
    * ever reach its own module's configuration, because that is the only entry looked up for it.
    */
   readonly configurations: ModuleConfigurationLookup;
@@ -232,6 +235,11 @@ export function mountModuleHttpRoutes(
     if (!options.registry.has(route.permission)) {
       throw new ModuleRouteConfigurationError();
     }
+    const services =
+      "get" in options.services ? options.services.get(route.moduleId) : options.services;
+    if (!services) {
+      throw new ModuleRouteConfigurationError();
+    }
 
     const requireRoutePermission = requirePermission(middlewareOptions, route.permission);
     // The route's own conscious body contract (`route.maxBodyBytes` — 0 means no body accepted at
@@ -243,19 +251,24 @@ export function mountModuleHttpRoutes(
     const routeBodyLimit = platformBodyLimit(route.maxBodyBytes, route.bodyMode);
     const path = moduleRoutePath(route.moduleId, route.path);
     const finalHandler = async (c: Context): Promise<Response> => {
-      const context: ModuleRouteHandlerContext = Object.freeze({
+      const context = Object.freeze({
         config: options.configurations.get(route.moduleId) ?? EMPTY_MODULE_CONFIGURATION,
         moduleId: route.moduleId,
         storage: options.storages.get(route.moduleId) ?? EMPTY_MODULE_STORAGE,
         params: Object.freeze({ ...c.req.param() }),
         principal: getAuthorizedPrincipal(c),
         realtime: options.realtime.publisherFor(route.moduleId),
-        services: options.services,
-      });
+        services,
+      }) as ModuleRouteHandlerContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>;
 
       let response: Response;
       try {
-        response = await route.handler(c.req.raw, context);
+        response = await (
+          route.handler as (
+            request: Request,
+            context: ModuleRouteHandlerContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>,
+          ) => PromiseLike<Response> | Response
+        )(c.req.raw, context);
       } catch {
         return sanitizedModuleHandlerFailure(c);
       }

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

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import type { Socket } from "node:net";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 import {
+  type AnyModuleRuntimeServices,
   EMPTY_MODULE_SECRET_SOURCE,
-  type ModuleRuntimeServices,
   type ModuleSecretSource,
 } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
 import {
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   type DiscoveredModule,
   type ModuleConfigurationSettings,
   type ModuleEligibilityResolution,
+  type ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup,
   resolveModuleEligibility,
   type StartedModuleRuntime,
   startDiscoveredModuleRuntime,
@@ -154,8 +155,12 @@ 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
@@ -389,16 +394,13 @@ function bindServer(
  *    (`prepareStartupModuleInventory`, `./platform-permissions.js`).
  * 2. Construct the one shared PostgreSQL pool (identity, authorization, and the module database
  *    facade each get a typed Drizzle view over it — see `./database.js`).
- * 3. Construct the frozen `ModuleRuntimeServices` (currently just `database`) from that same pool,
- *    then the Core identity runtime, authorization store, and evaluator.
+ * 3. Construct the Core identity runtime, authorization store, and evaluator from that pool.
  * 4. Read the stored module enablement configuration and resolve, from that exact same discovered
  *    inventory, which modules are eligible to run (`resolveModuleEligibility`).
  * 5. Start the module runtime from the eligible subset (`startDiscoveredModuleRuntime`) — never
- *    rediscovering modules a second time — passing it the same services object every module's
- *    `start`/`stop` hook receives.
+ *    rediscovering modules a second time — passing the manifest-selected service map.
  * 6. Create the Hono application, mounting the started module runtime's published routes, publishing
- *    UI for that same eligible set, and passing the exact same services object to every module HTTP
- *    handler.
+ *    UI for that same eligible set, and passing the same per-module service map to HTTP handlers.
  * 7. Bind the Node HTTP server.
  *
  * Discovery and permission composition happen before any pool, Better Auth instance, module
@@ -429,6 +431,7 @@ export async function startApi(
   options: StartApiOptions = {},
 ): Promise<RunningApi> {
   const inventory = await prepareStartupModuleInventory({
+    configuredModulesDirectory: options.configuredModulesDirectory,
     ...(options.modulesDirectoryOverride === undefined
       ? {}
       : { modulesDirectoryOverride: options.modulesDirectoryOverride }),
@@ -454,12 +457,10 @@ export async function startApi(
   const storageProvider = config.storage ? createS3StorageProvider(config.storage) : undefined;
   const mailProvider = config.mail ? createSmtpMailProvider(config.mail) : undefined;
 
-  let services: ModuleRuntimeServices;
   let runtime: ReturnType<typeof createIdentityRuntime>;
   let authorizationStore: ReturnType<typeof createAuthorizationStore>;
   let deviceStore: ReturnType<typeof createDeviceStore>;
   try {
-    services = Object.freeze({ database: databaseHandle.module });
     runtime = createIdentityRuntime({
       config: config.identity,
       db: databaseHandle.identity,
@@ -527,6 +528,15 @@ export async function startApi(
     throw error;
   }
 
+  const services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = new Map<string, AnyModuleRuntimeServices>(
+    eligibility.eligibleModules.map((module) => [
+      module.manifest.id,
+      module.manifest.database?.abi === 1
+        ? Object.freeze({ database: databaseHandle.moduleExecutor(module.manifest.id) })
+        : Object.freeze({ database: databaseHandle.module }),
+    ]),
+  );
+
   // One scoped facade per eligible module, over the exact buckets that module's own manifest
   // declares. Built from the eligible set so a blocked module never receives storage at all.
   const moduleStorages = createModuleStorageLookup(
@@ -769,6 +779,7 @@ 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 +795,19 @@ 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

@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ async function createGatedRouteModule(
         compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: "^0.1.0" },
         entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js" },
         id,
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: `${id} module`,
         permissions: [{ baseline: "public", description: "Gated drain probe.", id: permissionId }],
         version: "0.1.0",
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ async function createFixtureModule(
 ): Promise<void> {
   const moduleDirectory = path.join(modulesDirectory, id);
   const manifest = {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ async function createUiModule(
         compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: "^0.1.0" },
         entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js", ui: "./dist/ui/index.js" },
         id,
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: `${id} module`,
         version,
       }),
@@ -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/dashboard-routes.test.ts

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         ...(fixture.withUi === false ? {} : { ui: "./dist/ui/index.js" }),
       },
       id: fixture.id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: fixture.name,
       version: "1.0.0",
     }),

apps/api/tests/device-pairing.integration.ts

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ async function createDisplayModuleDirectory(): Promise<string> {
           server: "./dist/server/index.js",
         },
         id: "announcements",
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: "Announcements fixture",
         permissions: [
           {

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

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ async function createFixtureModule(
 ): Promise<void> {
   const moduleDirectory = path.join(modulesDirectory, id);
   const manifest = {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ function fakeDiscoveredModule(
     compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: "^0.1.0" },
     entrypoints: { server: "./dist/does-not-exist/index.js" },
     id,
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     name: `${id} module`,
     permissions,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -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");
 

apps/api/tests/module-configuration-routes.test.ts

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         configuration: fixture.configuration ?? [],
         entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js" },
         id: fixture.id,
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: `${fixture.id} module`,
         version: "1.0.0",
       }),

apps/api/tests/module-database.integration.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   createPostgresMigrationDatabase,
   discoverAllMigrations,
 } from "@ekklesia/core/migrations";
+import { moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId } from "@ekklesia/core/modules";
 import { Client, type QueryResultRow } from "pg";
 import { afterAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { createApiRuntimeConfig } from "../src/config.js";
@@ -441,6 +442,11 @@ describe.sequential("live API — module database explicit migration ownership",
 
       const handle = createApiDatabase(database.url);
       expect(handle.module).toBeDefined();
+      const alpha = handle.moduleExecutor("alpha");
+      const beta = handle.moduleExecutor("beta");
+      expect(alpha).not.toBe(beta);
+      expect(moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId(alpha)).toBe("alpha");
+      expect(moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId(beta)).toBe("beta");
       await handle.close();
       expect(await tableExists(database.url)).toBe(false);
 

apps/api/tests/module-display-routes.test.ts

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture = {
           : {}),
       },
       id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${id} module`,
       permissions: fixture.display
         ? [

apps/api/tests/module-http-routes.test.ts

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import {
   type ModuleRouteHandlerContext,
   type ModuleRuntimeServices,
   moduleRoutesOverlap,
-  parsePermissionId,
   type PermissionId,
+  parsePermissionId,
   type RegisteredModuleHttpRoute,
 } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
 import {
@@ -20,20 +20,21 @@ import type { EkklesiaIdentityRuntime } from "@ekklesia/core/identity";
 import {
   createModuleUiPublicationRegistry,
   EMPTY_MODULE_REALTIME_REGISTRY,
+  type ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup,
 } from "@ekklesia/core/modules";
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { createInMemoryDashboardStore } from "./support/in-memory-dashboard-store.js";
-import { testDashboardHostAssets } from "./support/dashboard-host-assets.js";
-import { readyHealth } from "./support/ready-health.js";
 import { createApiApp } from "../src/app.js";
 import {
   canonicalizeVaryHeader,
-  mergedVaryHeader,
   ModuleRouteConfigurationError,
+  mergedVaryHeader,
 } from "../src/module-http-routes.js";
-import { emptyModuleLifecycle } from "./support/in-memory-module-lifecycle.js";
+import { testDashboardHostAssets } from "./support/dashboard-host-assets.js";
+import { createInMemoryDashboardStore } from "./support/in-memory-dashboard-store.js";
 import { emptyModuleConfiguration } from "./support/in-memory-module-configuration.js";
+import { emptyModuleLifecycle } from "./support/in-memory-module-lifecycle.js";
 import { emptyModuleStorage } from "./support/in-memory-module-storage.js";
+import { readyHealth } from "./support/ready-health.js";
 
 const trustedOrigin = "https://dashboard.example.test";
 const untrustedOrigin = "https://evil.example.test";
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ function buildModuleApp(options: {
   readonly registry: PermissionRegistry;
   readonly routes: readonly RegisteredModuleHttpRoute[];
   readonly runtime?: EkklesiaIdentityRuntime;
-  readonly services?: ModuleRuntimeServices;
+  readonly services?: ModuleRuntimeServices | ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup;
   readonly trustedOrigins?: readonly string[];
 }) {
   const evaluator = options.evaluator ?? {
@@ -145,6 +146,36 @@ function permissionRegistry(
 }
 
 describe("module HTTP route mounting", () => {
+  it("selects the owning module's stable service entry for its handler", async () => {
+    const calendar = fakeModuleServices();
+    const people = fakeModuleServices();
+    const services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = new Map([
+      ["calendar", calendar],
+      ["people", people],
+    ]);
+    let received: unknown;
+    const { app } = buildModuleApp({
+      registry: permissionRegistry([{ id: readPermission, baseline: "public" }]),
+      routes: [
+        moduleRoute({
+          handler: (_request, context) => {
+            received = context.services;
+            return Response.json({ ok: true });
+          },
+          method: "GET",
+          moduleId: "calendar",
+          path: "/services",
+          permission: readPermission,
+        }),
+      ],
+      services,
+    });
+
+    expect((await app.request("/api/v1/modules/calendar/services")).status).toBe(200);
+    expect(received).toBe(calendar);
+    expect(received).not.toBe(people);
+  });
+
   it('mounts a "/" route at exactly the module root, never with an added trailing slash', async () => {
     const handler = vi.fn<ModuleRouteHandler>(async () => new Response("root", { status: 200 }));
     const { app } = buildModuleApp({
@@ -508,7 +539,7 @@ describe("module route authorization", () => {
     expect(response.status).toBe(403);
     expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ code: "AUTHORIZATION_DENIED" });
     expect(handler).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services);
+    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services as ModuleRuntimeServices);
   });
 
   it("does not invoke the handler when principal resolution fails", async () => {
@@ -637,7 +668,7 @@ describe("module route trusted-origin enforcement", () => {
     }
     expect(handler).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(evaluator.authorize).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services);
+    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services as ModuleRuntimeServices);
   });
 
   it("allows a trusted-origin state-changing request through to the handler", async () => {
@@ -766,7 +797,7 @@ describe("module route CORS", () => {
 
     expect(handler).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(evaluator.authorize).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services);
+    expectDatabaseFakeUntouched(services as ModuleRuntimeServices);
   });
 
   it("never reflects an untrusted origin for a module route", async () => {

apps/api/tests/module-lifecycle-routes.test.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         ...(fixture.dependencies ? { dependencies: fixture.dependencies } : {}),
         entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js", ui: "./dist/ui/index.js" },
         id: fixture.id,
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: `${fixture.id} module`,
         version: "1.0.0",
       }),

apps/api/tests/module-realtime-live.test.ts

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ async function createFixtureModule(control: FixtureControl): Promise<{
         compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: "^0.1.0" },
         entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js" },
         id: "announcements",
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         name: "Announcements fixture",
         permissions: [
           {

apps/api/tests/module-ui-host-e2e.test.ts

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ async function createFixtureModule(
           : {}),
       },
       id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name,
       permissions: [
         {

apps/api/tests/module-ui-inventory.test.ts

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         version: "1.0.0",
       })),
       id: fixture.id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${fixture.id} module`,
       permissions: (fixture.permissions ?? []).map((permission) => ({
         ...permission,

apps/api/tests/module-ui-routes.test.ts

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         version: "1.0.0",
       })),
       id: fixture.id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${fixture.id} module`,
       permissions:
         fixture.display === undefined

core/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/core",
   "version": "0.1.2",
+  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "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/cli/verify-module-package.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+import {
+  type ModulePackagePlatform,
+  ModulePackageVerificationError,
+  verifyModulePackage,
+} from "../modules/index.js";
+
+/**
+ * `verify-module-package` — verifies an Ekklesia Module Package v1 archive against this platform
+ * (ADR 0049), and never installs it.
+ *
+ *   node core/dist/cli/verify-module-package.js <archive>
+ *     [--sha256 <hex> | --sha256-file <file>]   the archive's expected SHA-256
+ *     [--extract-to <new directory>]            write the verified module directory there
+ *
+ * Run from the platform's root (`/opt/ekklesia` in the image), like every operator command: the
+ * platform's own versions are read from there. `--extract-to` writes only after every check passed,
+ * into a directory that must not exist yet; it is the staging step of an installation, not the
+ * installation itself.
+ */
+
+class VerifyArgumentsError extends Error {}
+
+const USAGE =
+  "Usage: verify-module-package <archive> [--sha256 <hex> | --sha256-file <file>] [--extract-to <new directory>]";
+
+export interface VerifyModulePackageArguments {
+  readonly archivePath: string;
+  readonly expectedSha256?: string;
+  readonly sha256File?: string;
+  readonly extractTo?: string;
+}
+
+function normalizedDigest(value: string): string {
+  const digest = value.trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (!/^[0-9a-f]{64}$/u.test(digest)) {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError("The SHA-256 must be 64 hexadecimal characters.");
+  }
+  return digest;
+}
+
+export function parseVerifyModulePackageArguments(
+  argv: readonly string[],
+): VerifyModulePackageArguments {
+  const positional: string[] = [];
+  const options = new Map<string, string>();
+  for (let index = 0; index < argv.length; index += 1) {
+    const argument = argv[index] ?? "";
+    if (argument.startsWith("--")) {
+      if (!["--sha256", "--sha256-file", "--extract-to"].includes(argument)) {
+        throw new VerifyArgumentsError(USAGE);
+      }
+      const value = argv[index + 1];
+      if (value === undefined || value.startsWith("--") || options.has(argument)) {
+        throw new VerifyArgumentsError(USAGE);
+      }
+      options.set(argument, value);
+      index += 1;
+    } else {
+      positional.push(argument);
+    }
+  }
+  const archivePath = positional[0];
+  if (positional.length !== 1 || archivePath === undefined || archivePath === "") {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError(USAGE);
+  }
+  if (options.has("--sha256") && options.has("--sha256-file")) {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError(USAGE);
+  }
+  const sha256 = options.get("--sha256");
+  const sha256File = options.get("--sha256-file");
+  const extractTo = options.get("--extract-to");
+  return {
+    archivePath,
+    ...(sha256 === undefined ? {} : { expectedSha256: normalizedDigest(sha256) }),
+    ...(sha256File === undefined ? {} : { sha256File }),
+    ...(extractTo === undefined ? {} : { extractTo }),
+  };
+}
+
+/** The `sha256sum` format: one line, the digest, whitespace, and a file name that is never trusted. */
+export function parseSha256File(contents: string): string {
+  const lines = contents.split("\n").filter((line) => line.trim() !== "");
+  const match = lines.length === 1 ? /^([0-9a-fA-F]{64})\s+\*?\S/u.exec(lines[0] ?? "") : null;
+  if (!match?.[1]) {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError("The SHA-256 file must hold one sha256sum line.");
+  }
+  return match[1].toLowerCase();
+}
+
+async function readJson(file: string): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
+  return JSON.parse(await readFile(file, "utf8")) as Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+function requiredString(value: unknown): string {
+  if (typeof value !== "string" || value === "") {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError("The platform's own package metadata could not be read.");
+  }
+  return value;
+}
+
+/** What this platform is, read from where it is installed. The transitional database runtime is
+ * the Drizzle version Core itself depends on (ADR 0049). */
+export async function readModulePackagePlatform(
+  repositoryRoot: string,
+): Promise<ModulePackagePlatform> {
+  const [root, sdk, core] = await Promise.all([
+    readJson(path.join(repositoryRoot, "package.json")),
+    readJson(path.join(repositoryRoot, "packages", "module-sdk", "package.json")),
+    readJson(path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "package.json")),
+  ]);
+  const dependencies = core.dependencies as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  return {
+    databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": requiredString(dependencies?.["drizzle-orm"]) },
+    moduleSdkVersion: requiredString(sdk.version),
+    platformVersion: requiredString(root.version),
+  };
+}
+
+async function main(): Promise<void> {
+  const parsed = parseVerifyModulePackageArguments(process.argv.slice(2));
+  let expectedSha256 = parsed.expectedSha256;
+  if (parsed.sha256File !== undefined) {
+    let contents: string;
+    try {
+      contents = await readFile(parsed.sha256File, "utf8");
+    } catch {
+      throw new VerifyArgumentsError("The SHA-256 file could not be read.");
+    }
+    expectedSha256 = parseSha256File(contents);
+  }
+  const platform = await readModulePackagePlatform(process.cwd()).catch(() => {
+    throw new VerifyArgumentsError("The platform's own package metadata could not be read.");
+  });
+  const result = await verifyModulePackage({
+    archivePath: parsed.archivePath,
+    platform,
+    ...(expectedSha256 === undefined ? {} : { expectedSha256 }),
+    ...(parsed.extractTo === undefined ? {} : { extractTo: parsed.extractTo }),
+  });
+  console.log(
+    `Module package verified: ${result.moduleId}@${result.version} (target ${result.target}), ${result.fileCount} files, sha256 ${result.archiveSha256}.`,
+  );
+  if (expectedSha256 === undefined) {
+    console.log("The archive's SHA-256 was not checked: no expected digest was given.");
+  }
+  if (parsed.extractTo !== undefined) {
+    console.log("The verified module directory was extracted. Nothing was installed.");
+  }
+}
+
+function isDirectExecution(): boolean {
+  const entrypoint = process.argv[1];
+  return (
+    entrypoint !== undefined && import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(path.resolve(entrypoint)).href
+  );
+}
+
+if (isDirectExecution()) {
+  main().catch((error: unknown) => {
+    if (error instanceof ModulePackageVerificationError) {
+      console.error(`[${error.code}] ${error.message}`);
+      if (error.issueCodes.length > 0) {
+        console.error(`Module validation issues: ${error.issueCodes.join(", ")}`);
+      }
+    } else if (error instanceof VerifyArgumentsError) {
+      console.error(error.message);
+    } else {
+      console.error("Module package verification failed unexpectedly.");
+    }
+    process.exitCode = 1;
+  });
+}

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) {
@@ -1132,7 +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>();
@@ -240,8 +287,20 @@ function validateAppliedHistoryUnchecked(
 
     const migration = knownMigration(inventory, record.identity);
     if (!migration) {
+      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 ||
       record.tag !== migration.tag ||
@@ -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/database-abi-values.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+import {
+  type ModuleDatabaseField,
+  ModuleDatabaseError,
+  type ModuleDatabaseValue,
+} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+
+/**
+ * The value contract of Module Database ABI v1 (ADR 0050): how parameters are encoded before they
+ * reach PostgreSQL, and how result text is decoded after. Both are Core's, and neither consults
+ * `pg`'s process-global type registry or any ORM, which module code could change or differ from.
+ *
+ * Every value travels in PostgreSQL's text format. The session settings the decoding depends on
+ * (`DateStyle`, `IntervalStyle`, `TimeZone`, `bytea_output`, `extra_float_digits`) are pinned by the
+ * executor for every ABI operation (`./database-abi.ts`).
+ */
+
+/** PostgreSQL's limit on bound parameters in one statement (the protocol's 16-bit count). */
+export const MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS = 65_535;
+/** PostgreSQL's limit on array dimensions (`MAXDIM`). */
+const maximumArrayDimensions = 6;
+
+function parameterInvalid(): ModuleDatabaseError {
+  return new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_PARAMETER_INVALID");
+}
+
+function isScalar(value: unknown): boolean {
+  return (
+    value === null ||
+    typeof value === "boolean" ||
+    typeof value === "number" ||
+    typeof value === "bigint" ||
+    typeof value === "string" ||
+    value instanceof Uint8Array
+  );
+}
+
+function scalarText(value: boolean | number | bigint | string): string {
+  // `String` spells NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity exactly as PostgreSQL's float and numeric input
+  // accepts them.
+  return typeof value === "string" ? value : String(value);
+}
+
+function byteaText(value: Uint8Array): string {
+  return `\\x${Buffer.from(value.buffer, value.byteOffset, value.byteLength).toString("hex")}`;
+}
+
+function quoteArrayElement(text: string): string {
+  return `"${text.replaceAll("\\", "\\\\").replaceAll('"', '\\"')}"`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validates one array level and returns its PostgreSQL array literal. Every element of a level is
+ * either a sub-array or a scalar, and sibling sub-arrays have equal lengths, because PostgreSQL
+ * arrays are rectangular. Every non-null element is quoted, which PostgreSQL accepts for any element
+ * type.
+ */
+function arrayLiteral(values: readonly unknown[], depth: number): string {
+  if (depth > maximumArrayDimensions) {
+    throw parameterInvalid();
+  }
+  const elements: string[] = [];
+  let nestedLength: number | undefined;
+  let nested: boolean | undefined;
+  for (let index = 0; index < values.length; index += 1) {
+    if (!Object.hasOwn(values, index)) {
+      throw parameterInvalid();
+    }
+    const element = values[index];
+    const isNested = Array.isArray(element);
+    if (nested === undefined) {
+      nested = isNested;
+    } else if (nested !== isNested) {
+      throw parameterInvalid();
+    }
+    if (isNested) {
+      if (nestedLength === undefined) {
+        nestedLength = element.length;
+      } else if (nestedLength !== element.length) {
+        throw parameterInvalid();
+      }
+      elements.push(arrayLiteral(element, depth + 1));
+    } else if (element === null) {
+      elements.push("NULL");
+    } else if (element instanceof Uint8Array) {
+      elements.push(quoteArrayElement(byteaText(element)));
+    } else if (isScalar(element)) {
+      elements.push(quoteArrayElement(scalarText(element as boolean | number | bigint | string)));
+    } else {
+      throw parameterInvalid();
+    }
+  }
+  return `{${elements.join(",")}}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validates `values` against the ABI's parameter set and encodes each one into the only forms the
+ * driver then passes through unchanged: `null`, a string, or a `Buffer` copy of a `Uint8Array`.
+ * Anything else, including `undefined`, `Date`, plain objects, other class instances, functions,
+ * symbols, sparse or ragged arrays, and arrays deeper than PostgreSQL allows, is refused before
+ * anything reaches PostgreSQL. The error never names the value.
+ */
+export function encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(values: unknown): (string | Buffer | null)[] {
+  if (values === undefined) {
+    return [];
+  }
+  if (!Array.isArray(values) || values.length > MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS) {
+    throw parameterInvalid();
+  }
+  const encoded: (string | Buffer | null)[] = [];
+  for (let index = 0; index < values.length; index += 1) {
+    if (!Object.hasOwn(values, index)) {
+      throw parameterInvalid();
+    }
+    const value: unknown = values[index];
+    if (value === null) {
+      encoded.push(null);
+    } else if (value instanceof Uint8Array) {
+      // A copy: the driver serializes when the statement is sent, which may be after the caller
+      // has changed its own bytes.
+      encoded.push(Buffer.from(value));
+    } else if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+      encoded.push(arrayLiteral(value, 1));
+    } else if (isScalar(value)) {
+      encoded.push(scalarText(value as boolean | number | bigint | string));
+    } else {
+      throw parameterInvalid();
+    }
+  }
+  return encoded;
+}
+
+// --- Results -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+type ScalarDecoder = (text: string) => ModuleDatabaseValue;
+
+const asText: ScalarDecoder = (text) => text;
+const asBoolean: ScalarDecoder = (text) => text === "t";
+const asInteger: ScalarDecoder = (text) => Number.parseInt(text, 10);
+// `Number` reads PostgreSQL's NaN, Infinity, -Infinity, and exponent forms. With
+// `extra_float_digits` pinned to 1 the text is the shortest form that round-trips exactly.
+const asFloat: ScalarDecoder = (text) => Number(text);
+
+function hexDigit(code: number): number {
+  if (code >= 48 && code <= 57) {
+    return code - 48;
+  }
+  if (code >= 97 && code <= 102) {
+    return code - 87;
+  }
+  if (code >= 65 && code <= 70) {
+    return code - 55;
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `bytea` text to bytes. The executor pins `bytea_output` to `hex`; the older `escape` form is read
+ * too, so a transaction that changed the setting still decodes faithfully rather than failing.
+ * Always a plain `Uint8Array`, never a `Buffer`.
+ */
+const asBytes: ScalarDecoder = (text) => {
+  if (text.startsWith("\\x")) {
+    const length = (text.length - 2) / 2;
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array(length);
+    for (let index = 0; index < length; index += 1) {
+      const high = hexDigit(text.charCodeAt(2 + index * 2));
+      const low = hexDigit(text.charCodeAt(3 + index * 2));
+      bytes[index] = high * 16 + low;
+    }
+    return bytes;
+  }
+  const bytes: number[] = [];
+  for (let index = 0; index < text.length; index += 1) {
+    const code = text.charCodeAt(index);
+    if (code === 92 && text.charCodeAt(index + 1) === 92) {
+      bytes.push(92);
+      index += 1;
+    } else if (code === 92) {
+      bytes.push(Number.parseInt(text.slice(index + 1, index + 4), 8));
+      index += 3;
+    } else {
+      bytes.push(code);
+    }
+  }
+  return Uint8Array.from(bytes);
+};
+
+/** Built-in scalar type OIDs with a decoding other than "PostgreSQL's text output, unchanged". Every
+ * type not listed here, `int8`, `numeric`, date and time types, `json`, and `jsonb` included,
+ * arrives as its exact text. */
+const scalarDecoders: ReadonlyMap<number, ScalarDecoder> = new Map([
+  [16, asBoolean], // bool
+  [17, asBytes], // bytea
+  [21, asInteger], // int2
+  [23, asInteger], // int4
+  [26, asInteger], // oid
+  [700, asFloat], // float4
+  [701, asFloat], // float8
+]);
+
+/** Built-in array type OIDs, each with its element type OID. An array of a type not listed here
+ * (an enum, a domain, an extension type) arrives as its text, like any other type. */
+const arrayElementTypes: ReadonlyMap<number, number> = new Map([
+  [1000, 16], // bool[]
+  [1001, 17], // bytea[]
+  [1002, 18], // "char"[]
+  [1003, 19], // name[]
+  [1005, 21], // int2[]
+  [1007, 23], // int4[]
+  [1009, 25], // text[]
+  [1014, 1042], // bpchar[]
+  [1015, 1043], // varchar[]
+  [1016, 20], // int8[]
+  [1021, 700], // float4[]
+  [1022, 701], // float8[]
+  [1028, 26], // oid[]
+  [1115, 1114], // timestamp[]
+  [1182, 1082], // date[]
+  [1183, 1083], // time[]
+  [1185, 1184], // timestamptz[]
+  [1187, 1186], // interval[]
+  [1231, 1700], // numeric[]
+  [1270, 1266], // timetz[]
+  [2951, 2950], // uuid[]
+  [199, 114], // json[]
+  [3807, 3802], // jsonb[]
+]);
+
+class ArrayTextError extends Error {}
+
+/**
+ * Parses PostgreSQL's array text output into nested arrays, each element decoded by `decode`.
+ * Unquoted `NULL` is null; a quoted `"NULL"` is the string. A non-default lower bound
+ * (`[0:1]={…}`) is not represented: a JavaScript array is a zero-based list. Every element type this
+ * decodes uses `,` as its delimiter.
+ */
+export function parsePostgresArrayText(text: string, decode: ScalarDecoder): ModuleDatabaseValue[] {
+  let position = 0;
+  if (text.startsWith("[")) {
+    const equals = text.indexOf("=");
+    if (equals === -1) {
+      throw new ArrayTextError();
+    }
+    position = equals + 1;
+  }
+
+  function parseArray(): ModuleDatabaseValue[] {
+    if (text[position] !== "{") {
+      throw new ArrayTextError();
+    }
+    position += 1;
+    const items: ModuleDatabaseValue[] = [];
+    if (text[position] === "}") {
+      position += 1;
+      return items;
+    }
+    for (;;) {
+      const character = text[position];
+      if (character === "{") {
+        items.push(parseArray());
+      } else if (character === '"') {
+        position += 1;
+        let element = "";
+        for (;;) {
+          const next = text[position];
+          if (next === undefined) {
+            throw new ArrayTextError();
+          }
+          if (next === "\\") {
+            element += text[position + 1] ?? "";
+            position += 2;
+          } else if (next === '"') {
+            position += 1;
+            break;
+          } else {
+            element += next;
+            position += 1;
+          }
+        }
+        items.push(decode(element));
+      } else {
+        const start = position;
+        while (position < text.length && text[position] !== "," && text[position] !== "}") {
+          position += 1;
+        }
+        const element = text.slice(start, position);
+        items.push(element.toUpperCase() === "NULL" ? null : decode(element));
+      }
+      if (text[position] === ",") {
+        position += 1;
+      } else if (text[position] === "}") {
+        position += 1;
+        return items;
+      } else {
+        throw new ArrayTextError();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  const parsed = parseArray();
+  if (position !== text.length) {
+    throw new ArrayTextError();
+  }
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+function scalarDecoder(typeOid: number): ScalarDecoder {
+  return scalarDecoders.get(typeOid) ?? asText;
+}
+
+/** Decodes one non-null column value from its PostgreSQL text by the column's type OID. */
+export function decodeModuleDatabaseValue(typeOid: number, text: string): ModuleDatabaseValue {
+  const elementType = arrayElementTypes.get(typeOid);
+  if (elementType === undefined) {
+    return scalarDecoder(typeOid)(text);
+  }
+  try {
+    return parsePostgresArrayText(text, scalarDecoder(elementType));
+  } catch {
+    // PostgreSQL produced this text, so it cannot be malformed; should it ever be, the column still
+    // arrives faithfully, as text, rather than as a guess.
+    return text;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `types` object handed to `pg` for every ABI statement. Its parser returns the raw text for
+ * every type, so the driver's global registry, which module code could change, is never consulted
+ * and the ABI decodes from text itself. It is an empty array as well because the driver also reads
+ * the same option as the Parse message's parameter-type list: empty, so PostgreSQL infers every
+ * parameter type from the statement.
+ */
+export const rawTextTypes: { getTypeParser: () => (text: string) => string } & never[] =
+  Object.freeze(
+    Object.assign([] as never[], {
+      getTypeParser: () => (text: string) => text,
+    }),
+  );
+
+/** Decodes one positional row of raw driver text. */
+export function decodeModuleDatabaseRow(
+  fields: readonly ModuleDatabaseField[],
+  raw: readonly unknown[],
+): ModuleDatabaseValue[] {
+  return fields.map((field, index) => {
+    const value = raw[index];
+    return typeof value === "string" ? decodeModuleDatabaseValue(field.typeOid, value) : null;
+  });
+}

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+import {
+  MODULE_DATABASE_ABI_VERSION,
+  type ModuleDatabaseArrayRow,
+  ModuleDatabaseError,
+  type ModuleDatabaseErrorCode,
+  type ModuleDatabaseExecutor,
+  type ModuleDatabaseField,
+  type ModuleDatabaseObjectRow,
+  type ModuleDatabaseQueryable,
+  type ModuleDatabaseQueryResult,
+  type ModuleDatabaseTransaction,
+  type ModuleId,
+  moduleIdSchema,
+} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+import { DatabaseError, type Pool, type PoolClient, type QueryArrayConfig } from "pg";
+import {
+  decodeModuleDatabaseRow,
+  encodeModuleDatabaseParameters,
+  rawTextTypes,
+} from "./database-abi-values.js";
+
+/**
+ * Core's Module Database ABI v1 executor (ADR 0050).
+ *
+ * A module hands Core SQL text, ordered parameter values, and a row mode; Core hands back decoded
+ * rows, column metadata, and stable errors. No ORM, driver, pool, client, or connection object ever
+ * crosses in either direction. The executor is built over the one pool the API already owns
+ * (ADR 0016) and never closes it.
+ *
+ * This is a correctness and compatibility boundary, **not a security sandbox**: a trusted module can
+ * still send any SQL its database role permits. Nothing here inspects table names.
+ *
+ * ### Connections and session state
+ *
+ * Every ABI operation, a top-level statement or a whole transaction, borrows a connection from the
+ * pool, pins the session settings the ABI's decoding depends on, does its work, and resets the
+ * session with `DISCARD ALL` before returning the connection. So no setting, temporary table,
+ * listener, advisory lock, prepared statement, or role change a module makes survives the operation
+ * that made it, and nothing the ABI pinned reaches the pool's other users. A connection that cannot
+ * be reset cleanly, or that is not idle when the operation ends, is destroyed rather than returned.
+ * `DISCARD ALL` also deallocates named prepared statements; Core uses none on the shared pool.
+ *
+ * ### One statement per `query`
+ *
+ * Every ABI statement is sent with PostgreSQL's extended query protocol, forced with the driver's
+ * `queryMode: "extended"` even when there are no parameters. PostgreSQL itself refuses a Parse
+ * message holding more than one statement (SQLSTATE 42601), using its own SQL grammar, so comments,
+ * quoted literals, and semicolons inside them are never mistaken for a second statement. Core does
+ * not parse SQL. A statement text that holds no statement at all is refused after PostgreSQL reports
+ * it empty.
+ *
+ * ### Transaction control belongs to the callbacks
+ *
+ * Transaction-control SQL (`BEGIN`, `START TRANSACTION`, `COMMIT`, `ROLLBACK`, `SAVEPOINT`,
+ * `RELEASE SAVEPOINT`, `PREPARE TRANSACTION`, and their aliases) is forbidden through `query`: a
+ * conformance rule for trusted module code, not a security guarantee. Core cannot refuse such a
+ * statement beforehand without parsing SQL, which it does not do, and it cannot undo one PostgreSQL
+ * has already executed: a `COMMIT` sent through a transaction's `query` has committed by the time
+ * Core sees it. What Core does is detect the violation afterwards, from what PostgreSQL itself
+ * reports (the statement's command tag, and the protocol's transaction status), and fail safely:
+ * the call rejects, an enclosing transaction is never committed by Core and rejects too, and the
+ * connection is destroyed rather than returned to the pool. The commit and rollback guarantees of
+ * the transaction API apply to conforming use.
+ */
+
+/** The settings the ABI's decoding and determinism depend on, pinned for every ABI operation. */
+const pinSessionStatement =
+  "SET TimeZone TO 'UTC'; SET DateStyle TO 'ISO, MDY'; SET IntervalStyle TO 'postgres'; " +
+  "SET bytea_output TO 'hex'; SET extra_float_digits TO 1";
+const resetSessionStatement = "DISCARD ALL";
+
+const transactionControlCommands: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
+  "BEGIN",
+  "COMMIT",
+  "PREPARE",
+  "RELEASE",
+  "ROLLBACK",
+  "SAVEPOINT",
+  "START",
+]);
+
+const isolationStatements: ReadonlyMap<unknown, string> = new Map([
+  ["read committed", "READ COMMITTED"],
+  ["repeatable read", "REPEATABLE READ"],
+  ["serializable", "SERIALIZABLE"],
+]);
+
+/** `pg` 8.22 reports the protocol's ReadyForQuery transaction status through this method, which
+ * its type declarations omit. `acquire` refuses a client without it rather than guessing. */
+type AbiClient = PoolClient & { getTransactionStatus(): string | null };
+
+interface PreparedQuery {
+  readonly config: QueryArrayConfig;
+  readonly rowMode: "array" | "object";
+}
+
+interface RawResult {
+  readonly command: string | null;
+  readonly fields: readonly { readonly dataTypeID: number; readonly name: string }[];
+  readonly rowCount: number | null;
+  readonly rows: readonly unknown[][];
+}
+
+function databaseError(code: ModuleDatabaseErrorCode, cause?: unknown): ModuleDatabaseError {
+  // Only PostgreSQL's own SQLSTATE survives. The driver's message, detail, hint, position, and
+  // object names, and every non-PostgreSQL error, are dropped here.
+  if (cause instanceof DatabaseError && typeof cause.code === "string") {
+    return new ModuleDatabaseError(code, { sqlState: cause.code });
+  }
+  return new ModuleDatabaseError(code);
+}
+
+/** A PostgreSQL error leaves the connection usable; anything else (a dropped connection, a
+ * client-side timeout) may leave it mid-protocol, so it must be destroyed. */
+function connectionSurvives(error: unknown): boolean {
+  return error instanceof DatabaseError;
+}
+
+function prepareQuery(request: unknown): PreparedQuery {
+  if (typeof request !== "object" || request === null || Array.isArray(request)) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+  }
+  for (const key of Object.keys(request)) {
+    if (key !== "text" && key !== "values" && key !== "rowMode") {
+      throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+    }
+  }
+  const { rowMode, text, values } = request as Record<string, unknown>;
+  if (typeof text !== "string" || text.length === 0) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+  }
+  if (rowMode !== undefined && rowMode !== "object" && rowMode !== "array") {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+  }
+  const config = {
+    queryMode: "extended",
+    rowMode: "array",
+    text,
+    types: rawTextTypes,
+    values: encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(values),
+  };
+  return { config: config as unknown as QueryArrayConfig, rowMode: rowMode ?? "object" };
+}
+
+function beginStatement(options: unknown): string {
+  if (options === undefined) {
+    return "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED READ WRITE";
+  }
+  if (typeof options !== "object" || options === null || Array.isArray(options)) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_OPTION_INVALID");
+  }
+  for (const key of Object.keys(options)) {
+    if (key !== "isolation" && key !== "readOnly") {
+      throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_OPTION_INVALID");
+    }
+  }
+  const { isolation, readOnly } = options as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const level = isolation === undefined ? "READ COMMITTED" : isolationStatements.get(isolation);
+  if (level === undefined || (readOnly !== undefined && typeof readOnly !== "boolean")) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_OPTION_INVALID");
+  }
+  return `BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL ${level} ${readOnly === true ? "READ ONLY" : "READ WRITE"}`;
+}
+
+function buildResult(
+  raw: RawResult,
+  rowMode: "array" | "object",
+): ModuleDatabaseQueryResult<ModuleDatabaseArrayRow | ModuleDatabaseObjectRow> {
+  if (typeof raw.command !== "string" || raw.command === "") {
+    // PostgreSQL answered with EmptyQueryResponse: the text held no statement.
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+  }
+  const fields: readonly ModuleDatabaseField[] = Object.freeze(
+    raw.fields.map((field) => Object.freeze({ name: field.name, typeOid: field.dataTypeID })),
+  );
+  const decoded = raw.rows.map((row) => decodeModuleDatabaseRow(fields, row));
+  let rows: readonly (ModuleDatabaseArrayRow | ModuleDatabaseObjectRow)[];
+  if (rowMode === "array") {
+    rows = decoded;
+  } else {
+    if (new Set(fields.map((field) => field.name)).size !== fields.length) {
+      // Object rows cannot hold two columns with one name; refusing beats dropping one.
+      throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+    }
+    // `Object.fromEntries` defines properties, so a column named `__proto__` stays a column.
+    rows = decoded.map((row) =>
+      Object.fromEntries(fields.map((field, index) => [field.name, row[index] ?? null])),
+    );
+  }
+  return Object.freeze({
+    command: raw.command,
+    fields,
+    rowCount: raw.rowCount ?? null,
+    rows: Object.freeze(rows),
+  });
+}
+
+/** A borrowed client's `error` events are already reported through the statement they interrupt.
+ * The pool only listens to idle clients, so without this a connection the server terminates while
+ * borrowed would surface as an unhandled `error` event. */
+function ignoreClientError(): void {}
+
+function destroy(client: AbiClient): void {
+  client.removeListener("error", ignoreClientError);
+  client.release(true);
+}
+
+async function acquire(pool: Pool, failure: ModuleDatabaseErrorCode): Promise<AbiClient> {
+  let client: AbiClient;
+  try {
+    client = (await pool.connect()) as AbiClient;
+  } catch (error) {
+    throw databaseError(failure, error);
+  }
+  client.on("error", ignoreClientError);
+  if (typeof client.getTransactionStatus !== "function") {
+    destroy(client);
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError(failure);
+  }
+  try {
+    await client.query(pinSessionStatement);
+  } catch (error) {
+    destroy(client);
+    throw databaseError(failure, error);
+  }
+  return client;
+}
+
+/** Returns a connection to the pool only when it is idle and resets cleanly; destroys it
+ * otherwise. Never throws. */
+async function relinquish(client: AbiClient, healthy: boolean): Promise<void> {
+  if (!healthy || client.getTransactionStatus() !== "I") {
+    destroy(client);
+    return;
+  }
+  try {
+    await client.query(resetSessionStatement);
+  } catch {
+    destroy(client);
+    return;
+  }
+  client.removeListener("error", ignoreClientError);
+  client.release();
+}
+
+/** One open scope: a transaction or a savepoint inside it. */
+interface Scope {
+  activeChild: Scope | undefined;
+  readonly children: Set<Scope>;
+  closed: boolean;
+  /** Operations started through this scope's executor that have not settled yet. */
+  pending: number;
+}
+
+interface TransactionState {
+  readonly client: AbiClient;
+  healthy: boolean;
+  /** Set when the transaction can no longer be committed: transaction control sent through
+   * `query`, or a savepoint that could not be undone. */
+  failure: ModuleDatabaseError | undefined;
+  finished: boolean;
+  /** Settled-never-rejecting shadows of every statement sent on the connection. */
+  readonly inflight: Set<Promise<void>>;
+  savepoints: number;
+}
+
+function newScope(parent?: Scope): Scope {
+  const scope: Scope = { activeChild: undefined, children: new Set(), closed: false, pending: 0 };
+  parent?.children.add(scope);
+  return scope;
+}
+
+function closeScope(scope: Scope): void {
+  scope.closed = true;
+  for (const child of scope.children) {
+    closeScope(child);
+  }
+}
+
+function assertActive(scope: Scope): void {
+  if (scope.closed) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED");
+  }
+  if (scope.activeChild !== undefined) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_INACTIVE");
+  }
+}
+
+/** Once a transaction can no longer be committed, its scopes send nothing more. After a
+ * transaction-control violation in particular, a later statement would otherwise run outside any
+ * transaction, as its own autocommitted statement. */
+function assertUsable(state: TransactionState): void {
+  if (state.failure !== undefined) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError(state.failure.code);
+  }
+}
+
+function track<T>(state: TransactionState, promise: Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
+  const shadow = promise.then(
+    () => undefined,
+    () => undefined,
+  );
+  state.inflight.add(shadow);
+  void shadow.then(() => state.inflight.delete(shadow));
+  return promise;
+}
+
+/** Waits until every statement already sent has settled, including any sent while waiting. */
+async function drain(state: TransactionState): Promise<void> {
+  while (state.inflight.size > 0) {
+    await Promise.all([...state.inflight]);
+  }
+}
+
+/** Runs one of Core's own transaction-control statements. Refuses, without sending anything, once
+ * the transaction has finished. */
+async function control(state: TransactionState, statement: string): Promise<void> {
+  if (state.finished) {
+    throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED");
+  }
+  try {
+    await track(state, state.client.query(statement));
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (!connectionSurvives(error)) {
+      state.healthy = false;
+    }
+    throw databaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED", error);
+  }
+}
+
+async function rollback(state: TransactionState): Promise<void> {
+  try {
+    await state.client.query("ROLLBACK");
+  } catch {
+    state.healthy = false;
+  }
+}
+
+type Outcome<T> = { readonly value: T } | { readonly error: unknown };
+
+async function settle<T>(run: () => Promise<T> | T): Promise<Outcome<T>> {
+  try {
+    return { value: await run() };
+  } catch (error) {
+    return { error };
+  }
+}
+
+const moduleByExecutor = new WeakMap<object, ModuleId>();
+
+/** Which module an ABI executor, or a transaction or savepoint executor derived from it, belongs
+ * to. For Core's own logging, diagnostics, and attribution; never exposed to modules. */
+export function moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId(executor: object): ModuleId | undefined {
+  return moduleByExecutor.get(executor);
+}
+
+export interface ModuleDatabaseExecutorOptions {
+  /** The module this executor serves. Carried for attribution only: the ABI enforces no table
+   * ownership at run time (ADR 0050). */
+  readonly moduleId: ModuleId;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Creates one module's ABI v1 executor over the API's existing pool. Synchronous and free of I/O:
+ * nothing touches the database until the module calls it. The returned object, and every
+ * transaction and savepoint executor it hands out, is frozen and holds exactly the ABI's members.
+ */
+export function createModuleDatabaseExecutor(
+  pool: Pool,
+  options: ModuleDatabaseExecutorOptions,
+): ModuleDatabaseExecutor {
+  const parsedModuleId = moduleIdSchema.safeParse(options.moduleId);
+  if (!parsedModuleId.success) {
+    throw new TypeError("A module database executor needs a valid module ID.");
+  }
+  const moduleId = parsedModuleId.data;
+
+  async function query(
+    request: unknown,
+  ): Promise<ModuleDatabaseQueryResult<ModuleDatabaseArrayRow | ModuleDatabaseObjectRow>> {
+    const prepared = prepareQuery(request);
+    const client = await acquire(pool, "MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED");
+    let healthy = true;
+    try {
+      let raw: RawResult;
+      try {
+        raw = (await client.query(prepared.config)) as unknown as RawResult;
+      } catch (error) {
+        healthy = connectionSurvives(error);
+        throw databaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED", error);
+      }
+      if (
+        (raw.command !== null && transactionControlCommands.has(raw.command)) ||
+        client.getTransactionStatus() !== "I"
+      ) {
+        // A transaction-control violation. PostgreSQL has already run it; the connection is
+        // destroyed below rather than returned in a state Core did not choose.
+        healthy = false;
+        throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+      }
+      return buildResult(raw, prepared.rowMode);
+    } finally {
+      await relinquish(client, healthy);
+    }
+  }
+
+  function scopeExecutor(state: TransactionState, scope: Scope): ModuleDatabaseTransaction {
+    async function scopeQuery(
+      request: unknown,
+    ): Promise<ModuleDatabaseQueryResult<ModuleDatabaseArrayRow | ModuleDatabaseObjectRow>> {
+      assertActive(scope);
+      assertUsable(state);
+      const prepared = prepareQuery(request);
+      scope.pending += 1;
+      try {
+        let raw: RawResult;
+        try {
+          raw = (await track(state, state.client.query(prepared.config))) as unknown as RawResult;
+        } catch (error) {
+          if (!connectionSurvives(error)) {
+            state.healthy = false;
+          }
+          throw databaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED", error);
+        }
+        if (
+          (raw.command !== null && transactionControlCommands.has(raw.command)) ||
+          state.client.getTransactionStatus() === "I"
+        ) {
+          // A transaction-control violation. PostgreSQL has already run it, and Core cannot undo
+          // that; it can only never commit this transaction itself, and destroy the connection.
+          state.failure ??= new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+          state.healthy = false;
+          throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+        }
+        return buildResult(raw, prepared.rowMode);
+      } finally {
+        scope.pending -= 1;
+      }
+    }
+
+    async function savepoint<T>(
+      callback: (savepoint: ModuleDatabaseTransaction) => Promise<T> | T,
+    ): Promise<T> {
+      assertActive(scope);
+      assertUsable(state);
+      if (typeof callback !== "function") {
+        throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+      }
+      scope.pending += 1;
+      const child = newScope(scope);
+      scope.activeChild = child;
+      state.savepoints += 1;
+      // Core's own identifier: a fixed prefix and a counter, never anything a module supplied.
+      const name = `ekklesia_savepoint_${state.savepoints}`;
+      try {
+        await control(state, `SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+        if (child.closed) {
+          throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED");
+        }
+        const outcome = await settle(() => callback(scopeExecutor(state, child)));
+        const outstanding = child.pending > 0;
+        closeScope(child);
+        await drain(state);
+        if (scope.closed) {
+          // The enclosing transaction finished first; it rolls back, and nothing more is sent.
+          throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED");
+        }
+        if ("error" in outcome) {
+          // A rejected callback's own error stays the error, even if sibling work it started was
+          // still settling: that work has been drained, and is undone here with everything else.
+          try {
+            await control(state, `ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+            await control(state, `RELEASE SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+          } catch (error) {
+            state.failure ??= new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+            throw error;
+          }
+          throw outcome.error;
+        }
+        if (outstanding) {
+          // A callback that resolved with work outstanding forgot an await. Roll back to the
+          // savepoint and never release it.
+          try {
+            await control(state, `ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+          } catch (error) {
+            state.failure ??= new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+            throw error;
+          }
+          throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_WORK_OUTSTANDING");
+        }
+        try {
+          await control(state, `RELEASE SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+        } catch (releaseError) {
+          // Typically a failed statement left the transaction aborted. Undo the savepoint so the
+          // transaction stays usable, and report that this savepoint did not complete.
+          try {
+            await control(state, `ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+            await control(state, `RELEASE SAVEPOINT ${name}`);
+          } catch {
+            state.failure ??= new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+          }
+          throw releaseError;
+        }
+        return (outcome as { readonly value: T }).value;
+      } finally {
+        closeScope(child);
+        if (scope.activeChild === child) {
+          scope.activeChild = undefined;
+        }
+        scope.pending -= 1;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const executor = Object.freeze({
+      abiVersion: MODULE_DATABASE_ABI_VERSION,
+      query: scopeQuery as ModuleDatabaseQueryable["query"],
+      savepoint,
+    });
+    moduleByExecutor.set(executor, moduleId);
+    return executor;
+  }
+
+  async function transaction<T>(
+    callback: (transaction: ModuleDatabaseTransaction) => Promise<T> | T,
+    options?: unknown,
+  ): Promise<T> {
+    if (typeof callback !== "function") {
+      throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+    }
+    const begin = beginStatement(options);
+    const client = await acquire(pool, "MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+    const state: TransactionState = {
+      client,
+      failure: undefined,
+      finished: false,
+      healthy: true,
+      inflight: new Set(),
+      savepoints: 0,
+    };
+    try {
+      try {
+        await client.query(begin);
+      } catch (error) {
+        state.healthy = connectionSurvives(error);
+        throw databaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED", error);
+      }
+      const scope = newScope();
+      const outcome = await settle(() => callback(scopeExecutor(state, scope)));
+      const outstanding = scope.pending > 0;
+      closeScope(scope);
+      await drain(state);
+      state.finished = true;
+
+      if ("error" in outcome) {
+        // The callback's own error stays primary, even when sibling work it started (say, the
+        // other half of a `Promise.all`) was still settling. That work has been drained, and rolls
+        // back with the rest; outstanding work never leads to a commit.
+        await rollback(state);
+        throw outcome.error;
+      }
+      if (outstanding) {
+        // The callback resolved with work it never awaited: a forgotten `await`.
+        await rollback(state);
+        throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_WORK_OUTSTANDING");
+      }
+      if (state.failure !== undefined) {
+        await rollback(state);
+        throw state.failure;
+      }
+      let committed: { readonly command: string | null };
+      try {
+        committed = await client.query("COMMIT");
+      } catch (error) {
+        state.healthy = connectionSurvives(error);
+        throw databaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED", error);
+      }
+      if (committed.command !== "COMMIT") {
+        // PostgreSQL answers COMMIT with ROLLBACK when a failed statement had aborted the
+        // transaction. Nothing was committed, and PostgreSQL supplied no SQLSTATE to report.
+        throw new ModuleDatabaseError("MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+      }
+      return outcome.value;
+    } finally {
+      state.finished = true;
+      await relinquish(client, state.healthy);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const executor = Object.freeze({
+    abiVersion: MODULE_DATABASE_ABI_VERSION,
+    query: query as ModuleDatabaseQueryable["query"],
+    transaction: transaction as ModuleDatabaseExecutor["transaction"],
+  });
+  moduleByExecutor.set(executor, moduleId);
+  return executor;
+}

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

@@ -2,11 +2,14 @@ export * from "./configuration.js";
 export * from "./configuration-schema.js";
 export * from "./configuration-store.js";
 export * from "./database.js";
+export * from "./database-abi.js";
 export * from "./discovery.js";
 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 "./module-package-verification.js";
 export * from "./permissions.js";
 export * from "./realtime.js";
 export * from "./runtime.js";

core/src/modules/module-package-archive.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+import { gunzipSync } from "node:zlib";
+
+/**
+ * Reads an Ekklesia Module Package v1 archive (ADR 0049) entirely in memory and enforces the
+ * archive-safety rules before anything is written anywhere.
+ *
+ * Deliberately a strict reader rather than a general tar implementation: v1 packages hold only
+ * POSIX ustar directories and regular files, so every other entry type is refused instead of
+ * interpreted. Nothing here touches the filesystem; extraction happens only after the caller has
+ * verified the whole package.
+ */
+
+export type ModulePackageArchiveErrorCode =
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_LINK"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_SPECIAL_ENTRY"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_TOO_LARGE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_MODE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH";
+
+export class ModulePackageArchiveError extends Error {
+  readonly code: ModulePackageArchiveErrorCode;
+
+  constructor(code: ModulePackageArchiveErrorCode) {
+    super(code);
+    this.name = "ModulePackageArchiveError";
+    this.code = code;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Generous for a module, small enough that a hostile archive cannot exhaust the host. */
+export const MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_COMPRESSED_BYTES = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
+export const MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED_BYTES = 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+export const MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_ENTRIES = 100_000;
+
+export interface ModulePackageArchiveEntry {
+  /** Relative to the top-level module directory; empty for that directory itself. */
+  readonly path: string;
+  readonly type: "directory" | "file";
+  readonly data: Buffer;
+}
+
+export interface ModulePackageArchive {
+  /** The single top-level directory's name. Validated as a module id by the caller. */
+  readonly topLevel: string;
+  /** Every entry except the top-level directory itself, in archive order. */
+  readonly entries: readonly ModulePackageArchiveEntry[];
+}
+
+const BLOCK = 512;
+
+function field(block: Buffer, offset: number, length: number): string {
+  const raw = block.subarray(offset, offset + length);
+  const end = raw.indexOf(0);
+  return raw.subarray(0, end === -1 ? length : end).toString("latin1");
+}
+
+function octalField(block: Buffer, offset: number, length: number): number {
+  const text = field(block, offset, length).trim();
+  if (!/^[0-7]+$/u.test(text)) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+  }
+  const value = Number.parseInt(text, 8);
+  if (!Number.isSafeInteger(value)) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+  }
+  return value;
+}
+
+function headerChecksumValid(block: Buffer): boolean {
+  const declared = octalField(block, 148, 8);
+  let sum = 0;
+  for (let index = 0; index < BLOCK; index += 1) {
+    sum += index >= 148 && index < 156 ? 0x20 : (block[index] ?? 0);
+  }
+  return sum === declared;
+}
+
+/** Printable ASCII, no backslash, relative, and no empty, `.`, or `..` segment. */
+function safeSegments(value: string): readonly string[] {
+  if (
+    value.length === 0 ||
+    !/^[\x20-\x7e]+$/u.test(value) ||
+    value.includes("\\") ||
+    value.startsWith("/")
+  ) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH");
+  }
+  const segments = value.split("/");
+  if (segments.some((segment) => segment === "" || segment === "." || segment === "..")) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH");
+  }
+  return segments;
+}
+
+export function readModulePackageArchive(compressed: Buffer): ModulePackageArchive {
+  if (compressed.length > MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_COMPRESSED_BYTES) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_TOO_LARGE");
+  }
+  let raw: Buffer;
+  try {
+    raw = gunzipSync(compressed, { maxOutputLength: MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED_BYTES });
+  } catch (error) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError(
+      error instanceof RangeError ? "MODULE_PACKAGE_TOO_LARGE" : "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE",
+    );
+  }
+
+  const entries: ModulePackageArchiveEntry[] = [];
+  const kinds = new Map<string, "directory" | "file">();
+  /** Every path that is an ancestor of some entry, so a file can never claim one. */
+  const ancestors = new Set<string>();
+  let topLevel: string | undefined;
+  let offset = 0;
+  let ended = false;
+
+  while (offset + BLOCK <= raw.length) {
+    const block = raw.subarray(offset, offset + BLOCK);
+    if (block.every((byte) => byte === 0)) {
+      ended = true;
+      break;
+    }
+    if (field(block, 257, 6) !== "ustar" || field(block, 263, 2) !== "00") {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+    }
+    if (!headerChecksumValid(block)) {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+    }
+    if (entries.length + 1 > MODULE_PACKAGE_MAX_ENTRIES) {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_TOO_LARGE");
+    }
+
+    const typeflag = field(block, 156, 1);
+    if (typeflag === "1" || typeflag === "2") {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LINK");
+    }
+    const type =
+      typeflag === "5" ? "directory" : typeflag === "0" || typeflag === "" ? "file" : undefined;
+    if (type === undefined) {
+      // Devices, FIFOs, contiguous files, and every extended or long-name header: v1 packages hold
+      // directories and regular files, so nothing else is interpreted.
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_SPECIAL_ENTRY");
+    }
+
+    const mode = octalField(block, 100, 8);
+    if ((mode & 0o7000) !== 0) {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_MODE");
+    }
+
+    const name = field(block, 0, 100);
+    const prefix = field(block, 345, 155);
+    let fullPath = prefix === "" ? name : `${prefix}/${name}`;
+    if (type === "directory" && fullPath.endsWith("/")) {
+      fullPath = fullPath.slice(0, -1);
+    }
+    const segments = safeSegments(fullPath);
+    const top = segments[0] ?? "";
+    if (topLevel === undefined) {
+      topLevel = top;
+    } else if (top !== topLevel) {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID");
+    }
+
+    const size = type === "file" ? octalField(block, 124, 12) : 0;
+    const dataStart = offset + BLOCK;
+    const dataEnd = dataStart + size;
+    if (dataEnd > raw.length) {
+      throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+    }
+    const relative = segments.slice(1).join("/");
+
+    if (relative === "") {
+      if (type !== "directory") {
+        throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID");
+      }
+    } else {
+      if (kinds.has(relative)) {
+        throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID");
+      }
+      // No entry may sit below a file, and no file may claim a path something already sits below.
+      // Linear in the total number of path segments, whatever order the entries arrive in.
+      if (type === "file" && ancestors.has(relative)) {
+        throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID");
+      }
+      for (let index = 1; index < segments.length - 1; index += 1) {
+        const ancestor = segments.slice(1, index + 1).join("/");
+        if (kinds.get(ancestor) === "file") {
+          throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID");
+        }
+        ancestors.add(ancestor);
+      }
+      kinds.set(relative, type);
+      entries.push({ data: Buffer.from(raw.subarray(dataStart, dataEnd)), path: relative, type });
+    }
+    offset = dataStart + Math.ceil(size / BLOCK) * BLOCK;
+  }
+
+  if (!ended || topLevel === undefined) {
+    throw new ModulePackageArchiveError("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+  }
+  return Object.freeze({ entries: Object.freeze(entries), topLevel });
+}

core/src/modules/module-package-probe.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// The isolated, short-lived validation process of Module Package v1 verification (ADR 0049).
+//
+// The verifier forks this file with an empty environment and one JSON argument naming a candidate
+// module's backend entrypoints. It imports each one, so a package whose code cannot load, or whose
+// bundle still reaches for a dependency it does not contain, is refused before it is ever installed.
+// Whatever the module's top-level code does happens here, in a process with no database URL, no
+// secret, and no platform state, and that is discarded as soon as it reports.
+//
+// The result travels over the IPC channel, never stdout, so nothing a module prints can forge it.
+// It carries fixed role and reason names only: never an error message, a path, or module output.
+//
+// Written as erasable TypeScript with no relative imports, so Node can run the source file directly
+// in tests as well as the compiled file in the image.
+import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+import {
+  parseModuleRuntimeDefinition,
+  parseModuleSchemaDefinition,
+  parseModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition,
+} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+
+interface ProbeRequest {
+  readonly databaseAbi?: 1;
+  readonly moduleId: string;
+  readonly version: string;
+  readonly entrypoints: Readonly<Record<string, string>>;
+}
+
+interface ProbeFailure {
+  readonly role: string;
+  readonly reason: "contract" | "export" | "identity" | "load";
+}
+
+function defaultExport(namespace: unknown): unknown {
+  return typeof namespace === "object" && namespace !== null && "default" in namespace
+    ? (namespace as { default: unknown }).default
+    : undefined;
+}
+
+async function probe(request: ProbeRequest): Promise<readonly ProbeFailure[]> {
+  const failures: ProbeFailure[] = [];
+  for (const role of Object.keys(request.entrypoints).sort()) {
+    const entrypoint = request.entrypoints[role];
+    if (entrypoint === undefined) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    let namespace: unknown;
+    try {
+      namespace = await import(pathToFileURL(entrypoint).href);
+    } catch {
+      failures.push({ reason: "load", role });
+      continue;
+    }
+    try {
+      if (role === "server") {
+        const definition = parseModuleRuntimeDefinition(defaultExport(namespace));
+        if (definition.id !== request.moduleId || definition.version !== request.version) {
+          failures.push({ reason: "identity", role });
+        }
+        if ((definition.database?.abi === 1) !== (request.databaseAbi === 1)) {
+          failures.push({ reason: "contract", role });
+        }
+      } else if (role === "schema") {
+        const definition =
+          request.databaseAbi === 1
+            ? parseModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition(defaultExport(namespace))
+            : parseModuleSchemaDefinition(defaultExport(namespace));
+        if (definition.moduleId !== request.moduleId) {
+          failures.push({ reason: "identity", role });
+        }
+      }
+    } catch {
+      failures.push({ reason: "export", role });
+    }
+  }
+  return failures;
+}
+
+function report(message: unknown): void {
+  if (typeof process.send !== "function") {
+    process.exitCode = 2;
+    return;
+  }
+  process.send(message, () => {
+    // A module may leave timers or handles behind; the probe's work is done either way.
+    process.exit(0);
+  });
+}
+
+let request: ProbeRequest | undefined;
+try {
+  request = JSON.parse(process.argv[2] ?? "") as ProbeRequest;
+} catch {
+  report({ failures: [{ reason: "load", role: "request" }] });
+}
+if (request !== undefined) {
+  probe(request).then(
+    (failures) => report({ failures }),
+    () => report({ failures: [{ reason: "load", role: "probe" }] }),
+  );
+}

core/src/modules/module-package-verification.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,493 @@
+import { fork } from "node:child_process";
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
+import { chmod, mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import {
+  isVersionCompatible,
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_ANY_TARGET,
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT,
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_FILENAME,
+  type ModuleManifest,
+  type ModulePackageMetadata,
+  safeParseModuleManifest,
+  safeParseModulePackageMetadata,
+  safeParseModulePackageRuntimePackage,
+} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+import { discoverModules, MODULE_MANIFEST_FILENAME, ModuleDiscoveryError } from "./discovery.js";
+import { discoverModuleMigrations, ModuleMigrationDiscoveryError } from "./migration-discovery.js";
+import {
+  type ModulePackageArchive,
+  ModulePackageArchiveError,
+  type ModulePackageArchiveErrorCode,
+  readModulePackageArchive,
+} from "./module-package-archive.js";
+import { discoverModuleSchemas, ModuleSchemaDiscoveryError } from "./schema-discovery.js";
+
+/**
+ * Verifies an Ekklesia Module Package v1 archive (ADR 0049) against the platform it runs on, without
+ * ever installing it.
+ *
+ * Order matters: everything that can be decided from bytes is decided before anything is written,
+ * and nothing is executed until the package has proven itself well-formed. The archive is read and
+ * checked for safety in memory; its metadata, every payload digest, and every identity statement
+ * are checked next; only then is it written to a fresh temporary directory, validated by the same
+ * discovery the platform uses, and its backend loaded once in a separate, short-lived process with
+ * an empty environment. A caller that asks for extraction gets the verified tree written to a new
+ * directory only after all of that succeeded.
+ *
+ * Errors carry a stable code and a fixed message. Paths, archive entry names, file contents, module
+ * output, and exception messages never appear in them: an archive is untrusted input, and none of
+ * it is ever echoed.
+ */
+
+export type ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode =
+  | ModulePackageArchiveErrorCode
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_UNEXPECTED"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_DIGEST_MISMATCH"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_EXTRACTION_FAILED"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISMATCH"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISSING"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_UNLISTED"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_MANIFEST_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_MISSING"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_NATIVE_FILE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_SDK_INCOMPATIBLE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_TARGET_INCOMPATIBLE"
+  | "MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED";
+
+const messages: Readonly<Record<ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode, string>> = Object.freeze({
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE:
+    "The package's bundled database runtime does not match this platform's (a transitional constraint).",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_UNEXPECTED:
+    "A Module Database ABI package must not carry a transitional database runtime.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_DIGEST_MISMATCH: "The archive does not match the SHA-256 it was given.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED:
+    "A backend entrypoint could not be loaded from the package alone.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_EXTRACTION_FAILED:
+    "The verified package could not be extracted to a new directory.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISMATCH: "A payload file does not match its listed size or SHA-256.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISSING: "A file listed in the package metadata is missing from the archive.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_UNLISTED: "The archive contains a file the package metadata does not list.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED: "The package format is not one this platform implements.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH:
+    "The package metadata, runtime package.json, and manifest disagree about the module's identity.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID:
+    "The archive must contain exactly one top-level module directory, with each path once.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_LINK: "The archive contains a link; module packages may contain none.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_MANIFEST_INVALID: "The package's module manifest is missing or invalid.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_INVALID: "The package metadata is invalid.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_MISSING: "The archive contains no package metadata.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID: "The packaged module failed module validation.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_NATIVE_FILE: "An any-target package contains a native file.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE:
+    "The package needs a Node.js version this host does not run.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_INVALID:
+    "The package's runtime package.json is not the generated runtime shape.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_SDK_INCOMPATIBLE:
+    "The Module SDK bundled into the package is outside the manifest's own moduleSdk range.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_SPECIAL_ENTRY:
+    "The archive contains an entry that is neither a directory nor a regular file.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_TARGET_INCOMPATIBLE: "The package's target is not one this platform can run.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_TOO_LARGE: "The archive exceeds the module package size limits.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED:
+    "The package metadata contains transitional facts this platform does not understand.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE: "The file is not a readable gzip-compressed ustar archive.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_MODE: "The archive contains a setuid, setgid, or sticky entry.",
+  MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH: "The archive contains an absolute, escaping, or non-portable path.",
+});
+
+export class ModulePackageVerificationError extends Error {
+  readonly code: ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode;
+  /** Stable discovery issue codes, when module validation failed; never their messages. */
+  readonly issueCodes: readonly string[];
+
+  constructor(code: ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode, issueCodes: readonly string[] = []) {
+    super(messages[code]);
+    this.name = "ModulePackageVerificationError";
+    this.code = code;
+    this.issueCodes = Object.freeze([...new Set(issueCodes)].sort());
+    this.stack = `${this.name}: ${this.message}`;
+    Object.freeze(this);
+  }
+}
+
+/** What this platform is, for the checks that compare a package against it. */
+export interface ModulePackagePlatform {
+  readonly platformVersion: string;
+  readonly moduleSdkVersion: string;
+  /** The transitional database runtime facts this platform requires a package to agree with. */
+  readonly databaseRuntime: Readonly<Record<string, string>>;
+  /** Defaults to the running process's Node.js version. */
+  readonly nodeVersion?: string;
+}
+
+export interface VerifyModulePackageOptions {
+  readonly archivePath: string;
+  /** When given, the archive's SHA-256 must equal it (lowercase hexadecimal). */
+  readonly expectedSha256?: string;
+  readonly platform: ModulePackagePlatform;
+  /** A directory that must not exist yet; the verified module directory is written there. */
+  readonly extractTo?: string;
+  readonly loadTimeoutMs?: number;
+}
+
+export interface ModulePackageVerificationResult {
+  readonly archiveSha256: string;
+  /** Payload files, the metadata file not included. */
+  readonly fileCount: number;
+  readonly moduleId: string;
+  readonly target: string;
+  readonly version: string;
+}
+
+function fail(code: ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode, issueCodes?: readonly string[]): never {
+  throw new ModulePackageVerificationError(code, issueCodes);
+}
+
+function sha256(data: Uint8Array): string {
+  return createHash("sha256").update(data).digest("hex");
+}
+
+function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return typeof value === "object" && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
+}
+
+function parseJson(data: Buffer | undefined): unknown {
+  if (data === undefined) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(data.toString("utf8")) as unknown;
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
+/** The transitional facts this verifier understands, and nothing else (ADR 0049). */
+const UNDERSTOOD_TRANSITIONAL: Readonly<Record<string, readonly string[]>> = Object.freeze({
+  databaseRuntime: Object.freeze(["drizzle-orm"]),
+});
+
+function checkTransitional(raw: Record<string, unknown>): void {
+  const transitional = raw.transitional;
+  if (transitional === undefined) {
+    return;
+  }
+  if (!isRecord(transitional)) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED");
+  }
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(transitional)) {
+    const understood = UNDERSTOOD_TRANSITIONAL[key];
+    if (!understood || !isRecord(value)) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED");
+    }
+    if (Object.keys(value).some((name) => !understood.includes(name))) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function readMetadata(files: ReadonlyMap<string, Buffer>): ModulePackageMetadata {
+  const raw = parseJson(files.get(MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_FILENAME));
+  if (!files.has(MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_FILENAME)) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_MISSING");
+  }
+  if (!isRecord(raw)) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_INVALID");
+  }
+  if (raw.packageFormat !== MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED");
+  }
+  checkTransitional(raw);
+  const parsed = safeParseModulePackageMetadata(raw);
+  if (!parsed.success) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_INVALID");
+  }
+  return parsed.data;
+}
+
+function checkPayload(metadata: ModulePackageMetadata, files: ReadonlyMap<string, Buffer>): void {
+  const listed = new Set(metadata.files.map((file) => file.path));
+  for (const filePath of files.keys()) {
+    if (filePath !== MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_FILENAME && !listed.has(filePath)) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_UNLISTED");
+    }
+  }
+  for (const file of metadata.files) {
+    const data = files.get(file.path);
+    if (data === undefined) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISSING");
+    }
+    if (data.length !== file.size || sha256(data) !== file.sha256) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISMATCH");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function checkIdentity(
+  archive: ModulePackageArchive,
+  metadata: ModulePackageMetadata,
+  files: ReadonlyMap<string, Buffer>,
+): ModuleManifest {
+  const runtimePackage = safeParseModulePackageRuntimePackage(parseJson(files.get("package.json")));
+  if (!runtimePackage.success) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_INVALID");
+  }
+  const manifest = safeParseModuleManifest(parseJson(files.get(MODULE_MANIFEST_FILENAME)));
+  if (!manifest.success) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_MANIFEST_INVALID");
+  }
+  if (
+    archive.topLevel !== metadata.module.id ||
+    manifest.data.id !== metadata.module.id ||
+    manifest.data.version !== metadata.module.version ||
+    runtimePackage.data.version !== metadata.module.version
+  ) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH");
+  }
+  return manifest.data;
+}
+
+function checkCompatibility(
+  metadata: ModulePackageMetadata,
+  manifest: ModuleManifest,
+  files: ReadonlyMap<string, Buffer>,
+  platform: ModulePackagePlatform,
+): void {
+  // This verifier implements the portable target only. Native targets are a later slice.
+  if (metadata.target !== MODULE_PACKAGE_ANY_TARGET) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_TARGET_INCOMPATIBLE");
+  }
+  if ([...files.keys()].some((filePath) => filePath.toLowerCase().endsWith(".node"))) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_NATIVE_FILE");
+  }
+  if (!isVersionCompatible(platform.nodeVersion ?? process.versions.node, metadata.runtime.node)) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE");
+  }
+  const sdk = metadata.incorporates["@ekklesia/module-sdk"];
+  if (sdk !== undefined && !isVersionCompatible(sdk, manifest.compatibility.moduleSdk)) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_SDK_INCOMPATIBLE");
+  }
+  if (manifest.database?.abi === 1) {
+    if (metadata.transitional?.databaseRuntime !== undefined) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_UNEXPECTED");
+    }
+    return;
+  }
+  // Transitional legacy-v8 path (ADR 0049): Core queries the module's Drizzle tables with its own
+  // Drizzle instance, so a recorded module runtime must match. ABI-v1 packages return above: their
+  // bundled ORM is a private implementation detail and is never compared with Core's.
+  for (const [runtime, version] of Object.entries(metadata.transitional?.databaseRuntime ?? {})) {
+    if (platform.databaseRuntime[runtime] !== version) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** Writes the archive's directories (`0755`) and files (`0644`) under `root`, which must not exist.
+ * Safe by construction: every path was validated as relative and non-escaping, and only directories
+ * and regular files exist. Ownership is the writing process's, never the archive's. */
+async function writeTree(root: string, archive: ModulePackageArchive): Promise<void> {
+  await mkdir(root, { mode: 0o755 });
+  await chmod(root, 0o755);
+  for (const entry of archive.entries) {
+    const target = path.join(root, ...entry.path.split("/"));
+    if (entry.type === "directory") {
+      await mkdir(target, { mode: 0o755, recursive: true });
+      await chmod(target, 0o755);
+    } else {
+      await mkdir(path.dirname(target), { mode: 0o755, recursive: true });
+      await writeFile(target, entry.data, { flag: "wx", mode: 0o644 });
+      await chmod(target, 0o644);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function probeEntrypointPath(): string {
+  // The probe sits beside this file: compiled `.js` in an installation, source `.ts` under a test
+  // runner, which Node runs directly. Either way it is a separate process.
+  const self = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+  return path.join(path.dirname(self), `module-package-probe${path.extname(self)}`);
+}
+
+/** Loads every backend entrypoint in a short-lived child with an empty environment, and reports
+ * only whether each loaded and exported a definition naming this module. */
+async function loadEntrypoints(
+  manifest: Pick<ModuleManifest, "database" | "id" | "version">,
+  entrypoints: Readonly<Record<string, string>>,
+  timeoutMs: number,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const outcome = await new Promise<"ok" | "failed">((resolve) => {
+    let settled = false;
+    let child: ReturnType<typeof fork> | undefined;
+    let timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
+    const finish = (value: "ok" | "failed"): void => {
+      if (!settled) {
+        settled = true;
+        clearTimeout(timer);
+        child?.kill("SIGKILL");
+        resolve(value);
+      }
+    };
+    try {
+      child = fork(
+        probeEntrypointPath(),
+        [
+          JSON.stringify({
+            ...(manifest.database?.abi === 1 ? { databaseAbi: 1 } : {}),
+            entrypoints,
+            moduleId: manifest.id,
+            version: manifest.version,
+          }),
+        ],
+        {
+          cwd: tmpdir(),
+          env: {},
+          execArgv: [],
+          serialization: "json",
+          stdio: ["ignore", "ignore", "ignore", "ipc"],
+        },
+      );
+    } catch {
+      finish("failed");
+      return;
+    }
+    timer = setTimeout(() => finish("failed"), timeoutMs);
+    child.on("message", (message: unknown) => {
+      const failures = isRecord(message) ? message.failures : undefined;
+      finish(Array.isArray(failures) && failures.length === 0 ? "ok" : "failed");
+    });
+    child.on("error", () => finish("failed"));
+    child.on("exit", () => finish("failed"));
+  });
+  if (outcome !== "ok") {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED");
+  }
+}
+
+function discoveryIssueCodes(error: unknown): readonly string[] {
+  if (
+    error instanceof ModuleDiscoveryError ||
+    error instanceof ModuleMigrationDiscoveryError ||
+    error instanceof ModuleSchemaDiscoveryError
+  ) {
+    return error.issues.map((issue) => issue.code);
+  }
+  return [];
+}
+
+export async function verifyModulePackage(
+  options: VerifyModulePackageOptions,
+): Promise<ModulePackageVerificationResult> {
+  let compressed: Buffer;
+  try {
+    compressed = await readFile(options.archivePath);
+  } catch {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+  }
+  const archiveSha256 = sha256(compressed);
+  if (options.expectedSha256 !== undefined && options.expectedSha256 !== archiveSha256) {
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_DIGEST_MISMATCH");
+  }
+
+  let archive: ModulePackageArchive;
+  try {
+    archive = readModulePackageArchive(compressed);
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (error instanceof ModulePackageArchiveError) {
+      fail(error.code);
+    }
+    fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE");
+  }
+  const files = new Map(
+    archive.entries
+      .filter((entry) => entry.type === "file")
+      .map((entry) => [entry.path, entry.data] as const),
+  );
+
+  const metadata = readMetadata(files);
+  checkPayload(metadata, files);
+  const manifest = checkIdentity(archive, metadata, files);
+  checkCompatibility(metadata, manifest, files, options.platform);
+
+  const scratch = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-package-verify-"));
+  try {
+    // The candidate alone, in a scratch inventory of its own: never module storage.
+    const modulesDirectory = path.join(scratch, "candidates");
+    await mkdir(modulesDirectory, { mode: 0o755 });
+    await writeTree(path.join(modulesDirectory, metadata.module.id), archive);
+
+    const discoveryOptions = {
+      moduleSdkVersion: options.platform.moduleSdkVersion,
+      modulesDirectory,
+      modulesDirectoryRequired: true,
+      platformVersion: options.platform.platformVersion,
+    } as const;
+    let entrypoints: Record<string, string>;
+    try {
+      // The same static validation the platform runs, against this package alone. A module that
+      // requires another module is validated with its dependencies when it is installed.
+      const [discovered] = await discoverModules(discoveryOptions);
+      if (discovered === undefined) {
+        fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID");
+      }
+      await discoverModuleMigrations(discoveryOptions);
+      entrypoints = {
+        server: discovered.entrypoints.server,
+        ...(discovered.entrypoints.schema ? { schema: discovered.entrypoints.schema } : {}),
+        ...(discovered.entrypoints.jobs ? { jobs: discovered.entrypoints.jobs } : {}),
+      };
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof ModulePackageVerificationError) {
+        throw error;
+      }
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID", discoveryIssueCodes(error));
+    }
+
+    // Executed only now, and first in isolation: a schema is imported in this process below only
+    // after the probe proved it loads on its own.
+    await loadEntrypoints(manifest, entrypoints, options.loadTimeoutMs ?? 30_000);
+    try {
+      await discoverModuleSchemas(discoveryOptions);
+    } catch (error) {
+      fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID", discoveryIssueCodes(error));
+    }
+
+    if (options.extractTo !== undefined) {
+      const extractTo = options.extractTo;
+      let created = false;
+      try {
+        await mkdir(extractTo, { mode: 0o755 });
+        created = true;
+        await rm(extractTo, { recursive: true });
+        await writeTree(extractTo, archive);
+      } catch {
+        // Never leave a partial module directory behind; never remove one this call did not create.
+        if (created) {
+          await rm(extractTo, { force: true, recursive: true }).catch(() => undefined);
+        }
+        fail("MODULE_PACKAGE_EXTRACTION_FAILED");
+      }
+    }
+  } finally {
+    await rm(scratch, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  }
+
+  return Object.freeze({
+    archiveSha256,
+    fileCount: metadata.files.length,
+    moduleId: metadata.module.id,
+    target: metadata.target,
+    version: metadata.module.version,
+  });
+}

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/src/modules/runtime.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 import {
+  type AnyModuleRuntimeServices,
   type CapabilityId,
   type CapabilityRegistrar,
   type CapabilityResolver,
@@ -7,12 +8,15 @@ import {
   EMPTY_MODULE_CONFIGURATION,
   EMPTY_MODULE_STORAGE,
   type ModuleConfiguration,
+  type ModuleDatabase,
+  type ModuleDatabaseExecutor,
   type ModuleHttpRouteRegistrar,
   type ModuleId,
   ModuleRealtimeError,
   type ModuleRealtimePublisher,
   type ModuleRegistrationContext,
   type ModuleRouteDefinitionInput,
+  type ModuleRouteHandler,
   type ModuleRuntimeContext,
   type ModuleRuntimeDefinition,
   type ModuleRuntimeServices,
@@ -68,6 +72,7 @@ export type ModuleRuntimeIssueCode =
   | "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_INVALID"
   | "MODULE_ROUTE_PERMISSION_UNDECLARED"
   | "MODULE_RUNTIME_EXPORT_INVALID"
+  | "MODULE_RUNTIME_DATABASE_MISMATCH"
   | "MODULE_RUNTIME_ID_MISMATCH"
   | "MODULE_RUNTIME_IMPORT_FAILED"
   | "MODULE_RUNTIME_VERSION_MISMATCH"
@@ -105,9 +110,8 @@ export interface StartedModuleRuntime {
 /**
  * Per-module frozen configuration snapshots, keyed by module id (ADR 0029).
  *
- * A lookup rather than a field on `ModuleRuntimeServices`, because `services` is deliberately **one
- * shared object identity every module receives** — a property this runtime has a test for — while
- * configuration is per-module by definition. A module with no entry receives
+ * A lookup rather than a field on `ModuleRuntimeServices`, because configuration is resolved and
+ * frozen per module independently of its live service object. A module with no entry receives
  * `EMPTY_MODULE_CONFIGURATION` rather than `undefined`, so `context.config` is always present and
  * module code never branches on whether the platform supplied one.
  */
@@ -124,12 +128,33 @@ function configurationFor(
  * Per-module scoped object storage, keyed by module id (ADR 0030).
  *
  * A lookup for the same reason configuration is one, and emphatically **not** a field on
- * `ModuleRuntimeServices`: `services` is one shared object identity every module receives, while a
- * storage facade is scoped to exactly the buckets one module declared. Sharing it would hand every
+ * `ModuleRuntimeServices`: a storage facade is scoped to exactly the buckets one module declared.
+ * Sharing it would hand every
  * module every other module's storage.
  */
 export type ModuleStorageLookup = ReadonlyMap<string, ModuleStorage>;
 
+/** One frozen service object per module id. Legacy modules may point at objects wrapping the same
+ * facade; ABI-v1 modules each point at their own attributed executor. */
+export type ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = ReadonlyMap<string, AnyModuleRuntimeServices>;
+export type ModuleRuntimeServicesSource = ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup | ModuleRuntimeServices;
+
+function servicesFor(
+  services: ModuleRuntimeServicesSource,
+  module: DiscoveredModule,
+): AnyModuleRuntimeServices {
+  const selected = "get" in services ? services.get(module.manifest.id) : services;
+  if (!selected) {
+    throw new TypeError(`Module ${module.manifest.id} has no runtime services.`);
+  }
+  const expectsAbi = module.manifest.database?.abi === 1;
+  const isAbi = "abiVersion" in selected.database && selected.database.abiVersion === 1;
+  if (expectsAbi !== isAbi) {
+    throw new TypeError(`Module ${module.manifest.id} has the wrong database service.`);
+  }
+  return selected;
+}
+
 function storageFor(storages: ModuleStorageLookup, moduleId: string): ModuleStorage {
   return storages.get(moduleId) ?? EMPTY_MODULE_STORAGE;
 }
@@ -164,10 +189,9 @@ export interface ModuleRuntimeCompositionOptions extends ModuleRuntimeTimeoutOpt
 export interface StartModuleRuntimeOptions
   extends ModuleDiscoveryOptions,
     ModuleRuntimeCompositionOptions {
-  /** The same frozen services object every started module's `start`/`stop` hooks and (once
-   * `apps/api` mounts routes) HTTP handlers receive for this runtime — a required production
-   * dependency, never an optional test-only global. See `ModuleRuntimeServices`. */
-  readonly services: ModuleRuntimeServices;
+  /** The manifest-selected service object for each module. One module's `start`/`stop` hooks and
+   * handlers receive its same entry; ABI-v1 entries carry distinct attributed executors. */
+  readonly services: ModuleRuntimeServicesSource;
 }
 
 interface LoadedModule {
@@ -175,6 +199,13 @@ interface LoadedModule {
   readonly discovered: DiscoveredModule;
 }
 
+type AnyRegistrationHook = (
+  context: ModuleRegistrationContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>,
+) => unknown;
+type AnyRuntimeHook = (
+  context: ModuleRuntimeContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>,
+) => unknown;
+
 interface CapabilityRegistrationStage {
   readonly capabilities: CapabilityRegistrar;
   commit(): readonly ModuleRuntimeIssue[];
@@ -469,7 +500,7 @@ class StagedModuleHttpRoutes {
         local.push(
           Object.freeze({
             bodyMode: parsed.data.bodyMode,
-            handler: parsed.data.handler,
+            handler: parsed.data.handler as ModuleRouteHandler,
             maxBodyBytes: parsed.data.maxBodyBytes,
             method: parsed.data.method,
             moduleId: module.manifest.id,
@@ -555,6 +586,19 @@ async function loadRuntimeDefinitions(
         ),
       );
     }
+    const runtimeDeclaresAbi = definition.database?.abi === 1;
+    const manifestDeclaresAbi = discovered.manifest.database?.abi === 1;
+    if (runtimeDeclaresAbi !== manifestDeclaresAbi) {
+      matchesManifest = false;
+      issues.push(
+        runtimeIssue(
+          "MODULE_RUNTIME_DATABASE_MISMATCH",
+          "load",
+          discovered.manifest.id,
+          `Module runtime database declaration does not match manifest ${discovered.manifest.id}.`,
+        ),
+      );
+    }
     if (matchesManifest) {
       loaded.push({ definition, discovered });
     }
@@ -580,15 +624,15 @@ async function registerModules(
       module.discovered.manifest.id,
       new Set(module.discovered.manifest.permissions.map((declaration) => declaration.id)),
     );
-    const context: ModuleRegistrationContext = Object.freeze({
+    const context = Object.freeze({
       capabilities: capabilityStage.capabilities,
       config: configurationFor(configurations, module.discovered.manifest.id),
       http: routeStage.http,
       moduleId: module.discovered.manifest.id,
       realtime: realtimeStage.realtime,
-    });
+    }) as ModuleRegistrationContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>;
     try {
-      await module.definition.register?.(context);
+      await (module.definition.register as AnyRegistrationHook | undefined)?.(context);
     } catch (error) {
       if (error instanceof ModuleRuntimeSignal) {
         throw new ModuleRuntimeError([error.issue]);
@@ -685,7 +729,7 @@ async function stopModules(
   modules: readonly LoadedModule[],
   registry: StagedCapabilityRegistry,
   phase: "rollback" | "stop",
-  services: ModuleRuntimeServices,
+  services: ModuleRuntimeServicesSource,
   configurations: ModuleConfigurationLookup,
   storages: ModuleStorageLookup,
   realtimeRegistry: StagedModuleRealtimeRegistry,
@@ -698,7 +742,7 @@ async function stopModules(
     // A dependency may keep doing ordinary work while its dependents stop. Deactivate only the
     // module whose stop hook is about to run, not every publisher at the beginning of the sequence.
     realtimeRegistry.deactivateModule(moduleId);
-    const stop = module.definition.stop;
+    const stop = module.definition.stop as AnyRuntimeHook | undefined;
     if (!stop) {
       // No synthetic callback and no timer for a module that declares no stop hook.
       continue;
@@ -710,13 +754,13 @@ async function stopModules(
             registry.createRuntimeContext(
               module.discovered,
               phase,
-              services,
+              servicesFor(services, module.discovered) as ModuleRuntimeServices,
               configurationFor(configurations, moduleId),
               storageFor(storages, moduleId),
               realtimeRegistry.publisherFor(moduleId),
+            ) as ModuleRuntimeContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>,
           ),
-          ),
-        ),
+        ).then(() => undefined),
         timeoutMs,
       );
       if (outcome === "timed-out") {
@@ -750,7 +794,7 @@ async function stopModules(
 async function startModules(
   modules: readonly LoadedModule[],
   registry: StagedCapabilityRegistry,
-  services: ModuleRuntimeServices,
+  services: ModuleRuntimeServicesSource,
   configurations: ModuleConfigurationLookup,
   storages: ModuleStorageLookup,
   realtimeRegistry: StagedModuleRealtimeRegistry,
@@ -766,15 +810,15 @@ async function startModules(
   for (const module of modules) {
     rollbackCandidates.push(module);
     try {
-      await module.definition.start?.(
+      await (module.definition.start as AnyRuntimeHook | undefined)?.(
         registry.createRuntimeContext(
           module.discovered,
           "start",
-          services,
+          servicesFor(services, module.discovered) as ModuleRuntimeServices,
           configurationFor(configurations, module.discovered.manifest.id),
           storageFor(storages, module.discovered.manifest.id),
           realtimeRegistry.publisherFor(module.discovered.manifest.id),
-        ),
+        ) as ModuleRuntimeContext<ModuleDatabase | ModuleDatabaseExecutor>,
       );
       const missingSnapshots = realtimeRegistry.missingSnapshots(module.discovered.manifest.id);
       if (missingSnapshots.length > 0) {
@@ -831,7 +875,7 @@ async function startModules(
  */
 export async function startDiscoveredModuleRuntime(
   discoveredModules: readonly DiscoveredModule[],
-  services: ModuleRuntimeServices,
+  services: ModuleRuntimeServicesSource,
   timeouts: ModuleRuntimeCompositionOptions = {},
 ): Promise<StartedModuleRuntime> {
   const modules = await loadRuntimeDefinitions(discoveredModules);

core/src/modules/schema-discovery.ts

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
 import {
   type ModuleId,
   type ModuleSchemaDefinition,
+  type ModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition,
   moduleTableLocalNameSchema,
   moduleTablePrefix,
   parseModuleSchemaDefinition,
+  parseModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition,
   physicalModuleTableNameSchema,
 } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
 import { is } from "drizzle-orm";
@@ -40,7 +42,9 @@ export interface DiscoveredModuleTable {
   readonly exportName: string;
   readonly moduleId: ModuleId;
   readonly name: string;
-  readonly table: AnyPgTable;
+  /** Present only for a temporary legacy-facade module. ABI-v1 schema discovery publishes no ORM
+   * object and contributes nothing to the legacy aggregate below. */
+  readonly table?: AnyPgTable;
 }
 
 export interface DiscoveredModuleSchema {
@@ -55,21 +59,40 @@ export interface ModuleSchemaAggregate {
   readonly tables: readonly DiscoveredModuleTable[];
 }
 
-interface LoadedModuleSchema {
+interface LoadedLegacyModuleSchema {
   readonly definition: ModuleSchemaDefinition;
   readonly discovered: DiscoveredModule;
+  readonly mode: "legacy";
 }
 
+interface LoadedAbiModuleSchema {
+  readonly definition: ModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition;
+  readonly discovered: DiscoveredModule;
+  readonly mode: "abi-v1";
+}
+
+type LoadedModuleSchema = LoadedLegacyModuleSchema | LoadedAbiModuleSchema;
+
 interface InspectedModuleSchema {
   readonly discovered: DiscoveredModule;
   readonly tables: ModuleTableCandidate[];
 }
 
-interface ModuleTableCandidate extends DiscoveredModuleTable {
+interface LegacyModuleTableCandidate extends DiscoveredModuleTable {
+  readonly mode: "legacy";
   readonly foreignKeys: ReturnType<typeof getTableConfig>["foreignKeys"];
   readonly path: string;
+  readonly table: AnyPgTable;
 }
 
+interface AbiModuleTableCandidate extends DiscoveredModuleTable {
+  readonly mode: "abi-v1";
+  readonly foreignKeys: ModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition["tables"][number]["foreignKeys"];
+  readonly path: string;
+}
+
+type ModuleTableCandidate = LegacyModuleTableCandidate | AbiModuleTableCandidate;
+
 const drizzleTableIsAlias = Symbol.for("drizzle:IsAlias");
 
 export class ModuleSchemaDiscoveryError extends Error {
@@ -156,9 +179,13 @@ async function loadSchemaDefinitions(discoveredModules: readonly DiscoveredModul
       continue;
     }
 
-    let definition: ModuleSchemaDefinition;
+    let definition: ModuleSchemaDefinition | ModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition;
+    const mode = discovered.manifest.database?.abi === 1 ? "abi-v1" : "legacy";
     try {
-      definition = parseModuleSchemaDefinition(defaultExport(moduleNamespace));
+      definition =
+        mode === "abi-v1"
+          ? parseModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition(defaultExport(moduleNamespace))
+          : parseModuleSchemaDefinition(defaultExport(moduleNamespace));
     } catch {
       issues.push(
         issue(
@@ -182,7 +209,11 @@ async function loadSchemaDefinitions(discoveredModules: readonly DiscoveredModul
       continue;
     }
 
-    loaded.push({ definition, discovered });
+    loaded.push(
+      mode === "abi-v1"
+        ? { definition: definition as ModuleSchemaMetadataDefinition, discovered, mode }
+        : { definition: definition as ModuleSchemaDefinition, discovered, mode },
+    );
   }
 
   return { issues, loaded };
@@ -197,6 +228,58 @@ function inspectTables(
 
   for (const loaded of loadedSchemas) {
     const moduleId = loaded.discovered.manifest.id;
+    if (loaded.mode === "abi-v1") {
+      const candidates: AbiModuleTableCandidate[] = [];
+      loaded.definition.tables.forEach((table, index) => {
+        const path = `tables.${index}`;
+        const candidate: AbiModuleTableCandidate = {
+          exportName: table.name,
+          foreignKeys: table.foreignKeys,
+          mode: "abi-v1",
+          moduleId,
+          name: table.name,
+          path,
+        };
+        const tablePrefix = moduleTablePrefix(moduleId);
+        if (!table.name.startsWith(tablePrefix)) {
+          issues.push(
+            issue(
+              "MODULE_SCHEMA_TABLE_NAMESPACE_INVALID",
+              moduleId,
+              `Table ${table.name} is not namespaced for module ${moduleId}.`,
+              { path, tableName: table.name },
+            ),
+          );
+        } else if (
+          !moduleTableLocalNameSchema.safeParse(table.name.slice(tablePrefix.length)).success
+        ) {
+          issues.push(
+            issue(
+              "MODULE_SCHEMA_TABLE_NAME_INVALID",
+              moduleId,
+              `Module ${moduleId} has an invalid local table name.`,
+              { path },
+            ),
+          );
+        }
+        const existing = firstTableByName.get(table.name);
+        if (existing) {
+          issues.push(
+            issue(
+              "MODULE_SCHEMA_TABLE_DUPLICATE",
+              moduleId,
+              `Table ${table.name} is declared more than once.`,
+              { path, tableName: table.name },
+            ),
+          );
+        } else {
+          firstTableByName.set(table.name, candidate);
+        }
+        candidates.push(candidate);
+      });
+      inspectedModules.push({ discovered: loaded.discovered, tables: candidates });
+      continue;
+    }
     const seenTables = new Set<AnyPgTable>();
     const candidates: ModuleTableCandidate[] = [];
     const entries = Object.entries(loaded.definition.tables).sort(([left], [right]) =>
@@ -293,6 +376,7 @@ function inspectTables(
       const candidate: ModuleTableCandidate = {
         exportName,
         foreignKeys: config.foreignKeys,
+        mode: "legacy",
         moduleId,
         name: config.name,
         path,
@@ -321,8 +405,8 @@ function inspectTables(
 }
 
 function validForeignKeyTarget(
-  foreignKey: ModuleTableCandidate["foreignKeys"][number],
-  candidate: ModuleTableCandidate,
+  foreignKey: LegacyModuleTableCandidate["foreignKeys"][number],
+  candidate: LegacyModuleTableCandidate,
 ): AnyPgTable | undefined {
   try {
     const reference = foreignKey.reference();
@@ -356,14 +440,42 @@ function inspectForeignKeys(
   const ownerByTable = new Map<AnyPgTable, ModuleId>();
   for (const inspected of inspectedModules) {
     for (const candidate of inspected.tables) {
+      if (candidate.mode === "legacy") {
         ownerByTable.set(candidate.table, candidate.moduleId);
       }
     }
+  }
 
   for (const inspected of inspectedModules) {
     const moduleId = inspected.discovered.manifest.id;
     const ownedTables = new Set(inspected.tables.map((candidate) => candidate.table));
     for (const candidate of inspected.tables) {
+      if (candidate.mode === "abi-v1") {
+        const ownedNames = new Set(inspected.tables.map((table) => table.name));
+        candidate.foreignKeys.forEach((foreignKey, foreignKeyIndex) => {
+          const path = `${candidate.path}.foreignKeys.${foreignKeyIndex}`;
+          if (!foreignKey.table.startsWith(moduleTablePrefix(moduleId))) {
+            issues.push(
+              issue(
+                "MODULE_SCHEMA_CROSS_MODULE_FOREIGN_KEY",
+                moduleId,
+                `Table ${candidate.name} has a foreign key outside module ${moduleId}.`,
+                { path, tableName: candidate.name },
+              ),
+            );
+          } else if (!ownedNames.has(foreignKey.table)) {
+            issues.push(
+              issue(
+                "MODULE_SCHEMA_FOREIGN_KEY_TARGET_MISSING",
+                moduleId,
+                `Table ${candidate.name} references a table not exported by module ${moduleId}.`,
+                { path, tableName: candidate.name },
+              ),
+            );
+          }
+        });
+        continue;
+      }
       candidate.foreignKeys.forEach((foreignKey, foreignKeyIndex) => {
         const path = `${candidate.path}.foreignKeys.${foreignKeyIndex}`;
         const foreignTable = validForeignKeyTarget(foreignKey, candidate);
@@ -446,7 +558,9 @@ function publishAggregate(
         moduleId: inspected.discovered.manifest.id,
         tables: Object.freeze(
           inspected.tables
-            .map(({ foreignKeys: _foreignKeys, path: _path, ...table }) => Object.freeze(table))
+            .map(({ foreignKeys: _foreignKeys, mode: _mode, path: _path, ...table }) =>
+              Object.freeze(table),
+            )
             .sort((left, right) => compareText(left.exportName, right.exportName)),
         ),
       }),
@@ -458,7 +572,11 @@ function publishAggregate(
       .sort((left, right) => compareText(left.name, right.name)),
   );
   const drizzleSchema = Object.freeze(
-    Object.fromEntries(tables.map((table) => [table.name, table.table] as const)),
+    Object.fromEntries(
+      tables.flatMap((table) =>
+        table.table === undefined ? [] : [[table.name, table.table] as const],
+      ),
+    ),
   );
 
   return Object.freeze({ discoveredModules, drizzleSchema, modules, tables });

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

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ async function createModule(
     writeFile(
       path.join(moduleDirectory, "ekklesia.module.json"),
       JSON.stringify({
-        manifestVersion: 7,
+        manifestVersion: 8,
         id,
         name: `${id} module`,
         version: "0.1.0",

core/tests/dashboard-flat-modules.test.ts

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         : {}),
       entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server/index.js", ui: "./dist/ui/index.js" },
       id: fixture.id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: fixture.name,
       version: "1.0.0",
     }),

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",
 });
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ function discoveredModule(id: string, overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}):
       },
       entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server.js" },
       id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${id} module`,
       permissions: [],
       storage: { buckets: [] },
@@ -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",
@@ -135,6 +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",
@@ -159,6 +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",
@@ -207,6 +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 { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { type ModuleManifest, parsePermissionId } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { createPermissionRegistry, PermissionRegistryError } from "../src/authorization/index.js";
 import {
   type DoctorCheck,
@@ -28,7 +32,11 @@ const checksumA = "a".repeat(64);
 const checksumB = "b".repeat(64);
 const checksumC = "c".repeat(64);
 
-function discoveredModule(id: string, version = "0.1.0"): DiscoveredModule {
+function discoveredModule(
+  id: string,
+  version = "0.1.0",
+  database?: { readonly abi: 1 },
+): DiscoveredModule {
   return {
     contributions: [],
     directory: `/unpublished/${id}`,
@@ -37,13 +45,14 @@ function discoveredModule(id: string, version = "0.1.0"): DiscoveredModule {
       capabilities: [],
       compatibility: { moduleSdk: "^0.1.0", platform: "^0.1.0" },
       configuration: [],
+      ...(database ? { database } : {}),
       dependencies: {
         capabilities: { optional: {}, required: {} },
         modules: { optional: {}, required: {} },
       },
       entrypoints: { server: "./dist/server.js" },
       id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${id} module`,
       permissions: [],
       storage: { buckets: [] },
@@ -114,7 +123,10 @@ 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 +136,7 @@ function plan(entries: MigrationPlanResult["entries"] = []): MigrationPlanResult
     approvalRequiredCount,
     entries: Object.freeze([...entries]),
     pendingCount: entries.length - appliedCount,
+    retained: Object.freeze([...retained]),
   });
 }
 
@@ -151,6 +164,7 @@ 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",
@@ -285,7 +299,7 @@ describe("Ekklesia Doctor outbound email reporting", () => {
 describe("Ekklesia Doctor diagnostics", () => {
   it("publishes a healthy deterministic static report without database configuration", async () => {
     const people = discoveredModule("people");
-    const calendar = discoveredModule("calendar", "0.2.0");
+    const calendar = discoveredModule("calendar", "0.2.0", { abi: 1 });
     const inventory = migrationAggregate(
       [migration("people", "0000_initial", checksumA)],
       [people, calendar],
@@ -318,6 +332,7 @@ describe("Ekklesia Doctor diagnostics", () => {
     ]);
     expect(check(report, "modules.discovery").details).toEqual(["people 0.1.0", "calendar 0.2.0"]);
     expect(check(report, "modules.dependencies").details).toEqual(["Order: people → calendar"]);
+    expect(check(report, "schemas.discovery")).toMatchObject({ status: "pass" });
     expect(check(report, "modules.permissions")).toMatchObject({
       details: ["0 permissions registered"],
       status: "pass",
@@ -1657,3 +1672,113 @@ 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/fixtures/module-database-integration/db-facade/ekklesia.module.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "manifestVersion": 7,
+  "manifestVersion": 8,
   "id": "db-facade",
   "name": "Database Facade Integration Test Module",
   "description": "Test-only installed module fixture proving ModuleDatabase against real PostgreSQL. Never discovered by production startup, Doctor, or normal migration aggregation — only apps/api/tests/module-database.integration.ts points discovery at it explicitly.",

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-configuration-lifecycle.test.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function fakeModule(
   } = {},
 ): DiscoveredModule {
   const manifest = parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "1.0.0",

core/tests/module-configuration-store.integration.ts

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ afterAll(async () => {
 
 function manifestWith(configuration: readonly Record<string, unknown>[], id = "announcements") {
   return parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "1.0.0",

core/tests/module-configuration.test.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function manifestWith(
   id = "announcements",
 ) {
   return parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "1.0.0",
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
 
   it("rejects two declarations of the same key, so an ordinary key and a secret can never collide", () => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
 
   it("rejects a default on a secret, because a checked-in default credential is a leaked one", () => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
 
   it("rejects a key that is both required and defaulted, which states an intent nothing can honour", () => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
     ],
   ])("rejects %s", (_label, declaration) => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
     "valueOf",
   ])("rejects the reserved object property name %s as a configuration key", (key) => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ describe("module configuration declarations", () => {
     "",
   ])("rejects the malformed configuration key %s", (key) => {
     const result = safeParseModuleManifest({
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       id: "announcements",
       name: "announcements module",
       version: "1.0.0",
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ describe("configuration over a real discovered inventory", () => {
       writeFile(
         path.join(moduleDirectory, "ekklesia.module.json"),
         JSON.stringify({
-          manifestVersion: 7,
+          manifestVersion: 8,
           id,
           name: `${id} module`,
           version: "1.0.0",

core/tests/module-database-abi.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,867 @@
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import {
+  isModuleDatabaseError,
+  type ModuleDatabaseErrorCode,
+  type ModuleDatabaseTransaction,
+} from "@ekklesia/contracts";
+import { DatabaseError, type Pool } from "pg";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import {
+  createModuleDatabaseExecutor,
+  moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId,
+} from "../src/modules/database-abi.js";
+import {
+  decodeModuleDatabaseValue,
+  encodeModuleDatabaseParameters,
+  MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS,
+  parsePostgresArrayText,
+} from "../src/modules/database-abi-values.js";
+
+/**
+ * Module Database ABI v1 (ADR 0050) without a database: parameter validation and encoding, result
+ * decoding from PostgreSQL text, option validation, error sanitization, and scope bookkeeping.
+ *
+ * Everything that depends on PostgreSQL's own behaviour (type OIDs, the protocol, SQLSTATEs,
+ * transactions, savepoints, session settings) is proven against a real database in
+ * `module-database-abi.integration.ts`. The scripted client here only replays command tags and
+ * transaction status, so the executor's own bookkeeping can be observed statement by statement.
+ */
+
+async function rejection(promise: Promise<unknown>): Promise<unknown> {
+  try {
+    await promise;
+  } catch (error) {
+    return error;
+  }
+  throw new Error("Expected the operation to reject.");
+}
+
+async function expectAbiError(
+  promise: Promise<unknown>,
+  code: ModuleDatabaseErrorCode,
+  sqlState?: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const error = await rejection(promise);
+  expect(isModuleDatabaseError(error)).toBe(true);
+  expect(error).toMatchObject({ code });
+  expect((error as { sqlState?: string }).sqlState).toBe(sqlState);
+}
+
+function syncThrows(run: () => unknown): unknown {
+  try {
+    run();
+  } catch (error) {
+    return error;
+  }
+  throw new Error("Expected the call to throw.");
+}
+
+// --- Parameters --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe("encodeModuleDatabaseParameters", () => {
+  it("encodes every scalar category as text, or bytes, and nothing else", () => {
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array([0, 1, 255]);
+    const encoded = encodeModuleDatabaseParameters([
+      null,
+      true,
+      false,
+      1.5,
+      Number.NaN,
+      Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
+      Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY,
+      9_007_199_254_740_993n,
+      'it\'s \\ "quoted"',
+      bytes,
+    ]);
+    expect(encoded.slice(0, 9)).toEqual([
+      null,
+      "true",
+      "false",
+      "1.5",
+      "NaN",
+      "Infinity",
+      "-Infinity",
+      "9007199254740993",
+      'it\'s \\ "quoted"',
+    ]);
+    expect(Buffer.isBuffer(encoded[9])).toBe(true);
+    expect([...(encoded[9] as Buffer)]).toEqual([0, 1, 255]);
+  });
+
+  it("copies bytes, so a later change by the caller cannot reach the statement", () => {
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3]);
+    const view = bytes.subarray(1);
+    const [encoded] = encodeModuleDatabaseParameters([view]);
+    bytes[1] = 9;
+    expect([...(encoded as Buffer)]).toEqual([2, 3]);
+  });
+
+  it("encodes arrays as quoted PostgreSQL array literals, nested for more dimensions", () => {
+    expect(
+      encodeModuleDatabaseParameters([
+        [1, null, 3],
+        ['a"b', "c\\d", "", "NULL", "{,}"],
+        [
+          [1, 2],
+          [3, 4],
+        ],
+        [new Uint8Array([0, 255])],
+        [true, 2n],
+        [],
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual([
+      '{"1",NULL,"3"}',
+      '{"a\\"b","c\\\\d","","NULL","{,}"}',
+      '{{"1","2"},{"3","4"}}',
+      '{"\\\\x00ff"}',
+      '{"true","2"}',
+      "{}",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("treats omitted values as no parameters", () => {
+    expect(encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(undefined)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  class Point {
+    readonly x = 1;
+  }
+
+  const refused: readonly [string, unknown][] = [
+    ["a Date", new Date(0)],
+    ["a plain object", { a: 1 }],
+    ["a null-prototype object", Object.create(null)],
+    ["undefined", undefined],
+    ["a function", () => 1],
+    ["a symbol", Symbol("s")],
+    ["a class instance", new Point()],
+    ["a Map", new Map()],
+    ["another typed array", new Int16Array([1])],
+    ["an ArrayBuffer", new ArrayBuffer(1)],
+    ["a boxed string", new String("x")],
+    ["an array holding a Date", [new Date(0)]],
+    ["an array holding undefined", [1, undefined]],
+    ["an array holding an object", [{ a: 1 }]],
+    // biome-ignore lint/suspicious/noSparseArray: the hole is the case under test.
+    ["a sparse array", [1, , 3]],
+    ["scalars mixed with sub-arrays", [1, [2]]],
+    ["a null where a sub-array belongs", [[1], null]],
+    ["ragged sub-arrays", [[1], [1, 2]]],
+    ["more dimensions than PostgreSQL allows", [[[[[[[1]]]]]]]],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [label, value] of refused) {
+    it(`refuses ${label}, without naming the value`, () => {
+      const error = syncThrows(() => encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(["fine", value]));
+      expect(isModuleDatabaseError(error)).toBe(true);
+      expect(error).toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_DATABASE_PARAMETER_INVALID" });
+      expect((error as Error).message).not.toMatch(/fine|1970|Point|Symbol/u);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it("accepts exactly PostgreSQL's six array dimensions", () => {
+    expect(encodeModuleDatabaseParameters([[[[[[[1]]]]]]])).toEqual(['{{{{{{"1"}}}}}}']);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a values list that is not an array, or longer than the protocol allows", () => {
+    for (const values of [
+      "x",
+      { 0: "x", length: 1 },
+      new Array(MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS + 1).fill(1),
+    ]) {
+      const error = syncThrows(() => encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(values));
+      expect(error).toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_DATABASE_PARAMETER_INVALID" });
+    }
+    expect(
+      encodeModuleDatabaseParameters(new Array(MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS).fill(1)),
+    ).toHaveLength(MODULE_DATABASE_MAX_PARAMETERS);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a self-referencing array instead of recursing forever", () => {
+    const cyclic: unknown[] = [];
+    cyclic.push(cyclic);
+    expect(syncThrows(() => encodeModuleDatabaseParameters([cyclic]))).toMatchObject({
+      code: "MODULE_DATABASE_PARAMETER_INVALID",
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+// --- Results -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe("decodeModuleDatabaseValue", () => {
+  it("decodes the scalar types the table names, and keeps everything else as exact text", () => {
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(16, "t")).toBe(true);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(16, "f")).toBe(false);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(21, "-32768")).toBe(-32_768);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(23, "2147483647")).toBe(2_147_483_647);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(26, "4294967295")).toBe(4_294_967_295);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(700, "1.5")).toBe(1.5);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(701, "NaN")).toBeNaN();
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(701, "Infinity")).toBe(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(701, "-Infinity")).toBe(Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(701, "1e+300")).toBe(1e300);
+    // Precision-sensitive and zone-sensitive types stay exactly as PostgreSQL wrote them.
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(20, "9223372036854775807")).toBe("9223372036854775807");
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1700, "0.1000000000000000000001")).toBe(
+      "0.1000000000000000000001",
+    );
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(3802, '{"a": 12345678901234567890}')).toBe(
+      '{"a": 12345678901234567890}',
+    );
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1184, "2026-10-07 12:00:00+00")).toBe(
+      "2026-10-07 12:00:00+00",
+    );
+    // An unknown OID (an enum, a domain, an extension type) is text.
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(987_654, "anything")).toBe("anything");
+  });
+
+  it("decodes bytea to a plain Uint8Array, from hex or the older escape form", () => {
+    const hex = decodeModuleDatabaseValue(17, "\\x00ff10");
+    expect(Object.getPrototypeOf(hex)).toBe(Uint8Array.prototype);
+    expect([...(hex as Uint8Array)]).toEqual([0, 255, 16]);
+    expect([...(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(17, "\\x") as Uint8Array)]).toEqual([]);
+    const escaped = decodeModuleDatabaseValue(17, "a\\000\\\\\\377");
+    expect([...(escaped as Uint8Array)]).toEqual([97, 0, 92, 255]);
+  });
+
+  it("decodes built-in arrays element by element", () => {
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1016, "{1,NULL,9223372036854775807}")).toEqual([
+      "1",
+      null,
+      "9223372036854775807",
+    ]);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1231, "{1.10,2}")).toEqual(["1.10", "2"]);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1000, "{t,f}")).toEqual([true, false]);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1007, "{{1,2},{3,4}}")).toEqual([
+      [1, 2],
+      [3, 4],
+    ]);
+    const bytes = decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1001, '{"\\\\x00ff"}') as Uint8Array[];
+    expect([...(bytes[0] as Uint8Array)]).toEqual([0, 255]);
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(1009, "{}")).toEqual([]);
+    // An array of a type the table does not know arrives as text, like the type itself.
+    expect(decodeModuleDatabaseValue(987_655, "{a,b}")).toBe("{a,b}");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("parsePostgresArrayText", () => {
+  const text = (value: string) => value;
+
+  it('honours quoting, escapes, and the difference between NULL and "NULL"', () => {
+    expect(parsePostgresArrayText('{"a\\"b","c,d",NULL,"NULL","","{}",null}', text)).toEqual([
+      'a"b',
+      "c,d",
+      null,
+      "NULL",
+      "",
+      "{}",
+      null,
+    ]);
+    expect(parsePostgresArrayText('{"back\\\\slash"}', text)).toEqual(["back\\slash"]);
+  });
+
+  it("drops a non-default lower bound: a JavaScript array is a zero-based list", () => {
+    expect(parsePostgresArrayText("[0:1]={5,6}", text)).toEqual(["5", "6"]);
+    expect(parsePostgresArrayText("[1:1][2:3]={{7,8}}", text)).toEqual([["7", "8"]]);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses text that is not an array literal", () => {
+    for (const malformed of ["", "{", "{1", '{"a', "{1}x", "[1:2]{1,2}", "1"]) {
+      expect(() => parsePostgresArrayText(malformed, text)).toThrow();
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+// --- The executor, over a scripted client -------------------------------------------------------
+
+interface ScriptedStatement {
+  readonly text: string;
+  readonly values?: readonly unknown[];
+}
+
+interface Script {
+  readonly pool: Pool;
+  readonly statements: ScriptedStatement[];
+  readonly released: (boolean | undefined)[];
+  /** Resolve a statement only when `release` is called, to model in-flight work. */
+  holdNext(): () => void;
+  failNext(error: unknown): void;
+  /** Fail the next statement whose text is exactly `text`. */
+  failWhen(text: string, error: unknown): void;
+  connectCount(): number;
+}
+
+function commandOf(text: string): string {
+  const word = /^\s*([A-Za-z]+)/u.exec(text)?.[1]?.toUpperCase() ?? "";
+  return word === "END" ? "COMMIT" : word;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A pool whose one client replays PostgreSQL's command tags and transaction status for simple SQL.
+ * It is not PostgreSQL: it exists only so the executor's bookkeeping can be observed.
+ */
+function scriptedPool(): Script {
+  const statements: ScriptedStatement[] = [];
+  const released: (boolean | undefined)[] = [];
+  let status = "I";
+  let connects = 0;
+  let hold: Promise<void> | undefined;
+  let failure: unknown;
+  const failures = new Map<string, unknown>();
+
+  const client = {
+    getTransactionStatus: () => status,
+    on: () => client,
+    removeListener: () => client,
+    async query(config: string | { text: string; values?: unknown[] }) {
+      const text = typeof config === "string" ? config : config.text;
+      statements.push(
+        typeof config === "string" ? { text } : { text, values: config.values ?? [] },
+      );
+      const held = hold;
+      hold = undefined;
+      if (held !== undefined) {
+        await held;
+      }
+      if (failure !== undefined || failures.has(text)) {
+        const error = failure ?? failures.get(text);
+        failure = undefined;
+        failures.delete(text);
+        if (status === "T") {
+          status = "E";
+        }
+        throw error;
+      }
+      const command = commandOf(text);
+      if (command === "BEGIN" || command === "START") {
+        status = "T";
+      } else if (command === "COMMIT" || (command === "ROLLBACK" && !/\bTO\b/iu.test(text))) {
+        const aborted = status === "E";
+        status = "I";
+        return { command: aborted ? "ROLLBACK" : command, fields: [], rowCount: null, rows: [] };
+      }
+      return {
+        command,
+        fields: [{ dataTypeID: 23, name: "n" }],
+        rowCount: 1,
+        rows: [["1"]],
+      };
+    },
+    release: (destroy?: boolean) => {
+      released.push(destroy);
+    },
+  };
+
+  return {
+    connectCount: () => connects,
+    failNext(error) {
+      failure = error;
+    },
+    failWhen(text, error) {
+      failures.set(text, error);
+    },
+    holdNext() {
+      let release!: () => void;
+      hold = new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+        release = resolve;
+      });
+      return release;
+    },
+    pool: {
+      connect: vi.fn(async () => {
+        connects += 1;
+        return client;
+      }),
+    } as unknown as Pool,
+    released,
+    statements,
+  };
+}
+
+function pgError(code: string): DatabaseError {
+  const error = new DatabaseError(
+    'duplicate key value violates unique constraint "example_secret_key"',
+    100,
+    "error",
+  );
+  error.code = code;
+  error.detail = "Key (secret)=(hunter2) already exists.";
+  error.hint = "a hint";
+  error.table = "example_records";
+  error.constraint = "example_secret_key";
+  return error;
+}
+
+const pin =
+  "SET TimeZone TO 'UTC'; SET DateStyle TO 'ISO, MDY'; SET IntervalStyle TO 'postgres'; SET bytea_output TO 'hex'; SET extra_float_digits TO 1";
+
+function texts(script: Script): string[] {
+  return script.statements.map((statement) => statement.text);
+}
+
+describe("createModuleDatabaseExecutor", () => {
+  it("builds a frozen executor holding exactly the ABI's members, without touching the pool", () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    expect(Object.keys(executor).sort()).toEqual(["abiVersion", "query", "transaction"]);
+    expect(executor.abiVersion).toBe(1);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(executor)).toBe(true);
+    expect(Object.getPrototypeOf(executor)).toBe(Object.prototype);
+    for (const forbidden of ["pool", "client", "$client", "_", "session", "dialect", "select"]) {
+      expect(forbidden in executor).toBe(false);
+    }
+    expect(script.connectCount()).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("carries its module for Core's attribution, and refuses an invalid module ID", () => {
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(scriptedPool().pool, { moduleId: "care-team" });
+    expect(moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId(executor)).toBe("care-team");
+    expect(moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId({})).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(() =>
+      createModuleDatabaseExecutor(scriptedPool().pool, { moduleId: "Not A Module" }),
+    ).toThrow(TypeError);
+  });
+
+  it("pins the session, runs one extended-protocol statement, and resets before releasing", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    const result = await executor.query({ text: "SELECT 1 AS n", values: [5n] });
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      command: "SELECT",
+      fields: [{ name: "n", typeOid: 23 }],
+      rowCount: 1,
+      rows: [{ n: 1 }],
+    });
+    expect(texts(script)).toEqual([pin, "SELECT 1 AS n", "DISCARD ALL"]);
+    expect(script.statements[1]).toEqual({ text: "SELECT 1 AS n", values: ["5"] });
+    expect(script.released).toEqual([undefined]);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(result)).toBe(true);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(result.rows)).toBe(true);
+    expect(Object.isFrozen(result.fields)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a malformed request before borrowing a connection", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    const query = executor.query as (request: unknown) => Promise<unknown>;
+
+    for (const request of [
+      undefined,
+      null,
+      "SELECT 1",
+      [],
+      { text: "" },
+      { text: 1 },
+      { text: "SELECT 1", rowMode: "rows" },
+      { text: "SELECT 1", name: "prepared" },
+      { text: "SELECT 1", types: [] },
+    ]) {
+      await expectAbiError(query(request), "MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+    }
+    await expectAbiError(
+      query({ text: "SELECT $1", values: [new Date()] }),
+      "MODULE_DATABASE_PARAMETER_INVALID",
+    );
+    expect(script.connectCount()).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("reports only PostgreSQL's SQLSTATE from a database error, never its text", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    script.failWhen("SELECT 1", pgError("23505"));
+    const error = await rejection(executor.query({ text: "SELECT 1" }));
+
+    expect(error).toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED", sqlState: "23505" });
+    const serialized = `${JSON.stringify(error)} ${String(error)} ${(error as Error).stack}`;
+    for (const secret of [
+      "hunter2",
+      "example_secret_key",
+      "example_records",
+      "duplicate",
+      "hint",
+    ]) {
+      expect(serialized).not.toContain(secret);
+    }
+    expect((error as Error).cause).toBeUndefined();
+    // A PostgreSQL error leaves the connection usable, so it is reset and returned.
+    expect(script.released).toEqual([undefined]);
+  });
+
+  it("drops a non-PostgreSQL failure's code and destroys the connection it happened on", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    script.failWhen(
+      "SELECT 1",
+      Object.assign(new Error("Connection terminated: postgres://u:p@h/db"), { code: "EPIPE" }),
+    );
+
+    const error = await rejection(executor.query({ text: "SELECT 1" }));
+    expect(error).toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED" });
+    expect((error as { sqlState?: string }).sqlState).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(JSON.stringify(error)).not.toContain("postgres://");
+    expect(script.released).toEqual([true]);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a top-level transaction-control statement and destroys a connection it left open", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    await expectAbiError(executor.query({ text: "BEGIN" }), "MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID");
+    expect(script.released).toEqual([true]);
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("DISCARD ALL");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("transaction options", () => {
+  const invalid: readonly unknown[] = [
+    null,
+    "serializable",
+    [],
+    { isolation: "read uncommitted" },
+    { isolation: "SERIALIZABLE" },
+    { isolation: "constructor" },
+    { readOnly: "yes" },
+    { readOnly: 1 },
+    { deferrable: true },
+    { isolation: "serializable", retries: 3 },
+  ];
+
+  for (const options of invalid) {
+    it(`refuses ${JSON.stringify(options)} before borrowing a connection`, async () => {
+      const script = scriptedPool();
+      const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+      const callback = vi.fn();
+      await expectAbiError(
+        executor.transaction(callback, options as never),
+        "MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_OPTION_INVALID",
+      );
+      expect(callback).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(script.connectCount()).toBe(0);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it("refuses a callback that is not a function", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    await expectAbiError(
+      executor.transaction("SELECT 1" as never),
+      "MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID",
+    );
+    expect(script.connectCount()).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("begins every transaction with an explicit isolation level and access mode", async () => {
+    const cases: readonly [unknown, string][] = [
+      [undefined, "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED READ WRITE"],
+      [{}, "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED READ WRITE"],
+      [{ readOnly: true }, "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED READ ONLY"],
+      [{ isolation: "repeatable read" }, "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ READ WRITE"],
+      [
+        { isolation: "serializable", readOnly: false },
+        "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE READ WRITE",
+      ],
+    ];
+    for (const [options, begin] of cases) {
+      const script = scriptedPool();
+      const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+      await executor.transaction(async () => undefined, options as never);
+      expect(texts(script)).toEqual([pin, begin, "COMMIT", "DISCARD ALL"]);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe("transaction scopes", () => {
+  it("commits a resolved callback and returns its value", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    const value = await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      expect(Object.keys(tx).sort()).toEqual(["abiVersion", "query", "savepoint"]);
+      expect(Object.isFrozen(tx)).toBe(true);
+      expect(moduleDatabaseExecutorModuleId(tx)).toBe("example");
+      await tx.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+      return "done";
+    });
+
+    expect(value).toBe("done");
+    expect(texts(script).slice(1)).toEqual([
+      "BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED READ WRITE",
+      "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)",
+      "COMMIT",
+      "DISCARD ALL",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("rolls back a rejected callback and rejects with the callback's own error, untouched", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    const own = new Error("module failure");
+
+    const error = await rejection(
+      executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+        await tx.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+        throw own;
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(error).toBe(own);
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("ROLLBACK");
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("revokes the executor when the callback settles; later use sends nothing", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    let escaped: ModuleDatabaseTransaction | undefined;
+    await executor.transaction((tx) => {
+      escaped = tx;
+    });
+    const sent = script.statements.length;
+
+    await expectAbiError(
+      (escaped as ModuleDatabaseTransaction).query({ text: "SELECT 1" }),
+      "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED",
+    );
+    await expectAbiError(
+      (escaped as ModuleDatabaseTransaction).savepoint(async () => undefined),
+      "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED",
+    );
+    expect(script.statements).toHaveLength(sent);
+  });
+
+  it("never commits a callback that returned with a query still outstanding, even once it succeeds", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    let forgotten: Promise<unknown> | undefined;
+    let releaseHeld: (() => void) | undefined;
+
+    const outcome = executor.transaction((tx) => {
+      releaseHeld = script.holdNext();
+      forgotten = tx.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+    });
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(releaseHeld).toBeDefined());
+    // Core waits for the started statement to settle before rolling back the connection.
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10));
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("ROLLBACK");
+    releaseHeld?.();
+
+    await expectAbiError(outcome, "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_WORK_OUTSTANDING");
+    await expect(forgotten).resolves.toBeDefined();
+    expect(texts(script).slice(-2)).toEqual(["ROLLBACK", "DISCARD ALL"]);
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a rejected callback's own error when sibling work is still settling, and still never commits", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    const own = new Error("module failure");
+    let releaseHeld: (() => void) | undefined;
+
+    const outcome = executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      releaseHeld = script.holdNext();
+      void tx.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+      throw own;
+    });
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(releaseHeld).toBeDefined());
+    // The sibling statement is drained before Core rolls back.
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 10));
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("ROLLBACK");
+    releaseHeld?.();
+
+    expect(await rejection(outcome)).toBe(own);
+    expect(texts(script).slice(-2)).toEqual(["ROLLBACK", "DISCARD ALL"]);
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a transaction-control statement inside a transaction and never commits it", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    const error = await rejection(
+      executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+        await expectAbiError(
+          tx.query({ text: "SAVEPOINT mine" }),
+          "MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID",
+        );
+        return "carried on";
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(error).toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_DATABASE_REQUEST_INVALID" });
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("COMMIT");
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("ROLLBACK");
+    // The connection is destroyed, never reset and reused.
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("DISCARD ALL");
+    expect(script.released).toEqual([true]);
+  });
+
+  it("reports a COMMIT that PostgreSQL answered with ROLLBACK as a failed transaction", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    const outcome = executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      script.failNext(pgError("22012"));
+      await expectAbiError(
+        tx.query({ text: "SELECT 1/0" }),
+        "MODULE_DATABASE_QUERY_FAILED",
+        "22012",
+      );
+    });
+
+    await expectAbiError(outcome, "MODULE_DATABASE_TRANSACTION_FAILED");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("savepoint scopes", () => {
+  it("names savepoints itself, releases a resolved one, and rolls back a rejected one", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    const own = new Error("savepoint failure");
+
+    await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      await tx.savepoint(async (sp) => {
+        await sp.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+      });
+      expect(await rejection(tx.savepoint(async () => Promise.reject(own)))).toBe(own);
+    });
+
+    expect(texts(script).slice(2, -2)).toEqual([
+      "SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+      "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)",
+      "RELEASE SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+      "SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_2",
+      "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_2",
+      "RELEASE SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_2",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("makes the parent inactive while a savepoint is open, so scopes cannot overlap", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      await tx.savepoint(async (sp) => {
+        await expectAbiError(tx.query({ text: "SELECT 1" }), "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_INACTIVE");
+        await expectAbiError(
+          tx.savepoint(async () => undefined),
+          "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_INACTIVE",
+        );
+        await sp.savepoint(async (inner) => {
+          await expectAbiError(sp.query({ text: "SELECT 1" }), "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_INACTIVE");
+          await inner.query({ text: "SELECT 2" });
+        });
+        await sp.query({ text: "SELECT 3" });
+      });
+      await tx.query({ text: "SELECT 4" });
+    });
+
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_2");
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("revokes an escaped savepoint executor", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      let escaped: ModuleDatabaseTransaction | undefined;
+      await tx.savepoint((sp) => {
+        escaped = sp;
+      });
+      await expectAbiError(
+        (escaped as ModuleDatabaseTransaction).query({ text: "SELECT 1" }),
+        "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED",
+      );
+      await tx.query({ text: "SELECT 2" });
+    });
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("rolls back, and never releases, a savepoint whose callback left work outstanding", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+
+    await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      await expectAbiError(
+        tx.savepoint((sp) => {
+          const release = script.holdNext();
+          void sp.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+          setTimeout(release, 10);
+        }),
+        "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_WORK_OUTSTANDING",
+      );
+    });
+
+    expect(texts(script).slice(2, -2)).toEqual([
+      "SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+      "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)",
+      "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a rejected savepoint callback's own error, rolling back and releasing after its sibling work settles", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    const own = new Error("savepoint failure");
+
+    await executor.transaction(async (tx) => {
+      const error = await rejection(
+        tx.savepoint(async (sp) => {
+          const release = script.holdNext();
+          void sp.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+          setTimeout(release, 10);
+          throw own;
+        }),
+      );
+      expect(error).toBe(own);
+    });
+
+    expect(texts(script).slice(2, -2)).toEqual([
+      "SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+      "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)",
+      "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+      "RELEASE SAVEPOINT ekklesia_savepoint_1",
+    ]);
+    expect(texts(script)).toContain("COMMIT");
+  });
+
+  it("counts an unawaited savepoint as the transaction's outstanding work", async () => {
+    const script = scriptedPool();
+    const executor = createModuleDatabaseExecutor(script.pool, { moduleId: "example" });
+    let forgotten: Promise<unknown> | undefined;
+
+    await expectAbiError(
+      executor.transaction((tx) => {
+        forgotten = tx.savepoint(async (sp) => {
+          await sp.query({ text: "INSERT INTO example_records VALUES (1)" });
+        });
+      }),
+      "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_WORK_OUTSTANDING",
+    );
+    await expectAbiError(forgotten as Promise<unknown>, "MODULE_DATABASE_SCOPE_CLOSED");
+    expect(texts(script)).not.toContain("COMMIT");
+    expect(texts(script).filter((text) => text.startsWith("RELEASE"))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(texts(script).at(-1)).toBe("DISCARD ALL");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("the ABI's own sources", () => {
+  it("import no ORM, query builder, or ORM type", async () => {
+    for (const file of [
+      "../src/modules/database-abi.ts",
+      "../src/modules/database-abi-values.ts",
+    ]) {
+      const source = await readFile(new URL(file, import.meta.url), "utf8");
+      const specifiers = [...source.matchAll(/\bfrom\s+"([^"]+)"/gu)].map((match) => match[1]);
+      expect(
+        specifiers.every((specifier) =>
+          ["@ekklesia/contracts", "pg", "./database-abi-values.js"].includes(specifier ?? ""),
+        ),
+      ).toBe(true);
+      expect(source).not.toMatch(/drizzle|kysely|NodePg|PgTable|PgColumn/iu);
+    }
+  });
+});

core/tests/module-discovery.test.ts

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ async function createModulesDirectory(): Promise<string> {
 
 function manifestFor(id: string): Record<string, unknown> {
   return {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",

core/tests/module-lifecycle-store.integration.ts

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ afterAll(async () => {
  * by eligibility resolution. */
 function fakeModule(id: string, dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>): DiscoveredModule {
   const manifest = parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "1.0.0",

core/tests/module-lifecycle.test.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ function fakeModule(
   } = {},
 ): DiscoveredModule {
   const manifest = parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ describe("resolveModuleEligibility — over a real discovered inventory", () =>
       writeFile(
         path.join(moduleDirectory, "ekklesia.module.json"),
         JSON.stringify({
-          manifestVersion: 7,
+          manifestVersion: 8,
           id,
           name: `${id} module`,
           version: "0.1.0",

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/module-package-verification.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,438 @@
+import { mkdtemp, readdir, rm, stat, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  ModulePackageVerificationError,
+  type ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode,
+  verifyModulePackage,
+} from "../src/modules/index.js";
+import {
+  type FixtureEntry,
+  modulePackageFixture,
+  type PackageFixtureOptions,
+  sha256,
+} from "./support/module-package-fixture.js";
+
+const platform = {
+  databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "0.45.2" },
+  moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.2",
+  platformVersion: "0.1.2",
+} as const;
+
+const temporaryDirectories: string[] = [];
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await Promise.all(
+    temporaryDirectories
+      .splice(0)
+      .map((directory) => rm(directory, { force: true, recursive: true })),
+  );
+});
+
+async function scratch(): Promise<string> {
+  const directory = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-verify-"));
+  temporaryDirectories.push(directory);
+  return directory;
+}
+
+async function archiveFile(options: PackageFixtureOptions = {}): Promise<{
+  readonly archivePath: string;
+  readonly sha256: string;
+}> {
+  const fixture = await modulePackageFixture(options);
+  const archivePath = path.join(await scratch(), "private-host-name-5e1d.tar.gz");
+  await writeFile(archivePath, fixture.archive);
+  return { archivePath, sha256: fixture.sha256 };
+}
+
+async function rejection(
+  options: PackageFixtureOptions,
+  code: ModulePackageVerificationErrorCode,
+  extra: { readonly expectedSha256?: string } = {},
+): Promise<ModulePackageVerificationError> {
+  const { archivePath } = await archiveFile(options);
+  try {
+    await verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, platform, ...extra });
+  } catch (error) {
+    expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(ModulePackageVerificationError);
+    const verificationError = error as ModulePackageVerificationError;
+    expect(verificationError.code).toBe(code);
+    // Sanitized: never the archive's location, a temporary directory, or text from inside it.
+    const rendered = JSON.stringify({ ...verificationError, message: verificationError.message });
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain("private-host-name-5e1d");
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain(tmpdir());
+    expect(rendered).not.toContain("attacker-chosen");
+    return verificationError;
+  }
+  throw new Error(`Expected ${code}.`);
+}
+
+function withEntry(entry: FixtureEntry): PackageFixtureOptions {
+  return { extraEntries: [entry] };
+}
+
+function abiPackage(overrides: PackageFixtureOptions = {}): PackageFixtureOptions {
+  return {
+    manifest: (manifest) => ({ ...manifest, database: { abi: 1 } }),
+    schemaSource: `export default {
+      moduleId: "example",
+      tables: [{ name: "example_records", foreignKeys: [] }]
+    };\n`,
+    serverSource:
+      'export default { database: { abi: 1 }, id: "example", version: "0.1.0", register() {} };\n',
+    ...overrides,
+  };
+}
+
+describe("Module Package v1 verification (ADR 0049)", () => {
+  it("verifies a valid any-target package, its digest, and its module", async () => {
+    const { archivePath, sha256: digest } = await archiveFile();
+    const result = await verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, expectedSha256: digest, platform });
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      archiveSha256: digest,
+      fileCount: 8,
+      moduleId: "example",
+      target: "any",
+      version: "0.1.0",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("extracts only a verified package, with normalized modes, into a new directory", async () => {
+    const { archivePath } = await archiveFile();
+    const target = path.join(await scratch(), "example");
+    await verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, extractTo: target, platform });
+    const names = (await readdir(target, { recursive: true })).sort();
+    expect(names).toContain("ekklesia.package.json");
+    expect(names).toContain("dist/server/index.js");
+    expect((await stat(target)).mode & 0o7777).toBe(0o755);
+    expect((await stat(path.join(target, "dist", "server", "index.js"))).mode & 0o7777).toBe(0o644);
+
+    const { archivePath: broken } = await archiveFile({ runtimePackage: { name: "x" } });
+    const refused = path.join(await scratch(), "refused");
+    await expect(
+      verifyModulePackage({ archivePath: broken, extractTo: refused, platform }),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ModulePackageVerificationError);
+    await expect(stat(refused)).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "ENOENT" });
+  });
+
+  it("refuses to extract over an existing directory", async () => {
+    const { archivePath } = await archiveFile();
+    const existing = await scratch();
+    await expect(
+      verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, extractTo: existing, platform }),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "MODULE_PACKAGE_EXTRACTION_FAILED" });
+  });
+
+  it("fails a wrong archive digest", async () => {
+    await rejection({}, "MODULE_PACKAGE_DIGEST_MISMATCH", { expectedSha256: sha256("other") });
+  });
+
+  it("fails a payload whose contents no longer match their digest", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        tamper: (files) => {
+          files.set("dist/server/index.js", Buffer.from("export default {}; // attacker-chosen\n"));
+        },
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISMATCH",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails a listed file missing from the archive", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { tamper: (files) => void files.delete("THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES") },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_MISSING",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails an archive file that is not listed", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      withEntry({ path: "example/attacker-chosen.js", data: "extra" }),
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_FILE_UNLISTED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails when the manifest and the package disagree about the version", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { manifest: (manifest) => ({ ...manifest, version: "0.2.0" }) },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails when the metadata names another module", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { metadata: (metadata) => ({ ...metadata, module: { id: "other", version: "0.1.0" } }) },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_IDENTITY_MISMATCH",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails a runtime package.json that is not the generated shape", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        runtimePackage: {
+          name: "@test/module-example",
+          version: "0.1.0",
+          private: true,
+          type: "module",
+          ekklesia: { layer: "module" },
+          dependencies: { "@ekklesia/module-sdk": "workspace:*" },
+        },
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_INVALID",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails an unsupported package format", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { metadata: (metadata) => ({ ...metadata, packageFormat: 2 }) },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_FORMAT_UNSUPPORTED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails transitional metadata it does not understand", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { metadata: (metadata) => ({ ...metadata, transitional: { orm: { prisma: "6.0.0" } } }) },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED",
+    );
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        metadata: (metadata) => ({
+          ...metadata,
+          transitional: { databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "0.45.2", prisma: "6.0.0" } },
+        }),
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_TRANSITIONAL_UNSUPPORTED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("enforces today's database runtime agreement, and accepts it when it holds", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        metadata: (metadata) => ({
+          ...metadata,
+          transitional: { databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "0.44.0" } },
+        }),
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE",
+    );
+    const { archivePath } = await archiveFile({
+      metadata: (metadata) => ({
+        ...metadata,
+        transitional: { databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "0.45.2" } },
+      }),
+    });
+    await expect(verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, platform })).resolves.toMatchObject({
+      moduleId: "example",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("verifies ABI-v1 plain schema metadata without comparing Drizzle with Core", async () => {
+    const { archivePath } = await archiveFile(abiPackage());
+
+    await expect(
+      verifyModulePackage({
+        archivePath,
+        platform: { ...platform, databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "99.0.0" } },
+      }),
+    ).resolves.toMatchObject({ moduleId: "example" });
+  });
+
+  it("rejects transitional database runtime metadata from an ABI-v1 package", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      abiPackage({
+        metadata: (metadata) => ({
+          ...metadata,
+          transitional: { databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": "0.45.2" } },
+        }),
+      }),
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_DATABASE_RUNTIME_UNEXPECTED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("rejects an unsupported database ABI and malformed ABI-v1 schema metadata", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      abiPackage({ manifest: (manifest) => ({ ...manifest, database: { abi: 2 } }) }),
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_MANIFEST_INVALID",
+    );
+    const schemaError = await rejection(
+      abiPackage({
+        schemaSource:
+          'export default { moduleId: "example", tables: { records: "attacker-chosen" } };\n',
+      }),
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED",
+    );
+    expect(schemaError.message).not.toContain("attacker-chosen");
+  });
+
+  it("fails a target this platform cannot run", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        metadata: (metadata) => ({
+          ...metadata,
+          target: "linux-arm64-musl",
+          runtime: { node: ">=20", nodeApi: 9 },
+        }),
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_TARGET_INCOMPATIBLE",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails a native file inside an any-target package", async () => {
+    const native = await modulePackageFixture({
+      tamper: (files) => {
+        files.set("dist/addon.node", Buffer.from([0x7f, 0x45, 0x4c, 0x46]));
+      },
+      metadata: (metadata) => {
+        const files = [
+          ...(metadata.files as { path: string; size: number; sha256: string }[]),
+          {
+            path: "dist/addon.node",
+            size: 4,
+            sha256: sha256(Buffer.from([0x7f, 0x45, 0x4c, 0x46])),
+          },
+        ].sort((left, right) => (left.path < right.path ? -1 : 1));
+        return { ...metadata, files };
+      },
+    });
+    const archivePath = path.join(await scratch(), "native.tar.gz");
+    await writeFile(archivePath, native.archive);
+    await expect(verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, platform })).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      code: "MODULE_PACKAGE_NATIVE_FILE",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("fails a package that needs a newer Node.js", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { metadata: (metadata) => ({ ...metadata, runtime: { node: ">=99" } }) },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_RUNTIME_INCOMPATIBLE",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails an incorporated SDK outside the manifest's own range", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        metadata: (metadata) => ({
+          ...metadata,
+          incorporates: { "@ekklesia/module-sdk": "0.9.0" },
+        }),
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_SDK_INCOMPATIBLE",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails a module whose declared entrypoint is missing", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      {
+        manifest: (manifest) => ({
+          ...manifest,
+          version: "0.1.0",
+          entrypoints: {
+            ...(manifest.entrypoints as Record<string, unknown>),
+            schema: "./dist/schema/index.js",
+          },
+        }),
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_MODULE_INVALID",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("fails a backend that imports a dependency the package does not contain", async () => {
+    const error = await rejection(
+      {
+        serverSource:
+          'import pad from "ekklesia-dependency-not-in-this-package";\nexport default { id: "example", version: "0.1.0", register() { pad(); } };\n',
+      },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED",
+    );
+    expect(error.message).not.toContain("ekklesia-dependency-not-in-this-package");
+  });
+
+  it("fails a backend whose default export names another module", async () => {
+    await rejection(
+      { serverSource: 'export default { id: "other", version: "0.1.0" };\n' },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_ENTRYPOINT_LOAD_FAILED",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["an absolute path", { path: "/etc/attacker-chosen", data: "x" }, "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH"],
+    [
+      "a .. segment",
+      { path: "example/../attacker-chosen", data: "x" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_PATH",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a symbolic link",
+      { path: "example/link", type: "symlink", linkname: "/etc/passwd" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_LINK",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a hard link",
+      { path: "example/hard", type: "hardlink", linkname: "example/package.json" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_LINK",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a device node",
+      { path: "example/device", type: "character" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_SPECIAL_ENTRY",
+    ],
+    ["a FIFO", { path: "example/fifo", type: "fifo" }, "MODULE_PACKAGE_SPECIAL_ENTRY"],
+    [
+      "a setuid file",
+      { path: "example/setuid", data: "x", mode: 0o4755 },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_MODE",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a setgid directory",
+      { path: "example/setgid", type: "directory", mode: 0o2755 },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNSAFE_MODE",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a second top-level directory",
+      { path: "attacker-chosen/file", data: "x" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID",
+    ],
+    [
+      "a duplicate entry",
+      { path: "example/package.json", data: "{}" },
+      "MODULE_PACKAGE_LAYOUT_INVALID",
+    ],
+  ] as const)("fails %s", async (_label, entry, code) => {
+    await rejection(withEntry(entry as FixtureEntry), code);
+  });
+
+  it("fails a file that is not a gzip-compressed tar archive", async () => {
+    const archivePath = path.join(await scratch(), "plain.tar.gz");
+    await writeFile(archivePath, "not an archive");
+    await expect(verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, platform })).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      code: "MODULE_PACKAGE_UNREADABLE",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("fails an archive without package metadata", async () => {
+    const fixture = await modulePackageFixture();
+    const { gunzipSync, gzipSync } = await import("node:zlib");
+    // Rebuild without the metadata entry by filtering the fixture through a fresh archive.
+    const archivePath = path.join(await scratch(), "no-metadata.tar.gz");
+    const raw = gunzipSync(fixture.archive);
+    const blocks: Buffer[] = [];
+    for (let offset = 0; offset + 512 <= raw.length; ) {
+      const headerBlock = raw.subarray(offset, offset + 512);
+      if (headerBlock.every((byte) => byte === 0)) {
+        break;
+      }
+      const name = headerBlock.subarray(0, 100).toString("latin1").replace(/\0.*$/su, "");
+      const size = Number.parseInt(headerBlock.subarray(124, 136).toString("latin1"), 8);
+      const length = 512 + Math.ceil(size / 512) * 512;
+      if (!name.endsWith("ekklesia.package.json")) {
+        blocks.push(raw.subarray(offset, offset + length));
+      }
+      offset += length;
+    }
+    await writeFile(archivePath, gzipSync(Buffer.concat([...blocks, Buffer.alloc(1024)])));
+    await expect(verifyModulePackage({ archivePath, platform })).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      code: "MODULE_PACKAGE_METADATA_MISSING",
+    });
+  });
+});

core/tests/module-permissions.test.ts

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ interface PermissionInput {
  * is read by `composePlatformPermissionRegistry`; the rest exist only to satisfy the type. */
 function fakeModule(id: string, permissions: readonly PermissionInput[] = []): DiscoveredModule {
   const manifest = parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",

core/tests/module-realtime-runtime.test.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function manifest(
   permissions: readonly Record<string, string>[] = [],
 ): Record<string, unknown> {
   return {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",

core/tests/module-runtime.test.ts

@@ -2,20 +2,23 @@ import { mkdir, mkdtemp, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
 import type {
+  AnyModuleRuntimeServices,
   ModuleConfiguration,
   ModuleDatabase,
+  ModuleDatabaseExecutor,
   ModuleRuntimeServices,
 } from "@ekklesia/contracts";
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { discoverModules } from "../src/modules/discovery.js";
-import { resolveModuleEligibility } from "../src/modules/lifecycle.js";
 import {
   ModuleDiscoveryError,
   ModuleRuntimeError,
   type ModuleRuntimeIssueCode,
+  type ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup,
   startDiscoveredModuleRuntime,
   startModuleRuntime,
 } from "../src/modules/index.js";
+import { resolveModuleEligibility } from "../src/modules/lifecycle.js";
 
 vi.mock("../src/modules/discovery.js", async (importOriginal) => {
   const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("../src/modules/discovery.js")>();
@@ -52,12 +55,13 @@ function manifestFor(
   id: string,
   options: {
     capabilities?: Array<{ id: string; version: string }>;
+    database?: { abi: 1 };
     dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
     permissions?: Array<{ id: string; baseline: string; description: string }>;
   } = {},
 ): Record<string, unknown> {
   return {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -67,6 +71,7 @@ function manifestFor(
     },
     capabilities: options.capabilities ?? [],
     permissions: options.permissions ?? [],
+    ...(options.database ? { database: options.database } : {}),
     ...(options.dependencies ? { dependencies: options.dependencies } : {}),
     entrypoints: {
       server: "./dist/server/index.js",
@@ -145,13 +150,29 @@ function fakeModuleDatabase(): ModuleDatabase {
   }) as unknown as ModuleDatabase;
 }
 
-function fakeModuleRuntimeServices(): ModuleRuntimeServices {
-  return Object.freeze({ database: fakeModuleDatabase() });
+function fakeModuleRuntimeServices(): ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup {
+  const services = new Map<string, ModuleRuntimeServices>();
+  const database = fakeModuleDatabase();
+  return new Proxy(services, {
+    get(target, property, receiver) {
+      if (property === "get") {
+        return (moduleId: string) => {
+          let value = target.get(moduleId);
+          if (!value) {
+            value = Object.freeze({ database });
+            target.set(moduleId, value);
+          }
+          return value;
+        };
+      }
+      return Reflect.get(target, property, receiver);
+    },
+  });
 }
 
 function runtimeOptions(
   modulesDirectory: string,
-  services: ModuleRuntimeServices = fakeModuleRuntimeServices(),
+  services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = fakeModuleRuntimeServices(),
 ) {
   return {
     moduleSdkVersion: "0.1.0",
@@ -1067,6 +1088,54 @@ describe("already-discovered module runtime", () => {
 });
 
 describe("module runtime services", () => {
+  it("delivers only the manifest-selected database mode and distinct ABI executors", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
+    const recorder = createReferenceRecorder();
+    const legacyDatabase = fakeModuleDatabase();
+    const alphaExecutor = Object.freeze({
+      abiVersion: 1,
+      query: vi.fn(),
+      transaction: vi.fn(),
+    }) as unknown as ModuleDatabaseExecutor;
+    const betaExecutor = Object.freeze({
+      abiVersion: 1,
+      query: vi.fn(),
+      transaction: vi.fn(),
+    }) as unknown as ModuleDatabaseExecutor;
+    const services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = new Map<string, AnyModuleRuntimeServices>([
+      ["legacy", Object.freeze({ database: legacyDatabase })],
+      ["alpha", Object.freeze({ database: alphaExecutor })],
+      ["beta", Object.freeze({ database: betaExecutor })],
+    ]);
+    await createRuntimeModule(modulesDirectory, "legacy", {
+      serverSource: `export default { id: "legacy", version: "0.1.0", start({ services }) { ${recorder.expression}.push(services.database); } };`,
+    });
+    for (const id of ["alpha", "beta"]) {
+      await createRuntimeModule(modulesDirectory, id, {
+        manifest: manifestFor(id, { database: { abi: 1 } }),
+        serverSource: `export default { database: { abi: 1 }, id: ${JSON.stringify(id)}, version: "0.1.0", start({ services }) { ${recorder.expression}.push(services.database); } };`,
+      });
+    }
+
+    const runtime = await startModuleRuntime(runtimeOptions(modulesDirectory, services));
+
+    expect(recorder.values).toEqual([alphaExecutor, betaExecutor, legacyDatabase]);
+    expect("select" in alphaExecutor).toBe(false);
+    expect(alphaExecutor).not.toBe(betaExecutor);
+    await runtime.stop();
+  });
+
+  it("rejects a runtime database declaration that disagrees with its manifest", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
+    await createRuntimeModule(modulesDirectory, "mismatch", {
+      manifest: manifestFor("mismatch", { database: { abi: 1 } }),
+      serverSource: `export default { id: "mismatch", version: "0.1.0" };`,
+    });
+
+    const error = await captureRuntimeError(modulesDirectory);
+    expect(runtimeIssueCodes(error)).toContain("MODULE_RUNTIME_DATABASE_MISMATCH");
+  });
+
   it("never gives register a services field, and gives start and stop the exact same services object", async () => {
     const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
     const services = fakeModuleRuntimeServices();
@@ -1086,11 +1155,11 @@ describe("module runtime services", () => {
 
     expect(registerServices.values).toEqual([undefined]);
     expect(lifecycleServices.values).toHaveLength(2);
-    expect(lifecycleServices.values[0]).toBe(services);
-    expect(lifecycleServices.values[1]).toBe(services);
+    expect(lifecycleServices.values[0]).toBe(services.get("wired"));
+    expect(lifecycleServices.values[1]).toBe(services.get("wired"));
   });
 
-  it("shares the exact same services object identity across every module's start hook", async () => {
+  it("selects a stable services object per module rather than sharing one across modules", async () => {
     const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
     const services = fakeModuleRuntimeServices();
     const recorder = createReferenceRecorder();
@@ -1112,7 +1181,8 @@ describe("module runtime services", () => {
 
     const runtime = await startModuleRuntime(runtimeOptions(modulesDirectory, services));
 
-    expect(recorder.values).toEqual([services, services]);
+    expect(recorder.values).toEqual([services.get("alpha"), services.get("beta")]);
+    expect(recorder.values[0]).not.toBe(recorder.values[1]);
     await runtime.stop();
   });
 
@@ -1141,23 +1211,26 @@ describe("module runtime services", () => {
       startModuleRuntime(runtimeOptions(modulesDirectory, services)),
     ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ModuleRuntimeError);
 
-    expect(recorder.values).toEqual([services, services]);
+    expect(recorder.values).toEqual([services.get("started"), services.get("started")]);
   });
 
   it("starts and stops a zero-module runtime without ever touching the provided services", async () => {
     const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
-    const services = fakeModuleRuntimeServices();
+    const database = fakeModuleDatabase();
+    const services: ModuleRuntimeServicesLookup = new Map([
+      ["unused", Object.freeze({ database })],
+    ]);
 
     const runtime = await startModuleRuntime(runtimeOptions(modulesDirectory, services));
     await runtime.stop();
 
     expect(runtime.modules).toEqual([]);
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.select)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.insert)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.update)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.delete)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.execute)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(vi.mocked(services.database.transaction)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.select)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.insert)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.update)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.delete)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.execute)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(vi.mocked(database.transaction)).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 });
 
@@ -1463,7 +1536,7 @@ describe("module configuration delivery (ADR 0029)", () => {
     expect(recorder.values).toEqual([["object", []]]);
   });
 
-  it("keeps the services object one shared identity even though configuration is per-module", async () => {
+  it("keeps each module's services object stable while configuration remains per-module", async () => {
     const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
     const services = fakeModuleRuntimeServices();
     const recorder = createReferenceRecorder();
@@ -1492,11 +1565,11 @@ describe("module configuration delivery (ADR 0029)", () => {
     await runtime.stop();
 
     const [alphaServices, alphaConfig, bravoServices, bravoConfig] = recorder.values;
-    // This is the reason configuration is a sibling of `services` rather than a field inside it:
-    // `services` is deliberately one shared object for the whole runtime, while configuration must
-    // differ per module. Both properties hold simultaneously.
-    expect(alphaServices).toBe(services);
-    expect(bravoServices).toBe(services);
+    // Configuration remains a sibling of `services`: both are selected per module, but they are
+    // independently composed snapshots with separate contracts and lifetimes.
+    expect(alphaServices).toBe(services.get("alpha"));
+    expect(bravoServices).toBe(services.get("bravo"));
+    expect(alphaServices).not.toBe(bravoServices);
     expect(alphaConfig).not.toBe(bravoConfig);
     expect((alphaConfig as ModuleConfiguration).getString("label")).toBe("alpha");
     expect((bravoConfig as ModuleConfiguration).getString("label")).toBe("bravo");

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

@@ -38,10 +38,14 @@ async function createModulesDirectory(): Promise<string> {
 
 function manifestFor(
   id: string,
-  options: { dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>; schema?: string | false } = {},
+  options: {
+    database?: { abi: 1 };
+    dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    schema?: string | false;
+  } = {},
 ): Record<string, unknown> {
   return {
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "0.1.0",
@@ -49,6 +53,7 @@ function manifestFor(
     ...(options.dependencies ? { dependencies: options.dependencies } : {}),
     capabilities: [],
     permissions: [],
+    ...(options.database ? { database: options.database } : {}),
     entrypoints: {
       server: "./dist/server/index.js",
       ...(options.schema === false ? {} : { schema: options.schema ?? "./dist/schema/index.js" }),
@@ -126,6 +131,62 @@ function issueCodes(error: ModuleSchemaDiscoveryError): ModuleSchemaDiscoveryIss
 }
 
 describe("module schema discovery", () => {
+  it("loads ABI-v1 schema entrypoints as plain metadata without importing an ORM", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
+    await createSchemaModule(modulesDirectory, "calendar", {
+      manifest: manifestFor("calendar", { database: { abi: 1 } }),
+      schemaSource: `
+        export default {
+          moduleId: "calendar",
+          tables: [
+            { name: "calendar_events", foreignKeys: [] },
+            { name: "calendar_attendees", foreignKeys: [{ table: "calendar_events" }] }
+          ]
+        };
+      `,
+    });
+
+    const aggregate = await discoverModuleSchemas(discoveryOptions(modulesDirectory));
+
+    expect(aggregate.tables.map((table) => table.name)).toEqual([
+      "calendar_attendees",
+      "calendar_events",
+    ]);
+    expect(aggregate.tables.every((table) => table.table === undefined)).toBe(true);
+    expect(aggregate.drizzleSchema).toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it("aggregates ABI-v1 prefix, duplicate, cross-module FK, missing target, and malformed errors", async () => {
+    const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
+    await createSchemaModule(modulesDirectory, "alpha", {
+      manifest: manifestFor("alpha", { database: { abi: 1 } }),
+      schemaSource: `export default {
+        moduleId: "alpha",
+        tables: [
+          { name: "wrong_records", foreignKeys: [] },
+          { name: "alpha_records", foreignKeys: [{ table: "beta_records" }] },
+          { name: "alpha_records", foreignKeys: [{ table: "alpha_missing" }] }
+        ]
+      };`,
+    });
+    await createSchemaModule(modulesDirectory, "malformed", {
+      manifest: manifestFor("malformed", { database: { abi: 1 } }),
+      schemaSource: `export default { moduleId: "malformed", tables: [{ name: "malformed_rows", unknown: true }] };`,
+    });
+
+    const error = await captureSchemaError(modulesDirectory);
+
+    expect(issueCodes(error)).toEqual(
+      expect.arrayContaining([
+        "MODULE_SCHEMA_CROSS_MODULE_FOREIGN_KEY",
+        "MODULE_SCHEMA_EXPORT_INVALID",
+        "MODULE_SCHEMA_FOREIGN_KEY_TARGET_MISSING",
+        "MODULE_SCHEMA_TABLE_DUPLICATE",
+        "MODULE_SCHEMA_TABLE_NAMESPACE_INVALID",
+      ]),
+    );
+  });
+
   it("returns a frozen empty aggregate without importing module servers", async () => {
     const modulesDirectory = await createModulesDirectory();
     const recorder = createGlobalEventRecorder();

core/tests/module-storage-lifecycle.test.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function fakeModule(
   } = {},
 ): DiscoveredModule {
   const manifest = parseModuleManifest({
-    manifestVersion: 7,
+    manifestVersion: 8,
     id,
     name: `${id} module`,
     version: "1.0.0",

core/tests/module-ui-publication.test.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ async function createModule(modulesDirectory: string, fixture: ModuleFixture): P
         version: contribution.version,
       })),
       id: fixture.id,
-      manifestVersion: 7,
+      manifestVersion: 8,
       name: `${fixture.id} module`,
       permissions:
         fixture.display === undefined

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-${(index + 1).toString(16).padStart(12, "0")}`;
+}
+
+export function manifestFor(
+  id: string,
+  options: {
+    readonly dependencies?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    readonly migrations?: boolean;
+    readonly schema?: boolean;
+  } = {},
+): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return {
+    manifestVersion: 8,
+    id,
+    name: `${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 };
+}

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

@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+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 { gzipSync } from "node:zlib";
+import { createMigrationModule } from "./migration-module-fixture.js";
+
+/**
+ * Test-only builders for Ekklesia Module Package v1 archives (ADR 0049). They write ustar archives
+ * by hand so a test can produce exactly what the canonical packager never would: links, device
+ * nodes, traversal, a second top-level directory, a corrupted payload.
+ */
+
+export type FixtureEntryType = "file" | "directory" | "symlink" | "hardlink" | "character" | "fifo";
+
+export interface FixtureEntry {
+  readonly path: string;
+  readonly type?: FixtureEntryType;
+  readonly mode?: number;
+  readonly data?: Uint8Array | string;
+  readonly linkname?: string;
+}
+
+const typeflags: Readonly<Record<FixtureEntryType, string>> = {
+  character: "3",
+  directory: "5",
+  fifo: "6",
+  file: "0",
+  hardlink: "1",
+  symlink: "2",
+};
+
+function octal(value: number, width: number): string {
+  return `${value.toString(8).padStart(width - 1, "0")}\u0000`;
+}
+
+function header(entry: FixtureEntry, size: number): Buffer {
+  const block = Buffer.alloc(512);
+  const name =
+    entry.type === "directory" && !entry.path.endsWith("/") ? `${entry.path}/` : entry.path;
+  let prefix = "";
+  let base = name;
+  if (Buffer.byteLength(name) > 100) {
+    const split = name.lastIndexOf("/", name.length - 2);
+    prefix = name.slice(0, split);
+    base = name.slice(split + 1);
+  }
+  block.write(base, 0, 100, "latin1");
+  block.write(octal(entry.mode ?? (entry.type === "directory" ? 0o755 : 0o644), 8), 100, "latin1");
+  block.write(octal(0, 8), 108, "latin1");
+  block.write(octal(0, 8), 116, "latin1");
+  block.write(octal(size, 12), 124, "latin1");
+  block.write(octal(0, 12), 136, "latin1");
+  block.write("        ", 148, "latin1");
+  block.write(typeflags[entry.type ?? "file"], 156, "latin1");
+  block.write(entry.linkname ?? "", 157, 100, "latin1");
+  block.write("ustar\u000000", 257, "latin1");
+  block.write(prefix, 345, 155, "latin1");
+  let checksum = 0;
+  for (const byte of block) {
+    checksum += byte;
+  }
+  block.write(`${checksum.toString(8).padStart(6, "0")}\u0000 `, 148, "latin1");
+  return block;
+}
+
+/** A gzip-compressed ustar archive of exactly these entries, in this order. */
+export function tarGz(entries: readonly FixtureEntry[]): Buffer {
+  const parts: Buffer[] = [];
+  for (const entry of entries) {
+    const data =
+      entry.type === undefined || entry.type === "file"
+        ? Buffer.from(entry.data ?? "")
+        : Buffer.alloc(0);
+    parts.push(header(entry, data.length), data, Buffer.alloc((512 - (data.length % 512)) % 512));
+  }
+  parts.push(Buffer.alloc(1024));
+  return gzipSync(Buffer.concat(parts), { level: 9 });
+}
+
+export function sha256(data: Uint8Array | string): string {
+  return createHash("sha256").update(data).digest("hex");
+}
+
+export interface PackageFixtureOptions {
+  readonly id?: string;
+  readonly version?: string;
+  readonly serverSource?: string;
+  readonly schemaSource?: string;
+  readonly manifest?: (manifest: Record<string, unknown>) => Record<string, unknown>;
+  readonly runtimePackage?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  readonly metadata?: (metadata: Record<string, unknown>) => Record<string, unknown>;
+  /** Changes the payload after its digests were computed. */
+  readonly tamper?: (files: Map<string, Buffer>) => void;
+  /** Entries appended after the package's own, under any path. */
+  readonly extraEntries?: readonly FixtureEntry[];
+}
+
+export interface PackageFixture {
+  readonly archive: Buffer;
+  readonly sha256: string;
+}
+
+async function readTree(root: string): Promise<Map<string, Buffer>> {
+  const files = new Map<string, Buffer>();
+  for (const entry of await readdir(root, { recursive: true, withFileTypes: true })) {
+    if (entry.isFile()) {
+      const absolute = path.join(entry.parentPath, entry.name);
+      files.set(path.relative(root, absolute).split(path.sep).join("/"), await readFile(absolute));
+    }
+  }
+  return files;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A valid any-target package of a minimal module: a server stub with no imports, one migration, a
+ * notices file, the generated runtime package.json, and complete metadata. Every option changes one
+ * thing, so a test can break exactly the rule it is about.
+ */
+export async function modulePackageFixture(
+  options: PackageFixtureOptions = {},
+): Promise<PackageFixture> {
+  const id = options.id ?? "example";
+  const version = options.version ?? "0.1.0";
+  const scratch = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), "ekklesia-package-fixture-"));
+  let files: Map<string, Buffer>;
+  try {
+    const created = await createMigrationModule(scratch, id, {
+      ...(options.schemaSource === undefined ? {} : { schemaSource: options.schemaSource }),
+      serverSource:
+        options.serverSource ??
+        `export default { id: ${JSON.stringify(id)}, version: ${JSON.stringify(version)}, register() {} };\n`,
+    });
+    files = await readTree(created.moduleDirectory);
+  } finally {
+    await rm(scratch, { force: true, recursive: true });
+  }
+
+  const manifest = JSON.parse(
+    files.get("ekklesia.module.json")?.toString("utf8") ?? "{}",
+  ) as Record<string, unknown>;
+  files.set(
+    "ekklesia.module.json",
+    Buffer.from(
+      `${JSON.stringify(options.manifest ? options.manifest(manifest) : { ...manifest, version }, null, 2)}\n`,
+    ),
+  );
+  files.set(
+    "package.json",
+    Buffer.from(
+      `${JSON.stringify(
+        options.runtimePackage ?? {
+          name: `@test/module-${id}`,
+          version,
+          private: true,
+          type: "module",
+          ekklesia: { layer: "module" },
+        },
+        null,
+        2,
+      )}\n`,
+    ),
+  );
+  files.set("THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES", Buffer.from("No third-party software is included.\n"));
+
+  const listed = [...files.entries()]
+    .sort(([left], [right]) => (left < right ? -1 : left > right ? 1 : 0))
+    .map(([filePath, data]) => ({ path: filePath, size: data.length, sha256: sha256(data) }));
+  const baseMetadata: Record<string, unknown> = {
+    packageFormat: 1,
+    module: { id, version },
+    target: "any",
+    runtime: { node: ">=20" },
+    provenance: {
+      revision: "86ae907f59458508e3277666cdd214f5bd7c1078",
+      packager: { name: "@ekklesia/module-pack", version: "0.1.2" },
+    },
+    incorporates: { "@ekklesia/module-sdk": "0.1.2" },
+    files: listed,
+  };
+  const metadata = options.metadata ? options.metadata(baseMetadata) : baseMetadata;
+  options.tamper?.(files);
+
+  const directories = new Set<string>([id]);
+  for (const filePath of files.keys()) {
+    const segments = filePath.split("/");
+    for (let index = 1; index < segments.length; index += 1) {
+      directories.add(`${id}/${segments.slice(0, index).join("/")}`);
+    }
+  }
+  const all = new Map<string, FixtureEntry>();
+  for (const directory of directories) {
+    all.set(directory, { path: directory, type: "directory" });
+  }
+  for (const [filePath, data] of files) {
+    all.set(`${id}/${filePath}`, { path: `${id}/${filePath}`, data });
+  }
+  all.set(`${id}/ekklesia.package.json`, {
+    path: `${id}/ekklesia.package.json`,
+    data: `${JSON.stringify(metadata, null, 2)}\n`,
+  });
+  const ordered = [...all.values()].sort((left, right) =>
+    left.path < right.path ? -1 : left.path > right.path ? 1 : 0,
+  );
+  const archive = tarGz([...ordered, ...(options.extraEntries ?? [])]);
+  return { archive, sha256: sha256(archive) };
+}

core/tests/verify-module-package-cli.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  parseSha256File,
+  parseVerifyModulePackageArguments,
+  readModulePackagePlatform,
+} from "../src/cli/verify-module-package.js";
+
+const repositoryRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "..");
+const digest = "ab".repeat(32);
+
+describe("verify-module-package arguments", () => {
+  it("takes an archive and, optionally, a digest and an extraction directory", () => {
+    expect(parseVerifyModulePackageArguments(["example-0.1.0-any.tar.gz"])).toEqual({
+      archivePath: "example-0.1.0-any.tar.gz",
+    });
+    expect(
+      parseVerifyModulePackageArguments([
+        "x.tar.gz",
+        "--sha256",
+        digest.toUpperCase(),
+        "--extract-to",
+        "/staging/example",
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual({ archivePath: "x.tar.gz", expectedSha256: digest, extractTo: "/staging/example" });
+    expect(
+      parseVerifyModulePackageArguments(["x.tar.gz", "--sha256-file", "x.tar.gz.sha256"]),
+    ).toEqual({ archivePath: "x.tar.gz", sha256File: "x.tar.gz.sha256" });
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["no archive", []],
+    ["two archives", ["a.tar.gz", "b.tar.gz"]],
+    ["an unknown option", ["a.tar.gz", "--force"]],
+    ["both digest options", ["a.tar.gz", "--sha256", digest, "--sha256-file", "a.sha256"]],
+    ["a malformed digest", ["a.tar.gz", "--sha256", "abc"]],
+    ["an option without its value", ["a.tar.gz", "--extract-to"]],
+  ])("refuses %s", (_label, argv) => {
+    expect(() => parseVerifyModulePackageArguments(argv)).toThrow();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("verify-module-package digest files", () => {
+  it("reads the sha256sum format, ignoring the recorded file name", () => {
+    expect(parseSha256File(`${digest}  example-0.1.0-any.tar.gz\n`)).toBe(digest);
+    expect(parseSha256File(`${digest.toUpperCase()} *renamed.tar.gz\n`)).toBe(digest);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "",
+    "not-a-digest  x.tar.gz\n",
+    `${digest}\n${digest}  second\n`,
+  ])("refuses %j", (contents) => {
+    expect(() => parseSha256File(contents)).toThrow();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("verify-module-package platform facts", () => {
+  it("reads this platform's versions and its transitional database runtime from the repository", async () => {
+    const root = JSON.parse(await readFile(path.join(repositoryRoot, "package.json"), "utf8"));
+    const core = JSON.parse(
+      await readFile(path.join(repositoryRoot, "core", "package.json"), "utf8"),
+    );
+    const sdk = JSON.parse(
+      await readFile(path.join(repositoryRoot, "packages", "module-sdk", "package.json"), "utf8"),
+    );
+    await expect(readModulePackagePlatform(repositoryRoot)).resolves.toEqual({
+      databaseRuntime: { "drizzle-orm": core.dependencies["drizzle-orm"] },
+      moduleSdkVersion: sdk.version,
+      platformVersion: root.version,
+    });
+  });
+});

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 +133,114 @@ 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 extracted from that module's **Ekklesia
+Module Package**
+([ADR 0049](../docs/architecture/decisions/0049-module-package-v1.md)): one archive,
+`<id>-<version>-<target>.tar.gz`, and the SHA-256 published beside it. A package holds the module's
+generated `package.json`, its manifest, `ekklesia.package.json`, bundled backend code, built browser
+artifacts, migrations, and `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES`
+([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.
+The digest proves the archive is the one you were given; it does not prove who published it.
+
+**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 and the package and its `.sha256` in
+the current directory, first **verify** it with the image's own verifier. It checks the archive's
+digest, its safety (no links, special files, or escaping paths), every file's digest, the package's
+identity, target, and Node.js range against this platform, runs the platform's module and migration
+validation, and loads the backend once in a short-lived process with no environment. Only then does
+it write the verified module directory, to a new directory outside module storage:
+
+```sh
+mkdir -m 777 staging        # writable by the image's unprivileged user; nothing else is
+docker run --rm --network none --read-only --tmpfs /tmp \
+  -v "$PWD:/package:ro" -v "$PWD/staging:/staging" \
+  --entrypoint node "$EKKLESIA_IMAGE" core/dist/cli/verify-module-package.js \
+  /package/<id>-<version>-any.tar.gz --sha256-file /package/<id>-<version>-any.tar.gz.sha256 \
+  --extract-to /staging/<id>
+```
+
+Then install the verified directory:
+
+```sh
+docker compose stop api
+# Stage under a hidden name, which discovery ignores, then rename it into place in one step.
+sudo cp -R staging/<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, verify and install its package 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
 
@@ -309,9 +408,13 @@ 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, and the same image loaded twice over
     HTTP/2, the second time as a conditional request that must be a clean `304`;
@@ -324,12 +427,22 @@ 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 an Ekklesia Module Package v1 by the canonical
+    packager, is verified by the image itself and 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 exact same package is verified and installed again 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
@@ -350,34 +463,37 @@ 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
 
@@ -399,30 +515,37 @@ 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
@@ -443,8 +566,8 @@ 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
 
@@ -482,14 +605,17 @@ reports direct mode for an API that trusts its proxy. The running API's own valu
 | 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` |
+| Verify a module package (read-only unless extracting) | `node core/dist/cli/verify-module-package.js <archive> --sha256-file <archive>.sha256 [--extract-to <new directory>]`, in a `docker run` of the image ([Installed modules](#installed-modules)) |
 | 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.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

@@ -15,6 +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

@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
   [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
 

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: Accepted
+- 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.

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+# 0050: Module Database ABI v1: modules and Core exchange SQL, never ORM objects
+
+- Status: Accepted
+- Date: 2026-10-07
+- Supersedes (partial): [0016](0016-module-database-access.md) — for modules that declare ABI v1,
+  only its definition of the module database service as `Pick<NodePgDatabase, …>`, a facade over
+  Core's Drizzle instance, and its rule that every module receives the same `services` object.
+  One pool, no pool or connection string for modules, no database access during `register`, the
+  shutdown order, handler error sanitization, and the trust boundary remain accepted and unchanged.
+  Modules that do not declare ABI v1 keep ADR 0016's facade until it is removed (see
+  [Compatibility and deprecation](#compatibility-and-deprecation)).
+- Amends: [0007](0007-module-owned-drizzle-schemas.md) — for modules that declare ABI v1, the
+  schema definition Core inspects is plain Ekklesia-owned metadata instead of Drizzle table objects.
+  Table namespacing, identifier rules, uniqueness, same-module foreign keys, atomic aggregation, and
+  sanitized discovery errors remain accepted and unchanged.
+- Extends: [0049](0049-module-package-v1.md) — this is the Module Database ABI that ADR 0049 deferred
+  and anticipated. ABI v1 packages carry no `transitional.databaseRuntime`. `packageFormat` stays 1.
+- Related: [ADR 0006](0006-versioned-capabilities-and-compiled-module-runtime.md),
+  [ADR 0008](0008-module-owned-migration-contracts.md),
+  [ADR 0009](0009-transactional-module-migrations.md),
+  [ADR 0015](0015-static-module-http-routing-and-runtime-lifecycle.md),
+  [ADR 0021](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md),
+  [ADR 0047](0047-module-ci-harness.md),
+  [ADR 0048](0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md)
+
+## Context
+
+ADR 0016 gave module code database access through `ModuleDatabase`, which is
+`Pick<NodePgDatabase, "select" | "selectDistinct" | "selectDistinctOn" | "insert" | "update" |
+"delete" | "execute" | "transaction">`. Core implements it as a frozen object whose eight methods are
+bound to Core's own `drizzle(pool)` instance.
+
+ADR 0048 then took modules out of the platform image, and ADR 0049 made each module release a
+self-contained package that bundles its own copy of Drizzle. The two copies now meet at run time,
+and an investigation of the current code (Drizzle 0.45.2) found the coupling runs deeper than a
+type:
+
+- **Module objects cross into Core's ORM.** A module builds queries from table, column, and `SQL`
+  objects made by its own Drizzle copy. Core's Drizzle instance then compiles and decodes them.
+  This only works while the two copies agree on internal symbols and entity kinds, which is why ADR
+  0049 records the module's Drizzle version under `transitional.databaseRuntime` and refuses a
+  mismatch.
+- **Core's ORM objects cross into the module.** `transaction` hands module code Core's live
+  `NodePgTransaction`. At run time that object is a full Drizzle database: its session, dialect,
+  relational query builder, and `rollback()` are all reachable, whatever the `Pick` type says. A
+  reference kept after the callback settles still points at a connection that has returned to the
+  pool.
+- **Result decoding is split between two ORMs.** Core's Drizzle session overrides `pg`'s parsers
+  for each query, so temporal values arrive as raw text. Then the module's column objects convert
+  them. Neither half is an Ekklesia contract. `pg`'s default parsers are also process-global and
+  mutable, and some lose information: `jsonb` numbers beyond double precision, and `numeric[]`
+  elements, are parsed to JavaScript numbers.
+- **Errors are ORM and driver shapes.** A module that needs to recognize a PostgreSQL condition
+  reads it from whatever object Drizzle or `pg` throws. Drizzle 0.45 wraps driver errors in its own
+  error type, whose message carries the SQL text and the parameters.
+- **Schema validation needs Drizzle objects.** Module validation, Doctor, and the package verifier
+  import a module's schema entrypoint and inspect it with Drizzle's `is(…, PgTable)`,
+  `getTableConfig`, and `PgColumn`. That is the same cross-copy dependency, at validation time. Core
+  extracts only plain facts from it: table names and foreign-key target tables.
+
+Two findings show the dependency is unnecessary:
+
+- **Migration execution is already independent of the ORM runtime.** Migration discovery reads SQL
+  files and JSON metadata, and the runner executes SQL text. Neither imports Drizzle. Drizzle Kit
+  snapshots are validated metadata; they are not needed to apply a migration.
+- **The module side can compile to SQL alone.** Drizzle and Kysely both compile a query to
+  PostgreSQL text with `$n` placeholders and an ordered parameter list. Drizzle 0.45.2's own
+  `pg-proxy` driver, given only a callback that receives SQL text, parameters, and an array-or-object
+  row mode, ran `select`, `update`, and `insert … returning`, and decoded `timestamptz` and `int8`
+  text with the module's own column definitions. That driver has no transactions, which a
+  module-side adapter has to supply.
+
+Signage 0.1.2, the first production module, uses `select`, `insert`, `update`, `delete`,
+`transaction`, one `returning`, and SQL expressions in `set` clauses. It uses no `execute`, joins,
+row locks, isolation options, or result row counts. None of its usage needs a Core ORM object. It
+recognizes a uniqueness conflict by reading SQLSTATE `23505` from the thrown error. A stable,
+Ekklesia-owned place for that code is desirable regardless of which ORM either side uses. (This
+paragraph is motivation, not part of the decision.)
+
+## Decision
+
+### The goal: the ORM is an implementation detail on both sides
+
+Ekklesia defines a stable, Ekklesia-owned **Module Database ABI** between Core and modules.
+
+- **The boundary is PostgreSQL itself.** Exactly these concepts cross it:
+  - SQL text;
+  - ordered, bound parameter values;
+  - result rows and their metadata;
+  - transaction scopes that Core controls.
+- **Core never receives or depends on a module's ORM or query-builder object.** That includes:
+  - Drizzle tables, columns, `SQL` objects, query builders, and transactions;
+  - Kysely objects;
+  - any other third-party ORM or runtime object.
+- **Modules never receive Core's ORM objects, driver objects, or connections.**
+- **Each side chooses its own tools.** A module may use Drizzle, Kysely, raw SQL, or any module-side
+  query builder that produces PostgreSQL text and parameters. Core may keep Drizzle, or replace it,
+  without any module noticing.
+
+This ADR defines **Module Database ABI version 1**. The TypeScript names below are illustrative; the
+concepts and the semantics are the contract.
+
+### A correctness boundary, not a security boundary
+
+**The Module Database ABI is a correctness and compatibility boundary. It is not a security
+sandbox.** Installed modules remain trusted backend code running inside the API process with its
+database role (ADR 0006, ADR 0016, ADR 0048).
+
+Nothing in this ADR claims, and nothing built from it may claim, that the following can stop
+malicious module code from reaching data that is not its own:
+
+- the ABI itself;
+- parsing or inspecting SQL;
+- checking table prefixes when statements execute;
+- `SET ROLE`;
+- PostgreSQL roles.
+
+A module sends arbitrary SQL by design, including SQL that changes its role back. It also runs
+in-process, where it can reach the network and the environment without the ABI.
+
+Table ownership remains what ADR 0007 made it: a static correctness check of declared tables and
+foreign keys, run during validation. The ABI keeps that check honest by removing the ORM objects it
+used to depend on. It adds no runtime enforcement.
+
+### Declaring the ABI: manifest version 8
+
+A module opts into the ABI explicitly, in its static manifest. The manifest is strict and changes by
+hard cutover (ADR 0006, ADR 0014, ADR 0021, ADR 0029), so the declaration arrives with
+**manifest version 8**. Conceptually:
+
+```json
+{
+  "manifestVersion": 8,
+  "database": { "abi": 1 }
+}
+```
+
+- **`database.abi: 1`** means the module receives a Module Database ABI v1 executor. It never
+  receives the legacy facade.
+- **No `database` field** means the module receives ADR 0016's legacy `ModuleDatabase` facade
+  during the deprecation window.
+- **Any other ABI value** fails validation. A platform that does not implement a declared ABI refuses
+  the module rather than guessing.
+- **Version 8 is a hard cutover, like every manifest version before it.** Core parses exactly one
+  manifest version; it never parses version 7 and version 8 side by side.
+  - An existing source module moves to version 8, and repacks, without changing any database code.
+  - A package already built with a version 7 manifest must be rebuilt.
+  - Module Package v1 has only just landed, and no published ecosystem depends on version 7
+    packages, so this costs a rebuild and nothing more.
+
+In this ADR, a **legacy module** means a module with a version 8 manifest and no `database`
+declaration, which therefore uses the legacy facade. It never means a module with a version 7
+manifest.
+
+Because the declaration is static, Core, the packager, and the verifier know a module's database
+contract without loading its code. Because Core enforces it, an ABI v1 module cannot reach the
+legacy facade, so nothing at run time can depend on Drizzle agreement.
+
+The rest of manifest version 8 (field placement, validation messages, the template, and the
+cutover itself) is an implementation detail of the change that introduces it.
+
+### The executor
+
+An ABI v1 module's database service is an **executor**. Conceptually:
+
+```ts
+query({ text, values, rowMode }) → { command, rowCount, rows, fields }
+transaction(callback, options)   → the callback's result
+```
+
+- **`text`** is exactly one PostgreSQL statement, using `$1 … $n` placeholders. **One `query` call
+  runs one statement.** This is a correctness and API rule, not a security boundary.
+  - The implementation upholds it with a reliable driver or protocol mechanism where one exists,
+    such as PostgreSQL's extended query protocol, which accepts a single statement per request.
+  - It does not require, and must not grow, an Ekklesia SQL parser.
+  - If an implementation cannot reliably uphold this rule, the implementing change stops and reports
+    the conflict. It does not weaken this ADR silently.
+- **`values`** is the ordered list of bound parameters (see
+  [Parameters](#parameters)). Values are always bound and never interpolated into the text.
+- **`rowMode`** is `"object"` or `"array"`.
+  - `"object"` rows are keyed by column name.
+  - `"array"` rows are positional, in `fields` order. An ORM that selects the same column name twice,
+    as joins do, needs this mode.
+  - Duplicate column names are invalid in object mode. Core rejects such a result rather than
+    silently dropping a column.
+  - With the current PostgreSQL and driver execution path, the result's shape is only known once
+    the statement has run. So a mutating statement can already have had its effects when the
+    result-shape error is reported.
+  - This is not a security guarantee. A caller that needs atomicity runs the mutation inside an ABI
+    transaction, where the error rolls the mutation back with everything else.
+- **`command`** is PostgreSQL's command tag word, such as `SELECT`, `INSERT`, `UPDATE`, or `DELETE`.
+- **`rowCount`** is the number of rows PostgreSQL reports as processed, or `null` when it reports
+  none.
+- **`rows`** are the result rows, decoded as in [Results](#results). `RETURNING` rows are ordinary
+  rows.
+- **`fields`** are the ordered column metadata, present even when there are no rows: at least each
+  column's name and its PostgreSQL type OID.
+
+The executor contains no ORM type, AST, query object, or schema object, and accepts none.
+
+**One executor per module.** Each ABI v1 module receives its own executor, bound to its module id.
+The module's `start` and `stop` hooks and its route handlers all receive that same object, which
+keeps ADR 0016's guarantee that lifecycle code and handlers share one database service. Different
+modules get different executors, so Core can attribute every statement to the module that issued it.
+
+**Observability belongs to Core.** Core may record per-module timings, command tags, row counts, and
+error codes. It never writes SQL text or parameter values to logs, diagnostics, Doctor output, or
+HTTP responses.
+
+**Session state is not part of the ABI.** Top-level `query` calls are separate autocommit statements
+that may run on different pooled connections. A module must not rely on session-level state, and
+must not change it. That includes:
+
+- session `SET`;
+- temporary tables;
+- named prepared statements;
+- `LISTEN`;
+- session advisory locks.
+
+Settings that must hold for one unit of work use `SET LOCAL` inside a transaction. Core may reset or
+discard a connection that a module changed. `COPY`, cursors, streaming results, and named prepared
+statements are not part of v1.
+
+### Parameters
+
+The ABI deliberately accepts a small set of PostgreSQL wire-safe values:
+
+| Value | Sent as |
+| --- | --- |
+| `null` | SQL `NULL` |
+| `boolean` | `true` / `false` |
+| `number` | its JavaScript decimal text; `NaN`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` as PostgreSQL's `NaN`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` |
+| `bigint` | its decimal text |
+| `string` | the text, unchanged |
+| `Uint8Array` | `bytea` |
+| arrays of the above | a PostgreSQL array, nested for more dimensions |
+
+Everything else is refused with a sanitized error before anything reaches PostgreSQL, rather than
+being coerced. In particular:
+
+- **`Date` is not an ABI parameter.** A JavaScript `Date` is an instant. Whether it should become a
+  `timestamp` or a `timestamptz`, and in which time zone, depends on a column type the ABI cannot
+  see. The module-side adapter converts it to explicit text first; for example, Drizzle's timestamp
+  columns already send ISO-8601 text.
+- **Plain objects are not implicit JSON.** A module or adapter encodes JSON explicitly, as a string,
+  and the SQL casts it where needed.
+- **Identifiers are never parameters.** Table and column names are part of the module's compiled
+  SQL text. The ABI provides no identifier interpolation.
+
+### Results
+
+Core owns one documented decoding table for ABI v1. It does not depend on `pg`'s global parser
+registry, which module code could change, or on any ORM. Values that a generic conversion could
+change, or change silently by time zone, arrive in a stable raw form:
+
+| PostgreSQL type | Arrives as |
+| --- | --- |
+| any `NULL` | `null` |
+| `bool` | `boolean` |
+| `int2`, `int4`, `oid` | `number` |
+| `int8` | `string`, its exact decimal text |
+| `float4`, `float8` | `number`, including `NaN` and `±Infinity` |
+| `numeric` / `decimal` | `string`, its exact text (`NaN` included) |
+| `text`, `varchar`, `bpchar`, `name`, `uuid` | `string` |
+| `date`, `timestamp`, `timestamptz`, `time`, `timetz`, `interval` | `string`: PostgreSQL's ISO text output |
+| `json`, `jsonb` | `string`: the JSON text, not parsed |
+| `bytea` | `Uint8Array` |
+| arrays of any of the above | JavaScript arrays (nested for more dimensions), each element decoded by the same rule, with `null` elements as `null` |
+| any other type | `string`: PostgreSQL's text output |
+
+- **Temporal text is fixed for every module.** Core fixes the session's `DateStyle` (ISO),
+  `IntervalStyle` (`postgres`), and `TimeZone` (UTC) on every connection that serves the ABI. The
+  same instant therefore always produces the same text, whatever the server's or the host's local
+  zone.
+- **`bytea` has one representation.** A value is a `Uint8Array`. A module must not rely on it being
+  any particular subclass.
+- **Higher-level conversion belongs to the module side.** Converting text to `Date`, `numeric` to a
+  decimal type, `int8` to `bigint` or `number`, and JSON text to values is the adapter's job, or the
+  module's. The Drizzle column types Signage uses already accept exactly these raw forms.
+
+Changing how any type arrives, including decoding a type that arrives as text today, requires a new
+ABI version.
+
+### Errors
+
+Every failure the executor reports is a Core-owned, sanitized **`ModuleDatabaseError`**.
+Conceptually:
+
+```ts
+ModuleDatabaseError { code, sqlState? }
+```
+
+The two fields mean different things:
+
+- **`code`** is always present. It is a stable, Ekklesia-owned error **category**, meant for
+  programmatic handling. Its categories cover at least:
+  - PostgreSQL rejected the statement;
+  - a parameter value was refused;
+  - a transaction option was refused;
+  - the scope was closed or used incorrectly;
+  - the transaction could not be completed.
+
+  This ADR does not freeze the complete set or the exact names. Once published, a code keeps its
+  meaning.
+- **`sqlState`** is optional. It is the five-character SQLSTATE that PostgreSQL itself reported, such
+  as `23505` (unique violation), `23503` (foreign-key violation), or `40001` (serialization failure).
+  It is present only when the database supplied one, and Core never invents one.
+  - Failures that the ABI detects itself have a `code` and no `sqlState`: a closed scope, an
+    invalid parameter type, or an invalid transaction option.
+  - Modules branch on `code` for ABI failures and on `sqlState` for PostgreSQL conditions.
+- **It never carries:**
+  - SQL text or parameter values;
+  - the driver's message, detail, hint, constraint, table, or column names;
+  - a stack, a cause, connection details, or any Core, `pg`, or Drizzle object.
+- **Modules recognize it structurally** (its name and its `code`), never with `instanceof`. A module
+  bundles its own copy of the SDK (ADR 0049), so class identity across the boundary is not a
+  contract.
+
+This replaces modules depending on `DrizzleQueryError`, `pg`'s `DatabaseError`, or any other driver
+or ORM error shape. An uncaught `ModuleDatabaseError` in a route handler is sanitized at the
+handler boundary exactly as before (ADR 0015, ADR 0016).
+
+### Transactions
+
+Transactions are **callback-scoped**, and Core owns the connection throughout:
+
+```ts
+transaction(async (tx) => { … }, { isolation, readOnly })
+```
+
+- **Starting.** Core takes a connection from its pool and begins a transaction with the requested
+  options. It then calls the callback with `tx`, a Module Database ABI v1 executor scoped to that
+  transaction alone. No `pg` client and no Core ORM transaction is ever exposed.
+- **Commit and rollback.** Core commits only when the callback's promise resolves and no operation
+  launched through `tx` is still outstanding. When the callback rejects, Core rolls back, and the
+  transaction call rejects with the callback's error. There is no `rollback()` method: to roll back,
+  the module throws.
+- **All work is awaited inside the callback.** Module code must await every database operation it
+  starts through `tx` before its callback returns. What happens when work is still outstanding
+  depends on how the callback settled:
+  - **Resolved with work outstanding.** The module forgot an `await` and has used the scope
+    incorrectly. The transaction is never committed: Core rolls it back, and the transaction call
+    rejects with the scope-usage `ModuleDatabaseError`. A forgotten `await` therefore fails. It never
+    quietly changes what the transaction contains.
+  - **Rejected with work outstanding.** The callback's own rejection stays the transaction's error.
+    Core rolls back and does not replace that error, a PostgreSQL failure included, with the
+    scope-usage error just because sibling work was still settling. This is what happens when one
+    query in `await Promise.all([tx.query(a), tx.query(b)])` fails while the other is still running.
+  - Either way, outstanding work never leads to a commit.
+  - Core may let operations that already started finish, or settle, before it rolls back and releases
+    the connection, so that a pooled connection is never handed on mid-operation. Waiting for them
+    never turns into a commit.
+- **Transaction control belongs to the callbacks.** Transaction-control SQL is forbidden through
+  `query`: `BEGIN`, `START TRANSACTION`, `COMMIT`, `ROLLBACK`, `SAVEPOINT`, `RELEASE SAVEPOINT`, and
+  every other statement that starts, ends, or marks a transaction. Modules control a transaction's
+  lifecycle only through the `transaction` and `savepoint` callbacks.
+  - This is a conformance rule for trusted module code, not a sandbox or a security guarantee.
+  - Core does not parse SQL to enforce it. Such a statement is valid PostgreSQL, so PostgreSQL
+    executes it before Core can see its result.
+  - Core detects a violation where the driver and protocol make that possible: from the statement's
+    command tag, and from the connection's transaction status. It then fails safely:
+    - the call rejects;
+    - the transaction's scopes refuse every later statement without sending it, because it would
+      otherwise run outside any transaction;
+    - Core never commits the enclosing transaction itself, and that transaction rejects too;
+    - the connection is destroyed rather than reused.
+  - Core does not claim to undo a transaction-control statement PostgreSQL has already executed. A
+    `COMMIT` sent through a transaction's `query` has already committed the work before it.
+  - The commit and rollback guarantees in this section apply to conforming use of the ABI.
+- **Revocation.** When the callback settles, `tx` is revoked, and it stays revoked once the scope has
+  finished. Any later call on it fails with the
+  closed-scope `ModuleDatabaseError` and sends nothing to PostgreSQL. A `tx` that escapes its
+  callback can never run a statement on a connection that has gone back to the pool.
+- **Options.** `isolation` is `read committed`, `repeatable read`, or `serializable`. `readOnly` is a
+  boolean. An unknown option or value is refused, never ignored. `deferrable` is reserved for a
+  later version.
+- **No automatic retries.** Core never retries a transaction. A callback may have side effects
+  outside the database, so retrying on `40001` is the module's decision.
+- **Failed statements.** PostgreSQL semantics apply unchanged. After a failed statement the
+  transaction is aborted, and later statements fail until the scope ends. A module that wants to
+  continue after a failure uses a savepoint.
+
+**Savepoints** are callback-scoped too:
+
+```ts
+tx.savepoint(async (sp) => { … })
+```
+
+- **Naming.** Core generates every savepoint identifier. Modules never provide one.
+- **Release and rollback.** A resolved callback releases the savepoint. A rejected one rolls back
+  to it, releases it, and rejects with the callback's error.
+- **Outstanding work.** The awaiting rule for transactions applies unchanged.
+  - A savepoint callback that resolves with operations still outstanding is a scope-usage error.
+    The savepoint is rolled back, never released, and the call rejects with that error.
+  - A savepoint callback that rejects keeps its own error. The savepoint is rolled back as for any
+    rejection.
+  - Either way, outstanding work never leads to a release.
+- **One active scope.** Only the innermost open scope may run statements. While a savepoint is
+  open, its parent executor refuses statements and new savepoints, so savepoint scopes can never
+  overlap.
+- **Revocation.** `sp` is revoked when its callback settles, exactly like `tx`.
+
+Nested transactions are savepoints. No nested-transaction API exposes a driver or ORM object.
+
+**Timeouts and cancellation stay with Core.** The existing per-statement bounds of the pool
+(`statement_timeout` and `query_timeout`) apply to every ABI statement. Core may also bound how long
+a transaction stays open. Modules cannot change Core's timeout policy through the ABI. `AbortSignal`
+and module-initiated cancellation are not part of v1.
+
+### Module-side adapters
+
+The ABI is ORM-neutral. The Module SDK may ship adapters **on the module side**, bundled into each
+module like the rest of the SDK (ADR 0049):
+
+- **A Drizzle adapter.** It turns the executor into a Drizzle database the module's own tables work
+  with. It may use Drizzle's `pg-proxy` driver, mapping row-array queries to `rowMode: "array"` and
+  the rest to `"object"`. It supplies `transaction` by opening an ABI transaction and binding a fresh
+  Drizzle instance to `tx`.
+- **A raw-SQL helper.** A tagged template that turns interpolations into placeholders and values.
+- **Later, a Kysely adapter.**
+
+Adapter types and query-builder types are not part of the ABI. Core never learns, and never needs
+to learn, that a module used Drizzle. A module may bundle any Drizzle version its adapter supports.
+
+### Schema metadata
+
+For an ABI v1 module, Core validates table ownership from **plain, Ekklesia-owned metadata**, not
+from ORM objects. Conceptually:
+
+```yaml
+tables:
+  - name: care_team_members
+    foreignKeys:
+      - table: care_team_teams
+```
+
+- **What it is.** Plain data: strings, arrays, and records, with no functions or class instances.
+  Core validates its structure strictly.
+- **What Core checks.** It is enough for the checks ADR 0007 already makes:
+  - the module namespace and identifier rules;
+  - uniqueness;
+  - foreign keys that stay within the module and target its declared tables;
+  - atomic, deterministic aggregation with sanitized issues.
+- **What Core never does.** For ABI v1 modules, Core does not call Drizzle's `is(…, PgTable)`,
+  `getTableConfig`, or `PgColumn` checks on module-provided objects, and does not import an ORM to
+  understand the metadata.
+- **How a module produces it.** A Drizzle helper in the Module SDK may derive it from the module's
+  own Drizzle tables, on the module side. A Kysely or raw-SQL module may write it by hand or produce
+  it another way.
+- **What it promises.** The metadata is a declaration checked for consistency. It is exactly as
+  strong a correctness check as today's, and no stronger: the database enforces columns when the
+  migration runs.
+
+Legacy modules keep the existing Drizzle-object path while legacy support exists. Where the metadata
+lives (in the schema entrypoint's default export or in a static file) is decided by the change that
+implements it. Either way, it must be readable without Core importing an ORM.
+
+### Migrations are unchanged
+
+Migration discovery, validation, and execution stay as ADR 0008, ADR 0009, and ADR 0048 define
+them. The runner already executes SQL without an ORM runtime. Migrations stay forward-only and
+explicit, and history is retained for absent modules.
+
+The Drizzle Kit migration file format (journal, snapshots, and `_ekklesia.json`) remains the module
+migration contract. Whether that build-tool format should become Ekklesia-owned is a separate
+question, and this ADR does not change it.
+
+### Module Package v1
+
+ADR 0049's `packageFormat` stays **1**. For a module that declares ABI v1:
+
+- **Drizzle is allowed in the bundle.** It is a module-side implementation detail, for example of
+  the adapter.
+- **The packager omits `transitional.databaseRuntime`.** Core requires no Drizzle runtime agreement.
+- **The verifier checks the ABI declaration and the plain schema metadata instead.** It refuses an
+  ABI v1 package that carries `transitional.databaseRuntime`. Such a package was made by a packager
+  that did not know the module's database contract.
+
+A legacy module's package keeps today's `transitional.databaseRuntime` recording and validation for
+as long as the legacy facade exists.
+
+This needs no new package format. ADR 0049 already lets a format 1 package carry no `transitional`
+facts. A platform from before this change cannot misread an ABI v1 package either: it refuses the
+version 8 manifest.
+
+### Compatibility and deprecation
+
+The deprecation window applies to the **legacy database facade**, not to manifest version 7.
+
+1. **Phase 1.** Core serves both contracts: the legacy facade to version 8 modules without a
+   `database` declaration, and an ABI v1 executor to modules that declare `abi: 1`.
+2. **Phase 2.** The Module SDK and the module template use ABI v1. First-party modules move over
+   independently, each in its own change.
+3. **Phase 3.** After at least one documented deprecation window, ending in a breaking Module SDK
+   release, the legacy facade may be removed. Its removal date, and how the manifest then expresses
+   the database contract, belong to that later decision.
+
+The legacy facade is transitional. It is not part of the permanent module contract, and it keeps
+its current behaviour until it is removed.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- A module's ORM, and its version, no longer has to match Core's. Core can upgrade or replace its
+  own Drizzle without rebuilding any ABI v1 module.
+- `transitional.databaseRuntime`, recorded in ADR 0049 as an implementation constraint, disappears
+  for ABI v1 packages, as ADR 0049 anticipated.
+- Modules get one stable error shape with SQLSTATE, and one documented result encoding that loses
+  no precision and does not depend on time zones.
+- A transaction object can no longer outlive its callback or reach a pooled connection afterwards.
+- Every module moves to manifest version 8. Already-built version 7 packages must be rebuilt.
+  Database code changes only when a module opts into ABI v1.
+- An ABI v1 module bundles an adapter. Its Drizzle code mostly stays as it is: the query builders
+  are its own.
+- Core takes on a documented decoding table, transaction scoping, savepoint management, and error
+  mapping that Drizzle did implicitly before. Each needs live PostgreSQL test evidence.
+- Core must serve two database contracts during the deprecation window.
+- None of this is a sandbox. A trusted module can still do anything the API's database role can.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+- **An ORM AST or query-object ABI.** Rejected. Anything richer than SQL text and parameters is one
+  ORM's internal representation, so it would tie the ABI to that ORM and its release cadence. The
+  only part worth keeping, the row mode and field metadata, is already in the executor.
+- **An Ekklesia-owned query DSL.** Rejected. It would cover less of PostgreSQL than Drizzle or
+  Kysely, cost more to maintain than either, and still force every module to rewrite its queries.
+- **A permanent, versioned Drizzle facade.** Rejected as the permanent contract. It would make Drizzle
+  version agreement a permanent install-time constraint. Core's transaction object would keep
+  reaching module code. Core could never change its ORM. It remains only as the transitional legacy
+  facade.
+- **Exposing the pool, a client, or a connection string.** Rejected, as in ADR 0016. Connection
+  lifecycle, timeouts, and transaction cleanup belong to the platform.
+- **SQL parsing or execution-time prefix checks as a security boundary.** Rejected. SQL can name
+  tables in too many ways, and a trusted module can send any SQL, so a parser would be bypassable
+  and a false promise. ADR 0016 rejected the same idea.
+- **`SET ROLE` or per-module PostgreSQL roles as a security boundary.** Rejected. Any SQL the module
+  sends can reset the role, and in-process code can reach the database without the ABI. Roles in a
+  module's CI, as a test aid, would be a correctness tool, not a boundary.
+- **`Date` as a direct parameter.** Rejected. Its meaning depends on the target column's type, which
+  the ABI cannot see. Adapters convert it explicitly.
+- **`pg`'s default parsing as the result contract.** Rejected. It is process-global and mutable, it
+  loses precision for `jsonb` numbers and `numeric[]` elements, and it is not an Ekklesia contract.
+- **Parsing manifest versions 7 and 8 side by side.** Rejected. Manifest versions are hard cutovers,
+  and the deprecation window is about the database facade, not the manifest.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- The implementation: Core's executor, decoding table, transactions, savepoints, errors, and their
+  tests.
+- Manifest version 8's exact mechanics, and the template and fixture cutover.
+- The Module SDK's Drizzle adapter and raw-SQL helper.
+- A Kysely adapter.
+- The legacy facade's removal date and the release that removes it.
+- Redesigning the migration file format.
+- SQL cancellation and `AbortSignal`.
+- Stronger process or database isolation for modules.
+- Moving Signage to ABI v1.

docs/architecture/decisions/0051-module-package-license-material.md

@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+# 0051: Module packages declare their own license and carry its text
+
+- Status: Proposed
+- Date: 2026-10-07
+- Amends: [0049](0049-module-package-v1.md) — every Module Package v1 artifact gains an
+  authoritative package-level license declaration and a `LICENSE` payload. `packageFormat` stays 1.
+- Related: [the repository license](../../../README.md#license),
+  [ADR 0048](0048-generic-image-and-installed-module-storage.md),
+  [ADR 0050](0050-module-database-abi-v1.md)
+
+## Context
+
+ADR 0049 makes a module release one immutable, self-contained package and already requires
+`THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` for code bundled from third-party dependencies. It deliberately says that no
+package is a distributable release until license and notice collection is proven. The implemented
+packager now generates those notices from the dependency code it actually bundles, but Module
+Package v1 still does not declare the module's own license or carry the module's license text.
+
+Those are different obligations. `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` excludes both the module itself and bundled
+Ekklesia-owned packages. The source module's development `package.json` is not copied into the
+package: the packager generates a minimal runtime `package.json` instead. Consequently, an archive
+can preserve every third-party notice and still lose the authoritative declaration and text for the
+work being distributed.
+
+The repository and its workspace packages declare `AGPL-3.0-or-later`, and the repository carries
+the GNU AGPL version 3 text in `LICENSE`. The canonical module template also declares
+`AGPL-3.0-or-later` in its source `package.json`. Official Ekklesia modules use that license today,
+but a packager cannot assume that every module has the platform's license. A module release must say
+what license its own publisher actually declared and must carry the corresponding material.
+
+The current `ekklesia.package.json` contract is strict: a reader refuses unknown fields. Adding a
+required field therefore makes pre-change and post-change readers reject one another's artifacts.
+That is intentional here, not a reason for `packageFormat: 2`. ADR 0049 has not admitted a
+distributable v1 release without proven license handling; this decision completes that still-open v1
+requirement before real modules are distributed. The packager and verifier must adopt the tightening
+together, and strict readers fail closed during that cutover rather than silently misreading a
+package.
+
+## Decision
+
+### The package declares the module's own license once
+
+Every Module Package v1 `ekklesia.package.json` has a required top-level `license` field containing
+the module's SPDX license expression:
+
+```json
+{
+  "packageFormat": 1,
+  "module": { "id": "example", "version": "0.1.0" },
+  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
+}
+```
+
+`ekklesia.package.json.license` is the authoritative package-release declaration. The expression is
+not repeated in `ekklesia.module.json` or in the generated runtime `package.json`. The module's
+source `package.json` is a packaging input, not release metadata inside the finished artifact.
+
+The source module must explicitly declare its license in its own project metadata. The canonical
+packager reads the normal string `license` field from the source module's `package.json`, validates
+it as a supported SPDX license expression, and preserves that declaration in
+`ekklesia.package.json`. It refuses a missing, empty, `UNLICENSED`, legacy object-shaped, malformed,
+or unsupported declaration. It never substitutes the Ekklesia platform's license and does not try
+to decide whether a publisher chose an appropriate license.
+
+For official Ekklesia modules today the declaration is `AGPL-3.0-or-later`, matching the repository
+license. This is a fact about those modules, not a default the packager invents for other modules.
+
+### The package carries the applicable license material
+
+Every distributable Module Package v1 contains a regular file at this canonical path inside the
+module directory:
+
+```text
+LICENSE
+```
+
+`LICENSE` contains the license material applicable to the module release. It is an ordinary payload
+file under ADR 0049:
+
+- it appears exactly once in the strict `files` list in `ekklesia.package.json`;
+- its byte size and SHA-256 are recorded there;
+- the archive SHA-256 covers it and the metadata that records it;
+- it is immutable for that release and changes only by producing a different archive.
+
+The license bytes must be available as an explicit source or build input. The canonical source is a
+module-owned `LICENSE` file at the module source root. Tooling may also accept an explicitly named
+license-text input when a workspace layout needs one, but it must place those bytes at the package's
+canonical `LICENSE` path. It must not search ancestor directories and silently adopt a repository
+license, generate project-specific license material, or download text from the network. The
+in-repository template implementation may later add its own `LICENSE` input or explicitly select
+the repository's AGPL text; this ADR does neither.
+
+The packager validates that both inputs exist: the declared SPDX expression and the applicable
+license text. It preserves the supplied text as deterministic package input. It is not a license
+compatibility engine and does not offer legal advice.
+
+### `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` remains a separate concern
+
+`THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` continues to describe third-party packages actually bundled into or included
+with the module: their identities, versions, declared licenses, uses, and required license and notice
+texts. It is not the module's own license file and cannot satisfy the `LICENSE` requirement.
+
+The module itself is not added to `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES`. A first-party module is not duplicated there
+merely because it uses the same AGPL license as Ekklesia. `LICENSE` and `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` both
+remain required because they describe different parts of the release.
+
+### Bundled Ekklesia code
+
+A module package may bundle Ekklesia-owned SDK, contracts, database adapter, UI, and related code.
+`incorporates` continues to record the exact versions of those Ekklesia components. It is an
+inventory and compatibility fact, not a second authoritative declaration of the module's license.
+
+Today's official module packages and the Ekklesia components they incorporate are all
+`AGPL-3.0-or-later`. Their package `LICENSE` therefore carries the applicable AGPL text once. The
+package does not need one identical copy per incorporated Ekklesia component, and those components
+do not move into `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` merely to obtain duplicate text.
+
+This ADR does not decide every future combination of a community module's license with differently
+licensed incorporated code. Publishers remain responsible for their choices and obligations. The
+packager preserves declared information and required material; it does not judge broad license
+compatibility.
+
+### Packaging and verification fail closed
+
+The implementation that follows this ADR must make the packager refuse a module when:
+
+- its source project has no acceptable explicit SPDX license expression;
+- its license-text input is missing or is not a regular file;
+- producing the package would omit `LICENSE` from the strict payload.
+
+The package verifier must refuse an artifact when:
+
+- `ekklesia.package.json.license` is missing, malformed, or outside the expression syntax the
+  contract supports;
+- the `LICENSE` payload is missing;
+- `LICENSE` is absent from the exact `files` list; or
+- its listed size or SHA-256 does not match its bytes, as with every other payload file.
+
+This ADR does not implement those checks. The contracts, packager, verifier, fixtures, template,
+and package proofs must change together in the implementation PR.
+
+### Determinism and runtime metadata
+
+`LICENSE` introduces no timestamp, generated host path, network lookup, or other environmental
+input. The deterministic archive rules in ADR 0049 apply to it unchanged.
+
+The generated runtime `package.json` remains minimal and is not authoritative for licensing. There
+is no runtime need to add a `license` field there. `ekklesia.package.json` is the release metadata,
+while the source module's `package.json` only supplies the publisher's declaration to the packager.
+
+### Package format remains 1
+
+`packageFormat` remains **1**. This is an additive tightening that completes ADR 0049's licensing
+requirement before the first distributable Module Package v1 release. It does not change the archive
+encoding, safety rules, target model, installation layout, or meaning of any existing field.
+
+The strict metadata schema is preserved. A verifier that predates this decision refuses the new
+unknown `license` field; an updated verifier refuses an old package that lacks it or lacks `LICENSE`.
+Both outcomes are safe. There is no installed or published v1 release compatibility promise to
+preserve because ADR 0049 explicitly withheld distributable-release status pending this work.
+
+ADR 0050's database ABI decision is unaffected. Whether a package uses database ABI v1 or the legacy
+database facade has no bearing on its license declaration or payload.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- A Module Package v1 release is self-describing about the module's own license and carries the
+  corresponding material without consulting its source repository or the network.
+- Operators can audit the release declaration in `ekklesia.package.json`, the module's license in
+  `LICENSE`, and dependency obligations in `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` without conflating them.
+- Module publishers must make both the SPDX declaration and license text explicit packaging inputs.
+- The template and every package fixture must be updated before packaging succeeds, but only in the
+  later implementation PR.
+- Existing development artifacts produced before this tightening are intentionally rejected and
+  rebuilt; none was a distributable v1 release under ADR 0049.
+- Identical AGPL text is carried once for today's official module and incorporated Ekklesia code.
+
+## Alternatives
+
+- **Use only `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES`.** Rejected: it describes third-party dependencies and explicitly
+  excludes the module itself and Ekklesia-owned incorporated packages.
+- **Make the generated runtime `package.json` authoritative.** Rejected: it is deliberately minimal
+  runtime discovery metadata, and copying the declaration there would duplicate release metadata.
+- **Copy the platform's license automatically.** Rejected: the platform cannot declare a module's
+  license for its publisher, and a community module may make a different declaration.
+- **Search parent directories for `LICENSE`.** Rejected: the chosen file would depend on checkout
+  layout and could silently apply an unrelated repository's terms. An out-of-tree input must be
+  explicit.
+- **Download standard license text while packaging.** Rejected: builds must remain offline,
+  deterministic, and independent of a mutable remote source.
+- **Duplicate the AGPL text for every incorporated Ekklesia package.** Rejected: identical copies
+  add no information. `incorporates` records component identity and version; one applicable text is
+  sufficient for today's official packages.
+- **Create `packageFormat: 2`.** Rejected: v1 has not crossed its own distributable-release boundary,
+  strict readers fail safely, and no archive or installation mechanism changes.
+- **Make the packager decide license compatibility.** Rejected: preserving declarations and material
+  is mechanical; judging every present and future license combination is a broader legal and policy
+  problem.
+
+## Deferred
+
+- Implementing contract, packager, verifier, fixture, template, and package-proof changes.
+- The exact set and version of SPDX expression syntax accepted by the implementation, beyond the
+  requirement that unsupported expressions fail closed.
+- Broad policy for future mixed-license community modules and incorporated code.
+- Container-image license distribution.
+- Marketplace, installer, publisher verification, and package-signing policy.

docs/architecture/decisions/README.md

@@ -56,3 +56,7 @@ ADRs capture durable choices that affect more than one package or phase.
 - [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) — Accepted
+- [0050: Module Database ABI v1: modules and Core exchange SQL, never ORM objects](0050-module-database-abi-v1.md) — Accepted
+- [0051: Module packages declare their own license and carry its text](0051-module-package-license-material.md) — Proposed

docs/architecture/platform-architecture.md

@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ a sandbox: it is `open` precisely because module code is trusted, same-realm cod
 
 [ADR 0041](decisions/0041-module-browser-contributions.md) lets one module contribute a browser
 renderer to a capability another module provides — the browser half of the capability system Core has
-had since ADR 0006. `manifestVersion: 7` declares a namespaced id, its own version, a target
+had since ADR 0006. `manifestVersion: 8` declares a namespaced id, its own version, a target
 capability, a compatible range, and one artifact. That is the complete list: there is no payload
 schema, slot, ordering, or rendering hint anywhere in the platform, so Core cannot learn what a
 "slide" is because the declaration cannot express it. Discovery resolves the artifact through the
@@ -652,3 +652,41 @@ 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.
+
+[ADR 0049](decisions/0049-module-package-v1.md) defines how a module is distributed: one Ekklesia
+Module Package v1, a deterministic `.tar.gz` with its SHA-256.
+
+- **The packager.** `@ekklesia/module-pack` bundles the module's backend with every pure-JavaScript
+  dependency, the SDK, contracts, and Drizzle included. It copies the built browser artifacts and
+  migrations, generates the runtime `package.json`, `ekklesia.package.json` with every file's digest,
+  and `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES`, and writes the archive.
+- **The verifier.** Core's `verifyModulePackage` reads the archive in memory and refuses links,
+  special files, and escaping paths. It checks every digest and identity, the target and runtime,
+  runs the platform's own module, schema, and migration validation, and loads the backend once in a
+  short-lived process with an empty environment. Only then does it extract anything.
+- **What exists today.** Only the `any` target. A manifest-v8 ABI module carries no
+  `transitional.databaseRuntime`; Drizzle may be bundled as its private implementation detail, and
+  Core validates plain schema metadata without comparing ORM versions. A version 8 module that
+  omits `database` remains on the temporary legacy facade and keeps ADR 0049's exact transitional
+  Drizzle agreement. The canonical template now demonstrates ABI v1. The legacy facade still
+  exists.

docs/architecture/repository-boundaries.md

@@ -136,11 +136,14 @@ These rules map platform ownership to filesystem and package boundaries. The exe
   declared by the consumer.
 - Code a workspace package ships (its `src/` and `bin/`, excluding tests and declaration files)
   declares every runtime import in `dependencies` or `optionalDependencies`. A peer declaration may
-  stay beside it, but never replaces it: a workspace package is linked into its consumers as a
-  directory, so its imports resolve from its own `node_modules`, where a consumer never satisfies a
-  peer, and a production install (`pnpm install --prod`, as the production image runs) omits
-  development dependencies. Type-only imports are exempt; a `.tsx`/`.jsx` file counts as importing
-  `react`, because the automatic JSX runtime imports `react/jsx-runtime` implicitly
+  stay beside it, but ordinarily never replaces it: a workspace package is linked into its consumers
+  as a directory, so its imports resolve from its own `node_modules`, where a consumer never
+  satisfies a peer, and a production install (`pnpm install --prod`, as the production image runs)
+  omits development dependencies. The one narrow exception is
+  `@ekklesia/module-database`'s `drizzle-orm` peer: modules choose that compatible runtime and the
+  Module Package v1 bundler incorporates it into their self-contained backend; Core never loads the
+  adapter package. Type-only imports are exempt; a `.tsx`/`.jsx` file counts as importing `react`,
+  because the automatic JSX runtime imports `react/jsx-runtime` implicitly
   (`runtime-imports-are-production-dependencies`).
 - Workspace aliases are forbidden because they obscure package ownership in the dependency graph.
 - Workspace package names are unique and shared packages declare a recognized architectural role.

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

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ enforces those permissions while the module is disabled, because it mounts no ro
 ## Module permission composition
 
 A module manifest's `permissions` array (introduced in `manifestVersion: 4`; the current strict
-manifest is version 7 — see
+manifest is version 8 — see
 [Module development](../module-development/README.md#canonical-manifest)) declares permissions in
 the exact same `PermissionDeclaration` shape — but declaring one there only proves it is
 well-formed and correctly namespaced under the module's own id; it does not, by itself, register
@@ -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 +472,20 @@ 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. A Module Package v1 (ADR 0049) is verified
+before it is installed: its digest, its archive safety (no links, special files, setuid bits, or
+escaping paths), every file's digest, and its identity and compatibility. The digest proves
+integrity, not who published the package; signing is not implemented. The verifier loads the backend
+in a short-lived process with an empty environment, so module code never sees a database URL or a
+secret while it is being checked.
+
 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

docs/development/testing.md

@@ -171,6 +171,16 @@ whole-batch DDL rollback, Drizzle breakpoint execution, real advisory-lock concu
 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
@@ -499,6 +509,36 @@ an `authenticated` baseline, from platform ownership, or from a user grant. Its
 answer "yes" to every human question, so any accidental fall-through into a human path would flip
 those assertions.
 
+A further suite (`core/tests/module-database-abi.integration.ts`, same harness) proves Core's Module
+Database ABI v1 executor against real PostgreSQL
+([ADR 0050](../architecture/decisions/0050-module-database-abi-v1.md)). Nothing it asserts is mocked,
+because every claim is a property of PostgreSQL or of the protocol:
+- one statement per `query`, enforced by PostgreSQL's extended protocol rather than by parsing, so
+  semicolons inside literals, identifiers, and comments are never mistaken for a second statement;
+- every allowed parameter category bound exactly, and every refused one refused before PostgreSQL
+  sees it;
+- the decoding table for each type the ADR names;
+- PostgreSQL's SQLSTATE preserved while its message, detail, constraint, and values are hidden;
+- commit, rollback, isolation levels, read-only, no retries, and an aborted transaction never being
+  committed;
+- callback-scoped savepoints;
+- a forgotten `await` rolling back instead of committing, while a rejected callback (one half of a
+  failed `Promise.all`) keeps its own error;
+- transaction-control SQL sent through `query` detected only after PostgreSQL has run it: Core
+  cannot undo a module's own `COMMIT`, so the suite pins what it does do: it refuses everything
+  after, never commits, and destroys the connection;
+- duplicate object-mode columns found only after a mutation ran, unless it ran in a transaction;
+- revoked executors reaching nothing.
+
+The suite's database is created with deliberately hostile defaults: a non-UTC time zone, a non-ISO
+date style, `sql_standard` intervals, `escape` bytea output, and reduced float digits. So every
+decoding assertion also proves the executor pins its own session settings. The pool-safety cases use
+a one-connection pool, which proves the next borrower gets a connection with exactly the database's
+defaults after every failure class: no transaction, setting, temporary table, listener, or advisory
+lock carries over. The same is true after a connection the server terminated. Parameter validation,
+decoding from text, option validation, error sanitization, and scope bookkeeping are also unit-tested
+without a database in `core/tests/module-database-abi.test.ts`.
+
 Outbound email is proven against a **real SMTP server** rather than a mock
 (`core/tests/mail-smtp.integration.test.ts`, [ADR 0037](../architecture/decisions/0037-host-provided-outbound-email.md)).
 `smtp-server` — the reference implementation from the same project as the client — runs in-process,
@@ -554,6 +594,58 @@ the following pull-request status context to `main` branch protection:
 CI / migration-smoke (pull_request)
 ```
 
+## Module packages
+
+Ekklesia Module Package v1 (ADR 0049) is proven at three levels, all in `pnpm verify`:
+
+- `packages/contracts/tests/module-package.test.ts`: the `ekklesia.package.json` schema, target
+  names, and the generated runtime `package.json`.
+- `core/tests/module-package-verification.test.ts`: the verifier against hand-built archives,
+  including what the packager never produces. A valid package verifies and extracts with normalized
+  modes. A wrong digest, a corrupted or missing or unlisted file, disagreeing identities, an unknown
+  format, unknown transitional metadata, an incompatible target, Node.js range, SDK, or legacy
+  database runtime, ABI metadata carrying a forbidden transitional runtime, malformed ABI schema
+  metadata, a missing entrypoint, a backend that imports something the package lacks, absolute and
+  `..` paths, symbolic and hard links, device nodes and FIFOs, setuid and setgid entries, a second
+  top-level directory, and a duplicate entry each fail with their own sanitized code. The backend
+  load check runs in a real child process and selects the schema contract from the manifest.
+- `packages/module-pack/tests/`: the packager against generated fixture modules (payload contents,
+  generated `package.json`, metadata, bundled backend with only built-in imports, refusal of native
+  and platform-specific dependencies and of unknown or textless licences, notices, byte-identical
+  archives, normalized tar and gzip headers), and end to end against the built module template:
+  packed twice to identical bytes without changing the workspace's install state, verified by Core's
+  verifier with a deliberately different Core Drizzle version, extracted elsewhere, and loaded with
+  Node's own resolution hooks proving nothing outside the package is resolved. The package contains
+  module-side Drizzle but no `transitional.databaseRuntime`. Turbo builds the template and Core
+  first, and runs the template's own tests (which rebuild its UI in place) before these.
+
+## 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 is packaged by the canonical packager (Module Package v1, ADR 0049),
+    as ABI v1, verified by the image's own verifier, and 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;
+  - the exact same package is verified and installed again, and the module returns 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 +69,125 @@ 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. You never
+assemble that directory by hand. You build your module, and the canonical packager turns it into an
+**Ekklesia Module Package v1**
+([ADR 0049](../architecture/decisions/0049-module-package-v1.md)): one deterministic archive and its
+SHA-256, which an installation verifies and extracts into module storage.
+
+**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. The packager therefore bundles your backend.
+
+#### Packaging your module
+
+Build your module, then run the packager from the workspace your module is built in. It is a
+development dependency like `@ekklesia/module-ui-build`:
+
+```bash
+pnpm exec ekklesia-pack-module --module . --target any --out ../packages \
+  --source-revision "$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+```
+
+It writes `<id>-<version>-any.tar.gz` and its `.sha256` line, and nothing else anywhere: it never
+installs, links, or deploys, so your workspace is left exactly as it was. Never run `pnpm deploy` in
+a workspace instead: it rewrites that workspace's install state to production-only.
+
+The archive holds one directory named with your module id:
+
+```text
+<id>/
+├── package.json            generated: name, version, private, "type": "module", the layer marker
+├── ekklesia.module.json    your manifest, byte for byte
+├── ekklesia.package.json   package metadata: target, runtime, provenance, file digests
+├── THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES     licence and notice text of every third-party package bundled
+├── dist/server/index.js    your backend entrypoints, bundled
+├── dist/schema/index.js
+├── dist/chunks/            code your backend entrypoints share
+├── dist/ui/ … dist/display/ … dist/contributions/   your browser artifacts, exactly as built
+└── drizzle/                your migrations
+```
+
+- **Bundled backend.** Your server, schema, and jobs entrypoints are bundled with every
+  pure-JavaScript dependency they use, the Module SDK, the contracts, and Drizzle included. The only
+  imports left are Node.js built-ins. A dependency the bundle cannot resolve fails packaging; nothing
+  is left to be found at run time.
+- **Never shipped:** `src/`, tests, TypeScript declarations, source maps, development dependencies,
+  your development `package.json`, any `workspace:` range, and links of any kind.
+- **Browser artifacts must be current.** The packager rebuilds them in memory and refuses an artifact
+  on disk that differs, so run your build first.
+- **`any` is the only target today.** A dependency that is native or platform-specific (a compiled
+  addon, a package that declares an operating system or CPU, or one that loads a per-platform binary
+  such as `sharp`) cannot be in an `any` package, and packaging fails. Native targets come later.
+- **Licences.** `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES` credits every third-party package your bundles contain, with
+  its declared licence and the licence and notice files it ships. A package that declares no licence
+  fails packaging, and so does one that ships no licence text, unless its licence's standard text is
+  complete without a copyright line (Apache-2.0, which the packager then supplies and says so). The
+  Ekklesia platform's own packages are listed in `ekklesia.package.json` under `incorporates`.
+- **Deterministic.** The same packager version and the same built inputs produce the same archive,
+  byte for byte, wherever the checkout is.
+
+**Database ABI v1 is the current path.** A module that declares `"database": { "abi": 1 }` keeps
+Drizzle and its exact version inside its own bundle as an implementation detail. Its package omits
+`transitional.databaseRuntime`; Core validates the module's plain schema metadata and never compares
+the bundled Drizzle version with its own. The canonical template demonstrates this path with
+`@ekklesia/module-database/drizzle`.
+
+A manifest-v8 module that omits `database` remains on the temporary legacy facade. Only that legacy
+package records bundled Drizzle under `transitional.databaseRuntime`, and the verifier continues to
+require exact agreement with Core. The legacy facade has not been removed.
+
+#### Verifying a package
+
+`node core/dist/cli/verify-module-package.js <archive> --sha256-file <archive>.sha256`, run from an
+Ekklesia installation (`/opt/ekklesia` in the image), checks a package against that platform without
+installing it. Pass `--extract-to <new directory>` to receive the verified module directory.
+[deploy/README.md](../../deploy/README.md#installed-modules) shows the whole installation.
+
+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)).
+
+### License
+
+Ekklesia is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any
+later version, `AGPL-3.0-or-later` ([LICENSE](../../LICENSE)), and official Ekklesia modules use the
+same license. Declare it in your module's development `package.json`
+(`"license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later"`), as the module template does.
+
+A Module Package v1 does not yet record a module's own license: its runtime `package.json` and
+`ekklesia.package.json` have fixed fields, and its contents are fixed, by ADR 0049. Carrying the
+module's license, and the license text for the Ekklesia code bundled into its backend, needs a
+change to that format.
+
+### 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
@@ -73,7 +195,7 @@ without executing module code:
 
 ```json
 {
-  "manifestVersion": 7,
+  "manifestVersion": 8,
   "id": "calendar",
   "name": "Calendar",
   "version": "0.1.0",
@@ -150,10 +272,10 @@ has its own exact semantic version because its public contract can evolve indepe
 module release. Capability dependencies use semantic-version ranges. Optional means the provider
 may be absent; if it is installed, its capability version must be compatible.
 
-`manifestVersion: 7` (`packages/contracts/src/module-manifest.ts`) is a required, exact literal — a
-version 6 manifest, and any other version, fails validation outright rather than being silently
+`manifestVersion: 8` (`packages/contracts/src/module-manifest.ts`) is a required, exact literal — a
+version 7 manifest, and any other version, fails validation outright rather than being silently
 reinterpreted; there is no compatibility adapter or automatic migration between manifest versions.
-Version 7 adds the optional `contributions` array
+Already-built version 7 packages must be rebuilt. Version 7 added the optional `contributions` array
 ([ADR 0041](../architecture/decisions/0041-module-browser-contributions.md)). A version 6 module that
 contributes nothing changes only the version literal; every browser artifact remains independently
 optional ([ADR 0033](../architecture/decisions/0033-display-kiosk-host-contract.md)).
@@ -1343,9 +1465,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
 ```
 
 Keep `tables.ts` limited to Drizzle declarations so the stable generator can load it without
-executing the ESM Module SDK wrapper. `src/schema/index.ts` remains the production compiled schema
-entrypoint and wraps those same exported table objects with `defineModuleSchema`; tables are not
-declared twice.
+executing the ESM module wrapper. For an ABI-v1 module, `src/schema/index.ts` remains the production
+compiled schema entrypoint and converts those same table objects to plain metadata with
+`moduleDrizzleSchemaMetadata`; tables are not declared twice. A legacy-v8 module continues to wrap
+them with `defineModuleSchema` while that facade exists.
 
 Run the module's `migration:generate` script with a lowercase snake-case name, review the generated
 SQL and snapshot, and add the matching entry to `drizzle/meta/_ekklesia.json`. Every entry must
@@ -1366,9 +1489,110 @@ destructive behavior. Review those properties explicitly. Core is the only migra
 follows Drizzle's exact `--> statement-breakpoint` delimiter and never naively splits semicolons or
 falls back to non-transactional execution.
 
-## Database access
+## Module Database ABI v1
 
-`context.services.database` — available in `start`, `stop`, and every authorized route handler,
+The stable database boundary is Module Database ABI v1: SQL text, ordered bound values, an explicit
+row mode, low-level PostgreSQL result values, and callback-scoped transactions. ORM objects never
+cross it. A manifest version 8 module opts in with `"database": { "abi": 1 }`; omitting `database`
+selects the temporary legacy facade. “Legacy” here describes that facade, never a version 7
+manifest. Core selects the service from the validated manifest and gives each ABI module its own
+executor, reused by that module's lifecycle hooks and route handlers.
+
+A Drizzle module imports the optional adapter subpath and declares its own exact compatible
+`drizzle-orm` dependency. The adapter's peer range (`>=0.45.2 <0.46.0`) describes adapter API
+compatibility; it is not a Core or platform compatibility range:
+
+```ts
+import { moduleDrizzle } from "@ekklesia/module-database/drizzle";
+import { defineModuleRuntime } from "@ekklesia/module-sdk";
+import * as schema from "./schema/tables.js";
+
+export default defineModuleRuntime({
+  database: { abi: 1 },
+  id: "calendar",
+  version: "0.1.0",
+  async start({ services }) {
+    const db = moduleDrizzle(services.database, { schema });
+    const events = await db.select().from(schema.events);
+  },
+});
+```
+
+The repeated runtime discriminator is what gives lifecycle and route-handler code the exact
+`ModuleDatabaseExecutor` type instead of a legacy-or-ABI union. Core still chooses from the static
+manifest and refuses startup when the runtime discriminator disagrees with it; neither contract can
+silently receive the other service.
+
+Drizzle compiles SQL and parameters before calling the ABI. The adapter always requests positional
+(`rowMode: "array"`) results, gives those rows back to Drizzle in column order, and Drizzle applies
+the module's own column decoders for bigint, numeric, dates/timestamps, JSON, byte arrays, nulls, and
+supported arrays. This also makes joins with duplicate PostgreSQL column names unambiguous. Core
+never imports this adapter and has no dependency on the module's Drizzle version. The adapter surface
+is deliberately limited to `select`, `insert`, `update`, `delete`, and `transaction`; returning,
+joins, and SQL expressions come from those normal Drizzle builders.
+
+`db.transaction(callback)` maps to the ABI transaction callback. The callback receives another
+Drizzle-facing database backed by the scoped ABI executor; a nested `.transaction()` maps to the
+ABI's `savepoint` callback. Callback values and errors propagate, Core remains authoritative for
+commit/rollback and escaped-scope behavior, and the adapter adds no retries or transaction-control
+SQL.
+
+Drizzle wraps execution failures in `DrizzleQueryError`. Recover the stable sanitized ABI error by
+shape instead of using a PostgreSQL error instance, parsing a message, or reading `.cause.code`:
+
+```ts
+import { findEkklesiaDatabaseError } from "@ekklesia/module-database";
+
+try {
+  await db.insert(schema.events).values(event);
+} catch (error) {
+  const databaseError = findEkklesiaDatabaseError(error);
+  if (databaseError?.sqlState === "23505") {
+    // Handle a uniqueness conflict.
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Modules that do not want Drizzle use the package's ORM-neutral tag. Every interpolation is one bound
+value; v1 deliberately provides no dynamic-identifier or trusted-fragment escape hatch:
+
+```ts
+import { sql } from "@ekklesia/module-database";
+
+const statement = sql`
+  SELECT id, title
+  FROM calendar_events
+  WHERE id = ${eventId}
+`;
+
+const result = await executor.query({ ...statement, rowMode: "object" });
+```
+
+The tag does not stringify values. Unsupported values pass through unchanged and the ABI executor
+rejects them; strings containing quotes or SQL syntax always remain parameters.
+
+ABI modules also export plain schema metadata rather than Drizzle objects. Drizzle users can derive
+it on the module side; raw-SQL modules can write the same inert shape directly:
+
+```ts
+import { moduleDrizzleSchemaMetadata } from "@ekklesia/module-database/drizzle";
+import * as tables from "./tables.js";
+
+export default moduleDrizzleSchemaMetadata("calendar", tables);
+```
+
+The result is `{ moduleId, tables: [{ name, foreignKeys: [{ table }] }] }`. Core validates table
+prefixes, duplicates, and same-module foreign-key targets from those strings and never inspects an
+ABI module's ORM objects.
+
+The canonical module template declares ABI v1, uses the module-side Drizzle adapter, and exports
+plain schema metadata derived with `moduleDrizzleSchemaMetadata`. Its Module Package v1 still
+bundles Drizzle, but carries no `transitional.databaseRuntime`: that version belongs to the module,
+not Core.
+
+## Legacy database access
+
+For a version 8 manifest that omits `database`, `context.services.database` — available in `start`, `stop`, and every authorized route handler,
 never in `register` — is a `ModuleDatabase`: a typed Drizzle query surface over exactly `select`,
 `selectDistinct`, `selectDistinctOn`, `insert`, `update`, `delete`, `execute`, and `transaction`,
 preserving Drizzle's own table-aware argument and result inference. It is the platform's only
@@ -1447,7 +1671,8 @@ 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 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "ekklesia",
   "version": "0.1.2",
+  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Open, modular church technology platform",
@@ -34,7 +35,9 @@
     "migrations:validate": "turbo run build && node core/dist/cli/validate-migrations.js",
     "modules:disable": "turbo run build && node --env-file-if-exists=.env core/dist/cli/set-module-enabled.js --disable",
     "modules:enable": "turbo run build && node --env-file-if-exists=.env core/dist/cli/set-module-enabled.js --enable",
+    "modules:pack": "turbo run build && node packages/module-pack/bin/ekklesia-pack-module.mjs",
     "modules:validate": "turbo run build && node core/dist/cli/validate-modules.js",
+    "modules:verify-package": "turbo run build && node core/dist/cli/verify-module-package.js",
     "test": "turbo run test test:root",
     "test:migrations:integration": "pnpm build && bash scripts/test-migrations-integration.sh",
     "test:root": "vitest run --config vitest.config.ts",

packages/contracts/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@ekklesia/contracts",
   "version": "0.1.2",
+  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "type": "module",
   "files": [
     "dist"

packages/contracts/src/index.ts

@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ export * from "./identity.js";
 export * from "./module-configuration.js";
 export * from "./module-contribution.js";
 export * from "./module-database.js";
+export * from "./module-database-abi.js";
 export * from "./module-http.js";
 export * from "./module-lifecycle.js";
 export * from "./module-manifest.js";
 export * from "./module-migration.js";
+export * from "./module-package.js";
 export * from "./module-realtime.js";
 export * from "./module-runtime.js";
 export * from "./module-schema.js";
+export * from "./module-schema-metadata.js";
+export * from "./module-schema-names.js";
 export * from "./module-storage.js";
 export * from "./versions.js";