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ekklesiaandClaude Opus 5 07835b7b56 feat: give module UI real stylesheets, and every artifact its own root
ADR 0023 refused stylesheet imports for a good reason: esbuild would emit a
`.css` sidecar beside the artifact, nothing would declare it, no host would
fetch it, and it would work in a local test and silently do nothing in a real
host. Inline style objects were the whole story. They cannot express
`:hover`, `:focus-visible`, `:disabled`, `@media`, or `@keyframes` — so an
accessible focus treatment was not expressible, and the shared elements added
in the previous commit are built from real CSS for exactly that reason.

Compile the stylesheet into the artifact instead of beside it. A module
imports plain `.css`; the canonical builder resolves local `@import`s through
a nested bundle and turns each file into its compiled text, which the author
declares as `defineModuleUi({ styles })`. One declared file still contains
everything: nothing extra to publish, nothing to fetch, and no way for CSS to
become an asset nobody serves. The build additionally fails if a CSS output
ever appears beside an artifact, so a future loader change cannot bring the
sidecar back. Two rules are enforced with their own codes: a module stylesheet
may reference `--ekklesia-*` and never declare one, and every `@import` must
resolve locally or the artifact would fetch styles at run time. Plain `.css`
only; other dialects are a toolchain decision needing their own ADR.

Then make the isolation real. The generic loader mounts every browser artifact
— primary, display, and later a contributed renderer — inside an open Shadow
DOM root it creates, installs the artifact's stylesheet there, and hands the
artifact an element inside it. Shadow DOM is the one mechanism a browser
actually enforces; a class prefix or a "scope your selectors" instruction is a
convention one mistake defeats, and the failure mode is a module silently
restyling the Dashboard. It applies unconditionally, including to artifacts
with no stylesheet, because a conditional boundary is one a module can fall
out of by editing a source file. Both wrappers are `display: contents` through
base rules installed before the artifact's own, so layout is unchanged and a
full-viewport display can still override `:host`. Unmount removes the whole
root in a `finally`, so a cleanup that throws cannot leave styles behind, and
remounting cannot accumulate a second copy.

This is a correctness boundary for styles and is not described as a sandbox:
the root is `open` precisely because module code is trusted, same-realm code
that could reach `document` anyway.

An artifact's DOM is no longer a direct child of the host's element, so the
mount ABI is versioned explicitly. `defineModuleUi` stamps
`MODULE_UI_ABI_VERSION` so it can never drift from the SDK the artifact
compiled against, and a version-1 artifact fails with its own code — "rebuild
your module", not a typo hunt. No dual acceptance, matching every manifest
cutover here. Migration is one `pnpm build`.

`pnpm boundaries` allows `.css` only under `src/ui/` and `src/display/`: a
stylesheet anywhere else in a module is the undeclared sidecar again, just
relocated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-27 07:21:14 -05:00

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# Architecture decision records
ADRs capture durable choices that affect more than one package or phase.
- Filenames use a four-digit sequence followed by a short kebab-case title.
- Status is `Proposed`, `Accepted`, `Superseded`, or `Rejected`.
- Accepted ADRs are immutable except for status and cross-reference corrections.
- A changed decision receives a new ADR that links to and supersedes the old one.
## Index
- [0001: Four-layer platform boundary](0001-four-layer-platform-boundary.md) — Accepted
- [0002: pnpm workspace and strict TypeScript](0002-pnpm-workspace-and-typescript.md) — Accepted
- [0003: Development infrastructure](0003-development-infrastructure.md) — Accepted
- [0004: Replace unmaintained MinIO baseline](0004-replace-unmaintained-minio.md) — Accepted
- [0005: Static module manifests and atomic discovery](0005-static-module-manifests.md) — Superseded
- [0006: Versioned capabilities and compiled module runtime](0006-versioned-capabilities-and-compiled-module-runtime.md) — Accepted
- [0007: Module-owned Drizzle schemas and table isolation](0007-module-owned-drizzle-schemas.md) — Accepted
- [0008: Module-owned migration contracts and offline validation](0008-module-owned-migration-contracts.md) — Accepted
- [0009: Transactional module migration execution](0009-transactional-module-migrations.md) — Accepted
- [0010: Core identity architecture and Better Auth adoption](0010-core-identity-and-better-auth-adoption.md) — Accepted
- [0011: Identity HTTP transport and public enrollment policy](0011-identity-http-transport-and-public-enrollment.md) — Accepted
- [0012: Production-equivalent identity origin/CSRF protection under test](0012-identity-origin-csrf-protection-under-test.md) — Accepted
- [0013: Core authorization, permission registry, and platform-owner bootstrap](0013-core-authorization-and-owner-bootstrap.md) — Accepted
- [0014: Module permission declarations and platform permission registry](0014-module-permission-declarations-and-platform-registry.md) — Accepted
- [0015: Static module HTTP routing and production runtime lifecycle](0015-static-module-http-routing-and-runtime-lifecycle.md) — Accepted
- [0016: Module database access](0016-module-database-access.md) — Accepted
- [0017: Public request perimeter hardening — client address, signup gating, body limits, timeouts](0017-public-request-perimeter-hardening.md) — Accepted
- [0018: Identity session resolution, canonical public origins, and PostgreSQL transport policy](0018-identity-session-resolution-and-database-transport.md) — Accepted
- [0019: Durable authorization history and grant management](0019-durable-authorization-history-and-grant-management.md) — Accepted
- [0020: Module runtime and migration execution hardening](0020-module-runtime-and-migration-execution-hardening.md) — Accepted
- [0021: Modules as independently hostable products](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md) — Accepted
- [0022: Module UI authoring model and host contract](0022-module-ui-authoring-and-host-contract.md) — Accepted
- [0023: Module UI build pipeline](0023-module-ui-build-pipeline.md) — Accepted
- [0024: Browser-safe module UI SDK and the generic host loader](0024-browser-safe-ui-sdk-and-host-loader.md) — Accepted
- [0025: Trusted module UI asset publication](0025-trusted-module-ui-asset-publication.md) — Accepted
- [0026: The minimal Ekklesia module UI host](0026-minimal-ekklesia-module-ui-host.md) — Accepted
- [0027: Dashboard navigation is presentation configuration, and modules stay flat](0027-dashboard-navigation-and-flat-modules.md) — Accepted
- [0028: Module operational lifecycle — enablement, eligibility, and what "running" means](0028-module-operational-lifecycle.md) — Accepted
- [0029: Module configuration is manifest-declared, host-resolved, and secret-free at rest](0029-module-configuration-and-secrets.md) — Accepted
- [0030: Modules declare logical buckets; hosts provide object storage](0030-host-provided-module-object-storage.md) — Accepted
- [0031: Browsers fetch objects directly, through opaque temporary read URLs](0031-direct-object-delivery.md) — Accepted
- [0032: Native module realtime is scoped snapshot state over SSE](0032-native-module-realtime-transport.md) — Accepted
- [0033: Display UI is a separate, permission-gated module entrypoint](0033-display-kiosk-host-contract.md) — Accepted
- [0034: Dashboard browser authentication is host-owned and principal-first](0034-host-owned-browser-authentication.md) — Accepted
- [0035: The first platform owner is created by an operator command, never by a browser](0035-initial-platform-owner-bootstrap.md) — Accepted
- [0036: A display device is its own principal, paired by an administrator](0036-managed-device-identity-and-pairing.md) — Accepted
- [0037: Outbound email is a host-provided transport, and SMTP is its first provider](0037-host-provided-outbound-email.md) — Accepted
- [0038: Email verification and password recovery, with a trusted-bootstrap exception](0038-email-verification-and-password-recovery.md) — Accepted
- [0039: Shared design tokens and foundational elements](0039-shared-design-tokens-and-elements.md) — Accepted
- [0040: Module stylesheets, and every browser artifact gets an isolated root](0040-module-stylesheets-and-artifact-isolation.md) — Accepted