Two gaps stood between the module UI contract and a host that could use
it. ADR 0023 recorded the first honestly but never diagnosed it: a module
UI file compiled with `"types": []` could still typecheck `process.env`.
The second was simply missing — nothing imported a compiled artifact,
checked its identity, mounted it, or tore it down.
The leak was one type-only import, bisected against the real type graph
rather than guessed. `@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk` imported
`type { EkklesiaPrincipal } from "@ekklesia/contracts"`. Importing
contracts/identity alone is clean and importing Zod alone is clean, but
contracts exposes a single barrel entry, so that one import reached
module-database, whose Drizzle types re-introduce Node's globals. The
runtime was never affected — the import was erased and host-context.js is
`export {}` — but a type-graph leak is still a real boundary failure,
because it silently permits code that cannot run in its target
environment.
The fix is not a narrower import path. The SDK now has no dependencies at
all, so there is no graph to leak through and no future contracts change
can reopen this. It owns `ModuleUiPrincipal`: the same shape ADR 0022
chose, with the Zod brand dropped. That brand encodes a server-side
parsing guarantee a browser cannot produce, and it is the same reason
`permissions.has` already took a plain string. An Ekklesia host still
passes its own `EkklesiaPrincipal` straight through — a branded string is
assignable to `string` — while a standalone host builds the literal.
Proven the way an author experiences it: two fixtures compiled under the
exact project a module uses, one supported and one deliberately reaching
for `process`, with the second required to fail on that specific name.
`@ekklesia/module-ui-host` is the generic loader, in its own package
because the SDK is bundled into every module artifact and host-only
loader code has no business shipping there. The boundary checker enforces
both directions: modules may not depend on the loader, and the loader may
depend only on the SDK plus dev-time tooling.
The distinction that shaped the design: Core resolves `entrypoints.ui` to
an absolute path on the server's disk, and a browser needs a URL. A
loader that accepted the path would test green on a server and fail in
every real host, and would quietly own asset publication. So the loader
takes a browser-loadable URL and knows nothing about how one is obtained.
Ekklesia has no route that publishes installed artifacts, so this is
precisely: loader complete, publication deferred. Nothing can mount an
installed module UI yet, and the docs say so rather than implying
otherwise.
Dynamic import is `(url) => import(url)` with a non-analyzable specifier,
kept as a runtime import so a host does not statically bundle every
installed module or need a hardcoded registry. It is injectable for
bundlers needing their own escape hatch, and deliberately not `eval` or
`new Function`, which would cost a host `unsafe-eval` in its CSP.
Identity is validated through the SDK's existing parser before `mount`
runs, so a stale or mismatched bundle never renders. Contract violations
propagate unwrapped; the loader adds only import and mount failure codes,
sanitized, with the cause attached. Unmount is idempotent, safe when a
module returned no cleanup, and marks an instance unmounted before
running cleanup so a throwing cleanup surfaces once and never re-runs. A
failed mount registers no cleanup. Each instance owns its own state, so
two mounts coexist. The loader never mutates the host's container — not
on success, failure, or unmount.
Tests prove all of it against real module URLs (`data:`, which both
browsers and Node import natively) rather than filesystem paths,
including one artifact built by the canonical Pass 2 pipeline and run
under both an Ekklesia-shaped and a standalone-shaped context. Core,
apps/api, and the contracts package are untouched; discovery remains
inert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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# Architecture decision records
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ADRs capture durable choices that affect more than one package or phase.
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- Filenames use a four-digit sequence followed by a short kebab-case title.
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- Status is `Proposed`, `Accepted`, `Superseded`, or `Rejected`.
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- Accepted ADRs are immutable except for status and cross-reference corrections.
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- A changed decision receives a new ADR that links to and supersedes the old one.
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## Index
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- [0001: Four-layer platform boundary](0001-four-layer-platform-boundary.md) — Accepted
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- [0002: pnpm workspace and strict TypeScript](0002-pnpm-workspace-and-typescript.md) — Accepted
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- [0003: Development infrastructure](0003-development-infrastructure.md) — Accepted
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- [0004: Replace unmaintained MinIO baseline](0004-replace-unmaintained-minio.md) — Accepted
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- [0005: Static module manifests and atomic discovery](0005-static-module-manifests.md) — Superseded
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- [0006: Versioned capabilities and compiled module runtime](0006-versioned-capabilities-and-compiled-module-runtime.md) — Accepted
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- [0007: Module-owned Drizzle schemas and table isolation](0007-module-owned-drizzle-schemas.md) — Accepted
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- [0008: Module-owned migration contracts and offline validation](0008-module-owned-migration-contracts.md) — Accepted
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- [0009: Transactional module migration execution](0009-transactional-module-migrations.md) — Accepted
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- [0010: Core identity architecture and Better Auth adoption](0010-core-identity-and-better-auth-adoption.md) — Accepted
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- [0011: Identity HTTP transport and public enrollment policy](0011-identity-http-transport-and-public-enrollment.md) — Accepted
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- [0012: Production-equivalent identity origin/CSRF protection under test](0012-identity-origin-csrf-protection-under-test.md) — Accepted
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- [0013: Core authorization, permission registry, and platform-owner bootstrap](0013-core-authorization-and-owner-bootstrap.md) — Accepted
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- [0014: Module permission declarations and platform permission registry](0014-module-permission-declarations-and-platform-registry.md) — Accepted
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- [0015: Static module HTTP routing and production runtime lifecycle](0015-static-module-http-routing-and-runtime-lifecycle.md) — Accepted
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- [0016: Module database access](0016-module-database-access.md) — Accepted
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- [0017: Public request perimeter hardening — client address, signup gating, body limits, timeouts](0017-public-request-perimeter-hardening.md) — Accepted
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- [0018: Identity session resolution, canonical public origins, and PostgreSQL transport policy](0018-identity-session-resolution-and-database-transport.md) — Accepted
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- [0019: Durable authorization history and grant management](0019-durable-authorization-history-and-grant-management.md) — Accepted
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- [0020: Module runtime and migration execution hardening](0020-module-runtime-and-migration-execution-hardening.md) — Accepted
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- [0021: Modules as independently hostable products](0021-modules-as-hostable-products.md) — Accepted
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- [0022: Module UI authoring model and host contract](0022-module-ui-authoring-and-host-contract.md) — Accepted
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- [0023: Module UI build pipeline](0023-module-ui-build-pipeline.md) — Accepted
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- [0024: Browser-safe module UI SDK and the generic host loader](0024-browser-safe-ui-sdk-and-host-loader.md) — Accepted
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