Phase 6C pass 2. Every link in the module UI chain existed except the one that closes it: a module could be authored, built, validated, published at a browser URL, and loaded by a generic loader — and nothing in Ekklesia did any of it. There was no browser application at all. Two pieces were missing. A browser could not discover what to mount, and it must not work that out for itself. GET /api/v1/module-ui is the inventory: per publishable module, its id and version, the server-produced artifact URL, the server-produced root of the module's own API, and the subset of that module's declared permissions the caller holds. Five fields, each because building a ModuleUiHostContext needs it — no filesystem paths, and no name/icon/folder/order, because navigation metadata is a design that does not exist yet. Its module set is the ADR 0025 publication registry rather than a rescan, so the inventory and the artifact route cannot disagree. It requires a new Core permission, core.modules.ui.read (baseline authenticated), because it is precisely the enumeration the anonymous artifact route deliberately withholds. Both URLs are server-produced. moduleUiArtifactUrl already existed; moduleApiBaseUrl is now exported and moduleRoutePath builds on it, so each URL shape has exactly one author. Without it the shell would hardcode /api/v1/modules/<id> — the prefix ADR 0022 forbids a module UI from spelling, reappearing in the host instead. surfaces/shell (@ekklesia/shell) is the repository's first surface: a small React application built to static files by its own esbuild script. It resolves the principal, fetches the inventory, builds the host context entirely from server-derived data, and hands the artifact URL to @ekklesia/module-ui-host. One frame per selection — keyed by module identity — defeats the stale-load race; the host owns the container, the loading state, and every failure, so a broken module costs its own panel rather than the shell. The shell statically imports no module, and both levels are checked: no source import may name a module, and the emitted bundle must contain exactly one dynamic import (the loader's) with no module id, no /api/v1/modules, no eval, and no blob URL. Permission hints come from Core's own evaluator and stay presentation-only — the end-to-end test has a UI holding no grant call its API anyway and still receive 403. Surfaces may now depend only on browser-safe shared roles; @ekklesia/contracts is deliberately excluded, since its barrel pulls Drizzle's types and Node's globals into the browser — the hole ADR 0024 closed one layer down. Not the Dashboard: no navigation, grouping, icons, ordering, design system, or routing. The selector is a list of module ids. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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Contributing
Ekklesia is being built in verified, reviewable phases. Changes should preserve the dependency boundaries described in repository-boundaries.md.
Before opening a change, run:
pnpm verify
Migration-runner changes also require the disposable live PostgreSQL suite:
pnpm test:migrations:integration
See the testing guide for the distinction between unit and live evidence and for credential-safe troubleshooting.
When adding or changing a module manifest, also run pnpm modules:validate directly for focused,
path-aware discovery errors. It is included in pnpm verify.
If Docker is available, also validate the development infrastructure:
pnpm infrastructure:config
Package rules
- Use strict TypeScript for production packages.
- Expose supported entry points through package
exports; do not import another package's private source paths. - Use
workspace:ranges for internal package dependencies. - Modules own their own UI and author it in React and TypeScript (ADR 0022). A module package may
contain
.tsxand depend onreact,react-dom, and@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk. Every other UI framework,.jsx, stylesheets, and other presentation formats remain rejected bypnpm boundaries. UI source lives atsrc/ui/index.tsxandpnpm buildcompiles it to the artifact the manifest declares, via@ekklesia/module-ui-build(ADR 0023) — module authors write no bundler configuration. Styling is React inline style objects only for now, and no host mounts a UI entrypoint yet. - Module UI reaches its host only through
@ekklesia/module-ui-sdk— never@ekklesia/module-ui-host, which is the host-side loader — and asks the host for its own API by relative path — never by constructing/api/v1/modules/<id>/..., which is Ekklesia's private deployment detail and would break standalone hosting. - The containing application shell, navigation, global theme, and platform policy belong to Core and
the host application, never to a module. Ekklesia's own shell is
surfaces/shell; it discovers installed module UIs throughGET /api/v1/module-uiand mounts them with@ekklesia/module-ui-host, and it statically imports no module (ADR 0026). - A surface is browser code. It may depend on browser-safe shared roles only — never
@ekklesia/contractsor@ekklesia/module-sdk, whose type graphs pull Node's globals into the browser — and it reaches the server over HTTP. - Add or update tests when changing a contract or architectural rule.
- Record major architectural changes in an ADR rather than burying them in an implementation.
Runtime registries and aggregate schemas will be produced by later phases. Do not add a manually
maintained feature-module registry; discovery starts from validated ekklesia.module.json files.