Ekklesia had no notion of a module being on or off: the accepted module set was exactly "whatever discovery found on disk", and `ModuleLifecycleStage` named nine states nothing produced or consumed. This replaces that vocabulary with two axes that real code produces — persistent, administrator-owned configuration (`enabled`/`disabled`) and per-boot runtime observation (`running`/`disabled`/`blocked`) — and wires them through startup. - One Core table (`ekklesia_core_module_state`, migration 0004) holding only `module_id` and `enabled`. A module with no record is enabled by default, so deploying a module is still sufficient to run it and discovery never needs an initialization write. A record for an undeployed module is retained and ignored, so redeploying restores the decision. - `resolveModuleEligibility` is pure: a disabled module transitively blocks every module that *requires* it (module and capability edges alike) with a structured reason naming the provider; optional dependencies never block; and a missing, incompatible, or cyclic dependency stays discovery's concern. - `startApi` starts only the eligible set and builds the UI publication registry from that same list, so routes, artifacts, browser inventory, and Dashboard navigation all follow one authoritative set. A disabled module is never imported, so there is no per-request enablement check anywhere. - Startup stays all-or-nothing, deliberately; there is consequently no `failed` runtime state. `pnpm modules:enable`/`modules:disable` is the out-of-band recovery path for a module that breaks startup. - Changes take effect at the next start, and the read model reports configuration, runtime, and `restartRequired` separately rather than claiming a module stopped when it has not. - Migration participation and permission composition still span the deployed and discovered inventories respectively, unchanged. - New restricted platform permission `core.modules.lifecycle.manage` gates both reading and changing enablement, at a sibling prefix (`/api/v1/module-lifecycle`) that cannot collide with the module route namespace. - `pnpm doctor` gains a `modules.lifecycle` check so "why is this module unavailable?" is answerable without reading logs. See ADR 0028. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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, orRejected. - 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 — Accepted
- 0002: pnpm workspace and strict TypeScript — Accepted
- 0003: Development infrastructure — Accepted
- 0004: Replace unmaintained MinIO baseline — Accepted
- 0005: Static module manifests and atomic discovery — Superseded
- 0006: Versioned capabilities and compiled module runtime — Accepted
- 0007: Module-owned Drizzle schemas and table isolation — Accepted
- 0008: Module-owned migration contracts and offline validation — Accepted
- 0009: Transactional module migration execution — Accepted
- 0010: Core identity architecture and Better Auth adoption — Accepted
- 0011: Identity HTTP transport and public enrollment policy — Accepted
- 0012: Production-equivalent identity origin/CSRF protection under test — Accepted
- 0013: Core authorization, permission registry, and platform-owner bootstrap — Accepted
- 0014: Module permission declarations and platform permission registry — Accepted
- 0015: Static module HTTP routing and production runtime lifecycle — Accepted
- 0016: Module database access — Accepted
- 0017: Public request perimeter hardening — client address, signup gating, body limits, timeouts — Accepted
- 0018: Identity session resolution, canonical public origins, and PostgreSQL transport policy — Accepted
- 0019: Durable authorization history and grant management — Accepted
- 0020: Module runtime and migration execution hardening — Accepted
- 0021: Modules as independently hostable products — Accepted
- 0022: Module UI authoring model and host contract — Accepted
- 0023: Module UI build pipeline — Accepted
- 0024: Browser-safe module UI SDK and the generic host loader — Accepted
- 0025: Trusted module UI asset publication — Accepted
- 0026: The minimal Ekklesia module UI host — Accepted
- 0027: Dashboard navigation is presentation configuration, and modules stay flat — Accepted
- 0028: Module operational lifecycle — enablement, eligibility, and what "running" means — Accepted