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feat: add Dashboard navigation as presentation configuration
Phase 6D pass 1. The shell's navigation was a flat list of module ids, which
is not a usable experience — and the obvious fix carries an obvious trap.
Letting a module declare its folder, or modelling "Media" as something
Livestream and Video belong to, turns a rendering preference into
architecture: a folder becomes an owner, membership starts to look like a
dependency, and the flat module graph acquires a hierarchy nobody decided on.

So the rule comes first: a Dashboard group is a label on a rendering bucket.
No manifest, no version, no artifact, no API, no lifecycle; nothing depends on
it. Livestream depends on Video because it calls Video's functionality, and
that orders startup. Livestream is shown under Media, and that orders nothing.
No parent module, child module, owning module, or group-derived dependency
appears anywhere in the contracts.

No manifest change and no version 5. `manifest.name` has been required since
version 1 and already is the module's product identity, so the shell renders
"Livestream" instead of `livestream` with nothing added. `suggestedGroup` is
deliberately deferred rather than shipped: it would force a hard
manifest-version cutover for a hint, and its only correct semantics needs
initialization logic that risks a suggestion overwriting an administrator's
decision. Defaulting and ownership are different things.

Two Core tables (migration 0003) hold groups and placements — server-side,
because a church configures its Dashboard rather than one browser;
platform-global, because no organization model exists to scope them to.
`group_id` is `on delete set null`, so deleting a group ungroups its modules
and a dangling reference is impossible. `module_id` carries no foreign key,
because modules are packages rather than rows, so a placement for an
uninstalled module is retained and restores its position on reinstall.

`resolveDashboardNavigation` is a pure function of configuration plus the
mountable set: an unplaced module is ungrouped and visible with no
initialization write, an absent module renders nothing, empty groups are kept,
and ordering is total with the module id as final tie-break.

`GET /api/v1/dashboard/navigation` returns the resolved view, layered on top of
the host-neutral module UI inventory rather than merged into it — each generic
descriptor is embedded untouched, so a standalone host never inherits Dashboard
semantics. Reading needs the permission the inventory already needs; organizing
needs the new platform permission `core.dashboard.navigation.manage` through a
narrow, idempotent, closed-validation mutation contract. No editor UI.

The flatness rule is executable: a test discovers real fixtures with a genuine
dependency, arranges them four ways including both in one folder and the
dependency inverted in presentation, and asserts discovery order, dependency
declarations, and the module set stay byte-identical. The end-to-end test
organizes a real installation through the real API, mounts a module from inside
a group, moves it, and asserts the navigation entry is byte-identical across the
move and still mounts the same artifact.

The shell's client for the generic inventory became dead code and was removed
rather than kept speculatively; the endpoint itself is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-22 12:44:40 -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