Merge branch 'main' into renovate/renovate-renovate-44.x

Release-Bump: minor

.dockerignore

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 .git
+# Load-bearing both ways: a stray copy would bake in at /app/node_modules and shadow /node_modules,
+# and matching only the root one is what lets a baked plugin keep its own deps. Never `**/node_modules`.
 node_modules
 npm-debug.log
 *.log
 .DS_Store
-html-css-foundation
 
-e2e/artifacts
+# A plugin's .npmrc is where a private-registry token would sit — never in a shipped image.
+plugins/**/.npmrc
+
+e2e-tests/artifacts
+# Orchestration, not test code — keep them out of the runner image (COPY e2e-tests/ ./)
+e2e-tests/Dockerfile
+e2e-tests/compose.*.yml

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+name: CI
+on:
+  push:
+    branches-ignore: [main]
+
+jobs:
+  full-gate:
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0 # ci.sh's docs-only check needs history; checkout defaults to depth 1
+      - run: bash ci.sh
+      - name: Push app image tagged with the commit hash
+        env:
+          IMAGE: gitea.larvit.se/${{ github.repository }}:${{ github.sha }}
+          REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+          REGISTRY_USER: ${{ vars.DOCKER_REGISTRY_USER }}
+        run: |
+          printf '%s' "$REGISTRY_TOKEN" | docker login gitea.larvit.se -u "$REGISTRY_USER" --password-stdin
+          docker build -t "$IMAGE" .
+          docker push "$IMAGE"
+      - name: Log out of the registry
+        if: always()
+        run: docker logout gitea.larvit.se

.gitea/workflows/mirror.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name: Mirror
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    tags: ['**']
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  github-mirror:
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-tags: true # load-bearing for --prune below: no local tags would delete every remote one
+      # --prune so a tag deleted here doesn't live on at GitHub forever. It only removes refs a
+      # refspec DESTINATION matches — so tags; main is a non-glob dst, other branches match nothing.
+      - run: |
+          git push --force --prune \
+            "https://x-access-token:${{ secrets.MIRROR_GITHUB_TOKEN }}@github.com/larvit/plainpages.git" \
+            refs/remotes/origin/main:refs/heads/main 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

.gitea/workflows/registry-cleanup.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: Registry cleanup
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '43 3 * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  prune-stale-images:
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+      - name: Delete hash images that are neither release-tagged nor a branch head
+        env:
+          REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+          REGISTRY_USER: ${{ vars.DOCKER_REGISTRY_USER }}
+          REPO_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          SERVER_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo \
+            -e REGISTRY_TOKEN -e REGISTRY_USER -e REPO_TOKEN -e REPOSITORY -e SERVER_URL \
+            node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 node registry-cleanup/cleanup.ts

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+name: Release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ['v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+']
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      overview_version:
+        description: 'Released version to republish the overview for, without the leading v (e.g. 0.1.0)'
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  retag-image:
+    if: github.event_name == 'push'
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+      # Before anything is published: the contract version IS the release version, so a tag that
+      # disagrees would ship a host misreporting itself to every plugin's compatibility check.
+      - name: Refuse a tag that disagrees with HOST_API_VERSION
+        env:
+          GIT_TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 \
+            node release-tooling/contract-version.ts "$GIT_TAG" src/plugin-host/plugin.ts
+      - name: Promote the commit-hash image to semver + latest
+        env:
+          GIT_TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
+          REGISTRY_USER: ${{ vars.DOCKER_REGISTRY_USER }}
+          REPO: gitea.larvit.se/${{ github.repository }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          COMMIT=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{commit}')
+          VERSION=${GIT_TAG#v}
+          printf '%s' "$REGISTRY_TOKEN" | docker login gitea.larvit.se -u "$REGISTRY_USER" --password-stdin
+          docker pull "$REPO:$COMMIT" \
+            || { echo "No image $REPO:$COMMIT - release tags must point at a commit whose branch passed the CI gate"; exit 1; }
+          # No bare-major tag while major is 0: a 0.x minor is a contract break, so `:0` would move
+          # across one and abort boot for everything tracking it. `:0.1` only moves across patches.
+          TAGS="$VERSION ${VERSION%.*} latest"
+          if [ "${VERSION%%.*}" != "0" ]; then TAGS="$TAGS ${VERSION%%.*}"; fi
+          for TAG in $TAGS; do
+            docker tag "$REPO:$COMMIT" "$REPO:$TAG"
+            docker push "$REPO:$TAG"
+          done
+      - name: Sync the release tags to Docker Hub
+        env:
+          DOCKERHUB_IMAGE: docker.io/${{ github.repository }}
+          DOCKERHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+          DOCKERHUB_USER: ${{ vars.DOCKERHUB_USER }}
+          GIT_TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          REPO: gitea.larvit.se/${{ github.repository }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          COMMIT=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{commit}')
+          VERSION=${GIT_TAG#v}
+          [ -n "$DOCKERHUB_USER" ] && [ -n "$DOCKERHUB_TOKEN" ] \
+            || { echo "Set the DOCKERHUB_USER variable + DOCKERHUB_TOKEN secret (README -> CI/CD)"; exit 1; }
+          printf '%s' "$DOCKERHUB_TOKEN" | docker login docker.io -u "$DOCKERHUB_USER" --password-stdin
+          TAGS="$VERSION ${VERSION%.*} latest"
+          if [ "${VERSION%%.*}" != "0" ]; then TAGS="$TAGS ${VERSION%%.*}"; fi
+          for TAG in $TAGS; do
+            docker tag "$REPO:$COMMIT" "$DOCKERHUB_IMAGE:$TAG"
+            docker push "$DOCKERHUB_IMAGE:$TAG"
+          done
+      - name: Log out of the registries
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          # Cleanup, and the runner's Docker config is shared (AGENTS.md) — a lost race here must not
+          # fail a release that published, nor skip the overview job that follows.
+          docker logout gitea.larvit.se || true
+          docker logout docker.io || true
+
+  publish-overview:
+    if: always() && (github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || needs.retag-image.result == 'success')
+    needs: [retag-image]
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        if: github.event_name == 'push'
+      # Publish the named release's own tree, so the page never pairs one Plainpages tag with another
+      # release's sidecar pins. A version that was never released fails here.
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+        with:
+          ref: refs/tags/v${{ inputs.overview_version }}
+      - name: Publish the Docker Hub overview
+        env:
+          DOCKERHUB_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          DOCKERHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+          DOCKERHUB_USER: ${{ vars.DOCKERHUB_USER }}
+          GIT_TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+          INPUT_VERSION: ${{ inputs.overview_version }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          VERSION=${INPUT_VERSION:-${GIT_TAG#v}}
+          VERSION=${VERSION#v}
+          # An empty dispatch input falls back to the branch name, so gate this like a tag.
+          docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 \
+            node release-tooling/contract-version.ts "$VERSION" src/plugin-host/plugin.ts
+          docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo \
+            -e DOCKERHUB_REPO -e DOCKERHUB_TOKEN -e DOCKERHUB_USER \
+            node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 \
+            node release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.ts "$VERSION"

.gitea/workflows/renovate.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+name: Renovate
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '17 4 * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  renovate:
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - name: Run Renovate against this repo
+        env:
+          GITHUB_COM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          RENOVATE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm \
+            -e GITHUB_COM_TOKEN \
+            -e LOG_LEVEL=info \
+            -e RENOVATE_ENDPOINT=https://gitea.larvit.se/api/v1 \
+            -e RENOVATE_GIT_AUTHOR="Renovate Bot <renovate@larvit.se>" \
+            -e RENOVATE_PLATFORM=gitea \
+            -e RENOVATE_REPOSITORIES=${{ github.repository }} \
+            -e RENOVATE_TOKEN \
+            renovate/renovate:44.41.1
+
+  # After the renovate job, cut ONE tag covering the renovate-bot commits merged to main since the
+  # last tag (batch per run). Targets origin/main — the real post-merge tip; the checkout SHA is the
+  # trigger-time tip and lags the merges this run made. Skips when main's tip isn't a Renovate commit
+  # (a human owns that release), nothing new merged, or nothing that merged carried a `Release-Bump:`
+  # trailer — a release nobody can observe is noise. ff-only merges keep the renovate commit's
+  # authorship on the tip, so the author checks are reliable. Level = highest `Release-Bump:` trailer;
+  # pre-1.0 shifts down (release-tooling/next-version.ts). Tag-only — release.yml promotes the
+  # already-built image; pushed with renovate-bot's PAT so release.yml fires (the built-in token won't).
+  auto-release:
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    needs: renovate
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Tag a release for what Renovate merged
+        env:
+          RENOVATE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          git fetch --force --quiet origin '+refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main' '+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
+          if [ "$(git log -1 --format='%ae' origin/main)" != "renovate@larvit.se" ]; then
+            echo "main tip not authored by Renovate — a human owns this release; skipping"; exit 0
+          fi
+          LATEST=$(git tag -l 'v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*' --sort=-v:refname | head -n1)
+          LATEST=${LATEST:-v0.0.0}
+          if [ -z "$(git log "${LATEST}..origin/main" --author='renovate@larvit.se' --format='%H')" ]; then
+            echo "No untagged renovate commits since ${LATEST} — nothing to release"; exit 0
+          fi
+          BUMPS=$(git log "${LATEST}..origin/main" --author='renovate@larvit.se' \
+                  --format='%(trailers:key=Release-Bump,valueonly)' | { grep -vx '' || true; })
+          if [ -z "$BUMPS" ]; then
+            echo "Renovate commits since ${LATEST}, but none carry Release-Bump — nothing reached a running Plainpages; skipping"; exit 0
+          fi
+          NEXT=$(docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 \
+                 node release-tooling/next-version.ts "$LATEST" $BUMPS)
+          # Read the constant off origin/main, not the checkout, which lags the merges this run made.
+          git show origin/main:src/plugin-host/plugin.ts \
+            | docker run -i --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.19.0-alpine3.24 \
+                     node release-tooling/contract-version.ts "$NEXT" -
+          echo "Releasing $LATEST -> $NEXT"
+          git tag "$NEXT" origin/main
+          git push "https://renovate-bot:${RENOVATE_TOKEN}@gitea.larvit.se/${REPO}.git" "$NEXT"

.gitignore

@@ -3,5 +3,19 @@
 *.log
 node_modules
 
-# Playwright E2E outputs (screenshots, html report, traces)
-e2e/artifacts/
+# Playwright E2E outputs (screenshots, html report, traces). The dir itself is tracked: an absent
+# bind-mount source is created by the daemon as root, which the unprivileged runner cannot write.
+/e2e-tests/artifacts/*
+!/e2e-tests/artifacts/.gitkeep
+
+# plugins/ is a drop-in mount point, not committed code — keep it empty (see examples/plugins/ for the reference)
+/plugins/*
+!/plugins/.gitkeep
+
+# config/ is a drop-in mount point for your menu/branding override — keep it empty (see examples/config/ for the template)
+/config/*
+!/config/.gitkeep
+
+# locales/ is a drop-in mount point for extra (or replacement) language catalogs — keep it empty
+/locales/*
+!/locales/.gitkeep

AGENTS.md

@@ -3,34 +3,317 @@
 Guidance for AI agents and contributors working in this repo. Read `README.md` for
 commands and layout.
 
+## Prose discipline
+
+Every word in this repo is read again on every future task, so prose is a recurring cost. On **any**
+change, sweep the prose you touched — this file, `README.md`, the example READMEs, and code
+comments — and cut it back to what a competent reader could not infer:
+
+- **Delete history.** Git holds it. No "this moved from X", "used to be Y", "was tried and
+  rejected", "(declined twice)", dated changelog entries, or the symptom that prompted a fix. Record
+  the decision and the reason it *currently* turns on, nothing else.
+- **Delete restatement.** A comment that says what the adjacent line says, a doc paragraph that
+  re-explains a table above it, a file-map entry that expands the filename. The fix is deletion,
+  not trimming.
+- **Delete the self-evident** and anything already stated once elsewhere. **One home per fact** —
+  link to it instead of repeating it; the same sentence in five files is five chances to drift.
+- **Give every accepted risk an expiry** ("valid while X"), and delete the entry once X stops
+  holding.
+- **Keep** the surprising why, the footgun, the invariant, the external constraint, and the one-time
+  setup a reader cannot dig out of the code. Once a line has earned its place, make it short and
+  information-dense.
+
+Trimming is not a separate task to schedule — do it in the same change, every time.
+
+## How to work with tasks
+
+Use the file `todo.md`.
+
+For each todo item, interview the user extensively to deeply understand the scope and goal of
+each. When done, check the completed task in `todo.md`. Commit all changes and push to a new
+branch, create a PR and merge it when the CI/CD turns green.
+
 ## Project priorities (do not erode)
 
-1. **Simplicity** — prefer the smallest, most readable solution.
-2. **Few dependencies** — runtime deps stay minimal (today `ejs`, `lucide-static`,
-   `@larvit/log` — the last itself zero-dependency, for structured/OTLP logging).
-   Prefer the Node standard library; justify any new dependency; do not add
-   frameworks. The app is
-   **stateless — no database**. Auth/identity/OAuth are **Ory sidecar services**
-   (Kratos/Keto/Hydra, backed by Postgres), reached over their REST APIs with
-   built-in `fetch` — no SDK dependency. New capabilities ship as **plugin
-   folders** under `plugins/` that fetch their data from upstream services, not as
-   core code. See `README.md` for the architecture.
+1. **Simplicity** — prefer the solution that is easiest to understand, smallest, and most readable.
+2. **Few dependencies** — runtime deps stay minimal (today `ejs`, `lucide-static`, `@larvit/log`,
+   `postgres`). Prefer the Node standard library; justify any new dependency; do not add frameworks.
+   The **host is stateless — it owns no schema and stores nothing of its own**; a plugin may own a
+   Postgres database, which the host provisions but never reads or writes inside. Auth/identity/OAuth are
+   **Ory sidecar services** reached over their REST APIs with built-in `fetch` — no SDK. New
+   capabilities ship as **plugin folders** under `plugins/` that get their data from an upstream
+   service or their own database, not as core code.
 3. **Strict TypeScript** — `tsconfig.json` is strict (incl. `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`,
-   `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `verbatimModuleSyntax`). Keep it that way.
-4. **Environment-agnostic** — the app never asks *which environment* it runs in; there is
-   no `NODE_ENV` (or equivalent) branching. Every behaviour is an **explicit config
-   toggle** (e.g. `CACHE_TEMPLATES`, `REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS`, a future "disable email"),
-   read once in `src/config.ts`. Compose files set the toggles per deployment.
-5. **Semantic, accessible DOM** — markup is a first-class concern. Use the right element
-   for the job (landmarks, one `<h1>` per page + sane heading order, lists, `<table>` with
-   row/column headers, `<fieldset>`/`<legend>`, `<button>` vs `<a>`); add ARIA only to fill
-   real gaps (`aria-current`, `aria-sort`, labels). Classes/ids name *meaning*, not looks.
-   Prefer native semantics over `div` + ARIA. New views and partials keep this bar.
-6. **Full, parallel E2E** — every user-facing flow (each page, form, guard, plugin route)
-   has a Playwright E2E test, and a new surface ships *with* its E2E in the same change.
-   Tests stay independent and side-effect-free so the suite runs `fullyParallel` — keep it
-   that way as it grows (never serialise on shared state); parallelism is what keeps it
-   fast. E2E runs in Docker against the live stack — see `README.md`.
+   `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `verbatimModuleSyntax`). Keep it that way. Prefer exact types;
+   limit nullable and multi-option types.
+4. **Environment-agnostic** — no `NODE_ENV` branching. Every behaviour is an **explicit config
+   toggle** read once in `src/config.ts`; compose files set them per deployment.
+5. **Semantic, accessible DOM** — the right element for the job (landmarks, one `<h1>` per page +
+   sane heading order, lists, `<table>` with row/column headers, `<fieldset>`/`<legend>`, `<button>`
+   vs `<a>`); ARIA only to fill real gaps. Classes/ids name *meaning*, not looks.
+6. **Full, parallel E2E** — every user-facing flow has a Playwright test, shipped in the same change
+   as the surface. Tests stay independent and side-effect-free so the suite runs `fullyParallel`.
+7. **Powerful, fail-loud plugins** — the plugin API is the product's main surface and the only way to
+   add domain features. It optimises for being powerful, predictable and overloadable, and the host
+   **fails loud at boot/discovery** rather than sandboxing at runtime. Runtime crash-isolation is a
+   deliberate **non-goal**.
+
+## Deliberate architectural deviations (don't re-flag)
+
+Intentional, reasoned choices — an architecture review should honor them, not re-raise them.
+Revisit only if the stated reason stops holding.
+
+### Structure & contracts
+
+- **`src/` is grouped by concern**, not flat — `http/`, `auth/`, `i18n/`, `plugin-host/`, `ui/`,
+  with `server.ts`/`config.ts`/`logger.ts` and the topology-guard `*.test.ts` at the root; tests are
+  co-located. Add a new module to the folder owning its concern. The core ships **no domain
+  screens** — even the admin GUI is a drop-in plugin (`examples/plugins/admin/`).
+- **Plugins and config import the host only through a barrel** — `@plainpages/plugin-api` →
+  `plugin-api/index.ts` → `src/plugin-host/plugin-api.ts`, `#menu-config` → `src/ui/menu-config.ts`,
+  never a relative `../../src/*` path. These two barrels are the whole contract surface; don't "fix"
+  either back to a relative path. Three consequences:
+  - `@plainpages/plugin-api` re-exports the Ory client types (`KratosAdmin`/`KetoClient`/`HydraAdmin` + their
+    DTOs and error classes), so those shapes are **contract-visible** — changing them needs a major
+    `apiVersion` bump, not a free refactor.
+  - **The barrel is a package, not a `#`-import, so a plugin folder may carry its own
+    `package.json`** and depend on npm packages (README → Plugin dependencies). The Dockerfile links
+    it into `/node_modules`, above every plugin scope. Never let a copy reach a plugin's own
+    `node_modules`: two instances of the barrel break `instanceof` across the boundary, which
+    `plugin-api.test.ts` guards by asserting both paths reach one module.
+  - **Plugin storage hands over credentials, not a client** (README → Plugin storage). The host takes
+  `postgres` to run the provisioning DDL, and `storage-provisioning.ts` is the only module importing
+  it — `storage.ts` beside it stays pure so `web` never loads a driver (`src/postgres.test.ts` guards
+  both halves, because one value imported from the wrong module breaks it invisibly). It is never
+  re-exported through the barrel, so no driver shape enters the contract. Three properties hold the design together, so
+  don't trade one away in isolation: passwords are `HMAC-SHA256(PLUGIN_DB_SECRET, id)` rather than
+  stored, which is what keeps the host stateless — whoever holds that secret holds every plugin
+  database, so it ranks with the DB password itself; the provisioning DSN reaches `bootstrap` only
+  (`src/compose.test.ts` guards the split); and provisioning never drops anything, so uninstalling a
+  plugin cannot destroy data — boot logs the orphans instead. Because the host's copy sits in the
+  ambient `/node_modules`, a plugin can `import "postgres"` without declaring it — incidental, not a
+  packaging promise, and a plugin must still depend on its own driver.
+  - **Plugin settings are declared, not discovered** (README → Plugin settings). `settings.ts` is pure and
+  takes the env as an argument, so the whole matrix unit-tests without a stack. Four rules carry the
+  design: the prefix is `PLUGIN_SETTING_`, never bare `PLUGIN_`, because a plugin id `db` with key
+  `url` would otherwise name the host's own `PLUGIN_DB_URL`; keys are camelCase so the
+  `camelCase → SNAKE_CASE` mapping is total and no two keys collide, with the residual cross-plugin
+  collision caught by `findConflicts`; `required` and `default` are mutually exclusive, which is what
+  lets `SettingsOf` type a declared key as present rather than `T | undefined`, so no plugin author
+  casts; and a secret's value reaches the plugin but never a log, an error or `ctx.declaredSettings`
+  — not even as a mask or a length. An author mistake is refused at discovery, a bad operator value
+  refuses the boot, and a stray `PLUGIN_SETTING_` variable only warns (the orphan-database precedent).
+- **The trust boundary is the `web` process, not the plugin.** Per-plugin databases and roles bound
+  *accidents*, not hostile plugins: `PLUGIN_DB_SECRET` is in `web`'s environment during `onBoot`, and
+  a plugin already holds `ctx.system`'s Ory admin clients — so cross-plugin DB isolation is
+  containment, and README says so rather than implying a sandbox. Consistent with priority #7
+  (crash-isolation is a non-goal). `server.ts` still deletes the secret from `process.env` right
+  after `loadConfig`, which is before discovery imports any plugin module — the ordering is the whole
+  point, so move it earlier if anything, **never later**. **Valid while plugins are
+  operator-installed code, not third-party uploads.**
+- **`ory/postgres/init/init.sql` is the only home for the Ory databases' ACL** — don't re-assert the
+  `REVOKE CONNECT` from `bootstrap`. `REVOKE` only *warns* when the caller doesn't own the database,
+  so under the least-privilege provisioning account the README recommends it would report success
+  while changing nothing, and it hard-fails whenever `PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL` names a server with no
+  `kratos`. It runs only on **first init**, so a revoke added to it later never reaches a volume that
+  already exists — `docker compose down -v` is the dev remedy, a deployed install needs a migration.
+- **`bootstrap.ts` stays under `src/auth/`** even though it now provisions plugin databases as well
+  as seeding Ory. It is the one-shot service's entrypoint, not an auth module; moving it to
+  `src/bootstrap.ts` would edit `compose.yml`, five e2e compose files and `src/compose.test.ts` for a
+  rename. Reconsider when a third seeding concern lands.
+- **`BootContext.storage` keeps all six credential fields, and there is no `onShutdown` hook.** Adding
+  to the context costs a minor bump and removing one a major, so the shape errs small elsewhere. Pools
+  handed to a plugin are reaped on process exit — revisit if a plugin ever needs an orderly drain.
+- **`config/` is still a plain dir — no `package.json` of its own**, or `#menu-config` resolves
+    against that instead and boot fails loud. An operator's menu override has no use for
+    dependencies; if that changes, it needs the same package treatment.
+- **A plugin `package.json` without `"type": "module"` is refused, not warned.** Allowing it costs a
+  warning and a re-parse per file, not a break — Node detects module syntax, so even a `.js` helper
+  loads — and an operator on a read-only third-party mount cannot apply the remedy. Refused anyway
+  because the direction is safe: refuse→warn relaxes freely, warn→refuse breaks installed plugins.
+  **Valid while nothing is installed in the wild.**
+- **`examples/` mirrors the drop-in mount dirs** — `examples/plugins/<id>/` copies to
+  `plugins/<id>/`, `examples/config/menu.ts` to `config/menu.ts`. Both mirrors are in
+  `tsconfig.include` and resolve the host through the barrels, so each typechecks in place *and*
+  copies across unchanged. Never commit real plugins/config into the root mount dirs — they ship empty.
+- **`ctx.chrome` is lazily memoized — do not make it unconditional** or move it into the base request
+  context. It protects the I/O-free hot path on the public, bot-hit landing (`/`).
+- **A plugin-owned render always runs on that plugin's context.** The landing slots (`home`,
+  `dashboard`) and an `onRequest` short-circuit build their context with `contextFor(pluginId)`
+  exactly as a plugin route does — otherwise `ctx.t` is the core translator and the plugin's own keys
+  render as bare keys on the pages it owns.
+- **Email is delegated to Kratos** (it renders + sends recovery/verification mail); `web` never
+  touches SMTP. Customization is Kratos' `courier.template_override_path`, not app code.
+
+### Authorization
+
+- **Vocabulary: `User` → `Group` → `Permission`, and there is no `Role`.** Keto ships no namespaces —
+  all four in `ory/keto/namespaces.keto.ts` are ours. A permission is one operation ("read shifts");
+  a role is a *bundle*, which here is just a group with several grants (groups nest). Ory's own
+  "permission" (the `Resource` `permits`: view/edit/delete) is the separate per-row tier.
+- **A permission name is always `<resource>:<action>`** — `scheduling:read`, `users:write`. A bare
+  word names *who someone is* (a role), and roles are groups here. **Enforced at discovery**
+  (`isValidPermissionName` in `plugin-host/plugin.ts`, checked by `shapeError` over every route/nav
+  `permission` and every declared name), fail-loud like any other manifest rule — not only in the
+  admin GUI, which an operator removes by not copying it in.
+  - **Names are authored in plugin code; only grants live in Keto.** The host collects every installed
+    plugin's declarations into one catalog (`declaredPermissions` → `ctx.declaredPermissions`), and
+    that catalog *is* the list the admin screens offer. Hence **no Permissions admin screen**: nothing
+    in a GUI invents a name, and holding one is a property of a user or group, edited as a checkbox
+    list there. A Keto tuple naming something no installed plugin declares gates nothing, is not
+    offered, and is never revoked by an unrelated save — the picker only speaks for what it showed.
+  - `<resource>` is **global, not plugin-scoped** (hence `oauth2-clients`, not `clients`): users are
+    the *host's*, and cross-plugin sharing is a goal. Cost: collision-freedom is a convention rather
+    than structural. Accepted — the alternative penalizes the sharing case.
+  - **Declaring a permission stays optional.** Mandatory declaration would let `findConflicts` see all
+    overlaps, but would then warn on exactly that legitimate sharing case. Shape is enforced;
+    declaration is not.
+  - `ADMIN_PERMISSIONS` **defaults to empty**, and **an unusable value is dropped with a warning,
+    never fatal** — fail-loud belongs at the manifest boundary where a developer authored the
+    mistake, whereas `bootstrap` gates `web`, so refusing operator env takes the whole stack down
+    (`e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml` seeds a bad value to prove the container survives one). The seed is
+    a function of what `bootstrap` discovers, so a plugin dropped in after first boot needs
+    `docker compose up -d`, not `restart web`. `bootstrap`'s matching `./plugins` mount belongs in
+    `compose.override.yml` and nowhere else: in the base file it would desynchronise prod and collide
+    with the e2e stacks, which bind individual plugins *inside* `/app/plugins` (a nested mount into a
+    read-only parent is EROFS and the container never starts). Valid while bootstrap is the only
+    writer of grants.
+  - **`actionForMethod` is plugin-local and must not migrate into `@plainpages/plugin-api`.** Inside the admin
+    example it keeps the route table and the in-handler guard deriving from one function, so 29 routes
+    × 2 gate sites cannot drift. Generalised, it would make authorization a function of the transport
+    verb — a route table must answer "what does this need?" on its own.
+- **A `:read`-only holder must never be shown a write affordance.** The list/detail models carry
+  `canWrite` and the views drop create/save/delete/add/remove; the permission picker still renders,
+  disabled, because *seeing* who holds what is the point of `:read`. A **write-intent GET** (a create
+  form, a delete-confirm page) is the exception to `actionForMethod` and gates on `:write`. Two
+  grant-specific guards go with it: you cannot revoke your own **direct** grants (self-lockout would
+  need a `curl` against Keto to undo), and a permission held *through a group* renders
+  ticked-but-disabled, because unticked stated the opposite of the truth. **Known gap:** the group
+  paths are unguarded — unticking a permission on a group you belong to, leaving it, or deleting it
+  can still strip your own access. The robust "last effective holder" check needs a reverse Keto
+  query and is deferred.
+- **`users:write` and `groups:write` are equivalent to full administrative access**: `groups:write`
+  adds you to any group, including one holding every permission; `users:write` mints a recovery code
+  for any account. The containment the split buys is real on the **read** half only (`users:read` is
+  a safe helpdesk grant). Don't let the per-resource naming imply otherwise in docs.
+- **Plainpages says "user" everywhere; Ory's word is "identity".** House style, not a renamed
+  concept. The single exception is the `Identity` DTO in `src/auth/kratos-admin.ts`, which mirrors
+  Kratos' wire shape — don't rename it.
+
+### i18n
+
+- **The locale lives in the URL, never in a cookie.** `?locale=sv-SE` → `Accept-Language` → `en-US`,
+  and when the URL asked for one the host carries it onto the links it renders. A cookie would make a
+  page's language invisible in its address and unshareable; the cost is that a plugin wraps its own
+  hrefs. Matching is exact on a full tag (`sv-FI` ≠ `sv-SE`), except that a lone language from
+  `Accept-Language` takes the first regional catalog for it.
+- **The core building blocks carry the locale; a plugin doesn't have to.** The shell, `pagination`,
+  `filter-bar`, `data-table`, `auth-card`, `flow-body`, `field` and `menu` wrap every href in
+  `localeHref`; nav and sign-in are wrapped in `chrome.ts`; the two GET forms carry it as a hidden
+  `locale` input, since a GET submit replaces the whole query string. **A form's `action` counts as a
+  link** — sign-out, consent and auth-card forms carry it too, or picking a language and then saving
+  anything drops back to `Accept-Language`. The obligation stays on the building block, never on each
+  call site. `ctx.localeHref` remains for hrefs a plugin's own markup emits. The one round-trip that
+  cannot carry it is the Kratos sign-in POST (absolute off-site URL).
+- **`locale` is a host-owned query param** — in `parseListQuery`'s reserved set, so a localized list
+  page doesn't hand a plugin a phantom `locale` filter. The i18n view locals (`t`, `locale`, `locales`,
+  `localeHref`, `localeParam`, `localeSwitch`, `dir`) are likewise reserved, merged after a handler's
+  `data` so a collision loses the key instead of breaking the shell.
+- **Catalogs are checked at boot, not at render.** Every locale is compared against its set's `en-US`
+  — keys, string-vs-plural kind, and the plural categories `Intl.PluralRules` requires — and a
+  mismatch stops startup. A plugin may ship fewer locales than the host (its strings fall back to
+  `en-US` per key), never one the host lacks.
+- **`locales/` at the repo root is a drop-in mount**, like `plugins/` and `config/` — `locales/<tag>.ts`
+  for the core, `locales/plugins/<id>/<tag>.ts` for a plugin; a new tag adds a language, an existing
+  one replaces that catalog wholesale. Adding a language must never require forking the image. The
+  SHIPPED `en-US` stays the parity baseline even when the mount replaces it, so a mounted catalog is
+  checked rather than trusted (one compared only against itself would boot green with the whole UI
+  rendering keys).
+- **The language picker is on every page, POST-rendered ones included.** A POST-rendered URL often
+  answers no GET (`POST /admin/users/:id/recovery`), so the host resolves the picker's target
+  (`app.ts` → `switchBase`): this path when it answers GET, else the same-origin Referer, else `/`.
+  Accepted cost: switching language there leaves that POST's own result behind. Valid while the picker
+  is expected on literally every page — if that softens, hiding it after a POST is simpler.
+- **An unknown translation key renders as itself.** That single rule lets a nav label, branding, or a
+  menu `rename` be either a key or plain text without a second field or a migration. Don't "fix" it
+  into a loud failure: a manifest with plain labels must keep working.
+- **`t()` returns raw text; the view escapes it.** Messages go through `<%= %>` like any other value;
+  one carrying markup uses `<%- %>`, and then its `{{vars}}` are escaped at the call site. Don't move
+  escaping into `t()` — every other value in a view would become the odd one out.
+- **RTL is out of scope until there is a real use case.** `textDirection` sets `<html dir>` because
+  that is free and correct, but the stylesheet keeps physical `left`/`right` properties; a genuine RTL
+  locale needs those moved to logical ones first. Valid while no deployment needs an RTL language.
+
+### UI
+
+- **A dropdown is a `<button popovertarget>` + `[popover]`, never a `<details>`.** The browser then
+  owns open/close — the only zero-JS way to dismiss by clicking outside — and the panel sits in the
+  top layer, so a row kebab is not clipped by `.table-wrap`'s `overflow`. Four rules hold it
+  together: the panel carries **`position-anchor: auto`** (a bare `anchor()` resolves to nothing in
+  all three engines); it stays the trigger's **next sibling inside the `.menu` wrapper**, which the
+  open-state style and the old-browser fallback both read; the partial **requires a caller-named
+  `id`** and fails loud without one, since that is the `popovertarget` idref (never generate one —
+  nondeterministic HTML forecloses the caching decision); and **neither `aria-expanded` nor
+  `aria-haspopup` is written**, because a zero-JS invoker cannot keep the first truthful and the
+  second would promise `role="menu"` semantics these panels don't implement. `<details>` stays where
+  it means disclosure rather than popup: the nav tree. `shell.ejs` hand-rolls the same block for the
+  profile menu (its trigger composes escaped user values and its one item is a CSRF POST form) — keep
+  the two in step.
+- **`ICON_NAMES` (`src/ui/icons.ts`) is a host-owned registry, not a frozen plugin contract**, so it
+  is deliberately not re-exported from `@plainpages/plugin-api`. The palette may narrow when the last reference
+  to an id goes, and a plugin needing one gets it re-registered in the same change. Accepted cost: an
+  unknown sprite id renders blank instead of failing loud (the `every icon <use> resolves` e2e test
+  catches anything reaching the nav).
+
+### Build, test & release
+
+- **Deps install to `/node_modules`, above `WORKDIR /app`** — Node resolves upward, so dev's `.:/app`
+  bind mount has nothing to shadow. Not a volume at `/app/node_modules`: the daemon creates a mount
+  destination as root whatever `--user` says, leaving a root-owned dir in the checkout. Nothing may
+  sit at that path now — it shadows `/node_modules` silently (`src/compose.test.ts` guards the compose
+  files, `.dockerignore` the image).
+- **A container whose output a human then edits or deletes runs as `--user "$(id -u):$(id -g)"`** —
+  the E2E runner (artifacts) and a lockfile edit, or the output is root-owned and needs `sudo`, which
+  a dev box may not have. Not universal: `bootstrap` writes `jwks.json` as root when it is absent on
+  first boot; the committed dev key makes that rare, and when it happens the rotation runbook's
+  host-side `>` needs the file re-owned first (valid while the dev key ships committed). Three
+  consequences: `e2e-tests/artifacts/` is *tracked* (`.gitkeep`), since an absent bind-mount source is
+  daemon-created as root and that uid then cannot write it (README → Upgrading); the runner image sets
+  `HOME=/tmp`, since an arbitrary uid has no passwd entry and would land on an unwritable `/`; and
+  rootless Docker wants the flag *dropped*, container root already being the invoking user. Baking a
+  `USER` in instead does not work — the image's `pwuser` is 1001 and no fixed uid matches every host.
+  `src/compose.test.ts` guards every documented command, `src/ci-gate.test.ts` the gate's own.
+- **Anything the browser logs fails the E2E test that provoked it.** Every spec takes its `test` from
+  `e2e-tests/console-guard.ts`, which fails a test on a console error/warning or uncaught exception on
+  any page it opened. A zero-JS app has nothing to say in the console, so the bar is *zero* rather than
+  a curated tolerance list; the two exceptions are narrow — a module-level allowance for the COOP header
+  Chromium drops (the e2e stacks serve plain http over container hostnames), and `allowConsole(re)` for
+  a test whose own page provokes a message on purpose. `src/e2e-console-guard.test.ts` locks the wiring
+  in the *unit* gate, since a spec importing `test` straight from Playwright — or minting a page with
+  a raw `newPage()` instead of `watchedPage()` — would run unwatched and green. Accepted cost: a page
+  outliving its test can log late and fail the next one.
+- **The Ory-free specs run in all three engines; the Ory-backed ones stay on Chromium.**
+  `visual.spec.ts` + `language.spec.ts` are side-effect-free, so parallel runs don't collide, and a
+  console message only appears in the engine that renders the page (`ORY_FREE` in
+  `e2e-tests/playwright.config.ts`). The rest write users, groups and sessions to one shared backend,
+  so widening them means a stack per engine.
+- **The docs-only CI skip is `*.md` anywhere in the tree, not just the root.** Both git channels in
+  `ci.sh`'s `docs_only()` pass `--no-renames`: rename detection names only the destination, so
+  `git mv src/app.ts notes.md` would otherwise read as docs and skip the gate over a source file that
+  was gone. `src/ci-gate.test.ts` locks the flags as a
+  *text* guard — the test image ships neither `git` nor `bash`. This is why the Docker Hub overview is
+  `release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.md.tmpl` and not a `.md`: a release reads it and a unit test
+  guards it, so giving it a `.md` name would let a broken `{{VERSION}}` merge with its own guard
+  skipped. `README.md` is the one markdown a test reads — `release-tooling/contract-version.test.ts`
+  checks its `apiVersion` samples — and a README-only change skips that check; accepted, because
+  those samples are illustrative and the copies that matter (`examples/`, `views/`, the template) are
+  gated. **Valid while no markdown file is rendered or executed.**
+- **CI docker logins share the runner host's Docker config.** The act_runner is host-mode, so
+  `docker login`/`logout` in the workflows mutate one shared `~/.docker/config.json`: concurrent jobs
+  can race (one job's logout can 401 another's push — recover by re-running), and tokens sit in that
+  file between login and logout. Same class: concurrent runs share the workspace dir, so ci.sh's
+  web-image build races another run's container creation on the `<project>-web` tag. Accepted for a
+  single-maintainer cadence; serialize with a workflow `concurrency` group if it ever bites.
 
 ## Docker only — no host tooling
 
@@ -44,19 +327,101 @@ docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm test           # tests
 docker compose -f compose.yml up --build -d              # production
 ```
 
+## README structure (keep it this way)
+
+`README.md` serves two readers, in this order — preserve it when editing:
+
+1. **First-time reader (top).** A one/two-sentence tagline, then a **Quick start** that gets the
+   stack up and a *minimal* plugin live. Nothing comes before Quick start. Keep its commands
+   copy-pasteable; deeper detail lives in its own section, linked.
+2. **Returning developer (rest).** A **Contents** ToC right after Quick start, then sections ordered
+   by **what an adopter reaches for first**, not by architectural layering: Overview → Users, groups
+   & permissions → Building plugins → menu/blocks/interactivity → Configuration → Auth → Email →
+   Architecture → Testing → Production → Observability → JWT-rotation runbook → Project-layout file
+   map → Extending. Place a new section by how early an adopter needs it. **Users, groups &
+   permissions precedes Building plugins** because a manifest's `permission:` gate is unreadable
+   without the model, and it is the one home for that model.
+
+Keep the ToC in sync when you add/rename/remove an `H2`/`H3`. **Don't document internals** — how a
+script reaches a decision, what a function guards; a developer reads that off the code in seconds.
+The README earns its length on how to use and operate Plainpages, the external contracts, and
+one-time setup. A file-map or table row gets a clause, not a paragraph.
+
 ## Rules
 
 - Node 24 runs `.ts` directly (type stripping). Keep all TypeScript **erasable**
-  (`erasableSyntaxOnly` is on): no `enum`, `namespace`, parameter properties, or
-  decorators. Import local modules with their `.ts` extension.
+  (`erasableSyntaxOnly` is on): no `enum`, `namespace`, parameter properties, or decorators. Import
+  local modules with their `.ts` extension.
+- **No `.mjs`.** Write modules as `.ts` — even standalone scripts run in bare `node:24` containers.
+  If a file genuinely must be plain JavaScript, use `.js`; `"type": "module"` is set in both
+  `package.json`s, so `.js` is ESM.
 - **No build step** and no compiled artifacts — do not add a bundler or `tsc` emit.
 - Before finishing a change, run the typecheck and tests above; both must pass.
 - Tests use the built-in `node --test` runner — no test framework dependency.
-- English everywhere. Keep code comments short and information-dense.
-- Pin all dependencies and Docker images to exact, human-readable **semantic
-  versions** — never ranges (`^`, `~`) and never digests/hashes. npm deps are kept
-  exact by `.npmrc` (`save-exact=true`) + `npm ci`; the base image by tag (e.g.
-  `node:24.16.0-alpine3.24`).
-- Run the stability reviewer agent after every implementation of something that can be like
-  a PR. That includes an implementation from the todo file that is pushed directly to master.
-  Skip this if the changes are purely documentation and/or comments.
+- English everywhere.
+- Pin all dependencies and Docker images to exact, human-readable **semantic versions** — never
+  ranges (`^`, `~`) and never digests. npm deps via `.npmrc` (`save-exact=true`) + `npm ci`; images
+  by tag.
+- **Touching dependencies means revisiting `renovate.json`.** `Release-Bump` is an *allowlist*: its
+  rules name exactly what carries the trailer, so a dependency outside them never escalates the
+  release version and nothing fails to say so. A new manifest, compose file, custom manager or dep
+  type is a decision: can it reach a running Plainpages? If yes it needs a rule; if no, record nothing
+  and let it ride the next patch.
+- **`HOST_API_VERSION` *is* the release version.** Its `major.minor` must equal the release tag's, and
+  both release paths refuse a tag that disagrees (`release-tooling/contract-version.ts`). The patch
+  digit may lag on purpose: `checkApiVersion`
+  ignores patch, and auto-release cuts patch releases with no commit to bump a constant in. So a
+  dependency update big enough to force a **minor** is plugin-visible by definition — `auto-release`
+  stops rather than tagging, and the fix is to bump `HOST_API_VERSION` to that `X.Y.0` in a PR, merge
+  it, then tag. Never bump it to "catch up" with a patch release. **The contract surface
+  includes `views/partials/*.ejs`** — the view resolver makes every core partial an `include()` root
+  for a plugin's views, so their option names and emitted markup are author-visible. Know the hole
+  that leaves: discovery fails loud on a bad `apiVersion`, but `include("menu", { open: true })`
+  silently ignores a dropped option, so the partial vocabulary is a surface the version check cannot
+  police for you.
+- **The contract surface also includes the packaging promises** (README → Plugin dependencies): the
+  barrel is ambient at `/node_modules` with nothing for a plugin to declare, `"type": "module"` is
+  mandatory, and the host neither upgrades nor dedupes a plugin's dependencies. Same hole as the
+  partials — move the publish point, rename the package or start hoisting and every installed plugin
+  breaks with no version signal. Note the promise is deliberately *not* "your deps are yours alone":
+  build-time dedupe for baked images stays open, module-instance sharing stays unpromised.
+- **Publishing `@plainpages/plugin-api` to a registry is deferred, not rejected.** Today it is
+  `private` and shaped as a shim — `index.ts` re-exports `../src/…`, so `npm pack` would ship a
+  broken tree. The trigger is the first plugin author outside this repo — the first who cannot
+  typecheck against a mounted host tree. Whoever does it must first make the artifact self-contained
+  (types-only `.d.ts`, or move the barrel into `plugin-api/`).
+- A plugin's `apiVersion` is a **hand-written literal** semver — the host version it was built
+  against — bumped by hand on rebuild, **never** the host's `HOST_API_VERSION` constant. Importing
+  the constant makes every plugin always equal the host, so `checkApiVersion` can never fire.
+- **Plugin route handlers are thin and per-route, keyed on `ctx.params`.** Register one handler per
+  `{method, path}` in the manifest (the host extracts `:id`/`:name` and 404s malformed `%`-encoding).
+  Don't funnel many routes into one dispatcher that re-parses `ctx.url.pathname`: it duplicates the
+  URL shape, ignores the router's params, and has to re-handle HEAD. Factor shared per-request setup
+  into a small `withX` wrapper — see `examples/plugins/admin/`.
+- **`handleRequest` (`src/http/app.ts`) is a known complexity hotspot** — ~160 lines tracking
+  canonical host, static, locale, session + re-mint, CSRF, chrome, hooks, plugin routing, builtin
+  routing, 405/404 and error mapping. The pure parts are already extracted and separately tested;
+  what remains is orchestration. Planned split along those seams; don't grow it further without
+  taking one out.
+- Reviews are maintainer-triggered (e.g. via the larv-review skill) — never auto-run reviewer agents.
+- **A user-visible string belongs in a catalog, not in the code or a view.** Core strings go in
+  `src/i18n/locales/en-US.ts` (then every other locale, or the boot fails); a plugin's go in its own
+  `i18n/`. Operator/developer-facing text — boot errors, log messages, guard messages — stays English.
+  A pure view-model builder takes an optional `t` defaulting to its own English, so a unit test reads
+  in words; handlers pass `ctx.t`.
+- **One verb per action in the English UI: sign in, sign out, create account.** Not "log in", "log
+  out" or "sign up", inflections included — a second spelling for one button reads as a second thing;
+  the noun ("a sign-in error") is unaffected. A plugin's catalog and every other locale follow the
+  same rule in their own language. An unmapped Kratos id renders Kratos' own wording — map the id when
+  it matters. **Held by the author, never by a test:** slightly different wording is often the right
+  call, and a build-failing check takes that judgment away.
+- Use well formed, standard compliant, rich URIs. Prefer state in the URL over POSTing it, for
+  example on list pages with filters and pagination. Do `ids=x&ids=y`, not `ids[]=x&ids[]=y` and not
+  `ids=x,y`.
+
+## Comments
+
+Default to **no comment**. Delete one that restates the adjacent code, repeats a convention used
+elsewhere, justifies self-evident code, or records history. Write one only for what a competent
+reader of *this* codebase could not infer: a surprising why, a footgun, an invariant, an external
+constraint. See [Prose discipline](#prose-discipline).

CLAUDE.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+@AGENTS.md

Dockerfile

@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
 # Node 24 runs TypeScript directly (type stripping) — no build step. Pinned exact tag.
-FROM node:24.16.0-alpine3.24
+FROM node:24.19.0-alpine3.24
+
+# Above WORKDIR so dev's `.:/app` bind mount can't shadow them; a volume at /app/node_modules
+# instead leaves a root-owned dir in the checkout (the daemon creates mount destinations as root).
+# Dev deps kept so typecheck/test run in-image.
+COPY package.json package-lock.json .npmrc /deps/
+RUN cd /deps && npm ci && mv node_modules /node_modules && rm -rf /deps
+
+# The barrel as a package, so a plugin folder can own a package.json. Linked because it re-exports /app.
+RUN mkdir -p /node_modules/@plainpages && ln -s /app/plugin-api /node_modules/@plainpages/plugin-api
 
 WORKDIR /app
-
-# Reproducible install from the lockfile. Dev deps kept so typecheck/test run in-image.
-COPY package.json package-lock.json .npmrc ./
-RUN npm ci
-
 COPY . .
 
+# The host uid running a lockfile edit has no home here, so npm's cache would land in unwritable /.
+ENV npm_config_cache=/tmp/.npm
 ENV PORT=3000
 EXPOSE 3000
 CMD ["node", "src/server.ts"]

Dockerfile.e2e

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# Playwright runner — browsers preinstalled, pinned to match @playwright/test in e2e/.
-# Built/run via compose.e2e.yml; targets the `web` service over the network.
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.49.1-noble
-
-WORKDIR /e2e
-
-COPY e2e/package.json e2e/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY e2e/ ./
-
-CMD ["npx", "playwright", "test"]

ci.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# The full CI gate: typecheck → unit tests → every E2E suite, each against a FRESH stack
+# that is always torn down. One reproducible command — run it locally or wire it into your CI
+# service. Docker-only (it drives `docker compose`; node/npm/tsc run inside containers, never the host).
+#
+#   bash ci.sh
+#
+# Exits non-zero on the first failure. Each E2E suite OWNS a clean stack — never point two suites at
+# one backend (auth-refresh revokes the admin's sessions; full-flow writes users/groups/roles to Keto).
+set -euo pipefail
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+step() { printf '\n\033[1;34m==> %s\033[0m\n' "$1"; }
+
+# Docs-only fast path: nothing but *.md changed since main, so there is nothing here to break.
+# The working tree counts too — a dirty tree carrying real code must never skip. Anything
+# undeterminable (no git, no reachable main, no merge-base) falls through to the gate, never a skip.
+# --no-renames on both channels: rename detection names only the destination, so `git mv src/app.ts
+# notes.md` reads as a lone *.md — under --porcelain as one `R src/app.ts -> notes.md` line still
+# ending in .md after cut -c4- — and the gate would skip over a source file that is gone.
+docs_only() {
+	local base changed
+	git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
+	git fetch --no-tags --quiet origin +refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main 2>/dev/null || true
+	base=$(git merge-base refs/remotes/origin/main HEAD 2>/dev/null) || return 1
+	changed=$(
+		{ git diff --name-only --no-renames "$base" HEAD \
+			&& git status --porcelain --no-renames --untracked-files=all | cut -c4-; } 2>/dev/null
+	) || return 1
+	[ -n "$changed" ] || return 1
+	! printf '%s\n' "$changed" | grep -qvE '\.md$'
+}
+
+if docs_only; then
+	step "Only *.md changed since main — nothing to test, skipping the gate"
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+# Pins that MUST move in lockstep: a browser/runner mismatch yields confusing E2E failures.
+step "Playwright pin lockstep (e2e-tests/Dockerfile image == e2e-tests/package.json @playwright/test)"
+# `|| true` so a no-match doesn't trip `set -e`/`pipefail` before the explicit check below can report.
+img=$(grep -oE 'playwright:v[0-9.]+' e2e-tests/Dockerfile | grep -oE '[0-9.]+$' || true)
+pkg=$(grep -oE '"@playwright/test": "[0-9.]+"' e2e-tests/package.json | grep -oE '[0-9.]+' || true)
+[ -n "$img" ] && [ "$img" = "$pkg" ] || { echo "Playwright pin mismatch/unreadable: image v$img vs @playwright/test $pkg"; exit 1; }
+echo "ok ($img)"
+
+# Explicit rebuild: without it a stale web image from a previous branch supplies node_modules
+# (the source is bind-mounted but deps are baked in), so a dep bump gets typechecked/tested
+# against the OLD packages. Cheap when deps are unchanged (npm ci layer is cache-keyed).
+step "Build web image"
+docker compose build web
+
+step "Typecheck"
+docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm run typecheck
+
+step "Unit tests"
+units=$(docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm test 2>&1) || { echo "$units"; exit 1; }
+echo "$units" | grep -E '^. (tests|pass|fail) ' || true
+# Sanity floor: catch a glob that matches too few files (a full empty glob already exits non-zero above).
+count=$(echo "$units" | grep -oE 'tests [0-9]+' | grep -oE '[0-9]+' | head -1 || true)
+[ "${count:-0}" -ge 50 ] || { echo "only ${count:-0} unit tests ran — test glob broken?"; exit 1; }
+
+# Plugin storage against a real Postgres. The step above runs --no-deps, so this suite's integration
+# test skips there — and it is the only thing proving the DDL actually grants what it claims, rather
+# than that the SQL text is the text we wrote. `node --test` counts a skip, so the floor won't catch it.
+step "Plugin storage (real Postgres)"
+# Own project name, like every E2E suite below: the default project is the DEV stack, so a bare
+# `down -v` here would delete the operator's pgdata — Ory identities and every plugin database.
+# --wait, because initdb on a cold volume outlasts the suite's connect timeout.
+storage_rc=0
+storage_proj=plainpages-storage
+storage_files=(-p "$storage_proj" -f compose.yml) # no override merge, like the e2e suites below
+storage_dsn="postgres://${POSTGRES_USER:-ory}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-ory}@postgres:5432/ory"
+storage_out=""
+docker compose "${storage_files[@]}" up -d --wait postgres >/dev/null || storage_rc=$?
+# `if`, not `&&`: a false `&&` returns non-zero, which under `set -e` would exit before teardown.
+if [ "$storage_rc" -eq 0 ]; then
+	# --build like the e2e suites: this stack mounts no source, so without it the step would test
+	# whatever `web` image that project last baked.
+	storage_out=$(docker compose "${storage_files[@]}" run --build --rm --no-deps \
+		-e "PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL=$storage_dsn" \
+		web node --test src/plugin-host/storage.test.ts 2>&1) || storage_rc=$?
+fi
+docker compose "${storage_files[@]}" down -v >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # also covers a failed `up`
+echo "$storage_out" | grep -E '^. (tests|pass|fail|skipped) ' || true
+[ "$storage_rc" -eq 0 ] || { echo "$storage_out"; echo "plugin storage integration tests failed (exit $storage_rc)"; exit "$storage_rc"; }
+# A skip here exits 0 and proves nothing — the same trap the unit floor above guards against.
+echo "$storage_out" | grep -qE '^. skipped 0$' || { echo "storage integration test skipped — PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL not wired through"; exit 1; }
+
+# Run one E2E suite against its OWN named stack, then always tear it down (even on failure). The
+# per-suite project name keeps a flaky teardown from leaking containers/volumes into the next suite.
+# --user: the runner writes screenshots + the report into the checkout, so they must belong to
+# whoever ran the gate — root-owned output needs sudo to delete, and a dev box may have none.
+e2e() {
+  step "E2E: $1"
+  local proj="plainpages-e2e-$(basename "$1" .yml | tr '.' '-')" # dots aren't valid in a compose project name
+  local rc=0
+  docker compose -p "$proj" -f compose.yml -f "$1" run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e || rc=$?
+  docker compose -p "$proj" -f compose.yml -f "$1" down -v >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || { echo "E2E suite $1 failed (exit $rc)"; exit "$rc"; }
+}
+
+e2e e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml    # visual / design-system parity (Ory-free)
+e2e e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml      # token timeout + silent re-mint
+e2e e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml     # OAuth2 login + consent
+e2e e2e-tests/compose.full.yml      # full browser flow: login (password + SSO), menu, CRUD, plugin, logout
+
+# Dev-stack login regression — runs against the PLAIN `docker compose up` topology (base + override)
+# with the runner on the HOST network, so it can't use the shared e2e() helper (which merges only
+# compose.yml + the suite). Needs host networking + the host ports 3000/4433 free (Linux CI).
+step "E2E: e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml (dev-stack login: localhost works + 127.0.0.1 canonicalised)"
+devstack_files=(-f compose.yml -f compose.override.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml)
+rc=0
+docker compose -p plainpages-e2e-devstack "${devstack_files[@]}" run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e || rc=$?
+docker compose -p plainpages-e2e-devstack "${devstack_files[@]}" down -v >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+[ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || { echo "E2E suite e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml failed (exit $rc)"; exit "$rc"; }
+
+step "ALL GREEN"

compose.e2e.yml

@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-# Playwright E2E. Brings up the app + a Playwright runner, screenshots the live pages and the
-# html-css-foundation mockups, and asserts the live DOM computes the same design styles.
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e.yml run --build --rm e2e
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e.yml down -v   # tear down after
-# --build rebuilds the runner (the image bakes in e2e/) so spec edits are picked up.
-# Screenshots + HTML report land in ./e2e/artifacts/ (git-ignored).
-services:
-  web:
-    # The dashboard renders mock data — no Ory needed. Drop the base file's kratos/keto
-    # dependency so the visual suite stays fast and doesn't boot Postgres + the Ory stack.
-    depends_on: !reset []
-    # Dev throwaways are fine for tests; cache templates for production-like rendering.
-    environment:
-      CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
-      REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
-      SECURE_COOKIES: "false" # the suite hits web over http — Secure cookies wouldn't be stored
-    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost:3000/public/css/styles.css"]
-      interval: 2s
-      timeout: 4s
-      retries: 15
-
-  e2e:
-    build:
-      context: .
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile.e2e
-    # Just the Ory-free visual suite; the full-stack auth spec runs via compose.e2e-auth.yml.
-    command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "visual.spec.ts"]
-    depends_on:
-      web:
-        condition: service_healthy
-    environment:
-      BASE_URL: http://web:3000
-    volumes:
-      # The mockups + their stylesheet, kept as siblings so file:// ../public/css resolves.
-      - ./html-css-foundation:/repo/html-css-foundation:ro
-      - ./public:/repo/public:ro
-      # The committed dev tokenizer key — the spec signs a session JWT with it so the gated
-      # dashboard (§10) renders; web verifies it with the same key (the file it mounts read-only).
-      - ./ory/kratos/tokenizer/jwks.json:/repo/jwks.json:ro
-      - ./e2e/artifacts:/e2e/artifacts

compose.override.yml

@@ -1,25 +1,56 @@
 # Development overrides, merged automatically by `docker compose up`.
 # Mounts the source for live editing and restarts on change via `node --watch`.
+
+# web connects with it and bootstrap provisions against it, so the two must agree — one home.
+x-plugin-db-url: &plugin-db-url postgres://postgres:5432
+
 services:
   web:
     command: node --watch src/server.ts
     # Dev overrides the base toggles: live template edits, dev-throwaway secrets allowed.
     environment:
+      # Canonical public URL — the ONE knob. The web app redirects off-host visitors here, so
+      # localhost / 127.0.0.1 / any alias all funnel to one cookie host (Kratos' browser URLs below
+      # derive from it too). Override for a non-default host and the stack follows; see the note on
+      # kratos.SERVE_PUBLIC_BASE_URL for the single dev caveat (the published Ory port).
+      APP_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}
       CACHE_TEMPLATES: "false"
       LOG_FORMAT: "text" # human-readable logs in dev (base sets json for prod log pipelines)
+      LOG_LEVEL: "debug" # verbose by default while developing (base defaults to info)
+      # Point plugin storage at the bundled Postgres, so a dropped-in plugin declaring `storage`
+      # works with no further config; the secret falls back to the dev throwaway (config.ts).
+      PLUGIN_DB_URL: *plugin-db-url
       REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
       SECURE_COOKIES: "false" # dev serves http — Secure cookies wouldn't be sent
-      SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM: "http://shifts-upstream:4000" # reference plugin → the dev mock backend
+      PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM: "http://shifts-upstream:4000" # backs the reference plugin once you copy it into plugins/
     volumes:
       - .:/app
-      - /app/node_modules
+      # Mount your own menu/branding override into the empty config/ dir (defaults apply otherwise):
+      # - ./config:/app/config:ro   # your config/menu.ts — see examples/config/menu.ts for a template
 
-  # Dev mock backend for the reference plugin (plugins/scheduling). A stand-in for the customer's
-  # real scheduling service — stdlib-only, in-memory, no auth. Prod points SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM at
-  # the real backend instead. Uses the pinned app image so there's nothing extra to build/pull.
+  # Mirror web's source mount so bootstrap discovers the same plugins *and* runs the same code. Only
+  # dev needs saying: the base file gives both services the image's baked copy, and it is the
+  # `.:/app` above — dev-only — that makes web diverge onto the host tree. Without the mirror,
+  # bootstrap silently runs whatever `src/` was baked at image-build time, so an edit to
+  # bootstrap.ts appears to do nothing until someone remembers `--build`.
+  # It belongs here and not in the base file, where it would desynchronise prod and collide with the
+  # e2e stacks, which bind individual plugins *inside* /app/plugins.
+  bootstrap:
+    # Provisions the plugin databases web connects to above, as the dev superuser.
+    environment:
+      PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL: postgres://${POSTGRES_USER:-ory}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-ory}@postgres:5432/ory
+      PLUGIN_DB_URL: *plugin-db-url
+      REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false" # dev derives from the throwaway, as web does
+    volumes:
+      - .:/app
+
+  # Mock backend ready for the reference plugin (examples/plugins/scheduling): plugins/ ships empty, so
+  # the plugin is opt-in — `cp -r examples/plugins/scheduling plugins/scheduling`, restart, and this
+  # backs it (PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM above points here). Stand-in for the customer's real service —
+  # stdlib-only, in-memory, no auth. Prod points PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM at the real backend instead.
   shifts-upstream:
-    image: node:24.16.0-alpine3.24
-    command: node /srv/server.mjs
+    image: node:24.19.0-alpine3.24
+    command: node /srv/server.ts
     restart: unless-stopped
     volumes:
       - ./examples/shifts-upstream:/srv:ro
@@ -27,17 +58,35 @@ services:
   # Dev mail catcher — Kratos recovery/verification emails land here (web UI on 8025).
   # kratos.yml points the courier at smtp://mailpit:1025; prod uses a real SMTP via env.
   mailpit:
-    image: axllent/mailpit:v1.30.1
+    image: axllent/mailpit:v1.31.0
     ports:
       - "8025:8025"
     restart: unless-stopped
 
   # Ory Kratos dev: expose the public API so the browser can POST self-service flows to
-  # flow.ui.action (kratos.yml base_url = 127.0.0.1:4433). Prod fronts Ory same-origin,
-  # so the base file publishes no Ory ports.
+  # flow.ui.action. Prod fronts Ory same-origin, so the base file publishes no Ory ports.
   kratos:
     ports:
       - "4433:4433"
+    # Every browser-facing Kratos URL derives from APP_URL — one knob, no second place to edit (the
+    # localhost-vs-127.0.0.1 disagreement that broke login was exactly this drift). Env overrides the
+    # kratos.yml defaults (Ory: env wins over config files).
+    environment:
+      # The public API the login form POSTs to. Its HOST must match APP_URL's (cookies are host-scoped,
+      # port-agnostic) but its PORT is the published Ory one (4433), so it can't be APP_URL verbatim.
+      # This is the ONE dev value to also change for a non-localhost APP_URL host (e.g. a LAN IP).
+      SERVE_PUBLIC_BASE_URL: ${KRATOS_PUBLIC_BROWSER_URL:-http://localhost:4433/}
+      SELFSERVICE_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/
+      SELFSERVICE_ALLOWED_RETURN_URLS: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_ERROR_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/error
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_LOGIN_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/login
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_LOGIN_AFTER_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/auth/complete
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_REGISTRATION_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/registration
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_SETTINGS_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/settings
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_RECOVERY_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/recovery
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_VERIFICATION_UI_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/verification
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_VERIFICATION_AFTER_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_LOGOUT_AFTER_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}/login
 
   # Ory Hydra dev: --dev permits the http issuer/redirect URLs; expose the public port
   # so OAuth2 flows reach the host. Prod (base file) drops --dev for an https issuer.

compose.yml

@@ -9,13 +9,24 @@ services:
     # Supply CSRF_SECRET via env; the dev-throwaway fallback boots a clean clone but
     # REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS refuses it in prod (config.ts), so a forgotten secret fails loud.
     environment:
+      # Canonical public URL — set it to your domain to enable the canonical-host redirect (off when
+      # empty/unset, so a forgotten value never bounces real users). Your reverse proxy must preserve
+      # the public Host (or forward it) or a Host-rewriting proxy can loop. Kratos browser URLs and
+      # the banner derive from the same APP_URL. The dev override sets it to localhost.
+      APP_URL: ${APP_URL:-}
       CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
       CSRF_SECRET: ${CSRF_SECRET:-dev-insecure-csrf-secret}
       LOG_FORMAT: "json" # structured logs for prod pipelines; set OTLP_ENDPOINT to also export to a collector
+      # Per-plugin Postgres storage. Explicit toggle: unset ⇒ off, and a plugin declaring `storage`
+      # refuses to boot rather than run without its data. The URL carries no credentials — each
+      # plugin's own password is derived from the secret (README → Plugin storage).
+      PLUGIN_DB_SECRET: ${PLUGIN_DB_SECRET:-}
+      PLUGIN_DB_URL: ${PLUGIN_DB_URL:-}
       REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "true"
       SECURE_COOKIES: "true" # prod serves https — mark session/CSRF cookies Secure
-    # Wait for the services the app talks to (kratos + keto + hydra for the §6 OAuth2 login/
-    # consent handler) + the one-shot bootstrap (admin + JWKS seed).
+    # Wait for the services the app talks to (kratos + keto + hydra for the OAuth2 login/
+    # consent handler) + the one-shot bootstrap (admin + JWKS seed). Postgres too: a plugin that
+    # declares `storage` opens its connection in onBoot, before the server listens.
     depends_on:
       bootstrap:
         condition: service_completed_successfully
@@ -25,17 +36,20 @@ services:
         condition: service_healthy
       hydra:
         condition: service_healthy
-    # §4 verifier reads the same tokenizer JWKS Kratos signs with (config.ts JWKS_URL).
+      postgres:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    # verifier reads the same tokenizer JWKS Kratos signs with (config.ts JWKS_URL).
     # Read-only — bootstrap is the only writer.
     volumes:
       - ./ory/kratos/tokenizer:/etc/config/kratos/tokenizer:ro
     restart: unless-stopped
 
-  # Ory's storage only (Kratos/Keto/Hydra) — the web app never connects here.
-  # init/init.sql creates one database per service. Dev defaults below; supply
+  # The stack's storage: one database per Ory service (init/init.sql), plus one per plugin that
+  # declares `storage` — bootstrap creates those at boot, since only it holds superuser credentials.
+  # A plugin connects as its own role from inside web. Dev defaults below; supply
   # POSTGRES_USER/PASSWORD via env in production.
   postgres:
-    image: postgres:18.4-alpine3.23
+    image: postgres:18.6-alpine3.23
     environment:
       POSTGRES_USER: ${POSTGRES_USER:-ory}
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-ory}
@@ -112,7 +126,7 @@ services:
       retries: 20
     restart: unless-stopped
 
-  # One-shot first-boot seed (§3, the MVP bar); see src/bootstrap.ts. Idempotent, re-runs
+  # One-shot first-boot seed (the MVP bar); see src/auth/bootstrap.ts. Idempotent, re-runs
   # cleanly. Runs once kratos+keto are healthy; web waits for it. Tokenizer dir mounted
   # read-write (the only writer) so the absent-JWKS safety net can land the key.
   bootstrap:
@@ -122,26 +136,35 @@ services:
         condition: service_healthy
       keto:
         condition: service_healthy
+      postgres:
+        condition: service_healthy
     environment:
       ADMIN_EMAIL: ${ADMIN_EMAIL:-admin@plainpages.local}
       ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${ADMIN_PASSWORD:-admin}
-      # Base roles for the demo admin; bootstrap also grants every discovered plugin's declared
-      # permission tokens (so the reference plugin — and any drop-in — works out of the box).
-      ADMIN_ROLES: ${ADMIN_ROLES:-admin}
+      # Base permissions for the demo admin; bootstrap also grants every discovered plugin's declared
+      # permission names (so the reference plugin — and any drop-in — works out of the box).
+      ADMIN_PERMISSIONS: ${ADMIN_PERMISSIONS:-}
       APP_URL: ${APP_URL:-http://localhost:3000}   # printed in the first-run login banner
       JWKS_FILE: /etc/config/kratos/tokenizer/jwks.json
       KETO_WRITE_URL: http://keto:4467
       KRATOS_ADMIN_URL: http://kratos:4434
+      # The superuser DSN that creates each plugin's database and role lives ONLY here — never in
+      # web, so plugin code cannot read it out of its own environment. Unset ⇒ a plugin declaring
+      # `storage` fails the seed loudly. The secret must match web's; both derive the same passwords.
+      PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL: ${PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL:-}
+      PLUGIN_DB_SECRET: ${PLUGIN_DB_SECRET:-}
+      PLUGIN_DB_URL: ${PLUGIN_DB_URL:-} # only to refuse a mismatch: what bootstrap creates, web connects to
+      REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "true" # refuse the throwaway secret here too, before any role is created
     volumes:
       - ./ory/kratos/tokenizer:/etc/config/kratos/tokenizer
-    command: node src/bootstrap.ts
+    command: node src/auth/bootstrap.ts
     # Bounded retry: the seed is idempotent, so transient Ory blips recover — but a permanent
     # error must give up, not loop forever and hang `web` (gates on completion).
     restart: "on-failure:5"
 
   # Ory Hydra — OAuth2/OIDC provider (other apps log in *through* plainpages; README).
   # DSN is its own `hydra` DB (init.sql); config in ory/hydra/hydra.yml. web implements the
-  # login challenge at /oauth2/login (§6, consent next). Dev permits the http issuer via --dev
+  # login challenge at /oauth2/login (consent next). Dev permits the http issuer via --dev
   # (compose.override.yml); prod sets an https issuer via env (URLS_SELF_ISSUER).
   hydra-migrate:
     image: oryd/hydra:v26.2.0

docs/plugin-contract.md

@@ -1,402 +0,0 @@
-# The Plainpages plugin contract
-
-The authoritative reference for the plugin API — the product's main surface. A plugin is a
-self-contained folder under `plugins/` that the host discovers at boot; there is no
-registration step. The contract is **TypeScript** (`src/plugin.ts`), so the types here are the
-single source of truth — this document explains them, the guarantees around them, and the rules
-the host enforces.
-
-**Design stance.** The audience is experienced developers. The API optimises for being
-**powerful, predictable, and overloadable** — a plugin can take over as much of a page as it
-wants. The host **fails loud at boot/discovery** rather than sandboxing at runtime: a malformed
-manifest, a version mismatch, or a conflict stops startup with a clear message. Runtime
-crash-isolation (one bad plugin can't take the host down) is a *non-goal* — diagnose at deploy
-time, not in production.
-
-> **Status.** This is the contract the §2 host implements. The types and pure rules
-> (`checkApiVersion`, `findConflicts`, `isValidPluginId`) live in `src/plugin.ts`; **discovery**
-> (`src/discovery.ts`), the **router** (`src/router.ts` — method+path match, `:name` params,
-> permission gate, `RouteResult` → response), and the **per-plugin view resolver**
-> (`src/view-resolver.ts` — a `view` result renders `plugins/<id>/views/`, with the core partials
-> reachable via `include()`), **per-plugin static serving** (`/public/<id>/` → the plugin's
-> `public/`, `routePublic` in `src/static.ts`), and the **central menu override + branding**
-> (`config/menu.ts`, loaded by `src/menu-config.ts`, with branding — name, logo, default theme —
-> rendered in the app shell) are wired and in use by the built-in screens and the reference plugin.
-> Later phases extended this contract: the replaceable [landing pages](#the-landing-pages-home--dashboard)
-> and [public pages & menu items](#public-pages--menu-items) (§10), both documented below.
-
-## Anatomy of a plugin
-
-```
-plugins/scheduling/      # folder name = the plugin id → mounted at /scheduling
-  plugin.ts              # default export: the manifest (definePlugin(...))
-  shifts.ts              # handlers, helpers — plain modules
-  views/                 # EJS templates for this plugin's pages
-    shifts.ejs
-  public/                # static assets, served at /public/scheduling/
-    scheduling.css
-```
-
-**Identity comes from the folder.** The folder name *is* the plugin `id`, and the mount path is
-`/<id>` — neither is written in the manifest, so they can't drift or be claimed twice. The id
-must be **URL/path-safe** (`isValidPluginId`: lowercase `a–z`, digits, and dashes — dashes
-anywhere; no uppercase, underscores, dots, or slashes); the host rejects a malformed folder name
-at discovery. The id also namespaces the plugin's `views/`, its `/public/<id>/` assets, and (by
-convention) its nav/permission tokens.
-
-A handful of ids are **reserved** for the host's own first-party mounts — the gated `dashboard`, the
-Kratos auth flows (`auth`, `login`, `logout`, `recovery`, `registration`, `settings`, `verification`),
-the `admin` screens, the `oauth2` provider routes, and `public` (static). Since plugin routes resolve
-first, a folder claiming one would silently shadow a built-in route, so discovery refuses it loud
-(`RESERVED_PLUGIN_IDS`). (`/` is owned by the `home` field, not a route, so it needs no reservation.)
-
-Installing a plugin is "drop the folder, restart." Removing one is "delete the folder, restart."
-Nothing else references it; the operator stays in control through the central menu override
-(`config/menu.ts`).
-
-## The manifest
-
-A plugin imports its host surface from one module — `src/plugin-api.ts`, the **stable author
-barrel** (`definePlugin`, the manifest/handler types, `RequestContext`, the guards, and the
-body/CSRF/list-query helpers). That barrel *is* the contract boundary; don't reach into deeper
-`src/*` modules — the host may refactor those freely as long as the barrel holds.
-
-```ts
-import { definePlugin } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
-import { listShifts, createShift } from "./shifts.ts";
-
-export default definePlugin({
-  apiVersion: "1.0.0",                // semver of the host contract this was built against (a literal — see Versioning)
-
-  // Nav fragment, merged into the global menu and permission-filtered per user.
-  // `icon` is a Lucide icon by its sprite id (src/icons.ts).
-  nav: [{
-    icon: "i-cal", id: "scheduling:root", label: "Scheduling",
-    children: [{ href: "/scheduling/shifts", id: "scheduling:shifts", label: "Shifts", permission: "scheduling:read" }],
-  }],
-
-  // Permission tokens this plugin introduces. Declared for documentation, conflict detection, and
-  // bootstrap seeding (the demo admin is granted every discovered plugin's tokens). Optional.
-  permissions: [
-    { token: "scheduling:read", description: "View shifts" },
-    { token: "scheduling:write", description: "Create and edit shifts" },
-  ],
-
-  // Route handlers, mounted under the plugin's path (/scheduling). `permission` gates first.
-  routes: [
-    { method: "GET",  path: "/shifts", permission: "scheduling:read",  handler: listShifts },
-    { method: "POST", path: "/shifts", permission: "scheduling:write", handler: createShift },
-  ],
-});
-```
-
-`definePlugin()` only types the object and returns it unchanged — a manifest may equally be a
-plain typed object. It types the authored shape (`PluginManifest`); the host attaches the
-folder-derived `id` to produce the loaded `Plugin`. All validation happens at discovery. Note
-there is **no `id` or `basePath`** in the manifest — both come from the folder
-([Anatomy](#anatomy-of-a-plugin)).
-
-| Field | Required | Notes |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `apiVersion` | yes | Semver the plugin was built against — a **literal**, not `HOST_API_VERSION`. See [Versioning](#contract-versioning). |
-| `home` | no | A `RouteHandler` that owns the **public** landing `/`. At most one plugin may declare it. See [The landing pages](#the-landing-pages-home--dashboard). |
-| `dashboard` | no | A `RouteHandler` that owns the **gated** app home `/dashboard`. At most one plugin may declare it. See [The landing pages](#the-landing-pages-home--dashboard). |
-| `nav` | no | `NavNode[]` fragment (same shape `composeNav` consumes). `icon` is a Lucide sprite id (`src/icons.ts`); node `id`s must be globally unique. |
-| `permissions` | no | Tokens this plugin introduces; declared for docs, conflict detection, and bootstrap seeding (see [Nav & permissions](#nav--permissions)). |
-| `routes` | no | See [Routes & handlers](#routes--handlers). |
-| `hooks` | no | See [Hooks](#hooks). |
-
-A plugin may be routes-only, nav-only, or hooks-only — every collection field is optional.
-
-## Routes & handlers
-
-A route is `{ method, path, permission?, public?, handler }`. `path` is **relative to the plugin's
-mount path `/<id>`** (so `/shifts` in the `scheduling` plugin serves `/scheduling/shifts`); the host
-matches `method` + the resolved full path, extracts `:name` segments into `ctx.params.name`,
-runs the `permission` gate (a coarse JWT-claim check — see the README), and only then calls the
-handler with the [request context](#requestcontext). When the gate fails, an **anonymous** visitor
-is redirected to `/login` to sign in (same as the built-in admin screens); the requested page is
-preserved as `return_to`, so after signing in they land **back on the page they asked for**, not the
-dashboard. A **signed-in** user who simply lacks the role gets the **403** page. A route marked
-**`public: true`** has no gate at all — anyone reaches it (see [Public pages & menu
-items](#public-pages--menu-items)).
-
-`method` is one of `GET HEAD POST PUT PATCH DELETE`. A `GET` route also answers `HEAD`.
-
-A handler returns a **`RouteResult`** (or a `Promise` of one); the host turns it into the HTTP
-response. Returning `void` is the escape hatch — the handler wrote to `ctx.res` itself.
-
-```ts
-type RouteResult =
-  | { view: string; data?: Record<string, unknown>; status?: number; headers?: Record<string, string> }
-  | { html: string;  status?: number; headers?: Record<string, string> }
-  | { json: unknown;  status?: number; headers?: Record<string, string> }  // opt-in JS enhancement
-  | { redirect: string; status?: number };                                  // 303 unless status set
-```
-
-```ts
-// shifts.ts
-import { parseListQuery, type RequestContext } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
-
-export async function listShifts(ctx: RequestContext) {
-  const q = parseListQuery(ctx.url);
-  const rows = await fetch(`${upstream}/shifts?${ctx.url.searchParams}`).then((r) => r.json());
-  return { view: "shifts", data: { rows, q } }; // renders plugins/scheduling/views/shifts.ejs
-}
-```
-
-- **`view`** resolves against the plugin's own `views/` (`src/view-resolver.ts`) — nested names
-  like `"shifts/edit"` work, and an out-of-bounds name is refused. The template may `include()`
-  the core building-block partials (app shell, nav tree, data table, …) and its own
-  partials/subfolders to render a full page — exactly as the built-in screens do. To load the
-  plugin's own CSS, pass its `/public/<id>/x.css` href in the shell's `styles` slot (an array of
-  extra stylesheet hrefs) — see the reference's `views/shifts.ejs`.
-- **Finer authorization than the route `permission`** uses the guards from `src/plugin-api.ts`:
-  `requireSession(ctx)` (assert a session — throws a `GuardError` the host turns into a redirect
-  to sign in), `can(ctx, role)` (a coarse JWT-claim check, zero I/O), and `check(keto, ctx,
-  {namespace, object, relation})` (a live Keto check for relationship rules — the subject is the
-  signed-in user, anonymous ⇒ denied). Throw `new GuardError(403, …)` after a failed `can`/`check`
-  to render the 403 page.
-- The handler **fetches its own data** from upstream and renders it; plugins hold no state
-  (see the README's *Stateless* section). The partials only need rows.
-- `default` status: `200` for `view`/`html`/`json`, `303` for `redirect`.
-
-### Escaping & the trust boundary
-
-The host does not sandbox plugin output (crash-isolation is a non-goal), so a handler **owns the
-safety of the data it renders**:
-
-- **Raw HTML is raw.** An `{ html }` result and the `*.html` partial fields (`cell.html`,
-  `error.html`, a menu `trigger.html`) are emitted **unescaped** — that's their purpose (slot
-  composition). Escape any untrusted content yourself before putting it there.
-- **Text is auto-escaped; URLs are not scheme-checked.** Partials escape text fields (labels,
-  names), so those are injection-safe. But a URL field — nav `href`, a table cell link, a menu
-  item, a breadcrumb, `brand.logo` — is emitted as-is inside the attribute: a `javascript:` or
-  `data:` URL from upstream/user data becomes live XSS. When a URL comes from data you don't
-  control, pass it through **`safeUrl()`** from `src/plugin-api.ts` first — it returns the URL when
-  it's relative or `http(s):` and collapses anything else to `"#"`:
-  ```ts
-  import { safeUrl } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
-  return { view: "list", data: { rows: rows.map((r) => ({ ...r, href: safeUrl(r.href) })) } };
-  ```
-
-## The landing pages (`home` & `dashboard`)
-
-The host has two replaceable landing slots, and a plugin may own either or both:
-
-| Slot | Path | Gate | Default |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `home` | `/` | **public** — anyone | An intro page with prominent sign-in / register links. |
-| `dashboard` | `/dashboard` | **signed-in session** (anonymous → `/login`, with `/dashboard` as `return_to`) | The built-in mock-data People list. |
-
-```ts
-import { definePlugin } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
-import { landing, board } from "./pages.ts";
-
-export default definePlugin({
-  apiVersion: "1.0.0",
-  home: landing,     // owns "/" — the public front page
-  dashboard: board,  // owns "/dashboard" — the post-login app home
-});
-```
-
-Each is a `RouteHandler` like any route's — it receives the [`RequestContext`](#requestcontext) and
-returns a `RouteResult`, typically a `view` from the plugin's own `views/`. A `dashboard` handler
-renders against the native app shell via `ctx.chrome` exactly as a route handler does; a `home`
-handler is a **public** page, so `ctx.user` may be `null` (use it to show a "go to dashboard" link to
-a signed-in visitor, or sign-in / register to an anonymous one). After login the user lands on
-`/dashboard` (or the `return_to` they were headed to), and the global menu's **Dashboard** link
-points there.
-
-For the gated `dashboard`, the host enforces the session gate first, so `ctx.user` is non-null;
-branch on `ctx.roles` *inside* to tailor the page per role. Don't gate `dashboard` itself behind a
-single permission — there's no second dashboard to fall back to, so a user lacking it would land on a
-403. (Both slots answer `GET` and `HEAD`.)
-
-Only **one** plugin may own each slot: two declaring `home` (or two declaring `dashboard`) is a
-boot-stopping conflict ([below](#conflict-rules)), never last-write-wins. Neither needs a `routes`
-entry — the host mounts them above the `/<id>` route namespace, and `/` can't be shadowed by a plugin
-route at all (route paths always carry the `/<id>` prefix).
-
-## RequestContext
-
-Every handler receives one argument, the `RequestContext` (`src/context.ts`), built once per
-request:
-
-```ts
-interface RequestContext {
-  chrome: PageChrome;                // brand/global-nav/user/theme/csrf for the native app shell
-  log: Log;                          // request-scoped logger, in this request's trace (§9)
-  params: Record<string, string>;   // path params from the route match, e.g. /shifts/:id → { id }
-  query: URLSearchParams;            // alias of url.searchParams
-  req: IncomingMessage;
-  res: ServerResponse;
-  roles: string[];                   // user?.roles ?? [] — coarse gate without a null-check
-  url: URL;
-  user: User | null;                 // { id, email, roles } from the verified session JWT, or null
-  verifyCsrf(submitted): boolean;    // gate a form POST against the request's signed CSRF cookie
-}
-```
-
-**`ctx.chrome`** is the page chrome the host builds per request — `{ brand, csrfToken, nav, signInHref,
-theme, user }`. Hand it to `partials/shell` so a `view` result renders the **native app shell** (the same
-sidebar, branding, theme switch and signed-in profile as the built-in screens); `chrome.nav` is the
-global menu — your plugin's nav fragment plus the others and the admin section — already composed,
-role-filtered, and current-marked for this request (the gated **Dashboard** link is omitted for an
-anonymous visitor). `chrome.signInHref` is where the shell's anonymous **Sign in** link points — the
-current page baked in as `return_to`. Map each `chrome.*` to the matching `partials/shell` local —
-`brand`, `csrfToken`, `nav` (the rendered nav-tree), `signInHref`, `theme`, `user` — exactly as the
-reference `plugins/scheduling/views/overview.ejs` does; a value you forget simply falls back to its
-shell default (e.g. a bare `/login`), it does not error. **`ctx.verifyCsrf(submitted)`** guards a
-state-changing form: render `chrome.csrfToken` in a hidden `_csrf` field, then on POST read your own
-body and `if (!ctx.verifyCsrf(form.get("_csrf"))) throw new GuardError(403, …)`. The host owns the
-secret and sets the cookie; the plugin never touches it. (See the reference: `plugins/scheduling/`.)
-
-**`ctx.log`** is a structured, request-scoped logger ([`@larvit/log`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@larvit/log),
-§9) already in this request's trace: `ctx.log.info("…", { key: "value" })` (also `warn`/`error`/`debug`,
-metadata values are string/number/boolean), and **`ctx.log.fetch(url, init?)`** — a drop-in `fetch`
-for upstream calls that adds a client span and propagates the trace (W3C `traceparent`) downstream.
-The barrel also exports a standalone **`tracedFetch`** (same behaviour, reads the ambient request log)
-to default an upstream client's `fetch` to — the reference plugin's `createUpstream` does exactly this,
-so its calls are traced with no per-handler wiring. Lines are correlated by a `requestId` and carry
-`service.name`; output/level/OTLP export are the host's config (it logs to console always, and to an
-OpenTelemetry Collector when `OTLP_ENDPOINT` is set).
-
-**Stability guarantee.** The fields above are the stable contract — present and non-breaking
-across a major `apiVersion`. New fields may be **added** within a major version (additive, never
-breaking). `req`/`res` are the raw Node objects and the full escape hatch; reading them is fine,
-but prefer the typed fields so a handler keeps working as the host evolves. `user`/`roles` come
-from the §4 JWT middleware and are `null`/`[]` until a session exists.
-
-## Nav & permissions
-
-A plugin's `nav` fragment is merged into the global menu by `composeNav` (`src/nav.ts`), which
-applies the central override and then **filters per user** by the roles in the session JWT — a
-node shows iff it is `public`, declares no `permission`, or the user's roles include that token. Use
-arbitrary depth, counts, and icons; see `composeNav` for the node shape. A node's `icon` is a
-**Lucide icon**, referenced by its sprite id (e.g. `i-cal` → lucide `calendar`); the available ids
-are `ICON_NAMES` in `src/icons.ts`, and adding one means registering its lucide name there.
-
-### Public pages & menu items
-
-A route or nav node may be marked **`public: true`** — reachable by **anyone, signed in or not**,
-and the menu item shows for everyone. This is the same as omitting `permission` (a no-permission
-route/node is already open) but stated outright, so "public" is a **deliberate choice, not the
-accident of a forgotten gate**. `public` and `permission` are **mutually exclusive** — declaring
-both is contradictory and discovery refuses the plugin at boot.
-
-A public page still renders in the native shell via `ctx.chrome`; for an anonymous visitor
-`ctx.user` is `null`, the shell shows a **Sign in** link (`chrome.signInHref`, returning to this page)
-in place of the profile/sign-out block, the gated **Dashboard** link is hidden, and `ctx.roles` is
-empty (read a role with `can(ctx, …)` to branch). The reference plugin's `/scheduling`
-**Overview** is a worked example: it's `public`, so the "Scheduling" menu header shows for everyone,
-while the actual shifts list stays behind `scheduling:read`.
-
-**A `permission` token is a coarse role.** The route/nav gate passes iff the user's JWT `roles`
-include the token; those roles come from Keto at login, so an operator grants a token by writing the
-Keto tuple `Role:<token>#members@user:<id>` (or to a group) — the admin **Roles** screen does this.
-(The fine-grained, per-row tier is the separate Keto `Resource` namespace — see the README's *Three
-tiers of "may I?"*; it is not what a route `permission` checks.)
-
-Permission tokens are a **shared global namespace** — that's deliberate, so an operator grants
-`scheduling:read` once in Keto and every plugin referencing it is gated consistently. Namespace
-your tokens as `<id>:<action>` to avoid accidental clashes. Declaring them in `permissions` is
-optional but recommended: it documents them, feeds conflict detection, and lets the one-command
-bootstrap seed them — the demo admin is granted every discovered plugin's declared tokens (§3), so
-a dropped-in plugin works out of the box without editing host config.
-
-## Contract versioning
-
-Each manifest declares `apiVersion` — a **semver** string naming the host contract it was built
-against — and the host exposes the current `HOST_API_VERSION` (e.g. `"1.0.0"`). The host bumps
-**major** on a breaking manifest/handler change and **minor** on an additive one. At discovery
-the host parses both with `parseSemver` (the official semver core regex — strict: no ranges,
-`v` prefixes, or leading zeros) and applies provider/consumer semantics in `checkApiVersion`:
-
-| Plugin `apiVersion` vs host | Result | Host action |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| same major, same minor (patch ignored) | `ok` | load |
-| same major, plugin minor **<** host minor | `warn` | load, log — additive-compatible, newer features exist |
-| same major, plugin minor **>** host minor | `refuse` | **abort boot** — plugin needs a newer host |
-| different major | `refuse` | **abort boot** — incompatible contract |
-| missing / not a valid semver | `refuse` | **abort boot** — must be declared |
-
-The plugin pins one exact version (no ranges — in keeping with the project's pinning rules); the
-*host* supplies the caret-style compatibility. `parseSemver`/`checkApiVersion` are tight,
-dependency-free functions (the `semver` package's ranges/coercion/prerelease-precedence are more
-than the contract needs).
-
-**Write a literal, never `HOST_API_VERSION`.** `apiVersion` records the version the plugin was
-*built against*. Importing the host's current constant would make every plugin always equal the
-host — the check could never fire, and a future breaking change would slip through silently.
-
-## Conflict rules
-
-Plugins are independent folders, so the host detects collisions across all discovered plugins
-with `findConflicts` and resolves them **loudly — never last-write-wins**. `error` aborts boot;
-`warn` logs and continues.
-
-| Kind | Level | Rule |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `id` | error | Two plugins share an `id` (folder name). Ids must be globally unique — they namespace the mount path, views/static, and the override target. |
-| `route` | error | Two routes resolve to the same `method` + full path. Cross-plugin routes can't collide (the `/<id>` prefix is unique), so this catches a plugin duplicating one of its own. |
-| `nav-id` | error | A nav node `id` is used more than once — the central override targets ids, so they must be unique. |
-| `home` / `dashboard` | error | More than one plugin declares `home` (or `dashboard`). Each landing page is a single slot, so only one may own it ([The landing pages](#the-landing-pages-home--dashboard)). |
-| `permission` | warn | A permission token is declared by more than one plugin. Sharing is legitimate (shared role); namespace as `<id>:<action>` if unintended. |
-
-There is **no separate `basePath` rule**: the mount path is the derived `/<id>`, so its
-uniqueness follows from the id check. `permission` is the one intentional overlap, so it warns
-rather than aborts; everything else is an error an author fixes before the host will start.
-
-Beyond cross-plugin conflicts, discovery also rejects **per-manifest shape errors** at boot: a
-non-array `nav`/`routes`/`permissions`, a non-function `home`/`dashboard`, or a route/nav node that
-sets both `public` and `permission` (mutually exclusive — [Public pages](#public-pages--menu-items)).
-
-## Hooks
-
-Optional, for reacting to system actions. A plugin's `hooks` may implement:
-
-| Hook | When | May |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `onBoot()` | after discovery, before the server listens | warm caches, validate upstream config |
-| `onRequest(ctx)` | before route matching | inspect, or **short-circuit** by returning a `RouteResult` |
-| `onResponse(ctx, result)` | after the handler | observe/log; cannot change the response |
-
-Hooks run in **discovery order** (plugins sorted by id). `onRequest` fires on every request that
-reaches routing (static assets bypass it); the **first** hook to return a `RouteResult` wins and
-short-circuits — later `onRequest` hooks and the route handler are skipped, and that result renders
-against its own plugin's views. `onResponse` runs for a matched route after its handler, with the
-handler's result; its return value is ignored. Hooks run with no sandbox — a throwing hook fails
-loud (boot for `onBoot`, the request for the others). Keep them cheap; `onRequest` is on the hot
-path (the host skips the pipeline entirely when no plugin declares a hook). This surface is
-intentionally small and may grow additively within the major version.
-
-## Local dev & test story
-
-A plugin is a normal folder of TypeScript, so an author tests it the same way the core is tested
-— everything in Docker, no host tooling. The shipped reference (`plugins/scheduling/`) is the
-worked example: thin handlers bound to an injectable upstream client, unit-tested in
-`shifts.test.ts` with a mocked `fetch` and a hand-built `ctx` (no host).
-
-1. **Unit-test handlers as pure functions.** Keep a handler thin: parse `ctx`, fetch upstream,
-   return a `RouteResult`. Test the data-shaping in isolation (mock `fetch`/upstream) with
-   `node --test`, exactly like `src/dashboard.test.ts` tests the dashboard model. No host needed.
-
-   ```bash
-   docker compose run --rm web npm test
-   ```
-
-2. **Run one plugin against the host.** Get the folder into the container's `/app/plugins/<id>`
-   — either in your clone (the dev compose bind-mounts the tree) or by bind-mounting an external
-   folder (README → *Where plugins live*) — and `docker compose up`; the host discovers it. For
-   an isolated harness, the §2 host exposes plugin injection (`createApp({ plugins: [myPlugin] })`)
-   so a test can mount a single manifest and assert its routes, nav, and gating without the rest
-   of the stack.
-
-3. **E2E the user-facing flow.** Per AGENTS.md §6, ship a side-effect-free Playwright test in
-   `e2e/` for each plugin page/form so the suite stays `fullyParallel`, run against the live `web`
-   service with the plugin mounted. The reference's permission-gating is covered in `visual.spec.ts`;
-   its authenticated list/form happy-path is the §8 full-E2E item (needs cross-host login infra).
-
-The validation an author hits is the same the host runs: bad `apiVersion` or a conflict
-([above](#conflict-rules)) stops boot with a precise message naming the plugin(s) involved.

e2e-tests/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Playwright runner — browsers preinstalled, pinned to match @playwright/test in e2e-tests/.
+# Built/run via e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml; targets the `web` service over the network.
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.62.1-noble
+
+WORKDIR /e2e-tests
+
+COPY e2e-tests/package.json e2e-tests/package-lock.json ./
+RUN npm ci
+
+COPY e2e-tests/ ./
+
+# Runs as the invoking `--user` so artifacts land owned by them, not root — and an arbitrary uid has
+# no passwd entry here, so its home would be the unwritable `/`. npm's cache follows HOME.
+ENV HOME=/tmp
+
+CMD ["npx", "playwright", "test"]

e2e-tests/auth-refresh.spec.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
-// Full-stack auth E2E: token timeout + silent re-mint ("stay signed in", §4). Runs against the
-// real Ory stack via compose.e2e-auth.yml, where the session→JWT TTL is shortened to 8s and the
+// Full-stack auth E2E: token timeout + silent re-mint ("stay signed in"). Runs against the
+// real Ory stack via e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml, where the session→JWT TTL is shortened to 8s and the
 // web clock skew is 0 — so the ~10m token lapses in seconds and the hot path re-mints it from the
 // still-live Kratos session. We drive the flow over HTTP (fetch, manual cookies) because Kratos
 // and web sit on different hosts here; web's own server-side cookie relay is what we exercise.
-// The browser-UI login is owned by §8; this proves the timeout/refresh server behaviour end-to-end.
+// The browser-UI login is owned by the full-flow E2E; this proves the timeout/refresh server behaviour end-to-end.
 const WEB = process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://web:3000";
 const KRATOS = process.env.KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL ?? "http://kratos:4433";
 const KRATOS_ADMIN = process.env.KRATOS_ADMIN_URL ?? "http://kratos:4434";
-const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap (§3); admin role granted in Keto
+const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap; admin permission granted in Keto
 const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
 
 const sleep = (ms: number): Promise<void> => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ function relayCookies(res: Response): string {
     .filter((kv) => kv.split("=")[1] !== "")
     .join("; ");
 }
-// Read a JWT's claims without verifying (web already verified it; we only inspect exp/roles).
-function jwtClaims(jwt: string): { email: string; exp: number; roles: string[]; sub: string } {
+// Read a JWT's claims without verifying (web already verified it; we only inspect exp/permissions).
+function jwtClaims(jwt: string): { email: string; exp: number; permissions: string[]; sub: string } {
   return JSON.parse(Buffer.from(jwt.split(".")[1]!, "base64url").toString());
 }
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ async function awaitJwtSetCookie(session: string, jwt: string): Promise<string>
 test("an expired session JWT is silently re-minted while Kratos lives, then cleared once it dies", async () => {
   test.setTimeout(90_000); // two short-TTL windows (8s each) + Ory round-trips
 
-  // 1. Log in for real, then complete login on web → our session JWT (roles read from Keto).
+  // 1. Log in for real, then complete login on web → our session JWT (permissions read from Keto).
   const session = await kratosLogin();
   const complete = await fetch(`${WEB}/auth/complete`, { headers: { cookie: `plainpages_session=${session}` }, redirect: "manual" });
   expect(complete.status, "auth/complete redirects home").toBe(303);
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ test("an expired session JWT is silently re-minted while Kratos lives, then clea
   const claims1 = jwtClaims(jwt1);
   expect(claims1.email).toBe(ADMIN_EMAIL);
   expect(claims1.sub, "sub is the Kratos identity id").toBeTruthy();
-  expect(claims1.roles, "roles are projected from Keto").toContain("admin");
+  expect(claims1.permissions, "permissions are projected from Keto").toContain("users:read");
 
   // 2. Token timeout → refresh: once the 8s TTL lapses, the next request re-mints a fresh JWT.
   const jwt2Line = await awaitJwtSetCookie(session, jwt1);
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ test("an expired session JWT is silently re-minted while Kratos lives, then clea
   expect(jwt2, "a different token was minted").not.toBe(jwt1);
   const claims2 = jwtClaims(jwt2);
   expect(claims2.exp, "the new token expires later").toBeGreaterThan(claims1.exp);
-  expect(claims2.roles, "re-mint re-reads roles from Keto").toContain("admin");
+  expect(claims2.permissions, "re-mint re-reads permissions from Keto").toContain("users:read");
 
   // 3. Kill the Kratos session: now the lapsed token cannot refresh — the cookie is cleared.
   const revoke = await fetch(`${KRATOS_ADMIN}/admin/identities/${claims1.sub}/sessions`, { method: "DELETE" });

e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# Full-stack auth E2E — token timeout + silent re-mint ("stay signed in", §4). The Ory-free
-# visual suite (compose.e2e.yml) covers the design system; this is its full-stack counterpart:
+# Full-stack auth E2E — token timeout + silent re-mint ("stay signed in"). The Ory-free
+# visual suite (e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml) covers the design system; this is its full-stack counterpart:
 # real Postgres + Kratos + Keto + bootstrap + web, with a SHORT tokenizer TTL (ory/kratos/e2e.yml)
 # and zero clock skew, so the JWT lapses and re-mints within seconds instead of ~10m.
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-auth.yml run --build --rm e2e
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-auth.yml down -v   # tear down after
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml down -v   # tear down after
 services:
   web:
     # This suite exercises only the Kratos session → JWT re-mint; it needs Kratos + Keto + bootstrap,
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ services:
     # Dev throwaways are fine for the test stack; the runner hits web over http; treat the JWT as
     # expired the instant its TTL lapses (no 60s leeway) so the re-mint fires promptly.
     environment:
+      APP_URL: http://web:3000 # the runner calls web on this host → canonical-host redirect stays inert
       CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
       JWT_CLOCK_SKEW_SEC: "0"
       REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
@@ -29,6 +30,18 @@ services:
       timeout: 4s
       retries: 30
 
+  # This stack mounts no plugins, so nothing declares a permission for the bootstrap to seed — and
+  # the suite asserts that Keto's grants reach the JWT claim. Name one explicitly so there is
+  # something to project.
+  #
+  # `admin` rides along on purpose: it was this setting's default until 2026-08-05 and is not a legal
+  # `<resource>:<action>` name, so it is exactly the leftover an upgrading deployment carries. An
+  # earlier revision made that fatal, and bootstrap gates `web` — so if the boot ever refuses operator
+  # env again, `web` never turns healthy and this suite fails instead of CI going green over it.
+  bootstrap:
+    environment:
+      ADMIN_PERMISSIONS: admin,users:read
+
   # Shorten the session→JWT TTL and expose a network-resolvable base_url (ory/kratos/e2e.yml),
   # merged after the base config.
   kratos:
@@ -37,7 +50,7 @@ services:
   e2e:
     build:
       context: .
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile.e2e
+      dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
     depends_on:
       web:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -47,4 +60,4 @@ services:
       KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL: http://kratos:4433
     command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "auth-refresh.spec.ts"]
     volumes:
-      - ./e2e/artifacts:/e2e/artifacts
+      - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Dev-stack login regression — guards the from-scratch experience the banner advertises (login from
+# http://localhost:3000 works, and entering on 127.0.0.1 is canonicalised). Unlike the proxied
+# full-flow suite (which fronts web + Kratos on ONE origin and so can't see this class of bug), this
+# runs against the *plain* `docker compose up` topology and drives the browser on the HOST network, so
+# it sees http://localhost:3000 (web) and http://127.0.0.1:4433 (Kratos public) exactly as a host
+# browser does. Merge the dev override so the live stack is byte-for-byte `docker compose up`:
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.override.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.override.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml down -v   # tear down
+services:
+  web:
+    # Pin APP_URL so the regression is deterministic regardless of any APP_URL exported in the shell
+    # running ci.sh (overrides the dev override's ${APP_URL:-…}); the runner's BASE_URL matches it.
+    environment:
+      APP_URL: http://localhost:3000
+    # Base web has no healthcheck; add one so the runner waits for a ready app (deps come via base).
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost:3000/public/css/styles.css"]
+      interval: 2s
+      timeout: 4s
+      retries: 30
+
+  # Pin Kratos' browser URLs to localhost too (literal, not ${APP_URL}) so the whole suite is
+  # hermetic — the 127.0.0.1 sub-test asserts canonicalisation onto localhost, which only holds if
+  # web AND Kratos agree on localhost regardless of the ambient shell env.
+  kratos:
+    environment:
+      SERVE_PUBLIC_BASE_URL: http://localhost:4433/
+      SELFSERVICE_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: http://localhost:3000/
+      SELFSERVICE_ALLOWED_RETURN_URLS: http://localhost:3000
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_ERROR_UI_URL: http://localhost:3000/error
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_LOGIN_UI_URL: http://localhost:3000/login
+      SELFSERVICE_FLOWS_LOGIN_AFTER_DEFAULT_BROWSER_RETURN_URL: http://localhost:3000/auth/complete
+
+  e2e:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
+    command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "devstack-login.spec.ts"]
+    # Host network: reach the host-published ports (web 3000, Kratos public 4433) at the very
+    # hostnames a user types — localhost / 127.0.0.1 — so the cross-host CSRF-cookie split reproduces.
+    network_mode: "host"
+    depends_on:
+      web:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    environment:
+      BASE_URL: http://localhost:3000
+    volumes:
+      - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/compose.full.yml

@@ -1,24 +1,20 @@
-# Full browser E2E (todo §8) — the real Playwright UI flow against the live stack: password +
-# mocked-SSO login, menu filtering by role, users/groups/roles CRUD, a plugin page, logout. A tiny
-# same-origin gateway (proxy, e2e/proxy.mjs) fronts web + Kratos on one host so the browser's cookies
+# Full browser E2E — the real Playwright UI flow against the live stack: password + mocked-SSO
+# login, menu filtering by permission, users/groups/OAuth2-clients CRUD + permission granting, a plugin page, logout. A
+# tiny same-origin gateway (proxy, e2e-tests/proxy.ts) fronts web + Kratos on one host so the browser's cookies
 # round-trip (ory/kratos/e2e-proxy.yml points Kratos at it); a mock OIDC provider backs the SSO test.
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-full.yml run --build --rm e2e
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-full.yml down -v   # tear down after
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.full.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.full.yml down -v   # tear down after
 services:
   web:
-    # First-party + SSO flows need Kratos + Keto + bootstrap, not Hydra — drop it so the stack is
-    # leaner. SSO is enabled here only (clean clone stays password-only): the mock provider's whole
-    # array is the env-settable form Kratos offers, mapped through the committed claims jsonnet.
-    depends_on: !override
-      bootstrap:
-        condition: service_completed_successfully
-      kratos:
-        condition: service_healthy
-      keto:
-        condition: service_healthy
+    # The base's full depends_on applies (Hydra included — the admin plugin's OAuth2-clients
+    # screen needs it); only the reference plugin's upstream is added. SSO is enabled here only
+    # (clean clone stays password-only): the mock provider's whole array is the env-settable form
+    # Kratos offers, mapped through the committed claims jsonnet.
+    depends_on:
       shifts-upstream:
         condition: service_healthy
     environment:
+      APP_URL: http://proxy # the browser reaches web through the same-origin gateway → canonical-host redirect stays inert
       CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
       REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
       SECURE_COOKIES: "false" # the browser hits the gateway over http — Secure cookies wouldn't be stored
@@ -27,6 +23,19 @@ services:
       interval: 2s
       timeout: 4s
       retries: 30
+    # plugins/ is empty in the image; bind the example plugins in so the browser flow can open the
+    # gated /scheduling/shifts page and the /admin/* screens (the admin screens ship as a drop-in
+    # plugin, mounted at /app/plugins/admin, reaching the host's Ory clients via ctx.system).
+    volumes:
+      - ./examples/plugins/scheduling:/app/plugins/scheduling:ro
+      - ./examples/plugins/admin:/app/plugins/admin:ro
+
+  # bootstrap grants the demo admin every discovered plugin's permission names, so it needs the
+  # example plugins present too — else the admin lacks scheduling:read/write and the gated pages 403.
+  bootstrap:
+    volumes:
+      - ./examples/plugins/scheduling:/app/plugins/scheduling:ro
+      - ./examples/plugins/admin:/app/plugins/admin:ro
 
   # Browser-facing URLs (base_url, every ui_url, the after-login redirect) move to the gateway host.
   # `--dev`: the browser hits the gateway over http, but Kratos marks cookies Secure for a
@@ -38,12 +47,16 @@ services:
       SELFSERVICE_METHODS_OIDC_CONFIG_PROVIDERS: >-
         [{"id":"mock","provider":"generic","label":"Mock SSO","client_id":"plainpages-e2e","client_secret":"e2e-secret","issuer_url":"http://mock-oidc:9000","scope":["openid","email"],"mapper_url":"file:///etc/config/kratos/oidc/claims.jsonnet"}]
 
+  # --dev permits the http issuer (the base file drops it for an https prod issuer).
+  hydra:
+    command: serve all --dev -c /etc/config/hydra/hydra.yml
+
   # The reference plugin's upstream (examples/shifts-upstream) so /scheduling/shifts shows real rows.
   shifts-upstream:
-    image: node:24.16.0-alpine3.24
-    command: ["node", "/server.mjs"]
+    image: node:24.19.0-alpine3.24
+    command: ["node", "/server.ts"]
     volumes:
-      - ./examples/shifts-upstream/server.mjs:/server.mjs:ro
+      - ./examples/shifts-upstream/server.ts:/server.ts:ro
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost:4000/shifts"]
       interval: 2s
@@ -53,23 +66,23 @@ services:
   # Mock OIDC provider for the SSO login test — stdlib Node, auto-approves, signs an id_token Kratos
   # verifies via its jwks. Reachable as the same host (mock-oidc:9000) by both the browser and Kratos.
   mock-oidc:
-    image: node:24.16.0-alpine3.24
-    command: ["node", "/mock-oidc.mjs"]
+    image: node:24.19.0-alpine3.24
+    command: ["node", "/mock-oidc.ts"]
     environment:
       ISSUER: http://mock-oidc:9000
       SSO_EMAIL: sso-user@plainpages.local
     volumes:
-      - ./e2e/mock-oidc.mjs:/mock-oidc.mjs:ro
+      - ./e2e-tests/mock-oidc.ts:/mock-oidc.ts:ro
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost:9000/.well-known/openid-configuration"]
       interval: 2s
       timeout: 4s
       retries: 15
 
-  # Same-origin gateway: Kratos-owned paths → kratos, everything else → web (e2e/proxy.mjs).
+  # Same-origin gateway: Kratos-owned paths → kratos, everything else → web (e2e-tests/proxy.ts).
   proxy:
-    image: node:24.16.0-alpine3.24
-    command: ["node", "/proxy.mjs"]
+    image: node:24.19.0-alpine3.24
+    command: ["node", "/proxy.ts"]
     depends_on:
       web:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -77,7 +90,7 @@ services:
       KRATOS_URL: http://kratos:4433
       WEB_URL: http://web:3000
     volumes:
-      - ./e2e/proxy.mjs:/proxy.mjs:ro
+      - ./e2e-tests/proxy.ts:/proxy.ts:ro
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost/public/css/styles.css"]
       interval: 2s
@@ -87,7 +100,7 @@ services:
   e2e:
     build:
       context: .
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile.e2e
+      dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
     command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "full-flow.spec.ts"]
     depends_on:
       mock-oidc:
@@ -98,4 +111,4 @@ services:
       BASE_URL: http://proxy
       KRATOS_ADMIN_URL: http://kratos:4434
     volumes:
-      - ./e2e/artifacts:/e2e/artifacts
+      - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-# Full-stack OAuth2 E2E — the §6 login-challenge handler. Another app logs in *through* us:
+# Full-stack OAuth2 E2E — the login-challenge handler. Another app logs in *through* us:
 # Hydra starts an authorization flow and hands the browser to web's /oauth2/login; web resolves
 # it via the Kratos session and accepts. Runs against the real stack (Postgres + Kratos + Keto +
 # Hydra + bootstrap + web). The runner drives the flow over HTTP (fetch, manual cookies), so it
 # reaches the Ory services by their compose-network names.
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-oauth.yml run --build --rm e2e
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f compose.e2e-oauth.yml down -v   # tear down after
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml down -v   # tear down after
 services:
   web:
     # Dev throwaways are fine for the test stack; the runner hits web over http.
     environment:
+      APP_URL: http://web:3000 # the runner/browser reach web on this host → canonical-host redirect stays inert
       CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
       REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
       SECURE_COOKIES: "false"
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ services:
   e2e:
     build:
       context: .
-      dockerfile: Dockerfile.e2e
+      dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
     depends_on:
       web:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -42,4 +43,4 @@ services:
       KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL: http://kratos:4433
     command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "oauth-login.spec.ts"]
     volumes:
-      - ./e2e/artifacts:/e2e/artifacts
+      - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Playwright E2E. Brings up the app + a Playwright runner and exercises the live pages (design
+# system, theme switch, mobile layout, CSRF, landing, 404, plugin gating, language switching) —
+# Ory-free, so it's fast.
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --build --rm e2e
+#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml down -v   # tear down after
+# --build rebuilds the runner (the image bakes in e2e-tests/) so spec edits are picked up.
+# Screenshots + HTML report land in ./e2e-tests/artifacts/ (git-ignored).
+services:
+  web:
+    # The dashboard renders mock data — no Ory needed. Drop the base file's kratos/keto
+    # dependency so the visual suite stays fast and doesn't boot Postgres + the Ory stack.
+    depends_on: !reset []
+    # Dev throwaways are fine for tests; cache templates for production-like rendering.
+    environment:
+      APP_URL: http://web:3000 # the suite reaches web on this host → canonical-host redirect stays inert
+      CACHE_TEMPLATES: "true"
+      REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS: "false"
+      SECURE_COOKIES: "false" # the suite hits web over http — Secure cookies wouldn't be stored
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "wget", "-q", "-O", "-", "http://localhost:3000/public/css/styles.css"]
+      interval: 2s
+      timeout: 4s
+      retries: 15
+    # plugins/ is empty in the image; bind the reference example in as the `scheduling` plugin so the
+    # nav-gating spec has a drop-in plugin to assert against.
+    volumes:
+      - ./examples/plugins/scheduling:/app/plugins/scheduling:ro
+
+  e2e:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
+    # The Ory-free suites (design system + language switching); the full-stack auth spec runs via
+    # e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml.
+    command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "visual.spec.ts", "language.spec.ts"]
+    depends_on:
+      web:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    environment:
+      BASE_URL: http://web:3000
+    volumes:
+      # The committed dev tokenizer key — the spec signs a session JWT with it so the gated
+      # dashboard renders; web verifies it with the same key (the file it mounts read-only).
+      - ./ory/kratos/tokenizer/jwks.json:/repo/jwks.json:ro
+      - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/console-guard.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { expect, test as base, type BrowserContext, type Page } from "@playwright/test";
+
+// The `test` every spec imports: it fails a test whose browser logged a console error or warning,
+// or threw, at any step — in whichever engine ran it. A zero-JS app has nothing to say in the
+// console, so anything there is a defect (a broken sub-resource, a rejected attribute, an engine
+// refusing a feature) that no assertion looks for.
+//
+// One module-level buffer is enough: a Playwright worker runs one test at a time. It is cleared at
+// teardown, not at setup, so what a `beforeAll` provoked — full-flow's whole login runs in one —
+// still lands on the first test rather than being wiped before it. The cost of the same choice: a
+// page that outlives its test (a serial describe's) can log late and fail the next test instead.
+const problems: string[] = [];
+const allowed: RegExp[] = [];
+
+// The one message the stack itself provokes: the runner reaches `web`/`proxy` by container name over
+// plain http, and only a `localhost` origin is trustworthy without TLS — so Chromium drops the COOP
+// header the app sends and says so on every page. Over https, where a deployment serves, it applies.
+const EXPECTED = [/^console\.error: The Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header has been ignored/];
+
+// Allow a message for the current test only, when the page under test provokes it on purpose.
+export function allowConsole(...patterns: RegExp[]): void {
+  allowed.push(...patterns);
+}
+
+function watch(page: Page): void {
+  page.on("console", (msg) => {
+    const type = msg.type();
+    // The origin is part of the record: a 404 reads the same whether it was the page or its
+    // stylesheet, and a failure nobody can locate is half a failure.
+    if (type === "error" || type === "warning") problems.push(`console.${type}: ${msg.text()} @ ${msg.location().url}`);
+  });
+  page.on("pageerror", (err) => problems.push(`pageerror: ${err.message}`));
+}
+
+// Every page of the context, however it is opened — `context.newPage()` fires this event too, so
+// watching the context is the whole job and a page must never be watched a second time on top.
+function watchContext(context: BrowserContext): BrowserContext {
+  context.on("page", watch);
+  return context;
+}
+
+// A spec that opens its own context — a page shared across a serial describe — goes through this.
+export function watchedPage(context: BrowserContext): Promise<Page> {
+  return watchContext(context).newPage();
+}
+
+export const test = base.extend<{ consoleGuard: void }>({
+  context: async ({ context }, use) => { await use(watchContext(context)); },
+  consoleGuard: [async ({}, use) => {
+    await use();
+    const unexpected = problems.filter((p) => ![...EXPECTED, ...allowed].some((re) => re.test(p)));
+    problems.length = 0;
+    allowed.length = 0;
+    expect(unexpected, "the browser logged nothing while this test ran").toEqual([]);
+  }, { auto: true }],
+});
+
+export { expect };

e2e-tests/devstack-login.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import { expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
+
+// The from-scratch dev experience the banner advertises: `docker compose up`, open the printed
+// login URL, sign in as the seeded admin, land on the dashboard. A host-scoped Kratos CSRF cookie
+// cannot cross `localhost`↔`127.0.0.1`, so a cross-host login POST loses it and Kratos redirects to
+// its error sink; APP_URL canonicalises every off-host visitor onto one cookie host instead.
+//
+// The runner is on the host network against the plain `docker compose up` topology, so it sees
+// http://localhost:3000 and http://127.0.0.1:4433 exactly as a host browser does. The proxied
+// full-flow suite cannot catch this — it fronts web + Kratos on one origin.
+const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap
+const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
+
+async function signIn(page: import("@playwright/test").Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
+  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
+  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
+}
+
+test("seeded admin logs in from the advertised URL (http://localhost:3000) and reaches the dashboard", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  // Open the app at the URL the first-run banner prints, then follow the landing's "Sign in" action.
+  await page.goto("/");
+  await page.locator("#main-content").getByRole("link", { name: "Sign in" }).click();
+  await signIn(page);
+
+  // Signed in on the app — NOT dumped on the Kratos /error "Page not found" page.
+  await expect(page).not.toHaveURL(/\/error(\?|$)/);
+  await expect(page.locator("h1"), 'must not land on the "Page not found" 404 view').not.toHaveText("Page not found");
+  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(ADMIN_EMAIL);
+});
+
+test("entering on the wrong host (http://127.0.0.1:3000) is canonicalised to APP_URL and login still works", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  // The exact trigger from the bug report: a user types 127.0.0.1 instead of the advertised localhost.
+  // The canonical-host redirect sends them to localhost before the flow starts, so the CSRF cookie
+  // and the cross-origin Kratos POST share one host and login succeeds.
+  await page.goto("http://127.0.0.1:3000/login");
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/^http:\/\/localhost:3000\//); // 308'd onto the canonical host
+  await signIn(page);
+
+  await expect(page).not.toHaveURL(/\/error(\?|$)/);
+  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(ADMIN_EMAIL);
+});

e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+import type { Browser, Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test, watchedPage } from "./console-guard.ts";
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+
+// Full browser E2E: the real Playwright UI against the live stack via the same-origin
+// gateway (e2e-tests/compose.full.yml) — the browser-UI login the earlier full-stack suites deferred here.
+// Coverage is the test titles below, plus the standalone SSO test.
+//
+// Runs on a fresh stack (`down -v` after, like the other full-stack suites). The serial admin
+// journey and the standalone SSO test run in parallel (fullyParallel) but stay independent: each
+// uses its own browser context, and only the SSO test writes the mock-OIDC identity — keep it so
+// (no cross-group shared backend writes) or serialise the file if that ever changes.
+const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap, holds the admin permission in Keto
+const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
+const SSO_EMAIL = "sso-user@plainpages.local"; // minted by the mock OIDC provider on first SSO login
+const suffix = randomUUID().slice(0, 8); // unique per run so re-runs don't collide on names
+
+// Drive the themed password login form → Kratos → /auth/complete → dashboard, signed in.
+async function loginPassword(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.goto("/login");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Forgot password?" })).toBeVisible(); // a path to password reset
+  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
+  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
+  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
+  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(ADMIN_EMAIL); // waits through the redirect chain
+}
+
+// The themed Kratos page in another language: our own chrome, Kratos' own strings mapped by id, and
+// the card's own links keeping the choice (they are rendered by the flow body, not by the menu).
+test("the login page speaks the visitor's language, links included", async ({ browser }) => {
+  const page = await watchedPage(await browser.newContext());
+  await page.goto("/login?locale=sv-SE");
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Logga in" })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByLabel("Lösenord", { exact: true })).toBeVisible(); // Kratos' own field, labelled via auth.field.password
+  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Glömt lösenordet?" })).toHaveAttribute("href", /locale=sv-SE/);
+  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Skapa ett" })).toHaveAttribute("href", /locale=sv-SE/);
+  await page.context().close();
+});
+
+test.describe.serial("authenticated admin journey", () => {
+  let browser: Browser;
+  let page: Page;
+
+  test.beforeAll(async ({ browser: b }) => {
+    browser = b;
+    page = await watchedPage(await browser.newContext());
+    test.setTimeout(90_000);
+    await loginPassword(page);
+  });
+  test.afterAll(async () => { await page.context().close(); });
+
+  // The list screens rebuild their query from the list state (sort/page/filter), so they are where a
+  // chosen language is most easily dropped; the core building blocks carry it through.
+  test("a sorted, paged admin list keeps the visitor's language", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/admin/users?locale=sv-SE");
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+    await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Användare" })).toBeVisible();
+
+    await page.getByRole("link", { name: /E-postadress/ }).click(); // a sort header
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Använd filter" }).click(); // the filter bar's GET form
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Visa" }).click(); // the rows-per-page GET form
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+
+    // The breadcrumb is the chrome's way back up — it is rendered by the shell, not by the screen.
+    await page.getByRole("navigation", { name: "Sidsökväg" }).getByRole("link").first().click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+  });
+
+  // A POST that re-renders a page: the write must keep the language, and the picker — which is on
+  // every page — must point somewhere that answers GET rather than at the POST-only URL.
+  test("a write keeps the visitor's language, and the picker still works on the POST-rendered page", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/admin/users?locale=sv-SE");
+    await page.getByRole("link", { name: "Ny användare" }).click();
+    await page.fill('input[name="email"]', `lang-${suffix}@plainpages.local`);
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Skapa användare" }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/); // the POST → redirect → GET keeps it
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+
+    // Open the new user's edit page the way the CRUD test does — the row's Edit link carries the id.
+    const row = page.locator("tr", { hasText: `lang-${suffix}@plainpages.local` });
+    const editHref = await row.locator('a[href^="/admin/users/"]').first().getAttribute("href");
+    await page.goto(`${editHref}`);
+    await expect(page.locator('button[aria-label="Språk"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Skapa återställningskod" }).click(); // POST-only route
+    await expect(page.getByText("Återställningskod skapad")).toBeVisible();
+
+    // The picker is here too, and following it lands on a real page in the other language.
+    await page.locator('button[aria-label="Språk"]').click();
+    await page.getByRole("link", { name: /English/i }).click();
+    expect(page.url()).toContain("locale=en-US");
+    await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "en-US");
+    await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Edit user" })).toBeVisible(); // not a 405
+  });
+
+  test("menu filters by permission: an admin sees the gated Admin section + the plugin", async () => {
+    // The signed-in admin holds every permission the two mounted plugins declare (the bootstrap
+    // seeds exactly those), so both gated sections are present in the menu (collapsed by default →
+    // assert they're in the DOM, not necessarily visible).
+    await page.goto("/dashboard");
+    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/scheduling/shifts"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+  });
+
+  test("users CRUD: create a user, see it listed, then delete it via the confirm step", async () => {
+    const email = `e2e-${suffix}@plainpages.local`;
+    await page.goto("/admin/users/new");
+    await page.fill('input[name="email"]', email);
+    await page.fill('input[name="first"]', "E2E");
+    await page.fill('input[name="last"]', "User");
+    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
+
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/); // PRG back to the list
+    const row = page.locator("tr", { hasText: email });
+    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
+
+    // Row actions sit behind the kebab popover: opening it reveals them, in the top layer, so the
+    // scrolling table around the row cannot clip the panel.
+    await row.locator("button.kebab").click();
+    await expect(row.locator('a[href^="/admin/users/"]').first()).toBeVisible();
+
+    // Delete through the confirm interstitial (the row's Edit link carries the id).
+    const editHref = await row.locator('a[href^="/admin/users/"]').first().getAttribute("href");
+    await page.goto(`${editHref}/delete`);
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Delete user" }).click(); // the confirm form's danger button
+
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/);
+    await expect(page.locator("tr", { hasText: email })).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+
+  test("groups CRUD: create a group (writes go to Keto), see it listed, then grant it a permission", async () => {
+    // A Keto set exists only while it has ≥1 member, so create needs a first member (the form
+    // enforces it); pick the first option (a user) from the required picker.
+    const group = `e2e-grp-${suffix}`;
+    await page.goto("/admin/groups/new");
+    await page.fill('input[name="name"]', group);
+    await page.locator('select[name="member"]').selectOption({ index: 1 });
+    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/groups(\?|\/|$)/);
+    await expect(page.locator("main")).toContainText(group);
+
+    // Permissions are declared in plugin code, so the group's detail page offers them as a fixed
+    // checkbox list rather than a create form — there is no Permissions screen to visit.
+    await page.goto(`/admin/groups/${group}`);
+    const scheduling = page.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:read"]');
+    await expect(scheduling).toHaveCount(1); // declared by the reference plugin, so it's on offer
+    await expect(scheduling).not.toBeChecked();
+    await scheduling.check();
+    await page.locator('form:has(input[name="permission"]) button[type="submit"]').click();
+
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp(`/admin/groups/${group}`));
+    await expect(page.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:read"]')).toBeChecked();
+  });
+
+  test("OAuth2 clients CRUD: register a client (writes go to Hydra), see the one-time secret once, then delete it via the confirm step", async () => {
+    const name = `e2e-client-${suffix}`;
+    await page.goto("/admin/clients");
+    await page.getByRole("link", { name: "Register client" }).click();
+    await page.fill('input[name="name"]', name);
+    await page.fill('textarea[name="redirectUris"]', "https://app.example.com/callback");
+    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
+
+    // Hydra returns the secret exactly once, so the POST renders the detail directly (no PRG).
+    await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Client registered");
+    const clientId = await page.locator("#cid").inputValue();
+    expect(clientId).toBeTruthy();
+    await expect(page.locator("#csecret")).toHaveValue(/.+/);
+
+    // Listed; the row header links to the plain detail, which never shows the secret again.
+    await page.goto("/admin/clients");
+    const row = page.locator("tr", { hasText: name });
+    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
+    await row.getByRole("link", { name }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp(`/admin/clients/${clientId}`));
+    await expect(page.locator("#csecret")).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    // Delete through the confirm interstitial (danger link on the detail → confirm form's button).
+    await page.getByRole("link", { name: "Delete client" }).click();
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Delete client" }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/clients(\?|$)/);
+    await expect(page.locator("tr", { hasText: name })).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+
+  test("plugin page: the reference plugin renders its upstream shifts inside the native shell", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/scheduling/shifts");
+    await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Shifts");
+    await expect(page.locator("table")).toContainText("Morning — Front desk"); // seeded by the mock upstream
+  });
+
+  test("plugin settings: the screen names the variable that sets each declared key", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/admin/plugin-settings");
+    await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Plugin settings");
+    // The reference plugin's one declared setting, and the variable an operator would set for it.
+    const scheduling = page.locator("table").filter({ hasText: "PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM" });
+    await expect(scheduling).toContainText("upstream");
+    await expect(scheduling).toContainText("http://shifts-upstream:4000"); // resolved, and its source shown
+    // Every installed plugin gets a section, so "declares none" is distinguishable from "not installed".
+    await expect(page.locator("h2", { hasText: "admin" })).toHaveCount(1);
+  });
+
+  test("logout: signing out ends the session and returns to the login page", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/dashboard");
+    await page.locator("button.profile").click(); // open the profile dropdown
+    // Sign out is the only item in it — the menu offers nothing that goes nowhere.
+    await expect(page.locator("#profile-menu .menu-item")).toHaveText(["Sign out"]);
+    await page.locator('form[action="/logout"] button[type="submit"]').click();
+    await page.waitForURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
+    // The session is gone: /dashboard is gated, so it bounces back to the login page (no admin nav).
+    await page.goto("/dashboard");
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
+    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+});
+
+test("return_to: a deep link while logged out returns to that page after login", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  // A gated deep link, logged out → bounced to the themed login (return_to is baked into the Kratos
+  // flow server-side, so it's consumed, not shown in the settled URL).
+  await page.goto("/admin/users");
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
+  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
+  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
+  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
+  // Completion routes through /auth/complete (mints the JWT) and on to the requested page, not the dashboard.
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/);
+  await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Users");
+});
+
+test("mocked SSO login: the provider button signs a user in via OIDC", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  await page.goto("/login");
+  await expect(page.locator(".sso-btn")).toBeVisible(); // the configured provider renders a button
+  await page.locator(".sso-btn").click();
+  // Mock OIDC auto-approves → Kratos creates the identity → /auth/complete → dashboard, signed in.
+  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(SSO_EMAIL);
+  // A fresh SSO identity holds no permissions, so the gated Admin section stays hidden.
+  await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+});

e2e-tests/language.spec.ts

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+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { createPrivateKey, sign } from "node:crypto";
+import { expect, test, watchedPage } from "./console-guard.ts";
+
+// Language switching in a real browser, Ory-free (the visual stack). Proves the whole path a
+// visitor takes: pick a language, read the page in it, and stay in it while clicking around —
+// including into a plugin, whose words come from its own catalog (plugins/scheduling/i18n/).
+
+const BASE_URL = process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://localhost:3000";
+const SESSION_COOKIE = "plainpages_jwt";
+
+// Same trick as visual.spec.ts: sign a session JWT with the committed dev tokenizer key so the
+// gated pages render without standing up Ory.
+function devSession(permissions: string[] = []): string {
+  const jwk = JSON.parse(readFileSync("/repo/jwks.json", "utf8")).keys[0];
+  const key = createPrivateKey({ format: "jwk", key: jwk });
+  const b64 = (o: unknown): string => Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(o)).toString("base64url");
+  const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
+  const input = `${b64({ alg: "ES256", kid: jwk.kid, typ: "JWT" })}.${b64({ email: "demo@plainpages.local", exp: now + 3600, iat: now, permissions, sub: "lang-demo" })}`;
+  return `${input}.${sign("SHA256", Buffer.from(input), { dsaEncoding: "ieee-p1363", key }).toString("base64url")}`;
+}
+
+test("the switcher changes language, and the choice survives clicking through the app", async ({ page, context }) => {
+  await context.addCookies([{ name: SESSION_COOKIE, url: BASE_URL, value: devSession(["scheduling:read"]) }]);
+
+  await page.goto("/dashboard");
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "en-US");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Dashboard" })).toBeVisible();
+
+  // The picker sits in the sidebar footer beside the theme switch; each entry is a plain link to
+  // this same page in that language (zero-JS).
+  await page.locator('button[aria-label="Language"]').click();
+  await page.getByRole("link", { name: /svenska/i }).click();
+
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Startpanel" })).toBeVisible(); // the starter dashboard, in Swedish
+  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Översikt", exact: true })).toBeVisible(); // the menu too
+  await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: `artifacts/screenshots/${test.info().project.name}/live-05-swedish.png` });
+
+  // Clicking a menu item keeps Swedish — the host carries the choice onto the links it renders,
+  // and the plugin's own page is translated from its own catalog. The section's own label comes
+  // from the plugin's catalog too, so opening it proves the nav fragment was translated.
+  await page.locator('summary[aria-label="Visa eller dölj Schemaläggning"]').click();
+  await page.getByRole("link", { name: "Pass", exact: true }).click();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/scheduling\/shifts\?locale=sv-SE/);
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Pass" })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByRole("button", { name: "Sök" })).toBeVisible(); // the core filter bar, in Swedish
+
+  // The filter bar is a GET form: submitting it replaces the whole query string, so the choice
+  // survives only because the form carries it as a hidden field.
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Sök" }).click();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/locale=sv-SE/);
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+
+  // …and back to English the same way.
+  await page.locator('button[aria-label="Språk"]').click();
+  await page.getByRole("link", { name: /English/i }).click();
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "en-US");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Shifts" })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test("a browser that asks for Swedish gets it without touching the URL", async ({ browser }) => {
+  const context = await browser.newContext({ locale: "sv" }); // a browser set to Swedish, no region
+  const page = await watchedPage(context);
+  await page.goto(`${BASE_URL}/`);
+
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "sv-SE");
+  const signIn = page.locator("#main-content").getByRole("link", { name: "Logga in" });
+  await expect(signIn).toBeVisible();
+  // Nothing was chosen in the URL, so the links stay plain — the browser asks again on the next hit.
+  await expect(signIn).toHaveAttribute("href", "/login");
+  await context.close();
+});
+
+test("an uninstalled language falls back to English rather than failing", async ({ page }) => {
+  const response = await page.goto("/?locale=sv-FI"); // sv-SE is installed; sv-FI is not
+  expect(response?.status()).toBe(200);
+  await expect(page.locator("html")).toHaveAttribute("lang", "en-US");
+});

e2e-tests/mock-oidc.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Mock OIDC provider for the SSO browser E2E (todo §8) — a stand-in for Google/etc. so the test
+// Mock OIDC provider for the SSO browser E2E — a stand-in for Google/etc. so the test
 // never leaves the compose network. Auto-approves /authorize (no provider login UI), then signs an
 // RS256 id_token Kratos verifies against /jwks. stdlib only, in-memory, NOT app code. The single
 // host (mock-oidc:9000) is reachable by both the browser (/authorize) and Kratos (token/jwks).

e2e-tests/oauth-login.spec.ts

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
-// Full-stack OAuth2 login + consent E2E (§6): another app logs in *through* plainpages. Hydra
+// Full-stack OAuth2 login + consent E2E: another app logs in *through* plainpages. Hydra
 // starts an authorization flow and hands the browser to web's /oauth2/login; web resolves it via
 // the Kratos session and accepts, Hydra continues to web's /oauth2/consent, web shows the themed
 // consent screen, and Allow drives Hydra to issue the authorization code. We drive the flow over
 // HTTP (fetch, per-host cookie jars) because the browser hosts differ on the compose network; this
-// exercises web's server-side challenge handling. The browser-UI login is owned by §8.
+// exercises web's server-side challenge handling. The browser-UI login is owned by the full-flow E2E (full-flow.spec.ts).
 const WEB = process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://web:3000";
 const KRATOS = process.env.KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL ?? "http://kratos:4433";
 const HYDRA_PUBLIC = process.env.HYDRA_PUBLIC_URL ?? "http://hydra:4444";
 const HYDRA_ADMIN = process.env.HYDRA_ADMIN_URL ?? "http://hydra:4445";
-const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap (§3)
+const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap
 const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
 
 function setCookieLine(res: Response, name: string): string | undefined {

e2e-tests/package-lock.json

@@ -1,30 +1,28 @@
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-      "version": "0.1.0",
       "devDependencies": {
-        "@playwright/test": "1.49.1"
+        "@playwright/test": "1.62.1"
       }
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@playwright/test/-/test-1.62.1.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "playwright": "1.49.1"
+        "playwright": "1.62.1"
       },
       "bin": {
         "playwright": "cli.js"
       },
       "engines": {
-        "node": ">=18"
+        "node": ">=20"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/fsevents": {
@@ -43,35 +41,35 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/playwright": {
-      "version": "1.49.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright/-/playwright-1.49.1.tgz",
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+      "version": "1.62.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright/-/playwright-1.62.1.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "playwright-core": "1.49.1"
+        "playwright-core": "1.62.1"
       },
       "bin": {
         "playwright": "cli.js"
       },
       "engines": {
-        "node": ">=18"
+        "node": ">=20"
       },
       "optionalDependencies": {
         "fsevents": "2.3.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/playwright-core": {
-      "version": "1.49.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright-core/-/playwright-core-1.49.1.tgz",
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+      "version": "1.62.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright-core/-/playwright-core-1.62.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-wPYSwEBJY9GHraISXqyqtx0na0LpO3XEX7jNDhntbex7tzUS7kLnZsOlFruFJB4Hi/rhDMjXGqHewDZ68nYZVw==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "bin": {
         "playwright-core": "cli.js"
       },
       "engines": {
-        "node": ">=18"
+        "node": ">=20"
       }
     }
   }

e2e-tests/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "name": "plainpages-e2e",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Playwright E2E: design-system parity (visual), auth refresh, OAuth2 login/consent, and the full browser flow (login/menu/CRUD/plugin/logout).",
   "type": "module",
@@ -8,6 +7,6 @@
     "test": "playwright test"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@playwright/test": "1.49.1"
+    "@playwright/test": "1.62.1"
   }
 }

e2e-tests/playwright.config.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { defineConfig, devices } from "@playwright/test";
+
+// Visual + functional checks against the live app (the `web` compose service, BASE_URL). Run via
+// e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml. Parallel per the project's E2E principle; deterministic colorScheme/viewport
+// so the rendered design is stable across runs.
+
+const ORY_FREE = /\/(visual|language)\.spec\.ts$/;
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  testDir: ".",
+  outputDir: "artifacts/test-output",
+  fullyParallel: true,
+  forbidOnly: true,
+  reporter: [["list"], ["html", { open: "never", outputFolder: "artifacts/report" }]],
+  use: {
+    baseURL: process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://localhost:3000",
+    colorScheme: "light",
+    screenshot: "only-on-failure",
+    viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 },
+  },
+  // The Ory-free suites run in all three engines: the console guard (console-guard.ts) only sees an
+  // engine's warnings when that engine renders the page, and the newest platform features in the app
+  // (popover, CSS anchor positioning, `:has()`) are exactly where engines disagree. They stay
+  // side-effect-free, so three parallel runs of them don't collide. The Ory-backed suites write to
+  // one shared backend and stay on chromium.
+  projects: [
+    { name: "chromium", use: { ...devices["Desktop Chrome"] } },
+    { name: "firefox", testMatch: ORY_FREE, use: { ...devices["Desktop Firefox"] } },
+    { name: "webkit", testMatch: ORY_FREE, use: { ...devices["Desktop Safari"] } },
+  ],
+});

e2e-tests/proxy.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Same-origin gateway for the browser E2E (todo §8). The themed login form posts straight to
+// Same-origin gateway for the browser E2E. The themed login form posts straight to
 // Kratos' flow action and Kratos sets the session cookie for its own base_url host — so for a real
 // browser, web and Kratos must look like ONE origin (cookies are host-scoped). This tiny stdlib
 // reverse proxy fronts both on a single host (the browser's only origin), exactly as a production

e2e-tests/visual.spec.ts

@@ -1,48 +1,40 @@
 import { createPrivateKey, sign } from "node:crypto";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { expect, test, type Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { allowConsole, expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
-// The mockups are bind-mounted at /repo (sibling to /repo/public so their ../public/css/ resolves).
-const MOCKUP = "file:///repo/html-css-foundation";
-const APP_SHELL = `${MOCKUP}/App%20Shell.html`;
-const AUTH = `${MOCKUP}/Auth.html`;
-const SHOTS = "artifacts/screenshots";
 const BASE_URL = process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://localhost:3000";
-const SESSION_COOKIE = "plainpages_jwt"; // src/login.ts — web verifies it against the committed dev JWKS
+const SESSION_COOKIE = "plainpages_jwt"; // src/auth/login.ts — web verifies it against the committed dev JWKS
 
+// Per engine: the three projects run this suite in parallel and would otherwise write one file.
 const shot = (page: Page, name: string): Promise<Buffer> =>
-  page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: `${SHOTS}/${name}.png` });
+  page.screenshot({ fullPage: true, path: `artifacts/screenshots/${test.info().project.name}/${name}.png` });
 
 // Sign a session JWT with the committed dev tokenizer key (bind-mounted at /repo/jwks.json), so the
-// gated dashboard (§10) renders for a "signed-in" user without standing up Ory — web verifies it
+// gated dashboard renders for a "signed-in" user without standing up Ory — web verifies it
 // with the same key by `kid`, exactly as it verifies a real Kratos-tokenizer JWT.
-function devSession(roles: string[] = []): string {
+function devSession(permissions: string[] = []): string {
   const jwk = JSON.parse(readFileSync("/repo/jwks.json", "utf8")).keys[0];
   const key = createPrivateKey({ format: "jwk", key: jwk });
   const b64 = (o: unknown): string => Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(o)).toString("base64url");
   const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
-  const input = `${b64({ alg: "ES256", kid: jwk.kid, typ: "JWT" })}.${b64({ email: "demo@plainpages.local", exp: now + 3600, iat: now, roles, sub: "visual-demo" })}`;
+  const input = `${b64({ alg: "ES256", kid: jwk.kid, typ: "JWT" })}.${b64({ email: "demo@plainpages.local", exp: now + 3600, iat: now, permissions, sub: "visual-demo" })}`;
   return `${input}.${sign("SHA256", Buffer.from(input), { dsaEncoding: "ieee-p1363", key }).toString("base64url")}`;
 }
 
-test.beforeAll(async () => { await mkdir(SHOTS, { recursive: true }); });
-
-// The dashboard is gated (§10): a page navigation needs a session. Plant one per test — a plain
-// member (no roles) so the gated scheduling/admin nav stays filtered out, matching the mockup.
+// The dashboard is gated: a page navigation needs a session. Plant one per test — a plain
+// member (no permissions) so the gated scheduling nav stays filtered out.
 test.beforeEach(async ({ context }) => {
   await context.addCookies([{ name: SESSION_COOKIE, url: BASE_URL, value: devSession() }]);
 });
 
-test("captures live pages + reference mockups for side-by-side review", async ({ page }) => {
+test("captures the live pages for review", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.locator("table.table tbody tr").first()).toBeVisible();
+  // the default /dashboard is the instructional starter, not a mock-data list.
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Starter dashboard" })).toBeVisible();
   await shot(page, "live-01-dashboard");
 
-  await page.goto("/dashboard?sort=-name&status=active");
-  await shot(page, "live-02-sorted-filtered");
-
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   await page.locator("#theme-dark").check({ force: true }); // visually-hidden radio
   await shot(page, "live-03-dark");
@@ -51,31 +43,6 @@ test("captures live pages + reference mockups for side-by-side review", async ({
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   await shot(page, "live-04-mobile");
   await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 800 });
-
-  await page.goto(APP_SHELL);
-  await shot(page, "mockup-01-app-shell");
-  await page.goto(AUTH);
-  await shot(page, "mockup-02-auth");
-});
-
-// The live DOM reuses the foundation's classes, so the same styles.css must compute identically
-// on both — proof we render the intended graphics, independent of the (different) row data.
-const PROPS = ["backgroundColor", "borderRadius", "borderTopColor", "color", "fontSize", "fontWeight"] as const;
-const styleOf = (page: Page, selector: string): Promise<Record<string, string>> =>
-  page.locator(selector).first().evaluate((el, props) => {
-    const cs = getComputedStyle(el as Element);
-    return Object.fromEntries(props.map((p) => [p, cs.getPropertyValue(p) || (cs as unknown as Record<string, string>)[p]]));
-  }, PROPS as unknown as string[]);
-
-test("live components compute the same design-system styles as the reference mockup", async ({ page, context }) => {
-  await page.goto("/dashboard");
-  const ref = await context.newPage();
-  await ref.goto(APP_SHELL);
-
-  for (const selector of [".sidebar", ".topbar", ".brand", ".btn.btn-primary", ".theme-switch", ".filters", ".pager"]) {
-    expect(await styleOf(page, selector), `computed style mismatch for ${selector}`).toEqual(await styleOf(ref, selector));
-  }
-  await ref.close();
 });
 
 test("every icon <use> resolves to a defined <symbol> (no broken graphics)", async ({ page }) => {
@@ -89,20 +56,8 @@ test("every icon <use> resolves to a defined <symbol> (no broken graphics)", asy
   expect(missing).toEqual([]);
 });
 
-test("sorting and search drive the list through the URL (zero-JS)", async ({ page }) => {
-  await page.goto("/dashboard");
-  const total = await page.locator("tbody tr").count();
-
-  await page.getByRole("link", { name: /Name/ }).first().click();
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/sort=name/);
-  await expect(page.locator("thead th").filter({ hasText: "Name" })).toHaveAttribute("aria-sort", "ascending");
-
-  await page.goto("/dashboard");
-  await page.locator('input[name="q"]').fill("Avery");
-  await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Apply filters/ }).click();
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/q=Avery/);
-  expect(await page.locator("tbody tr").count()).toBeLessThan(total);
-});
+// The zero-JS URL-driven list — sortable headers, ?q search — is unit-tested per component and
+// exercised live by the full-flow E2E's admin Users list, so it has no Ory-free counterpart here.
 
 test("theme switch flips the palette with no JavaScript", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
@@ -112,6 +67,35 @@ test("theme switch flips the palette with no JavaScript", async ({ page }) => {
   expect(dark).not.toBe(light);
 });
 
+// The menus are <button popovertarget> + [popover], so the browser dismisses them: the visitor no
+// longer has to click the trigger again to get rid of one. Driven through the language picker; the
+// profile menu is the same block. Anchoring is asserted too — without `position-anchor` the panel
+// silently detaches and lands in the middle of the viewport.
+test("a popover menu sits on its trigger and closes on an outside click or Esc — no JavaScript", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto("/dashboard");
+  const trigger = page.locator('button[aria-label="Language"]');
+  const panel = page.locator('button[aria-label="Language"] + .menu-pop');
+
+  await expect(panel).toBeHidden();
+  await trigger.click();
+  await expect(panel).toBeVisible();
+
+  // Anchored to the button that opened it: directly above (.up), right edges flush.
+  const t = (await trigger.boundingBox())!;
+  const p = (await panel.boundingBox())!;
+  expect(Math.abs(p.x + p.width - (t.x + t.width))).toBeLessThan(2);
+  expect(t.y - (p.y + p.height)).toBeGreaterThan(-1); // above the trigger, subpixel-tolerant
+  expect(t.y - (p.y + p.height)).toBeLessThan(12);
+
+  await page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Starter dashboard" }).click(); // anywhere else on the page
+  await expect(panel).toBeHidden();
+
+  await trigger.click();
+  await expect(panel).toBeVisible();
+  await page.keyboard.press("Escape");
+  await expect(panel).toBeHidden();
+});
+
 test("mobile layout hides the sidebar off-canvas behind the hamburger", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
@@ -137,17 +121,21 @@ test("Sign-out is a CSRF-guarded POST form: the token is issued on the page, a t
   expect(res.status()).toBe(403);
 });
 
-test("the public landing at / is ungated and links to sign in + register (§10)", async ({ page, context }) => {
+test("the public landing at / is ungated and links to sign in + register", async ({ page, context }) => {
   await context.clearCookies(); // visit "/" as a logged-out visitor (drop the beforeEach session)
   await page.goto("/");
-  await expect(page.locator(".landing")).toBeVisible(); // the standalone landing, not the app shell
-  await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toHaveCount(0);
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Log in" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/login");
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Create account" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/registration");
+  await expect(page.locator(".landing")).toBeVisible();
+  // the same app shell every page renders — the menu shows even signed out (permission-filtered).
+  await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('use[href="#i-gear"]')).toHaveCount(0); // no settings cog to offer a signed-out visitor
+  // Scoped to the landing itself: the anonymous sidebar offers a "Sign in" link of its own.
+  await expect(page.locator("#main-content").getByRole("link", { name: "Sign in" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/login");
+  await expect(page.locator("#main-content").getByRole("link", { name: "Create account" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/registration");
   await shot(page, "live-05-public-landing");
 });
 
 test("unknown routes serve the 404 page (a real user-facing flow, covered end-to-end)", async ({ page }) => {
+  allowConsole(/status of 404 .*\/no-such-page$/); // the navigation under test, which Chromium and WebKit log — not a sub-resource of it
   const res = await page.goto("/no-such-page");
   expect(res?.status()).toBe(404);
   await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Page not found" })).toBeVisible();
@@ -156,9 +144,9 @@ test("unknown routes serve the 404 page (a real user-facing flow, covered end-to
 
 // The reference plugin (plugins/scheduling) ships discovered in the image. Its public Overview is
 // reachable by anyone and its menu header shows for everyone; the shifts list stays permission-gated,
-// so an anonymous visitor is bounced to sign in. The authenticated list/form flow is the §8 full
+// so an anonymous visitor is bounced to sign in. The authenticated list/form flow is the full
 // E2E (full-flow.spec). Side-effect-free.
-test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, the gated Shifts redirects to /login (§10)", async ({ page, request }) => {
+test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, the gated Shifts redirects to /login", async ({ page, request }) => {
   // `request` is the isolated API context — it doesn't carry the beforeEach session cookie, so these
   // probes are genuinely anonymous.
   // The public overview is reachable with no session (200), not bounced to sign in.
@@ -166,21 +154,21 @@ test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, the gated Shifts red
   expect(pub.status()).toBe(200);
   const body = await pub.text();
   expect(body).toContain("Scheduling");
-  // Anonymous in the native shell (§10): the gated Dashboard link is hidden (it would only dead-end at
+  // Anonymous in the native shell: the gated Dashboard link is hidden (it would only dead-end at
   // /login), and the shell's Sign-in link carries the current page as return_to.
   expect(body).not.toContain('href="/dashboard"');
   expect(body).toContain('href="/login?return_to=%2Fscheduling"');
 
   // The gated shifts list still bounces (don't follow — this Ory-free suite has no /login handler);
-  // assert the gate's 303 with the requested page preserved as return_to (§9).
+  // assert the gate's 303 with the requested page preserved as return_to.
   const res = await request.get("/scheduling/shifts", { maxRedirects: 0 });
   expect(res.status()).toBe(303);
   expect(res.headers()["location"]).toBe("/login?return_to=%2Fscheduling%2Fshifts");
 
-  // The signed-in member (no scheduling role) sees the public Scheduling → Overview leaf in the nav,
+  // The signed-in member (no scheduling permission) sees the public Scheduling → Overview leaf in the nav,
   // but the gated Shifts leaf is filtered out.
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
-  await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toContainText("People"); // dashboard nav renders
+  await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/dashboard"]')).toHaveCount(1); // the one unified menu renders
   await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/scheduling"]')).toHaveCount(1); // public Overview shown
   await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/scheduling/shifts"]')).toHaveCount(0); // gated leaf filtered out
 });

e2e/full-flow.spec.ts

@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-import { type Browser, type Page, expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
-import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
-
-// Full browser E2E (todo §8): the real Playwright UI against the live stack via the same-origin
-// gateway (compose.e2e-full.yml) — the browser-UI login the earlier full-stack suites deferred here.
-// Coverage is the test titles below, plus the standalone SSO test.
-//
-// Runs on a fresh stack (`down -v` after, like the other full-stack suites). The serial admin
-// journey and the standalone SSO test run in parallel (fullyParallel) but stay independent: each
-// uses its own browser context, and only the SSO test writes the mock-OIDC identity — keep it so
-// (no cross-group shared backend writes) or serialise the file if that ever changes.
-const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap (§3), holds the admin role in Keto
-const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
-const SSO_EMAIL = "sso-user@plainpages.local"; // minted by the mock OIDC provider on first SSO login
-const suffix = randomUUID().slice(0, 8); // unique per run so re-runs don't collide on names
-
-// Drive the themed password login form → Kratos → /auth/complete → dashboard, signed in.
-async function loginPassword(page: Page): Promise<void> {
-  await page.goto("/login");
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Forgot password?" })).toBeVisible(); // a path to password reset
-  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
-  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
-  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
-  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(ADMIN_EMAIL); // waits through the redirect chain
-}
-
-test.describe.serial("authenticated admin journey", () => {
-  let browser: Browser;
-  let page: Page;
-
-  test.beforeAll(async ({ browser: b }) => {
-    browser = b;
-    page = await (await browser.newContext()).newPage();
-    test.setTimeout(90_000);
-    await loginPassword(page);
-  });
-  test.afterAll(async () => { await page.context().close(); });
-
-  test("menu filters by role: an admin sees the gated Admin section + the plugin", async () => {
-    // The signed-in admin holds admin + scheduling:read/write, so both gated sections are present
-    // in the menu (collapsed by default → assert they're in the DOM, not necessarily visible).
-    await page.goto("/dashboard");
-    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(1);
-    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/scheduling/shifts"]')).toHaveCount(1);
-  });
-
-  test("users CRUD: create a user, see it listed, then delete it via the confirm step", async () => {
-    const email = `e2e-${suffix}@plainpages.local`;
-    await page.goto("/admin/users/new");
-    await page.fill('input[name="email"]', email);
-    await page.fill('input[name="first"]', "E2E");
-    await page.fill('input[name="last"]', "User");
-    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
-
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/); // PRG back to the list
-    const row = page.locator("tr", { hasText: email });
-    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
-
-    // Delete through the confirm interstitial (the row's Edit link carries the id).
-    const editHref = await row.locator('a[href^="/admin/users/"]').first().getAttribute("href");
-    await page.goto(`${editHref}/delete`);
-    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Delete user" }).click(); // the confirm form's danger button
-
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/);
-    await expect(page.locator("tr", { hasText: email })).toHaveCount(0);
-  });
-
-  test("groups + roles CRUD: create one of each (writes go to Keto) and see them listed", async () => {
-    // A Keto set exists only while it has ≥1 member, so create needs a first member (the form
-    // enforces it); pick the first option (a user) from the required picker.
-    const group = `e2e-grp-${suffix}`;
-    await page.goto("/admin/groups/new");
-    await page.fill('input[name="name"]', group);
-    await page.locator('select[name="member"]').selectOption({ index: 1 });
-    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/groups(\?|\/|$)/);
-    await expect(page.locator("main")).toContainText(group);
-
-    const role = `e2e-role-${suffix}`;
-    await page.goto("/admin/roles/new");
-    await page.fill('input[name="name"]', role);
-    await page.locator('select[name="member"]').selectOption({ index: 1 });
-    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/roles(\?|\/|$)/);
-    await expect(page.locator("main")).toContainText(role);
-  });
-
-  test("plugin page: the reference plugin renders its upstream shifts inside the native shell", async () => {
-    await page.goto("/scheduling/shifts");
-    await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Shifts");
-    await expect(page.locator("table")).toContainText("Morning — Front desk"); // seeded by the mock upstream
-  });
-
-  test("logout: signing out ends the session and returns to the login page", async () => {
-    await page.goto("/dashboard");
-    await page.locator("summary.profile").click(); // open the profile dropdown
-    await page.locator('form[action="/logout"] button[type="submit"]').click();
-    await page.waitForURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
-    // The session is gone: /dashboard is gated, so it bounces back to the login page (no admin nav).
-    await page.goto("/dashboard");
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
-    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
-  });
-});
-
-test("return_to: a deep link while logged out returns to that page after login (§9)", async ({ page }) => {
-  test.setTimeout(90_000);
-  // A gated deep link, logged out → bounced to the themed login (return_to is baked into the Kratos
-  // flow server-side, so it's consumed, not shown in the settled URL).
-  await page.goto("/admin/users");
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
-  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
-  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
-  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
-  // Completion routes through /auth/complete (mints the JWT) and on to the requested page, not the dashboard.
-  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/users(\?|$)/);
-  await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Users");
-});
-
-test("mocked SSO login: the provider button signs a user in via OIDC", async ({ page }) => {
-  test.setTimeout(90_000);
-  await page.goto("/login");
-  await expect(page.locator(".sso-btn")).toBeVisible(); // the configured provider renders a button
-  await page.locator(".sso-btn").click();
-  // Mock OIDC auto-approves → Kratos creates the identity → /auth/complete → dashboard, signed in.
-  await expect(page.locator(".profile-mail")).toHaveText(SSO_EMAIL);
-  // A fresh SSO identity holds no roles, so the gated Admin section stays hidden.
-  await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
-});

e2e/playwright.config.ts

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-import { defineConfig, devices } from "@playwright/test";
-
-// Visual + functional checks against the live app (the `web` compose service, BASE_URL) and the
-// static html-css-foundation mockups (bind-mounted at /repo). Run via compose.e2e.yml. Parallel
-// per the project's E2E principle (todo §1.1); deterministic colorScheme/viewport so the
-// computed-style parity vs the reference design is stable.
-export default defineConfig({
-  testDir: ".",
-  outputDir: "artifacts/test-output",
-  fullyParallel: true,
-  forbidOnly: true,
-  reporter: [["list"], ["html", { open: "never", outputFolder: "artifacts/report" }]],
-  use: {
-    baseURL: process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://localhost:3000",
-    colorScheme: "light",
-    screenshot: "only-on-failure",
-    viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 },
-  },
-  projects: [{ name: "chromium", use: { ...devices["Desktop Chrome"] } }],
-});

examples/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# examples/
+
+Copy-in reference material. Each subfolder mirrors a **drop-in mount dir** at the repo root — copy it
+across (or bind-mount your own) and restart.
+
+| Path | Copy into | Example of |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| [`plugins/scheduling/`](plugins/scheduling/) | `plugins/scheduling/` | The reference plugin: a list page over an upstream REST service, a CSRF-guarded form that forwards a write, and permission-gated nav — built from the core building blocks, holding no state. Imports the host surface as `@plainpages/plugin-api`. See its [README](plugins/scheduling/README.md) and the [plugin contract](../README.md#building-plugins). |
+| [`plugins/admin/`](plugins/admin/) | `plugins/admin/` | The system-admin plugin: the Users / Groups / Permissions / OAuth2-clients screens for running Plainpages itself. A *system* plugin — it administers the Ory identity stack via the privileged [`ctx.system`](../README.md#system-capabilities-the-ctxsystem-surface) surface instead of its own upstream. Copy it in to get a GUI for user & group admin. See its [README](plugins/admin/README.md). |
+| [`config/menu.ts`](config/menu.ts) | `config/menu.ts` | The central menu override + branding template (rename/group/order/hide nav, set app name/logo/theme). Imports its typed builder as `#menu-config`; `config/` ships empty, so defaults apply until you copy this in. See [The menu system](../README.md#the-menu-system). |
+| [`shifts-upstream/`](shifts-upstream/) | — (dev service) | A throwaway mock backend the reference plugin reads/writes — stdlib-only, in-memory, no auth. Stands in for your real service so `docker compose up` shows the plugin working out of the box; in production you point `PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM` at the real thing instead. |

examples/config/menu.ts

@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
-// Central menu override + branding (todo §2). Brand the app and reorder/rename/group/hide nav
-// nodes (by their `id`) across all plugins — the override always wins, applied before the
-// per-user permission filter. Every field is optional; delete one to fall back to the default.
-// See src/menu-config.ts (types), src/nav.ts (NavOverride), docs/plugin-contract.md.
+// Reference config/menu.ts — copy into the empty config/ mount at the repo root:
+//   cp examples/config/menu.ts config/menu.ts
+// Absent config = built-in defaults.
+//
+// Brand the app and reorder/rename/group/hide nav nodes (by their `id`) across all plugins — the
+// override always wins, applied before the per-user permission filter. Every field is optional.
+// See src/ui/menu-config.ts (types), src/ui/nav.ts (NavOverride), README → The menu system.
 
-import { defineMenu } from "../src/menu-config.ts";
+import { defineMenu } from "#menu-config";
 
 export default defineMenu({
   branding: {
     name: "Plainpages", // app name shown in the sidebar
-    sub: "Console", // optional subtitle under the name
+    sub: "Console", // optional subtitle under the name — a catalog key here would be translated
     // logo: "/public/logo.svg", // optional logo asset (rendered in the sidebar brand)
     // theme: "auto",            // default color theme: auto | light | dark
   },
 
   // Operator override (rename → group → order → hide), keyed by node id.
   override: {
-    // rename: { people: "Staff" },                                       // node id → new label
-    // groups: [{ id: "admin", label: "Admin", children: ["users", "roles"] }],
+    // rename: { people: "Staff" },                                       // node id → new label (or a catalog key)
+    // groups: [{ id: "admin", label: "Admin", children: ["users", "groups"] }],
     // order: ["people", "reports"],                                      // top-level order by id
     // hide: ["teams"],                                                    // remove nodes (any depth)
   },

examples/plugins/admin/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Admin — the system-administration plugin
+
+The Users / Groups / OAuth2-clients screens for running Plainpages itself, shipped as a **drop-in
+example plugin** so a fresh clone has no admin GUI until you opt in. Copy this folder into `plugins/`
+(it keeps the id and mount path `admin`, so the screens live at `/admin/*`) and restart:
+
+```bash
+cp -r examples/plugins/admin plugins/admin
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+The bootstrap grants the seeded `admin@plainpages.local` every permission this plugin declares, so
+the section appears in the menu and the screens work immediately. An older copy already in
+`plugins/` is yours — the host never updates it — so re-copy after a pull; a stale one stops the boot
+with a message naming it ([README → Upgrading](../../../README.md#upgrading)).
+
+Every string it renders comes from its own catalogs (`i18n/en-US.ts`, `i18n/sv-SE.ts`), the nav
+labels included. Each pure view-model builder takes an optional `t` defaulting to the plugin's own
+English, so a unit test reads in words rather than keys.
+
+## What it demonstrates — a *system* plugin
+
+Most plugins fetch their data from an upstream service of their own (see the [scheduling
+reference](../scheduling/README.md)). The admin screens instead administer **Plainpages' own identity
+stack**, so they use the privileged **`ctx.system`** surface the host exposes to a system plugin:
+
+- **`ctx.system.kratosAdmin`** — create/edit/deactivate/delete Kratos identities (Users).
+- **`ctx.system.keto`** — read/write the Keto relationship graph (group membership, permission grants).
+- **`ctx.system.hydra`** — register/list/delete Ory Hydra OAuth2 clients.
+- **`ctx.system.revoke(sub)`** — the optional instant-revoke hook: a deactivate/delete or a
+  user's permission change kills that subject's live tokens at once instead of waiting out the JWT TTL.
+
+`ctx.system` is populated only when the host wired those services. Where a capability is absent the
+screen degrades to a themed 503 rather than crashing. Everything else is an ordinary plugin:
+folder-discovered, gated per route by its screen's `<resource>:<action>` permission, rendering the
+core building blocks in `views/`.
+
+Each screen is its own resource — `users`, `groups`, `oauth2-clients` — split into `:read` and
+`:write`, so a helpdesk account can be given `users:read` alone. Holding none of the six hides the
+Admin section entirely.
+
+There is **no Permissions screen**. Permission names are declared in plugin code, not created in a
+GUI, so the host's catalog (`ctx.declaredPermissions`) is the fixed list — and holding one is a
+property of a user or a group, edited as a checkbox list on those two screens (`admin-grants.ts`).
+
+## Layout
+
+- `plugin.ts` — the manifest: the Admin nav fragment, the six permissions the plugin declares, and
+  the route table — one thin handler per method+path, gated via `permissionName(resource, actionForMethod(method))`
+  so a GET needs `:read` and a POST `:write`.
+- `admin-grants.ts` — the permission picker and the grant diff, shared by the Users and Groups
+  screens: what a submitted checkbox set grants and revokes, against the host's declared catalog.
+- `admin-users.ts` · `admin-groups.ts` · `admin-clients.ts` — each a set of pure
+  view-model builders (unit-tested in the matching `*.test.ts`) plus thin per-route handlers keyed on
+  `ctx.params` (the host extracts `:id`/`:name`), sharing a small `withX` wrapper that resolves the
+  screen's permission gate + the needed `ctx.system` clients once.
+- `admin-shared.ts` — the permission naming (`permissionName` / `actionForMethod`), the shared gate
+  (`requirePermission`), CSRF form reader (`guardedForm`), confirm
+  model, nav fragment, and the not-found / unavailable helpers.
+- `views/` — the screens' EJS, plus the admin-specific body partials under `views/partials/`. They
+  `include()` the core building-block partials (shell, data-table, filter-bar, field, …).
+
+The three screens hold **no state** — everything lives in Ory. Handlers are thin, so their builders
+unit-test as pure functions with no host; the HTTP routing/gate/CSRF is covered in
+`src/http/app.test.ts` (which mounts this plugin) and end-to-end in `e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts`.

examples/plugins/admin/admin-clients.test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Built-in OAuth2 clients admin screen (§6): the pure view-model + Hydra-payload builders. A client
+// Built-in OAuth2 clients admin screen: the pure view-model + Hydra-payload builders. A client
 // is an Ory Hydra OAuth2 client (apps that log in *through* us); writes go only to Hydra. The
 // HTTP routing/gate/CSRF + live Hydra calls (incl. the one-time secret) are exercised in app.test.ts.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ test("buildClientsListModel filters by search, paginates; the name links to the
   const all = buildClientsListModel({ clients, url: "http://x/admin/clients" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
-  assert.equal(all.shell.title, "OAuth2 clients");
+  assert.equal(all.title, "OAuth2 clients");
   const first = all.table.rows[0]!.cells[0] as { rowHeader: { href: string; text: string } };
   assert.equal(first.rowHeader.text, "app-00");
   assert.equal(first.rowHeader.href, "/admin/clients/id-00");
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ test("buildClientsListModel filters by search, paginates; the name links to the
 
 test("buildClientFormModel: a register form with name + scope fields; values reflected on error", () => {
   const m = buildClientFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig" });
-  assert.equal(m.shell.title, "Register client");
+  assert.equal(m.title, "Register client");
   assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/clients");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Register client");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ test("buildClientDetailModel: client info + delete action; the one-time secret +
   const client = toClientView({ client_id: "c1", client_name: "Acme", redirect_uris: ["https://a/cb"], scope: "openid", token_endpoint_auth_method: "client_secret_basic" });
 
   const plain = buildClientDetailModel({ client });
-  assert.equal(plain.shell.title, "Acme");
+  assert.equal(plain.title, "Acme");
   assert.equal(plain.delete.action, "/admin/clients/c1/delete");
   assert.equal(plain.created, false);
   assert.equal(plain.secret, undefined);
@@ -101,5 +101,5 @@ test("buildClientDetailModel: client info + delete action; the one-time secret +
   const fresh = buildClientDetailModel({ client, created: true, secret: "s3cr3t" });
   assert.equal(fresh.created, true);
   assert.equal(fresh.secret, "s3cr3t");
-  assert.equal(fresh.shell.title, "Client registered");
+  assert.equal(fresh.title, "Client registered");
 });

examples/plugins/admin/admin-clients.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,323 @@
+// OAuth2 clients admin screen: register / list / delete the OAuth2 clients other
+// apps log in *through* us with (Ory Hydra, the login+consent handlers). A client is an Ory Hydra
+// OAuth2 client; writes go only to Hydra. Hydra returns the client_secret once, on create — so the
+// register POST renders the new client's detail page (with the one-time secret) directly instead of a
+// PRG redirect (mirrors the Users "trigger recovery" one-time code). Below the builders are thin
+// per-route handlers (keyed on ctx.params) over a shared `withClients` gate — admin-only, CSRF-guarded.
+
+import { can, type HydraAdmin, HydraError, type OAuth2Client, paginate, parseListQuery, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type Translate, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, ADMIN_EN, type AdminAction, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, permissionName, requirePermission, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+import type { FieldConfig } from "./admin-users.ts";
+
+const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 25;
+const PAGE_SIZES = [25, 50, 100];
+// One Hydra page is fetched and filtered/paged in memory — its list API has no search. Ample for an
+// admin tool (the OAuth2 clients of a deployment number in the dozens); raise if one outgrows it.
+const LIST_FETCH_SIZE = 250;
+const DEFAULT_SCOPE = "openid offline_access";
+
+export interface ClientView {
+  firstParty: boolean;
+  id: string; // client_id
+  name: string;
+  public: boolean; // public (PKCE, no secret) vs confidential
+  redirectUris: string[];
+  scopes: string[];
+}
+
+export interface ClientInput {
+  firstParty: boolean;
+  name: string;
+  public: boolean;
+  redirectUris: string[];
+  scope: string;
+}
+
+export function toClientView(client: OAuth2Client): ClientView {
+  const id = client.client_id ?? "";
+  return {
+    firstParty: (client.metadata as { first_party?: unknown } | undefined)?.first_party === true,
+    id,
+    name: client.client_name?.trim() || id || "(unnamed)",
+    public: client.token_endpoint_auth_method === "none",
+    redirectUris: client.redirect_uris ?? [],
+    scopes: (client.scope ?? "").split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean),
+  };
+}
+
+// Split a textarea value into redirect URIs (one per line / whitespace / comma), dropping empties.
+export function parseRedirectUris(raw: string): string[] {
+  return raw.split(/[\s,]+/).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+}
+
+// Hydra's create body. We register a standard authorization-code web/native client (+ refresh);
+// the type (confidential vs public/PKCE) and auto-consent ride the auth method + metadata.
+export function clientPayload(input: ClientInput): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return {
+    client_name: input.name,
+    grant_types: ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
+    metadata: { first_party: input.firstParty },
+    redirect_uris: input.redirectUris,
+    response_types: ["code"],
+    scope: input.scope,
+    token_endpoint_auth_method: input.public ? "none" : "client_secret_basic",
+  };
+}
+
+export function validateClientInput(input: ClientInput, t: Translate = ADMIN_EN): string | null {
+  if (!input.name) return t("admin.clients.validation.name");
+  if (!input.redirectUris.length) return t("admin.clients.validation.redirectUris");
+  for (const uri of input.redirectUris) {
+    try {
+      new URL(uri); // must be an absolute URL — any scheme (public/native clients use custom ones)
+    } catch {
+      return t("admin.clients.validation.redirectUri", { uri });
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// ---- list view model ----
+
+interface ListState {
+  page: number;
+  pageSize: number;
+  q: string;
+}
+
+function detailHref(id: string): string {
+  return `${ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}`;
+}
+
+function listHref(state: ListState, overrides: Partial<ListState> = {}): string {
+  const s = { ...state, ...overrides };
+  const p = new URLSearchParams();
+  if (s.q) p.set("q", s.q);
+  if (s.page > 1) p.set("page", String(s.page));
+  if (s.pageSize !== DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE) p.set("pageSize", String(s.pageSize));
+  const qs = p.toString();
+  return qs ? `${ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE}?${qs}` : ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE;
+}
+
+export function buildClientsListModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean;
+  clients: OAuth2Client[];
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  t?: Translate;
+  url: URL | URLSearchParams | string;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const query = parseListQuery(opts.url, { defaultPageSize: DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE });
+  const needle = query.q.toLowerCase();
+
+  const all = opts.clients.map(toClientView);
+  const list = all.filter((c) => !needle || c.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle) || c.id.toLowerCase().includes(needle));
+
+  const page = paginate(list.length, query.page, query.pageSize, { boundaries: 1, siblings: 1 });
+  const start = (page.page - 1) * page.pageSize;
+  const rows = list.slice(start, start + page.pageSize);
+  const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q };
+
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: t("admin.nav.section") }, { label: t("admin.clients.title") }],
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
+    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, t),
+    pagination: listPagination(state, page, t),
+    table: listTable(rows, t),
+    title: t("admin.clients.title"),
+  };
+}
+
+function listTable(rows: ClientView[], t: Translate) {
+  return {
+    caption: t("admin.clients.title"),
+    columns: [{ label: t("admin.clients.column.name") }, { label: t("admin.clients.column.id") }, { label: t("admin.clients.column.type") }],
+    rows: rows.map((c) => ({
+      cells: [
+        { rowHeader: { href: detailHref(c.id), text: c.name } },
+        { className: "cell-muted", text: c.id },
+        { badge: { label: c.public ? t("admin.clients.public") : t("admin.clients.confidential"), tone: c.public ? "warn" : "info" } },
+      ],
+      name: c.name,
+    })),
+  };
+}
+
+function listFilterBar(state: ListState, t: Translate) {
+  const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: t("filter.search"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
+  return {
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"),
+    clearHref: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE,
+    label: t("admin.clients.filter"),
+    pills,
+    rows: [[
+      { label: t("admin.clients.searchLabel"), name: "q", placeholder: t("admin.clients.searchPlaceholder"), type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { type: "spacer" },
+    ]],
+  };
+}
+
+function listPagination(state: ListState, page: ReturnType<typeof paginate>, t: Translate) {
+  const hidden: { name: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) hidden.push({ name: "q", value: state.q });
+  return {
+    label: t("admin.clients.pagination"),
+    next: { href: page.next ? listHref(state, { page: page.next }) : undefined },
+    pages: page.pages.map((p) =>
+      p.ellipsis ? { ellipsis: true }
+        : p.current ? { current: true, label: String(p.page) }
+          : { href: listHref(state, { page: p.page as number }), label: String(p.page) }),
+    prev: { href: page.prev ? listHref(state, { page: page.prev }) : undefined },
+    rows: { hidden, label: t("pagination.rows"), name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: t("pagination.go"), value: state.pageSize },
+    summary: { from: page.from, to: page.to, total: page.total },
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- register form + detail view models ----
+
+export function buildClientFormModel(opts: {
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  error?: string;
+  t?: Translate;
+  values?: Partial<ClientInput>;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const v = opts.values;
+  const nameField: FieldConfig = {
+    autocomplete: "off", icon: "i-box", id: "name", label: t("admin.clients.field.name"), name: "name", required: true, value: v?.name ?? "",
+  };
+  const scopeField: FieldConfig = {
+    hint: t("admin.clients.field.scopesHint"), id: "scope", label: t("admin.clients.field.scopes"), name: "scope",
+    value: v?.scope ?? DEFAULT_SCOPE,
+  };
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: t("admin.clients.title") }, { label: t("admin.clients.register") }],
+    error: opts.error,
+    form: {
+      action: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE,
+      cancelHref: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE,
+      csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
+      firstParty: v?.firstParty ?? false,
+      nameField,
+      public: v?.public ?? false,
+      redirectUris: (v?.redirectUris ?? []).join("\n"),
+      scopeField,
+      submitLabel: t("admin.clients.registerClient"),
+    },
+    title: t("admin.clients.registerTitle"),
+  };
+}
+
+export function buildClientDetailModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean;
+  client: ClientView;
+  created?: boolean; // just registered → success banner + the one-time secret (if any)
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  secret?: string; // one-time client_secret (confidential clients), shown once right after create
+  t?: Translate;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const base = detailHref(opts.client.id);
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: t("admin.clients.title") }, { label: opts.client.name }],
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
+    client: opts.client,
+    created: opts.created ?? false,
+    csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
+    delete: { action: `${base}/delete` },
+    secret: opts.secret,
+    title: opts.created ? t("admin.clients.created") : opts.client.name,
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- request handler (imperative shell) ----
+
+function readClientInput(form: URLSearchParams): ClientInput {
+  return {
+    firstParty: form.get("firstParty") === "on",
+    name: (form.get("name") ?? "").trim(),
+    public: form.get("public") === "on",
+    redirectUris: parseRedirectUris(form.get("redirectUris") ?? ""),
+    scope: (form.get("scope") ?? "").trim(),
+  };
+}
+
+// Shared per-request deps for the OAuth2-clients screen, resolved by `withClients`: the gate + the
+// Hydra capability (else a themed 503). Each route below is a thin handler over these.
+interface ClientsDeps { ctx: RequestContext; hydra: HydraAdmin; user: User; }
+
+function withClients(inner: (deps: ClientsDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return async (ctx) => {
+    const user = requirePermission(ctx, "oauth2-clients", action);
+    const hydra = ctx.system?.hydra;
+    if (!hydra) return unavailable(ctx, ctx.t("admin.capability.hydra"));
+    return inner({ ctx, hydra, user });
+  };
+}
+
+// Same, plus the target client from ctx.params.id (unknown → themed 404).
+function withClient(inner: (deps: ClientsDeps, client: OAuth2Client, id: string) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return withClients(async (deps) => {
+    const id = deps.ctx.params["id"] ?? "";
+    const client = await deps.hydra.getClient(id);
+    if (!client) return notFound(deps.ctx);
+    return inner(deps, client, id);
+  }, action);
+}
+
+const clientFormResult = (ctx: RequestContext, extra: { error?: string; values?: Partial<ClientInput> }): RouteResult =>
+  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildClientFormModel({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, t: ctx.t, ...extra }) }, view: "client-form" });
+const canWriteClients = (ctx: RequestContext): boolean => can(ctx, permissionName("oauth2-clients", "write"));
+
+const clientDetailResult = (ctx: RequestContext, client: OAuth2Client, extra: { created?: boolean; secret?: string } = {}): RouteResult =>
+  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildClientDetailModel({ canWrite: canWriteClients(ctx), client: toClientView(client), csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, t: ctx.t, ...extra }) }, view: "client-detail" });
+
+// GET /admin/clients — the list.
+export const clientsList = withClients(async ({ ctx, hydra }) => {
+  const { clients } = await hydra.listClients({ pageSize: LIST_FETCH_SIZE });
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildClientsListModel({ canWrite: canWriteClients(ctx), clients, csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, t: ctx.t, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "clients" };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/clients — register; on success show the one-time secret directly (no PRG, Hydra never
+// returns it again). A Hydra 4xx (bad redirect/scope) re-renders the form (400); a 5xx rethrows → 500.
+export const clientsCreate = withClients(async ({ ctx, hydra, user }) => {
+  const input = readClientInput((await guardedForm(ctx))!);
+  const error = validateClientInput(input, ctx.t);
+  if (error) return { ...clientFormResult(ctx, { error, values: input }), status: 400 };
+  let created: OAuth2Client;
+  try {
+    created = await hydra.createClient(clientPayload(input));
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err instanceof HydraError && err.status < 500) return { ...clientFormResult(ctx, { error: ctx.t("admin.clients.error.rejected"), values: input }), status: 400 };
+    throw err;
+  }
+  ctx.log.info("admin: oauth2 client registered", { actor: user.id, client: created.client_id ?? "" });
+  return clientDetailResult(ctx, created, { created: true, ...(created.client_secret ? { secret: created.client_secret } : {}) });
+});
+
+// GET /admin/clients/new — the register form.
+export const clientsNewForm = withClients(({ ctx }) => Promise.resolve(clientFormResult(ctx, {})), "write");
+
+// GET /admin/clients/:id — the detail (read-only; the secret is shown only once, at creation).
+export const clientsDetail = withClient((deps, client) => Promise.resolve(clientDetailResult(deps.ctx, client)));
+
+// GET /admin/clients/:id/delete — the deliberate confirm step.
+export const clientsDeleteConfirm = withClient((deps, client, id) => {
+  const base = detailHref(id);
+  const name = toClientView(client).name;
+  const tt = deps.ctx.t;
+  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: tt("admin.clients.title") }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: tt("common.delete") }],
+    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: tt("admin.clients.delete"),
+    message: tt("admin.clients.deleteMessage", { name }), title: tt("admin.clients.delete"),
+  }) }, view: "confirm" });
+}, "write");
+
+// POST /admin/clients/:id/delete — perform it.
+export const clientsDelete = withClient(async ({ ctx, hydra, user }, _client, id) => {
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
+  await hydra.deleteClient(id);
+  ctx.log.info("admin: oauth2 client deleted", { actor: user.id, client: id });
+  return { redirect: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE };
+});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-grants.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+// The pure half of permission granting: what a submitted checkbox set changes, and the picker the
+// two screens render from it. The Keto writes and the HTTP round trip are covered in app.test.ts.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import type { PermissionDecl } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { buildPermissionPicker, grantDiff, grantTuple, groupSubject, userSubject } from "./admin-grants.ts";
+
+const declared: PermissionDecl[] = [
+  { description: "View users", name: "users:read" },
+  { description: "Edit users", name: "users:write" },
+  { name: "groups:read" },
+];
+
+test("grantTuple targets a user by subject_id and a group by subject_set", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(grantTuple("users:read", userSubject("u1")), { namespace: "Permission", object: "users:read", relation: "granted", subject_id: "user:u1" });
+  assert.deepEqual(grantTuple("users:read", groupSubject("eng")), {
+    namespace: "Permission", object: "users:read", relation: "granted",
+    subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: "eng", relation: "members" },
+  });
+});
+
+test("grantDiff: the submitted set is the desired state — tick grants, untick revokes, unchanged is a no-op", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, ["users:read"], ["users:read", "users:write"]), { grant: ["users:write"], revoke: [] });
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, ["users:read", "users:write"], ["users:read"]), { grant: [], revoke: ["users:write"] });
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, ["users:read"], ["users:read"]), { grant: [], revoke: [] });
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, ["users:read"], []), { grant: [], revoke: ["users:read"] }); // every box cleared
+});
+
+test("grantDiff ignores anything the plugins don't declare, in both directions", () => {
+  // A crafted POST can't grant a name no plugin gates on…
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, [], ["superuser:all"]), { grant: [], revoke: [] });
+  // …and a held name that is no longer declared (its plugin was uninstalled) is left alone rather
+  // than silently revoked by an unrelated save — this screen only speaks for what it offered.
+  assert.deepEqual(grantDiff(declared, ["legacy:thing"], ["users:read"]), { grant: ["users:read"], revoke: [] });
+});
+
+test("buildPermissionPicker ticks what is held and carries each declaration's description", () => {
+  const picker = buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/admin/users/u1/permissions", declared, direct: ["users:write"] });
+  assert.equal(picker.action, "/admin/users/u1/permissions");
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.choices.map((c) => c.name), ["users:read", "users:write", "groups:read"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.choices.map((c) => c.checked), [false, true, false]);
+  assert.equal(picker.choices[0]?.description, "View users");
+  assert.equal(picker.choices[2]?.description, ""); // a declaration may omit one
+  assert.equal(picker.empty, undefined);
+  assert.equal(picker.readOnly, false);
+  assert.equal(picker.inheritedNote, undefined); // nothing is group-held here
+});
+
+// An inherited permission rendered unticked would say "not held" about a grant that reaches the JWT,
+// and unticking it writes nothing, reading as a successful revoke. So inherited rows are ticked,
+// disabled, and never posted.
+test("buildPermissionPicker distinguishes a direct grant from one inherited through a group", () => {
+  const picker = buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: ["users:write"], effective: ["users:read", "users:write"] });
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.choices.map((c) => [c.name, c.checked, c.inherited]), [
+    ["users:read", true, true], // effective but not direct → shown as held, not editable here
+    ["users:write", true, false], // direct → editable
+    ["groups:read", false, false],
+  ]);
+  assert.ok(picker.inheritedNote, "the disabled row needs an explanation");
+});
+
+test("buildPermissionPicker in read-only mode still shows the state, and marks itself unwritable", () => {
+  const picker = buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: ["users:read"], effective: ["users:read", "groups:read"], readOnly: true });
+  assert.equal(picker.readOnly, true);
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.choices.map((c) => c.checked), [true, false, true]); // a reader still sees who holds what
+  // Every row renders disabled for a reader, so the writable copy would be wrong twice over: "tick to
+  // grant" is false, and "greyed-out means group-held" would misattribute the direct grant.
+  assert.equal(picker.inheritedNote, undefined);
+  assert.notEqual(picker.hint, buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: [] }).hint);
+});
+
+test("buildPermissionPicker notes the transitive lag for a group, and stays quiet for a user", () => {
+  // A group's members inherit, so the change reaches them at their next re-mint; a user's own grant
+  // change revokes their live tokens, so there is nothing to warn about.
+  assert.ok(buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: [], transitive: true }).pending);
+  assert.equal(buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: [] }).pending, undefined);
+});
+
+test("buildPermissionPicker says so when no plugin declares a permission, rather than rendering an empty box", () => {
+  const picker = buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared: [], direct: [] });
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.choices, []);
+  assert.ok(picker.empty);
+});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-grants.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+// Permission grants, shared by the Users and Groups screens. A permission is held by a user
+// (`Permission:<name>#granted@user:<id>`) or by a whole group (`…@Group:<name>#members`), and Keto
+// resolves a group's grant transitively at login.
+//
+// The set of permissions that *exist* is `ctx.declaredPermissions` — the host's catalog, built from
+// what the installed plugins declare in code. Nothing here invents a name, which is why the old
+// Permissions screen is gone: a grant is a property of a user or a group, edited where they are.
+
+import type { KetoClient, PermissionDecl, RelationTuple, SubjectSet, Translate } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+
+const PERMISSION_NS = "Permission";
+const GRANTED = "granted";
+export const PERMISSIONS_FIELD = "permission"; // the checkbox name the two forms post
+
+export type GrantSubject = { subject_id: string } | { subject_set: SubjectSet };
+
+export const userSubject = (id: string): GrantSubject => ({ subject_id: `user:${id}` });
+export const groupSubject = (name: string): GrantSubject => ({ subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: name, relation: "members" } });
+
+export function grantTuple(permission: string, subject: GrantSubject): RelationTuple {
+  return { namespace: PERMISSION_NS, object: permission, relation: GRANTED, ...subject };
+}
+
+// The permissions this subject holds *directly* — one Keto read filtered by the subject, not one per
+// declared name. This is the edge the picker edits; `effectivePermissions` adds what a group confers.
+export async function heldPermissions(keto: KetoClient, subject: GrantSubject): Promise<string[]> {
+  const held = new Set<string>();
+  let pageToken: string | undefined;
+  do {
+    const page = await keto.listRelations({ namespace: PERMISSION_NS, relation: GRANTED, ...subject, ...(pageToken ? { pageToken } : {}) });
+    for (const tuple of page.tuples) held.add(tuple.object);
+    pageToken = page.nextPageToken ?? undefined;
+  } while (pageToken);
+  return [...held].sort();
+}
+
+// Every declared permission the subject effectively holds — direct grants *plus* anything reached
+// through a group, which is what actually lands in their JWT. One Keto check per declared name;
+// the catalog is small and this is an admin screen (login does the same walk).
+export async function effectivePermissions(keto: KetoClient, subject: GrantSubject, declared: readonly PermissionDecl[]): Promise<string[]> {
+  const held = await Promise.all(declared.map((decl) => keto.check({ namespace: PERMISSION_NS, object: decl.name, relation: GRANTED, ...subject })));
+  return declared.filter((_, i) => held[i]).map((decl) => decl.name);
+}
+
+export interface PermissionChoice {
+  checked: boolean; // held directly — the only state this form can change
+  description: string;
+  // Effective through a group, not granted directly. Rendered ticked but disabled: the grant is real
+  // (it reaches the JWT), and it is removed by editing the group, not this subject.
+  inherited: boolean;
+  name: string;
+}
+
+export interface PermissionPicker {
+  action: string;
+  choices: PermissionChoice[];
+  empty: string | undefined; // set when no plugin declares a permission — the picker has nothing to offer
+  error?: string; // a rejected save (e.g. the self-revoke guard), rendered above the list
+  field: string;
+  hint: string;
+  inheritedNote: string | undefined; // set when at least one choice is group-held, to explain the disabled row
+  legend: string;
+  // Set for a group: its members hold these transitively, so a change reaches them at their next
+  // re-mint rather than at once. The user picker revokes live tokens, so it says nothing.
+  pending: string | undefined;
+  readOnly: boolean; // the viewer holds :read but not :write — show the state, offer no save
+  submit: string;
+}
+
+// The checkbox list: every declared permission, ticked where this subject holds it. A fixed list
+// means the form is the whole truth — what it posts back *is* the desired set of *direct* grants
+// (grantDiff). An inherited row is disabled, so it never posts and can never be diffed into a revoke.
+export function buildPermissionPicker(opts: {
+  action: string;
+  declared: readonly PermissionDecl[];
+  direct: string[];
+  effective?: string[]; // omit when the caller can't resolve group-held grants; then only direct shows
+  readOnly?: boolean;
+  t?: Translate;
+  transitive?: boolean; // a group: its members inherit, so the change lands at their next re-mint
+}): PermissionPicker {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ((k: string) => k);
+  const directSet = new Set(opts.direct);
+  const effectiveSet = new Set(opts.effective ?? opts.direct);
+  const choices = opts.declared.map((decl) => ({
+    checked: directSet.has(decl.name) || effectiveSet.has(decl.name),
+    description: decl.description ?? "",
+    inherited: !directSet.has(decl.name) && effectiveSet.has(decl.name),
+    name: decl.name,
+  }));
+  return {
+    action: opts.action,
+    choices,
+    empty: opts.declared.length === 0 ? t("admin.grants.none") : undefined,
+    field: PERMISSIONS_FIELD,
+    // A reader sees every row disabled, so "tick to grant" is false and "greyed-out means group-held"
+    // is worse than false — it would misattribute a *direct* grant to a group that doesn't hold it.
+    hint: t(opts.readOnly === true ? "admin.grants.hintReadOnly" : "admin.grants.hint"),
+    inheritedNote: opts.readOnly !== true && choices.some((c) => c.inherited) ? t("admin.grants.inherited") : undefined,
+    legend: t("admin.grants.legend"),
+    pending: opts.transitive === true ? t("admin.grants.pending") : undefined,
+    readOnly: opts.readOnly === true,
+    submit: t("admin.grants.save"),
+  };
+}
+
+// What a submitted set changes. Pure so the diff is testable without Keto: only declared names are
+// considered, so a crafted POST cannot grant something no plugin gates on, and a held-but-undeclared
+// name (left over from an uninstalled plugin) is never silently revoked by an unrelated save.
+export function grantDiff(declared: readonly PermissionDecl[], held: string[], wanted: string[]): { grant: string[]; revoke: string[] } {
+  const offered = new Set(declared.map((d) => d.name));
+  const heldSet = new Set(held);
+  const wantedSet = new Set(wanted.filter((name) => offered.has(name)));
+  return {
+    grant: [...wantedSet].filter((name) => !heldSet.has(name)).sort(),
+    revoke: [...heldSet].filter((name) => offered.has(name) && !wantedSet.has(name)).sort(),
+  };
+}
+
+export async function applyGrants(keto: KetoClient, subject: GrantSubject, diff: { grant: string[]; revoke: string[] }): Promise<void> {
+  for (const name of diff.grant) await keto.writeTuple(grantTuple(name, subject));
+  for (const name of diff.revoke) await keto.deleteTuple(grantTuple(name, subject));
+}

examples/plugins/admin/admin-groups.test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Built-in Groups admin screen (§5): the pure view-model + Keto-tuple builders. A group is a
+// Built-in Groups admin screen: the pure view-model + Keto-tuple builders. A group is a
 // Keto subject set (Group:<name>#members); membership tuples carry users (subject_id) or nested
 // groups (subject_set). The HTTP routing/gate/CSRF + live Keto/Kratos calls are exercised over
 // HTTP in app.test.ts.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
   memberView,
   parseSubject,
 } from "./admin-groups.ts";
-import type { RelationTuple } from "./keto-client.ts";
+import type { RelationTuple } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
 
 const uid = (n: number) => `01902d5e-7b6c-7e3a-9f21-3c8d1e0a4b${String(n).padStart(2, "0")}`;
 const userTuple = (group: string, n: number): RelationTuple =>
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ test("buildGroupsListModel filters by search, sorts, paginates; the name links t
   const all = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/admin/groups" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
-  assert.equal(all.shell.title, "Groups");
+  assert.equal(all.title, "Groups");
   // The group name is the row header, linking to its detail page.
   const first = all.table.rows[0]!.cells[0] as { rowHeader: { href: string; text: string } };
   assert.equal(first.rowHeader.text, "team-00");
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ test("buildGroupsListModel filters by search, sorts, paginates; the name links t
 test("buildGroupFormModel: a create form with a required name field + member options, no group of its own", () => {
   const options = [{ label: "ada@example.com", value: `user:${uid(1)}` }, { label: "eng (group)", value: "group:eng" }];
   const m = buildGroupFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig", memberOptions: options });
-  assert.equal(m.shell.title, "New group");
+  assert.equal(m.title, "New group");
   assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/groups");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Create group");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ test("buildGroupDetailModel: members → rows, add-options exclude current membe
     { label: "ops (group)", value: "group:ops" },
   ];
   const m = buildGroupDetailModel({ candidates, group: { name: "eng" }, members });
-  assert.equal(m.shell.title, "eng");
+  assert.equal(m.title, "eng");
   assert.equal(m.members.rows.length, 2);
   assert.equal(m.members.action, "/admin/groups/eng/members/delete");
   assert.equal(m.add.action, "/admin/groups/eng/members");

examples/plugins/admin/admin-groups.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,421 @@
+// Groups admin screen: list / create / delete Keto groups and manage membership.
+// A group is a Keto subject set `Group:<name>#members`; a member is a user or a nested group (see
+// parseSubject). Writes go only to Keto (README "stateless"). Keto has no "create object" — a group
+// exists exactly while it has ≥1 member, so create writes its first-member tuple and delete removes
+// every member tuple. Pure builders turn tuples + the request URL into view models; below them are thin
+// per-route handlers (keyed on ctx.params) over a shared `withGroups` gate — admin-only, CSRF-guarded,
+// each returning a RouteResult.
+
+import { can, type KetoClient, type KratosAdmin, paginate, parseListQuery, type RelationQuery, type RelationTuple, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type SubjectSet, type Translate, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { applyGrants, buildPermissionPicker, effectivePermissions, grantDiff, grantTuple, groupSubject, heldPermissions, type PermissionPicker, PERMISSIONS_FIELD } from "./admin-grants.ts";
+import { ADMIN_EN, type AdminAction, ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, permissionName, requirePermission, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+import type { FieldConfig } from "./admin-users.ts";
+
+const GROUP_NS = "Group";
+const MEMBERS = "members";
+const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 25;
+const PAGE_SIZES = [25, 50, 100];
+// One Keto page of candidate users is fetched for the member pickers (mirrors admin-users).
+const LIST_FETCH_SIZE = 250;
+const GROUP_NAME = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$/; // URL-safe; doubles as the path segment
+const UUID = /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i; // a Kratos identity id
+
+export interface GroupView {
+  memberCount: number;
+  name: string;
+}
+
+// A member's view model: a user (label = email) or a nested group (label = group name). `subject`
+// is the form value that round-trips it — `user:<id>` or `group:<name>` (see parseSubject).
+export interface MemberView {
+  kind: "group" | "user";
+  label: string;
+  subject: string;
+}
+
+// One option in a member <select>.
+export interface MemberOption {
+  label: string;
+  value: string; // `user:<id>` | `group:<name>`
+}
+
+export function isValidGroupName(name: string): boolean {
+  return name.length <= 64 && GROUP_NAME.test(name);
+}
+
+// Map a member-picker value → the Keto subject (subject_id for a user, subject_set for a nested
+// group). Returns null for anything unrecognised (a crafted/empty POST).
+export function parseSubject(value: string): { subject_id: string } | { subject_set: SubjectSet } | null {
+  const sep = value.indexOf(":");
+  if (sep <= 0) return null;
+  const rest = value.slice(sep + 1);
+  if (!rest) return null;
+  // Validate both subject forms so a crafted POST can't write a dangling tuple (the pickers only
+  // ever offer real users/groups): a user id is a Kratos UUID, a nested group a valid group name.
+  if (value.slice(0, sep) === "user") return UUID.test(rest) ? { subject_id: `user:${rest}` } : null;
+  if (value.slice(0, sep) === "group") return isValidGroupName(rest) ? { subject_set: { namespace: GROUP_NS, object: rest, relation: MEMBERS } } : null;
+  return null;
+}
+
+// The full membership tuple for adding/removing `value` to/from `group` (null if value is invalid).
+export function memberTuple(group: string, value: string): RelationTuple | null {
+  const subject = parseSubject(value);
+  return subject ? { namespace: GROUP_NS, object: group, relation: MEMBERS, ...subject } : null;
+}
+
+// Collapse the namespace's membership tuples → distinct groups + member counts, sorted by name.
+export function groupsFromTuples(tuples: RelationTuple[]): GroupView[] {
+  const counts = new Map<string, number>();
+  for (const t of tuples) counts.set(t.object, (counts.get(t.object) ?? 0) + 1);
+  return [...counts].map(([name, memberCount]) => ({ memberCount, name })).sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
+}
+
+export function memberView(tuple: RelationTuple, emailById: Map<string, string>): MemberView {
+  if (tuple.subject_set) return { kind: "group", label: tuple.subject_set.object, subject: `group:${tuple.subject_set.object}` };
+  const subjectId = tuple.subject_id ?? "";
+  const id = subjectId.startsWith("user:") ? subjectId.slice("user:".length) : subjectId;
+  return { kind: "user", label: emailById.get(id) ?? subjectId, subject: subjectId };
+}
+
+// ---- list view model ----
+
+interface ListState {
+  page: number;
+  pageSize: number;
+  q: string;
+  sort: string | null;
+}
+
+const SORT: Record<string, (g: GroupView) => number | string> = {
+  members: (g) => g.memberCount,
+  name: (g) => g.name,
+};
+const COLUMNS = [
+  { key: "name", label: "admin.groups.column.name" },
+  { key: "members", label: "admin.groups.column.members" },
+];
+
+function detailHref(name: string): string {
+  return `${ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(name)}`;
+}
+
+function listHref(state: ListState, overrides: Partial<ListState> = {}): string {
+  const s = { ...state, ...overrides };
+  const p = new URLSearchParams();
+  if (s.q) p.set("q", s.q);
+  if (s.sort) p.set("sort", s.sort);
+  if (s.page > 1) p.set("page", String(s.page));
+  if (s.pageSize !== DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE) p.set("pageSize", String(s.pageSize));
+  const qs = p.toString();
+  return qs ? `${ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE}?${qs}` : ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE;
+}
+
+export function buildGroupsListModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean;
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  groups: GroupView[];
+  t?: Translate;
+  url: URL | URLSearchParams | string;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const query = parseListQuery(opts.url, { defaultPageSize: DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE });
+  const sort = query.sort && SORT[query.sort.field] ? query.sort : null;
+  const sortToken = sort ? (sort.dir === "desc" ? `-${sort.field}` : sort.field) : null;
+  const needle = query.q.toLowerCase();
+
+  let list = opts.groups.filter((g) => !needle || g.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle));
+  if (sort) {
+    const get = SORT[sort.field]!;
+    const dir = sort.dir === "desc" ? -1 : 1;
+    list = [...list].sort((a, b) => {
+      const av = get(a), bv = get(b);
+      const cmp = typeof av === "number" && typeof bv === "number" ? av - bv : String(av).localeCompare(String(bv));
+      return cmp * dir;
+    });
+  }
+
+  const page = paginate(list.length, query.page, query.pageSize, { boundaries: 1, siblings: 1 });
+  const start = (page.page - 1) * page.pageSize;
+  const rows = list.slice(start, start + page.pageSize);
+  const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q, sort: sortToken };
+
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: t("admin.nav.section") }, { label: t("admin.groups.title") }],
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
+    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, t),
+    pagination: listPagination(state, page, t),
+    table: listTable(rows, state, sort, t),
+    title: t("admin.groups.title"),
+  };
+}
+
+function listTable(rows: GroupView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null, t: Translate) {
+  return {
+    caption: t("admin.groups.title"),
+    columns: COLUMNS.map((c) => {
+      const dir = sort && sort.field === c.key ? sort.dir : undefined;
+      const next = dir === "asc" ? `-${c.key}` : c.key;
+      return { href: listHref(state, { page: 1, sort: next }), label: t(c.label), sort: dir, sortable: true };
+    }),
+    rows: rows.map((g) => ({
+      cells: [{ rowHeader: { href: detailHref(g.name), text: g.name } }, String(g.memberCount)],
+      name: g.name,
+    })),
+  };
+}
+
+function listFilterBar(state: ListState, t: Translate) {
+  const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: t("filter.search"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
+  return {
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"),
+    clearHref: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE,
+    label: t("admin.groups.filter"),
+    pills,
+    rows: [[
+      { label: t("admin.groups.searchLabel"), name: "q", placeholder: t("admin.groups.searchPlaceholder"), type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { type: "spacer" },
+    ]],
+  };
+}
+
+function listPagination(state: ListState, page: ReturnType<typeof paginate>, t: Translate) {
+  const hidden: { name: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) hidden.push({ name: "q", value: state.q });
+  if (state.sort) hidden.push({ name: "sort", value: state.sort });
+  return {
+    label: t("admin.groups.pagination"),
+    next: { href: page.next ? listHref(state, { page: page.next }) : undefined },
+    pages: page.pages.map((p) =>
+      p.ellipsis ? { ellipsis: true }
+        : p.current ? { current: true, label: String(p.page) }
+          : { href: listHref(state, { page: p.page as number }), label: String(p.page) }),
+    prev: { href: page.prev ? listHref(state, { page: page.prev }) : undefined },
+    rows: { hidden, label: t("pagination.rows"), name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: t("pagination.go"), value: state.pageSize },
+    summary: { from: page.from, to: page.to, total: page.total },
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- create form + detail view models ----
+
+export function buildGroupFormModel(opts: {
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  error?: string;
+  memberOptions: MemberOption[];
+  t?: Translate;
+  values?: { member?: string; name?: string };
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const nameField: FieldConfig = {
+    autocomplete: "off", hint: t("admin.groups.field.nameHint"), icon: "i-layers",
+    id: "name", label: t("admin.groups.field.name"), name: "name", required: true, value: opts.values?.name ?? "",
+  };
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: t("admin.groups.title") }, { label: t("common.new") }],
+    error: opts.error,
+    form: {
+      action: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE,
+      cancelHref: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE,
+      csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
+      memberOptions: opts.memberOptions,
+      nameField,
+      selectedMember: opts.values?.member ?? "",
+      submitLabel: t("admin.groups.create"),
+    },
+    title: t("admin.groups.new"),
+  };
+}
+
+export function buildGroupDetailModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean; // false ⇒ a `groups:read` holder: show the members, offer no edit
+  candidates: MemberOption[];
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  error?: string;
+  group: { name: string };
+  members: MemberView[];
+  permissions?: PermissionPicker;
+  t?: Translate;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const name = opts.group.name;
+  const base = detailHref(name);
+  const taken = new Set(opts.members.map((m) => m.subject));
+  const self = `group:${name}`; // a group can't be a member of itself
+  const options = opts.candidates.filter((c) => c.value !== self && !taken.has(c.value));
+  const canWrite = opts.canWrite !== false;
+  return {
+    add: { action: `${base}/members`, options },
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: t("admin.groups.title") }, { label: name }],
+    canWrite, // the view drops add/remove/delete when false; the host already 403s those POSTs
+    csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
+    delete: { action: `${base}/delete` },
+    error: opts.error,
+    group: { name },
+    members: { action: `${base}/members/delete`, rows: opts.members },
+    permissions: opts.permissions,
+    title: name,
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- request handler (imperative shell) ----
+
+// Drain every page of a relation-tuple query.
+export async function pagedTuples(keto: KetoClient, query: RelationQuery): Promise<RelationTuple[]> {
+  const out: RelationTuple[] = [];
+  let pageToken: string | undefined;
+  do {
+    const page = await keto.listRelations({ ...query, ...(pageToken ? { pageToken } : {}) });
+    out.push(...page.tuples);
+    pageToken = page.nextPageToken ?? undefined;
+  } while (pageToken);
+  return out;
+}
+
+// Build the member-picker options (every user by email + every existing group) and the id→email map
+// detail rows render with. One Kratos page + one Keto scan; ample for an admin tool.
+export async function memberCandidates(keto: KetoClient, kratosAdmin: KratosAdmin): Promise<{ emailById: Map<string, string>; options: MemberOption[] }> {
+  const { identities } = await kratosAdmin.listIdentities({ pageSize: LIST_FETCH_SIZE });
+  const emailById = new Map<string, string>();
+  const userOptions: MemberOption[] = [];
+  for (const it of identities) {
+    const trait = it.traits?.["email"];
+    const email = typeof trait === "string" ? trait : it.id;
+    emailById.set(it.id, email);
+    userOptions.push({ label: email, value: `user:${it.id}` });
+  }
+  const groups = groupsFromTuples(await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: GROUP_NS, relation: MEMBERS }));
+  return { emailById, options: [...userOptions, ...groups.map((g) => ({ label: `${g.name} (group)`, value: `group:${g.name}` }))] };
+}
+
+// A group exists exactly while it has ≥1 member.
+async function groupExists(keto: KetoClient, name: string): Promise<boolean> {
+  const page = await keto.listRelations({ namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS, pageSize: 1 });
+  return page.tuples.length > 0;
+}
+
+// Shared per-request deps for the Groups screen, resolved by `withGroups`: the gate (`groups:read` on
+// a GET, `groups:write` on a POST) + the Keto and Kratos capabilities (else a themed 503). Each route
+// below is a thin handler over these.
+interface GroupsDeps { ctx: RequestContext; keto: KetoClient; kratosAdmin: KratosAdmin; user: User; }
+
+function withGroups(inner: (deps: GroupsDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return async (ctx) => {
+    const user = requirePermission(ctx, "groups", action);
+    const keto = ctx.system?.keto;
+    const kratosAdmin = ctx.system?.kratosAdmin;
+    if (!keto || !kratosAdmin) return unavailable(ctx, ctx.t("admin.capability.keto"));
+    return inner({ ctx, keto, kratosAdmin, user });
+  };
+}
+
+// Same, plus the validated :name from ctx.params (an invalid group name → themed 404).
+function withGroupName(inner: (deps: GroupsDeps, name: string) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return withGroups((deps) => {
+    const name = deps.ctx.params["name"] ?? "";
+    if (!isValidGroupName(name)) return Promise.resolve(notFound(deps.ctx));
+    return inner(deps, name);
+  }, action);
+}
+
+const groupFormResult = async (deps: GroupsDeps, extra: { error?: string; values?: { member?: string; name?: string } }): Promise<RouteResult> => {
+  const { options } = await memberCandidates(deps.keto, deps.kratosAdmin);
+  return { data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildGroupFormModel({ csrfToken: deps.ctx.chrome.csrfToken, memberOptions: options, t: deps.ctx.t, ...extra }) }, view: "group-form" };
+};
+
+// GET /admin/groups — the list.
+export const groupsList = withGroups(async ({ ctx, keto }) => {
+  const groups = groupsFromTuples(await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: GROUP_NS, relation: MEMBERS }));
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildGroupsListModel({ canWrite: can(ctx, permissionName("groups", "write")), csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, groups, t: ctx.t, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "groups" };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/groups — create (a group exists once it has ≥1 member, so this writes the first tuple).
+export const groupsCreate = withGroups(async (deps) => {
+  const { ctx, keto, user } = deps;
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const name = (form.get("name") ?? "").trim();
+  const member = (form.get("member") ?? "").trim();
+  const tuple = memberTuple(name, member);
+  const reject = async (error: string): Promise<RouteResult> => ({ ...(await groupFormResult(deps, { error, values: { member, name } })), status: 400 });
+  if (!isValidGroupName(name)) return reject(ctx.t("admin.groups.validation.name"));
+  if (!tuple) return reject(ctx.t("admin.groups.validation.member"));
+  if (await groupExists(keto, name)) return reject("A group with that name already exists.");
+  await keto.writeTuple(tuple);
+  ctx.log.info("admin: group created", { actor: user.id, group: name });
+  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
+});
+
+// GET /admin/groups/new — the create form.
+export const groupsNewForm = withGroups((deps) => groupFormResult(deps, {}), "write");
+
+// GET /admin/groups/:name — the detail + membership page.
+export const groupsDetail = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, kratosAdmin }, name) => {
+  const { emailById, options } = await memberCandidates(keto, kratosAdmin);
+  const members = (await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS })).map((t) => memberView(t, emailById));
+  const subject = groupSubject(name);
+  const [direct, effective] = await Promise.all([heldPermissions(keto, subject), effectivePermissions(keto, subject, ctx.declaredPermissions)]);
+  const permissions = buildPermissionPicker({
+    action: `${detailHref(name)}/permissions`,
+    declared: ctx.declaredPermissions,
+    direct,
+    effective, // a group nested in another group inherits its permissions too
+    readOnly: !can(ctx, permissionName("groups", "write")),
+    t: ctx.t,
+    transitive: true, // members inherit, so a change here lands at their next re-mint, not at once
+  });
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildGroupDetailModel({ canWrite: !permissions.readOnly, candidates: options, csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, group: { name }, members, permissions, t: ctx.t }) }, view: "group-detail" };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/groups/:name/permissions — the submitted checkboxes are the desired set. Members hold
+// a group's permissions transitively, so the change reaches them at their next login or re-mint —
+// the documented instant-revoke tradeoff for anything held through a group.
+export const groupsPermissions = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, user }, name) => {
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const subject = groupSubject(name);
+  const diff = grantDiff(ctx.declaredPermissions, await heldPermissions(keto, subject), form.getAll(PERMISSIONS_FIELD));
+  await applyGrants(keto, subject, diff);
+  if (diff.grant.length > 0 || diff.revoke.length > 0) {
+    ctx.log.info("admin: group permissions changed", { actor: user.id, granted: diff.grant.join(","), group: name, revoked: diff.revoke.join(",") });
+  }
+  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/groups/:name/members — add a member (skip an invalid member or a self-nest).
+export const groupsAddMember = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto }, name) => {
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const tuple = memberTuple(name, (form.get("member") ?? "").trim());
+  if (tuple && tuple.subject_set?.object !== name) await keto.writeTuple(tuple);
+  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
+});
+
+// GET /admin/groups/:name/delete — the deliberate confirm step.
+export const groupsDeleteConfirm = withGroupName((deps, name) => {
+  const base = detailHref(name);
+  const tt = deps.ctx.t;
+  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: tt("admin.groups.title") }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: tt("common.delete") }],
+    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: tt("admin.groups.delete"),
+    message: tt("admin.groups.deleteMessage", { name }), title: tt("admin.groups.delete"),
+  }) }, view: "confirm" });
+}, "write");
+
+// POST /admin/groups/:name/delete — remove every member tuple (the group ceases to exist).
+export const groupsDelete = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, user }, name) => {
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
+  // Drop what the group *holds* before what it *contains*: a Keto set exists only through its
+  // tuples, so leaving the grants behind would resurrect every permission the moment someone
+  // re-created a group with the same name.
+  const subject = groupSubject(name);
+  const held = await heldPermissions(keto, subject);
+  for (const permission of held) await keto.deleteTuple(grantTuple(permission, subject));
+  await keto.deleteTuple({ namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS });
+  ctx.log.info("admin: group deleted", { actor: user.id, group: name, revoked: held.join(",") });
+  return { redirect: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/groups/:name/members/delete — remove one member.
+export const groupsRemoveMember = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto }, name) => {
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const tuple = memberTuple(name, (form.get("member") ?? "").trim());
+  if (tuple) await keto.deleteTuple(tuple);
+  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
+});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-plugin-settings.test.ts

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+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import test from "node:test";
+import type { PageChrome, PluginSettings } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { buildPluginSettingsModel } from "./admin-plugin-settings.ts";
+
+const CHROME: PageChrome = { brand: { name: "Test" }, csrfToken: "tok", nav: [], signInHref: "/login", user: { email: "", initials: "T", name: "Tester" } };
+
+const CATALOG: readonly PluginSettings[] = [
+  {
+    pluginId: "scheduling",
+    settings: [
+      { description: "Where shifts come from", envName: "PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM", key: "upstream", required: true, secret: false, source: "env", type: "url", value: "https://shifts.test" },
+      { envName: "PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_MODE", key: "mode", required: false, secret: false, source: "default", type: "enum", value: "strict", values: ["strict", "lenient"] },
+      { envName: "PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_NOTE", key: "note", required: false, secret: false, source: "unset", type: "string" },
+    ],
+  },
+  { pluginId: "quiet", settings: [] },
+];
+
+test("a row carries the variable to set and where the value came from", () => {
+  const model = buildPluginSettingsModel({ chrome: CHROME, settings: CATALOG });
+  const rows = model.groups[0]?.table.rows ?? [];
+  assert.deepEqual(rows.map((r) => r.name), ["upstream", "mode", "note"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(rows[0]?.cells, [
+    { rowHeader: { text: "upstream" } }, "Where shifts come from", "url", "Yes", "PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM", "Environment", "https://shifts.test",
+  ]);
+  assert.equal(rows[1]?.cells[2], "enum (strict, lenient)"); // the choices are the useful half of the type
+  assert.equal(rows[2]?.cells[5], "Not set");
+});
+
+test("a plugin declaring nothing still gets a section, so it is visibly installed", () => {
+  const model = buildPluginSettingsModel({ chrome: CHROME, settings: CATALOG });
+  assert.deepEqual(model.groups.map((g) => g.pluginId), ["scheduling", "quiet"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(model.groups[1]?.table.rows, []);
+  assert.match(model.groups[1]?.emptyText ?? "", /no settings/i);
+});
+
+test("a secret renders as set-or-not, never as a value, a mask or a length", () => {
+  const settings: readonly PluginSettings[] = [{
+    pluginId: "billing",
+    settings: [
+      { envName: "PLUGIN_SETTING_BILLING_API_KEY", key: "apiKey", required: false, secret: true, source: "env", type: "string" },
+      { envName: "PLUGIN_SETTING_BILLING_WEBHOOK_KEY", key: "webhookKey", required: false, secret: true, source: "unset", type: "string" },
+    ],
+  }];
+  const rows = buildPluginSettingsModel({ chrome: CHROME, settings }).groups[0]?.table.rows ?? [];
+  assert.equal(rows[0]?.cells[6], "Secret — set");
+  assert.equal(rows[1]?.cells[6], "Secret — not set");
+});
+
+test("two tables on one page need distinct row-action id stems", () => {
+  const model = buildPluginSettingsModel({ chrome: CHROME, settings: CATALOG });
+  const stems = model.groups.map((g) => g.table.actionsId);
+  assert.equal(new Set(stems).size, stems.length);
+});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-plugin-settings.ts

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+// Plugin settings admin screen: what each installed plugin declares it can be configured with, the
+// variable that sets it, and how each key resolved. Read-only — the host reads settings from the
+// environment at boot, so changing one is a deploy, not a form.
+
+import { type PageChrome, type PluginSettings, type RouteHandler, type SettingSummary, type Translate } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { ADMIN_EN, requirePermission } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+
+interface SettingsGroup {
+  emptyText: string;
+  pluginId: string;
+  table: {
+    actionsId: string;
+    caption: string;
+    columns: { label: string }[];
+    rows: { cells: (string | { rowHeader: { text: string } })[]; name: string }[];
+  };
+}
+
+// One group per installed plugin, including those declaring nothing — an operator who cannot find
+// their plugin here has not installed it, which is the other half of what this screen answers.
+export function buildPluginSettingsModel(opts: { chrome: PageChrome; settings: readonly PluginSettings[]; t?: Translate }) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ label: t("admin.pluginSettings.title") }],
+    chrome: opts.chrome,
+    groups: opts.settings.map((plugin): SettingsGroup => ({
+      emptyText: t("admin.pluginSettings.none"),
+      pluginId: plugin.pluginId,
+      table: {
+        actionsId: `settings-${plugin.pluginId}`, // two tables share this page, so the stem must differ
+        caption: t("admin.pluginSettings.caption", { plugin: plugin.pluginId }),
+        columns: [
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.key") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.description") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.type") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.required") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.variable") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.source") },
+          { label: t("admin.pluginSettings.column.value") },
+        ],
+        rows: plugin.settings.map((setting) => ({
+          cells: [
+            { rowHeader: { text: setting.key } },
+            setting.description ?? "",
+            typeLabel(setting),
+            t(setting.required ? "admin.pluginSettings.yes" : "admin.pluginSettings.no"),
+            setting.envName,
+            t(`admin.pluginSettings.source.${setting.source}`),
+            valueLabel(setting, t),
+          ],
+          name: setting.key,
+        })),
+      },
+    })),
+    title: t("admin.pluginSettings.title"),
+  };
+}
+
+// An enum's choices are the useful half of its type — they are what the operator must pick from.
+function typeLabel(setting: SettingSummary): string {
+  return setting.type === "enum" && setting.values ? `${setting.type} (${setting.values.join(", ")})` : setting.type;
+}
+
+// A secret never renders its value — not the value, not a mask of it, not its length. Whether it
+// resolved and from where is what an operator needs, and the source column already says the rest.
+function valueLabel(setting: SettingSummary, t: Translate): string {
+  if (setting.secret) return t(setting.source === "unset" ? "admin.pluginSettings.secretUnset" : "admin.pluginSettings.secretSet");
+  return setting.value ?? t("admin.pluginSettings.unset");
+}
+
+// GET /admin/plugin-settings
+export const pluginSettingsList: RouteHandler = (ctx) => {
+  requirePermission(ctx, "plugin-settings");
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildPluginSettingsModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, settings: ctx.declaredSettings, t: ctx.t }) }, view: "plugin-settings" };
+};

examples/plugins/admin/admin-shared.test.ts

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+// Direct units for the admin plugin's shared nav + auth helpers. They're security-critical
+// (requirePermission/guardedForm gate every admin write) and reused across all three screens, so pin the
+// contract here in isolation; the HTTP routing/gate/CSRF is exercised end-to-end in src/http/app.test.ts.
+// Import only from the @plainpages/plugin-api barrel — the same contract boundary the plugin code uses.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import type { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "node:http";
+import { Readable } from "node:stream";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import { GuardError, isValidPermissionName, type Log, type PageChrome, type RequestContext, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { ADMIN_EN, ADMIN_NAV, ADMIN_USERS_BASE, actionForMethod, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, permissionName, requirePermission } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+
+const reader: User = { email: "ada@x.io", id: "u1", permissions: ["users:read"] };
+const writer: User = { email: "cy@x.io", id: "u3", permissions: ["users:read", "users:write"] };
+const member: User = { email: "bo@x.io", id: "u2", permissions: ["scheduling:read"] };
+const CHROME = { brand: { name: "Test" }, csrfToken: "tok", nav: [], signInHref: "/login", user: { email: "", initials: "T", name: "Tester" } } as PageChrome;
+
+function fakeCtx(opts: { body?: string; method?: string; user?: User | null; verifyCsrf?: (s: string | null | undefined) => boolean } = {}): RequestContext {
+  const url = new URL("http://localhost/admin/users");
+  const req = Readable.from(opts.body != null ? [Buffer.from(opts.body)] : []) as unknown as IncomingMessage;
+  req.method = opts.method ?? "GET";
+  return {
+    chrome: CHROME, declaredPermissions: [], declaredSettings: [], user: opts.user ?? null, locale: "en-US", localeHref: (href) => href, locales: ["en-US"], log: {} as Log, params: {},
+    query: url.searchParams, req, res: {} as ServerResponse, permissions: opts.user?.permissions ?? [], t: ADMIN_EN, url,
+    verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- nav fragment ----
+
+test("ADMIN_NAV: an ungated Admin header whose screens each gate on their own read permission", () => {
+  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.id, "admin");
+  // No gate on the header: a user may hold one screen's permission and not another's. composeNav
+  // drops a header left with no visible children, so holding none of them hides the section.
+  // Both halves matter — give the header an `href` and it survives the filter as a visible leaf,
+  // ungated, for anonymous visitors included.
+  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.permission, undefined);
+  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.href, undefined);
+  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.open, undefined); // the host current-marks + opens; the fragment stays static
+  assert.deepEqual(ADMIN_NAV.children?.map((c) => c.href), ["/admin/users", "/admin/groups", "/admin/clients", "/admin/plugin-settings"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(ADMIN_NAV.children?.map((c) => c.permission), ["users:read", "groups:read", "oauth2-clients:read", "plugin-settings:read"]);
+  // Labels are catalog keys; the host translates them with this plugin's catalog when it composes
+  // the menu, so what a visitor sees is the en-US (or sv-SE …) wording behind these keys.
+  assert.deepEqual(ADMIN_NAV.children?.map((c) => c.label), ["admin.nav.users", "admin.nav.groups", "admin.nav.clients", "admin.nav.pluginSettings"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(ADMIN_NAV.children?.map((c) => ADMIN_EN(c.label)), ["Users", "Groups", "OAuth2 clients", "Plugin settings"]);
+  assert.ok(ADMIN_NAV.children?.every((c) => c.current === undefined));
+});
+
+// ---- permission naming ----
+
+test("permissionName builds <resource>:<action>, and the host agrees the result is well-formed", () => {
+  assert.equal(permissionName("users", "read"), "users:read");
+  assert.equal(permissionName("oauth2-clients", "write"), "oauth2-clients:write");
+  assert.ok(isValidPermissionName(permissionName("oauth2-clients", "write"))); // the rule discovery enforces
+});
+
+test("actionForMethod: read for GET/HEAD, write for every mutation", () => {
+  assert.equal(actionForMethod("GET"), "read");
+  assert.equal(actionForMethod("HEAD"), "read"); // a GET route also answers HEAD
+  assert.equal(actionForMethod("POST"), "write");
+  assert.equal(actionForMethod("DELETE"), "write"); // anything that isn't a read is a write
+  assert.equal(actionForMethod("get"), "read"); // method case is the caller's
+});
+
+// ---- auth gates ----
+
+test("requirePermission: anonymous → 401→/login, wrong permission → 403, and read never grants write", () => {
+  assert.throws(() => requirePermission(fakeCtx({ user: null }), "users"), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 401 && e.location === "/login?return_to=%2Fadmin%2Fusers"); // bounce remembers the page
+  assert.throws(() => requirePermission(fakeCtx({ user: member }), "users"), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 403);
+  assert.equal(requirePermission(fakeCtx({ user: reader }), "users"), reader);
+  // The whole point of the split: users:read opens the list but not the create/delete POSTs.
+  assert.throws(() => requirePermission(fakeCtx({ method: "POST", user: reader }), "users"), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 403);
+  assert.equal(requirePermission(fakeCtx({ method: "POST", user: writer }), "users"), writer);
+  // Resources don't leak into each other: a users holder is not a groups holder.
+  assert.throws(() => requirePermission(fakeCtx({ user: writer }), "groups"), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 403);
+});
+
+test("guardedForm: valid double-submit → the parsed body, bad token → 403, non-POST → undefined", async () => {
+  const post = (over: { body?: string; verifyCsrf?: (s: string | null | undefined) => boolean }) => fakeCtx({ method: "POST", ...over });
+
+  const ok = await guardedForm(post({ body: "_csrf=tok&name=Bo", verifyCsrf: () => true }));
+  assert.equal(ok?.get("name"), "Bo");
+
+  await assert.rejects(guardedForm(post({ body: "_csrf=nope&name=Bo", verifyCsrf: () => false })), // ctx.verifyCsrf rejects
+    (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 403);
+
+  assert.equal(await guardedForm(fakeCtx({ method: "GET" })), undefined); // not a mutation → no gate, no body read
+});
+
+// ---- confirm-page model ----
+
+test("buildConfirmModel wires the danger action, message, breadcrumbs and title (shell comes from ctx.chrome)", () => {
+  const model = buildConfirmModel({
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: "Users" }, { label: "Delete" }],
+    cancelHref: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, confirmAction: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/u1/delete`, confirmLabel: "Delete user",
+    message: "Delete ada@x.io?", title: "Delete user",
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(model.confirm, { action: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/u1/delete`, label: "Delete user" });
+  assert.equal(model.message, "Delete ada@x.io?");
+  assert.equal(model.cancelHref, ADMIN_USERS_BASE);
+  assert.equal(model.title, "Delete user");
+  assert.deepEqual(model.breadcrumbs.at(-1), { label: "Delete" });
+});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-shared.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+// Shared plumbing for the admin example plugin: the section nav fragment, the screen gate, the
+// CSRF-guarded form reader, the destructive-confirm model builder, and small RouteResult helpers.
+// Everything imports the host only through the @plainpages/plugin-api barrel.
+
+import { can, CSRF_FIELD, englishTranslator, GuardError, type NavNode, readFormBody, type RequestContext, requireSession, type RouteResult, type Translate, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import enUS from "./i18n/en-US.ts";
+
+// This plugin's English — its catalog, then the host's — for a view model built outside a request,
+// i.e. its unit tests. At runtime the handlers pass ctx.t instead.
+export const ADMIN_EN: Translate = englishTranslator(enUS);
+
+export const ADMIN_USERS_BASE = "/admin/users";
+export const ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE = "/admin/groups";
+export const ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE = "/admin/clients";
+export const ADMIN_PLUGIN_SETTINGS_BASE = "/admin/plugin-settings";
+
+// One resource per screen — the `<resource>` half of every permission this plugin gates on.
+// `oauth2-clients` rather than `clients` because permission names are one global namespace.
+// There is no `permissions` resource: permissions are declared in plugin code, not created here, so
+// holding a grant is a property of a user or a group and is edited on those two screens.
+export type AdminResource = "groups" | "oauth2-clients" | "plugin-settings" | "users";
+
+export type AdminAction = "read" | "write";
+
+// `<resource>:<action>` (README → Naming a permission).
+export function permissionName(resource: AdminResource, action: AdminAction): string {
+  return `${resource}:${action}`;
+}
+
+// Every screen reads on GET/HEAD and mutates on POST. The route table and the in-handler guard both
+// go through this rather than each spelling the permission out, so they cannot drift. Deliberately
+// local: generalised, it would make authorization a function of the transport verb (AGENTS.md).
+export function actionForMethod(method: string): AdminAction {
+  const verb = method.toUpperCase();
+  return verb === "GET" || verb === "HEAD" ? "read" : "write";
+}
+
+// The plugin's nav fragment: an ungated "Admin" header + its three screens, each gated on its own
+// read permission. The header carries no `permission` because a user may hold one screen's and not
+// another's; composeNav drops a header left with no visible children, so a user holding none of the
+// three never sees the section. The host current-marks the active item — no `current`/`open` here.
+export const ADMIN_NAV: NavNode = {
+  children: [
+    { href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, icon: "i-users", id: "users", label: "admin.nav.users", permission: permissionName("users", "read") },
+    { href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, icon: "i-layers", id: "groups", label: "admin.nav.groups", permission: permissionName("groups", "read") },
+    { href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, icon: "i-globe", id: "clients", label: "admin.nav.clients", permission: permissionName("oauth2-clients", "read") },
+    { href: ADMIN_PLUGIN_SETTINGS_BASE, icon: "i-sliders", id: "plugin-settings", label: "admin.nav.pluginSettings", permission: permissionName("plugin-settings", "read") },
+  ],
+  icon: "i-shield",
+  id: "admin",
+  label: "admin.nav.section", // a key in this plugin's catalog; the host translates nav labels
+};
+
+// The screen gate: a signed-in user holding this request's `<resource>:<action>`. Each route already
+// declares the same permission, so this is defence-in-depth and what a direct unit test relies on.
+// `action` defaults to the method's, and is passed explicitly by a *write-intent GET* — a create
+// form or a delete-confirm page — which refuses a reader rather than rendering a form whose submit
+// would 403. The route table declares the same override, so the two cannot disagree.
+export function requirePermission(ctx: RequestContext, resource: AdminResource, action?: AdminAction): User {
+  const user = requireSession(ctx); // anonymous → GuardError → /login (return_to kept)
+  const permission = permissionName(resource, action ?? actionForMethod(ctx.req.method ?? "GET"));
+  if (!can(ctx, permission)) throw new GuardError(403, `${permission} required`);
+  return user;
+}
+
+// Read + CSRF-verify a mutation's form body once (double-submit via ctx.verifyCsrf); non-POST ⇒
+// undefined. A POST without a valid token is refused (GuardError → 403).
+export async function guardedForm(ctx: RequestContext): Promise<URLSearchParams | undefined> {
+  if ((ctx.req.method ?? "GET").toUpperCase() !== "POST") return undefined;
+  const form = await readFormBody(ctx.req);
+  if (!ctx.verifyCsrf(form.get(CSRF_FIELD))) throw new GuardError(403, "invalid CSRF token");
+  return form;
+}
+
+// A themed "not found" (bad id/name in the path) rendered in the admin shell — 404, never a 500.
+export function notFound(ctx: RequestContext): RouteResult {
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, message: ctx.t("admin.notFound.message"), title: ctx.t("admin.notFound.title") }, status: 404, view: "notice" };
+}
+
+// A capability the plugin needs isn't on ctx.system (Ory not wired). Login already requires these in
+// a real deployment, so this is the honest 503 fallback for a misconfigured host, not a crash.
+export function unavailable(ctx: RequestContext, what: string): RouteResult {
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, message: ctx.t("admin.unavailable.message", { what }), title: ctx.t("admin.unavailable.title") }, status: 503, view: "notice" };
+}
+
+// Model for the shared destructive-confirm page (views/confirm.ejs). The view reads the shell fields
+// (brand/csrf/theme/user/nav) from ctx.chrome; this carries only the page body + title/breadcrumbs.
+export function buildConfirmModel(opts: {
+  breadcrumbs: { href?: string; label: string }[];
+  cancelHref: string;
+  confirmAction: string;
+  confirmLabel: string;
+  message: string;
+  title: string;
+}) {
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: opts.breadcrumbs,
+    cancelHref: opts.cancelHref,
+    confirm: { action: opts.confirmAction, label: opts.confirmLabel },
+    message: opts.message,
+    title: opts.title,
+  };
+}

examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.test.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-// Built-in Users admin screen (§5): the pure view-model + Kratos-payload builders. The HTTP
-// routing/gate/CSRF + live Kratos calls are exercised over HTTP in app.test.ts.
+// Users admin screen (example plugin): the pure view-model + Kratos-payload builders. The HTTP
+// routing/gate/CSRF + live Kratos calls are exercised over HTTP in src/http/app.test.ts.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
+import type { Identity } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
 import {
   buildUserFormModel,
   buildUsersListModel,
@@ -10,7 +11,6 @@ import {
   toUserView,
   updateIdentityPayload,
 } from "./admin-users.ts";
-import type { Identity } from "./kratos-admin.ts";
 
 const id = (n: number) => `01902d5e-7b6c-7e3a-9f21-3c8d1e0a4b${String(n).padStart(2, "0")}`;
 const identity = (n: number, over: Partial<Identity> = {}): Identity => ({
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ test("buildUsersListModel filters by search + status, sorts, and paginates", ()
   const all = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/admin/users" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
-  assert.equal(all.shell.title, "Users");
+  assert.equal(all.title, "Users");
 
   // Search narrows to one and shows a pill.
   const one = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/admin/users?q=user7%40example.com" });
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ test("buildUsersListModel filters by search + status, sorts, and paginates", ()
 
 test("buildUserFormModel: create mode has an editable email + password, no edit actions", () => {
   const m = buildUserFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig" });
-  assert.equal(m.shell.title, "New user");
+  assert.equal(m.title, "New user");
   assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/users");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Create user");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ test("buildUserFormModel: create mode has an editable email + password, no edit
 
 test("buildUserFormModel: edit mode prefills, locks email, and exposes state/delete/recovery actions", () => {
   const m = buildUserFormModel({ identity: identity(3) });
-  assert.equal(m.shell.title, "Edit user");
+  assert.equal(m.title, "Edit user");
   assert.equal(m.form.action, `/admin/users/${id(3)}`);
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Save changes");
   const email = m.form.fields.find((f) => f.name === "email")!;

examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,453 @@
+// Users admin screen: list Kratos identities (filter/sort/paginate) +
+// create/edit/deactivate/delete/trigger-recovery. Pure builders turn identities + the request URL
+// into building-block view models; below them are thin per-route handlers keyed on ctx.params, over
+// a shared `withUser` gate.
+
+import { can, type Identity, type KetoClient, type KratosAdmin, KratosError, paginate, parseListQuery, type RecoveryCode, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type Translate, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { applyGrants, buildPermissionPicker, effectivePermissions, grantDiff, heldPermissions, type PermissionPicker, PERMISSIONS_FIELD, userSubject } from "./admin-grants.ts";
+import { ADMIN_EN, type AdminAction, ADMIN_USERS_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, permissionName, requirePermission, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+
+const SCHEMA_ID = "default"; // matches kratos.yml identity.default_schema_id
+const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 25;
+const PAGE_SIZES = [25, 50, 100];
+// One Kratos page is fetched and filtered/sorted/paged in memory — the admin API offers no
+// full-text search or sort. Ample for an admin tool; raise if a deployment outgrows it.
+const LIST_FETCH_SIZE = 250;
+const STATE_TONE: Record<string, string> = { active: "pos", inactive: "warn" };
+
+export interface UserView {
+  email: string;
+  id: string;
+  initials: string;
+  name: string;
+  state: string; // Kratos identity state: "active" | "inactive"
+}
+
+export interface UserInput {
+  email: string;
+  first: string;
+  last: string;
+  password: string;
+}
+
+function nameParts(identity: Identity): { first: string; last: string } {
+  const nm = ((identity.traits?.name ?? {}) as { first?: unknown; last?: unknown });
+  return {
+    first: typeof nm.first === "string" ? nm.first.trim() : "",
+    last: typeof nm.last === "string" ? nm.last.trim() : "",
+  };
+}
+
+export function toUserView(identity: Identity): UserView {
+  const email = typeof identity.traits?.email === "string" ? (identity.traits.email as string) : "";
+  const { first, last } = nameParts(identity);
+  const full = `${first} ${last}`.trim();
+  const name = full || email.split("@")[0] || email;
+  const initials = (first && last ? first[0]! + last[0]! : name.slice(0, 2) || "U").toUpperCase();
+  return { email, id: identity.id, initials, name, state: identity.state ?? "active" };
+}
+
+// ---- Kratos payloads ----
+
+export function createIdentityPayload(input: UserInput): Record<string, unknown> {
+  const traits: Record<string, unknown> = { email: input.email };
+  if (input.first || input.last) traits.name = { first: input.first, last: input.last };
+  const payload: Record<string, unknown> = { schema_id: SCHEMA_ID, state: "active", traits };
+  if (input.password) payload.credentials = { password: { config: { password: input.password } } };
+  return payload;
+}
+
+// A full-identity PUT must carry schema/state/traits. Keep the existing email (the form's email is
+// read-only) and other traits; rewrite name from the input (cleared ⇒ drop it).
+export function updateIdentityPayload(identity: Identity, input: UserInput): Record<string, unknown> {
+  const traits: Record<string, unknown> = { ...(identity.traits ?? {}) };
+  if (input.first || input.last) traits.name = { first: input.first, last: input.last };
+  else delete traits.name;
+  return { schema_id: identity.schema_id ?? SCHEMA_ID, state: identity.state ?? "active", traits };
+}
+
+export function setStatePayload(identity: Identity, state: "active" | "inactive"): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return { schema_id: identity.schema_id ?? SCHEMA_ID, state, traits: { ...(identity.traits ?? {}) } };
+}
+
+// ---- view models ----
+
+interface ListState {
+  page: number;
+  pageSize: number;
+  q: string;
+  sort: string | null;
+  status: string;
+}
+
+const SORT: Record<string, (u: UserView) => string> = {
+  email: (u) => u.email,
+  name: (u) => u.name,
+  status: (u) => u.state,
+};
+const COLUMNS = [
+  { key: "name", label: "admin.users.column.name" },
+  { key: "email", label: "admin.users.column.email" },
+  { key: "status", label: "admin.users.column.status" },
+];
+
+// Canonical list URL from the current state + per-link overrides; omits defaults so links stay tidy.
+function listHref(state: ListState, overrides: Partial<ListState> = {}): string {
+  const s = { ...state, ...overrides };
+  const p = new URLSearchParams();
+  if (s.q) p.set("q", s.q);
+  if (s.status && s.status !== "all") p.set("status", s.status);
+  if (s.sort) p.set("sort", s.sort);
+  if (s.page > 1) p.set("page", String(s.page));
+  if (s.pageSize !== DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE) p.set("pageSize", String(s.pageSize));
+  const qs = p.toString();
+  return qs ? `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}?${qs}` : ADMIN_USERS_BASE;
+}
+
+export function buildUsersListModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean;
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  identities: Identity[];
+  t?: Translate;
+  url: URL | URLSearchParams | string;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const query = parseListQuery(opts.url, { defaultPageSize: DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE });
+  const status = query.filters.status?.[0] ?? "all";
+  const sort = query.sort && SORT[query.sort.field] ? query.sort : null;
+  const sortToken = sort ? (sort.dir === "desc" ? `-${sort.field}` : sort.field) : null;
+  const needle = query.q.toLowerCase();
+
+  const all = opts.identities.map(toUserView);
+  let list = all.filter((u) =>
+    (!needle || u.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle) || u.email.toLowerCase().includes(needle)) &&
+    (status === "all" || u.state === status));
+  if (sort) {
+    const get = SORT[sort.field] as (u: UserView) => string;
+    const dir = sort.dir === "desc" ? -1 : 1;
+    list = [...list].sort((a, b) => get(a).localeCompare(get(b)) * dir);
+  }
+
+  const page = paginate(list.length, query.page, query.pageSize, { boundaries: 1, siblings: 1 });
+  const start = (page.page - 1) * page.pageSize;
+  const rows = list.slice(start, start + page.pageSize);
+  const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q, sort: sortToken, status };
+
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: t("admin.nav.section") }, { label: t("admin.users.title") }],
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
+    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, all.length, t),
+    pagination: listPagination(state, page, t),
+    table: listTable(rows, state, sort, t),
+    title: t("admin.users.title"),
+  };
+}
+
+function listTable(rows: UserView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null, t: Translate) {
+  return {
+    actions: true,
+    caption: t("admin.users.title"),
+    columns: COLUMNS.map((c) => {
+      const dir = sort && sort.field === c.key ? sort.dir : undefined;
+      const next = dir === "asc" ? `-${c.key}` : c.key; // asc→desc, else→asc
+      return { href: listHref(state, { page: 1, sort: next }), label: t(c.label), sort: dir, sortable: true };
+    }),
+    rows: rows.map((u) => ({
+      actions: [{ href: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(u.id)}`, icon: "i-edit", label: t("common.edit") }],
+      cells: [
+        { user: { initials: u.initials, name: u.name } },
+        u.email,
+        { badge: { label: t(`admin.users.status.${u.state}`), tone: STATE_TONE[u.state] ?? "info" } },
+      ],
+      name: u.name,
+    })),
+  };
+}
+
+function listFilterBar(state: ListState, total: number, t: Translate) {
+  const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: t("filter.search"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
+  if (state.status !== "all") pills.push({ label: t("admin.users.status.label"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, status: "all" }), value: t(`admin.users.status.${state.status}`) });
+  return {
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"), // an untranslated core key still resolves: the host catalog is the fallback
+    clearHref: ADMIN_USERS_BASE,
+    label: t("admin.users.filter"),
+    pills,
+    rows: [[
+      { label: t("admin.users.searchLabel"), name: "q", placeholder: t("admin.users.searchPlaceholder"), type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { legend: t("admin.users.status.label"), name: "status", options: [
+        { count: total, label: t("admin.users.status.all"), value: "all" },
+        { label: t("admin.users.status.active"), value: "active" },
+        { label: t("admin.users.status.inactive"), value: "inactive" },
+      ], type: "segmented", value: state.status },
+      { type: "spacer" },
+    ]],
+  };
+}
+
+function listPagination(state: ListState, page: ReturnType<typeof paginate>, t: Translate) {
+  const hidden: { name: string; value: string }[] = [];
+  if (state.q) hidden.push({ name: "q", value: state.q });
+  if (state.status !== "all") hidden.push({ name: "status", value: state.status });
+  if (state.sort) hidden.push({ name: "sort", value: state.sort });
+  return {
+    label: t("admin.users.pagination"),
+    next: { href: page.next ? listHref(state, { page: page.next }) : undefined },
+    pages: page.pages.map((p) =>
+      p.ellipsis ? { ellipsis: true }
+        : p.current ? { current: true, label: String(p.page) }
+          : { href: listHref(state, { page: p.page as number }), label: String(p.page) }),
+    prev: { href: page.prev ? listHref(state, { page: page.prev }) : undefined },
+    rows: { hidden, label: t("pagination.rows"), name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: t("pagination.go"), value: state.pageSize },
+    summary: { from: page.from, to: page.to, total: page.total },
+  };
+}
+
+export interface FieldConfig {
+  autocomplete?: string;
+  hint?: string;
+  icon?: string;
+  id: string;
+  label: string;
+  name: string;
+  optional?: boolean;
+  readonly?: boolean;
+  required?: boolean;
+  type?: string;
+  value?: string;
+}
+
+export function buildUserFormModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean; // false ⇒ a `users:read` holder: show the state, render no write affordance
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  error?: string;
+  identity?: Identity | null;
+  permissions?: PermissionPicker; // editing only — a user that doesn't exist yet can hold nothing
+  recovery?: RecoveryCode;
+  t?: Translate;
+  values?: Partial<UserInput>;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const editing = opts.identity != null;
+  const view = editing ? toUserView(opts.identity!) : null;
+  const np = editing ? nameParts(opts.identity!) : { first: opts.values?.first ?? "", last: opts.values?.last ?? "" };
+  const email = editing ? view!.email : (opts.values?.email ?? "");
+  const idPath = editing ? `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(view!.id)}` : ADMIN_USERS_BASE;
+
+  const fields: FieldConfig[] = [
+    { autocomplete: "email", icon: "i-mail", id: "email", label: t("admin.users.field.email"), name: "email", required: !editing, type: "email", value: email,
+      ...(editing ? { hint: t("admin.users.field.emailHint"), readonly: true } : {}) },
+    { id: "first", label: t("admin.users.field.first"), name: "first", optional: true, value: np.first },
+    { id: "last", label: t("admin.users.field.last"), name: "last", optional: true, value: np.last },
+  ];
+  if (!editing) fields.push({ autocomplete: "new-password", hint: t("admin.users.field.passwordHint"), icon: "i-lock", id: "password", label: t("admin.users.field.password"), name: "password", optional: true, type: "password" });
+
+  const canWrite = opts.canWrite !== false;
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: t("admin.users.title") }, { label: editing ? t("common.edit") : t("common.new") }],
+    canWrite, // the view drops every write affordance when false; the host already 403s the POSTs
+    edit: editing ? {
+      deleteAction: `${idPath}/delete`,
+      id: view!.id,
+      nextLabel: view!.state === "inactive" ? t("admin.users.reactivate") : t("admin.users.deactivate"),
+      recoveryAction: `${idPath}/recovery`,
+      state: view!.state,
+      stateAction: `${idPath}/state`,
+    } : undefined,
+    error: opts.error,
+    form: { action: idPath, cancelHref: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "", fields, submitLabel: editing ? t("admin.users.save") : t("admin.users.create") },
+    permissions: editing ? opts.permissions : undefined,
+    recovery: opts.recovery,
+    title: editing ? t("admin.users.edit") : t("admin.users.new"),
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- request handler (imperative shell) ----
+
+function readUserInput(form: URLSearchParams): UserInput {
+  return {
+    email: (form.get("email") ?? "").trim(),
+    first: (form.get("first") ?? "").trim(),
+    last: (form.get("last") ?? "").trim(),
+    password: form.get("password") ?? "",
+  };
+}
+
+// Shared per-request deps for the Users screen, resolved by `withUser`: the gate (`users:read` on a
+// GET, `users:write` on a POST) and the Kratos capability (else a themed 503). Each route below is a
+// thin handler over these.
+// `keto` is optional the way every other capability here is: without it the page still lists and
+// edits users, it just can't show the permission picker.
+interface UsersDeps { ctx: RequestContext; keto: KetoClient | undefined; kratosAdmin: KratosAdmin; revoke: ((sub: string) => void) | undefined; user: User; }
+
+// Resolve the shared deps, then run `inner`. The route's own `permission` already gated at the host;
+// `requirePermission` is defence-in-depth and yields the user. GuardError (auth/CSRF) → host maps it.
+function withUser(inner: (deps: UsersDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return async (ctx) => {
+    const user = requirePermission(ctx, "users", action);
+    const kratosAdmin = ctx.system?.kratosAdmin;
+    if (!kratosAdmin) return unavailable(ctx, ctx.t("admin.capability.kratos"));
+    return inner({ ctx, keto: ctx.system?.keto, kratosAdmin, revoke: ctx.system?.revoke, user });
+  };
+}
+
+// Same, plus the target identity from ctx.params.id (unknown id → themed 404). The router already
+// decoded the id and 404s malformed %-encoding, so no manual decode is needed here.
+function withTarget(inner: (deps: UsersDeps, identity: Identity, id: string) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
+  return withUser(async (deps) => {
+    const id = deps.ctx.params["id"] ?? "";
+    const identity = await deps.kratosAdmin.getIdentity(id);
+    if (!identity) return notFound(deps.ctx);
+    return inner(deps, identity, id);
+  }, action);
+}
+
+const formResult = (ctx: RequestContext, extra: Parameters<typeof buildUserFormModel>[0]): RouteResult =>
+  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildUserFormModel({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, t: ctx.t, ...extra }) }, view: "user-form" });
+
+// GET /admin/users — the filtered/sorted/paged list.
+export const usersList = withUser(async ({ ctx, kratosAdmin }) => {
+  const { identities } = await kratosAdmin.listIdentities({ pageSize: LIST_FETCH_SIZE });
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildUsersListModel({ canWrite: canWriteUsers(ctx), csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, identities, t: ctx.t, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "users" };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/users — create; a Kratos 4xx re-renders the form (400), keeping the input.
+export const usersCreate = withUser(async ({ ctx, kratosAdmin, user }) => {
+  const input = readUserInput((await guardedForm(ctx))!);
+  try {
+    await kratosAdmin.createIdentity(createIdentityPayload(input));
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err instanceof KratosError) return { ...formResult(ctx, { error: createError(err, ctx.t), values: input }), status: 400 };
+    throw err;
+  }
+  ctx.log.info("admin: user created", { actor: user.id, email: input.email });
+  return { redirect: ADMIN_USERS_BASE };
+});
+
+// GET /admin/users/new — the empty create form.
+export const usersNewForm = withUser(({ ctx }) => Promise.resolve(formResult(ctx, {})), "write");
+
+// GET /admin/users/:id — the edit form, prefilled.
+export const usersEditForm = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const permissions = await userPermissionPicker(deps, id);
+  return formResult(deps.ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(deps.ctx), identity, ...(permissions ? { permissions } : {}) });
+});
+
+const canWriteUsers = (ctx: RequestContext): boolean => can(ctx, permissionName("users", "write"));
+
+// The checkbox list of declared permissions: ticked where this user holds one, and disabled where
+// the grant comes from a group (real, but removed on that group). Undefined when Keto isn't wired —
+// the rest of the edit page still works.
+async function userPermissionPicker(deps: UsersDeps, id: string, error?: string): Promise<PermissionPicker | undefined> {
+  if (!deps.keto) return undefined;
+  const subject = userSubject(id);
+  const [direct, effective] = await Promise.all([
+    heldPermissions(deps.keto, subject),
+    effectivePermissions(deps.keto, subject, deps.ctx.declaredPermissions),
+  ]);
+  return {
+    ...buildPermissionPicker({
+      action: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}/permissions`,
+      declared: deps.ctx.declaredPermissions,
+      direct,
+      effective,
+      readOnly: !canWriteUsers(deps.ctx),
+      t: deps.ctx.t,
+    }),
+    ...(error ? { error } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+// POST /admin/users/:id/permissions — the submitted checkboxes are the desired set of *direct*
+// grants; grant what's newly ticked, revoke what's newly unticked. A change to a user's own grants
+// revokes their live tokens so it lands now rather than at the next re-mint.
+export const usersPermissions = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const { ctx, keto, revoke, user } = deps;
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  if (!keto) return unavailable(ctx, ctx.t("admin.capability.keto"));
+  const subject = userSubject(id);
+  const diff = grantDiff(ctx.declaredPermissions, await heldPermissions(keto, subject), form.getAll(PERMISSIONS_FIELD));
+  // Self-lockout guard, matching the self-deactivate/self-delete ones: revoking your own grants can
+  // remove the last `users:write` on the deployment, and the instant-revoke hook lands it on the very
+  // next request — leaving a `curl` against Keto as the only way back in.
+  if (id === user.id && diff.revoke.length > 0) {
+    ctx.log.warn("admin: refused a self-revoke of permissions", { actor: user.id, refused: diff.revoke.join(",") });
+    const permissions = await userPermissionPicker(deps, id, ctx.t("admin.grants.selfRevoke"));
+    return { ...formResult(ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(ctx), identity, ...(permissions ? { permissions } : {}) }), status: 400 };
+  }
+  await applyGrants(keto, subject, diff);
+  if (diff.grant.length > 0 || diff.revoke.length > 0) {
+    revoke?.(id);
+    ctx.log.info("admin: user permissions changed", { actor: user.id, granted: diff.grant.join(","), revoked: diff.revoke.join(","), target: id });
+  }
+  return { redirect: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}` };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/users/:id — save edits; a Kratos 4xx re-renders the form (400).
+export const usersUpdate = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const { ctx, kratosAdmin } = deps;
+  const input = readUserInput((await guardedForm(ctx))!);
+  try {
+    await kratosAdmin.updateIdentity(id, updateIdentityPayload(identity, input));
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Re-render with the picker, or the permissions section vanishes off the page on a failed save.
+    if (err instanceof KratosError) return { ...formResult(ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(ctx), error: ctx.t("admin.users.error.save"), identity, ...(await pickerOrNothing(deps, id)) }), status: 400 };
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return { redirect: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}` };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/users/:id/state — toggle active/inactive; a deactivation revokes the target's live
+// tokens now (not after the JWT TTL). Self-protection: an admin can't deactivate their own account.
+export const usersState = withTarget(async ({ ctx, kratosAdmin, revoke, user }, identity, id) => {
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST (no fields read)
+  if (id === user.id) return { ...formResult(ctx, { error: ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDeactivate"), identity }), status: 400 };
+  const nextState = identity.state === "inactive" ? "active" : "inactive";
+  await kratosAdmin.updateIdentity(id, setStatePayload(identity, nextState));
+  if (nextState === "inactive") revoke?.(id);
+  ctx.log.info("admin: user state changed", { actor: user.id, state: nextState, target: id });
+  return { redirect: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}` };
+});
+
+// GET /admin/users/:id/delete — the deliberate confirm step (zero-JS). Refuses self-delete.
+export const usersDeleteConfirm = withTarget((deps, identity, id) => {
+  if (id === deps.user.id) return Promise.resolve({ ...formResult(deps.ctx, { error: deps.ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDelete"), identity }), status: 400 });
+  const back = `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}`;
+  const view = toUserView(identity);
+  const tt = deps.ctx.t;
+  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: tt("admin.users.title") }, { href: back, label: view.name }, { label: tt("common.delete") }],
+    cancelHref: back, confirmAction: `${back}/delete`, confirmLabel: tt("admin.users.delete"),
+    message: tt("admin.users.deleteMessage", { email: view.email }), title: tt("admin.users.delete"),
+  }) }, view: "confirm" });
+}, "write");
+
+// POST /admin/users/:id/delete — perform it; revoke the gone account's live tokens. Refuses self-delete.
+export const usersDelete = withTarget(async ({ ctx, kratosAdmin, revoke, user }, identity, id) => {
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
+  if (id === user.id) return { ...formResult(ctx, { error: ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDelete"), identity }), status: 400 };
+  await kratosAdmin.deleteIdentity(id);
+  revoke?.(id);
+  ctx.log.info("admin: user deleted", { actor: user.id, target: id });
+  return { redirect: ADMIN_USERS_BASE };
+});
+
+// POST /admin/users/:id/recovery — mint a one-time recovery code, shown on the edit page.
+export const usersRecovery = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const { ctx, kratosAdmin } = deps;
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
+  const recovery = await kratosAdmin.createRecoveryCode(id);
+  return formResult(ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(ctx), identity, recovery, ...(await pickerOrNothing(deps, id)) });
+});
+
+// The picker as a spreadable fragment, so a re-render never silently drops the section.
+async function pickerOrNothing(deps: UsersDeps, id: string): Promise<{ permissions?: PermissionPicker }> {
+  const permissions = await userPermissionPicker(deps, id);
+  return permissions ? { permissions } : {};
+}
+
+function createError(err: KratosError, t: Translate): string {
+  return err.status === 409
+    ? t("admin.users.error.duplicate")
+    : t("admin.users.error.create");
+}

examples/plugins/admin/i18n/en-US.ts

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+// The admin plugin's own catalog — the baseline its other locales are written against. Its keys
+// are looked up before the host's, so this plugin owns its words without prefixing them.
+
+const messages = {
+  "admin.capability.hydra": "Hydra OAuth2 admin",
+  "admin.capability.keto": "Keto and Kratos identity admin",
+  "admin.capability.kratos": "Kratos identity admin",
+
+  "admin.clients.column.id": "Client ID",
+  "admin.clients.column.name": "Name",
+  "admin.clients.column.type": "Type",
+  "admin.clients.confidential": "Confidential",
+  "admin.clients.consent.firstParty": "First-party (auto-granted)",
+  "admin.clients.consent.label": "Consent",
+  "admin.clients.consent.screen": "Shows the consent screen",
+  "admin.clients.created": "Client registered",
+  "admin.clients.createdNotice": "Client registered.",
+  "admin.clients.delete": "Delete client",
+  "admin.clients.deleteMessage": "Delete client {{name}}? Apps using it can no longer sign in through Plainpages.",
+  "admin.clients.error.rejected": "Hydra rejected the client — check the redirect URIs and scopes.",
+  "admin.clients.field.name": "Name",
+  "admin.clients.field.redirectUris": "Redirect URIs",
+  "admin.clients.field.redirectUrisHint": "One per line — where the app is sent back after sign-in.",
+  "admin.clients.field.scopes": "Scopes",
+  "admin.clients.field.scopesHint": "Space-separated scopes the client may request.",
+  "admin.clients.field.typeHint":
+    "Browser and mobile apps can't keep a secret — choose Public. Server-side apps that can store one — leave it Confidential.",
+  "admin.clients.filter": "Filter clients",
+  "admin.clients.pagination": "Clients pagination",
+  "admin.clients.public": "Public",
+  "admin.clients.publicPkce": "Public (PKCE)",
+  "admin.clients.register": "Register",
+  "admin.clients.registerClient": "Register client",
+  "admin.clients.registerTitle": "Register client",
+  "admin.clients.rereg": "To change a client, delete and re-register — this issues a new client ID and secret. The secret is shown only once, at registration.",
+  "admin.clients.searchLabel": "Search clients",
+  "admin.clients.searchPlaceholder": "Search name or client ID…",
+  "admin.clients.secret": "Client secret",
+  "admin.clients.secretHint": "Copy these now — the secret can't be shown again. Store them where the app reads its credentials.",
+  "admin.clients.title": "OAuth2 clients",
+  "admin.clients.validation.name": "Enter a name for the client.",
+  "admin.clients.validation.redirectUri": "\"{{uri}}\" is not a valid redirect URI — use an absolute URL like https://app.example.com/callback.",
+  "admin.clients.validation.redirectUris": "Add at least one redirect URI.",
+
+  "admin.common.chooseMember": "Choose a user or group…",
+  "admin.common.group": "Group",
+  "admin.common.member": "Member",
+  "admin.common.type": "Type",
+  "admin.common.user": "User",
+
+  "admin.grants.hint": "Which permissions exist is set by the plugins installed on this system. Tick to grant, untick to revoke.",
+  "admin.grants.hintReadOnly": "Which permissions exist is set by the plugins installed on this system. You can see these, but not change them.",
+  "admin.grants.inherited": "Greyed-out permissions come from a group. Change them on that group.",
+  "admin.grants.legend": "Permissions",
+  "admin.grants.none": "No installed plugin declares a permission, so there is nothing to grant.",
+  "admin.grants.pending": "Members get this at their next sign-in (up to 10 minutes).",
+  "admin.grants.save": "Save permissions",
+  "admin.grants.selfRevoke": "You can't revoke your own permissions — ask another administrator, so you can't lock yourself out.",
+
+  "admin.groups.actions": "Group actions",
+  "admin.groups.addMember": "Add a member",
+  "admin.groups.allMembers": "All users and groups are already members.",
+  "admin.groups.column.members": "Members",
+  "admin.groups.column.name": "Group",
+  "admin.groups.create": "Create group",
+  "admin.groups.delete": "Delete group",
+  "admin.groups.deleteMessage": "Delete group {{name}}? This can't be undone.",
+  "admin.groups.field.name": "Group name",
+  "admin.groups.field.nameHint": "Lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.",
+  "admin.groups.filter": "Filter groups",
+  "admin.groups.firstMember": "First member",
+  "admin.groups.firstMemberHint": "A group exists once it has a member; add more after creating it.",
+  "admin.groups.members": "Members",
+  "admin.groups.membersOf": "Members of {{name}}",
+  "admin.groups.new": "New group",
+  "admin.groups.noMembers": "No members yet.",
+  "admin.groups.pagination": "Groups pagination",
+  "admin.groups.searchLabel": "Search groups",
+  "admin.groups.searchPlaceholder": "Search group name…",
+  "admin.groups.title": "Groups",
+  "admin.groups.validation.member": "Pick a member to add as the group's first member.",
+  "admin.groups.validation.name": "Group names use lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.",
+
+  "admin.nav.clients": "OAuth2 clients",
+  "admin.nav.groups": "Groups",
+  "admin.nav.pluginSettings": "Plugin settings",
+  "admin.nav.section": "Admin",
+  "admin.nav.users": "Users",
+
+  "admin.pluginSettings.caption": "Settings declared by {{plugin}}",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.description": "Description",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.key": "Key",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.required": "Required",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.source": "Source",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.type": "Type",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.value": "Value",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.variable": "Variable",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.no": "No",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.none": "This plugin declares no settings.",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.secretSet": "Secret — set",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.secretUnset": "Secret — not set",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.default": "Default",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.env": "Environment",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.unset": "Not set",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.title": "Plugin settings",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.unset": "—",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.yes": "Yes",
+
+  "admin.notFound.message": "That item doesn't exist.",
+  "admin.notFound.title": "Not found",
+
+  "admin.unavailable.message": "{{what}} is not configured on this deployment.",
+  "admin.unavailable.title": "Admin unavailable",
+
+  "admin.users.actions": "Account actions",
+  "admin.users.column.email": "Email",
+  "admin.users.column.name": "Name",
+  "admin.users.column.status": "Status",
+  "admin.users.confirm": "Confirm action",
+  "admin.users.create": "Create user",
+  "admin.users.deactivate": "Deactivate",
+  "admin.users.delete": "Delete user",
+  "admin.users.deleteMessage": "Delete {{email}}? This permanently removes the account and can't be undone.",
+  "admin.users.edit": "Edit user",
+  "admin.users.error.create": "Could not create the user — check the email and try again.",
+  "admin.users.error.duplicate": "A user with that email already exists.",
+  "admin.users.error.save": "Could not save changes — check the fields and try again.",
+  "admin.users.error.selfDeactivate": "You can't deactivate your own account.",
+  "admin.users.error.selfDelete": "You can't delete your own account.",
+  "admin.users.field.email": "Email",
+  "admin.users.field.emailHint": "The sign-in identifier — can't be changed here.",
+  "admin.users.field.first": "First name",
+  "admin.users.field.last": "Last name",
+  "admin.users.field.password": "Password",
+  "admin.users.field.passwordHint": "Optional — leave blank to have the user set one via a recovery code.",
+  "admin.users.filter": "Filter users",
+  "admin.users.new": "New user",
+  "admin.users.pagination": "Users pagination",
+  "admin.users.reactivate": "Reactivate",
+  "admin.users.recovery.body": "Give it to the user — they enter it to set a new password (generate a fresh one if it has expired):",
+  "admin.users.recovery.link": "the password-reset screen",
+  "admin.users.recovery.generate": "Generate recovery code",
+  "admin.users.recovery.title": "Recovery code generated",
+  "admin.users.save": "Save changes",
+  "admin.users.searchLabel": "Search users",
+  "admin.users.searchPlaceholder": "Search name or email…",
+  "admin.users.status.active": "Active",
+  "admin.users.status.all": "All",
+  "admin.users.status.inactive": "Inactive",
+  "admin.users.status.label": "Status",
+  "admin.users.title": "Users",
+};
+
+export type AdminMessages = typeof messages;
+
+export default messages;

examples/plugins/admin/i18n/sv-SE.ts

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+import type { AdminMessages } from "./en-US.ts";
+
+const messages: AdminMessages = {
+  "admin.capability.hydra": "Hydra OAuth2-administration",
+  "admin.capability.keto": "Keto- och Kratos-identitetsadministration",
+  "admin.capability.kratos": "Kratos identitetsadministration",
+
+  "admin.clients.column.id": "Klient-ID",
+  "admin.clients.column.name": "Namn",
+  "admin.clients.column.type": "Typ",
+  "admin.clients.confidential": "Konfidentiell",
+  "admin.clients.consent.firstParty": "Förstapart (godkänns automatiskt)",
+  "admin.clients.consent.label": "Godkännande",
+  "admin.clients.consent.screen": "Visar godkännandesidan",
+  "admin.clients.created": "Klienten är registrerad",
+  "admin.clients.createdNotice": "Klienten är registrerad.",
+  "admin.clients.delete": "Radera klient",
+  "admin.clients.deleteMessage": "Ta bort klienten {{name}}? Appar som använder den kan inte längre logga in via Plainpages.",
+  "admin.clients.error.rejected": "Hydra nekade klienten — kontrollera omdirigerings-URI:erna och scopen.",
+  "admin.clients.field.name": "Namn",
+  "admin.clients.field.redirectUris": "Omdirigerings-URI:er",
+  "admin.clients.field.redirectUrisHint": "En per rad — dit appen skickas tillbaka efter inloggning.",
+  "admin.clients.field.scopes": "Scope",
+  "admin.clients.field.scopesHint": "Mellanslagsseparerade scope som klienten får begära.",
+  "admin.clients.field.typeHint":
+    "Webbläsar- och mobilappar kan inte hålla en hemlighet — välj Publik. Serverappar som kan lagra en — låt stå som Konfidentiell.",
+  "admin.clients.filter": "Filtrera klienter",
+  "admin.clients.pagination": "Sidnavigering för klienter",
+  "admin.clients.public": "Publik",
+  "admin.clients.publicPkce": "Publik (PKCE)",
+  "admin.clients.register": "Registrera",
+  "admin.clients.registerClient": "Registrera klient",
+  "admin.clients.registerTitle": "Registrera klient",
+  "admin.clients.rereg":
+    "För att ändra en klient: ta bort den och registrera på nytt — det ger ett nytt klient-ID och en ny hemlighet. Hemligheten visas bara en gång, vid registreringen.",
+  "admin.clients.searchLabel": "Sök klienter",
+  "admin.clients.searchPlaceholder": "Sök på namn eller klient-ID…",
+  "admin.clients.secret": "Klienthemlighet",
+  "admin.clients.secretHint": "Kopiera nu — hemligheten kan inte visas igen. Spara uppgifterna där appen läser dem.",
+  "admin.clients.title": "OAuth2-klienter",
+  "admin.clients.validation.name": "Ange ett namn för klienten.",
+  "admin.clients.validation.redirectUri": "\"{{uri}}\" är inte en giltig omdirigerings-URI — använd en absolut URL som https://app.example.com/callback.",
+  "admin.clients.validation.redirectUris": "Lägg till minst en omdirigerings-URI.",
+
+  "admin.common.chooseMember": "Välj en användare eller grupp…",
+  "admin.common.group": "Grupp",
+  "admin.common.member": "Medlem",
+  "admin.common.type": "Typ",
+  "admin.common.user": "Användare",
+
+  "admin.grants.hint": "Vilka behörigheter som finns bestäms av de plugins som är installerade. Kryssa i för att tilldela, ur för att återkalla.",
+  "admin.grants.hintReadOnly": "Vilka behörigheter som finns bestäms av de plugins som är installerade. Du kan se dem, men inte ändra dem.",
+  "admin.grants.inherited": "Gråmarkerade behörigheter kommer från en grupp. Ändra dem på gruppen.",
+  "admin.grants.legend": "Behörigheter",
+  "admin.grants.none": "Ingen installerad plugin deklarerar någon behörighet, så det finns inget att tilldela.",
+  "admin.grants.pending": "Medlemmar får detta vid nästa inloggning (upp till 10 minuter).",
+  "admin.grants.save": "Spara behörigheter",
+  "admin.grants.selfRevoke": "Du kan inte återkalla dina egna behörigheter — be en annan administratör, så att du inte låser ute dig själv.",
+
+  "admin.groups.actions": "Gruppåtgärder",
+  "admin.groups.addMember": "Lägg till en medlem",
+  "admin.groups.allMembers": "Alla användare och grupper är redan medlemmar.",
+  "admin.groups.column.members": "Medlemmar",
+  "admin.groups.column.name": "Grupp",
+  "admin.groups.create": "Skapa grupp",
+  "admin.groups.delete": "Radera grupp",
+  "admin.groups.deleteMessage": "Ta bort gruppen {{name}}? Det går inte att ångra.",
+  "admin.groups.field.name": "Gruppnamn",
+  "admin.groups.field.nameHint": "Små bokstäver, siffror, bindestreck och understreck.",
+  "admin.groups.filter": "Filtrera grupper",
+  "admin.groups.firstMember": "Första medlem",
+  "admin.groups.firstMemberHint": "En grupp finns så snart den har en medlem; lägg till fler efteråt.",
+  "admin.groups.members": "Medlemmar",
+  "admin.groups.membersOf": "Medlemmar i {{name}}",
+  "admin.groups.new": "Ny grupp",
+  "admin.groups.noMembers": "Inga medlemmar ännu.",
+  "admin.groups.pagination": "Sidnavigering för grupper",
+  "admin.groups.searchLabel": "Sök grupper",
+  "admin.groups.searchPlaceholder": "Sök på gruppnamn…",
+  "admin.groups.title": "Grupper",
+  "admin.groups.validation.member": "Välj en medlem som gruppens första medlem.",
+  "admin.groups.validation.name": "Gruppnamn använder små bokstäver, siffror, bindestreck och understreck.",
+
+  "admin.nav.clients": "OAuth2-klienter",
+  "admin.nav.groups": "Grupper",
+  "admin.nav.pluginSettings": "Tilläggsinställningar",
+  "admin.nav.section": "Administration",
+  "admin.nav.users": "Användare",
+
+  "admin.pluginSettings.caption": "Inställningar som {{plugin}} deklarerar",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.description": "Beskrivning",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.key": "Nyckel",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.required": "Obligatorisk",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.source": "Källa",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.type": "Typ",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.value": "Värde",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.column.variable": "Variabel",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.no": "Nej",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.none": "Det här tillägget deklarerar inga inställningar.",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.secretSet": "Hemlighet — satt",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.secretUnset": "Hemlighet — inte satt",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.default": "Standardvärde",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.env": "Miljövariabel",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.source.unset": "Inte satt",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.title": "Tilläggsinställningar",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.unset": "—",
+  "admin.pluginSettings.yes": "Ja",
+
+  "admin.notFound.message": "Objektet finns inte.",
+  "admin.notFound.title": "Hittades inte",
+
+  "admin.unavailable.message": "{{what}} är inte konfigurerat i den här installationen.",
+  "admin.unavailable.title": "Administrationen är otillgänglig",
+
+  "admin.users.actions": "Kontoåtgärder",
+  "admin.users.column.email": "E-postadress",
+  "admin.users.column.name": "Namn",
+  "admin.users.column.status": "Status",
+  "admin.users.confirm": "Bekräfta åtgärden",
+  "admin.users.create": "Skapa användare",
+  "admin.users.deactivate": "Inaktivera",
+  "admin.users.delete": "Radera användare",
+  "admin.users.deleteMessage": "Ta bort {{email}}? Kontot tas bort permanent och det går inte att ångra.",
+  "admin.users.edit": "Redigera användare",
+  "admin.users.error.create": "Användaren kunde inte skapas — kontrollera e-postadressen och försök igen.",
+  "admin.users.error.duplicate": "Det finns redan en användare med den e-postadressen.",
+  "admin.users.error.save": "Ändringarna kunde inte sparas — kontrollera fälten och försök igen.",
+  "admin.users.error.selfDeactivate": "Du kan inte inaktivera ditt eget konto.",
+  "admin.users.error.selfDelete": "Du kan inte ta bort ditt eget konto.",
+  "admin.users.field.email": "E-postadress",
+  "admin.users.field.emailHint": "Inloggningsidentiteten — den kan inte ändras här.",
+  "admin.users.field.first": "Förnamn",
+  "admin.users.field.last": "Efternamn",
+  "admin.users.field.password": "Lösenord",
+  "admin.users.field.passwordHint": "Frivilligt — lämna tomt så får användaren sätta det själv via en återställningskod.",
+  "admin.users.filter": "Filtrera användare",
+  "admin.users.new": "Ny användare",
+  "admin.users.pagination": "Sidnavigering för användare",
+  "admin.users.reactivate": "Aktivera igen",
+  "admin.users.recovery.body": "Ge den till användaren — koden anges för att sätta ett nytt lösenord (skapa en ny om den hunnit gå ut):",
+  "admin.users.recovery.link": "sidan för lösenordsåterställning",
+  "admin.users.recovery.generate": "Skapa återställningskod",
+  "admin.users.recovery.title": "Återställningskod skapad",
+  "admin.users.save": "Spara ändringar",
+  "admin.users.searchLabel": "Sök användare",
+  "admin.users.searchPlaceholder": "Sök på namn eller e-postadress…",
+  "admin.users.status.active": "Aktiv",
+  "admin.users.status.all": "Alla",
+  "admin.users.status.inactive": "Inaktiv",
+  "admin.users.status.label": "Status",
+  "admin.users.title": "Användare",
+};
+
+export default messages;

examples/plugins/admin/plugin.test.ts

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+// The manifest's own invariants. A route gating on a permission the manifest doesn't declare is
+// silent: bootstrap seeds only declared names, so the demo admin would simply 403 on that screen
+// with nothing in the logs to explain it. Pin the two halves against each other here.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import { isValidPermissionName } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import manifest from "./plugin.ts";
+
+const routes = manifest.routes ?? [];
+const declared = (manifest.permissions ?? []).map((p) => p.name);
+
+test("every route is gated, and gates on a permission the manifest declares", () => {
+  assert.ok(routes.length > 0);
+  for (const route of routes) {
+    assert.equal(route.public, undefined, `${route.method} ${route.path} must not be public`);
+    assert.ok(route.permission, `${route.method} ${route.path} has no permission`);
+    assert.ok(declared.includes(route.permission!), `${route.method} ${route.path} gates on undeclared ${route.permission}`);
+  }
+});
+
+test("the manifest declares no permission it never gates on", () => {
+  const gated = new Set(routes.map((r) => r.permission));
+  for (const name of declared) assert.ok(gated.has(name), `declared but unused: ${name}`);
+});
+
+// A nav permission is a plain string the host matches against the JWT claim: a typo ("user:read")
+// passes discovery's shape check and silently hides that menu item forever. Same silent-failure
+// class the route checks above close, so close it on the nav side too.
+test("every nav permission is one the manifest declares", () => {
+  const navPermissions: string[] = [];
+  const walk = (nodes: typeof manifest.nav): void => {
+    for (const node of nodes ?? []) {
+      if (node.permission != null) navPermissions.push(node.permission);
+      walk(node.children);
+    }
+  };
+  walk(manifest.nav);
+  assert.equal(navPermissions.length, 4);
+  for (const name of navPermissions) assert.ok(declared.includes(name), `nav gates on undeclared ${name}`);
+});
+
+test("every declared permission is <resource>:<action>, and reads and writes are split per resource", () => {
+  for (const name of declared) assert.ok(isValidPermissionName(name), name); // the host's rule, not a copy of it
+  // Three CRUD screens × read/write, plus read-only plugin settings — a screen that never writes
+  // declares no `:write`, since a permission nothing gates on is one an operator can only mis-grant.
+  // There is deliberately no `permissions:` pair either: permissions are declared in plugin code, so
+  // holding one is edited on the user or group that holds it.
+  assert.deepEqual([...declared].sort(), [
+    "groups:read", "groups:write",
+    "oauth2-clients:read", "oauth2-clients:write",
+    "plugin-settings:read",
+    "users:read", "users:write",
+  ]);
+});
+
+test("GET routes gate on read and mutations on write, so a reader can open a screen but not change it", () => {
+  // …except a write-intent GET — a create form or a delete-confirm page, which exists only to start a
+  // write. Those gate on `:write` so a reader is refused there rather than at the submit.
+  const writeIntent = (path: string): boolean => path.endsWith("/new") || path.endsWith("/delete");
+  for (const route of routes) {
+    const action = route.method === "GET" && !writeIntent(route.path) ? "read" : "write";
+    assert.ok(route.permission?.endsWith(`:${action}`), `${route.method} ${route.path} → ${route.permission}`);
+  }
+  assert.equal(routes.filter((r) => r.method === "GET" && writeIntent(r.path)).length, 6); // 2 per CRUD screen; plugin settings has none
+});

examples/plugins/admin/plugin.ts

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+// Admin example plugin: the Users / Groups / OAuth2-clients screens for running the system. Copy
+// this folder to plugins/admin (then restart) to enable it — see README → Quick start.
+//
+// It is a *system* plugin: its handlers reach the host's Ory admin clients and the instant-revoke
+// hook via ctx.system. Where a capability is absent the screen degrades to a themed 503.
+
+import { definePlugin, type HttpMethod, type Route, type RouteHandler } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { clientsCreate, clientsDeleteConfirm, clientsDelete, clientsDetail, clientsList, clientsNewForm } from "./admin-clients.ts";
+import { groupsAddMember, groupsCreate, groupsDelete, groupsDeleteConfirm, groupsDetail, groupsList, groupsNewForm, groupsPermissions, groupsRemoveMember } from "./admin-groups.ts";
+import { pluginSettingsList } from "./admin-plugin-settings.ts";
+import { usersCreate, usersDeleteConfirm, usersDelete, usersEditForm, usersList, usersNewForm, usersPermissions, usersRecovery, usersState, usersUpdate } from "./admin-users.ts";
+import { ADMIN_NAV, actionForMethod, type AdminAction, type AdminResource, permissionName } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+
+// One route factory per screen: a GET gates on `<resource>:read` and a POST on `<resource>:write`,
+// derived through the same two helpers the in-handler guard uses, so the table below cannot drift
+// from it. The host redirects an anonymous visitor to /login, gives a signed-in user missing the
+// permission the 403 page, and filters the nav the same way. Handlers are thin and keyed on
+// ctx.params (the host extracts :id / :name), the idiomatic per-route style.
+// `action` overrides the method's default for a *write-intent GET* — a create form or a
+// delete-confirm page, which exists only to start a write and so refuses a reader rather than
+// rendering a form whose submit would 403. The handler's own guard takes the same override.
+const on = (resource: AdminResource) => (method: HttpMethod, path: string, handler: RouteHandler, action?: AdminAction): Route =>
+  ({ handler, method, path, permission: permissionName(resource, action ?? actionForMethod(method)) });
+
+const users = on("users");
+const groups = on("groups");
+const clients = on("oauth2-clients");
+const pluginSettings = on("plugin-settings");
+
+export default definePlugin({
+  apiVersion: "0.3.0", // the host contract this was built against — a literal, never HOST_API_VERSION
+
+  nav: [ADMIN_NAV],
+
+  permissions: [
+    { description: "View users and the permissions they hold", name: "users:read" },
+    { description: "Create, edit and delete users, and grant them permissions", name: "users:write" },
+    { description: "View groups, their members and the permissions they hold", name: "groups:read" },
+    { description: "Create and delete groups, and change their members and permissions", name: "groups:write" },
+    { description: "View OAuth2 clients", name: "oauth2-clients:read" },
+    { description: "Register and delete OAuth2 clients", name: "oauth2-clients:write" },
+    { description: "View the settings each installed plugin declares, and how they resolved", name: "plugin-settings:read" },
+  ],
+
+  routes: [
+    // Users
+    users("GET", "/users", usersList),
+    users("POST", "/users", usersCreate),
+    users("GET", "/users/new", usersNewForm, "write"),
+    users("GET", "/users/:id", usersEditForm),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id", usersUpdate),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id/state", usersState),
+    users("GET", "/users/:id/delete", usersDeleteConfirm, "write"),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id/delete", usersDelete),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id/recovery", usersRecovery),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id/permissions", usersPermissions),
+    // Groups
+    groups("GET", "/groups", groupsList),
+    groups("POST", "/groups", groupsCreate),
+    groups("GET", "/groups/new", groupsNewForm, "write"),
+    groups("GET", "/groups/:name", groupsDetail),
+    groups("POST", "/groups/:name/members", groupsAddMember),
+    groups("GET", "/groups/:name/delete", groupsDeleteConfirm, "write"),
+    groups("POST", "/groups/:name/delete", groupsDelete),
+    groups("POST", "/groups/:name/members/delete", groupsRemoveMember),
+    groups("POST", "/groups/:name/permissions", groupsPermissions),
+    // OAuth2 clients
+    clients("GET", "/clients", clientsList),
+    clients("POST", "/clients", clientsCreate),
+    clients("GET", "/clients/new", clientsNewForm, "write"),
+    clients("GET", "/clients/:id", clientsDetail),
+    clients("GET", "/clients/:id/delete", clientsDeleteConfirm, "write"),
+    clients("POST", "/clients/:id/delete", clientsDelete),
+    // Plugin settings — read-only, so no :write route and no write-intent GET.
+    pluginSettings("GET", "/plugin-settings", pluginSettingsList),
+  ],
+});

examples/plugins/admin/views/client-detail.ejs

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+<%#
+  OAuth2 client detail page: the client-detail body (info · one-time secret · delete) in the
+  shell. Doubles as the post-register page when `created`/`secret` are set.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/client-detail-body", { canWrite: model.canWrite, client: model.client, created: model.created, csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken, del: model.delete, secret: model.secret });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/client-form.ejs

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+<%#
+  OAuth2 client register page: the client-form body captured into the app shell.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/client-form-body", { error: model.error, form: model.form });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/clients.ejs

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+<%#
+  OAuth2 clients admin list: apps that log in *through* us (Hydra). Same building blocks as
+  the Groups screen, around the shell, backed by live Hydra OAuth2 clients (admin-clients.ts).
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const filters = include("partials/filter-bar", model.filterBar);
+  const table = include("partials/data-table", model.table);
+  const pager = include("partials/pagination", model.pagination);
+  // Only offer "Register client" to an oauth2-clients:write holder — a :read one would get the 403 page.
+  const actions = model.canWrite === false ? "" : '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + localeHref("/admin/clients/new") + '"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>' + t("admin.clients.registerClient") + '</a>';
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  actions,
+  body: filters + table + pager,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/confirm.ejs

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+<%#
+  Admin destructive-action confirmation page: the confirm body in the app shell. Model
+  from buildConfirmModel: { message, confirm:{action,label}, cancelHref, nav, shell }.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/confirm-body", { cancelHref: model.cancelHref, confirm: model.confirm, csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken, message: model.message });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/group-detail.ejs

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+<%#
+  Group admin detail / membership page: the group-detail body in the app shell.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/group-detail-body", { add: model.add, canWrite: model.canWrite, csrfToken: model.csrfToken, del: model.delete, error: model.error, group: model.group, members: model.members, permissions: model.permissions });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/group-form.ejs

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+<%#
+  Group admin create page: the group-form body captured into the app shell.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/group-form-body", { error: model.error, form: model.form });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/groups.ejs

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+<%#
+  Groups admin list: the same building blocks as the Users screen, around the shell, but
+  backed by live Keto subject sets (admin-groups.ts). Filter/sort/page round-trip the URL.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const filters = include("partials/filter-bar", model.filterBar);
+  const table = include("partials/data-table", model.table);
+  const pager = include("partials/pagination", model.pagination);
+  // Only offer "New group" to a groups:write holder — a groups:read one would get the 403 page.
+  const actions = model.canWrite === false ? "" : '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + localeHref("/admin/groups/new") + '"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>' + t("admin.groups.new") + '</a>';
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  actions,
+  body: filters + table + pager,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/notice.ejs

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+<%#
+  Admin notice page — a single message in the app shell, reused for not-found (404) and
+  capability-unavailable (503). The shell renders `title` as the page <h1>; the body is one line.
+  Data: chrome, title, message.
+%><%
+  const navHtml = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/notice-body", { message });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav: navHtml,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/client-detail-body.ejs

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+<%#
+  Admin OAuth2 client detail body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
+    client  { firstParty, id, name, public, redirectUris[], scopes[] }
+    created bool        just registered → success banner
+    secret? string      one-time client secret (confidential clients), shown once right after create
+    del     { action }  delete the client
+    csrfToken
+%><%
+  const c = locals.client;
+  const del = locals.del;
+-%>
+<div class="form-page">
+<% if (locals.created) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: t("admin.clients.createdNotice"), tone: "pos" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (locals.secret) { -%>
+  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="secret-h">
+    <h2 class="card-title" id="secret-h"><%= t("admin.clients.secret") %></h2>
+    <p class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.clients.secretHint") %></p>
+    <div class="field"><label for="cid"><%= t("admin.clients.column.id") %></label><input class="input" id="cid" type="text" value="<%= c.id %>" readonly></div>
+    <div class="field"><label for="csecret"><%= t("admin.clients.secret") %></label><input class="input" id="csecret" type="text" value="<%= locals.secret %>" readonly></div>
+  </section>
+<% } -%>
+  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="client-h">
+    <h2 class="card-title" id="client-h"><%= c.name %></h2>
+    <dl class="detail-list">
+      <dt><%= t("admin.clients.column.id") %></dt><dd><%= c.id %></dd>
+      <dt><%= t("admin.clients.column.type") %></dt><dd><%= c.public ? t("admin.clients.publicPkce") : t("admin.clients.confidential") %></dd>
+      <dt><%= t("admin.clients.consent.label") %></dt><dd><%= c.firstParty ? t("admin.clients.consent.firstParty") : t("admin.clients.consent.screen") %></dd>
+      <dt><%= t("admin.clients.field.scopes") %></dt><dd><%= c.scopes.length ? c.scopes.join(" ") : "—" %></dd>
+      <dt><%= t("admin.clients.field.redirectUris") %></dt><dd><% if (c.redirectUris.length) { %><ul class="plain-list"><% c.redirectUris.forEach((u) => { %><li><%= u %></li><% }) %></ul><% } else { %>—<% } %></dd>
+    </dl>
+  </section>
+<% if (locals.canWrite !== false) { -%>
+  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="<%= t("admin.clients.title") %>">
+    <p class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.clients.rereg") %></p>
+    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= localeHref(del.action) %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg><%= t("admin.clients.delete") %></a>
+  </section>
+<% } -%>
+</div>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/client-form-body.ejs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <%#
-  Admin OAuth2 client register form body (todo §6), captured into the shell content slot. Config:
+  Admin OAuth2 client register form body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
     form { action, csrfToken, submitLabel, cancelHref, nameField, scopeField (field.ejs configs),
            redirectUris: string (newline-separated), public: bool, firstParty: bool }
     error? string shown when a write was rejected
@@ -8,22 +8,22 @@
 -%>
 <div class="form-page">
 <% if (locals.error) { -%>
-<%- include("alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
 <% } -%>
-  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= form.action %>">
+  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= localeHref(form.action) %>">
     <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>">
-    <%- include("field", form.nameField) %>
+    <%- include("partials/field", form.nameField) %>
     <div class="field">
-      <label for="redirectUris">Redirect URIs</label>
+      <label for="redirectUris"><%= t("admin.clients.field.redirectUris") %></label>
       <textarea class="input" id="redirectUris" name="redirectUris" rows="3" placeholder="https://app.example.com/callback"><%= form.redirectUris %></textarea>
-      <span class="field-hint">One per line — where the app is sent back after sign-in.</span>
+      <span class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.clients.field.redirectUrisHint") %></span>
     </div>
-    <%- include("field", form.scopeField) %>
+    <%- include("partials/field", form.scopeField) %>
     <label class="check"><input type="checkbox" name="public"<% if (form.public) { %> checked<% } %>> Public client (SPA / native app, PKCE — no secret)</label>
-    <span class="field-hint">Browser and mobile apps can't keep a secret — choose Public. Server-side apps that can store one — leave it Confidential.</span>
+    <span class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.clients.field.typeHint") %></span>
     <label class="check"><input type="checkbox" name="firstParty"<% if (form.firstParty) { %> checked<% } %>> First-party (auto-grant consent — skip the consent screen)</label>
     <div class="form-actions">
-      <a class="btn" href="<%= form.cancelHref %>">Cancel</a>
+      <a class="btn" href="<%= localeHref(form.cancelHref) %>"><%= t("common.cancel") %></a>
       <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
     </div>
   </form>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/confirm-body.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<%#
+  Destructive-action confirm body, captured into the shell content slot. Zero-JS: the
+  delete is a deliberate second step (a POST form), with a cancel link back. Config:
+    message    string
+    confirm    { action, label }   the danger POST endpoint + button label
+    cancelHref string
+    csrfToken
+%>
+<div class="form-page">
+  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="<%= t("admin.users.confirm") %>">
+    <p><%= locals.message %></p>
+    <div class="form-actions">
+      <a class="btn" href="<%= localeHref(locals.cancelHref) %>"><%= t("common.cancel") %></a>
+      <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(locals.confirm.action) %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= locals.csrfToken %>"><button class="btn btn-danger" type="submit"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg><%= locals.confirm.label %></button></form>
+    </div>
+  </section>
+</div>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/group-detail-body.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<%#
+  Admin group membership body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
+    group   { name }
+    members { action, rows: { kind:"group"|"identity", label, subject }[] }   action = remove-member endpoint
+    add     { action, options: {label,value}[] }                          action = add-member endpoint
+    del     { action }                                                     delete the whole group
+    csrfToken, error?
+%><%
+  const group = locals.group;
+  const members = locals.members;
+  const add = locals.add;
+  const del = locals.del;
+  const csrf = locals.csrfToken;
+-%>
+<div class="form-page">
+<% if (locals.error) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="members-h">
+    <h2 class="card-title" id="members-h"><%= t("admin.groups.members") %></h2>
+<% if (members.rows.length) { -%>
+    <div class="table-wrap"><table class="table"><caption class="sr-only"><%= t("admin.groups.membersOf", { name: group.name }) %></caption><thead><tr><th scope="col"><%= t("admin.common.member") %></th><th scope="col"><%= t("admin.common.type") %></th><th class="col-actions" scope="col"><span class="sr-only"><%= t("table.actions") %></span></th></tr></thead><tbody>
+<% members.rows.forEach((m) => { -%>
+      <tr><th scope="row"><span class="cell-strong"><%= m.label %></span></th><td><span class="badge info"><span class="dot"></span><%= m.kind === "group" ? t("admin.common.group") : t("admin.common.user") %></span></td><td class="col-actions"><% if (locals.canWrite !== false) { %><form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(members.action) %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrf %>"><input type="hidden" name="member" value="<%= m.subject %>"><button class="btn" type="submit"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-x"/></svg><%= t("common.remove") %></button></form><% } %></td></tr>
+<% }) -%>
+    </tbody></table></div>
+<% } else { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= t("admin.groups.noMembers") %></p>
+<% } -%>
+  </section>
+<% if (locals.canWrite !== false) { -%>
+  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="add-h">
+    <h2 class="card-title" id="add-h"><%= t("admin.groups.addMember") %></h2>
+<% if (add.options.length) { -%>
+    <form class="inline-form" method="post" action="<%= localeHref(add.action) %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrf %>"><label class="sr-only" for="add-member"><%= t("admin.common.member") %></label><span class="select"><select id="add-member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled selected><%= t("admin.common.chooseMember") %></option><% add.options.forEach((o) => { %><option value="<%= o.value %>"><%= o.label %></option><% }) %></select></span><button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg><%= t("common.add") %></button></form>
+<% } else { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= t("admin.groups.allMembers") %></p>
+<% } -%>
+  </section>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (locals.permissions) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/permission-picker", { csrfToken: csrf, permissions: locals.permissions }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (locals.canWrite !== false) { -%>
+  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="<%= t("admin.groups.actions") %>">
+    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= localeHref(del.action) %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg><%= t("admin.groups.delete") %></a>
+  </section>
+<% } -%>
+</div>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/group-form-body.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<%#
+  Admin group create form body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
+    form  { action, csrfToken, submitLabel, cancelHref, nameField: field.ejs config,
+            memberOptions: {label,value}[], selectedMember }
+    error?  string  shown when a write was rejected
+%><%
+  const form = locals.form;
+-%>
+<div class="form-page">
+<% if (locals.error) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= localeHref(form.action) %>">
+    <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>">
+    <%- include("partials/field", form.nameField) %>
+    <div class="field">
+      <label for="member"><%= t("admin.groups.firstMember") %></label>
+      <span class="select"><select id="member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled<% if (!form.selectedMember) { %> selected<% } %>><%= t("admin.common.chooseMember") %></option><% form.memberOptions.forEach((o) => { %><option value="<%= o.value %>"<% if (form.selectedMember === o.value) { %> selected<% } %>><%= o.label %></option><% }) %></select></span>
+      <span class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.groups.firstMemberHint") %></span>
+    </div>
+    <div class="form-actions">
+      <a class="btn" href="<%= localeHref(form.cancelHref) %>"><%= t("common.cancel") %></a>
+      <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
+    </div>
+  </form>
+</div>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/notice-body.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<%# One-line notice body (not-found / unavailable). Data: message. %>
+<section class="notice"><p><%= message %></p></section>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/permission-picker.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<%#
+  The permission picker, shared by the user-edit and group-detail pages. A fieldset of checkboxes —
+  one per permission the installed plugins declare — ticked where this user/group holds it. The whole
+  set posts back, so what is submitted IS the desired set of *direct* grants (see admin-grants.ts).
+
+  Two rows never post, by design: an `inherited` one (the grant comes from a group, so it is changed
+  there) and every row when `readOnly` (the viewer holds :read but not :write). Neither can be diffed
+  into an accidental revoke, because grantDiff compares against the direct grants only.
+
+  Locals: csrfToken, permissions ({ action, choices, empty, error, field, hint, inheritedNote, legend, pending, readOnly, submit }).
+%>
+  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="permissions-h">
+    <h2 class="card-title" id="permissions-h"><%= permissions.legend %></h2>
+<% if (permissions.error) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: permissions.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (permissions.empty) { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= permissions.empty %></p>
+<% } else { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= permissions.hint %></p>
+<% if (permissions.readOnly) { -%>
+    <fieldset class="check-group">
+      <legend class="sr-only"><%= permissions.legend %></legend>
+<% permissions.choices.forEach((c) => { -%>
+      <label class="check"><input type="checkbox"<%= c.checked ? " checked" : "" %> disabled><span><%= c.description || c.name %></span><span class="cell-muted"><%= c.name %></span></label>
+<% }) -%>
+    </fieldset>
+<% } else { -%>
+    <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(permissions.action) %>">
+      <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrfToken %>">
+      <fieldset class="check-group">
+        <legend class="sr-only"><%= permissions.legend %></legend>
+<% permissions.choices.forEach((c) => { -%>
+        <label class="check"><input type="checkbox" name="<%= permissions.field %>" value="<%= c.name %>"<%= c.checked ? " checked" : "" %><%= c.inherited ? " disabled" : "" %>><span><%= c.description || c.name %></span><span class="cell-muted"><%= c.name %></span></label>
+<% }) -%>
+      </fieldset>
+      <div class="form-actions">
+        <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-check-circle"/></svg><%= permissions.submit %></button>
+      </div>
+    </form>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (permissions.inheritedNote) { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= permissions.inheritedNote %></p>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (permissions.pending) { -%>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= permissions.pending %></p>
+<% } -%>
+<% } -%>
+  </section>

examples/plugins/admin/views/partials/user-form-body.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<%#
+  Admin user create/edit form body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
+    form  { action, csrfToken, submitLabel, cancelHref, fields: field.ejs config[] }
+    edit? { nextLabel, stateAction, recoveryAction, deleteAction }   (edit mode only)
+    recovery? { code? }   shown after a recovery code is generated (recovery is code-based)
+    error?   string              shown when a write was rejected
+%><%
+  const form = locals.form;
+  const edit = locals.edit;
+  const recovery = locals.recovery;
+-%>
+<div class="form-page">
+<% if (locals.error) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (recovery) { -%>
+  <div class="alert alert-pos" role="status"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-check-circle"/></svg><div class="alert-body"><strong><%= t("admin.users.recovery.title") %></strong><span><%= t("admin.users.recovery.body") %> <a href="<%= localeHref("/recovery") %>"><%= t("admin.users.recovery.link") %></a></span><% if (recovery.code) { %><span class="recovery-code"><code><%= recovery.code %></code></span><% } %></div></div>
+<% } -%>
+  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= localeHref(form.action) %>">
+    <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>">
+<% form.fields.forEach((field) => { -%>
+    <%- include("partials/field", field) %>
+<% }) -%>
+    <div class="form-actions">
+      <a class="btn" href="<%= localeHref(form.cancelHref) %>"><%= t("common.cancel") %></a>
+<% if (locals.canWrite !== false) { -%>
+      <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
+<% } -%>
+    </div>
+  </form>
+<% if (edit && locals.permissions) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/permission-picker", { csrfToken: form.csrfToken, permissions: locals.permissions }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (edit && locals.canWrite !== false) { -%>
+  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="<%= t("admin.users.actions") %>">
+    <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(edit.recoveryAction) %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>"><button class="btn" type="submit"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-mail"/></svg><%= t("admin.users.recovery.generate") %></button></form>
+    <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(edit.stateAction) %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>"><button class="btn" type="submit"><%= edit.nextLabel %></button></form>
+    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= localeHref(edit.deleteAction) %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg><%= t("admin.users.delete") %></a>
+  </section>
+<% } -%>
+</div>

examples/plugins/admin/views/plugin-settings.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<%#
+  Plugin settings admin list: one section per installed plugin, each a table of what it declares
+  and how each key resolved (admin-plugin-settings.ts). Read-only — no actions, no forms.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  let body = "";
+  for (const group of model.groups) {
+    // A plugin id is the folder name, which discovery constrains to [a-z0-9-] — no escaping needed.
+    body += '<h2 class="h2">' + group.pluginId + "</h2>";
+    body += group.table.rows.length === 0
+      ? '<p class="muted">' + group.emptyText + "</p>"
+      : include("partials/data-table", group.table);
+  }
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/user-form.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<%#
+  Users admin create/edit page: the user-form body captured into the app shell.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const body = include("partials/user-form-body", { canWrite: model.canWrite, edit: model.edit, error: model.error, form: model.form, permissions: model.permissions, recovery: model.recovery });
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/admin/views/users.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<%#
+  Users admin list: the same building blocks as the dashboard, around the shell, but
+  backed by live Kratos identities (admin-users.ts). Filter/sort/page all round-trip the URL.
+%><%
+  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const filters = include("partials/filter-bar", model.filterBar);
+  const table = include("partials/data-table", model.table);
+  const pager = include("partials/pagination", model.pagination);
+  // Only offer "New user" to a users:write holder — a users:read one would get the 403 page.
+  const actions = model.canWrite === false ? "" : '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + localeHref("/admin/users/new") + '"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>' + t("admin.users.new") + '</a>';
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  actions,
+  body: filters + table + pager,
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs: model.breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav,
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title: model.title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>

examples/plugins/scheduling/README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Scheduling — the reference plugin
 
-A worked example of the [plugin contract](../../docs/plugin-contract.md). Copy this folder, rename
-it (the folder name becomes the plugin id and mount path), and point it at your own backend.
+A worked example of the [plugin contract](../../../README.md#building-plugins). Copy this folder into
+`plugins/` (it keeps the id and mount path `scheduling`) and point it at your own backend — the folder
+name *is* the plugin id and mount path, so rename it only if you want a different one.
 
 What it demonstrates:
 
@@ -9,20 +10,24 @@ What it demonstrates:
   service and renders the rows with the core building blocks (`shifts.ejs` → app shell, filter-bar,
   data-table). Search round-trips the URL; zero-JS. (It fetches **all** rows for brevity — for a
   large list, parse `page`/`pageSize` from `parseListQuery`, forward them upstream as a `?limit`/
-  `?offset`, and render `pagination.ejs` with `paginate()`, exactly as the built-in admin screens do.)
+  `?offset`, and render `pagination.ejs` with `paginate()`, exactly as the admin example plugin does.)
 - **A form that forwards a write upstream** — `GET /scheduling/shifts/new` renders the form,
   `POST /scheduling/shifts` CSRF-verifies it (`ctx.verifyCsrf`) and forwards the create upstream,
   then POST-redirect-GET. The form body lives in the plugin's own `views/partials/shift-form.ejs`,
   reusing the core `field` partial.
 - **Permission-gated nav** — the "Shifts" nav leaf and routes are gated on `scheduling:read` /
   `scheduling:write`; the whole "Scheduling" section is invisible to anyone without the grant.
+- **Its own translations** — every string comes from `i18n/en-US.ts` (`sv-SE.ts` beside it), including
+  the nav labels, which are catalog keys in the manifest. `shifts.count` shows a plural message, and
+  the views carry the visitor's language onto their links with `localeHref()`.
+  (README → [Languages](../../../README.md#languages-i18n).)
 
 The plugin holds **no state** — data lives upstream (README → *Stateless*). Handlers are thin and
 `fetch` is injectable, so they unit-test as pure functions (`shifts.test.ts`).
 
 ## Upstream
 
-Set `SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM` to your backend's base URL. The dev compose points it at a tiny in-memory
+Set `PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM` to your backend's base URL. The dev compose points it at a tiny in-memory
 mock (`examples/shifts-upstream/`) so `docker compose up` shows the plugin working out of the box.
 A malformed/non-http URL fails the boot loudly (the plugin's `onBoot` hook).
 
@@ -45,6 +50,6 @@ cosmetically) — normalise to your backend's format there if it matters.
 
 ## Granting access
 
-A user sees Scheduling once they hold the `scheduling:read` role in Keto (and `scheduling:write`
+A user sees Scheduling once they hold the `scheduling:read` permission in Keto (and `scheduling:write`
 to create). The one-command bootstrap grants both to the demo admin, so the seeded
 `admin@plainpages.local` can use it immediately.

examples/plugins/scheduling/i18n/en-US.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// This plugin's own catalog, and the baseline its other locales are written against. Keys are
+// looked up here first and fall back to the host's, so a plugin owns its words without prefixing
+// them, and `shifts.count` shows the plural form (host: README → Translating).
+
+import type { PluralMessage } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+
+const messages = {
+  "scheduling.field.assignee": "Assignee",
+  "scheduling.field.end": "End",
+  "scheduling.field.start": "Start",
+  "scheduling.field.title": "Shift title",
+  "scheduling.filter.label": "Filter shifts",
+  "scheduling.filter.searchLabel": "Search shifts",
+  "scheduling.filter.searchPlaceholder": "Search title or assignee…",
+  "scheduling.form.submit": "Create shift",
+  "scheduling.nav.overview": "Overview",
+  "scheduling.nav.section": "Scheduling",
+  "scheduling.nav.shifts": "Shifts",
+  "scheduling.new.title": "New shift",
+  "scheduling.overview.lead":
+    "Scheduling coordinates shifts across your team. Anyone can read this overview; the shift list itself is available to people with the <code>scheduling:read</code> permission.",
+  "scheduling.overview.signIn": "Sign in to view shifts",
+  "scheduling.overview.title": "Scheduling",
+  "scheduling.overview.view": "View shifts",
+  "scheduling.shifts.count": { one: "{{count}} shift", other: "{{count}} shifts" } as PluralMessage,
+  "scheduling.shifts.new": "New shift",
+  "scheduling.shifts.title": "Shifts",
+  "scheduling.table.assignee": "Assignee",
+  "scheduling.table.end": "End",
+  "scheduling.table.shift": "Shift",
+  "scheduling.table.start": "Start",
+  "scheduling.upstream.create": "Couldn't save the shift — the scheduling service is unavailable.",
+  "scheduling.upstream.list": "Couldn't reach the scheduling service — try again shortly.",
+  "scheduling.validation.assignee": "Assign the shift to someone.",
+  "scheduling.validation.title": "A shift needs a title.",
+};
+
+export type SchedulingMessages = typeof messages;
+
+export default messages;

examples/plugins/scheduling/i18n/sv-SE.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import type { SchedulingMessages } from "./en-US.ts";
+
+const messages: SchedulingMessages = {
+  "scheduling.field.assignee": "Tilldelad",
+  "scheduling.field.end": "Slut",
+  "scheduling.field.start": "Start",
+  "scheduling.field.title": "Passets namn",
+  "scheduling.filter.label": "Filtrera pass",
+  "scheduling.filter.searchLabel": "Sök pass",
+  "scheduling.filter.searchPlaceholder": "Sök på namn eller person…",
+  "scheduling.form.submit": "Skapa pass",
+  "scheduling.nav.overview": "Översikt",
+  "scheduling.nav.section": "Schemaläggning",
+  "scheduling.nav.shifts": "Pass",
+  "scheduling.new.title": "Nytt pass",
+  "scheduling.overview.lead":
+    "Schemaläggningen samordnar teamets pass. Alla kan läsa den här översikten; själva passlistan kräver behörigheten <code>scheduling:read</code>.",
+  "scheduling.overview.signIn": "Logga in för att se passen",
+  "scheduling.overview.title": "Schemaläggning",
+  "scheduling.overview.view": "Visa pass",
+  "scheduling.shifts.count": { one: "{{count}} pass", other: "{{count}} pass" },
+  "scheduling.shifts.new": "Nytt pass",
+  "scheduling.shifts.title": "Pass",
+  "scheduling.table.assignee": "Tilldelad",
+  "scheduling.table.end": "Slut",
+  "scheduling.table.shift": "Pass",
+  "scheduling.table.start": "Start",
+  "scheduling.upstream.create": "Passet kunde inte sparas — schemaläggningstjänsten är otillgänglig.",
+  "scheduling.upstream.list": "Vi når inte schemaläggningstjänsten — försök igen om en stund.",
+  "scheduling.validation.assignee": "Passet måste tilldelas någon.",
+  "scheduling.validation.title": "Passet behöver ett namn.",
+};
+
+export default messages;

examples/plugins/scheduling/plugin.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// Reference plugin: a worked example of the contract — a list page that fetches upstream
+// data, a CSRF-guarded form that forwards a write upstream, and permission-gated nav. Copy this
+// folder, rename it, point it at your own backend. Full contract: README.md → Building plugins.
+
+import { definePlugin } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, newShiftForm, overview, READ, SCHEDULING_PATH, SHIFTS_PATH, WRITE } from "./shifts.ts";
+
+// The upstream this plugin reads/writes — a stand-in for your real backend (the plugin is
+// stateless). Its URL is a declared setting, so it is resolved and validated before onBoot hands it
+// over — which is after this manifest is built, hence the getter.
+let upstreamUrl = "";
+const upstream = createUpstream(() => upstreamUrl);
+
+export default definePlugin({
+  apiVersion: "0.3.0", // the host contract this was built against — a literal, never HOST_API_VERSION
+
+  // onBoot runs after discovery, before the server listens — where a plugin receives its resolved
+  // settings. A malformed URL already failed the boot by then; the host validated the declared type.
+  hooks: { onBoot: ({ settings }) => { upstreamUrl = settings.upstream; } },
+
+  // Merged into the global menu + filtered per user. Labels are keys in this plugin's own catalog
+  // (i18n/<locale>.ts) — a plain string works too, it just isn't translated. "Overview" is `public`, so the "Scheduling"
+  // header shows for everyone (even signed out); "Shifts" needs `scheduling:read`, so the gated data
+  // stays hidden until a reader signs in (a plugin may make a page + its menu option public).
+  nav: [{
+    children: [
+      { href: SCHEDULING_PATH, id: "scheduling:overview", label: "scheduling.nav.overview", public: true },
+      { href: SHIFTS_PATH, id: "scheduling:shifts", label: "scheduling.nav.shifts", permission: READ },
+    ],
+    icon: "i-cal",
+    id: "scheduling",
+    label: "scheduling.nav.section",
+  }],
+
+  // Roles this plugin introduces (docs + Keto seeding). Namespaced `<id>:<action>`.
+  permissions: [
+    { description: "View shifts", name: READ },
+    { description: "Create and edit shifts", name: WRITE },
+  ],
+
+  // Mounted under /scheduling; `permission` gates before the handler runs. The overview is `public`
+  // (anyone may reach /scheduling, signed in or not); the rest need a permission.
+  routes: [
+    { handler: overview(), method: "GET", path: "/", public: true },
+    { handler: listShifts(upstream), method: "GET", path: "/shifts", permission: READ },
+    { handler: newShiftForm(), method: "GET", path: "/shifts/new", permission: WRITE },
+    { handler: createShift(upstream), method: "POST", path: "/shifts", permission: WRITE },
+  ],
+
+  // Operator-supplied config: one PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM variable, validated as a URL at
+  // boot. The default points at the mock backend the dev compose runs (examples/shifts-upstream).
+  settings: [
+    {
+      default: "http://shifts-upstream:4000",
+      description: "Base URL of the backend this plugin reads shifts from and writes them to",
+      key: "upstream",
+      type: "url",
+    },
+  ],
+});

examples/plugins/scheduling/shifts.test.ts

@@ -2,22 +2,25 @@ import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import type { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "node:http";
 import { Readable } from "node:stream";
 import test from "node:test";
-// Import only from the plugin-api barrel — the same contract boundary shifts.ts uses (the host may
+// Import only from the @plainpages/plugin-api barrel — the same contract boundary shifts.ts uses (the host may
 // refactor any deeper src/* freely behind it); the test models the dev/test story the contract preaches.
-import { GuardError, Log, type PageChrome, type RequestContext, type RouteResult } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
+import { englishTranslator, GuardError, Log, type PageChrome, type RequestContext, type RouteResult } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import enUS from "./i18n/en-US.ts";
 import {
-  assertHttpUrl, buildFormModel, createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, newShiftForm, overview, readInput,
+  buildFormModel, createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, newShiftForm, overview, readInput,
   SHIFTS_PATH, type Shift, type ShiftInput, type ShiftsUpstream, UpstreamError, validate,
 } from "./shifts.ts";
 
+const t = englishTranslator(enUS); // this plugin's catalog then the host's, as the host would chain them
 const CHROME: PageChrome = { brand: { name: "Test" }, csrfToken: "tok", nav: [], signInHref: "/login", user: { email: "", initials: "T", name: "Tester" } };
 
-function fakeCtx(opts: { body?: string; roles?: string[]; url?: string; verifyCsrf?: (s: string | null | undefined) => boolean } = {}): RequestContext {
+function fakeCtx(opts: { body?: string; permissions?: string[]; url?: string; verifyCsrf?: (s: string | null | undefined) => boolean } = {}): RequestContext {
   const url = new URL(opts.url ?? "http://localhost/scheduling/shifts");
   const req = Readable.from(opts.body != null ? [Buffer.from(opts.body)] : []) as unknown as IncomingMessage;
   return {
-    chrome: CHROME, log: new Log("none"), params: {}, query: url.searchParams, req, res: {} as ServerResponse,
-    roles: opts.roles ?? [], url, user: null, verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
+    chrome: CHROME, declaredPermissions: [], declaredSettings: [], user: null, locale: "en-US", localeHref: (href) => href, locales: ["en-US"], log: new Log("none"), params: {},
+    query: url.searchParams, req, res: {} as ServerResponse, permissions: opts.permissions ?? [], t, url,
+    verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
   };
 }
 
@@ -32,27 +35,25 @@ const asView = (r: RouteResult | void) => {
   return r as { data: Record<string, unknown>; status?: number; view: string };
 };
 
-// ---- upstream config validation (the onBoot hook) ----
+// ---- the upstream URL as a declared setting ----
 
-test("assertHttpUrl accepts http(s) and fails loud on a malformed or non-http upstream URL", () => {
-  assert.doesNotThrow(() => assertHttpUrl("http://shifts-upstream:4000", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"));
-  assert.doesNotThrow(() => assertHttpUrl("https://api.example.com/v1", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"));
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("not a url", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*valid URL/); // unparseable
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("shifts-upstream:4000", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*http/); // missing // → parsed as a bogus scheme
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("ftp://host/x", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*http/); // wrong scheme
+test("the manifest declares its upstream as a URL setting the host validates", async () => {
+  const manifest = (await import("./plugin.ts")).default;
+  assert.deepEqual(manifest.settings?.map((s) => s.key), ["upstream"]);
+  assert.equal(manifest.settings?.[0]?.type, "url"); // so a typo'd URL fails the boot, not every request
+  assert.equal(manifest.settings?.[0]?.default, "http://shifts-upstream:4000"); // the dev compose's mock
+  assert.equal(typeof manifest.hooks?.onBoot, "function"); // without it the resolved value never arrives
 });
 
-test("the manifest's onBoot hook validates SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM (the binding, not just the helper)", async () => {
-  const prev = process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"];
-  process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"] = "nope://bad"; // read at import time below
-  try {
-    const manifest = (await import("./plugin.ts")).default;
-    assert.equal(typeof manifest.hooks?.onBoot, "function");
-    assert.throws(() => manifest.hooks!.onBoot!(), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM/); // bad upstream → boot fails loud
-  } finally {
-    if (prev === undefined) delete process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"];
-    else process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"] = prev;
-  }
+test("the client re-reads its base URL, so onBoot can bind it after the manifest is built", async () => {
+  let baseUrl = "http://first:4000";
+  const seen: string[] = [];
+  const http = (async (url) => { seen.push(String(url)); return new Response("[]", { status: 200 }); }) as typeof fetch;
+  const upstream = createUpstream(() => baseUrl, http);
+  await upstream.list();
+  baseUrl = "http://second:4000";
+  await upstream.list();
+  assert.deepEqual(seen, ["http://first:4000/shifts", "http://second:4000/shifts"]);
 });
 
 // ---- upstream client (fetch injected) ----
@@ -64,21 +65,21 @@ test("createUpstream.list fetches /shifts, asks for JSON, and maps the rows", as
     assert.equal((init?.headers as Record<string, string>).accept, "application/json");
     return new Response(JSON.stringify([{ assignee: "A", end: "2", id: "x", start: "1", title: "T", extra: "ignored" }]), { status: 200 });
   }) as typeof fetch;
-  const shifts = await createUpstream("http://up:4000/", http).list(); // trailing slash trimmed
+  const shifts = await createUpstream(() => "http://up:4000/", http).list(); // trailing slash trimmed
   assert.equal(seen, "http://up:4000/shifts");
   assert.deepEqual(shifts, [{ assignee: "A", end: "2", id: "x", start: "1", title: "T" }]);
 });
 
 test("createUpstream throws UpstreamError carrying the status on a non-2xx", async () => {
   const http = (async () => new Response("nope", { status: 503 })) as typeof fetch;
-  await assert.rejects(createUpstream("http://up:4000", http).list(), (e: unknown) => e instanceof UpstreamError && e.status === 503);
+  await assert.rejects(createUpstream(() => "http://up:4000", http).list(), (e: unknown) => e instanceof UpstreamError && e.status === 503);
 });
 
 test("createUpstream.create POSTs the input as JSON", async () => {
   let body: unknown, method = "";
   const http = (async (_url, init) => { method = init?.method ?? ""; body = JSON.parse(String(init?.body)); return new Response(null, { status: 201 }); }) as typeof fetch;
   const input: ShiftInput = { assignee: "A", end: "2", start: "1", title: "T" };
-  await createUpstream("http://up:4000", http).create(input);
+  await createUpstream(() => "http://up:4000", http).create(input);
   assert.equal(method, "POST");
   assert.deepEqual(body, input);
 });
@@ -93,8 +94,8 @@ test("readInput trims; validate requires title + assignee", () => {
 
 // ---- list handler ----
 
-test("listShifts renders the upstream rows; q filters; canWrite reflects the role", async () => {
-  const r = asView(await listShifts(fakeUpstream())(fakeCtx({ roles: ["scheduling:write"] })));
+test("listShifts renders the upstream rows; q filters; canWrite reflects the permission", async () => {
+  const r = asView(await listShifts(fakeUpstream())(fakeCtx({ permissions: ["scheduling:write"] })));
   assert.equal(r.view, "shifts");
   const table = r.data["table"] as { rows: { name: string }[] };
   assert.deepEqual(table.rows.map((x) => x.name), ["Morning desk", "Afternoon support"]);
@@ -112,15 +113,15 @@ test("listShifts degrades to a recoverable error page when the upstream is down
   assert.deepEqual((r.data["table"] as { rows: unknown[] }).rows, []);
 });
 
-// ---- public overview handler (§10: a page anyone can reach, gated data stays behind the role) ----
+// ---- public overview handler (a page anyone can reach, gated data stays behind the permission) ----
 
 test("overview renders a public page for anyone; it links straight to Shifts only for a reader", async () => {
-  const anon = asView(await overview()(fakeCtx())); // user null, no roles
+  const anon = asView(await overview()(fakeCtx())); // user null, no permissions
   assert.equal(anon.view, "overview");
   assert.equal(anon.data["chrome"], CHROME);
   assert.equal(anon.data["canRead"], false); // anonymous → prompt to sign in, no shifts link
 
-  const reader = asView(await overview()(fakeCtx({ roles: ["scheduling:read"] })));
+  const reader = asView(await overview()(fakeCtx({ permissions: ["scheduling:read"] })));
   assert.equal(reader.data["canRead"], true); // a reader gets a link straight to the shifts list
 });
 

examples/plugins/scheduling/shifts.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
-// Reference plugin (todo §7) — Scheduling/Shifts handlers + the upstream client. Shows the blessed
+// Reference plugin — Scheduling/Shifts handlers + the upstream client. Shows the blessed
 // shape: a thin handler parses ctx, calls an upstream REST service, and returns a RouteResult the
 // host renders. The plugin holds no state of its own (README "Stateless") — data lives upstream.
 //
 // Handlers are factories bound to a ShiftsUpstream, and `fetch` is injectable, so they unit-test as
-// pure functions against a mock upstream with no network (docs/plugin-contract.md → dev/test story).
+// pure functions against a mock upstream with no network (README.md → Local dev & test story).
 
-// One import from the host's plugin-api barrel — the stable author surface (see docs/plugin-contract.md).
-import { can, CSRF_FIELD, GuardError, type PageChrome, parseListQuery, readFormBody, type RouteHandler, tracedFetch } from "../../src/plugin-api.ts";
+// One import from the host's @plainpages/plugin-api barrel — the stable author surface (see README.md → Building plugins).
+import { can, CSRF_FIELD, englishTranslator, GuardError, type PageChrome, parseListQuery, readFormBody, type RouteHandler, type Translate, tracedFetch } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import enUS from "./i18n/en-US.ts";
 
-export const SCHEDULING_PATH = "/scheduling"; // the plugin's public overview page (§10)
+// The plugin's own English (its catalog, then the host's), for a view model built outside a request:
+// its unit tests. At runtime a handler passes ctx.t, which reads this catalog in the visitor's
+// locale first, then the host's.
+const EN: Translate = englishTranslator(enUS);
+
+export const SCHEDULING_PATH = "/scheduling"; // the plugin's public overview page
 export const SHIFTS_PATH = "/scheduling/shifts";
-export const READ = "scheduling:read"; // permission token gating the list + nav
-export const WRITE = "scheduling:write"; // permission token gating create
+export const READ = "scheduling:read"; // the permission gating the list + nav
+export const WRITE = "scheduling:write"; // the permission gating create
 
 export interface Shift {
   id: string;
@@ -43,26 +49,16 @@ export interface ShiftsUpstream {
   list(): Promise<Shift[]>;
 }
 
-// Fail loud at boot (the plugin's onBoot hook) on a malformed/non-http upstream URL — a config
-// typo surfaces at startup, not as a degraded page later. Reachability stays a runtime concern.
-export function assertHttpUrl(value: string, name: string): void {
-  let url: URL;
-  try {
-    url = new URL(value);
-  } catch {
-    throw new Error(`${name} is not a valid URL: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`);
-  }
-  if (url.protocol !== "http:" && url.protocol !== "https:") throw new Error(`${name} must be an http(s) URL: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`);
-}
-
 // REST client over the upstream service (a stand-in for the customer's real backend). `fetch`
-// defaults to the host's tracedFetch (§9), so each upstream call joins the request's trace (a client
+// defaults to the host's tracedFetch, so each upstream call joins the request's trace (a client
 // span + a propagated traceparent); it's injectable so handlers unit-test against a mock, no network.
-export function createUpstream(baseUrl: string, fetchImpl: typeof fetch = tracedFetch): ShiftsUpstream {
-  const base = baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "");
+// `baseUrl` is read per call: the plugin's settings arrive on onBoot, after the manifest that binds
+// these handlers has already been built.
+export function createUpstream(baseUrl: () => string, fetchImpl: typeof fetch = tracedFetch): ShiftsUpstream {
+  const base = (): string => baseUrl().replace(/\/+$/, "");
   return {
     async create(input) {
-      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base}/shifts`, {
+      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base()}/shifts`, {
         body: JSON.stringify(input),
         headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
         method: "POST",
@@ -70,7 +66,7 @@ export function createUpstream(baseUrl: string, fetchImpl: typeof fetch = traced
       if (!res.ok) throw new UpstreamError(`create shift failed (${res.status})`, res.status);
     },
     async list() {
-      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base}/shifts`, { headers: { accept: "application/json" } });
+      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base()}/shifts`, { headers: { accept: "application/json" } });
       if (!res.ok) throw new UpstreamError(`list shifts failed (${res.status})`, res.status);
       const data: unknown = await res.json();
       return Array.isArray(data) ? data.map(toShift) : [];
@@ -87,58 +83,63 @@ function toShift(raw: unknown): Shift {
 
 // ---- view models (pure; the EJS views read these) -----------------------------------
 
-export function buildListModel(opts: { canWrite: boolean; chrome: PageChrome; error?: string; q: string; shifts: Shift[] }) {
+export function buildListModel(opts: { canWrite: boolean; chrome: PageChrome; error?: string; q: string; shifts: Shift[]; t?: Translate }) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? EN;
   return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ label: "Shifts" }], // SHIFTS_PATH is the list itself; the form links back to it as "Shifts"
+    breadcrumbs: [{ label: t("scheduling.shifts.title") }], // SHIFTS_PATH is the list itself; the form links back to it
     canWrite: opts.canWrite,
     chrome: opts.chrome,
+    // A plural message: one catalog key, the right form per locale and count (Intl.PluralRules).
+    count: t("scheduling.shifts.count", { count: opts.shifts.length }),
     ...(opts.error ? { error: opts.error } : {}),
     filterBar: {
-      applyLabel: "Search",
+      applyLabel: t("filter.search"),
       clearHref: SHIFTS_PATH,
-      label: "Filter shifts",
-      pills: opts.q ? [{ label: "Search", remove: SHIFTS_PATH, value: opts.q }] : [],
+      label: t("scheduling.filter.label"),
+      pills: opts.q ? [{ label: t("filter.search"), remove: SHIFTS_PATH, value: opts.q }] : [],
       rows: [[
-        { label: "Search shifts", name: "q", placeholder: "Search title or assignee…", type: "search", value: opts.q },
+        { label: t("scheduling.filter.searchLabel"), name: "q", placeholder: t("scheduling.filter.searchPlaceholder"), type: "search", value: opts.q },
         { type: "spacer" },
       ]],
     },
     newHref: `${SHIFTS_PATH}/new`,
     table: {
-      caption: "Shifts",
-      columns: [{ label: "Shift" }, { label: "Assignee" }, { label: "Start" }, { label: "End" }],
+      caption: t("scheduling.shifts.title"),
+      columns: [{ label: t("scheduling.table.shift") }, { label: t("scheduling.table.assignee") }, { label: t("scheduling.table.start") }, { label: t("scheduling.table.end") }],
       rows: opts.shifts.map((s) => ({
         cells: [{ rowHeader: { text: s.title } }, s.assignee, s.start, s.end],
         name: s.title,
       })),
     },
-    title: "Shifts",
+    title: t("scheduling.shifts.title"),
   };
 }
 
-export function buildFormModel(opts: { chrome: PageChrome; errors?: Record<string, string>; formError?: string; values?: Partial<ShiftInput> }) {
+export function buildFormModel(opts: { chrome: PageChrome; errors?: Record<string, string>; formError?: string; t?: Translate; values?: Partial<ShiftInput> }) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? EN;
   const v = opts.values ?? {};
   const e = opts.errors ?? {};
   const field = (cfg: { icon?: string; id: string; label: string; type?: string; value: string }) => ({
     ...cfg, name: cfg.id, ...(e[cfg.id] ? { error: e[cfg.id] } : {}), ...(cfg.id === "title" || cfg.id === "assignee" ? { required: true } : {}),
   });
   return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: SHIFTS_PATH, label: "Shifts" }, { label: "New shift" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: SHIFTS_PATH, label: t("scheduling.shifts.title") }, { label: t("scheduling.new.title") }],
     chrome: opts.chrome,
     ...(opts.formError ? { formError: opts.formError } : {}),
     form: {
       action: SHIFTS_PATH,
       cancelHref: SHIFTS_PATH,
       csrfToken: opts.chrome.csrfToken,
+      cancelLabel: t("common.cancel"),
       fields: [
-        field({ icon: "i-cal", id: "title", label: "Shift title", value: v.title ?? "" }),
-        field({ icon: "i-user", id: "assignee", label: "Assignee", value: v.assignee ?? "" }),
-        field({ id: "start", label: "Start", type: "datetime-local", value: v.start ?? "" }),
-        field({ id: "end", label: "End", type: "datetime-local", value: v.end ?? "" }),
+        field({ icon: "i-cal", id: "title", label: t("scheduling.field.title"), value: v.title ?? "" }),
+        field({ icon: "i-user", id: "assignee", label: t("scheduling.field.assignee"), value: v.assignee ?? "" }),
+        field({ id: "start", label: t("scheduling.field.start"), type: "datetime-local", value: v.start ?? "" }),
+        field({ id: "end", label: t("scheduling.field.end"), type: "datetime-local", value: v.end ?? "" }),
       ],
-      submitLabel: "Create shift",
+      submitLabel: t("scheduling.form.submit"),
     },
-    title: "New shift",
+    title: t("scheduling.new.title"),
   };
 }
 
@@ -155,10 +156,10 @@ export function readInput(form: URLSearchParams): ShiftInput {
 
 // Required-field validation → { field: message } or null. Kept deliberately small; the upstream
 // owns the real domain rules (overlap, capacity, …) and rejects with a 4xx the handler surfaces.
-export function validate(input: ShiftInput): Record<string, string> | null {
+export function validate(input: ShiftInput, t: Translate = EN): Record<string, string> | null {
   const errors: Record<string, string> = {};
-  if (!input.title) errors["title"] = "A shift needs a title.";
-  if (!input.assignee) errors["assignee"] = "Assign the shift to someone.";
+  if (!input.title) errors["title"] = t("scheduling.validation.title");
+  if (!input.assignee) errors["assignee"] = t("scheduling.validation.assignee");
   return Object.keys(errors).length ? errors : null;
 }
 
@@ -172,26 +173,33 @@ export function listShifts(upstream: ShiftsUpstream): RouteHandler {
     try {
       shifts = await upstream.list();
     } catch (err) {
-      ctx.log.warn("scheduling upstream unreachable", { error: String(err) }); // plugin logging via ctx.log (§9)
-      error = "Couldn't reach the scheduling service — try again shortly.";
+      ctx.log.warn("scheduling upstream unreachable", { error: String(err) }); // plugin logging via ctx.log
+      error = ctx.t("scheduling.upstream.list");
     }
     const needle = q.toLowerCase();
     const rows = needle ? shifts.filter((s) => s.title.toLowerCase().includes(needle) || s.assignee.toLowerCase().includes(needle)) : shifts;
-    return { data: buildListModel({ canWrite: can(ctx, WRITE), chrome: ctx.chrome, ...(error ? { error } : {}), q, shifts: rows }), view: "shifts" };
+    return { data: buildListModel({ canWrite: can(ctx, WRITE), chrome: ctx.chrome, ...(error ? { error } : {}), q, shifts: rows, t: ctx.t }), view: "shifts" };
   };
 }
 
 export function newShiftForm(): RouteHandler {
-  return (ctx) => ({ data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome }), view: "shift-new" });
+  return (ctx) => ({ data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, t: ctx.t }), view: "shift-new" });
 }
 
-// Public overview (§10): a page anyone may reach — its route + nav node are marked `public`, so the
+// Public overview: a page anyone may reach — its route + nav node are marked `public`, so the
 // gate lets an anonymous visitor through and the menu option shows for everyone. The real data
 // (the shifts list) stays behind `scheduling:read`; a reader gets a link straight to it, anyone
-// else a prompt to sign in. ctx.user may be null here, so read the role via can() (zero I/O).
+// else a prompt to sign in. ctx.user may be null here, so read the permission via can() (zero I/O).
 export function overview(): RouteHandler {
   return (ctx) => ({
-    data: { breadcrumbs: [{ label: "Overview" }], canRead: can(ctx, READ), chrome: ctx.chrome, shiftsHref: SHIFTS_PATH, title: "Scheduling" },
+    data: {
+      breadcrumbs: [{ label: ctx.t("scheduling.nav.overview") }],
+      canRead: can(ctx, READ),
+      chrome: ctx.chrome,
+      shiftsHref: ctx.localeHref(SHIFTS_PATH), // a plugin carries the visitor's locale onto its own links
+      signInHref: ctx.localeHref(`/login?return_to=${encodeURIComponent(ctx.localeHref(SHIFTS_PATH))}`),
+      title: ctx.t("scheduling.overview.title"),
+    },
     view: "overview",
   });
 }
@@ -202,13 +210,13 @@ export function createShift(upstream: ShiftsUpstream): RouteHandler {
     // A write is a first-party form, so guard it with the host's double-submit token (ctx.verifyCsrf).
     if (!ctx.verifyCsrf(form.get(CSRF_FIELD))) throw new GuardError(403, "invalid CSRF token");
     const input = readInput(form);
-    const errors = validate(input);
-    if (errors) return { data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, errors, values: input }), status: 400, view: "shift-new" };
+    const errors = validate(input, ctx.t);
+    if (errors) return { data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, errors, t: ctx.t, values: input }), status: 400, view: "shift-new" };
     try {
       await upstream.create(input);
     } catch (err) {
       ctx.log.warn("scheduling shift create failed (upstream)", { error: String(err) });
-      return { data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, formError: "Couldn't save the shift — the scheduling service is unavailable.", values: input }), status: 502, view: "shift-new" };
+      return { data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, formError: ctx.t("scheduling.upstream.create"), t: ctx.t, values: input }), status: 502, view: "shift-new" };
     }
     ctx.log.info("scheduling shift created", { assignee: input.assignee, title: input.title });
     return { redirect: SHIFTS_PATH }; // POST-redirect-GET

examples/plugins/scheduling/views/overview.ejs

@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 <%#
-  Scheduling · public overview (reference plugin, §10). A page ANYONE may reach — the route and its
+  Scheduling · public overview (reference plugin). A page ANYONE may reach — the route and its
   nav node are marked `public`, so an anonymous visitor is let through and the menu option shows for
   everyone. The actual shifts data stays behind `scheduling:read`: a reader gets a link straight to
   it, anyone else a prompt to sign in. Rendered in the native shell via ctx.chrome.
-  Data: chrome, title, breadcrumbs, canRead, shiftsHref
+  Data: chrome, title, breadcrumbs, canRead, shiftsHref, signInHref
 %><%
   const navHtml = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
   const cta = canRead
-    ? '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + shiftsHref + '">View shifts</a>'
-    : '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="/login?return_to=' + encodeURIComponent(shiftsHref) + '">Sign in to view shifts</a>';
+    ? '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + shiftsHref + '">' + t("scheduling.overview.view") + '</a>'
+    : '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + signInHref + '">' + t("scheduling.overview.signIn") + '</a>';
 -%>
 <%- include("partials/shell", {
   actions: "",
-  body: '<div class="scheduling-page"><p>Scheduling coordinates shifts across your team. Anyone can read this overview; the shift list itself is available to people with the <code>scheduling:read</code> role.</p>' + cta + '</div>',
+  body: '<div class="scheduling-page"><p>' + t("scheduling.overview.lead") + '</p>' + cta + '</div>',
   brand: chrome.brand,
   breadcrumbs,
   csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,

examples/plugins/scheduling/views/partials/shift-form.ejs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <%#
   A plugin's own partial (resolved before the core ones). The new-shift form body, reusing the core
   `partials/field` + `partials/alert`. Config: form { action, csrfToken, submitLabel, cancelHref,
-  fields: field.ejs config[] }, formError?
+  cancelLabel, fields: field.ejs config[] }, formError?
 %><%
   const form = locals.form;
 -%>
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
 <% if (locals.formError) { -%>
 <%- include("partials/alert", { text: locals.formError, tone: "neg" }) %>
 <% } -%>
-  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= form.action %>">
+  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= localeHref(form.action) %>">
     <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>">
 <% form.fields.forEach((field) => { -%>
     <%- include("partials/field", field) %>
 <% }) -%>
     <div class="form-actions">
-      <a class="btn" href="<%= form.cancelHref %>">Cancel</a>
+      <a class="btn" href="<%= localeHref(form.cancelHref) %>"><%= form.cancelLabel %></a>
       <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
     </div>
   </form>

examples/plugins/scheduling/views/shifts.ejs

@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@
   service; this view renders them with the core building blocks inside the native app shell
   (ctx.chrome). `include()` reaches the core partials (shell, nav-tree, filter-bar, data-table,
   alert) — see docs/plugin-contract.md. Zero-JS: search round-trips the URL.
-  Data: chrome, title, breadcrumbs, filterBar, table, canWrite, newHref, error?
+  Data: chrome, title, breadcrumbs, count, filterBar, table, canWrite, newHref, error?
 %><%
   const navHtml = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
   const filtersHtml = include("partials/filter-bar", filterBar);
   const tableHtml = include("partials/data-table", table);
   const alertHtml = locals.error ? include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) : "";
   const actions = canWrite
-    ? '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + newHref + '"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>New shift</a>'
+    ? '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="' + localeHref(newHref) + '"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>' + t("scheduling.shifts.new") + '</a>'
     : "";
 -%>
 <%- include("partials/shell", {
   actions,
-  body: '<div class="scheduling-page">' + alertHtml + filtersHtml + tableHtml + '</div>',
+  body: '<div class="scheduling-page">' + alertHtml + filtersHtml + '<p class="shift-count">' + count + '</p>' + tableHtml + '</div>',
   brand: chrome.brand,
   breadcrumbs,
   csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,

examples/shifts-upstream/server.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-// Dev-only mock upstream for the reference plugin (plugins/scheduling) — a stand-in for the
-// customer's real backend so `docker compose up` shows the plugin working out of the box. NOT part
-// of the app: stdlib only, in-memory (state resets on restart), no auth. Point SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM
+// Dev-only mock upstream for the reference plugin (examples/plugins/scheduling) — a stand-in for the
+// customer's real backend, ready for when you copy the reference plugin into plugins/. NOT part
+// of the app: stdlib only, in-memory (state resets on restart), no auth. Point PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM
 // at your real service in production.
 //
 //   GET  /shifts  → 200 [ { id, title, assignee, start, end }, … ]

html-css-foundation/App Shell.html

@@ -1,733 +0,0 @@
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-<head>
-<meta charset="UTF-8">
-<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
-<title>App Shell — Template</title>
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="../public/css/styles.css">
-</head>
-<body>
-
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-     Official Lucide paths, inlined as <symbol> so usage stays zero-JS:
-     <svg class="ico"><use href="#i-name"/></svg>. Stroke + currentColor are
-     applied via the .ico class, matching Lucide's 24-grid / round-cap style. -->
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-
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-    <div class="brand">
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-    </div>
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-
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-
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-
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-                  </div>
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-
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-
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-                    <li class="nav-node">
-                      <div class="nav-row">
-                        <details class="nav-disc" open>
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-                        <a class="nav-self" href="#"><span class="nav-label">Policies</span></a>
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-
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-                    <li class="nav-node">
-                      <div class="nav-row">
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-                <details class="nav-disc" open>
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-            </li>
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-
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-            <details class="nav-disc" open>
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-            </details>
-            <span class="nav-self"><span class="nav-label">Insights</span></span>
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-              <div class="nav-row">
-                <span class="nav-spacer" aria-hidden="true"></span>
-                <a class="nav-self" href="#"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-chart"/></svg><span class="nav-label">Reports</span></a>
-              </div>
-            </li>
-
-            <!-- header + CLICKABLE -->
-            <li class="nav-node">
-              <div class="nav-row">
-                <details class="nav-disc">
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-          </tr>
-          <tr>
-            <td class="col-check"><input type="checkbox" class="row-select" aria-label="Select Nadia Farouk"></td>
-            <td><span class="cell-user"><span class="avatar" aria-hidden="true">NF</span><span class="cell-strong">Nadia Farouk</span></span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted cell-mono"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4826292c2129662e293a273d2308292b252d662127">[email&#160;protected]</a></td>
-            <td>Member</td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">Engineering</td>
-            <td><span class="badge neg"><span class="dot"></span>Suspended</span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">12 days ago</td>
-            <td class="col-actions">
-              <details class="menu kebab">
-                <summary aria-label="Row actions for Nadia Farouk"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-kebab"/></svg></summary>
-                <div class="menu-pop">
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-edit"/></svg>Edit</button>
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-copy"/></svg>Duplicate</button>
-                  <div class="menu-sep"></div>
-                  <button class="menu-item danger"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete</button>
-                </div>
-              </details>
-            </td>
-          </tr>
-          <tr>
-            <td class="col-check"><input type="checkbox" class="row-select" aria-label="Select Otto Berg"></td>
-            <td><span class="cell-user"><span class="avatar" aria-hidden="true">OB</span><span class="cell-strong">Otto Berg</span></span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted cell-mono"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4a253e3e2564282f382d0a2b29272f642325">[email&#160;protected]</a></td>
-            <td>Member</td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">Design</td>
-            <td><span class="badge info"><span class="dot"></span>Invited</span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">—</td>
-            <td class="col-actions">
-              <details class="menu kebab">
-                <summary aria-label="Row actions for Otto Berg"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-kebab"/></svg></summary>
-                <div class="menu-pop">
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-edit"/></svg>Edit</button>
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-              </details>
-            </td>
-          </tr>
-          <tr>
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-            <td class="cell-muted cell-mono"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2047524554410e484f4c4d6041434d450e494f">[email&#160;protected]</a></td>
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-            <td class="cell-muted">Operations</td>
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-            <td class="col-actions">
-              <details class="menu kebab">
-                <summary aria-label="Row actions for Greta Holm"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-kebab"/></svg></summary>
-                <div class="menu-pop">
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-edit"/></svg>Edit</button>
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-                </div>
-              </details>
-            </td>
-          </tr>
-          <tr>
-            <td class="col-check"><input type="checkbox" class="row-select" aria-label="Select Yusuf Demir"></td>
-            <td><span class="cell-user"><span class="avatar" aria-hidden="true">YD</span><span class="cell-strong">Yusuf Demir</span></span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted cell-mono"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2059555355460e44454d49526041434d450e494f">[email&#160;protected]</a></td>
-            <td>Viewer</td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">Sales</td>
-            <td><span class="badge warn"><span class="dot"></span>Idle</span></td>
-            <td class="cell-muted">5 hours ago</td>
-            <td class="col-actions">
-              <details class="menu kebab">
-                <summary aria-label="Row actions for Yusuf Demir"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-kebab"/></svg></summary>
-                <div class="menu-pop">
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-edit"/></svg>Edit</button>
-                  <button class="menu-item"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-copy"/></svg>Duplicate</button>
-                  <div class="menu-sep"></div>
-                  <button class="menu-item danger"><svg class="ico"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete</button>
-                </div>
-              </details>
-            </td>
-          </tr>
-        </tbody>
-      </table>
-    </div>
-
-    <!-- ============ PAGINATION ============ -->
-    <footer class="pager">
-      <span>1–12 of <b>1,284</b></span>
-      <div class="pager-rows">
-        <label for="rows">Rows</label>
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-          </select>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-      <div class="spacer"></div>
-      <nav class="page-nums" aria-label="Pagination">
-        <button class="page-btn" disabled aria-label="Previous page"><svg class="ico ico-sm" style="transform:rotate(180deg)"><use href="#i-chev"/></svg></button>
-        <button class="page-btn" aria-current="page">1</button>
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-      </nav>
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-</div>
-
-<script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script></body>
-</html>

html-css-foundation/Auth.html

@@ -1,216 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang="en">
-<head>
-<meta charset="UTF-8">
-<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
-<title>Sign in — Console</title>
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="../public/css/styles.css">
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="../public/css/auth.css">
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<!-- ============ ICON SPRITE — Lucide (ISC) ============ -->
-<svg width="0" height="0" style="position:absolute" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
-  <symbol id="i-box" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="m7.5 4.27 9 5.15"/><path d="M21 8a2 2 0 0 0-1-1.73l-7-4a2 2 0 0 0-2 0l-7 4A2 2 0 0 0 3 8v8a2 2 0 0 0 1 1.73l7 4a2 2 0 0 0 2 0l7-4A2 2 0 0 0 21 16Z"/><path d="m3.3 7 8.7 5 8.7-5"/><path d="M12 22V12"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-mail" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><rect width="20" height="16" x="2" y="4" rx="2"/><path d="m22 7-8.97 5.7a1.94 1.94 0 0 1-2.06 0L2 7"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-lock" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><rect width="18" height="11" x="3" y="11" rx="2" ry="2"/><path d="M7 11V7a5 5 0 0 1 10 0v4"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-user" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M19 21v-2a4 4 0 0 0-4-4H9a4 4 0 0 0-4 4v2"/><circle cx="12" cy="7" r="4"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-arrow-left" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="m12 19-7-7 7-7"/><path d="M19 12H5"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-shield" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M20 13c0 5-3.5 7.5-7.66 8.95a1 1 0 0 1-.67-.01C7.5 20.5 4 18 4 13V6a1 1 0 0 1 1-1c2 0 4.5-1.2 6.24-2.72a1.17 1.17 0 0 1 1.52 0C14.51 3.81 17 5 19 5a1 1 0 0 1 1 1z"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-check-circle" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"/><path d="m9 12 2 2 4-4"/></symbol>
-  <symbol id="i-alert" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3"/><path d="M12 9v4"/><path d="M12 17h.01"/></symbol>
-</svg>
-
-<main class="auth-stage">
-  <div class="auth">
-
-    <div class="auth-brand">
-      <span class="brand-mark"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-box"/></svg></span>
-      <span class="brand-name">Console</span>
-    </div>
-
-    <!-- =================== LOGIN =================== -->
-    <section id="login" class="auth-view" aria-labelledby="login-title">
-      <form class="auth-card" method="post" action="#">
-        <div class="auth-head">
-          <h1 id="login-title">Sign in</h1>
-          <p class="auth-sub">Welcome back. Enter your details to continue.</p>
-        </div>
-
-        <!-- SSO section (toggle on/off) -->
-        <div class="sso" aria-label="Single sign-on options">
-          <ul class="sso-list">
-            <!-- add a provider: copy one <li> and change the logo + label -->
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true">G</span><span class="sso-label">Continue with Google</span></button></li>
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true">M</span><span class="sso-label">Continue with Microsoft</span></button></li>
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-shield"/></svg></span><span class="sso-label">Continue with SAML SSO</span></button></li>
-          </ul>
-          <div class="auth-divider">or</div>
-        </div>
-
-        <div class="auth-form">
-          <div class="field">
-            <label for="login-email">Email</label>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-mail"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="login-email" name="email" type="email" autocomplete="email" placeholder="you@company.com" required>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-
-          <div class="field">
-            <div class="field-top">
-              <label for="login-password">Password</label>
-              <a class="field-link" href="#forgot">Forgot password?</a>
-            </div>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-lock"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="login-password" name="password" type="password" autocomplete="current-password" placeholder="••••••••" required>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-
-          <label class="check remember"><input type="checkbox" name="remember" value="1"> Keep me signed in</label>
-
-          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block">Sign in</button>
-        </div>
-
-        <p class="auth-alt">Don't have an account? <a href="#register">Create one</a></p>
-      </form>
-    </section>
-
-    <!-- =================== REGISTER =================== -->
-    <section id="register" class="auth-view" aria-labelledby="register-title">
-      <form class="auth-card" method="post" action="#">
-        <div class="auth-head">
-          <h1 id="register-title">Create account</h1>
-          <p class="auth-sub">Get started — it only takes a minute.</p>
-        </div>
-
-        <div class="sso" aria-label="Single sign-on options">
-          <ul class="sso-list">
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true">G</span><span class="sso-label">Sign up with Google</span></button></li>
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true">M</span><span class="sso-label">Sign up with Microsoft</span></button></li>
-            <li><button type="button" class="sso-btn"><span class="sso-logo" aria-hidden="true"><svg class="ico ico-sm"><use href="#i-shield"/></svg></span><span class="sso-label">Sign up with SAML SSO</span></button></li>
-          </ul>
-          <div class="auth-divider">or</div>
-        </div>
-
-        <div class="auth-form">
-          <div class="register-alert alert alert-neg" role="alert">
-            <svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-alert"/></svg>
-            <div class="alert-body"><strong>Please fix the highlighted fields</strong><span>A couple of details need your attention before we can create your account.</span></div>
-          </div>
-          <div class="field">
-            <div class="field-top">
-              <label for="reg-name">Name</label>
-              <span class="optional">Optional</span>
-            </div>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-user"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="reg-name" name="name" type="text" autocomplete="name" placeholder="Avery Kline">
-            </div>
-          </div>
-
-          <div class="field">
-            <label for="reg-email">Email</label>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-mail"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="reg-email" name="email" type="email" autocomplete="email" placeholder="you@company.com" aria-describedby="reg-email-err" required>
-            </div>
-            <p class="field-error err-email" id="reg-email-err" role="alert">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-alert"/></svg>
-              <span>This email is already used by another account. <a href="#login">Sign in instead</a>.</span>
-            </p>
-          </div>
-
-          <div class="field">
-            <label for="reg-password">Password</label>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-lock"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="reg-password" name="password" type="password" autocomplete="new-password" placeholder="At least 8 characters" minlength="8" aria-describedby="reg-password-err" required>
-            </div>
-            <span class="field-hint">Use 8 or more characters.</span>
-            <p class="field-error err-password" id="reg-password-err" role="alert">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-alert"/></svg>
-              <span>Password must be at least 8 characters.</span>
-            </p>
-          </div>
-
-          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block">Create account</button>
-        </div>
-
-        <p class="auth-alt">Already have an account? <a href="#login">Sign in</a></p>
-      </form>
-    </section>
-
-    <!-- =================== FORGOT PASSWORD =================== -->
-    <section id="forgot" class="auth-view" aria-labelledby="forgot-title">
-      <form class="auth-card" method="post">
-        <div class="auth-head">
-          <a class="auth-back" href="#login"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-arrow-left"/></svg>Back to sign in</a>
-          <h1 id="forgot-title">Reset password</h1>
-          <p class="auth-sub">Enter your email and we'll send you a reset link.</p>
-        </div>
-
-        <!-- feedback (shown by server via .state-sent / .state-error on #forgot) -->
-        <div class="forgot-alert is-sent alert alert-pos" role="status">
-          <svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-check-circle"/></svg>
-          <div class="alert-body"><strong>Check your email</strong><span>If an account exists for that address, a reset link is on its way.</span></div>
-        </div>
-        <div class="forgot-alert is-error alert alert-neg" role="alert">
-          <svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-alert"/></svg>
-          <div class="alert-body"><strong>Couldn't send the link</strong><span>Something went wrong on our end. Please try again.</span></div>
-        </div>
-
-        <div class="auth-form">
-          <div class="field">
-            <label for="forgot-email">Email</label>
-            <div class="input-wrap">
-              <svg class="ico ico-sm input-ico" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-mail"/></svg>
-              <input class="input has-ico" id="forgot-email" name="email" type="email" autocomplete="email" placeholder="you@company.com" required>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-
-          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block">Send reset link</button>
-        </div>
-
-        <p class="auth-alt">Remembered it? <a href="#login">Sign in</a></p>
-      </form>
-    </section>
-
-  </div>
-</main>
-
-<!-- ============ TEMPLATE PREVIEW CONTROLS (remove for production) ============ -->
-<div class="tpl-controls" role="group" aria-label="Template preview controls">
-  <span class="tpl-label">Preview</span>
-  <div class="theme-switch" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Color theme">
-    <label><input type="radio" name="theme" id="theme-light"><span>Light</span></label>
-    <label><input type="radio" name="theme" id="theme-auto" checked><span>Auto</span></label>
-    <label><input type="radio" name="theme" id="theme-dark"><span>Dark</span></label>
-  </div>
-  <span class="tpl-sep" aria-hidden="true"></span>
-  <label class="tpl-toggle">
-    <input type="checkbox" id="sso-toggle" checked>
-    <span class="tpl-track" aria-hidden="true"></span>
-    SSO
-  </label>
-  <span class="tpl-sep tpl-forgot" aria-hidden="true"></span>
-  <div class="tpl-forgot">
-    <div class="segmented" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Forgot-password state (preview)">
-      <label><input type="radio" name="fstate" id="fstate-default" checked><span>Default</span></label>
-      <label><input type="radio" name="fstate" id="fstate-sent"><span>Sent</span></label>
-      <label><input type="radio" name="fstate" id="fstate-error"><span>Error</span></label>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-  <span class="tpl-sep tpl-register" aria-hidden="true"></span>
-  <div class="tpl-register">
-    <div class="segmented" role="radiogroup" aria-label="Register state (preview)">
-      <label><input type="radio" name="rstate" id="rstate-default" checked><span>Default</span></label>
-      <label><input type="radio" name="rstate" id="rstate-taken"><span>Email taken</span></label>
-      <label><input type="radio" name="rstate" id="rstate-combined"><span>Multiple</span></label>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-</body>
-</html>

ory/hydra/hydra.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # plainpages (README: "OAuth2 provider"). The web app implements Hydra's login &
 # consent steps at the URLs below, authenticating the user via their Kratos session;
 # Hydra mints the tokens. DSN comes from the env (the per-service hydra DB). Only
-# relevant when external apps log in through us — nothing first-party needs it (§6).
+# relevant when external apps log in through us — nothing first-party needs it.
 serve:
   public:
     port: 4444
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ serve:
     port: 4445
 
 # issuer = the public OAuth2 URL clients use; login/consent/logout hand the browser to
-# our themed handlers (§6). Dev defaults (http) — prod overrides issuer via env (https).
+# our themed handlers. Dev defaults (http) — prod overrides issuer via env (https).
 urls:
   self:
     issuer: http://127.0.0.1:4444/

ory/keto/keto.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Ory Keto — authorization (ReBAC), the source of truth for roles/groups and the rare
+# Ory Keto — authorization (ReBAC), the source of truth for permissions/groups and the rare
 # fine-grained check (README: three tiers of "may I?"). The permission model lives in
 # namespaces.keto.ts (OPL); DSN comes from the env (the per-service keto DB). The web
 # app never connects directly — it calls the read (4466) / write (4467) APIs, the ports

ory/keto/namespaces.keto.ts

@@ -4,28 +4,30 @@
 // identity ids (== the JWT `sub`).
 import { Context, Namespace, SubjectSet } from "@ory/keto-namespace-types"
 
-// A human identity. Subjects are written as `user:<kratos-identity-id>`.
+// A person. Ory calls this an "identity" (Kratos owns the record); Plainpages says "user"
+// throughout. Subjects are written as `user:<kratos-identity-id>`.
 class User implements Namespace {}
 
-// A subject set: a named collection of users (and nested groups), resolved transitively.
-// The admin "Groups" screen (§5) manages membership; checks expand it automatically.
+// A named set of users (and nested groups), resolved transitively. The admin "Groups"
+// screen manages membership; checks expand it automatically.
 class Group implements Namespace {
   related: {
     members: (User | SubjectSet<Group, "members">)[]
   }
 }
 
-// A coarse role — the source of truth for the JWT `roles` claim. At login the app reads
-// `role:<name>#members@user:<id>` from Keto and projects the result into the token
-// (README: Login → session JWT). A group can hold a role, so members can be users or groups.
-class Role implements Namespace {
+// A coarse permission — an operation a route or menu item gates on, and the source of truth
+// for the JWT `permissions` claim. At login the app reads `Permission:<name>#granted@user:<id>`
+// from Keto and projects the result into the token (README: Login → session JWT). A group can
+// hold a permission, so grants go to a user or to a whole group.
+class Permission implements Namespace {
   related: {
-    members: (User | SubjectSet<Group, "members">)[]
+    granted: (User | SubjectSet<Group, "members">)[]
   }
 }
 
 // A fine-grained, relationship-checked resource — README's third "may I?" tier, the rare
-// live Keto check (e.g. sharing/delegation). Permissions nest: owner ⊇ editor ⊇ viewer.
+// live Keto check (e.g. sharing/delegation). Permits nest: owner ⊇ editor ⊇ viewer.
 // Grants accept a user directly or any member of a group.
 class Resource implements Namespace {
   related: {

ory/kratos/e2e-proxy.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# Browser-E2E overlay (compose.e2e-full.yml) — merged after kratos.yml via a second `-c`. The
+# Browser-E2E overlay (e2e-tests/compose.full.yml) — merged after kratos.yml via a second `-c`. The
 # full-flow suite drives the real browser, so web + Kratos must share one origin (the `proxy`
-# gateway, e2e/proxy.mjs). Point Kratos' public base_url and every self-service URL at that host so
+# gateway, e2e-tests/proxy.ts). Point Kratos' public base_url and every self-service URL at that host so
 # the flow action, the session cookie, and the after-login redirect all stay same-origin as the
 # browser sees them. The normal (10m) tokenizer TTL from kratos.yml is kept — no re-mint mid-test.
 serve:

ory/kratos/e2e.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# E2E overlay (compose.e2e-auth.yml) — merged after kratos.yml via a second `-c`. Two changes
+# E2E overlay (e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml) — merged after kratos.yml via a second `-c`. Two changes
 # that let the auth-refresh suite exercise token timeout + re-mint in seconds:
 #   1. A very short session→JWT tokenizer TTL, so the JWT lapses while the Kratos session lives.
 #   2. A public base_url on the compose-network hostname, so the Playwright runner can drive the

ory/kratos/kratos.yml

@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 # Ory Kratos — identity & self-service auth. Identity schema (email, name) +
 # password login; recovery & verification run on email codes. Every self-service
-# flow returns to our own themed routes (§4 renders the fields). DSN + prod
+# flow returns to our own themed routes (renders the fields). DSN + prod
 # courier/secrets come from the env. Session→JWT tokenizer wired below (signing
 # key in tokenizer/jwks.json).
 serve:
   public:
-    base_url: http://127.0.0.1:4433/
+    base_url: http://localhost:4433/
     cors:
       enabled: false
   admin:
     base_url: http://kratos:4434/
 
 selfservice:
-  default_browser_return_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/
+  # Browser-facing URLs default to localhost (clean clone = APP_URL's default, so the host the web app
+  # canonicalises to matches the host the login form POSTs to — cookies share one host). Driven by
+  # APP_URL: compose overrides these from ${APP_URL} (compose.override.yml), so there's one knob.
+  default_browser_return_url: http://localhost:3000/
   allowed_return_urls:
-    - http://127.0.0.1:3000
+    - http://localhost:3000
   methods:
     password:
       enabled: true
     code: # email one-time code — powers recovery + verification (not login)
       enabled: true
     # Social sign-in, OFF by default → clean clone is password-only. Activate via env only
-    # (no code; the whole-array form is the only env-settable one Kratos offers); §4 derives
+    # (no code; the whole-array form is the only env-settable one Kratos offers); derives
     # the buttons from this list. SAML isn't in OSS Kratos — bridge it as OIDC (README).
     #   SELFSERVICE_METHODS_OIDC_ENABLED=true
     #   SELFSERVICE_METHODS_OIDC_CONFIG_PROVIDERS=[{"id":"google","provider":"google",
@@ -33,37 +36,37 @@ selfservice:
         providers: []
   flows:
     error:
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/error
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/error
     login:
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/login
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/login
       after:
         # After authenticating, land on our completion route — it mints the session JWT
-        # (roles from Keto → metadata_public projection → tokenize) and sets our cookie (§4).
-        default_browser_return_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/auth/complete
+        # (permissions from Keto → metadata_public projection → tokenize) and sets our cookie.
+        default_browser_return_url: http://localhost:3000/auth/complete
     registration:
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/registration
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/registration
       after:
         password:
           hooks:
             - hook: session # log in immediately after sign-up
             - hook: show_verification_ui
     settings:
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/settings
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/settings
       privileged_session_max_age: 15m
       required_aal: highest_available
     recovery:
       enabled: true
       use: code
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/recovery
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/recovery
     verification:
       enabled: true
       use: code
-      ui_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/verification
+      ui_url: http://localhost:3000/verification
       after:
-        default_browser_return_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/
+        default_browser_return_url: http://localhost:3000/
     logout:
       after:
-        default_browser_return_url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/login
+        default_browser_return_url: http://localhost:3000/login
 
 # Dev mail catcher (compose.override.yml). Prod overrides via COURIER_SMTP_CONNECTION_URI.
 courier:
@@ -79,7 +82,7 @@ identity:
       url: file:///etc/config/kratos/identity.schema.json
 
 # "Stay signed in" backbone: a long-lived Kratos session that the app re-mints the
-# short-lived (~10m) JWT off (§4). Sliding refresh — an active session is extended
+# short-lived (~10m) JWT off. Sliding refresh — an active session is extended
 # back to full lifespan only once it's within earliest_possible_extend of expiry,
 # so frequent users never lapse without a DB write per request.
 session:
@@ -89,9 +92,9 @@ session:
     name: plainpages_session
     persistent: true # survive browser restarts
     same_site: Lax
-  # Session→JWT tokenizer (§4): whoami(tokenize_as: plainpages) mints a short-lived,
+  # Session→JWT tokenizer: whoami(tokenize_as: plainpages) mints a short-lived,
   # locally-verifiable JWT so the hot path never calls Ory. Claims come from the
-  # committed Jsonnet mapper (sub = identity id, email from traits, roles from the
+  # committed Jsonnet mapper (sub = identity id, email from traits, permissions from the
   # metadata_public projection); signed with tokenizer/jwks.json.
   whoami:
     tokenizer:
@@ -102,7 +105,7 @@ session:
           claims_mapper_url: file:///etc/config/kratos/tokenizer/plainpages.jsonnet
           jwks_url: file:///etc/config/kratos/tokenizer/jwks.json
 
-# Dev throwaways — production supplies real secrets via env (§3). cipher = 32 chars.
+# Dev throwaways — production supplies real secrets via env. cipher = 32 chars.
 secrets:
   cookie:
     - PLEASE-CHANGE-ME-dev-kratos-cookie-secret

ory/kratos/tokenizer/plainpages.jsonnet

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-// Session→JWT claims mapper for the `plainpages` tokenizer (§4). Kratos exposes the
+// Session→JWT claims mapper for the `plainpages` tokenizer. Kratos exposes the
 // session as `session`; `sub` is set from the identity id (subject_source: id) and
-// can't be overridden here. roles come from metadata_public — the per-login projection
-// of Keto roles the app refreshes at login (metadata_admin is NOT carried in the session
+// can't be overridden here. permissions come from metadata_public — the per-login projection
+// of Keto permissions the app refreshes at login (metadata_admin is NOT carried in the session
 // the tokenizer sees; metadata_public is). Absent on a fresh identity ⇒ empty list.
 local session = std.extVar('session');
 local meta =
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ local meta =
 {
   claims: {
     email: session.identity.traits.email,
-    roles: if std.objectHas(meta, 'roles') then meta.roles else [],
+    permissions: if std.objectHas(meta, 'permissions') then meta.permissions else [],
   },
 }

ory/postgres/init/init.sql

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 -- Runs once on first boot (docker-entrypoint-initdb.d), as the POSTGRES_USER.
 -- One database per Ory service: each owns its schema and runs its own migrations,
--- so they never collide. The web app never connects here (stateless — see README).
+-- so they never collide. A plugin's database does not belong here: bootstrap provisions those on
+-- every boot, so one dropped in later is picked up too (README → Plugin storage).
 CREATE DATABASE kratos;
 CREATE DATABASE keto;
 CREATE DATABASE hydra;
+
+-- Postgres grants CONNECT to PUBLIC by default, so every plugin role could otherwise open the auth
+-- plane's databases and read pg_catalog; table data stays protected either way. Ory connects as the
+-- POSTGRES_USER, which owns these and keeps its access.
+REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE kratos FROM PUBLIC;
+REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE keto FROM PUBLIC;
+REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE hydra FROM PUBLIC;