Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into item-62

Release-Bump: major

.dockerignore

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 .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
 
+# 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

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ jobs:
   full-gate:
     runs-on: docker-host
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
+      - 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

.gitea/workflows/mirror.yml

@@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ jobs:
   github-mirror:
     runs-on: docker-host
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
+      - 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 \
+          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

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
   prune-stale-images:
     runs-on: docker-host
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
       - name: Delete hash images that are neither release-tagged nor a branch head
         env:
           REGISTRY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_REGISTRY_TOKEN }}
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo \
             -e REGISTRY_TOKEN -e REGISTRY_USER -e REPO_TOKEN -e REPOSITORY -e SERVER_URL \
-            node:24.18.1-alpine3.24 node registry-cleanup/cleanup.ts
+            node:24.22.2-alpine3.24 node registry-cleanup/cleanup.ts

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
 name: Release
+# The Hub overview names a released tag, so it is published here only, never on a push to main.
 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@v4.2.2
+      - 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:24.22.2-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 }}
@@ -15,34 +31,78 @@ jobs:
           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; }
-          for TAG in "$VERSION" "${VERSION%.*}" "${VERSION%%.*}" latest; do
+          # No bare-major tag while major is 0: a 0.x minor is a contract break, so `:0` would move
+          # across one and abort boot for everything tracking it. `:0.1` only moves across patches.
+          TAGS="$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:$TAG"
           done
       - name: Sync the release tags to Docker Hub
         env:
-          DOCKERHUB_REPO: docker.io/${{ github.repository }}
+          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; }
+            || { echo "Set the DOCKERHUB_USER variable + DOCKERHUB_TOKEN secret (docs/ci-cd.md)"; exit 1; }
           printf '%s' "$DOCKERHUB_TOKEN" | docker login docker.io -u "$DOCKERHUB_USER" --password-stdin
-          for TAG in "$VERSION" "${VERSION%.*}" "${VERSION%%.*}" latest; do
+          TAGS="$VERSION ${VERSION%.*} latest"
-            docker tag "$REPO:$COMMIT" "$DOCKERHUB_REPO:$TAG"
+          if [ "${VERSION%%.*}" != "0" ]; then TAGS="$TAGS ${VERSION%%.*}"; fi
-            docker push "$DOCKERHUB_REPO:$TAG"
+          for TAG in $TAGS; do
+            docker tag "$REPO:$COMMIT" "$DOCKERHUB_IMAGE:$TAG"
+            docker push "$DOCKERHUB_IMAGE:$TAG"
           done
       - name: Log out of the registries
         if: always()
         run: |
-          docker logout gitea.larvit.se
+          set -uo pipefail
-          docker logout docker.io
+          # This is cleanup: it must not fail a release that published, nor skip the overview job
+          # that follows. The runner's Docker config is shared, so a logout can lose a race
+          # (docs/decisions.md → "CI docker logins share the runner host's Docker config").
+          docker logout gitea.larvit.se || true
+          docker logout docker.io || true
+
+  publish-overview:
+    if: always() && (github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || needs.retag-image.result == 'success')
+    needs: [retag-image]
+    runs-on: docker-host
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        if: github.event_name == 'push'
+      # Publish the named release's own tree, so the page never pairs one Plainpages tag with another
+      # release's sidecar pins. A version that was never released fails here.
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
+        if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+        with:
+          ref: refs/tags/v${{ 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 "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.22.2-alpine3.24 \
+            node release-tooling/contract-version.ts "$VERSION" src/plugin-host/plugin.ts
+          docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo \
+            -e DOCKERHUB_REPO -e DOCKERHUB_TOKEN -e DOCKERHUB_USER \
+            node:24.22.2-alpine3.24 \
+            node release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.ts "$VERSION"

.gitea/workflows/renovate.yml

@@ -21,22 +21,25 @@ jobs:
             -e RENOVATE_PLATFORM=gitea \
             -e RENOVATE_REPOSITORIES=${{ github.repository }} \
             -e RENOVATE_TOKEN \
-            renovate/renovate:44.6.0
+            renovate/renovate:44.199.2
 
   # 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) or nothing new merged. ff-only merges keep the renovate commit's
+  # (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 (auto-release/next-version.ts). Tag-only — release.yml promotes the
+  # 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@v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          # A persisted token outranks the PAT in the push URL, and Gitea runs nothing for its pushes.
+          persist-credentials: false
       - name: Tag a release for what Renovate merged
         env:
           RENOVATE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_TOKEN }}
@@ -54,8 +57,15 @@ jobs:
           fi
           BUMPS=$(git log "${LATEST}..origin/main" --author='renovate@larvit.se' \
                   --format='%(trailers:key=Release-Bump,valueonly)' | { grep -vx '' || true; })
-          NEXT=$(docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.18.1-alpine3.24 \
+          if [ -z "$BUMPS" ]; then
-                 node auto-release/next-version.ts "$LATEST" $BUMPS)
+            echo "Renovate commits since ${LATEST}, but none carry Release-Bump — nothing reached a running Plainpages; skipping"; exit 0
+          fi
+          NEXT=$(docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/repo" -w /repo node:24.22.2-alpine3.24 \
+                 node release-tooling/next-version.ts "$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:24.22.2-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

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 *.log
 node_modules
 
-# Playwright E2E outputs (screenshots, html report, traces)
+# Playwright E2E outputs (screenshots, html report, traces). The dir itself is tracked: an absent
-e2e-tests/artifacts/
+# 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/*
@@ -13,3 +15,7 @@ e2e-tests/artifacts/
 # 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

@@ -3,96 +3,137 @@
 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 (a decision's date in `docs/decisions.md`
+  is not one), 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.
+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 solution that is easiest to understand, smallest, and most readable.
-2. **Few dependencies** — runtime deps stay minimal (today `ejs`, `lucide-static`,
+   **A page is a document**: it scrolls, and the chrome scrolls with it. Nothing may bound the
-   `@larvit/log` — the last itself zero-dependency, for structured/OTLP logging).
+   viewport to hold content still — no `height: 100dvh` frame, no `overflow: hidden` on `body`, no
-   Prefer the Node standard library; justify any new dependency; do not add
+   `position: sticky` header. Each such box buys an app-like look with CSS the next reader has to
-   frameworks. The app is
+   reverse-engineer, and is one more thing to undo before the content under it can be reached.
-   **stateless — no database**. Auth/identity/OAuth are **Ory sidecar services**
+   Overlays are not this: the skip link, the mobile off-canvas nav and its scrim sit *above* the
-   (Kratos/Keto/Hydra, backed by Postgres), reached over their REST APIs with
+   document rather than holding it still, and have no other spelling — the document keeps scrolling
-   built-in `fetch` — no SDK dependency. New capabilities ship as **plugin
+   behind the open nav, accepted rather than overlooked. Only the document scroller gets keyboard
-   folders** under `plugins/` that fetch their data from upstream services, not as
+   paging unconditionally and back/forward scroll restoration, and a page a box clips fails silently:
-   core code. See `README.md` for the architecture.
+   nothing in a test or a console says content is unreachable below the fold.
+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. Prefer
+   `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `verbatimModuleSyntax`). Keep it that way. Prefer exact types;
-   exact types and limit nullable and multi option types when possible. KISS.
+   limit nullable and multi-option types.
-4. **Environment-agnostic** — the app never asks *which environment* it runs in; there is
+4. **Environment-agnostic** — no `NODE_ENV` branching. Every behaviour is an **explicit config
-   no `NODE_ENV` (or equivalent) branching. Every behaviour is an **explicit config
+   toggle** read once in `src/config.ts`; compose files set them per deployment.
-   toggle** (e.g. `CACHE_TEMPLATES`, `REQUIRE_SECURE_SECRETS`, a future "disable email"),
+5. **Semantic, accessible DOM** — the right element for the job (landmarks, one `<h1>` per page +
-   read once in `src/config.ts`. Compose files set the toggles per deployment.
+   sane heading order, lists, `<table>` with row/column headers, `<fieldset>`/`<legend>`, `<button>`
-5. **Semantic, accessible DOM** — markup is a first-class concern. Use the right element
+   vs `<a>`); ARIA only to fill real gaps. Classes/ids name *meaning*, not looks.
-   for the job (landmarks, one `<h1>` per page + sane heading order, lists, `<table>` with
+6. **Full, parallel E2E** — every user-facing flow has a Playwright test, shipped in the same change
-   row/column headers, `<fieldset>`/`<legend>`, `<button>` vs `<a>`); add ARIA only to fill
+   as the surface. Tests stay independent and side-effect-free so the suite runs `fullyParallel`.
-   real gaps (`aria-current`, `aria-sort`, labels). Classes/ids name *meaning*, not looks.
+7. **Powerful, fail-loud plugins** — the plugin API is the product's main surface and the only way to
-   Prefer native semantics over `div` + ARIA. New views and partials keep this bar.
+   add domain features. It optimises for being powerful, predictable and overloadable, and the host
-6. **Full, parallel E2E** — every user-facing flow (each page, form, guard, plugin route)
+   **fails loud at boot/discovery** rather than sandboxing at runtime. Runtime crash-isolation is a
-   has a Playwright E2E test, and a new surface ships *with* its E2E in the same change.
+   deliberate **non-goal**.
-   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`.
-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** (a plugin can take over as much of a page as it wants), and the host
-   **fails loud at boot/discovery** (bad manifest, version mismatch, or conflict stops
-   startup with a clear message) rather than sandboxing at runtime. Runtime crash-isolation
-   is a deliberate **non-goal** — diagnose at deploy time, not in production. Keep this
-   contract stable; see `README.md` → Building plugins.
 
-## Deliberate architectural deviations (don't re-flag)
+## Decisions
 
-Intentional, reasoned choices — an architecture review should honor them, not re-raise
+Each title below is an entry in `docs/decisions.md`, with its reasoning and the premise it rests
-them. Revisit only if the stated reason stops holding.
+on; a review honours them.
 
-- **`src/` is grouped by concern**, not flat — `http/` (request pipeline), `auth/`
+### Structure & contracts
-  (session-JWT hot path, guards, and the Ory REST clients), `plugin-host/`
+
-  (discovery/router/hooks/view-resolver + the `plugin-api.ts` author barrel + `system.ts`, the
+- `src/` is grouped by concern, and the core ships no domain screens
-  `ctx.system` capability surface), and `ui/` (design-system view-models + menu/chrome);
+- Plugins and config import the host only through the two barrels
-  `server.ts`/`config.ts`/`logger.ts` and the topology-guard `*.test.ts` stay at the root. Tests
+- The Ory client types are contract-visible through the barrel
-  are co-located (`foo.test.ts` beside `foo.ts`). Add a new module to the folder that owns its
+- The barrel is a package, so a plugin folder may carry its own `package.json`
-  concern rather than to the root; don't reintroduce a flat tree. The core ships **no domain
+- Plugin storage hands over credentials, not a client
-  screens** — even the admin GUI (users/groups/roles) is a drop-in plugin (`examples/plugins/admin/`),
+- Plugin settings are declared, not discovered
-  not `src/` code.
+- The trust boundary is the `web` process, not the plugin
-- **`ctx.chrome` is lazily memoized — do not make it unconditional** or move it into the
+- `ory/postgres/init/init.sql` is the only home for the Ory databases' ACL
-  base request context. It protects the I/O-free hot path on the public, bot-hit landing
+- `bootstrap.ts` stays under `src/auth/`
-  (`/`). (Declined twice.)
+- `BootContext.storage` keeps all six credential fields, and there is no `onShutdown` hook
-- **Email is delegated to Kratos** (it renders + sends recovery/verification mail); `web`
+- `config/` is a plain dir with no `package.json` of its own
-  never touches SMTP. Customization is Kratos' built-in `courier.template_override_path`,
+- A plugin `package.json` without `"type": "module"` is refused, not warned
-  not app code — keeping `web` stateless and dependency-light (see [Email](README.md#email)).
+- `examples/` mirrors the drop-in mount dirs
-- **Plugins and config import the host only via package.json `imports`** — `#plugin-api`
+- `ctx.chrome` is lazily memoized, never built unconditionally
-  → `src/plugin-host/plugin-api.ts`, `#menu-config` → `src/ui/menu-config.ts` — never a
+- A plugin-owned render always runs on that plugin's context
-  relative `../../src/*` path. These two barrels are the whole author/operator contract
+- Email is delegated to Kratos
-  surface; the `src/*` behind them may be refactored freely. Depth-independent and
+
-  refactor-stable by design — don't "fix" a `#`-import back to a relative path.
+### Authorization
-  **One caveat:** `#plugin-api` re-exports the Ory client types for the `ctx.system` surface
+
-  (`KratosAdmin`/`KetoClient`/`HydraAdmin` + their DTOs and error classes). Those shapes are
+- The vocabulary is `User` → `Group` → `Permission`, and there is no `Role`
-  therefore **contract-visible** — changing them is a plugin-API break needing a major
+- A permission name is always `<resource>:<action>`, enforced at discovery
-  `apiVersion` bump, not a free refactor. Keep the Ory clients stable, or bump the version.
+- Permission names are authored in plugin code; only grants live in Keto
-- **A plugin/config folder must stay a plain folder — no `package.json` of its own.** Node
+- A permission's `<resource>` is global, not plugin-scoped
-  resolves `#`-specifiers against the nearest parent `package.json`; a `package.json` inside
+- Declaring a permission stays optional
-  the folder becomes its own scope and `#plugin-api`/`#menu-config` stop resolving. Accepted
+- `ADMIN_PERMISSIONS` defaults to empty, and an unusable value is dropped with a warning
-  cost of the `#`-import contract (fits the stateless, no-per-plugin-deps ethos). A plugin
+- `actionForMethod` is plugin-local and stays out of `@plainpages/plugin-api`
-  kept in its own repo typechecks against the barrel only when mounted under the host tree
+- A gate is one of `public`, `session` or `permission`, named exactly once
-  (or by adding a local `imports` map / vendored stub).
+- The reference plugin's two shift pages duplicate a view model and markup
-- **`examples/` mirrors the drop-in mount dirs** — `examples/plugins/<id>/` copies to
+- A `:read`-only holder is never shown a write affordance
-  `plugins/<id>/`, `examples/config/menu.ts` to `config/menu.ts`. Both mirror folders are in
+- `users:write` and `groups:write` each amount to full administrative access
-  `tsconfig.include` and resolve the host surface via `#`-imports, so each example typechecks
+- The CSRF token is unbound to the session
-  in place *and* copies across unchanged. Never commit real plugins/config into the root
+- Plainpages says "user" everywhere, where Ory says "identity"
-  mount dirs (`plugins/`, `config/`) — they ship empty (`.gitkeep`, git-ignored otherwise).
+
-- **CI docker logins share the runner host's Docker config.** The act_runner is host-mode, so
+### i18n
-  `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),
+- The locale lives in the URL, never in a cookie
-  and tokens sit in that file between login and logout. Same class: concurrent runs share the
+- The core building blocks carry the locale, so a plugin doesn't have to
-  workspace dir, so ci.sh's web-image build races another run's container creation on the
+- `locale` and the i18n view locals are reserved by the host
-  `<project>-web` tag. Accepted for a single-maintainer cadence; serialize with a workflow
+- Catalogs are checked at boot, not at render
-  `concurrency` group if it ever bites.
+- `locales/` at the repo root is a drop-in mount
+- The language picker is on every page, POST-rendered ones included
+- An unknown translation key renders as itself
+- `t()` returns raw text, and the view escapes it
+- RTL is out of scope until there is a real use case
+
+### UI
+
+- A dropdown is a `<button popovertarget>` and a `[popover]`, never a `<details>`
+- The document is the one scroller
+- `ICON_NAMES` is a host-owned registry, not a plugin contract
+
+### Build, test & release
+
+- Dependencies install to `/node_modules`, above `WORKDIR /app`
+- A container whose output a human then edits or deletes runs as the invoking user
+- Anything the browser logs fails the E2E test that provoked it
+- The Ory-free specs run in all three engines; the Ory-backed ones stay on Chromium
+- The docs-only CI skip is `*.md` anywhere in the tree
+- CI docker logins share the runner host's Docker config
 
 ## Docker only — no host tooling
 
@@ -102,6 +143,7 @@ Docker Compose. **Never run `node`, `npm`, or `tsc` on the host.**
 ```bash
 docker compose up                                       # dev server, live reload
 docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm run typecheck  # strict type check (--no-deps: skip Ory)
+docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --rm --no-deps --build e2e npm run typecheck  # the E2E specs
 docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm test           # tests
 docker compose -f compose.yml up --build -d              # production
 ```
@@ -110,68 +152,108 @@ docker compose -f compose.yml up --build -d              # production
 
 `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
+1. **First-time reader (top).** A one/two-sentence tagline, then a **Quick start** that gets the
-   the stack up (`docker compose up`, sign in) and a *minimal* plugin live. Nothing comes
+   stack up and a *minimal* plugin live. Nothing comes before Quick start. Keep its commands
-   before Quick start — no philosophy, no rationale. Keep its commands copy-pasteable and the
+   copy-pasteable; deeper detail lives in its own section, linked.
-   example plugin as small as possible; deeper detail lives in its own section, linked.
+2. **Returning developer (rest).** A **Contents** ToC right after Quick start, then sections ordered
-2. **Returning developer (rest).** A **Contents** ToC immediately after Quick start, then
+   by **what an adopter reaches for first**, not by architectural layering: Goals → Audience → Overview → Glossary → Users, groups
-   sections ordered by **what a developer adopting Plainpages reaches for, in priority
+   & permissions → Building plugins → menu/blocks/interactivity → Configuration → Auth → Email →
-   order** — not by architectural layering. The value that sets the order: getting up and
+   Architecture → Testing → Production → Observability → JWT-rotation runbook → Project-layout file
-   running **building plugins** comes first, then **configuring and securing** the system
+   map → Extending. Place a new section by how early an adopter needs it. **Users, groups &
-   (Configuration, Auth); the **inner workings** (Architecture) and ops/runbooks are
+   permissions precedes Building plugins** because a manifest's `permission:` gate is unreadable
-   deliberately deferred — they're not top of mind when starting out. Concretely: Overview →
+   without the model, and it is the one home for that model.
-   Building plugins → menu/blocks/interactivity → Configuration → Auth → Email →
-   Architecture → Testing → Production → Observability → the JWT-rotation runbook → the
-   Project-layout file map → Extending. When adding a section, place it by this value (how
-   early an adopter needs it), not by where it sits in the stack.
 
-When editing: put content in the section it belongs to (don't prepend rationale above Quick
+Keep the ToC in sync when you add/rename/remove an `H2`/`H3`. **Don't document internals** — how a
-start); keep the ToC in sync when you add/rename/remove an `H2`/`H3`; and state each fact in
+script reaches a decision, what a function guards; a developer reads that off the code in seconds.
-one home, linking to it rather than restating (credentials, env vars, rotation steps).
+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.
-**Don't document internals here.** How a script reaches a decision, why one run behaved
-differently from another, what a function guards — a developer doesn't need it day to day and
-can read it off the code or a run's log in seconds. Prose like that only makes the README
-longer and harder to consume, for humans and machines alike. It belongs in the code it
-describes, or nowhere. The README earns its length on what you cannot dig out: how to use and
-operate Plainpages, the external contracts, and one-time setup (secrets, accounts, tokens).
-Same test before adding a row to a table or the file map — 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
+  (`erasableSyntaxOnly` is on): no `enum`, `namespace`, parameter properties, or decorators. Import
-  decorators. Import local modules with their `.ts` extension.
+  local modules with their `.ts` extension.
-- **No `.mjs`.** Write modules as `.ts` (Prio 1) — even standalone scripts run in bare
+- **No `.mjs`.** Write modules as `.ts` — even standalone scripts run in bare `node:24` containers.
-  `node:24` containers (the e2e mock servers, `examples/shifts-upstream/server.ts`): Node
+  If a file genuinely must be plain JavaScript, use `.js`; `"type": "module"` is set in both
-  strips types and detects ESM from syntax, no package.json needed. If a file genuinely
-  must be plain JavaScript, use `.js` (Prio 2); `"type": "module"` is already 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.
+- Before finishing a change, run the typechecks and tests above; all must pass.
 - Tests use the built-in `node --test` runner — no test framework dependency.
-- English everywhere. Keep code comments short and information-dense. Self explained code
+- English everywhere.
-  without any comment at all is the preferred solution.
+- Pin all dependencies and Docker images to exact, human-readable **semantic versions** — never
-- Do not comment about history in the code or README. Like "This function included X before,
+  ranges (`^`, `~`) and never digests. npm deps via `.npmrc` (`save-exact=true`) + `npm ci`; images
-  but it moved to Y".
+  by tag.
-- Do not comment about the absence of things, if it is not very unexpected. Banned is things
+- **Touching dependencies means revisiting `renovate.json`.** `Release-Bump` is an *allowlist*: its
-  like "This function does not calculate pi, that is done in function Z".
+  rules name exactly what carries the trailer, so a dependency outside them never escalates the
-- Pin all dependencies and Docker images to exact, human-readable **semantic
+  release version and nothing fails to say so. A new manifest, compose file, custom manager or dep
-  versions** — never ranges (`^`, `~`) and never digests/hashes. npm deps are kept
+  type is a decision: can it reach a running Plainpages? If yes it needs a rule; if no, record nothing
-  exact by `.npmrc` (`save-exact=true`) + `npm ci`; the base image by tag (e.g.
+  and let it ride the next patch.
-  `node:24.16.0-alpine3.24`).
+- **`HOST_API_VERSION` *is* the release version.** Its `major.minor` must equal the release tag's, and
-- A plugin's `apiVersion` is a **hand-written literal** semver — the host version the
+  both release paths refuse a tag that disagrees (`release-tooling/contract-version.ts`). The patch
-  plugin was built against — bumped by hand on rebuild, **never** the host's
+  digit may lag on purpose: `checkApiVersion`
-  `HOST_API_VERSION` constant. Importing the constant makes every plugin always equal the
+  ignores patch, and auto-release cuts patch releases with no commit to bump a constant in. So a
-  host, so `checkApiVersion` can never fire and a breaking change slips through silently.
+  dependency update big enough to force a **minor** is plugin-visible by definition — `auto-release`
-- **Plugin route handlers are thin and per-route, keyed on `ctx.params`.** Register one handler
+  stops rather than tagging, and the fix is to bump `HOST_API_VERSION` to that `X.Y.0` in a PR, merge
-  per `{method, path}` in the manifest (the host extracts `:id`/`:name` and 404s malformed
+  it, then tag. Never bump it to "catch up" with a patch release. **The contract surface
-  `%`-encoding — no manual path-slicing/decoding). Don't funnel many routes into one dispatcher
+  includes `views/partials/*.ejs`** — the view resolver makes every core partial an `include()` root
-  that re-parses `ctx.url.pathname`: it duplicates the URL shape, ignores the router's params, and
+  for a plugin's views, so their option names and emitted markup are author-visible. Know the hole
-  has to re-handle HEAD. Factor shared per-request setup (auth gate, `ctx.system` capability
+  that leaves: discovery fails loud on a bad `apiVersion`, but `include("menu", { open: true })`
-  resolution, target fetch) into a small `withX` wrapper — see `examples/plugins/admin/`.
+  silently ignores a dropped option, so the partial vocabulary is a surface the version check cannot
-- Reviews are maintainer-triggered (e.g. via the larv-review skill) — never auto-run reviewer
+  police for you.
-  agents. Decided 2026-08-02, replacing the earlier run-after-every-implementation rule.
+- **The contract surface also includes the packaging promises** (README → Plugin dependencies): the
-- Use well formed, standard compliant, rich URIs. Prefer state in the URL over POST:ing in for
+  barrel is ambient at `/node_modules` with nothing for a plugin to declare, `"type": "module"` is
-  for example list pages with filters and pagination. Do: "ids=x&ids=y" and not "ids[]=x&ids[]=y"
+  mandatory, and the host neither upgrades nor dedupes a plugin's dependencies. Same hole as the
-  and not "ids=x,y".
+  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/auth-admin/`.
+- **A function stays within 50 lines and complexity 20** (ESLint's defaults, measured by
+  `src/function-limits.test.ts`). Split one that outgrows them; never add it to the test's
+  `grandfathered` list or raise a ceiling there.
+- 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. **State lives in the URL or on the server, never in
+  a cookie.** Prefer state in the URL over POSTing it, for example on list pages with filters and
+  pagination. A message for the page a redirect lands on rides its query string — `info-msg`,
+  `warn-msg`, `error-msg` — since a fragment never reaches the server. A cookie carries only what
+  must be bound to the browser: the session (`plainpages_jwt`) and the CSRF token (`plainpages_csrf`).
+  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).
+
+## Scoring run
+
+The comprehension panel's seats fill their prompts from these fields.
+
+- **Language:** strict TypeScript on Node 24, with EJS views and plain CSS
+- **Kind:** a server-rendered web GUI host with a plugin system
+- **Domain:** web authentication, authorization and server-rendered admin GUIs
+- **Domain docs:** the Ory Kratos, Keto and Hydra documentation
+- **3am question:** a visitor on an old TV browser reports that the sign-in button is blank. Which file and rule?

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
+# Changelog
+
+The release version **is** the plugin contract version (`HOST_API_VERSION`), so a minor is a
+contract break: a plugin's `apiVersion` must match the host's `major.minor` or discovery refuses it
+at boot. Entries start at 0.3.0.
+
+## Unreleased
+
+### Plugin contract 0.5: set `apiVersion` to `"0.5.0"`
+
+The host's contract version is now 0.5.0, so discovery refuses a plugin whose `apiVersion` is still
+`0.4.x`. Change the literal in each plugin's manifest when you upgrade, and add `assetHref` to any
+`RequestContext` your tests build by hand: `assetHref: (href) => href`.
+
+### The core dashboard view is `dashboard`, not `index`
+
+`views/index.ejs` is now `views/dashboard.ejs`. The `apiVersion` check can't see this: a plugin view
+that still does `include("index")` fails when it renders, with the 500 page. Change it to
+`include("dashboard")`.
+
+### `KetoClient.transactTuples` applies inserts and deletes as one transaction
+
+`transactTuples({ delete, insert })` sends both lists to Keto in one `PATCH /admin/relation-tuples`,
+so all of them apply or none does. A `KetoClient` you build by hand, such as a test stub, must add the
+method. The admin example saves a user's or group's permissions through it, so a Keto failure leaves
+every grant as it was and answers with the error page.
+
+### The admin example deletes a group's grants and members in one Keto transaction
+
+A Keto failure while deleting a group now leaves the group as it was, with its grants and members,
+and answers with the error page. It used to leave some grants gone and the members still listed.
+
+### The admin example keeps a user's permissions section when it refuses a self-deactivate or self-delete
+
+The refusal page used to drop the permissions section of the user form.
+
+### The admin example lists a user's or group's grants that no installed plugin declares, with a Remove
+
+A direct grant of a name no installed plugin declares, such as one left by an uninstalled plugin,
+used to stay invisible and unchangeable, and reinstalling the plugin silently reactivated it. The
+user and group pages now list these apart from the checkboxes, each with a Remove button (hidden from
+a `:read`-only holder). The example's catalogs gain `admin.grants.remove`, `admin.grants.removed`,
+`admin.grants.undeclaredHint` and `admin.grants.undeclaredLegend`, and its routes gain
+`POST /auth-admin/users/:id/permissions/remove` and `POST /auth-admin/groups/:name/permissions/remove`.
+
+### An operator can hide or rename a plugin's profile-menu entry
+
+A `profileMenu` entry takes an optional `id`, and `config/menu.ts`'s `override.hide` and
+`override.rename` apply to it as they do to a nav node. Nav nodes and profile-menu entries share one
+set of ids, so the boot refuses an entry whose `id` another entry or nav node already uses.
+
+### The admin example plugin is now `auth-admin`, and its screens live at `/auth-admin/*`
+
+The Users, Groups, OAuth2-clients and Plugin-settings screens move from `/admin/*` to
+`/auth-admin/*`, and nothing redirects the old paths, so update any proxy rule, bookmark, alert or
+log query that matches `/admin/`. An installed `plugins/admin/` still declares `apiVersion` 0.4, so
+the boot refuses it: delete it, copy `examples/plugins/auth-admin/` into `plugins/`, and move any
+`locales/plugins/admin/` to `locales/plugins/auth-admin/`.
+
+### The `request` log line renames `method`, `path`, `status` and `ms`, and gains the caller, site and route
+
+Update dashboards and log queries: the `request` line and the request span now use OpenTelemetry's
+HTTP names. `method`, `path` and `status` become `http.request.method`, `url.path` and
+`http.response.status_code`. `ms` is gone: latency is the span's duration, so it needs
+`OTLP_ENDPOINT`. New are `http.route` (when a route matched), `server.address` (the `Host`),
+`user_agent.original` and `client.address`. A plugin's own lines for a request carry them too,
+except the status.
+
+`client.address` is the socket's peer. Set `TRUSTED_PROXIES` (comma-separated IPs or CIDR ranges) to
+the proxies in front of the host and it follows `X-Forwarded-For`; a bad entry refuses the boot.
+README → Observability says which ranges to list. The log now holds callers' IPs and user agents,
+which are personal data: say so in your privacy policy.
+
+### `buildPaginationModel` builds the pagination partial's model
+
+Call `buildPaginationModel(page, hrefFor, { label?, pageSizes?, pageParam?, pageSizeParam? })` from
+`@plainpages/plugin-api` in place of mapping `paginate()`'s result to `partials/pagination` by hand.
+`hrefFor(n)` is your list's URL on page n, and the rows-per-page form carries the same list state as
+the links. A list that renamed its params in `parseListQuery` passes the same names here.
+
+### A plugin can add links to the profile menu
+
+Declare `profileMenu: [{ href, label, icon?, …gate }]` in the manifest. Each entry names exactly one
+gate like a nav node, and shows above Sign out to a signed-in visitor who passes it. Discovery
+refuses an entry without an `href`, a `label`, or exactly one gate.
+
+### A plugin can version its own `/public/` files
+
+Wrap the href of a script, image or other file your own markup links in `assetHref("/public/<id>/…")` in a view,
+or `ctx.assetHref(…)` in a handler. The href gets the file's content hash, and the browser caches the
+file for a year instead of revalidating it every five minutes.
+
+### Discovery warns when a gate names a permission no plugin declares
+
+A route or nav node that gates on a permission no installed plugin declares now logs a boot warning
+naming the plugin and the permission. The admin screens offer only declared permissions, so nobody can
+be granted such a gate from them. Add the name to the plugin's `permissions` to silence the warning.
+
+### Discovery refuses a plugin with the id `error`
+
+`/error` is the page Kratos sends a failed self-service flow to, and a plugin named `error` would
+shadow it. Discovery now refuses that id at boot, like the other reserved ids. Rename such a plugin's
+folder before upgrading.
+
+### The admin's "group already exists" refusal is translated
+
+Creating a group whose name is taken shows the refusal in the page's language, not always in English.
+
+### A malformed URL variable's boot error no longer prints the value
+
+When a URL variable such as `PLUGIN_DB_URL`, `PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL` or `OTLP_ENDPOINT` can't be parsed,
+the boot error names the variable and not its value, so a DSN whose password breaks parsing doesn't
+put the password in the log.
+
+### A secret plugin setting's bad value stays out of the boot error
+
+When a `secret` setting's value fails validation, the boot error no longer prints it, so a malformed
+DSN doesn't put its password in the log.
+
+### The admin's recovery-code notice links to the recovery flow the code belongs to
+
+After an admin generates a recovery code for a user, the notice asks them to send the user both the
+code and its link. The link opens the recovery flow the code belongs to, where the user enters it.
+Before, the notice linked a new recovery flow at its email step, which doesn't accept the code.
+
+### A verification or recovery code pasted with whitespace around it is accepted
+
+The code field on the verification and recovery pages takes a code with spaces or tabs around it.
+Pasting a code from an email often adds them, and before, the browser refused the code. Those two
+forms now post to Plainpages, which trims the code and passes the form on to Kratos at
+`KRATOS_PUBLIC_URL`. A visitor who picked a language now keeps it through both flows.
+
+### A filter shows its selected and focused choice in browsers without `:has()`
+
+On Chromium below 105, Firefox below 121 and Safari below 15.4, a filter's segments and chips now show
+their native radio or checkbox, which marks the selected choice and takes the keyboard focus ring.
+Before, they showed neither. Newer browsers look as before.
+
+### The tests fail on a stylesheet feature the browser floor lacks
+
+`npm test` checks every stylesheet in `public/`, `examples/` and `plugins/` against Chromium 87,
+Safari 15 and Firefox 115: a feature one of them lacks fails it unless an `@supports` around it
+names that feature. Mount a plugin in `plugins/<id>/` to check its stylesheets. Pages render as
+before in every browser.
+
+### Every release reaches Docker Hub, and the Hub page has a short description
+
+Releases 0.4.1 to 0.4.20 were tagged in git but never published to Docker Hub or as semver tags in
+the Gitea registry; they are now, and every later release is. The Hub page gains a one-line
+description.
+
+### The admin example stops an administrator locking themselves out through a group
+
+On the Groups screen, unticking a permission on a group you are in, removing yourself (or a nested
+group you are in) from its members, or deleting the group is refused when it would take away a
+permission you don't hold directly. The page names the permissions, and another administrator can
+make the change. The check errs towards refusing: it also refuses when you would keep the permission
+through another group, or keep your membership another way.
+
+### The admin example titles a read-only user page "View user"
+
+A holder of `users:read` without `users:write` sees the user page titled "View user", with a "View"
+breadcrumb, instead of "Edit user".
+
+### Browsers cache stylesheets instead of downloading them on every page
+
+Every `/public/` URL the host renders carries `?v=<hash of the file>` and is cached for a year as
+immutable: the shell's stylesheets, favicon and logo, the `styles` a plugin passes to the shell, and
+the stylesheets of the standalone error and consent pages. A changed file gets a new hash, so
+browsers fetch it at once. A plugin names its stylesheets exactly as before. Any other `/public/` URL, such as a script
+a plugin's own markup links, is cached for five minutes, then revalidated with `ETag` or
+`Last-Modified`. A cache or CDN in front of Plainpages may now store `/public/` responses.
+
+### A language chosen on a sign-in link no longer drops an absolute return target
+
+`/login?return_to=<absolute URL>&locale=sv-SE` passed the visitor to the dashboard after sign-in and
+dropped the OAuth2 login challenge in `return_to`. The target now reaches Kratos, and the chosen
+language is lost across that round-trip instead.
+
+### The admin example refuses a permission save made from an out-of-date page
+
+Two administrators editing one user's or group's permissions no longer overwrite each other. The
+form carries a token for the grants it showed. A save that would change something, made after those
+grants changed, is refused with "These permissions changed while you had the page open", and the page
+shows the current grants. A POST with no token is refused the same way, so a script posting to
+`/auth-admin/users/:id/permissions` or `/auth-admin/groups/:name/permissions` must first read the token from the
+page's `baseline` field.
+
+### The admin example confirms a permission save and reports a partial one
+
+A save now lands on the page with "Permissions saved." On a user, a changed grant reaches the user's
+live sessions at once when the revocation denylist is on.
+
+### A read-only holder sees View, not Edit, on the admin example's users list
+
+A holder of `users:read` without `users:write` gets a "View" row action with an eye icon. The admin
+example's catalogs gain `admin.grants.saved`, `admin.grants.stale` and
+`admin.users.view`, so a translated catalog mounted under `locales/plugins/auth-admin/` must add them.
+
+### Every page carries a smaller icon sprite
+
+`i-chart`, `i-copy` and `i-download` are gone from the inlined icon sprite, so a plugin that
+referenced one now renders a blank icon. Nothing in the host or the example plugins used them. Pick
+another id from `views/partials/icons.ejs`, or inline your own SVG.
+
+### The README defines its terms and states its intended scale
+
+A new Glossary defines host, plugin, manifest, chrome, nav fragment, permission name, system plugin
+and denylist. Plugin dependencies also states the scale Plainpages is sized for: a handful of plugins
+per deployment.
+
+### The mobile nav stays reachable on engines without `:has()`
+
+At 860px and narrower, an engine without `:has()` (Chromium below 105, such as webOS TV 22 and 23,
+and Firefox below 121) hid the sidebar off-canvas with no way to open it, so the pages the nav links
+to could not be reached. Now the sidebar moves off-canvas, behind the hamburger, only where `:has()`
+works. Elsewhere it stays in the flow above the content and the hamburger is hidden.
+
+### The whole nav tree shows on engines without `:has()`
+
+On an engine without `:has()` (Chromium below 105, such as webOS TV 22 and 23, and Firefox below 121)
+every nested nav entry was hidden with nothing to open it. Now the tree folds only where `:has()`
+works and stays fully open elsewhere, with its toggles hidden. The theme switch, which also needs
+`:has()`, is hidden there.
+
+### Button and badge text meets 4.5:1 contrast
+
+The primary button and the current page button take their text colour from the new `--on-accent`
+token: white in light mode, near-black in dark mode, where white on the accent was 2.7:1. The
+light-mode success, warning and info badge text is darker. A plugin that overrides `--accent` or
+`--l-accent` should set `--l-on-accent` and `--d-on-accent` to match.
+
+### Unused auth stylesheet rules are gone
+
+`public/css/auth.css` no longer holds the `.auth-view` screen switch, `.tpl-*` preview controls,
+`.forgot-alert`, `.register-alert`, `.remember` and `.auth-foot`; no core view used them. A plugin
+view that did must carry its own rules.
+
+### Colours render on engines without `oklch()`
+
+The theme palette in `public/css/styles.css` is hex, not `oklch()`. On an engine older than
+Chromium 111 (Tizen 2024, webOS TV 24) `var(--accent)` was invalid, so the primary button was white
+text on no background. A plugin that sets a colour custom property, such as `--accent` or `--l-accent`,
+should use hex, `rgb()` or `hsl()` too.
+
+### One horizontal inset across the content pane
+
+The topbar, filter bar, pager, form page and empty-table message inset their content by `--pad-x`
+(12px), as table cells do, instead of 16px. A plugin that overrides `--pad-x` now moves all of them
+together.
+
+### Pages are not kept by a shared cache
+
+Every page and JSON response now carries `Cache-Control: private, no-store`, so a cache or reverse
+proxy in front of Plainpages can't store a signed-in page and serve it to the next visitor. A route
+whose page is the same for everyone can still set its own `cache-control` through
+`RouteResult.headers`; assets are unchanged.
+
+## 0.4.0
+
+**Breaking.** Set `apiVersion: "0.4.0"`. The app shell no longer bounds the content column, so a page
+that relied on filling it scrolls the document instead.
+
+### The document scrolls, and the chrome scrolls with it
+
+`.app` was a `100dvh` box with `overflow: hidden`, so a page was only reachable below the fold if its
+own wrapper was a flex child with `overflow-y: auto`. `.table-wrap` and `.shell-auth` were; nothing
+else was, and a long page in `.form-page` clipped everything past the window in every engine.
+
+Now the shell is `min-height: 100dvh` and nothing bounds the viewport. The sidebar and topbar scroll
+with the page, and keyboard paging, back/forward scroll restoration and find-in-page work without a
+page doing anything.
+
+The sticky `thead` on `data-table` goes with it: a header only sticks to a scrollport that moves, and
+there is no longer one. A plugin that wants a full-height pane owns that in its own stylesheet; the
+shell offers no opt-out, per the simplicity priority in `AGENTS.md`.
+
+### Upgrading a plugin
+
+1. Set `apiVersion: "0.4.0"`.
+2. A page that scrolled the whole window needs no change — it now scrolls the document.
+3. A page holding a region that filled the content column (`flex: 1 1 auto; min-height: 0` with its
+   own `overflow`) no longer gets a bounded column to fill, so that region grows and the page scrolls.
+   Either let it, or give the region its own height in the plugin's stylesheet.
+4. A `data-table` no longer scrolls its rows in a bounded region: the page scrolls, and the header
+   scrolls with it.
+
+The sidebar stretches the whole document, so on a long page its footer — theme, language, profile and
+**Sign out** — sits at the end of that page rather than the bottom of the screen.
+
+## 0.3.0
+
+**Breaking.** Set `apiVersion: "0.3.0"`, and name a gate on every route and nav node.
+
+### A session is a gate of its own
+
+`session: true` takes any signed-in user, with no grant to hold — for a page whose data is the
+visitor's own (their upstream account, their own tokens), where there is no distinction a permission
+could name. An anonymous visitor is bounced to `/login` with the page as `return_to`, exactly as a
+permission gate does.
+
+Every route and nav node now names **exactly one** of `public: true`, `session: true` or
+`permission: "<resource>:<action>"`, and a gate is spelled `true`:
+
+- Naming **none** is refused. It used to mean public, so a forgotten gate published a page; it now
+  fails the boot instead.
+- Naming **two** is refused, as before.
+- Spelling one anything but `true` is refused — `public: false` and `session: "yes"` both set no gate
+  while reading as if they set one.
+
+A section header gates nothing itself, so it takes `public: true` and lets each child decide; the
+host still drops a header whose children all filtered out.
+
+`Gate` is exported from `@plainpages/plugin-api`, and `Route` and `NavNode` extend it.
+
+### Filter bars take a multi-select
+
+The `filter-bar` partial gains a `multiselect` control — the same checkboxes on the same query
+parameter as `chips`, but behind a button once the list is too long to lay on the bar. Config is
+`{ name, legend?, note?, value?, options }`, and the panel says what a capped list left out.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- An identity carrying no email no longer yields a session at all. Login used to mint a JWT for one,
+  which every later request then rejected as anonymous — leaving the browser holding a dead cookie
+  and no way to tell why.
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Node 24.20.0.
+
+### Upgrading a plugin
+
+1. Set `apiVersion: "0.3.0"`.
+2. Give every route and nav node a gate. Anything that relied on omitting one was public — say
+   `public: true` outright.
+
+A page that scopes rows to the signed-in visitor should join on `ctx.user.id`. An email address is
+user-changeable and can be reassigned to someone else, who would then inherit the previous holder's
+rows. The reference plugin's new `/scheduling/mine` page shows the shape.

Dockerfile

@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
 # Node 24 runs TypeScript directly (type stripping) — no build step. Pinned exact tag.
-FROM node:24.18.1-alpine3.24
+FROM node:24.22.2-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"]

ci.sh

@@ -15,13 +15,17 @@ 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=$(
-		{ git diff --name-only "$base" HEAD && git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all | cut -c4-; } 2>/dev/null
+		{ 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' "$changed" | grep -qvE '\.md$'
@@ -49,6 +53,11 @@ docker compose build web
 step "Typecheck"
 docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm run typecheck
 
+# The specs import @playwright/test, which only the runner image installs, so they typecheck there
+# rather than in the web image. --no-deps skips web; the visual file just names the e2e service.
+step "Typecheck e2e-tests"
+docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml run --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" --rm --no-deps --build e2e npm run typecheck
+
 step "Unit tests"
 units=$(docker compose run --rm --no-deps web npm test 2>&1) || { echo "$units"; exit 1; }
 echo "$units" | grep -E '^. (tests|pass|fail) ' || true
@@ -56,13 +65,42 @@ echo "$units" | grep -E '^. (tests|pass|fail) ' || true
 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 "$1" run --build --rm e2e || rc=$?
+  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"; }
 }
@@ -78,7 +116,7 @@ e2e e2e-tests/compose.full.yml      # full browser flow: login (password + SSO),
 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 "${devstack_files[@]}" run --build --rm e2e || rc=$?
+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"; }
 

compose.override.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # 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
@@ -13,21 +17,39 @@ services:
       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" # backs the reference plugin once you copy it into plugins/
+      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
 
+  # 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 (SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM above points here). Stand-in for the customer's real service —
+  # 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 SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM at the real backend instead.
+  # stdlib-only, in-memory, no auth. Prod points PLUGIN_SETTING_SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM at the real backend instead.
   shifts-upstream:
-    image: node:24.18.1-alpine3.24
+    image: node:24.22.2-alpine3.24
     command: node /srv/server.ts
     restart: unless-stopped
     volumes:
@@ -36,7 +58,7 @@ 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:v1.30.6
+    image: axllent/mailpit:v1.33.1
     ports:
       - "8025:8025"
     restart: unless-stopped

compose.yml

@@ -17,10 +17,17 @@ services:
       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
+      TRUSTED_PROXIES: ${TRUSTED_PROXIES:-} # IPs/CIDRs of your reverse proxy; empty ⇒ X-Forwarded-For is ignored
     # Wait for the services the app talks to (kratos + keto + hydra for the OAuth2 login/
-    # consent handler) + the one-shot bootstrap (admin + JWKS seed).
+    # 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
@@ -30,17 +37,20 @@ services:
         condition: service_healthy
       hydra:
         condition: service_healthy
+      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.
+  # The stack's storage: one database per Ory service (init/init.sql), plus one per plugin that
-  # init/init.sql creates one database per service. Dev defaults below; supply
+  # 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}
@@ -127,16 +137,25 @@ 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
+      # Base permissions 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).
+      # permission names (so the reference plugin — and any drop-in — works out of the box).
-      ADMIN_ROLES: ${ADMIN_ROLES:-admin}
+      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/auth/bootstrap.ts

docs/ci-cd.md

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+# CI/CD
+
+Gitea Actions (`.gitea/workflows/`) runs the pipeline; the test job runs
+[`ci.sh`](../README.md#the-full-gate-one-command) — the exact gate you run locally:
+
+| Workflow | Trigger | Does |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `ci.yml` | push, any branch except `main` | the full gate (`bash ci.sh`, a no-op on a docs-only branch), then build + push the app image |
+| `release.yml` | push of a `vX.Y.Z` tag, or manual | check the tag against `HOST_API_VERSION`, re-tag that commit's image as `X.Y.Z`, `X.Y`, `latest` (plus `X` once major ≥ 1), sync those tags to Docker Hub; a second job publishes the Hub overview, and runs alone on a manual trigger |
+| `mirror.yml` | push to `main` or any tag, or manual | force-push `main` + tags (pruning deleted ones) to the [GitHub mirror](https://github.com/larvit/plainpages) |
+| `registry-cleanup.yml` | nightly cron, or manual | delete registry images that are neither release-tagged nor a branch head |
+| `renovate.yml` | nightly cron, or manual | open dependency-update PRs, automerge them once the gate is green, then cut a release tag for what merged |
+
+`main` is not re-tested on push — its commits are meant to arrive already green from a
+gated branch, so the status check to gate a merge on is `CI / full-gate (push)`.
+
+**Merge gate on `main`** (Gitea branch protection + repo merge settings, set via the API —
+no repo files involved): direct pushes are blocked, changes land via PR only, the
+`CI / full-gate (push)` status must be green (admins included), and the only merge style is
+**fast-forward-only** — history stays linear and `main`'s head is the exact commit hash of
+the merged branch, which is why the branch's push-triggered status carries over.
+
+**Container images** — after a green gate, `ci.yml` builds the app image and pushes it as
+`gitea.larvit.se/larvit/plainpages:<full commit hash>`. Because merges are fast-forward-only, the
+image for any `main` commit already exists from that commit's branch gate — build once, promote by
+re-tagging. The build runs inside the required gate, so a missing/expired token or a registry outage
+blocks **all** merges until restored; use a non-expiring token or track its expiry. Hash tags
+accumulate one image per gated push, so nightly `registry-cleanup.yml` prunes them
+([`registry-cleanup/select-versions.ts`](../registry-cleanup/select-versions.ts) defines what survives). Don't add a
+pattern-based org cleanup rule for this package — its age/count heuristics can't see branch heads or
+release tags and would delete images the workflow protects.
+
+**Releases** — pushing a semver git tag (`git tag v1.2.3 && git push origin v1.2.3`) runs
+`release.yml`, which pulls that commit's hash image and re-tags it `1.2.3`, `1.2`, `latest` and —
+once the major reaches `1` — `1`; nothing is rebuilt, so the released image is byte-identical to the
+gated one. While the major is `0` the bare-major tag is skipped, because a `0.x` minor is a contract
+break and a moving `:0` would carry one. It fails loud if no
+hash image exists — release tags must point at a commit that went through the gate. The same four
+tags sync to [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/larvit/plainpages), releases only.
+
+The [contract check](../README.md#contract-versioning) guards the tag before anything is published, refusing one
+whose `major.minor` disagrees with `HOST_API_VERSION` and naming the value to set.
+
+**The Docker Hub overview** is published by a separate `publish-overview` job from
+[`release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.md.tmpl`](../release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.md.tmpl), with
+`{{VERSION}}` rendered to the release, so the Plainpages tag it tells adopters to pull cannot go
+stale. The same job sets the page's short description. Its sidecar pins are Renovate-managed and gated against this repo's own compose files, so the
+quick start stays a topology CI has actually run.
+It is its own job for two reasons: the images are already pushed and irreversible by then, so a Hub
+outage leaves the promotion green and the images untouched; and the page has its own door — run the
+workflow manually with an `overview_version` input to republish it without cutting a release. That
+input goes through the same contract check as a tag: a non-semver value, or one whose `major.minor`
+disagrees with the tree being published, is refused. It uses
+the same `DOCKERHUB_TOKEN` the image push uses, which is why that token needs the **delete** scope.
+
+**GitHub mirror** — [github.com/larvit/plainpages](https://github.com/larvit/plainpages) is
+read-only; after every merge `mirror.yml` force-pushes `main` and all tags, overwriting any drift.
+Tags go with `--prune`, so deleting one here deletes it there on the next run, and a tag *created* on
+GitHub is swept away — cut releases on Gitea, never on the mirror. Branches other than `main` match
+no refspec and are left alone.
+
+**Dependency updates** — `renovate.yml` runs [Renovate](https://docs.renovatebot.com) nightly
+(self-hosted, this repo only) against [`renovate.json`](../renovate.json), bumping npm deps, Docker base
+images, Gitea action versions, and the image tags pinned inside workflow `run:` steps (a custom regex
+manager, so nothing pinned drifts unmanaged). Version-locked sets move together in one PR — the Ory
+images, and the Playwright runner + its browser image — and every bump keeps the **exact semver pin**
+exact. Each PR runs the normal gate on its `renovate/*` branch and automerges once
+`CI / full-gate (push)` is green; only a red gate needs a human.
+
+**Auto-release on dependency updates** — a second job in `renovate.yml` (`auto-release`) cuts **one**
+`vX.Y.Z` tag per run covering the renovate-bot commits merged to `main` since the last tag, and
+**skips** when the tip isn't a Renovate commit, nothing new merged, or nothing that merged carried a
+trailer — a dependency update that cannot reach the app releases nothing. Renovate stamps a
+`Release-Bump: <updateType>` trailer onto the updates that reach a running Plainpages — the rules in
+[`renovate.json`](../renovate.json) name them — and
+[`release-tooling/next-version.ts`](../release-tooling/next-version.ts) turns the highest one into the next
+version; pre-1.0 it never auto-crosses into `1.0.0`. Because the contract version *is* the release
+version, an update big enough to reach a **minor** stops the job rather than tagging: bump
+`HOST_API_VERSION` in a PR, merge, then tag by hand. Pre-1.0 that covers a dependency *major*, since
+`nextVersion` shifts it down to a `0.x` minor. `updateType` rates the *dependency's* own jump,
+so the trailer is an allowlist: an update outside those rules carries none and rides the next patch
+release instead of escalating it. It is **tag-only**: the tag hands off to
+`release.yml`, and is pushed with renovate-bot's PAT so that workflow actually fires (a tag pushed by
+the built-in Actions token wouldn't trigger it). `HOST_API_VERSION` is never touched here.
+
+### One-time CI setup
+
+| Actions var / secret | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| `DOCKER_REGISTRY_USER` (var) + `DOCKER_REGISTRY_TOKEN` (secret) | A Gitea account with package write in the `larvit` org, and its access token with `read:package` + `write:package`. Reused by `registry-cleanup.yml`. |
+| `DOCKERHUB_USER` (var) + `DOCKERHUB_TOKEN` (secret) | The public `larvit/plainpages` Docker Hub repo, and a **read/write/delete** token **scoped to that repository** (an org access token, or one on a dedicated account — an account-wide PAT reaches every repo under it, and delete is destructive). Delete is what publishing the overview needs; pushing images alone would not. |
+| `MIRROR_GITHUB_TOKEN` (secret) | A fine-grained PAT (Contents: read & write) for a GitHub machine account with write access to the mirror. Its `main` must not block force-pushes and must carry no tag protection, which would reject the prune. |
+| `RENOVATE_TOKEN` (secret) | The shared `renovate@larvit.se` bot's Gitea PAT, with write access to this repo. |
+| `RENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKEN` (secret) | A **scopeless** (read-only) github.com PAT, so Renovate's lookups of github.com-hosted deps run authenticated instead of tripping the anonymous 60-req/hour limit. |
+
+Gitea rejects secret names prefixed `GITEA_`/`GITHUB_`. Each job fails loud until its secret exists.
+The container package is **org-owned**, so it lists under `larvit/-/packages` — link it to the repo's
+Packages tab once: `POST /api/v1/packages/larvit/container/plainpages/-/link/plainpages`.
+
+**The runner** — register one
+[act_runner](https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner) in host mode labelled `docker-host`
+(`labels: ["docker-host:host"]`) on a machine with Docker Engine + Compose, git, and Node +
+github.com access. Runs must **never overlap** — the e2e stacks use fixed compose project names, the
+devstack suite uses host networking, and the workflows share the Docker daemon's registry login — so
+keep exactly one runner at capacity 1, with host ports 3000/4433 free.

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+# Comprehension history
+
+## 2026-10-31T00:16:02Z, PR #181 at 56ff987, against eed1050
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | same | better | same | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | same | better | same | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Locality: `public/css/styles.css:24` `:root`: the comment above the hex palette says why a colour must not be oklch(), where a colour is edited
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.test.ts:11` `declares no oklch() colour`: a colour edit that breaks the browser floor fails a test instead of an old engine
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Locality: `public/css/styles.css:24` `:root`: the comment above the hex palette says why a colour must not be oklch(), where a colour is edited
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.test.ts:11` `declares no oklch() colour`: a red gate explains the symptom in the file it lands on
+- Self-sufficiency: `README.md:1027` "Two browser floors": the colour rule now sits beside the floor rule
+
+## 2026-10-31T00:43:19Z, PR #182 at 19987ba, against 3e70768
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | better | better | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | better | better | better | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape, Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/auth.css:1` `auth.css`: about 120 lines of rules for markup no view renders are gone, so a cold reader no longer rules them out first
+- Locality, Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:31` `--on-accent`: the text colour on the accent is one token where four hard-coded `#fff` stood
+- Self-sufficiency, Navigation, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:287` `@supports not selector(:has(a))`: the nav comment, the partial's header and the rule all say the tree folds only where `:has()` works
+- Locality: `public/css/styles.css:241` `@supports selector(:has(a))`: the nav-fold behaviour now sits in two blocks about 50 lines apart, the second order-dependent; the comment names it
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape, Overall: `public/css/auth.css:1` `auth.css`: the false `:target` banner and the phantom state machine are gone, so every selector left names something a view emits
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `views/partials/nav-tree.ejs:4` `nav-tree.ejs`: the header and `public/css/styles.css:194` now say the branch folds only where `:has()` works; the old text was untrue on old engines
+- Locality, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:31` `--l-on-accent`: one token feeds `.btn-primary`, `.page-btn[aria-current]` and `.brand-mark`
+- Locality: `public/css/styles.css:287` `@supports not selector(:has(a))`: its `.nav-disc` rule sits about 85 lines from the nav rules it overrides, and `stylesheet-floor.test.ts` guards the order for `.theme-switch` only
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/ui/stylesheet-contrast.test.ts:29` `stylesheet-contrast.test.ts`: the darker badge colours now have a stated 4.5:1 reason someone can find
+
+## 2026-10-31T01:09:38Z, PR #183 at 0f20b38, against 364b047
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | same | same | same | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | same | better | same | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:1` `App Shell Template header`: the false `light-dark()` bullet is gone, so no reader has to work out which of two comments is lying
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:687` `@supports selector(:has(a))` in `@media (max-width: 860px)`: the guard and its comment say what an engine without `:has()` gets, without opening the CHANGELOG
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:5` `Architecture` header: the false `light-dark()` bullet is gone, so the header no longer contradicts the TOKENS comment
+- Locality, Self-sufficiency, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:687` `@supports selector(:has(a))` in `@media (max-width: 860px)`: the guard and its comment put the dependency of the open state on `:has()` where an editor would change it
+
+## 2026-10-31T01:19:49Z, PR #184 at af157c9, against bb8e6bc
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | same | same | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | better | better | same | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Navigation, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:12` `TOKENS` header comment: says all three theme rules need `:has()`, names the engines without it and points to the `@supports not selector(:has(a))` block, where the old text called the swaps "rock-solid"
+- Navigation, Self-sufficiency, Overall: `README.md:214` `## Glossary`: defines host, plugin, manifest, chrome, nav fragment, permission name, system plugin and denylist and links each to its home section
+- Self-sufficiency: `README.md:815` `Plugin dependencies`: the scale bullet states the plugin count the per-plugin dependency design assumes
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Locality, Overall: `public/css/styles.css:12` `1. TOKENS` comment: an editor of the theme mapping learns of the distant `:has()` fallback from the comment, where the old text said the swap could not fail
+- Navigation, Self-sufficiency, Overall: `README.md:214` `## Glossary`: a cold reader reaches "chrome" or "denylist" and their home sections in one hop
+- Self-sufficiency: `README.md:815` `### Plugin dependencies`: the scale bullet gives the plugin count the dependency design assumes
+
+## 2026-10-31T07:26:19Z, PR #187 at 10152d2, against b336dee
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | same | same | better | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | same | same | better | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `e2e-tests/mock-oidc.ts:18` `idToken`: the helpers' signatures now say what `res`, `nonce` and the `codes` map hold
+- Self-sufficiency: `e2e-tests/proxy.ts:14` `toKratos`: `(path: string): boolean` shows the routing predicate's contract
+- Self-sufficiency: `e2e-tests/tsconfig.json:2` `extends`: the specs are held to the host's strict flags, and the Dockerfile comment explains the path link
+- Shape, Overall: `src/ui/icons.ts:4` `ICON_NAMES`: the comment "the icons the UI actually references" is true again
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Overall: `e2e-tests/mock-oidc.ts:18` `b64`: typed helpers replace a trace through the `createServer` callback
+- Self-sufficiency: `e2e-tests/proxy.ts:14` `toKratos`: the predicate's contract is readable on its own line
+- Self-sufficiency: `e2e-tests/Dockerfile:11` `COPY tsconfig.json`: the relative `extends` path works in the checkout and in the image, and a comment names the link
+- Shape, Overall: `src/ui/icons.ts:4` `ICON_NAMES`: the registry matches its description, with no dead ids
+
+## 2026-10-31T12:28:23Z, PR #200 at 3592a30, against a8a9744
+
+Ruling: same
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | better | better | same | better |
+| Inherited architect | worse | worse | better | same | same |
+| Maintainability senior | same | same | better | same | same |
+| Junior A | better | better | better | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Locality, Shape: `src/ui/chrome.ts:74` `shellUser`: the deleted `buildShellContext` and `buildDashboardModel` left two shell models side by side, and now every page reads one `chrome`
+- Locality, Shape: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: a named unit shared by `flowPage` and `codeFlowSubmit`, where the old `flowPage` held the whole error ladder inline
+- Shape: `src/auth/kratos-public.ts:117` `submitFlow`: takes a flow type and id instead of an action URL, and the Referer quirk is explained where it applies
+- Locality: `src/http/static.ts:93` `versioned`: reads the module-level `hashes` map, so an asset href depends on what an earlier request hashed
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:30` `floorViolations`: a 249-line regex walker that only tests use sits in `src/ui/` beside runtime modules, though the README now points straight at it
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Navigation: `public/css/styles.css:25` `:root`: the old comment next to the palette answered the 3am question and the new text drops it
+- Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:1` `floorViolations`: its header never says an unsupported value in a custom property blanks every `var()` reading it, so a cold reader walks the regex walker to find the cause
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:12` `import`: test-only tooling that pulls a devDependency sits beside runtime modules and is missing from the README file map
+- Locality: `src/http/static.ts:64` `hashes`: a module-level map shared by every `publicAssets()` instance makes a fresh href depend on request history elsewhere
+- Locality: `src/http/app.ts:188` `renderPage`: `assetHref` is appended last at three render sites, and only a comment keeps a fourth from emitting unversioned hrefs
+- Shape: `src/ui/chrome.ts:74` `shellUser`: removes the second shell model that duplicated `PageChrome`
+- Shape: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: one named unit shared by `flowPage` and `codeFlowSubmit`, each handler reads in a screen
+
+Maintainability senior, decided by:
+
+- Shape, Locality: `src/ui/chrome.ts:74` `shellUser`: the deleted `ShellModel` left two shapes for the same chrome, and now the shell has one input and one builder
+- Shape, Locality: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: the old `flowPage` mixed about 60 lines of error mapping with `return_to` handling, and now `flowReturnTo` and `flowFailure` read on their own
+- Locality: `src/http/static.ts:64` `hashes`: a hidden module-level cache filled by two readers, and `assetHref` is merged by hand at three render sites
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a 249-line regex walker that only a test uses sits among runtime view modules
+
+Junior A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Self-sufficiency: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:1` `floorViolations`: the README's "Two browser floors" points here and the header lists what is checked, where the base had a prose rule and a hand-written regex test
+- Shape, Locality: `src/ui/chrome.ts:74` `shellUser`: one shell view model replaces `ShellModel` beside `PageChrome`, and its helpers sit beside their only caller
+- Shape, Locality: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: named units replace about 60 inline lines in `flowPage`, and `codeFlowSubmit` reuses them
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/kratos-admin.ts:68` `createRecoveryCode`: the comment no longer claims Kratos mails the link
+- Locality: `src/http/static.ts:64` `hashes`: a module-level mutable map backs asset versioning, hidden state the base didn't have
+
+## 2026-10-31T12:30:19Z, PR #200 at 3592a30
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Inherited architect | 7 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 7.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 7.00 | 5.88 | 6.25 | 6.75 | 6.50 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a regex-built `@supports` evaluator whose header says what it enforces but not how it decides a guard names a feature
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: about 165 lines in one closure where each stage reads state an earlier stage set
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: its 4xx branches can't fire from `codeFlowSubmit` because `submitFlow` throws only on 5xx, and the call site doesn't say so
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a hand-written CSS walker with three regex passes per declaration, opaque at line level
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: a fixed order of about 15 stages that nothing in the code enforces
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `readPermissions`: the comment names the tuple `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+- Locality: `src/auth/routes.ts:121` `codeFlowSubmit`: one idea split across `flow-view.ts`, `routes.ts` and `kratos-public.ts`
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: a 167-line closure of complexity 43 whose order across closure state nothing names as a contract
+- Self-sufficiency, Locality: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: on the submit path every 4xx branch is dead and nothing at the call site says which can fire
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: the one module whose correctness can't be checked by reading
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:31` `permissionTuple`: the comment says `#members` while the code writes `granted`
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/auth/flow-view.ts:152` `formAction`: the flow-to-route mapping has two homes, here and `routes.ts`, so a code flow's route and its form target are decided in different files
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:30` `floorViolations`: a CSS linter that never runs at runtime sits among the runtime view helpers
+- Locality, Shape: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: a level of its own inside `createApp`
+- Shape: `src/http/builtin-routes.ts:23` `matchBuiltinRoute`: holds no routes, because the table is inline in `app.ts:176` and `buildAuthRoutes`
+
+## 2026-10-31T12:30:27Z, PR #200 rerun at 3592a30
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7 | 5.5 | 6 | 6.5 | 6 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7 | 5.5 | 6 | 6.5 | 6 |
+| Inherited architect | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 7.00 | 5.75 | 6.13 | 6.50 | 6.25 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a regex-built CSS walker that stayed opaque without tracing it by hand
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: about 320 lines of interdependent locals, with a fixed stage order that only a top-to-bottom read shows
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `completeLogin`: the header says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: about 165 lines of order-dependent stages, with `renderPage` reassigned partway
+- Locality, Overall: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: how it decides a guard names a feature stayed opaque
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:31` `seedPermissions`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: about 167 lines and complexity 43 in a fixed order nobody states
+- Locality, Overall: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a hand-rolled regex CSS walker, partly opaque
+- Locality, Shape: `src/plugin-host/plugin.ts:126` `RESERVED_PLUGIN_IDS`: a hand-kept mirror of the host's path segments that has already drifted, as it omits `error`
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `readPermissions`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: the most concerns and the highest complexity, already grandfathered, and every request-wide concern lands in it
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:15` `FLOOR`: the 3am rule's home is a test-only module under `ui/`
+- Shape: `src/auth/routes.ts:275` `buildAuthRoutes`: the 19-module `src/auth/` mixes six concerns, and this file with `flow-view.ts` is where the next flow lands
+
+## 2026-10-31T13:06:16Z, PR #202 at 8e73d16
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Inherited architect | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 6.88 | 6.00 | 6.13 | 6.50 | 6.50 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: about 165 lines in a fixed order that only a top-to-bottom read shows
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `readPermissions`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/settings.ts:35` `SettingsOf`: nested conditional types that need the charter's rule to decode
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: complexity 43 inside the 318-line `createApp` closure, and `switchBase` reads `builtinRoutes` declared 60 lines later
+- Locality, Shape: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a regex CSS walker whose how stayed opaque
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:31` `permissionTuple`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: 167 lines and complexity 43 mixing twelve concerns whose order no type expresses
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a hand-rolled regex CSS scanner traced by hand
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/gate.ts:13` `allows`: an empty gate is allowed, and the reason lives only in AGENTS.md
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: the largest hub, where every request-wide concern lands
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/auth/routes.ts:275` `buildAuthRoutes`: the 19-module `src/auth/` mixes four concerns with no sub-folder
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:30` `floorViolations`: test tooling sits among the runtime UI modules
+
+## 2026-10-31T13:06:21Z, PR #202 rerun at 8e73d16
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7 | 5.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6.5 |
+| Inherited architect | 7 | 5.5 | 6 | 7 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 7.00 | 5.75 | 6.00 | 6.25 | 6.38 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: closures over request state in a 318-line `createApp`, and it stayed opaque
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: the Kratos status semantics live outside the repo
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:45` `readPermissions`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: one pipeline whose steps mutate what later steps read
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: traced by hand
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/login.ts:45` `readPermissions`: the comment says `#members` where the code uses `granted`
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: an unstated, load-bearing step order in shared closure state
+- Locality: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:119` `positive`: a hand-rolled CSS scanner built on lookbehind regexes
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:31` `permissionTuple`: the comment is false on the security-relevant path
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:185` `handleRequest`: stage order lives only in line order, in a grandfathered complexity-43 function
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/auth/routes.ts:275` `buildAuthRoutes`: 19 flat modules in `src/auth/`, and the next flow lands here
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.ts:15` `FLOOR`: the 3am rule's home is a test-only module under `ui/`
+
+## 2026-11-08T13:22:47Z, PR #214 at 84368ea, against c2389f8
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | same | better | better | better |
+| Inherited architect | better | same | better | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape, Overall: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:1` `floorViolations`: test-only modules no longer sit beside runtime code in `ui/` and `http/`, and `AGENTS.md:77` names the folder
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `readPermissions`: the comment now names `#granted`, which the code queries
+- Shape: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: grouping and the per-group decision are separate named units
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:10` file header: says why a custom property's value is checked for functions and units
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/plugin.ts:234` `undeclaredGates`: its comment says why an undeclared gate matters
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Self-sufficiency, Shape, Overall: `src/auth/login.ts:40` `readPermissions`: the comment now names the relation the code queries
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:31` `permissionTuple`: the contradicting comment is gone
+- Navigation: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:1` `floorViolations`: the folder is named in AGENTS.md and the README file map
+- Shape: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: one loop split into `parenGroups`, `Group` and `keepGroup`
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:117` `codeFlowSubmit`: a comment says which `flowFailure` branch can fire there
+
+## 2026-11-08T13:44:57Z, PR #215 at 3a3bd77, against 01f368d
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | better | better | same | better |
+| Inherited architect | better | better | better | better | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Locality, Shape: `src/ui/paginate.ts:68` `buildPaginationModel`: the rows form's hidden inputs are read off hrefFor, so form and links can't drift, where each page used to list them by hand
+- Shape, Navigation: `examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.ts:140` `buildUsersListModel`: three near-identical listPagination copies become one call each to a named helper
+- Locality: `src/http/app.ts:271` `shared`: ctx and contextFor spread one option object instead of spelling the same list twice
+- Shape: `src/ui/paginate.ts:1` header: names both steps truthfully, and PaginationModel types the partial's input
+- Navigation: `src/http/context.ts:28` `RequestContext.assetHref`: versioning a plugin's asset is a documented contract member, not a host-internal local
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Shape, Locality, Navigation: `src/ui/paginate.ts:68` `buildPaginationModel`: one typed function in the module owning the page math replaces three hand-written copies in the example plugins
+- Locality: `examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.ts:188` `listPagination`: the older version built the hidden inputs field by field, apart from listHref; the round trip through new URL is a little clever, paid for by its comment
+- Locality, Shape: `src/http/app.ts:271` `shared`: the two buildContext calls differ only in the translator and params
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/http/context.ts:28` `RequestContext.assetHref`: the contract field says on the spot what it does and how it differs from the view local
+- Self-sufficiency: `README.md:1050` pagination sketch: URL to partial in five lines, with the param-renaming rule
+
+## 2026-11-08T14:10:47Z, PR #216 at bb134a3, against 6ca63c6
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | same | better | same | better |
+| Inherited architect | same | better | better | same | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/http/request-tracking.ts:9` `trackRequest`: the per-request logger, span and access line now live in a named module instead of the tail of the 318-line `createApp`
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/http/request-fields.ts:33` `clientAddress`: the caller-IP and X-Forwarded-For rule has its own pure function in a file named for it
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Locality, Shape: `src/http/request-tracking.ts:9` `trackRequest`: the exactly-once finalize and close listener are one named unit, changeable without reading `createApp`'s other state
+- Locality, Shape: `src/http/request-fields.ts:33` `clientAddress`: pure function of peer, header and list, with the reasons for reading from the right beside it
+
+## 2026-11-08T18:34:54Z, PR #220 at 1b53b01, against 14a07dd
+
+Ruling: same
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | same | same | same | same | same |
+| Inherited architect | same | same | worse | same | same |
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Shape: `views/partials/shell.ejs:74` `user.menu`: a third meaning of `menu` beside the sidebar switch at line 19 and the `.menu` popover class
+- Shape: `src/plugin-host/plugin.ts:9` `import type { ProfileMenuEntry }`: a second contract type defined under `ui/`, with a type-only import cycle through `chrome.ts`
+
+## 2026-11-08T19:50:52Z, PR #223 at f8a6119, against b7e9780
+
+Ruling: better
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | better | better | same | better |
+| Inherited architect | better | better | better | same | better |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Locality, Shape: `src/http/app.ts:183` `handleRequest`: a 20-line list of named stages replaces a 170-line closure
+- Locality: `src/http/app.ts:213` `Host`: 19 fields passed to every stage, broader than any stage needs
+- Shape, Navigation: `src/ui/chrome.ts:29` `ShellUser.profileLinks`: the name says what the field holds
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/plugin-host/conflicts.ts:15` `findConflicts`: collision rules have their own file
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Navigation: `src/http/app.ts:183` `handleRequest`: named stages replace one 165-line closure
+- Locality: `src/http/app.ts:213` `Host`: a 19-field bag wider than any stage needs
+- Shape: `src/ui/chrome.ts:29` `ShellUser.profileLinks`: no longer collides with `MenuConfig` and the `menu` partial
+- Navigation: `.gitea/workflows/release.yml:60` error pointer: names `docs/ci-cd.md`, one hop from the failure
+
+## 2026-11-08T21:24:33Z, PR #228 at ed48c5a
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7.5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6.5 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7.5 | 6.5 | 7 | 6.5 | 7 |
+| Inherited architect | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 7.00 | 6.13 | 6.75 | 6.75 | 6.63 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:67` `createApp`: a closure bag whose order matters; `switchBase` uses `builtinRoutes` declared further down
+- Locality, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:274` `prepareRequest`: builds the context, the factory and the memoized chrome together, and every page path must remember to set the CSRF cookie
+- Locality, Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:285` `lostToSelf`: the self-lockout rule is spread over four call sites and no single place states it
+- Shape, Overall: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-grants.ts:99` `buildPermissionPicker`: checked, inherited, read-only and undeclared rows interact and need a truth table
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:45` `flowReturnTo`: locale and return-to inputs interact, and no table gives the result per input
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: four Kratos error branches that need Ory knowledge the repo doesn't hold
+- Locality: `src/ui/chrome.ts:55` `buildPluginChrome`: the locale rule is put into effect in three places with no single owner
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/router.ts:4` header: promises order-independent specificity, but ties fall to discovery order
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:285` `lostToSelf`: needs Keto's transitive group resolution rebuilt by hand, and over-reports
+- Shape, Locality: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:435` `groupsDelete`: deletes grants one at a time, so it can stop part-way
+- Shape, Overall: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-grants.ts:99` `buildPermissionPicker`: four overlapping ideas; `checked` means direct or effective
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: Kratos status codes map to different outcomes and need outside knowledge
+- Shape, Locality: `src/http/app.ts:183` `handleRequest`: the 19-field `Host` bag and the state threaded between stages
+- Shape: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: a hand-rolled parser for `@supports` conditions
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/settings.ts:35` `ValueOfDecl`: type-level inference with a `const` generic
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/jwt-middleware.ts:75` `verifyToken`: a denylisted token is thrown as expired so it gets re-minted
+- Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/plugin.ts:22` `on`: each write-intent GET states its `"write"` override in the route table and in the handler
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Overall: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:285` `lostToSelf`: the self-lockout guards rebuild Keto's transitive membership and no sentence states the invariant
+- Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:67` `createApp`: a long closure factory that is safe to read but not safe to change
+- Shape, Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-grants.ts:99` `buildPermissionPicker`: direct, effective and undeclared grant sets with a staleness token on top
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/settings.ts:35` `ValueOfDecl`: type-level inference whose comments say what it does, not how
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:45` `flowFailure`: a matrix of Kratos statuses and flow states
+- Locality: `src/auth/jwks.ts:68` `cachingJwks`: subtle cache state, and the denylist reuses the `expired` flag
+- Shape: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: a hand-written parser for `@supports` conditions
+- Locality: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:86` `seedAdmin`: calls Kratos and Keto with raw fetch instead of the client modules
+- Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/views/partials/group-detail-body.ejs:2` locals header: documents `identity` and `del`, omits `canWrite` and `permissions`
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Navigation, Overall: `src/auth/routes.ts:1` `src/auth`: 19 modules holding sessions, Ory clients, flows, the OAuth2 provider and one-shot CLIs
+- Navigation: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:1` `bootstrap.ts`: a one-shot process that also provisions plugin storage, placed under auth
+- Navigation, Locality: `src/ui/chrome.ts:55` `buildPluginChrome`: builds the chrome for every page, the host's own included
+- Navigation: `views/index.ejs:1` `index.ejs`: the built-in /dashboard, and `home.ejs` is "/", and neither filename says so
+- Locality: `public/css/styles.css:326` `.btn-primary`: one visual fact spans the partial, the rule, the tokens and the floor policy in `src/test-tooling/`
+- Shape, Locality: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:113` `admin-groups.ts`: pure view models, Keto queries, lockout policy and handlers in one 463-line file
+- Shape: `src/http/app.ts:213` `Host`: a 19-field bag that every cross-cutting feature edits
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/system.ts:1` header: calls the built-in admin screens the reference consumer, but they are a drop-in plugin
+
+## 2026-11-08T21:30:30Z, PR #228 rerun at 0727d15
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Junior A | 7.5 | 6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mid A | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 6.5 |
+| Maintainability senior | 7.5 | 6.5 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
+| Inherited architect | 7 | 6.5 | 6 | 7.5 | 6.5 |
+| Mean | 7.25 | 6.25 | 6.50 | 7.00 | 6.63 |
+
+Junior A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:274` `prepareRequest`: a 19-field `Host` bag and a twice-memoized chrome threaded through one closure, and two return conventions (send and return null, or return a result)
+- Locality, Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:285` `lostToSelf`: the self-lockout rule differs from the users side and nothing says whether that is deliberate
+- Shape, Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-groups.ts:18` `LIST_FETCH_SIZE`: the comment says a Keto page but the call is Kratos `listIdentities`
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: branches on Kratos status and body text that need Ory knowledge
+- Shape, Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/jwt-middleware.ts:75` `verifyToken`: a revoked token is reported as expired, with the effect in another file
+- Locality: `src/i18n/load.ts:43` `loadI18n`: four catalog sources kept apart with a nested spread on one line
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/server.ts:25` boot order: deleting `PLUGIN_DB_SECRET` is order-dependent and its reason sits in the decision log
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/system.ts:1` header: calls the built-in admin screens the reference consumer
+
+Mid A, hardest first:
+
+- Locality, Shape, Overall: `src/http/app.ts:274` `prepareRequest`: the request order lives only in the sequence of a long closure, and `serveHome` skips `sendResult`
+- Shape: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: a hand-written, regex-heavy reader of `@supports` conditions
+- Locality: `src/auth/jwt-middleware.ts:75` `verifyToken`: revocation reported as expired works only through `resolveUser` in another file
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: Kratos statuses that need outside knowledge
+- Locality: `src/auth/jwks.ts:68` `cachingJwks`: four interacting behaviours in one closure
+- Shape: `src/i18n/load.ts:43` `loadI18n`: merges four catalog sources, with the chain order described in two files
+- Locality: `src/i18n/locale.ts:81` `chosenLocale`: infers an explicit choice from the output of a URL builder
+- Shape, Self-sufficiency: `examples/plugins/scheduling/plugin.ts:37` header: says "Roles" and `<id>:<action>` where the project has neither
+- Self-sufficiency: `compose.yml:166` comment: says consent comes next, but `src/auth/oauth-consent.ts` exists
+
+Maintainability senior, hardest first:
+
+- Shape, Overall: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:122` `positive`: a regex-driven mini-parser whose header states the rules but not how the helpers carry them
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/routes.ts:58` `flowFailure`: five branches that assume Kratos' error vocabulary
+- Locality: `src/http/app.ts:274` `prepareRequest`: where the language picker points after a POST is spread over four units in three files
+- Shape: `src/i18n/load.ts:43` `loadI18n`: three catalog sets, each with its own baseline, and a nested spread
+- Locality: `src/auth/jwt-middleware.ts:84` `verifyToken`: the denylist travels as `expired`, so `resolveSession` can't show it
+- Shape: `src/ui/chrome.ts:55` `buildPluginChrome`: labels are translated twice and `markCurrent` mutates the nodes
+- Locality, Shape: `examples/plugins/auth-admin/admin-users.ts:348` `usersPermissions`: the stale-page, self-revoke and diff guards interact across two files, and `pickerOrNothing`'s promise is broken on the self-delete paths
+- Shape: `src/plugin-host/router.ts:4` header: promises order-independent specificity, but ties fall to discovery order
+
+Inherited architect, would restructure first:
+
+- Shape, Navigation, Overall: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:1` `src/auth`: 19 modules across the session, Kratos flows, OAuth2 and a second process entrypoint
+- Navigation, Self-sufficiency: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:1` header: lists the JWKS, admin and Keto steps but not the plugin storage step, and the file reads the environment outside `config.ts`
+- Shape, Navigation: `views/index.ejs:1` `index.ejs`: the dashboard, with `home.ejs` as the landing page, and neither name says so
+- Shape: `src/ui/chrome.ts:55` `buildPluginChrome`: builds the chrome for every page, not only plugin pages
+- Locality, Navigation: `src/test-tooling/stylesheet-floor.ts:10` header: the custom-property footgun sits in test tooling instead of beside the tokens at `public/css/styles.css:9`
+- Locality: `src/auth/bootstrap.ts:170` `provisionPluginStorage`: plugin storage lives in three places, across `storage.ts`, `storage-provisioning.ts` and `bootstrap.ts`
+- Locality, Shape: `src/http/app.ts:183` `handleRequest`: every new manifest field or slot adds a stage here and a field to `Host`
+- Self-sufficiency: `src/plugin-host/system.ts:1` header: calls the built-in admin screens the reference consumer

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+# Decisions
+
+"Goal N" is README → Goals. "Code health" is the goal every project shares: the code is easy to
+understand and change safely.
+
+## `src/` is grouped by concern, and the core ships no domain screens
+
+2026-06-24, the maintainer. Code health and goal 3. Valid while each concern folder stays one a
+reader can name.
+
+The folders are `http/`, `auth/`, `i18n/`, `plugin-host/`, `ui/`, and `test-tooling/` (modules only
+tests import), 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. Even the admin GUI
+is a drop-in plugin (`examples/plugins/auth-admin/`).
+
+## Plugins and config import the host only through the two barrels
+
+2026-08-17, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while plugin authors typecheck against a host tree rather
+than a published package.
+
+`@plainpages/plugin-api` → `plugin-api/index.ts` → `src/plugin-host/plugin-api.ts`, and
+`#menu-config` → `src/ui/menu-config.ts`; never a relative `../../src/*` path. These two barrels are
+the whole contract surface, so don't "fix" either back to a relative path.
+
+## The Ory client types are contract-visible through the barrel
+
+2026-07-02, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while plugins get Ory admin clients through `ctx.system`.
+
+`@plainpages/plugin-api` re-exports `KratosAdmin`, `KetoClient`, `HydraAdmin`, their DTOs and their
+error classes. Changing those shapes needs a major `apiVersion` bump, not a free refactor.
+
+## The barrel is a package, so a plugin folder may carry its own `package.json`
+
+2026-08-17, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while plugins may depend on npm packages (README → Plugin
+dependencies).
+
+The Dockerfile links the barrel 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. `plugin-api.test.ts` guards this by asserting both paths reach one module.
+
+## Plugin storage hands over credentials, not a client
+
+2026-08-18, the maintainer. Goals 3 and 7. Valid while the host stays stateless (AGENTS.md →
+priority 2).
+
+README → Plugin storage describes the contract. The host takes `postgres` only 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 this invisibly. The driver 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 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).
+- 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. That is incidental, not a packaging promise: a plugin must still depend on its
+own driver.
+
+## Plugin settings are declared, not discovered
+
+2026-08-23, the maintainer. Goals 7 and 10. Valid while settings reach plugins through the
+environment (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_`: 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.
+  `findConflicts` (`plugin-host/conflicts.ts`) catches the residual cross-plugin collision.
+- `required` and `default` are mutually exclusive. That lets `SettingsOf` type a declared key as
+  present rather than `T | undefined`, so no plugin author casts.
+- 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, as an orphan database does.
+
+## The trust boundary is the `web` process, not the plugin
+
+2026-08-19, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while plugins are operator-installed code, not third-party
+uploads.
+
+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. This follows AGENTS.md → priority 7:
+crash-isolation is a non-goal.
+
+`server.ts` still deletes the secret from `process.env` right after `loadConfig`, before discovery
+imports any plugin module. That ordering is the whole point: move the line earlier if anything,
+never later.
+
+## `ory/postgres/init/init.sql` is the only home for the Ory databases' ACL
+
+2026-08-19, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while Ory's databases are created by Postgres' first
+init.
+
+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. It also hard-fails whenever `PLUGIN_DB_ADMIN_URL` names a
+server with no `kratos`. The script 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, and a deployed
+install needs a migration.
+
+## `bootstrap.ts` stays under `src/auth/`
+
+2026-08-19, the maintainer. Code health. Valid until a third seeding concern lands.
+
+It provisions plugin databases as well as seeding Ory, but 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.
+
+## `BootContext.storage` keeps all six credential fields, and there is no `onShutdown` hook
+
+2026-08-19, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while no plugin needs an orderly drain of its pools.
+
+Removing any field from the context costs a major bump, so all six stay. Adding one costs only a
+minor, so the context otherwise gains a field only when a plugin needs it. Pools handed to a plugin
+are reaped on process exit.
+
+## `config/` is a plain dir with no `package.json` of its own
+
+2026-07-01, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while an operator's menu override needs no dependencies.
+
+With a `package.json` there, `#menu-config` resolves against it instead and boot fails loud. If the
+override ever needs dependencies, `config/` needs the package treatment `plugins/` has.
+
+## A plugin `package.json` without `"type": "module"` is refused, not warned
+
+2026-08-18, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while nothing is installed in the wild.
+
+Refusing is the safe direction: refuse→warn relaxes freely, while warn→refuse breaks installed
+plugins. Allowing it would cost only a warning and a re-parse per file, not a break: Node detects
+module syntax, so even a `.js` helper loads. The cost of refusing is that an operator on a read-only
+third-party mount cannot apply the remedy.
+
+## `examples/` mirrors the drop-in mount dirs
+
+2026-07-01, the maintainer. Goal 9. Valid while the examples are meant to be copied in unchanged.
+
+`examples/plugins/<id>/` copies to `plugins/<id>/`, and `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 or config into
+the root mount dirs: they ship empty.
+
+## `ctx.chrome` is lazily memoized, never built unconditionally
+
+2026-06-23, the maintainer. Goal 8. Valid while the public landing (`/`) renders without I/O.
+
+Don't 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
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while each plugin has its own translator.
+
+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
+
+2026-06-23, the maintainer. Goal 3. Valid while Kratos owns the recovery and verification flows.
+
+`web` never touches SMTP. Mail is customized through Kratos' `courier.template_override_path`.
+
+## The vocabulary is `User` → `Group` → `Permission`, and there is no `Role`
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while Keto holds no namespace of its own.
+
+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, and
+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>`, enforced at discovery
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while permissions are named by plugin authors.
+
+Examples: `scheduling:read`, `users:write`. A bare word names who someone is (a role), and roles are
+groups here. `shapeError` checks every route, nav and profile-menu `permission`, and every declared
+name, with `isValidPermissionName` (`plugin-host/plugin.ts`). A bad name refuses the boot like any
+other manifest rule. The check is not left to the admin GUI, which an operator removes by not
+copying it in.
+
+## Permission names are authored in plugin code; only grants live in Keto
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 2. Valid while the admin screens offer only declared names.
+
+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 there is 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 is not offered as a checkbox, and is never revoked by an unrelated save: the picker only
+speaks for what it showed. A plugin may still gate on such a name, so it can be live. The user's or
+group's page lists such a direct grant separately, each with its own Remove button.
+
+## A permission's `<resource>` is global, not plugin-scoped
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while cross-plugin sharing of permissions is wanted.
+
+Hence `oauth2-clients`, not `clients`. Users are the host's, and plugins share them. The cost is
+that collision-freedom is a convention rather than structural; the alternative penalizes the
+sharing case.
+
+## Declaring a permission stays optional
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while plugins may share a permission.
+
+Mandatory declaration would let `findConflicts` see every overlap, but it would then warn on exactly
+the legitimate sharing case. Shape is enforced; declaration is not.
+
+## `ADMIN_PERMISSIONS` defaults to empty, and an unusable value is dropped with a warning
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 10. Valid while `bootstrap` is the only writer of grants.
+
+Fail-loud belongs at the manifest boundary, where a developer authored the mistake. `bootstrap`
+gates `web`, so refusing operator env would take 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.
+
+## `actionForMethod` is plugin-local and stays out of `@plainpages/plugin-api`
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while route tables name their permission per route.
+
+Inside the auth-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, and a route table must answer "what does this need?" on its own.
+
+## A gate is one of `public`, `session` or `permission`, named exactly once
+
+2026-09-02, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while routes and nav nodes are declared in plugin
+manifests.
+
+A route or nav node names exactly one gate. Discovery refuses none, two, and a flag spelled anything
+but `true`, so a forgotten gate fails the boot rather than publishing a page. `src/auth/gate.ts` is
+the one home of the rule that the plugin router, the host's own route table and the menu all read.
+The rule binds manifests only; the comment on `allows` says why a node without a gate passes it.
+
+`session` exists because a plugin whose data is the visitor's own (their upstream account, their own
+tokens) has no distinction a permission could name. The alternative, granting every newly
+registered user a permission, couples the identity lifecycle to a Keto write that nothing retries
+when it fails. A page scoped to "mine" joins on `ctx.user.id`, never the email: an address is
+user-changeable and can be reassigned to someone who would then inherit the previous holder's rows.
+
+## The reference plugin's two shift pages duplicate a view model and markup
+
+2026-09-02, the maintainer. Goal 9. Valid while `examples/plugins/scheduling` stays a teaching
+artifact rather than a maintained product.
+
+Each page then reads top to bottom on its own, and an example rarely changes, so the two copies cost
+little.
+
+## A `:read`-only holder is never shown a write affordance
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 2. Valid while the admin GUI splits `:read` from `:write`.
+
+The list and detail models carry `canWrite`, and the views drop create, save, delete, add and
+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`.
+
+Three guards go with it:
+
+- You cannot revoke your own direct grants, since undoing that self-lockout needs a `curl` against
+  Keto.
+- A permission held through a group renders ticked but disabled, because unticked would state the
+  opposite of the truth.
+- Unticking a permission on a group you are in, removing yourself (or a nested group you are in)
+  from its members, or deleting the group is refused when you would lose a permission you don't hold
+  directly. Undoing that self-lockout would need a `curl` against Keto too.
+
+## `users:write` and `groups:write` each amount to full administrative access
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 2. Valid while the admin GUI splits its write permissions by
+resource.
+
+`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.
+
+## The CSRF token is unbound to the session
+
+2026-10-30, the maintainer. Goal 5. Valid while the session cookie stays `SameSite=Lax` or stricter.
+
+Leaving the token unbound is the usual cost of a signed double-submit token (`src/auth/csrf.ts`;
+README → Security model). `SameSite=Lax` and HSTS cover that cost.
+
+## Plainpages says "user" everywhere, where Ory says "identity"
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while Kratos' wire shape names the DTO `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.
+
+## The locale lives in the URL, never in a cookie
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 5. Valid while a page's language should show in its address.
+
+The host resolves the locale from `?locale=sv-SE`, then `Accept-Language`, then `en-US`. When the
+URL asked for a locale, 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, so a plugin doesn't have to
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 1. Valid while the locale lives in the URL.
+
+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
+the locale 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 the locale 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 the locale is the Kratos sign-in POST, to an
+absolute off-site URL.
+
+## `locale` and the i18n view locals are reserved by the host
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while the locale lives in the URL.
+
+`locale` is in `parseListQuery`'s reserved set, so a localized list page doesn't hand a plugin a
+phantom `locale` filter. The view locals `t`, `locale`, `locales`, `localeHref`, `localeParam`,
+`localeSwitch`, `dir` and `assetHref` are 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
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while catalogs are TypeScript modules loaded at boot.
+
+Every locale is compared against its set's `en-US`: keys, string-vs-plural kind, and the plural
+categories `Intl.PluralRules` requires. A mismatch stops startup. A plugin may ship fewer locales
+than the host, with its strings falling back to `en-US` per key, but never one the host lacks.
+
+## `locales/` at the repo root is a drop-in mount
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while adding a language must not require forking the
+image.
+
+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. 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
+
+2026-08-04, the maintainer. Goal 2. Valid while the picker is expected on literally every page; if
+that softens, hiding it after a POST is simpler.
+
+A POST-rendered URL often answers no GET (`POST /auth-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 `/`. The accepted cost: switching language there leaves that POST's own result behind.
+
+## An unknown translation key renders as itself
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while labels may be either a key or plain text.
+
+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, and the view escapes it
+
+2026-08-03, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while views escape with `<%= %>`.
+
+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
+
+2026-08-04, the maintainer. Goal 6. Valid while no deployment needs an RTL language.
+
+`textDirection` sets `<html dir>` because that is free and correct, but the stylesheet keeps
+physical `left` and `right` properties. A genuine RTL locale needs those moved to logical ones
+first.
+
+## A dropdown is a `<button popovertarget>` and a `[popover]`, never a `<details>`
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goals 4 and 6. Valid while the popover API is the only zero-JS way to
+dismiss on an outside click.
+
+The browser owns open and close, 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.
+- The panel 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 caching.
+- Neither `aria-expanded` nor `aria-haspopup` is written. Every engine maintains the first itself on
+  a declarative `popovertarget` invoker, so a hand-written one replaces a live state with a static
+  lie. The second would promise `role="menu"` semantics these panels don't implement.
+
+That `aria-expanded` guarantee is the declarative attribute's alone: open a panel from script and no
+engine applies it, so "enhancing" one of these triggers would cost it its accessibility. `<details>`
+stays where it means disclosure rather than popup: the nav tree. `shell.ejs` hand-rolls the same
+block for the profile menu, and its comment says why. Keep the two in step.
+
+## The document is the one scroller
+
+2026-09-09, the maintainer. Goal 4. Valid while AGENTS.md → priority 1 holds that a page is a
+document.
+
+`.app` is `min-height: 100dvh`. `.nav`'s `overflow-y: auto` and `.side-footer`'s `flex: 0 0 auto`
+are not leftovers of a bounded frame: they make the off-canvas panel usable with a long tree.
+`#nav-toggle` is `position: fixed` because a label click focuses it, and a browser scrolls a focused
+element into view.
+
+## `ICON_NAMES` is a host-owned registry, not a plugin contract
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 7. Valid while the `every icon <use> resolves` e2e test guards the
+nav.
+
+`src/ui/icons.ts` 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. The accepted cost: an unknown sprite id renders blank instead of failing loud.
+
+## Dependencies install to `/node_modules`, above `WORKDIR /app`
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while dev bind-mounts the checkout at `/app`.
+
+Node resolves upward, so dev's `.:/app` bind mount has nothing to shadow. A volume at
+`/app/node_modules` would not do: 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, since it silently
+shadows `/node_modules`; `src/compose.test.ts` guards the compose files, and `.dockerignore` the
+image.
+
+## A container whose output a human then edits or deletes runs as the invoking user
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while a dev box may lack `sudo`.
+
+That means `--user "$(id -u):$(id -g)"` for the E2E runner (artifacts) and a lockfile edit;
+otherwise the output is root-owned. It is 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. That exception is 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 `/`.
+- Rootless Docker wants the flag dropped, container root already being the invoking user.
+
+Baking a `USER` into the image does not work: the image's `pwuser` is 1001, and no fixed uid matches
+every host. `src/compose.test.ts` guards every documented command, and `src/ci-gate.test.ts` the
+gate's own.
+
+## Anything the browser logs fails the E2E test that provoked it
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 4. Valid while pages ship no JavaScript of their own.
+
+Every spec takes its `test` from `e2e-tests/console-guard.ts`, which fails a test on a console error
+or warning, or an 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. The 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
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Goal 4. Valid while the Ory-backed specs share one backend.
+
+`visual.spec.ts` and `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
+
+2026-08-05, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while no markdown file is rendered or executed.
+
+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, since the test
+image ships neither `git` nor `bash`.
+
+Because a `.md` change skips the gate, the Docker Hub overview is
+`release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.md.tmpl`. A release reads it and a unit test guards it, so under
+a `.md` name a broken `{{VERSION}}` would merge with that guard skipped.
+
+`README.md` is the one markdown file tests read, so a README-only change skips them. That leaves two
+gaps:
+
+- An `apiVersion` sample in the README can go stale unchecked by
+  `release-tooling/contract-version.test.ts`. Accepted, because the README's samples are
+  illustrative; the copies authors build from (`examples/`, `views/`, the template) are gated.
+- A README-only change that drops a command the Hub page shows fails only the next gated change, in
+  `release-tooling/dockerhub-overview.test.ts`.
+
+## CI docker logins share the runner host's Docker config
+
+2026-07-04, the maintainer. Code health. Valid while releases keep a single-maintainer cadence; if
+these races start costing re-runs, serialize the workflows with a `concurrency` group.
+
+The act_runner is host-mode, so `docker login` and `logout` in the workflows mutate one shared
+`~/.docker/config.json`. Concurrent jobs can race: one job's logout can 401 another's push, and the
+recovery is a re-run. Tokens sit in that file between login and logout. In the 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.

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+# Reading cost
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 57e864bce02a, finished 2026-10-30T23:59:00Z
+
+100624 new input tokens before the first commit.
+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 9
+- `README.md` 7
+- `src/http/app.ts` 4
+- `todo.md` 3
+- `e2e-tests/playwright.config.ts` 2
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 1
+- `ci.sh` 1
+- `examples/plugins/scheduling/views/shifts.ejs` 1
+- `src/auth/csrf.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk df5e30a4db5f, finished 2026-10-31T00:22:00Z
+
+80251 new input tokens before the first commit.
+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `todo.md` 5
+- `README.md` 3
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 2
+- `public/css/styles.css` 2
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.test.ts` 1
+- `src/ui/theme-switch.test.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 3bf0b1a97d77, finished 2026-10-31T00:48:14Z
+
+167985 new input tokens before the first commit.
+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `public/css/styles.css` 17
+- `todo.md` 7
+- `README.md` 6
+- `public/css/auth.css` 5
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 1
+- `examples/plugins/scheduling/public/scheduling.css` 1
+- `examples/plugins/scheduling/views/overview.ejs` 1
+- `examples/plugins/scheduling/views/shifts.ejs` 1
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 91d11dbe63f9, finished 2026-10-31T01:13:44Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `todo.md` 7
+- `README.md` 4
+- `public/css/styles.css` 4
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 1
+- `src/ui/stylesheet-floor.test.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 70e46c48db80, finished 2026-10-31T07:17:56Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `README.md` 18
+- `todo.md` 6
+- `public/css/styles.css` 5
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 2
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `src/auth/jwt-middleware.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 9e8ffd0aa8dc, finished 2026-10-31T07:36:53Z
+
+98975 new input tokens before the first commit.
+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `README.md` 9
+- `ci.sh` 3
+- `e2e-tests/visual.spec.ts` 3
+- `todo.md` 3
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 2
+- `e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml` 2
+- `e2e-tests/language.spec.ts` 2
+- `e2e-tests/mock-oidc.ts` 2
+- `src/ci-gate.test.ts` 2
+- `.dockerignore` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 25b7840ff611, finished 2026-10-31T07:46:18Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `todo.md` 5
+- `README.md` 2
+- `src/http/app.ts` 2
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 1
+- `src/ui/chrome.test.ts` 1
+- `src/ui/chrome.ts` 1
+- `views/dashboard.ejs` 1
+- `views/partials/shell.ejs` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk e4d3bb0ac092, finished 2026-10-31T08:02:27Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `todo.md` 10
+- `README.md` 6
+- `package.json` 3
+- `.gitignore` 1
+- `.npmrc` 1
+- `AGENTS.md` 1
+- `ci.sh` 1
+- `public/css/styles.css` 1
+- `renovate.json` 1
+- `src/e2e-console-guard.test.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 2f36d29bd746, finished 2026-10-31T08:19:09Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts` 4
+- `README.md` 3
+- `src/auth/routes.test.ts` 3
+- `todo.md` 3
+- `src/auth/kratos-public.ts` 2
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 2
+- `ci.sh` 1
+- `compose.yml` 1
+- `e2e-tests/auth-refresh.spec.ts` 1
+- `src/auth/flow-view.ts` 1
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 3373527a4f72, finished 2026-10-31T08:52:59Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.ts` 8
+- `README.md` 7
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 7
+- `e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts` 3
+- `examples/plugins/admin/admin-groups.ts` 3
+- `examples/plugins/admin/admin-users.test.ts` 3
+- `examples/plugins/admin/i18n/en-US.ts` 3
+- `src/ui/icons.ts` 3
+- `todo.md` 3
+- `CHANGELOG.md` 2
+
+## Reading cost, chunk 0118907cad57, finished 2026-10-31T09:32:49Z
+
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+
+Read most (opens and searches):
+
+- `src/http/app.test.ts` 11
+- `README.md` 7
+- `src/http/app.ts` 6
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e2e-tests/Dockerfile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # 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
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.64.1-noble
 
 WORKDIR /e2e-tests
 
@@ -8,5 +8,11 @@ COPY e2e-tests/package.json e2e-tests/package-lock.json ./
 RUN npm ci
 
 COPY e2e-tests/ ./
+# e2e-tests/tsconfig.json extends it, so the specs are held to the host's strictness flags.
+COPY tsconfig.json /tsconfig.json
+
+# 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

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-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"). Runs against the
 // real Ory stack via e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml, where the session→JWT TTL is shortened to 8s and the
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
 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; 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).
+// Read a JWT's claims without verifying (web already verified it; we only inspect exp/permissions).
-function jwtClaims(jwt: string): { email: string; exp: number; roles: string[]; sub: string } {
+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

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # 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 e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml run --build --rm e2e
+#   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:
@@ -30,6 +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:

e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # 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 --build --rm e2e
+#   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:

e2e-tests/compose.full.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Full browser E2E — the real Playwright UI flow against the live stack: password + mocked-SSO
-# login, menu filtering by role, users/groups/roles/OAuth2-clients CRUD, a plugin page, logout. A
+# login, emailed-code verification + recovery, 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 e2e-tests/compose.full.yml run --build --rm e2e
+#   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:
-    # The base's full depends_on applies (Hydra included — the admin plugin's OAuth2-clients
+    # The base's full depends_on applies (Hydra included — the auth-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.
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ services:
       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
+    # gated /scheduling/shifts page and the /auth-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).
+    # plugin, mounted at /app/plugins/auth-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
+      - ./examples/plugins/auth-admin:/app/plugins/auth-admin:ro
 
-  # bootstrap grants the demo admin every discovered plugin's permission tokens, so it needs the
+  # 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
+      - ./examples/plugins/auth-admin:/app/plugins/auth-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
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ services:
 
   # The reference plugin's upstream (examples/shifts-upstream) so /scheduling/shifts shows real rows.
   shifts-upstream:
-    image: node:24.18.1-alpine3.24
+    image: node:24.22.2-alpine3.24
     command: ["node", "/server.ts"]
     volumes:
       - ./examples/shifts-upstream/server.ts:/server.ts:ro
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ 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:24.18.1-alpine3.24
+    image: node:24.22.2-alpine3.24
     command: ["node", "/mock-oidc.ts"]
     environment:
       ISSUER: http://mock-oidc:9000
@@ -79,9 +79,20 @@ services:
       timeout: 4s
       retries: 15
 
+  # Catches the courier's mail (kratos.yml → smtp://mailpit:1025), so a test can read an emailed code.
+  mailpit:
+    image: axllent/mailpit:v1.33.1
+    mem_limit: 128m
+    memswap_limit: 128m
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "/mailpit", "readyz"]
+      interval: 2s
+      timeout: 4s
+      retries: 15
+
   # Same-origin gateway: Kratos-owned paths → kratos, everything else → web (e2e-tests/proxy.ts).
   proxy:
-    image: node:24.18.1-alpine3.24
+    image: node:24.22.2-alpine3.24
     command: ["node", "/proxy.ts"]
     depends_on:
       web:
@@ -103,12 +114,16 @@ services:
       dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
     command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "full-flow.spec.ts"]
     depends_on:
+      mailpit:
+        condition: service_healthy
       mock-oidc:
         condition: service_healthy
       proxy:
         condition: service_healthy
     environment:
       BASE_URL: http://proxy
+      KETO_WRITE_URL: http://keto:4467
       KRATOS_ADMIN_URL: http://kratos:4434
+      MAILPIT_URL: http://mailpit:8025
     volumes:
       - ./e2e-tests/artifacts:/e2e-tests/artifacts

e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # 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 e2e-tests/compose.oauth.yml run --build --rm e2e
+#   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:

e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # 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) — Ory-free, so it's fast.
+# system, theme switch, mobile layout, CSRF, landing, 404, plugin gating, language switching) —
-#   docker compose -f compose.yml -f e2e-tests/compose.visual.yml run --build --rm e2e
+# 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).
@@ -29,8 +30,9 @@ services:
     build:
       context: .
       dockerfile: e2e-tests/Dockerfile
-    # Just the Ory-free visual suite; the full-stack auth spec runs via e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml.
+    # The Ory-free suites (design system + language switching); the full-stack auth spec runs via
-    command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "visual.spec.ts"]
+    # e2e-tests/compose.auth.yml.
+    command: ["npx", "playwright", "test", "visual.spec.ts", "language.spec.ts"]
     depends_on:
       web:
         condition: service_healthy

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

@@ -1,20 +1,13 @@
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
-// Regression: the from-scratch dev experience the README/banner advertises must work. `docker compose
+// The from-scratch dev experience the banner advertises: `docker compose up`, open the printed
-// up`, open the printed login URL (http://localhost:3000), sign in as the seeded admin → you land on
+// login URL, sign in as the seeded admin, land on the dashboard. A host-scoped Kratos CSRF cookie
-// the dashboard, signed in. Originally this dumped the user on http://127.0.0.1:3000/error?id=…
+// cannot cross `localhost`↔`127.0.0.1`, so a cross-host login POST loses it and Kratos redirects to
-// ("Page not found"): the banner printed `localhost` but kratos.yml hard-coded `127.0.0.1`, and a
+// its error sink; APP_URL canonicalises every off-host visitor onto one cookie host instead.
-// host-scoped Kratos CSRF cookie can't cross `localhost`↔`127.0.0.1`, so the cross-host login POST
-// lost it and Kratos redirected to its error sink.
 //
-// The fix makes APP_URL the single source for the public host: the web app canonicalises every
+// The runner is on the host network against the plain `docker compose up` topology, so it sees
-// off-host visitor onto it (so localhost / 127.0.0.1 / any alias funnel to one cookie host), Kratos'
+// http://localhost:3000 and http://127.0.0.1:4433 exactly as a host browser does. The proxied
-// browser URLs derive from it, and a real /error page replaces the 404.
+// full-flow suite cannot catch this — it fronts web + Kratos on one origin.
-//
-// This is faithful to the user's environment: the runner uses the host network
-// (e2e-tests/compose.devstack.yml) against the plain `docker compose up` topology, so it sees
-// http://localhost:3000 (web) and http://127.0.0.1:4433 (Kratos public) exactly as a host browser
-// does. The proxied full-flow suite can't catch this regression — it fronts web + Kratos on one origin.
 const ADMIN_EMAIL = "admin@plainpages.local"; // seeded by bootstrap
 const ADMIN_PASSWORD = "admin";
 
@@ -26,9 +19,9 @@ async function signIn(page: import("@playwright/test").Page): Promise<void> {
 
 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 its "Log in" call to action.
+  // Open the app at the URL the first-run banner prints, then follow the landing's "Sign in" action.
   await page.goto("/");
-  await page.getByRole("link", { name: "Log in" }).click();
+  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.

e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { type Browser, type Page, expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+import type { Browser, Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { allowConsole, 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
@@ -9,10 +10,13 @@ import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 // 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 role in Keto
+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
+const KRATOS_ADMIN = process.env.KRATOS_ADMIN_URL ?? "http://kratos:4434";
+const KETO_WRITE = process.env.KETO_WRITE_URL ?? "http://keto:4467";
+const MAILPIT = process.env.MAILPIT_URL ?? "http://mailpit:8025";
 
 // Drive the themed password login form → Kratos → /auth/complete → dashboard, signed in.
 async function loginPassword(page: Page): Promise<void> {
@@ -24,70 +28,192 @@ async function loginPassword(page: Page): Promise<void> {
   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 (await browser.newContext()).newPage();
+    page = await watchedPage(await browser.newContext());
     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 list screens rebuild their query from the list state (sort/page/filter), so they are where a
-    // The signed-in admin holds admin + scheduling:read/write, so both gated sections are present
+  // chosen language is most easily dropped; the core building blocks carry it through.
-    // in the menu (collapsed by default → assert they're in the DOM, not necessarily visible).
+  test("a sorted, paged admin list keeps the visitor's language", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/auth-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("/auth-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^="/auth-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="/auth-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.goto("/auth-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(\?|$)/); // PRG back to the list
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/auth-admin\/users(\?|$)/); // 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^="/auth-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");
+    const editHref = await row.locator('a[href^="/auth-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(\?|$)/);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/auth-admin\/users(\?|$)/);
     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 () => {
+  // Kratos accepts an admin-minted code only in the flow it was minted on, which the notice's link opens.
+  test("recovery code: the notice's link opens the flow that accepts the code, and the code signs the user in", async () => {
+    test.setTimeout(90_000);
+    const email = `admin-recovery-${suffix}@plainpages.local`;
+    await createIdentity(email);
+    await page.goto("/auth-admin/users");
+    const editHref = await page.locator("tr", { hasText: email }).locator('a[href^="/auth-admin/users/"]').first().getAttribute("href");
+    await page.goto(editHref!);
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Generate recovery code" }).click();
+    const code = await page.locator(".recovery-code code").innerText();
+    const link = await page.locator(".alert-body a").getAttribute("href");
+
+    const user = await watchedPage(await browser.newContext());
+    await user.goto(link!);
+    await user.fill('input[name="code"]', code);
+    await user.getByRole("button", { name: "Continue" }).click();
+    await expect(user).toHaveURL(/\/settings/);
+    await user.context().close();
+  });
+
+  test("groups CRUD: create a group (writes go to Keto), see it listed, then grant it a permission", async ({ browser }) => {
     // A Keto set exists only while it has ≥1 member, so create needs a first member (the form
     // enforces it); pick the first option (a user) from the required picker.
     const group = `e2e-grp-${suffix}`;
-    await page.goto("/admin/groups/new");
+    await page.goto("/auth-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(\?|\/|$)/);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/auth-admin\/groups(\?|\/|$)/);
     await expect(page.locator("main")).toContainText(group);
 
-    const role = `e2e-role-${suffix}`;
+    // Permissions are declared in plugin code, so the group's detail page offers them as a fixed
-    await page.goto("/admin/roles/new");
+    // checkbox list rather than a create form — there is no Permissions screen to visit.
-    await page.fill('input[name="name"]', role);
+    await page.goto(`/auth-admin/groups/${group}`);
-    await page.locator('select[name="member"]').selectOption({ index: 1 });
+    allowConsole(/status of 409 .*\/auth-admin\/groups\/[^/]+\/permissions/); // the stale save below, refused on purpose
-    await page.locator('.form-card button[type="submit"]').click();
+    // A second browser signed in as the same admin, opened before the save below, so its form carries the old grants.
-    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/admin\/roles(\?|\/|$)/);
+    const staleTab = await watchedPage(await browser.newContext({ storageState: await page.context().storageState() }));
-    await expect(page.locator("main")).toContainText(role);
+    await staleTab.goto(`/auth-admin/groups/${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(`/auth-admin/groups/${group}`));
+    await expect(page.getByText("Permissions saved.")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:read"]')).toBeChecked();
+
+    // The other tab no longer matches Keto, so its save is refused and shows the grant made above.
+    await staleTab.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:write"]').check();
+    await staleTab.locator('form:has(input[name="permission"]) button[type="submit"]').click();
+    await expect(staleTab.getByText("changed while you had the page open")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(staleTab.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:read"]')).toBeChecked();
+    await expect(staleTab.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:write"]')).not.toBeChecked();
+    await staleTab.context().close();
+
+    // No screen can grant a name no plugin declares, so write one to Keto directly.
+    const stray = "retired:write";
+    const put = await fetch(`${KETO_WRITE}/admin/relation-tuples`, {
+      body: JSON.stringify({ namespace: "Permission", object: stray, relation: "granted", subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: group, relation: "members" } }),
+      headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+      method: "PUT",
+    });
+    expect(put.ok).toBe(true);
+    await page.goto(`/auth-admin/groups/${group}`);
+    await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "Permissions no installed plugin declares" })).toBeVisible();
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: `Remove ${stray}` }).click();
+    await expect(page.getByText("Permission removed.")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByText(stray)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page.locator('input[name="permission"][value="scheduling:read"]')).toBeChecked(); // the declared grant stays
   });
 
   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.goto("/auth-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");
@@ -100,17 +226,17 @@ test.describe.serial("authenticated admin journey", () => {
     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");
+    await page.goto("/auth-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/${clientId}`));
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(new RegExp(`/auth-admin/clients/${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(\?|$)/);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/auth-admin\/clients(\?|$)/);
     await expect(page.locator("tr", { hasText: name })).toHaveCount(0);
   });
 
@@ -118,17 +244,36 @@ test.describe.serial("authenticated admin journey", () => {
     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
+
+    // The admin owns none of the demo's rows, so an empty page is the no-leak assertion.
+    await page.goto("/scheduling/mine");
+    await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("My shifts");
+    await expect(page.getByText("No shifts are assigned to admin@plainpages.local")).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator("table")).not.toContainText("Morning — Front desk");
+  });
+
+  test("plugin settings: the screen names the variable that sets each declared key", async () => {
+    await page.goto("/auth-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("summary.profile").click(); // open the profile dropdown
+    await page.locator("button.profile").click(); // open the profile dropdown
+    await expect(page.locator("#profile-menu .menu-item")).toHaveText(["My shifts", "Sign out"]);
+    await expect(page.locator('#profile-menu a.menu-item[href="/scheduling/mine"]')).toHaveCount(1);
     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);
+    await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/auth-admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
   });
 });
 
@@ -136,16 +281,27 @@ test("return_to: a deep link while logged out returns to that page after login",
   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 page.goto("/auth-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).toHaveURL(/\/auth-admin\/users(\?|$)/);
   await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Users");
 });
 
+test("settings: an anonymous visit signs in first, then lands on the settings page", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  await page.goto("/settings");
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/login(\?|$)/);
+  await page.fill('input[name="identifier"]', ADMIN_EMAIL);
+  await page.fill('input[name="password"]', ADMIN_PASSWORD);
+  await page.locator('.auth-form button[type="submit"]').click();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/settings(\?|$)/);
+  await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Account settings");
+});
+
 test("mocked SSO login: the provider button signs a user in via OIDC", async ({ page }) => {
   test.setTimeout(90_000);
   await page.goto("/login");
@@ -153,6 +309,57 @@ test("mocked SSO login: the provider button signs a user in via OIDC", async ({
   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.
+  // 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);
+  await expect(page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/auth-admin/users"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+// The newest one-time code Kratos' courier mailed to `to`, read from the mail catcher (compose.full.yml).
+async function mailedCode(to: string): Promise<string> {
+  let code = "";
+  await expect.poll(async () => {
+    const search = (await (await fetch(`${MAILPIT}/api/v1/search?query=${encodeURIComponent(`to:"${to}"`)}`)).json()) as { messages: { ID: string }[] };
+    const id = search.messages[0]?.ID;
+    if (!id) return "";
+    const message = (await (await fetch(`${MAILPIT}/api/v1/message/${id}`)).json()) as { Text: string };
+    code = /\b(\d{6})\b/.exec(message.Text)?.[1] ?? "";
+    return code;
+  }, { timeout: 30_000 }).not.toBe("");
+  return code;
+}
+
+async function createIdentity(email: string): Promise<void> {
+  const created = await fetch(`${KRATOS_ADMIN}/admin/identities`, {
+    body: JSON.stringify({ schema_id: "default", traits: { email } }),
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    method: "POST",
+  });
+  expect(created.status).toBe(201);
+}
+
+// Fills the email step, then pastes the mailed code with whitespace around it, as a paste often brings.
+async function enterMailedCode(page: Page, email: string): Promise<void> {
+  await page.fill('input[name="email"]', email);
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Continue" }).click();
+  await expect(page.locator('input[name="code"]')).toBeVisible();
+  await page.fill('input[name="code"]', ` ${await mailedCode(email)}\t `);
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Continue" }).click();
+}
+
+test("verification: a code pasted with whitespace around it is accepted", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  const email = `verify-${suffix}@plainpages.local`;
+  await createIdentity(email);
+  await page.goto("/verification");
+  await enterMailedCode(page, email);
+  await expect(page.getByText("You successfully verified your email address.")).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test("recovery: a pasted code signs in to the settings page, in the chosen language", async ({ page }) => {
+  test.setTimeout(90_000);
+  const email = `recover-${suffix}@plainpages.local`;
+  await createIdentity(email);
+  await page.goto("/recovery?locale=en-US");
+  await enterMailedCode(page, email);
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/settings\?.*locale=en-US/);
+  await expect(page.locator("h1")).toHaveText("Account settings");
 });

e2e-tests/language.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+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

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // 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).
-import { createServer } from "node:http";
+import { createServer, type ServerResponse } from "node:http";
 import { createSign, generateKeyPairSync, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 
 const ISSUER = process.env.ISSUER ?? "http://mock-oidc:9000";
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ const KID = "mock-1";
 const { privateKey, publicKey } = generateKeyPairSync("rsa", { modulusLength: 2048 });
 const jwk = { ...publicKey.export({ format: "jwk" }), alg: "RS256", kid: KID, use: "sig" };
 
-const b64 = (o) => Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(o)).toString("base64url");
+const b64 = (o: unknown): string => Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(o)).toString("base64url");
-function idToken(nonce) {
+function idToken(nonce: string): string {
   const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
   const header = b64({ alg: "RS256", kid: KID, typ: "JWT" });
   const payload = b64({
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ function idToken(nonce) {
   return `${header}.${payload}.${sig}`;
 }
 
-const codes = new Map(); // single-use auth code → the nonce Kratos sent (echoed into the id_token)
+const codes = new Map<string, string>(); // single-use auth code → the nonce Kratos sent (echoed into the id_token)
-const json = (res, body) => { res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "application/json" }); res.end(JSON.stringify(body)); };
+const json = (res: ServerResponse, body: unknown): void => { res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "application/json" }); res.end(JSON.stringify(body)); };
 
 createServer((req, res) => {
   const url = new URL(req.url ?? "/", ISSUER);

e2e-tests/oauth-login.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { expect, test } from "@playwright/test";
+import { expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
 // 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

e2e-tests/package-lock.json

@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 {
   "name": "plainpages-e2e",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "plainpages-e2e",
-      "version": "0.1.0",
       "devDependencies": {
-        "@playwright/test": "1.62.1"
+        "@playwright/test": "1.64.1",
+        "@types/node": "24.19.2",
+        "typescript": "7.0.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@playwright/test": {
-      "version": "1.62.1",
+      "version": "1.64.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@playwright/test/-/test-1.62.1.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@playwright/test/-/test-1.64.1.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-DTcUc8qii+cpHvtOwggMtBRMjKZHXYWdw8syRYu2vtzuq4Wxphqq4NfCs5Zt44L6mA8rfDfj+PHnxFc/FeK6mQ==",
+      "integrity": "sha512-IaYGml/nSOiZWROfPtuIL7neuu9qDOZ3TNvNljUIrhDMxiGTgPjzj/g9p9RxpS2tSepPDRY+UwAaEeiKtUvIAg==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "playwright": "1.62.1"
+        "playwright": "1.64.1"
       },
       "bin": {
         "playwright": "cli.js"
@@ -27,44 +27,376 @@
         "node": ">=20"
       }
     },
-    "node_modules/fsevents": {
+    "node_modules/@types/node": {
-      "version": "2.3.2",
+      "version": "24.19.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/fsevents/-/fsevents-2.3.2.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/node/-/node-24.19.2.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
-      "hasInstallScript": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "undici-types": ">=7.24.0 <7.24.7"
+      }
+    },
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+      ],
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+      "cpu": [
+        "x64"
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+      "license": "Apache-2.0",
+      "optional": true,
+      "os": [
+        "win32"
+      ],
+      "engines": {
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       }
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     "node_modules/playwright": {
-      "version": "1.62.1",
+      "version": "1.64.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright/-/playwright-1.62.1.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright/-/playwright-1.64.1.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
-        "playwright-core": "1.62.1"
+        "playwright-core": "1.64.1"
       },
       "bin": {
         "playwright": "cli.js"
       },
       "engines": {
         "node": ">=20"
-      },
-      "optionalDependencies": {
-        "fsevents": "2.3.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/playwright-core": {
-      "version": "1.62.1",
+      "version": "1.64.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright-core/-/playwright-core-1.62.1.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright-core/-/playwright-core-1.64.1.tgz",
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "bin": {
@@ -73,6 +405,48 @@
       "engines": {
         "node": ">=20"
       }
+    },
+    "node_modules/typescript": {
+      "version": "7.0.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/typescript/-/typescript-7.0.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-8FYau96o3NKOhbjKi/qNvG/W5jhzxkbdm5sj9AbZ/5T5sWqn3hJgLfGx27sRKZWTvyzCP8dLRBTf5tBTSRVUNA==",
+      "dev": true,
+      "license": "Apache-2.0",
+      "bin": {
+        "tsc": "bin/tsc"
+      },
+      "engines": {
+        "node": ">=16.20.0"
+      },
+      "optionalDependencies": {
+        "@typescript/typescript-aix-ppc64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-darwin-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-darwin-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-freebsd-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-freebsd-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-arm": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-loong64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-mips64el": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-ppc64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-riscv64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-s390x": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-linux-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-netbsd-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-netbsd-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-openbsd-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-openbsd-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-sunos-x64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-win32-arm64": "7.0.2",
+        "@typescript/typescript-win32-x64": "7.0.2"
+      }
+    },
+    "node_modules/undici-types": {
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+      "dev": true,
+      "license": "MIT"
     }
   }
 }

e2e-tests/package.json

@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 {
   "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",
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "playwright test"
+    "test": "playwright test",
+    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@playwright/test": "1.62.1"
+    "@playwright/test": "1.64.1",
+    "@types/node": "24.19.2",
+    "typescript": "7.0.2"
   }
 }

e2e-tests/playwright.config.ts

@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ 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,
+  workers: 4, // Playwright's default is half the cores, so a run's parallelism would depend on the machine
   forbidOnly: true,
   reporter: [["list"], ["html", { open: "never", outputFolder: "artifacts/report" }]],
   use: {
@@ -15,5 +19,14 @@ export default defineConfig({
     screenshot: "only-on-failure",
     viewport: { width: 1280, height: 800 },
   },
-  projects: [{ name: "chromium", use: { ...devices["Desktop Chrome"] } }],
+  // 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

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const PORT = Number(process.env.PORT ?? 80);
 
 // Kratos public owns these prefixes (self-service flows, sessions, its well-known/schemas); the
 // browser hits them via the flow action + OIDC callbacks. Everything else is the web app.
-const toKratos = (path) => ["/self-service", "/sessions", "/.well-known/ory", "/schemas"].some((p) => path === p || path.startsWith(`${p}/`));
+const toKratos = (path: string): boolean => ["/self-service", "/sessions", "/.well-known/ory", "/schemas"].some((p) => path === p || path.startsWith(`${p}/`));
 
 createServer((req, res) => {
   const target = toKratos(req.url ?? "/") ? KRATOS : WEB;

e2e-tests/tsconfig.json

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": { "lib": ["ESNext", "DOM"] },
+  "include": ["*.ts"]
+}

e2e-tests/visual.spec.ts

@@ -1,35 +1,81 @@
 import { createPrivateKey, sign } from "node:crypto";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
+import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
-import { expect, test, type Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { allowConsole, expect, test } from "./console-guard.ts";
 
-const SHOTS = "artifacts/screenshots";
 const BASE_URL = process.env.BASE_URL ?? "http://localhost:3000";
 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` });
+
+// Either side of the stylesheet's 860px and 560px breakpoints.
+const VIEWPORTS = [
+  { name: "desktop-xl", width: 1920, height: 1080 },
+  { name: "laptop", width: 1280, height: 800 },
+  { name: "tablet", width: 768, height: 1024 },
+  { name: "phone", width: 390, height: 844 },
+  { name: "phone-small", width: 320, height: 568 },
+] as const;
 
 // Sign a session JWT with the committed dev tokenizer key (bind-mounted at /repo/jwks.json), so the
 // 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: a page navigation needs a session. Plant one per test — a plain
-// member (no roles) so the gated scheduling nav stays filtered out.
+// 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() }]);
 });
 
+// A key press, not scrollIntoView (a script can scroll a box no reader can) and not the wheel
+// (Firefox's synthetic event never reaches the document).
+for (const [name, path, tail] of [
+  ["the starter dashboard", "/dashboard", ".form-actions .btn"],
+  ["the public landing", "/", ".landing-actions .btn"],
+] as const) {
+  for (const { width } of VIEWPORTS) {
+    test(`${name} scrolls to its end at ${width}px wide`, async ({ page }) => {
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 200 });
+      await page.goto(path);
+
+      const overflows = await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollHeight > window.innerHeight);
+      expect(overflows, "the page must overflow, or it proves nothing").toBe(true);
+      await page.keyboard.press("End");
+      await expect(page.locator(tail).last()).toBeInViewport({ ratio: 1 });
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+// Green only while #nav-toggle is position: fixed — a label tap focuses it, and focus scrolls into view.
+test("closing the mobile drawer leaves the reader where the scrim found them", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 200 });
+  await page.goto("/dashboard");
+
+  await page.locator(".hamburger").click();
+  await expect(page.locator("#nav-toggle")).toBeChecked();
+  // Scripted, because a key press with focus on the toggle does not scroll in every engine — and
+  // what is under test is closing the drawer, not how the reader got down the page.
+  await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollTo(0, 120));
+  const at = await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY);
+  expect(at, "the page must have somewhere to scroll behind the scrim").toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+  // The exposed strip beside the 264px panel: the scrim spans the viewport, so its centre is under
+  // the drawer and a centre click lands on the panel instead.
+  await page.locator(".scrim").click({ position: { x: 340, y: 100 } });
+  await expect(page.locator("#nav-toggle")).not.toBeChecked();
+  expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY), "closing the drawer must not move the page").toBe(at);
+});
+
 test("captures the live pages for review", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toBeVisible();
@@ -40,13 +86,21 @@ test("captures the live pages for review", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   await page.locator("#theme-dark").check({ force: true }); // visually-hidden radio
   await shot(page, "live-03-dark");
-
-  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
-  await page.goto("/dashboard");
-  await shot(page, "live-04-mobile");
-  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 800 });
 });
 
+// The page is a document, so a column wider than the viewport can only show as sideways scroll.
+for (const { name, width, height } of VIEWPORTS) {
+  for (const [path, label] of [["/dashboard", "dashboard"], ["/", "landing"], ["/scheduling", "plugin"]] as const) {
+    test(`the ${label} page fits ${width}px wide, with no sideways scroll`, async ({ page }) => {
+      await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+      await page.goto(path);
+      const [scrollWidth, clientWidth] = await page.evaluate(() => [document.documentElement.scrollWidth, document.documentElement.clientWidth] as const);
+      expect(scrollWidth).toBeLessThanOrEqual(clientWidth);
+      await shot(page, `live-${label}-${name}`);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
 test("every icon <use> resolves to a defined <symbol> (no broken graphics)", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   const missing = await page.evaluate(() => {
@@ -58,9 +112,8 @@ test("every icon <use> resolves to a defined <symbol> (no broken graphics)", asy
   expect(missing).toEqual([]);
 });
 
-// (The zero-JS URL-driven list — sortable headers, ?q search — is unit-tested per component
+// The zero-JS URL-driven list — sortable headers, ?q search — is unit-tested per component and
-// (list-query/data-table/filter-bar) and exercised live with real data by the full-flow E2E's admin
+// exercised live by the full-flow E2E's admin Users list, so it has no Ory-free counterpart here.
-// Users list. The mock-data dashboard that used to host it in this Ory-free suite is gone.)
 
 test("theme switch flips the palette with no JavaScript", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
@@ -70,6 +123,36 @@ 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();
+  await expect(trigger).toBeFocused(); // the browser returns focus, so no trigger needs a tabindex
+});
+
 test("mobile layout hides the sidebar off-canvas behind the hamburger", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
@@ -82,6 +165,21 @@ test("mobile layout hides the sidebar off-canvas behind the hamburger", async ({
   expect(offCanvas).toBe(true);
 });
 
+test("the hamburger opens the drawer over the scrim, and a link in it navigates", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+  await page.goto("/dashboard");
+  await page.locator(".hamburger").click();
+
+  const sidebar = page.locator(".sidebar");
+  await expect(sidebar).toBeInViewport({ ratio: 1 });
+  // A click is refused while the scrim sits above the drawer, which a lower z-index would cause.
+  await sidebar.locator("summary").first().click(); // the dashboard is the current page, so its links are in a folded branch
+  const link = sidebar.locator(".nav-children a.nav-self").first();
+  const target = await link.getAttribute("href");
+  await link.click();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL((url) => url.pathname === target?.split("?")[0]);
+});
+
 test("Sign-out is a CSRF-guarded POST form: the token is issued on the page, a tokenless POST is refused", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto("/dashboard");
   // The page issues a CSRF cookie and embeds the same token in the Sign-out form (double-submit).
@@ -99,25 +197,92 @@ test("the public landing at / is ungated and links to sign in + register", async
   await context.clearCookies(); // visit "/" as a logged-out visitor (drop the beforeEach session)
   await page.goto("/");
   await expect(page.locator(".landing")).toBeVisible();
-  // the same app shell every page renders — the menu shows even signed out (role-filtered).
+  // the same app shell every page renders — the menu shows even signed out (permission-filtered).
   await expect(page.locator(".sidebar")).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Log in" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/login");
+  await expect(page.locator('use[href="#i-gear"]')).toHaveCount(0); // no settings cog to offer a signed-out visitor
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Create account" })).toHaveAttribute("href", "/registration");
+  // 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");
 });
 
+// Measured on the rendered elements, so a theme block that drops --on-accent fails here.
+const contrastOf = (el: Element): number => {
+  const luminance = (rgb: string): number => {
+    const [r = 0, g = 0, b = 0] = (rgb.match(/[\d.]+/g) ?? []).map((c) => {
+      const v = Number(c) / 255;
+      return v <= 0.03928 ? v / 12.92 : ((v + 0.055) / 1.055) ** 2.4;
+    });
+    return 0.2126 * r + 0.7152 * g + 0.0722 * b;
+  };
+  const style = getComputedStyle(el);
+  const [hi = 0, lo = 0] = [luminance(style.color), luminance(style.backgroundColor)].sort((x, y) => y - x);
+  return (hi + 0.05) / (lo + 0.05);
+};
+for (const [name, colorScheme, forceDark] of [["light", "light", false], ["dark", "dark", false], ["forced dark", "light", true]] as const) {
+  test(`text on the accent reaches 4.5:1 in ${name} mode`, async ({ page, context }) => {
+    await context.clearCookies();
+    await page.emulateMedia({ colorScheme });
+    await page.goto("/");
+    if (forceDark) await page.locator("#theme-dark").check({ force: true });
+    // No page of this stack has a second page of results, so add the current-page button.
+    await page.locator("#main-content").evaluate((el) => el.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", '<a class="page-btn" aria-current="page" href="#">2</a>'));
+    for (const selector of [".landing .btn-primary", ".brand-mark", ".page-btn"]) {
+      await expect.poll(() => page.locator(selector).first().evaluate(contrastOf), { message: selector }).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(4.5); // polls past the colour transition
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+test("a nav branch is folded until its toggle opens it — no JavaScript", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto("/dashboard");
+  const child = page.locator('.sidebar a[href="/scheduling"]');
+  await expect(child).toBeHidden();
+  await page.locator('.sidebar summary[aria-label="Toggle Scheduling"]').click();
+  await expect(child).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test("the reference plugin's lead text is inset by --pad-x, like the bars around it", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto("/scheduling");
+  const [inset, padX] = await page.locator(".scheduling-page > p").evaluate((p) => [
+    p.getBoundingClientRect().left - (p.parentElement as HTMLElement).getBoundingClientRect().left,
+    parseFloat(getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue("--pad-x")),
+  ] as const);
+  expect(inset).toBe(padX);
+});
+
+// transferSize is 0 only for a response the browser's own cache served; a 304 still costs a round trip.
+test("a repeat page view fetches no stylesheet again", async ({ page }) => {
+  const stylesheets = (): Promise<{ name: string; transferSize: number }[]> => page.evaluate(() =>
+    performance.getEntriesByType("resource")
+      .filter((entry): entry is PerformanceResourceTiming => entry instanceof PerformanceResourceTiming && entry.initiatorType === "link" && entry.name.includes(".css"))
+      .map(({ name, transferSize }) => ({ name, transferSize })));
+
+  await page.goto("/");
+  const first = await stylesheets();
+  expect(first.length, "the landing links styles.css and auth.css").toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+  for (const { name, transferSize } of first) expect(transferSize, `${name} on the first view`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+  await page.goto("/");
+  const repeat = await stylesheets();
+  // A cache hit completes in no set order, so the two views list the same files in any order.
+  const names = (entries: { name: string }[]): string[] => entries.map(({ name }) => name).sort();
+  expect(names(repeat)).toEqual(names(first));
+  for (const { name, transferSize } of repeat) expect(transferSize, `${name} on the repeat view`).toBe(0);
+});
+
 test("unknown routes serve the 404 page (a real user-facing flow, covered end-to-end)", async ({ page }) => {
+  allowConsole(/status of 404 .*\/no-such-page$/); // 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();
   await expect(page.getByRole("link", { name: "Back home" })).toBeVisible();
 });
 
-// The reference plugin (plugins/scheduling) ships discovered in the image. Its public Overview is
+// The reference plugin (plugins/scheduling) ships discovered in the image, and shows all three
-// reachable by anyone and its menu header shows for everyone; the shifts list stays permission-gated,
+// gates: the public Overview is reachable by anyone, My shifts takes any session, and the shifts
-// so an anonymous visitor is bounced to sign in. The authenticated list/form flow is the full
+// list needs a permission. The authenticated list/form flow is the full E2E (full-flow.spec).
-// E2E (full-flow.spec). Side-effect-free.
+// Side-effect-free.
-test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, the gated Shifts redirects to /login", async ({ page, request }) => {
+test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, My shifts takes any session, 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.
@@ -136,10 +301,23 @@ test("the reference plugin: public Overview is open to all, the gated Shifts red
   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,
+  // A `session: true` route bounces an anonymous visitor the same way — no permission involved.
+  const mine = await request.get("/scheduling/mine", { maxRedirects: 0 });
+  expect(mine.status()).toBe(303);
+  expect(mine.headers()["location"]).toBe("/login?return_to=%2Fscheduling%2Fmine");
+
+  // 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 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
+  await expect(page.locator('.sidebar nav a[href="/scheduling/mine"]')).toHaveCount(1); // session gate: a session is enough
+
+  // No shifts upstream on this stack, so this also pins the degraded page: the reason, never a 500
+  // and never a claim about what is assigned.
+  await page.goto("/scheduling/mine");
+  await expect(page.getByRole("heading", { name: "My shifts" })).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("Couldn't reach the scheduling service")).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.getByText("No shifts are assigned to")).toHaveCount(0);
 });

examples/README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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 `#plugin-api`. See its [README](plugins/scheduling/README.md) and the [plugin contract](../README.md#building-plugins). |
+| [`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 / Roles / 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). |
+| [`plugins/auth-admin/`](plugins/auth-admin/) | `plugins/auth-admin/` | The system-admin plugin: the Users / Groups / OAuth2-clients / Plugin-settings 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/auth-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 `SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM` at the real thing instead. |
+| [`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

@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
-// Reference config/menu.ts — copy into the (empty) config/ mount at the repo root:
+// Reference config/menu.ts — copy into the empty config/ mount at the repo root:
 //   cp examples/config/menu.ts config/menu.ts
-// config/ ships empty; mount your own or copy this in. Absent config = built-in defaults.
+// Absent config = built-in defaults.
 //
-// Brand the app and reorder/rename/group/hide nav nodes (by their `id`) across all plugins —
+// Brand the app, reorder/rename/group/hide nav nodes and rename/hide profile-menu entries (by their
-// the override always wins, applied before the per-user permission filter. Every field is
+// `id`) across all plugins — the override always wins, applied before the per-user permission
-// optional; delete one to fall back to the default.
+// filter. Every field is optional.
-// See src/ui/menu-config.ts (types), src/ui/nav.ts (NavOverride), README.md (The menu system).
+// See src/ui/menu-config.ts (types), src/ui/nav.ts (NavOverride), README → The menu system.
 
 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.
+  // Operator override (rename → group → order → hide), keyed by nav-node id; `rename` and `hide` also
+  // take a profile-menu entry's id, such as "scheduling:profile-mine".
   override: {
-    // rename: { people: "Staff" },                                       // node id → new label
+    // rename: { people: "Staff" },                                       // node id → new label (or a catalog key)
-    // groups: [{ id: "admin", label: "Admin", children: ["users", "roles"] }],
+    // 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

@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# Admin — the system-administration plugin
-
-The Users / Groups / Roles / OAuth2-clients screens for running Plainpages itself. These used to be
-built into the core; they now ship 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 restart web
-```
-
-The seeded `admin@plainpages.local` already holds the `admin` role, so the section appears in the
-menu and the screens work immediately.
-
-## 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 (Groups, Roles).
-- **`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 role 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 (the dev stack wires Kratos + Keto,
-and Hydra when configured). Where a capability is absent the screen degrades to a themed 503 rather
-than crashing — see `admin-shared.ts`. Everything else is an ordinary plugin: folder-discovered,
-gated per route by `permission: "admin"`, rendering the core building blocks in `views/`.
-
-## Layout
-
-- `plugin.ts` — the manifest: the gated Admin nav fragment, the `admin` permission token, and the
-  route table — one thin handler per method+path, all gated by `permission: "admin"`.
-- `admin-users.ts` · `admin-groups.ts` · `admin-roles.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
-  admin gate + the needed `ctx.system` clients once.
-- `admin-shared.ts` — the shared gate (`requireAdmin`), 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 four 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-roles.test.ts

@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-// Built-in Roles & permissions admin screen: the pure view-model + Keto builders. A role is a
-// Keto subject set (Role:<name>#members); members are users (subject_id) or groups (subject_set) —
-// "assign roles to users/groups". The "effective access" view flattens a Keto `expand` tree into the
-// distinct set of users who hold the role directly or transitively via a group. The HTTP
-// routing/gate/CSRF + live Keto/Kratos calls are exercised over HTTP in app.test.ts.
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import { memberView } from "./admin-groups.ts";
-import {
-  buildRoleDetailModel,
-  buildRoleFormModel,
-  buildRolesListModel,
-  expandToEffectiveUsers,
-  isValidRoleName,
-  roleMemberTuple,
-} from "./admin-roles.ts";
-import type { ExpandTree, RelationTuple } from "#plugin-api";
-
-const uid = (n: number) => `01902d5e-7b6c-7e3a-9f21-3c8d1e0a4b${String(n).padStart(2, "0")}`;
-const userTuple = (role: string, n: number): RelationTuple =>
-  ({ namespace: "Role", object: role, relation: "members", subject_id: `user:${uid(n)}` });
-const groupTuple = (role: string, group: string): RelationTuple =>
-  ({ namespace: "Role", object: role, relation: "members", subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: group, relation: "members" } });
-
-test("isValidRoleName + roleMemberTuple map the form value to a Role tuple over a user/group (else null)", () => {
-  for (const ok of ["admin", "editor", "team-a", "a1_b9"]) assert.equal(isValidRoleName(ok), true, ok);
-  for (const bad of ["", "Admin", "a b", "-bad", "a".repeat(65)]) assert.equal(isValidRoleName(bad), false, bad);
-
-  assert.deepEqual(roleMemberTuple("editor", `user:${uid(2)}`), { namespace: "Role", object: "editor", relation: "members", subject_id: `user:${uid(2)}` });
-  assert.deepEqual(roleMemberTuple("editor", "group:eng"), { namespace: "Role", object: "editor", relation: "members", subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: "eng", relation: "members" } });
-  for (const bad of ["", "user:not-a-uuid", "group:Bad Name", "nope:x"]) assert.equal(roleMemberTuple("editor", bad), null, bad);
-});
-
-test("expandToEffectiveUsers flattens an expand tree → sorted distinct user ids, transitive through groups", () => {
-  // The subject rides on each node's `tuple` (Keto v26.2.0 shape, verified live).
-  const leaf = (n: number): ExpandTree => ({ tuple: { namespace: "", object: "", relation: "", subject_id: `user:${uid(n)}` }, type: "leaf" });
-  const tree: ExpandTree = {
-    children: [
-      leaf(1), // direct
-      {
-        children: [leaf(2), leaf(1)], // via group + dup
-        tuple: { namespace: "", object: "", relation: "", subject_set: { namespace: "Group", object: "eng", relation: "members" } }, // a member group, not a user
-        type: "union",
-      },
-    ],
-    tuple: { namespace: "", object: "", relation: "", subject_set: { namespace: "Role", object: "admin", relation: "members" } },
-    type: "union",
-  };
-  assert.deepEqual(expandToEffectiveUsers(tree), [uid(1), uid(2)]);
-  assert.deepEqual(expandToEffectiveUsers(null), []);
-  assert.deepEqual(expandToEffectiveUsers({ type: "leaf" }), []); // an empty role
-});
-
-test("buildRolesListModel filters by search, sorts, paginates; the name links to the detail page", () => {
-  const roles = Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => ({ memberCount: i + 1, name: `role-${String(i).padStart(2, "0")}` }));
-
-  const all = buildRolesListModel({ roles, url: "http://x/admin/roles" });
-  assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
-  assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
-  assert.equal(all.title, "Roles");
-  const first = all.table.rows[0]!.cells[0] as { rowHeader: { href: string; text: string } };
-  assert.equal(first.rowHeader.text, "role-00");
-  assert.equal(first.rowHeader.href, "/admin/roles/role-00");
-
-  const one = buildRolesListModel({ roles, url: "http://x/admin/roles?q=role-07" });
-  assert.equal(one.pagination.summary.total, 1);
-  assert.deepEqual(one.filterBar.pills.map((p) => p.label), ["Search"]);
-
-  const desc = buildRolesListModel({ roles, url: "http://x/admin/roles?sort=-members" });
-  assert.equal((desc.table.rows[0]!.cells[0] as { rowHeader: { text: string } }).rowHeader.text, "role-29");
-});
-
-test("buildRoleFormModel: a create form with a required name field + member options (user or group)", () => {
-  const options = [{ label: "ada@example.com", value: `user:${uid(1)}` }, { label: "eng (group)", value: "group:eng" }];
-  const m = buildRoleFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig", memberOptions: options });
-  assert.equal(m.title, "New role");
-  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/roles");
-  assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Create role");
-  assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
-  assert.equal(m.form.nameField.required, true);
-  assert.deepEqual(m.form.memberOptions, options);
-
-  const err = buildRoleFormModel({ error: "That name is taken.", memberOptions: options, values: { member: "group:eng", name: "Admin" } });
-  assert.equal(err.error, "That name is taken.");
-  assert.equal(err.form.nameField.value, "Admin");
-  assert.equal(err.form.selectedMember, "group:eng");
-});
-
-test("buildRoleDetailModel: members → rows, add-options exclude current members, effective access listed, actions wired", () => {
-  const members = [memberView(userTuple("admin", 1), new Map([[uid(1), "ada@example.com"]])), memberView(groupTuple("admin", "eng"), new Map())];
-  const candidates = [
-    { label: "ada@example.com", value: `user:${uid(1)}` }, // already a member → excluded
-    { label: "grace@example.com", value: `user:${uid(2)}` },
-    { label: "eng (group)", value: "group:eng" }, // already a member → excluded
-    { label: "ops (group)", value: "group:ops" },
-  ];
-  const effective = [{ label: "ada@example.com" }, { label: "grace@example.com" }]; // ada direct, grace via eng
-  const m = buildRoleDetailModel({ candidates, effective, members, role: { name: "admin" } });
-  assert.equal(m.title, "admin");
-  assert.equal(m.members.rows.length, 2);
-  assert.equal(m.members.action, "/admin/roles/admin/members/delete");
-  assert.equal(m.add.action, "/admin/roles/admin/members");
-  assert.deepEqual(m.add.options.map((o) => o.value), [`user:${uid(2)}`, "group:ops"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(m.effective.map((e) => e.label), ["ada@example.com", "grace@example.com"]);
-  assert.equal(m.delete.action, "/admin/roles/admin/delete");
-});

examples/plugins/admin/admin-roles.ts

@@ -1,367 +0,0 @@
-// Roles & permissions admin screen: list / create / delete Keto roles and assign
-// them to users and groups. A role is a Keto subject set `Role:<name>#members` (OPL: members are users
-// or groups, resolved transitively) — the source of truth for the JWT `roles` claim. It shares the
-// Groups screen's membership model, so the pure helpers (parseSubject, member pickers, tuple paging)
-// are reused from admin-groups. The role-specific piece is the **effective access** view:
-// `keto.expand(Role:<name>#members)` flattened to the distinct users who hold the role directly or via
-// a group — matching what login projects into the JWT (login.ts readRoles). Writes go only to Keto;
-// Kratos is read only to label members. Below the builders are thin per-route handlers (keyed on
-// ctx.params) over a shared `withRoles` gate — admin-only, CSRF-guarded.
-
-import { type ExpandTree, type KetoClient, type KratosAdmin, paginate, parseListQuery, type RelationTuple, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type User } from "#plugin-api";
-import { ADMIN_PERMISSION, ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, requireAdmin, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
-import {
-  type GroupView,
-  groupsFromTuples,
-  isValidGroupName,
-  memberCandidates,
-  type MemberOption,
-  type MemberView,
-  memberView,
-  pagedTuples,
-  parseSubject,
-} from "./admin-groups.ts";
-import type { FieldConfig } from "./admin-users.ts";
-
-const ROLE_NS = "Role";
-const MEMBERS = "members";
-const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 25;
-const PAGE_SIZES = [25, 50, 100];
-// Expand far past any sane group-nesting depth so the effective-access view never silently
-// under-reports the deepest members (Keto's own default is shallow).
-const EXPAND_MAX_DEPTH = 50;
-
-// A role and a group share the URL-safe name rule and the user|group membership model.
-export type RoleView = GroupView;
-export const isValidRoleName = isValidGroupName;
-export const rolesFromTuples = groupsFromTuples;
-export interface EffectiveUser {
-  label: string; // email (or the raw id when unresolved)
-}
-
-// The full membership tuple for assigning/revoking `value` to/from `role` (null if value is invalid).
-export function roleMemberTuple(role: string, value: string): RelationTuple | null {
-  const subject = parseSubject(value);
-  return subject ? { namespace: ROLE_NS, object: role, relation: MEMBERS, ...subject } : null;
-}
-
-// Flatten a Keto `expand` tree → the sorted, distinct user ids that effectively hold the role
-// (direct leaves + users reached through member groups, any depth). The subject rides on each
-// node's `tuple`; subject-set nodes (the groups) contribute nothing directly — their members
-// surface as leaves under them.
-export function expandToEffectiveUsers(tree: ExpandTree | null | undefined): string[] {
-  const ids = new Set<string>();
-  const walk = (node?: ExpandTree | null): void => {
-    if (!node) return;
-    const subjectId = node.tuple?.subject_id;
-    if (subjectId?.startsWith("user:")) ids.add(subjectId.slice("user:".length));
-    node.children?.forEach(walk);
-  };
-  walk(tree);
-  return [...ids].sort();
-}
-
-// ---- list view model ----
-
-interface ListState {
-  page: number;
-  pageSize: number;
-  q: string;
-  sort: string | null;
-}
-
-const SORT: Record<string, (r: RoleView) => number | string> = {
-  members: (r) => r.memberCount,
-  name: (r) => r.name,
-};
-const COLUMNS = [
-  { key: "name", label: "Role" },
-  { key: "members", label: "Members" },
-];
-
-function detailHref(name: string): string {
-  return `${ADMIN_ROLES_BASE}/${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 ? `${ADMIN_ROLES_BASE}?${qs}` : ADMIN_ROLES_BASE;
-}
-
-export function buildRolesListModel(opts: {
-  csrfToken?: string;
-  roles: RoleView[];
-  url: URL | URLSearchParams | string;
-}) {
-  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" ? `-${sort.field}` : sort.field) : null;
-  const needle = query.q.toLowerCase();
-
-  let list = opts.roles.filter((r) => !needle || r.name.toLowerCase().includes(needle));
-  if (sort) {
-    const get = SORT[sort.field]!;
-    const dir = sort.dir === "desc" ? -1 : 1;
-    list = [...list].sort((a, b) => {
-      const av = get(a), bv = get(b);
-      const cmp = typeof av === "number" && typeof bv === "number" ? av - bv : String(av).localeCompare(String(bv));
-      return cmp * dir;
-    });
-  }
-
-  const page = paginate(list.length, query.page, query.pageSize, { boundaries: 1, siblings: 1 });
-  const start = (page.page - 1) * page.pageSize;
-  const rows = list.slice(start, start + page.pageSize);
-  const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q, sort: sortToken };
-
-  return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, label: "Admin" }, { label: "Roles" }],
-    filterBar: listFilterBar(state),
-    pagination: listPagination(state, page),
-    table: listTable(rows, state, sort),
-    title: "Roles",
-  };
-}
-
-function listTable(rows: RoleView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null) {
-  return {
-    caption: "Roles",
-    columns: COLUMNS.map((c) => {
-      const dir = sort && sort.field === c.key ? sort.dir : undefined;
-      const next = dir === "asc" ? `-${c.key}` : c.key;
-      return { href: listHref(state, { page: 1, sort: next }), label: c.label, sort: dir, sortable: true };
-    }),
-    rows: rows.map((r) => ({
-      cells: [{ rowHeader: { href: detailHref(r.name), text: r.name } }, String(r.memberCount)],
-      name: r.name,
-    })),
-  };
-}
-
-function listFilterBar(state: ListState) {
-  const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
-  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: "Search", remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
-  return {
-    applyLabel: "Apply",
-    clearHref: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE,
-    label: "Filter roles",
-    pills,
-    rows: [[
-      { label: "Search roles", name: "q", placeholder: "Search role name…", type: "search", value: state.q },
-      { type: "spacer" },
-    ]],
-  };
-}
-
-function listPagination(state: ListState, page: ReturnType<typeof paginate>) {
-  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: "Roles 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: "Rows", name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: "Go", value: state.pageSize },
-    summary: { from: page.from, to: page.to, total: page.total },
-  };
-}
-
-// ---- create form + detail view models ----
-
-export function buildRoleFormModel(opts: {
-  csrfToken?: string;
-  error?: string;
-  memberOptions: MemberOption[];
-  values?: { member?: string; name?: string };
-}) {
-  const nameField: FieldConfig = {
-    autocomplete: "off", hint: "Lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.", icon: "i-shield",
-    id: "name", label: "Role name", name: "name", required: true, value: opts.values?.name ?? "",
-  };
-  return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, label: "Roles" }, { label: "New" }],
-    error: opts.error,
-    form: {
-      action: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE,
-      cancelHref: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE,
-      csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
-      memberOptions: opts.memberOptions,
-      nameField,
-      selectedMember: opts.values?.member ?? "",
-      submitLabel: "Create role",
-    },
-    title: "New role",
-  };
-}
-
-export function buildRoleDetailModel(opts: {
-  candidates: MemberOption[];
-  csrfToken?: string;
-  effective: EffectiveUser[];
-  error?: string;
-  members: MemberView[];
-  role: { name: string };
-}) {
-  const name = opts.role.name;
-  const base = detailHref(name);
-  const taken = new Set(opts.members.map((m) => m.subject));
-  const options = opts.candidates.filter((c) => !taken.has(c.value)); // members are users/groups, never the role itself
-  return {
-    add: { action: `${base}/members`, options },
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, label: "Roles" }, { label: name }],
-    csrfToken: opts.csrfToken ?? "",
-    delete: { action: `${base}/delete` },
-    effective: opts.effective,
-    error: opts.error,
-    members: { action: `${base}/members/delete`, rows: opts.members },
-    role: { name },
-    title: name,
-  };
-}
-
-// ---- request handler (imperative shell) ----
-
-// instant-revoke: a role change for a `user:<id>` member must take effect now, so revoke that
-// user's live tokens (a re-mint then re-reads roles from Keto). A `group:<name>` change is
-// transitive across many users — left to lag (documented), so only direct user members revoke.
-function revokeUserMember(revoke: ((sub: string) => void) | undefined, member: string): void {
-  if (revoke && member.startsWith("user:")) revoke(member.slice("user:".length));
-}
-
-// A role exists exactly while it has ≥1 member (Keto has no create-object).
-async function roleExists(keto: KetoClient, name: string): Promise<boolean> {
-  const page = await keto.listRelations({ namespace: ROLE_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS, pageSize: 1 });
-  return page.tuples.length > 0;
-}
-
-// The distinct users who effectively hold the role (expand → flatten → label by email). Skipped for
-// an empty role (no member tuples) so we don't expand a non-existent Keto object.
-async function effectiveUsers(keto: KetoClient, name: string, hasMembers: boolean, emailById: Map<string, string>): Promise<EffectiveUser[]> {
-  if (!hasMembers) return [];
-  const tree = await keto.expand({ namespace: ROLE_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS }, { maxDepth: EXPAND_MAX_DEPTH });
-  return expandToEffectiveUsers(tree)
-    .map((id) => ({ label: emailById.get(id) ?? `user:${id}` }))
-    .sort((a, b) => a.label.localeCompare(b.label));
-}
-
-// Shared per-request deps for the Roles screen, resolved by `withRoles`: the gate + the Keto and
-// Kratos capabilities (else a themed 503). Each route below is a thin handler over these.
-interface RolesDeps { ctx: RequestContext; keto: KetoClient; kratosAdmin: KratosAdmin; revoke: ((sub: string) => void) | undefined; user: User; }
-
-function withRoles(inner: (deps: RolesDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>): RouteHandler {
-  return async (ctx) => {
-    const user = requireAdmin(ctx);
-    const keto = ctx.system?.keto;
-    const kratosAdmin = ctx.system?.kratosAdmin;
-    if (!keto || !kratosAdmin) return unavailable(ctx, "Keto and Kratos identity admin");
-    return inner({ ctx, keto, kratosAdmin, revoke: ctx.system?.revoke, user });
-  };
-}
-
-// Same, plus the validated :name from ctx.params (an invalid role name → themed 404).
-function withRoleName(inner: (deps: RolesDeps, name: string) => Promise<RouteResult>): RouteHandler {
-  return withRoles((deps) => {
-    const name = deps.ctx.params["name"] ?? "";
-    if (!isValidRoleName(name)) return Promise.resolve(notFound(deps.ctx));
-    return inner(deps, name);
-  });
-}
-
-const roleFormResult = async (deps: RolesDeps, 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: buildRoleFormModel({ csrfToken: deps.ctx.chrome.csrfToken, memberOptions: options, ...extra }) }, view: "role-form" };
-};
-
-// The role detail (members + effective access). With `error` set it's a 400 (a rejected action).
-const roleDetailResult = async (deps: RolesDeps, name: string, error?: string): Promise<RouteResult> => {
-  const { emailById, options } = await memberCandidates(deps.keto, deps.kratosAdmin);
-  const tuples = await pagedTuples(deps.keto, { namespace: ROLE_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS });
-  const members = tuples.map((t) => memberView(t, emailById));
-  const effective = await effectiveUsers(deps.keto, name, tuples.length > 0, emailById);
-  const result: RouteResult = { data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildRoleDetailModel({ candidates: options, csrfToken: deps.ctx.chrome.csrfToken, effective, members, role: { name }, ...(error ? { error } : {}) }) }, view: "role-detail" };
-  return error ? { ...result, status: 400 } : result;
-};
-
-// GET /admin/roles — the list.
-export const rolesList = withRoles(async ({ ctx, keto }) => {
-  const roles = rolesFromTuples(await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: ROLE_NS, relation: MEMBERS }));
-  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildRolesListModel({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, roles, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "roles" };
-});
-
-// POST /admin/roles — create + assign the first member (a *user* grant revokes their live tokens).
-export const rolesCreate = withRoles(async (deps) => {
-  const { ctx, keto, revoke, user } = deps;
-  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
-  const name = (form.get("name") ?? "").trim();
-  const member = (form.get("member") ?? "").trim();
-  const tuple = roleMemberTuple(name, member);
-  const reject = async (error: string): Promise<RouteResult> => ({ ...(await roleFormResult(deps, { error, values: { member, name } })), status: 400 });
-  if (!isValidRoleName(name)) return reject("Role names use lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.");
-  if (!tuple) return reject("Pick a user or group to assign the role to.");
-  if (await roleExists(keto, name)) return reject("A role with that name already exists.");
-  await keto.writeTuple(tuple);
-  revokeUserMember(revoke, member);
-  ctx.log.info("admin: role created + first member assigned", { actor: user.id, member, role: name });
-  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
-});
-
-// GET /admin/roles/new — the create form.
-export const rolesNewForm = withRoles((deps) => roleFormResult(deps, {}));
-
-// GET /admin/roles/:name — the detail (members + effective access via Keto expand).
-export const rolesDetail = withRoleName((deps, name) => roleDetailResult(deps, name));
-
-// POST /admin/roles/:name/members — assign a user/group; a *user* grant revokes their live tokens.
-export const rolesAddMember = withRoleName(async (deps, name) => {
-  const { ctx, keto, revoke, user } = deps;
-  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
-  const member = (form.get("member") ?? "").trim();
-  const tuple = roleMemberTuple(name, member); // the picker only offers real users/groups
-  if (tuple) { await keto.writeTuple(tuple); revokeUserMember(revoke, member); ctx.log.info("admin: role assigned", { actor: user.id, member, role: name }); }
-  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
-});
-
-// GET /admin/roles/:name/delete — confirm, except the admin role can't be deleted.
-export const rolesDeleteConfirm = withRoleName((deps, name) => {
-  if (name === ADMIN_PERMISSION) return roleDetailResult(deps, name, "The admin role can't be deleted — it would remove all admin access.");
-  const base = detailHref(name);
-  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, label: "Roles" }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: "Delete" }],
-    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: "Delete role",
-    message: `Delete role ${name}? This revokes it from everyone it's assigned to.`, title: "Delete role",
-  }) }, view: "confirm" });
-});
-
-// POST /admin/roles/:name/delete — remove every member tuple (a whole-role delete lags per the
-// documented instant-revoke tradeoff; the admin role is protected).
-export const rolesDelete = withRoleName(async (deps, name) => {
-  const { ctx, keto, user } = deps;
-  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
-  if (name === ADMIN_PERMISSION) return roleDetailResult(deps, name, "The admin role can't be deleted — it would remove all admin access.");
-  await keto.deleteTuple({ namespace: ROLE_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS });
-  ctx.log.info("admin: role deleted", { actor: user.id, role: name });
-  return { redirect: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE };
-});
-
-// POST /admin/roles/:name/members/delete — unassign; a *user* unassign revokes their live tokens.
-// Self-protection: an admin can't revoke their own *direct* admin grant (a group-held admin isn't
-// covered — the robust "last effective admin" check is deferred).
-export const rolesRemoveMember = withRoleName(async (deps, name) => {
-  const { ctx, keto, revoke, user } = deps;
-  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
-  const member = (form.get("member") ?? "").trim();
-  if (name === ADMIN_PERMISSION && member === `user:${user.id}`) return roleDetailResult(deps, name, "You can't revoke your own admin access.");
-  const tuple = roleMemberTuple(name, member);
-  if (tuple) { await keto.deleteTuple(tuple); revokeUserMember(revoke, member); ctx.log.info("admin: role unassigned", { actor: user.id, member, role: name }); }
-  return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
-});

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
-// (requireAdmin/guardedForm gate every admin write) and reused across all four 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 #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, type Log, type PageChrome, type RequestContext, type User } from "#plugin-api";
-import { ADMIN_NAV, ADMIN_PERMISSION, ADMIN_USERS_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, requireAdmin } from "./admin-shared.ts";
-
-const admin: User = { email: "ada@x.io", id: "u1", roles: ["admin"] };
-const member: User = { email: "bo@x.io", id: "u2", roles: ["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, log: {} as Log, params: {}, query: url.searchParams, req, res: {} as ServerResponse,
-    roles: opts.user?.roles ?? [], url, user: opts.user ?? null, verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
-  };
-}
-
-// ---- nav fragment ----
-
-test("ADMIN_NAV: a gated Admin header over the four screens; no per-request current/open state", () => {
-  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.id, "admin");
-  assert.equal(ADMIN_NAV.permission, ADMIN_PERMISSION); // gate on the header ⇒ composeNav drops the whole subtree for a non-admin
-  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/roles", "/admin/clients"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(ADMIN_NAV.children?.map((c) => c.label), ["Users", "Groups", "Roles", "OAuth2 clients"]);
-  assert.ok(ADMIN_NAV.children?.every((c) => c.current === undefined && c.permission === undefined)); // the header's gate covers the subtree
-});
-
-// ---- auth gates ----
-
-test("requireAdmin: anonymous → 401→/login, signed-in non-admin → 403, admin → the user", () => {
-  assert.throws(() => requireAdmin(fakeCtx({ user: null })), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 401 && e.location === "/login?return_to=%2Fadmin%2Fusers"); // bounce remembers the page
-  assert.throws(() => requireAdmin(fakeCtx({ user: member })), (e: unknown) => e instanceof GuardError && e.status === 403);
-  assert.equal(requireAdmin(fakeCtx({ user: admin })), admin);
-});
-
-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

@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-// Shared plumbing for the admin example plugin: the section nav fragment, the admin-only gate, the
-// CSRF-guarded form reader, the destructive-confirm model builder, and small RouteResult helpers
-// (themed not-found / capability-unavailable). Ported from the former built-in admin screens;
-// everything imports the host only through the #plugin-api barrel.
-
-import { can, CSRF_FIELD, GuardError, type NavNode, readFormBody, type RequestContext, requireSession, type RouteResult, type User } from "#plugin-api";
-
-export const ADMIN_PERMISSION = "admin"; // role token gating the whole admin section
-export const ADMIN_USERS_BASE = "/admin/users";
-export const ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE = "/admin/groups";
-export const ADMIN_ROLES_BASE = "/admin/roles";
-export const ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE = "/admin/clients";
-
-export type AdminScreen = "clients" | "groups" | "roles" | "users";
-
-// The plugin's nav fragment: the gated "Admin" header + its four screens. The host composes it into
-// the one global menu, filters per user (the header's `permission` drops the whole subtree for a
-// non-admin), and current-marks the active item — so there is no `current`/`open` state here.
-export const ADMIN_NAV: NavNode = {
-  children: [
-    { href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, icon: "i-users", id: "users", label: "Users" },
-    { href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, icon: "i-layers", id: "groups", label: "Groups" },
-    { href: ADMIN_ROLES_BASE, icon: "i-shield", id: "roles", label: "Roles" },
-    { href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, icon: "i-globe", id: "clients", label: "OAuth2 clients" },
-  ],
-  icon: "i-shield",
-  id: "admin",
-  label: "Admin",
-  permission: ADMIN_PERMISSION,
-};
-
-// The admin gate: a signed-in admin only. Each route already declares `permission: "admin"`, so the
-// host enforces this before the handler runs; this is defence-in-depth and what a direct unit test
-// relies on. Returns the (non-null) user for the handler to thread on. GuardError → /login or 403.
-export function requireAdmin(ctx: RequestContext): User {
-  const user = requireSession(ctx); // anonymous → GuardError → /login (return_to kept)
-  if (!can(ctx, ADMIN_PERMISSION)) throw new GuardError(403, "admin role 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: "That item doesn't exist.", title: "Not found" }, 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: `${what} is not configured on this deployment.`, title: "Admin unavailable" }, 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.ts

@@ -1,378 +0,0 @@
-// Users admin screen: list Kratos identities (filter/sort/paginate) +
-// create/edit/deactivate/delete/trigger-recovery. Writes go only to Kratos via the admin client
-// (README "stateless"). 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
-// — admin-only, CSRF-guarded, each returning a RouteResult (a view, or a redirect after a write — PRG).
-
-import { type Identity, type KratosAdmin, KratosError, paginate, parseListQuery, type RecoveryCode, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type User } from "#plugin-api";
-import { ADMIN_USERS_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, requireAdmin, 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;
-}
-
-const cap = (s: string): string => s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.slice(1);
-
-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: "Name" },
-  { key: "email", label: "Email" },
-  { key: "status", label: "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}?${qs}` : ADMIN_USERS_BASE;
-}
-
-export function buildUsersListModel(opts: {
-  csrfToken?: string;
-  identities: Identity[];
-  url: URL | URLSearchParams | string;
-}) {
-  const query = parseListQuery(opts.url, { defaultPageSize: DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE });
-  const status = query.filters.status?.[0] ?? "all";
-  const sort = query.sort && SORT[query.sort.field] ? query.sort : null;
-  const sortToken = sort ? (sort.dir === "desc" ? `-${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: "Admin" }, { label: "Users" }],
-    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, all.length),
-    pagination: listPagination(state, page),
-    table: listTable(rows, state, sort),
-    title: "Users",
-  };
-}
-
-function listTable(rows: UserView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null) {
-  return {
-    actions: true,
-    caption: "Users",
-    columns: COLUMNS.map((c) => {
-      const dir = sort && sort.field === c.key ? sort.dir : undefined;
-      const next = dir === "asc" ? `-${c.key}` : c.key; // asc→desc, else→asc
-      return { href: listHref(state, { page: 1, sort: next }), label: c.label, sort: dir, sortable: true };
-    }),
-    rows: rows.map((u) => ({
-      actions: [{ href: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(u.id)}`, icon: "i-edit", label: "Edit" }],
-      cells: [
-        { user: { initials: u.initials, name: u.name } },
-        u.email,
-        { badge: { label: cap(u.state), tone: STATE_TONE[u.state] ?? "info" } },
-      ],
-      name: u.name,
-    })),
-  };
-}
-
-function listFilterBar(state: ListState, total: number) {
-  const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
-  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: "Search", remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
-  if (state.status !== "all") pills.push({ label: "Status", remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, status: "all" }), value: cap(state.status) });
-  return {
-    applyLabel: "Apply filters",
-    clearHref: ADMIN_USERS_BASE,
-    label: "Filter users",
-    pills,
-    rows: [[
-      { label: "Search users", name: "q", placeholder: "Search name or email…", type: "search", value: state.q },
-      { legend: "Status", name: "status", options: [
-        { count: total, label: "All", value: "all" },
-        { label: "Active", value: "active" },
-        { label: "Inactive", value: "inactive" },
-      ], type: "segmented", value: state.status },
-      { type: "spacer" },
-    ]],
-  };
-}
-
-function listPagination(state: ListState, page: ReturnType<typeof paginate>) {
-  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: "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: "Rows", name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: "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: {
-  csrfToken?: string;
-  error?: string;
-  identity?: Identity | null;
-  recovery?: RecoveryCode;
-  values?: Partial<UserInput>;
-}) {
-  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}/${encodeURIComponent(view!.id)}` : ADMIN_USERS_BASE;
-
-  const fields: FieldConfig[] = [
-    { autocomplete: "email", icon: "i-mail", id: "email", label: "Email", name: "email", required: !editing, type: "email", value: email,
-      ...(editing ? { hint: "The login identifier — can't be changed here.", readonly: true } : {}) },
-    { id: "first", label: "First name", name: "first", optional: true, value: np.first },
-    { id: "last", label: "Last name", name: "last", optional: true, value: np.last },
-  ];
-  if (!editing) fields.push({ autocomplete: "new-password", hint: "Optional — leave blank to have the user set one via a recovery code.", icon: "i-lock", id: "password", label: "Password", name: "password", optional: true, type: "password" });
-
-  return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: "Users" }, { label: editing ? "Edit" : "New" }],
-    edit: editing ? {
-      deleteAction: `${idPath}/delete`,
-      id: view!.id,
-      nextLabel: view!.state === "inactive" ? "Reactivate" : "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 ? "Save changes" : "Create user" },
-    recovery: opts.recovery,
-    title: editing ? "Edit user" : "New user",
-  };
-}
-
-// ---- 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 (admin only) and
-// the Kratos capability (else a themed 503). Each route below is a thin handler over these.
-interface UsersDeps { ctx: RequestContext; kratosAdmin: KratosAdmin; revoke: ((sub: string) => void) | undefined; user: User; }
-
-// Resolve the shared deps, then run `inner`. The route's `permission: "admin"` already gated at the
-// host; `requireAdmin` is defence-in-depth and yields the user. GuardError (auth/CSRF) → host maps it.
-function withUser(inner: (deps: UsersDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>): RouteHandler {
-  return async (ctx) => {
-    const user = requireAdmin(ctx);
-    const kratosAdmin = ctx.system?.kratosAdmin;
-    if (!kratosAdmin) return unavailable(ctx, "Kratos identity admin");
-    return inner({ ctx, 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>): 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);
-  });
-}
-
-const formResult = (ctx: RequestContext, extra: Parameters<typeof buildUserFormModel>[0]): RouteResult =>
-  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildUserFormModel({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, ...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({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, identities, 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), 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, {})));
-
-// GET /admin/users/:id — the edit form, prefilled.
-export const usersEditForm = withTarget((deps, identity) => Promise.resolve(formResult(deps.ctx, { identity })));
-
-// POST /admin/users/:id — save edits; a Kratos 4xx re-renders the form (400).
-export const usersUpdate = withTarget(async ({ ctx, kratosAdmin }, identity, id) => {
-  const input = readUserInput((await guardedForm(ctx))!);
-  try {
-    await kratosAdmin.updateIdentity(id, updateIdentityPayload(identity, input));
-  } catch (err) {
-    if (err instanceof KratosError) return { ...formResult(ctx, { error: "Could not save changes — check the fields and try again.", identity }), 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: "You can't deactivate your own account.", 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: "You can't delete your own account.", identity }), status: 400 });
-  const back = `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}`;
-  const view = toUserView(identity);
-  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: "Users" }, { href: back, label: view.name }, { label: "Delete" }],
-    cancelHref: back, confirmAction: `${back}/delete`, confirmLabel: "Delete user",
-    message: `Delete ${view.email}? This permanently removes the account and can't be undone.`, title: "Delete user",
-  }) }, view: "confirm" });
-});
-
-// 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: "You can't delete your own account.", 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 ({ ctx, kratosAdmin }, identity, id) => {
-  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
-  const recovery = await kratosAdmin.createRecoveryCode(id);
-  return formResult(ctx, { identity, recovery });
-});
-
-function createError(err: KratosError): string {
-  return err.status === 409
-    ? "A user with that email already exists."
-    : "Could not create the user — check the email and try again.";
-}

examples/plugins/admin/plugin.ts

@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-// Admin example plugin: the Users / Groups / Roles / OAuth2-clients screens for running the system.
-// These used to ship inside the core; they were extracted here so a fresh clone has no built-in admin
-// GUI. 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 (Kratos/Keto/Hydra) and the
-// instant-revoke hook via ctx.system, which the host populates when those services are wired (the dev
-// stack wires all of them). Where a capability is absent the screen degrades to a themed 503.
-
-import { definePlugin, type HttpMethod, type Route, type RouteHandler } from "#plugin-api";
-import { clientsCreate, clientsDeleteConfirm, clientsDelete, clientsDetail, clientsList, clientsNewForm } from "./admin-clients.ts";
-import { groupsAddMember, groupsCreate, groupsDelete, groupsDeleteConfirm, groupsDetail, groupsList, groupsNewForm, groupsRemoveMember } from "./admin-groups.ts";
-import { rolesAddMember, rolesCreate, rolesDelete, rolesDeleteConfirm, rolesDetail, rolesList, rolesNewForm, rolesRemoveMember } from "./admin-roles.ts";
-import { usersCreate, usersDeleteConfirm, usersDelete, usersEditForm, usersList, usersNewForm, usersRecovery, usersState, usersUpdate } from "./admin-users.ts";
-import { ADMIN_NAV, ADMIN_PERMISSION } from "./admin-shared.ts";
-
-// Every admin route is gated by the one `admin` permission — the host redirects an anonymous visitor
-// to /login, gives a signed-in non-admin 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.
-const r = (method: HttpMethod, path: string, handler: RouteHandler): Route => ({ handler, method, path, permission: ADMIN_PERMISSION });
-
-export default definePlugin({
-  apiVersion: "1.0.0", // the host contract this was built against — a literal, never HOST_API_VERSION
-
-  nav: [ADMIN_NAV],
-
-  permissions: [{ description: "Administer users, groups, roles, and OAuth2 clients", token: ADMIN_PERMISSION }],
-
-  routes: [
-    // Users
-    r("GET", "/users", usersList),
-    r("POST", "/users", usersCreate),
-    r("GET", "/users/new", usersNewForm),
-    r("GET", "/users/:id", usersEditForm),
-    r("POST", "/users/:id", usersUpdate),
-    r("POST", "/users/:id/state", usersState),
-    r("GET", "/users/:id/delete", usersDeleteConfirm),
-    r("POST", "/users/:id/delete", usersDelete),
-    r("POST", "/users/:id/recovery", usersRecovery),
-    // Groups
-    r("GET", "/groups", groupsList),
-    r("POST", "/groups", groupsCreate),
-    r("GET", "/groups/new", groupsNewForm),
-    r("GET", "/groups/:name", groupsDetail),
-    r("POST", "/groups/:name/members", groupsAddMember),
-    r("GET", "/groups/:name/delete", groupsDeleteConfirm),
-    r("POST", "/groups/:name/delete", groupsDelete),
-    r("POST", "/groups/:name/members/delete", groupsRemoveMember),
-    // Roles
-    r("GET", "/roles", rolesList),
-    r("POST", "/roles", rolesCreate),
-    r("GET", "/roles/new", rolesNewForm),
-    r("GET", "/roles/:name", rolesDetail),
-    r("POST", "/roles/:name/members", rolesAddMember),
-    r("GET", "/roles/:name/delete", rolesDeleteConfirm),
-    r("POST", "/roles/:name/delete", rolesDelete),
-    r("POST", "/roles/:name/members/delete", rolesRemoveMember),
-    // OAuth2 clients
-    r("GET", "/clients", clientsList),
-    r("POST", "/clients", clientsCreate),
-    r("GET", "/clients/new", clientsNewForm),
-    r("GET", "/clients/:id", clientsDetail),
-    r("GET", "/clients/:id/delete", clientsDeleteConfirm),
-    r("POST", "/clients/:id/delete", clientsDelete),
-  ],
-});

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

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  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: "Client registered.", tone: "pos" }) %>
-<% } -%>
-<% if (locals.secret) { -%>
-  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="secret-h">
-    <h2 class="card-title" id="secret-h">Client secret</h2>
-    <p class="field-hint">Copy these now — the secret can't be shown again. Store them where the app reads its credentials.</p>
-    <div class="field"><label for="cid">Client ID</label><input class="input" id="cid" type="text" value="<%= c.id %>" readonly></div>
-    <div class="field"><label for="csecret">Client 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>Client ID</dt><dd><%= c.id %></dd>
-      <dt>Type</dt><dd><%= c.public ? "Public (PKCE)" : "Confidential" %></dd>
-      <dt>Consent</dt><dd><%= c.firstParty ? "First-party (auto-granted)" : "Shows the consent screen" %></dd>
-      <dt>Scopes</dt><dd><%= c.scopes.length ? c.scopes.join(" ") : "—" %></dd>
-      <dt>Redirect URIs</dt><dd><% if (c.redirectUris.length) { %><ul class="plain-list"><% c.redirectUris.forEach((u) => { %><li><%= u %></li><% }) %></ul><% } else { %>—<% } %></dd>
-    </dl>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="Client actions">
-    <p class="field-hint">To change a client, delete and re-register — this issues a new client ID and secret. The secret is shown only once, at registration.</p>
-    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= del.action %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete client</a>
-  </section>
-</div>

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

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  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="Confirm action">
-    <p><%= locals.message %></p>
-    <div class="form-actions">
-      <a class="btn" href="<%= locals.cancelHref %>">Cancel</a>
-      <form method="post" action="<%= 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

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Admin group membership body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
-    group   { name }
-    members { action, rows: { kind:"group"|"user", 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">Members</h2>
-<% if (members.rows.length) { -%>
-    <div class="table-wrap"><table class="table"><caption class="sr-only">Members of <%= group.name %></caption><thead><tr><th scope="col">Member</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th class="col-actions" scope="col"><span class="sr-only">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" ? "Group" : "User" %></span></td><td class="col-actions"><form method="post" action="<%= 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>Remove</button></form></td></tr>
-<% }) -%>
-    </tbody></table></div>
-<% } else { -%>
-    <p class="cell-muted">No members yet.</p>
-<% } -%>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="add-h">
-    <h2 class="card-title" id="add-h">Add a member</h2>
-<% if (add.options.length) { -%>
-    <form class="inline-form" method="post" action="<%= add.action %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrf %>"><label class="sr-only" for="add-member">Member</label><span class="select"><select id="add-member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled selected>Choose a user or group…</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>Add</button></form>
-<% } else { -%>
-    <p class="cell-muted">All users and groups are already members.</p>
-<% } -%>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="Group actions">
-    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= del.action %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete group</a>
-  </section>
-</div>

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

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Admin role detail body, captured into the shell content slot. Config:
-    role      { name }
-    members   { action, rows: { kind:"group"|"user", label, subject }[] }   action = revoke endpoint
-    effective { label }[]                                                    users who hold the role (expand)
-    add       { action, options: {label,value}[] }                          action = assign endpoint
-    del       { action }                                                     delete the whole role
-    csrfToken, error?
-%><%
-  const role = locals.role;
-  const members = locals.members;
-  const effective = locals.effective;
-  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">Assigned to</h2>
-<% if (members.rows.length) { -%>
-    <div class="table-wrap"><table class="table"><caption class="sr-only">Members of <%= role.name %></caption><thead><tr><th scope="col">Member</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th class="col-actions" scope="col"><span class="sr-only">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" ? "Group" : "User" %></span></td><td class="col-actions"><form method="post" action="<%= 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>Revoke</button></form></td></tr>
-<% }) -%>
-    </tbody></table></div>
-<% } else { -%>
-    <p class="cell-muted">Not assigned to anyone yet.</p>
-<% } -%>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="effective-h">
-    <h2 class="card-title" id="effective-h">Effective access</h2>
-    <p class="field-hint">Everyone who holds this role — directly or through a group (resolved by Keto).</p>
-<% if (effective.length) { -%>
-    <ul class="plain-list">
-<% effective.forEach((u) => { -%>
-      <li><span class="cell-strong"><%= u.label %></span></li>
-<% }) -%>
-    </ul>
-<% } else { -%>
-    <p class="cell-muted">No users hold this role yet.</p>
-<% } -%>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card" aria-labelledby="add-h">
-    <h2 class="card-title" id="add-h">Assign the role</h2>
-<% if (add.options.length) { -%>
-    <form class="inline-form" method="post" action="<%= add.action %>"><input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrf %>"><label class="sr-only" for="add-member">Member</label><span class="select"><select id="add-member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled selected>Choose a user or group…</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>Assign</button></form>
-<% } else { -%>
-    <p class="cell-muted">All users and groups already have this role.</p>
-<% } -%>
-  </section>
-  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="Role actions">
-    <a class="btn btn-danger" href="<%= del.action %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete role</a>
-  </section>
-</div>

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

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Admin role 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="<%= form.action %>">
-    <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= form.csrfToken %>">
-    <%- include("partials/field", form.nameField) %>
-    <div class="field">
-      <label for="member">Assign to</label>
-      <span class="select"><select id="member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled<% if (!form.selectedMember) { %> selected<% } %>>Choose a user or group…</option><% form.memberOptions.forEach((o) => { %><option value="<%= o.value %>"<% if (form.selectedMember === o.value) { %> selected<% } %>><%= o.label %></option><% }) %></select></span>
-      <span class="field-hint">A role exists once assigned; add more users or groups after creating it.</span>
-    </div>
-    <div class="form-actions">
-      <a class="btn" href="<%= form.cancelHref %>">Cancel</a>
-      <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
-    </div>
-  </form>
-</div>

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

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  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>Recovery code generated</strong><span>Give it to the user — they enter it on the <a href="/recovery">password-reset screen</a> to set a new password (generate a fresh one if it has expired).</span><% if (recovery.code) { %><span class="recovery-code"><code><%= recovery.code %></code></span><% } %></div></div>
-<% } -%>
-  <form class="form-card" method="post" action="<%= 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>
-      <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit"><%= form.submitLabel %></button>
-    </div>
-  </form>
-<% if (edit) { -%>
-  <section class="form-card admin-actions" aria-label="Account actions">
-    <form method="post" action="<%= 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>Generate recovery code</button></form>
-    <form method="post" action="<%= 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="<%= edit.deleteAction %>"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-trash"/></svg>Delete user</a>
-  </section>
-<% } -%>
-</div>

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

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Role admin detail page: the role-detail body (members · effective access) in the shell.
-%><%
-  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
-  const body = include("partials/role-detail-body", { add: model.add, csrfToken: model.csrfToken, del: model.delete, effective: model.effective, error: model.error, members: model.members, role: model.role });
--%>
-<%- 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/role-form.ejs

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Role admin create page: the role-form body captured into the app shell.
-%><%
-  const nav = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
-  const body = include("partials/role-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/roles.ejs

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-<%#
-  Roles admin list: the same building blocks as the Groups screen, around the shell, backed
-  by live Keto Role subject sets (admin-roles.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);
-  const actions = '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="/admin/roles/new"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>Add role</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/auth-admin/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# auth-admin — the plugin that administers users, groups, permissions, OAuth2 clients and plugin settings
+
+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/`
+(its folder name `auth-admin` is its id and mount path, so the screens live at `/auth-admin/*`) and restart:
+
+```bash
+cp -r examples/plugins/auth-admin plugins/auth-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`).
+A grant of a name no installed plugin declares is listed apart on the same page, with a Remove.
+
+## 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-admin.test.ts` (which mounts this plugin) and end-to-end in `e2e-tests/full-flow.spec.ts`.

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

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // 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.
+// HTTP routing/gate/CSRF + live Hydra calls (incl. the one-time secret) are exercised in src/http/app-admin.test.ts.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
 import {
@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ test("validateClientInput requires a name, ≥1 redirect URI, and absolute redir
 test("buildClientsListModel filters by search, paginates; the name links to the detail page", () => {
   const clients = Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => ({ client_id: `id-${String(i).padStart(2, "0")}`, client_name: `app-${String(i).padStart(2, "0")}`, token_endpoint_auth_method: "client_secret_basic" }));
 
-  const all = buildClientsListModel({ clients, url: "http://x/admin/clients" });
+  const all = buildClientsListModel({ clients, url: "http://x/auth-admin/clients" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
   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");
+  assert.equal(first.rowHeader.href, "/auth-admin/clients/id-00");
 
-  const one = buildClientsListModel({ clients, url: "http://x/admin/clients?q=app-07" });
+  const one = buildClientsListModel({ clients, url: "http://x/auth-admin/clients?q=app-07" });
   assert.equal(one.pagination.summary.total, 1);
   assert.deepEqual(one.filterBar.pills.map((p) => p.label), ["Search"]);
 });
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ 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.title, "Register client");
-  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/clients");
+  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/auth-admin/clients");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Register client");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
   assert.equal(m.form.nameField.required, true);
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ test("buildClientDetailModel: client info + delete action; the one-time secret +
 
   const plain = buildClientDetailModel({ client });
   assert.equal(plain.title, "Acme");
-  assert.equal(plain.delete.action, "/admin/clients/c1/delete");
+  assert.equal(plain.delete.action, "/auth-admin/clients/c1/delete");
   assert.equal(plain.created, false);
   assert.equal(plain.secret, undefined);
 

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

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 // 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 { type HydraAdmin, HydraError, type OAuth2Client, paginate, parseListQuery, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type User } from "#plugin-api";
+import { buildPaginationModel, 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, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, requireAdmin, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+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;
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ export function clientPayload(input: ClientInput): Record<string, unknown> {
   };
 }
 
-export function validateClientInput(input: ClientInput): string | null {
+export function validateClientInput(input: ClientInput, t: Translate = ADMIN_EN): string | null {
-  if (!input.name) return "Enter a name for the client.";
+  if (!input.name) return t("admin.clients.validation.name");
-  if (!input.redirectUris.length) return "Add at least one redirect URI.";
+  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 `"${uri}" is not a valid redirect URI — use an absolute URL like https://app.example.com/callback.`;
+      return t("admin.clients.validation.redirectUri", { uri });
     }
   }
   return null;
@@ -100,10 +100,13 @@ function listHref(state: ListState, overrides: Partial<ListState> = {}): string
 }
 
 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();
 
@@ -116,77 +119,64 @@ export function buildClientsListModel(opts: {
   const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q };
 
   return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: "Admin" }, { label: "OAuth2 clients" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: t("admin.nav.section") }, { label: t("admin.clients.title") }],
-    filterBar: listFilterBar(state),
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
-    pagination: listPagination(state, page),
+    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, t),
-    table: listTable(rows),
+    pagination: buildPaginationModel(page, (n) => listHref(state, { page: n }), { label: t("admin.clients.pagination"), pageSizes: PAGE_SIZES }),
-    title: "OAuth2 clients",
+    table: listTable(rows, t),
+    title: t("admin.clients.title"),
   };
 }
 
-function listTable(rows: ClientView[]) {
+function listTable(rows: ClientView[], t: Translate) {
   return {
-    caption: "OAuth2 clients",
+    caption: t("admin.clients.title"),
-    columns: [{ label: "Name" }, { label: "Client ID" }, { label: "Type" }],
+    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 ? "Public" : "Confidential", tone: c.public ? "warn" : "info" } },
+        { badge: { label: c.public ? t("admin.clients.public") : t("admin.clients.confidential"), tone: c.public ? "warn" : "info" } },
       ],
       name: c.name,
     })),
   };
 }
 
-function listFilterBar(state: ListState) {
+function listFilterBar(state: ListState, t: Translate) {
   const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
-  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: "Search", remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
+  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: t("filter.search"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
   return {
-    applyLabel: "Apply",
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"),
     clearHref: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE,
-    label: "Filter clients",
+    label: t("admin.clients.filter"),
     pills,
     rows: [[
-      { label: "Search clients", name: "q", placeholder: "Search name or client ID…", type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { 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>) {
-  const hidden: { name: string; value: string }[] = [];
-  if (state.q) hidden.push({ name: "q", value: state.q });
-  return {
-    label: "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: "Rows", name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: "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: "Name", name: "name", required: true, value: v?.name ?? "",
+    autocomplete: "off", icon: "i-box", id: "name", label: t("admin.clients.field.name"), name: "name", required: true, value: v?.name ?? "",
   };
   const scopeField: FieldConfig = {
-    hint: "Space-separated scopes the client may request.", id: "scope", label: "Scopes", name: "scope",
+    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: "OAuth2 clients" }, { label: "Register" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: t("admin.clients.title") }, { label: t("admin.clients.register") }],
     error: opts.error,
     form: {
       action: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE,
@@ -197,27 +187,31 @@ export function buildClientFormModel(opts: {
       public: v?.public ?? false,
       redirectUris: (v?.redirectUris ?? []).join("\n"),
       scopeField,
-      submitLabel: "Register client",
+      submitLabel: t("admin.clients.registerClient"),
     },
-    title: "Register client",
+    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: "OAuth2 clients" }, { label: opts.client.name }],
+    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 ? "Client registered" : opts.client.name,
+    title: opts.created ? t("admin.clients.created") : opts.client.name,
   };
 }
 
@@ -237,71 +231,74 @@ function readClientInput(form: URLSearchParams): ClientInput {
 // 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>): RouteHandler {
+function withClients(inner: (deps: ClientsDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
   return async (ctx) => {
-    const user = requireAdmin(ctx);
+    const user = requirePermission(ctx, "oauth2-clients", action);
     const hydra = ctx.system?.hydra;
-    if (!hydra) return unavailable(ctx, "Hydra OAuth2 admin");
+    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>): RouteHandler {
+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, ...extra }) }, view: "client-form" });
+  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildClientFormModel({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, t: ctx.t, ...extra }) }, view: "client-form" });
-const clientDetailResult = (ctx: RequestContext, client: OAuth2Client, extra: { created?: boolean; secret?: string } = {}): RouteResult =>
+const canWriteClients = (ctx: RequestContext): boolean => can(ctx, permissionName("oauth2-clients", "write"));
-  ({ data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildClientDetailModel({ client: toClientView(client), csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, ...extra }) }, view: "client-detail" });
 
-// GET /admin/clients — the list.
+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 /auth-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({ clients, csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "clients" };
+  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
+// POST /auth-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);
+  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: "Hydra rejected the client — check the redirect URIs and scopes.", values: input }), status: 400 };
+    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.
+// GET /auth-admin/clients/new — the register form.
-export const clientsNewForm = withClients(({ ctx }) => Promise.resolve(clientFormResult(ctx, {})));
+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).
+// GET /auth-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.
+// GET /auth-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: "OAuth2 clients" }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: "Delete" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE, label: tt("admin.clients.title") }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: tt("common.delete") }],
-    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: "Delete client",
+    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: tt("admin.clients.delete"),
-    message: `Delete client ${name}? Apps using it can no longer sign in through Plainpages.`, title: "Delete client",
+    message: tt("admin.clients.deleteMessage", { name }), title: tt("admin.clients.delete"),
   }) }, view: "confirm" });
-});
+}, "write");
 
-// POST /admin/clients/:id/delete — perform it.
+// POST /auth-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);

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

@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+// 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 src/http/app-admin.test.ts.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import type { PermissionDecl } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import type { KetoClient } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import { applyGrants, baselineToken, buildPermissionPicker, grantDiff, grantTuple, groupSubject, isStale, removeUndeclaredGrant, 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: "/auth-admin/users/u1/permissions", declared, direct: ["users:write"] });
+  assert.equal(picker.action, "/auth-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);
+});
+
+test("baselineToken depends on the offered grants held, not on their order or on undeclared ones", () => {
+  const token = baselineToken(declared, ["users:read", "users:write"]);
+  assert.match(token, /^[0-9a-f]+$/);
+  assert.equal(baselineToken(declared, ["users:write", "users:read"]), token);
+  assert.equal(baselineToken(declared, ["users:read", "users:write", "legacy:thing"]), token); // undeclared: never shown, never saved
+  assert.notEqual(baselineToken(declared, ["users:read"]), token);
+  assert.notEqual(baselineToken(declared, []), token);
+  assert.notEqual(baselineToken(declared, []), ""); // an empty set is a state too, not an absent token
+  assert.equal(buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: ["users:read", "users:write"] }).baseline, token);
+});
+
+test("isStale refuses a missing or old token, but only for a save that would change something", () => {
+  const held = ["users:read"];
+  const change = grantDiff(declared, held, ["users:read", "users:write"]);
+  const nothing = grantDiff(declared, held, ["users:read"]);
+  const current = new URLSearchParams({ baseline: baselineToken(declared, held) });
+  const old = new URLSearchParams({ baseline: baselineToken(declared, []) });
+  assert.equal(isStale(current, declared, held, change), false);
+  assert.equal(isStale(old, declared, held, change), true);
+  assert.equal(isStale(new URLSearchParams(), declared, held, change), true); // no token at all
+  assert.equal(isStale(old, declared, held, nothing), false); // a repeated save has nothing to refuse
+});
+
+test("applyGrants sends the whole change as one Keto transaction, and a failure applies none of it", async () => {
+  const calls: { delete: string[]; insert: string[] }[] = [];
+  const keto = (fail = false): KetoClient => ({
+    check: async () => false,
+    deleteTuple: async () => { throw new Error("unused"); },
+    expand: async () => ({ type: "leaf" }),
+    listRelations: async () => ({ nextPageToken: null, tuples: [] }),
+    transactTuples: async (c) => {
+      if (fail) throw new Error("boom");
+      calls.push({ delete: c.delete.map((tp) => tp.object), insert: c.insert.map((tp) => tp.object) });
+    },
+    writeTuple: async () => { throw new Error("unused"); },
+  });
+  const diff = { grant: ["a:read", "b:read"], revoke: ["c:read"] };
+
+  await applyGrants(keto(), userSubject("u1"), diff);
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, [{ delete: ["c:read"], insert: ["a:read", "b:read"] }]);
+  await assert.rejects(applyGrants(keto(true), userSubject("u1"), diff), /boom/);
+});
+
+test("buildPermissionPicker lists direct grants no plugin declares, with a remove action only for a writer", () => {
+  const direct = ["zed:read", "users:read", "old:write"];
+  const picker = buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/auth-admin/users/u1/permissions", declared, direct });
+  assert.deepEqual(picker.undeclared?.names, ["old:write", "zed:read"]);
+  assert.equal(picker.undeclared?.action, "/auth-admin/users/u1/permissions/remove");
+  assert.ok(picker.undeclared?.remove);
+  assert.equal(buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct, readOnly: true }).undeclared?.remove, undefined);
+  assert.equal(buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: ["users:read"] }).undeclared, undefined);
+  assert.equal(picker.baseline, buildPermissionPicker({ action: "/x", declared, direct: ["users:read"] }).baseline, "an undeclared grant doesn't make a form stale");
+});
+
+test("removeUndeclaredGrant deletes one held, undeclared grant and refuses anything else", async () => {
+  const subject = userSubject("u1");
+  const tuples = [grantTuple("old:write", subject), grantTuple("users:read", subject), grantTuple("old:write", userSubject("u2"))];
+  const deleted: string[] = [];
+  const keto: KetoClient = {
+    check: async () => false,
+    deleteTuple: async (tp) => { deleted.push(`${tp.object} ${tp.subject_id}`); },
+    expand: async () => ({ type: "leaf" }),
+    listRelations: async (q = {}) => ({ nextPageToken: null, tuples: tuples.filter((tp) => tp.subject_id === q.subject_id) }),
+    transactTuples: async () => { throw new Error("unused"); },
+    writeTuple: async () => { throw new Error("unused"); },
+  };
+  assert.equal(await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, subject, declared, "old:write"), "old:write");
+  assert.deepEqual(deleted, ["old:write user:u1"]);
+  assert.equal(await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, subject, declared, "users:read"), undefined, "a declared name is the picker's to change");
+  assert.equal(await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, subject, declared, "never:held"), undefined);
+  assert.equal(await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, subject, declared, null), undefined);
+  assert.deepEqual(deleted, ["old:write user:u1"]);
+});

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

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+// 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: a grant is a property of a
+// user or a group, edited where they are.
+
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
+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 const REMOVE_FIELD = "remove"; // the hidden field naming the undeclared grant a Remove form drops
+export const BASELINE_FIELD = "baseline"; // the hidden field carrying baselineToken
+export const SAVED_NOTICE = "permissions-saved"; // the `info-msg` a successful save redirects with
+export const REMOVED_NOTICE = "permission-removed"; // the `info-msg` a Remove redirects with; its own words, since the checkboxes were not saved
+
+// Only these exact values count, so a crafted link can't put words on the page.
+export function grantsNotice(url: URL, t: Translate): string | undefined {
+  const msg = url.searchParams.get("info-msg");
+  if (msg === SAVED_NOTICE) return t("admin.grants.saved");
+  return msg === REMOVED_NOTICE ? t("admin.grants.removed") : undefined;
+}
+
+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;
+  baseline: string; // baselineToken of the direct grants this form was rendered from
+  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;
+  notice?: string; // a confirmation, rendered above the list
+  // 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;
+  undeclared: UndeclaredGrants | undefined; // set when the subject holds a name no installed plugin declares
+}
+
+// Direct grants of names nobody declares (their plugin was uninstalled, or the name was written to
+// Keto by hand). grantDiff never touches them, so they get their own list and a Remove per name.
+export interface UndeclaredGrants {
+  action: string; // where each Remove posts
+  field: string;
+  hint: string;
+  legend: string;
+  names: string[];
+  remove: string | undefined; // the button label; unset for a reader, who is shown the names only
+}
+
+// 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 undeclared = undeclaredHeld(opts.declared, 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,
+    baseline: baselineToken(opts.declared, opts.direct),
+    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"),
+    undeclared: undeclared.length === 0 ? undefined : {
+      action: `${opts.action}/remove`,
+      field: REMOVE_FIELD,
+      hint: t("admin.grants.undeclaredHint"),
+      legend: t("admin.grants.undeclaredLegend"),
+      names: undeclared,
+      remove: opts.readOnly === true ? undefined : t("admin.grants.remove"),
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+const undeclaredHeld = (declared: readonly PermissionDecl[], held: readonly string[]): string[] => {
+  const offered = new Set(declared.map((d) => d.name));
+  return held.filter((name) => !offered.has(name)).sort();
+};
+
+// 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[]): GrantChange {
+  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(),
+  };
+}
+
+// Deletes one held grant of a name no plugin declares and returns the name. Deletes nothing for a
+// declared name, which the picker owns (so a Remove can't take away this plugin's own gates and needs
+// no self-lockout guard), or for one not held, as after a double click.
+export async function removeUndeclaredGrant(keto: KetoClient, subject: GrantSubject, declared: readonly PermissionDecl[], name: string | null): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  if (name === null || declared.some((d) => d.name === name)) return undefined;
+  if (!(await heldPermissions(keto, subject)).includes(name)) return undefined;
+  await keto.deleteTuple(grantTuple(name, subject));
+  return name;
+}
+
+// A token for the direct grants a form was rendered from. Like grantDiff it covers only the declared
+// names the form offered. It is a digest so an empty set is still a token; it is a guard against a
+// stale page, not a secret, since anyone who can read the page can compute it.
+export function baselineToken(declared: readonly PermissionDecl[], held: string[]): string {
+  const offered = new Set(declared.map((d) => d.name));
+  return createHash("sha256").update(held.filter((name) => offered.has(name)).sort().join("\n")).digest("hex").slice(0, 16);
+}
+
+// True when the form's token is missing or no longer matches Keto *and* the save would change
+// something. A save that changes nothing, such as a double-clicked Save whose first POST landed, is
+// harmless, so it is not refused.
+export const isStale = (form: { get(name: string): string | null }, declared: readonly PermissionDecl[], held: string[], diff: GrantChange): boolean =>
+  (diff.grant.length > 0 || diff.revoke.length > 0) && form.get(BASELINE_FIELD) !== baselineToken(declared, held);
+
+export interface GrantChange { grant: string[]; revoke: string[] }
+
+export const applyGrants = (keto: KetoClient, subject: GrantSubject, diff: GrantChange): Promise<void> =>
+  keto.transactTuples({ delete: diff.revoke.map((name) => grantTuple(name, subject)), insert: diff.grant.map((name) => grantTuple(name, subject)) });

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

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // 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.
+// HTTP in src/http/app-admin.test.ts.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
 import {
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
   memberView,
   parseSubject,
 } from "./admin-groups.ts";
-import type { RelationTuple } from "#plugin-api";
+import type { RelationTuple } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
 
 const uid = (n: number) => `01902d5e-7b6c-7e3a-9f21-3c8d1e0a4b${String(n).padStart(2, "0")}`;
 const userTuple = (group: string, n: number): RelationTuple =>
@@ -56,22 +56,22 @@ test("memberView resolves a user subject to its email (else the raw id) and a su
 test("buildGroupsListModel filters by search, sorts, paginates; the name links to the detail page", () => {
   const groups = Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => ({ memberCount: i + 1, name: `team-${String(i).padStart(2, "0")}` }));
 
-  const all = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/admin/groups" });
+  const all = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/auth-admin/groups" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
   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");
-  assert.equal(first.rowHeader.href, "/admin/groups/team-00");
+  assert.equal(first.rowHeader.href, "/auth-admin/groups/team-00");
 
   // Search narrows + shows a pill.
-  const one = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/admin/groups?q=team-07" });
+  const one = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/auth-admin/groups?q=team-07" });
   assert.equal(one.pagination.summary.total, 1);
   assert.deepEqual(one.filterBar.pills.map((p) => p.label), ["Search"]);
 
   // Sort by members descending puts the biggest group first.
-  const desc = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/admin/groups?sort=-members" });
+  const desc = buildGroupsListModel({ groups, url: "http://x/auth-admin/groups?sort=-members" });
   assert.equal((desc.table.rows[0]!.cells[0] as { rowHeader: { text: string } }).rowHeader.text, "team-29");
 });
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ test("buildGroupFormModel: a create form with a required name field + member opt
   const options = [{ label: "ada@example.com", value: `user:${uid(1)}` }, { label: "eng (group)", value: "group:eng" }];
   const m = buildGroupFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig", memberOptions: options });
   assert.equal(m.title, "New group");
-  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/groups");
+  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/auth-admin/groups");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Create group");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
   assert.equal(m.form.nameField.name, "name");
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ test("buildGroupDetailModel: members → rows, add-options exclude current membe
   const m = buildGroupDetailModel({ candidates, group: { name: "eng" }, members });
   assert.equal(m.title, "eng");
   assert.equal(m.members.rows.length, 2);
-  assert.equal(m.members.action, "/admin/groups/eng/members/delete");
+  assert.equal(m.members.action, "/auth-admin/groups/eng/members/delete");
-  assert.equal(m.add.action, "/admin/groups/eng/members");
+  assert.equal(m.add.action, "/auth-admin/groups/eng/members");
   assert.deepEqual(m.add.options.map((o) => o.value), [`user:${uid(2)}`, "group:ops"]);
-  assert.equal(m.delete.action, "/admin/groups/eng/delete");
+  assert.equal(m.delete.action, "/auth-admin/groups/eng/delete");
 });

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

@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@
 // per-route handlers (keyed on ctx.params) over a shared `withGroups` gate — admin-only, CSRF-guarded,
 // each returning a RouteResult.
 
-import { type KetoClient, type KratosAdmin, paginate, parseListQuery, type RelationQuery, type RelationTuple, type RequestContext, type RouteHandler, type RouteResult, type SubjectSet, type User } from "#plugin-api";
+import { buildPaginationModel, 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 { ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, buildConfirmModel, guardedForm, notFound, requireAdmin, unavailable } from "./admin-shared.ts";
+import { applyGrants, buildPermissionPicker, effectivePermissions, grantDiff, grantTuple, groupSubject, heldPermissions, grantsNotice, isStale, type PermissionPicker, PERMISSIONS_FIELD, REMOVE_FIELD, removeUndeclaredGrant, REMOVED_NOTICE, SAVED_NOTICE, userSubject } 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";
@@ -90,8 +91,8 @@ const SORT: Record<string, (g: GroupView) => number | string> = {
   name: (g) => g.name,
 };
 const COLUMNS = [
-  { key: "name", label: "Group" },
+  { key: "name", label: "admin.groups.column.name" },
-  { key: "members", label: "Members" },
+  { key: "members", label: "admin.groups.column.members" },
 ];
 
 function detailHref(name: string): string {
@@ -110,10 +111,13 @@ function listHref(state: ListState, overrides: Partial<ListState> = {}): string
 }
 
 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;
@@ -136,21 +140,22 @@ export function buildGroupsListModel(opts: {
   const state: ListState = { page: page.page, pageSize: page.pageSize, q: query.q, sort: sortToken };
 
   return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: "Admin" }, { label: "Groups" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: t("admin.nav.section") }, { label: t("admin.groups.title") }],
-    filterBar: listFilterBar(state),
+    canWrite: opts.canWrite !== false,
-    pagination: listPagination(state, page),
+    filterBar: listFilterBar(state, t),
-    table: listTable(rows, state, sort),
+    pagination: buildPaginationModel(page, (n) => listHref(state, { page: n }), { label: t("admin.groups.pagination"), pageSizes: PAGE_SIZES }),
-    title: "Groups",
+    table: listTable(rows, state, sort, t),
+    title: t("admin.groups.title"),
   };
 }
 
-function listTable(rows: GroupView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null) {
+function listTable(rows: GroupView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null, t: Translate) {
   return {
-    caption: "Groups",
+    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: c.label, sort: dir, sortable: true };
+      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)],
@@ -159,52 +164,37 @@ function listTable(rows: GroupView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "de
   };
 }
 
-function listFilterBar(state: ListState) {
+function listFilterBar(state: ListState, t: Translate) {
   const pills: { label: string; remove: string; value: string }[] = [];
-  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: "Search", remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
+  if (state.q) pills.push({ label: t("filter.search"), remove: listHref(state, { page: 1, q: "" }), value: state.q });
   return {
-    applyLabel: "Apply",
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"),
     clearHref: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE,
-    label: "Filter groups",
+    label: t("admin.groups.filter"),
     pills,
     rows: [[
-      { label: "Search groups", name: "q", placeholder: "Search group name…", type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { 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>) {
-  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: "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: "Rows", name: "pageSize", options: PAGE_SIZES, submitLabel: "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: "Lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.", icon: "i-layers",
+    autocomplete: "off", hint: t("admin.groups.field.nameHint"), icon: "i-layers",
-    id: "name", label: "Group name", name: "name", required: true, value: opts.values?.name ?? "",
+    id: "name", label: t("admin.groups.field.name"), name: "name", required: true, value: opts.values?.name ?? "",
   };
   return {
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: "Groups" }, { label: "New" }],
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: t("admin.groups.title") }, { label: t("common.new") }],
     error: opts.error,
     form: {
       action: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE,
@@ -213,39 +203,46 @@ export function buildGroupFormModel(opts: {
       memberOptions: opts.memberOptions,
       nameField,
       selectedMember: opts.values?.member ?? "",
-      submitLabel: "Create group",
+      submitLabel: t("admin.groups.create"),
     },
-    title: "New group",
+    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: "Groups" }, { label: name }],
+    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. (Reused by the Roles screen — same membership model.)
+// 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;
@@ -279,41 +276,68 @@ async function groupExists(keto: KetoClient, name: string): Promise<boolean> {
   return page.tuples.length > 0;
 }
 
-// Shared per-request deps for the Groups screen, resolved by `withGroups`: the gate + the Keto and
+const isMember = (keto: KetoClient, actor: string, group: string): Promise<boolean> =>
-// Kratos capabilities (else a themed 503). Each route below is a thin handler over these.
+  keto.check({ namespace: GROUP_NS, object: group, relation: MEMBERS, subject_id: `user:${actor}` });
+
+// The self-lockout guard, the group-side twin of the Users screen's self-revoke one: of the permissions
+// a change takes from a group the actor is in, those they don't hold directly. One they also hold
+// through another group is included, since telling those apart needs a reverse Keto query.
+async function lostToSelf(keto: KetoClient, actor: string, taken: readonly string[]): Promise<string[]> {
+  if (taken.length === 0) return [];
+  const direct = new Set(await heldPermissions(keto, userSubject(actor)));
+  return taken.filter((name) => !direct.has(name));
+}
+
+// Leaving a group takes everything it confers, including through its own parents.
+async function lostOnLeaving({ ctx, keto, user }: GroupsDeps, group: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  return lostToSelf(keto, user.id, await effectivePermissions(keto, groupSubject(group), ctx.declaredPermissions));
+}
+
+async function lostOnDelete(deps: GroupsDeps, group: string): Promise<string[]> {
+  return (await isMember(deps.keto, deps.user.id, group)) ? lostOnLeaving(deps, group) : [];
+}
+
+async function refuseSelfLockout(deps: GroupsDeps, name: string, action: string, lost: string[]): Promise<RouteResult> {
+  deps.ctx.log.warn("admin: refused a group change that would lock the actor out", { action, actor: deps.user.id, group: name, lost: lost.join(",") });
+  return { ...(await groupDetailPage(deps, name, { pageError: deps.ctx.t("admin.groups.error.selfLockout", { permissions: lost.join(", ") }) })), status: 400 };
+}
+
+// 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>): RouteHandler {
+function withGroups(inner: (deps: GroupsDeps) => Promise<RouteResult>, action?: AdminAction): RouteHandler {
   return async (ctx) => {
-    const user = requireAdmin(ctx);
+    const user = requirePermission(ctx, "groups", action);
     const keto = ctx.system?.keto;
     const kratosAdmin = ctx.system?.kratosAdmin;
-    if (!keto || !kratosAdmin) return unavailable(ctx, "Keto and Kratos identity admin");
+    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>): RouteHandler {
+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, ...extra }) }, view: "group-form" };
+  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.
+// GET /auth-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({ csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, groups, url: ctx.url }) }, view: "groups" };
+  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).
+// POST /auth-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))!;
@@ -321,25 +345,72 @@ export const groupsCreate = withGroups(async (deps) => {
   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("Group names use lowercase letters, digits, dashes and underscores.");
+  if (!isValidGroupName(name)) return reject(ctx.t("admin.groups.validation.name"));
-  if (!tuple) return reject("Pick a member to add as the group's first member.");
+  if (!tuple) return reject(ctx.t("admin.groups.validation.member"));
-  if (await groupExists(keto, name)) return reject("A group with that name already exists.");
+  if (await groupExists(keto, name)) return reject(ctx.t("admin.groups.error.duplicate"));
   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.
+// GET /auth-admin/groups/new — the create form.
-export const groupsNewForm = withGroups((deps) => groupFormResult(deps, {}));
+export const groupsNewForm = withGroups((deps) => groupFormResult(deps, {}), "write");
 
-// GET /admin/groups/:name — the detail + membership page.
+// The detail + membership page. `notice` and `error` ride the permission picker; `pageError` tops the
-export const groupsDetail = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, kratosAdmin }, name) => {
+// page, for any change refused because it would lock the actor out.
+async function groupDetailPage({ ctx, keto, kratosAdmin }: GroupsDeps, name: string, say: { error?: string; notice?: string; pageError?: string } = {}): Promise<RouteResult> {
   const { emailById, options } = await memberCandidates(keto, kratosAdmin);
   const members = (await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS })).map((t) => memberView(t, emailById));
-  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildGroupDetailModel({ candidates: options, csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, group: { name }, members }) }, view: "group-detail" };
+  const subject = groupSubject(name);
+  const [direct, effective] = await Promise.all([heldPermissions(keto, subject), effectivePermissions(keto, subject, ctx.declaredPermissions)]);
+  const permissions: PermissionPicker = {
+    ...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
+    }),
+    ...(say.error ? { error: say.error } : {}),
+    ...(say.notice ? { notice: say.notice } : {}),
+  };
+  return { data: { chrome: ctx.chrome, model: buildGroupDetailModel({ canWrite: !permissions.readOnly, candidates: options, csrfToken: ctx.chrome.csrfToken, group: { name }, members, permissions, t: ctx.t, ...(say.pageError ? { error: say.pageError } : {}) }) }, view: "group-detail" };
+}
+
+// GET /auth-admin/groups/:name — the detail + membership page.
+export const groupsDetail = withGroupName((deps, name) =>
+  groupDetailPage(deps, name, { notice: grantsNotice(deps.ctx.url, deps.ctx.t) ?? "" }));
+
+// POST /auth-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 (deps, name) => {
+  const { ctx, keto, user } = deps;
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const subject = groupSubject(name);
+  const held = await heldPermissions(keto, subject);
+  const diff = grantDiff(ctx.declaredPermissions, held, form.getAll(PERMISSIONS_FIELD));
+  if (isStale(form, ctx.declaredPermissions, held, diff)) return { ...(await groupDetailPage(deps, name, { error: ctx.t("admin.grants.stale") })), status: 409 };
+  const lost = diff.revoke.length > 0 && await isMember(keto, user.id, name) ? await lostToSelf(keto, user.id, diff.revoke) : [];
+  if (lost.length > 0) return refuseSelfLockout(deps, name, "save", lost);
+  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)}?info-msg=${SAVED_NOTICE}` };
 });
 
-// POST /admin/groups/:name/members — add a member (skip an invalid member or a self-nest).
+// POST /auth-admin/groups/:name/permissions/remove — drop one grant no installed plugin declares.
+export const groupsPermissionsRemove = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, user }, name) => {
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  const removed = await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, groupSubject(name), ctx.declaredPermissions, form.get(REMOVE_FIELD));
+  if (removed) ctx.log.info("admin: undeclared group permission removed", { actor: user.id, group: name, removed });
+  return { redirect: `${detailHref(name)}?info-msg=${REMOVED_NOTICE}` };
+});
+
+// POST /auth-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());
@@ -347,28 +418,47 @@ export const groupsAddMember = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto }, name) => {
   return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
 });
 
-// GET /admin/groups/:name/delete — the deliberate confirm step.
+// GET /auth-admin/groups/:name/delete — the deliberate confirm step.
-export const groupsDeleteConfirm = withGroupName((deps, name) => {
+export const groupsDeleteConfirm = withGroupName(async (deps, name) => {
+  const lost = await lostOnDelete(deps, name);
+  if (lost.length > 0) return refuseSelfLockout(deps, name, "delete", lost);
   const base = detailHref(name);
-  return Promise.resolve({ data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
+  const tt = deps.ctx.t;
-    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: "Groups" }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: "Delete" }],
+  return { data: { chrome: deps.ctx.chrome, model: buildConfirmModel({
-    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: "Delete group",
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE, label: tt("admin.groups.title") }, { href: base, label: name }, { label: tt("common.delete") }],
-    message: `Delete group ${name}? This removes the group and all its memberships.`, title: "Delete group",
+    cancelHref: base, confirmAction: `${base}/delete`, confirmLabel: tt("admin.groups.delete"),
-  }) }, view: "confirm" });
+    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).
+// POST /auth-admin/groups/:name/delete — one Keto transaction removes the group's member tuples
-export const groupsDelete = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto, user }, name) => {
+// and the grants it holds, so a Keto failure leaves the group as it was.
+export const groupsDelete = withGroupName(async (deps, name) => {
+  const { ctx, keto, user } = deps;
   await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
-  await keto.deleteTuple({ namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS });
+  const lost = await lostOnDelete(deps, name);
-  ctx.log.info("admin: group deleted", { actor: user.id, group: name });
+  if (lost.length > 0) return refuseSelfLockout(deps, name, "delete", lost);
+  // 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);
+  const grants = held.map((permission) => grantTuple(permission, subject));
+  const members = await pagedTuples(keto, { namespace: GROUP_NS, object: name, relation: MEMBERS });
+  await keto.transactTuples({ delete: [...grants, ...members], insert: [] });
+  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.
+// POST /auth-admin/groups/:name/members/delete — remove one member.
-export const groupsRemoveMember = withGroupName(async ({ ctx, keto }, name) => {
+export const groupsRemoveMember = withGroupName(async (deps, name) => {
+  const { ctx, keto, user } = deps;
   const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
   const tuple = memberTuple(name, (form.get("member") ?? "").trim());
-  if (tuple) await keto.deleteTuple(tuple);
+  if (!tuple) return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
+  // Removing the actor, or a nested group they are in, can take them out of this group.
+  const removesSelf = tuple.subject_set ? await isMember(keto, user.id, tuple.subject_set.object) : tuple.subject_id === `user:${user.id}`;
+  const lost = removesSelf ? await lostOnLeaving(deps, name) : [];
+  if (lost.length > 0) return refuseSelfLockout(deps, name, "remove", lost);
+  await keto.deleteTuple(tuple);
   return { redirect: detailHref(name) };
 });

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

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+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/auth-admin/admin-plugin-settings.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+// 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 /auth-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/auth-admin/admin-shared.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// 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-admin.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/auth-admin/users");
+  const req = Readable.from(opts.body != null ? [Buffer.from(opts.body)] : []) as unknown as IncomingMessage;
+  req.method = opts.method ?? "GET";
+  return {
+    assetHref: (href) => href, 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), ["/auth-admin/users", "/auth-admin/groups", "/auth-admin/clients", "/auth-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=%2Fauth-admin%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/auth-admin/admin-shared.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+// 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 = "/auth-admin/users";
+export const ADMIN_GROUPS_BASE = "/auth-admin/groups";
+export const ADMIN_CLIENTS_BASE = "/auth-admin/clients";
+export const ADMIN_PLUGIN_SETTINGS_BASE = "/auth-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
+// (docs/decisions.md → "`actionForMethod` is plugin-local and stays out of
+// `@plainpages/plugin-api`").
+export function actionForMethod(method: string): AdminAction {
+  const verb = method.toUpperCase();
+  return verb === "GET" || verb === "HEAD" ? "read" : "write";
+}
+
+// The plugin's nav fragment: the "Admin" header + its four screens, each gated on its own read
+// permission. composeNav drops a header left with no visible children, so a user holding none of
+// them 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
+  public: true, // the header gates nothing; every child needs a permission, and an empty header is dropped
+};
+
+// 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/auth-admin/admin-users.test.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 // 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.
+// routing/gate/CSRF + live Kratos calls are exercised over HTTP in src/http/app-admin.test.ts.
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
-import type { Identity } from "#plugin-api";
+import type { Identity } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
 import {
   buildUserFormModel,
   buildUsersListModel,
@@ -38,34 +38,42 @@ test("toUserView maps traits → name/initials/email/state; falls back to the em
 test("buildUsersListModel filters by search + status, sorts, and paginates", () => {
   const people = Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => identity(i + 1, { state: i % 2 ? "inactive" : "active" }));
 
-  const all = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/admin/users" });
+  const all = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/auth-admin/users" });
   assert.equal(all.pagination.summary.total, 30);
   assert.equal(all.table.rows.length, 25); // default page size
   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" });
+  const one = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/auth-admin/users?q=user7%40example.com" });
   assert.equal(one.pagination.summary.total, 1);
   assert.deepEqual(one.filterBar.pills.map((p) => p.label), ["Search"]);
 
   // Status filter keeps only inactive identities.
-  const inactive = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/admin/users?status=inactive" });
+  const inactive = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/auth-admin/users?status=inactive" });
   assert.equal(inactive.pagination.summary.total, 15);
   assert.deepEqual(inactive.filterBar.pills.map((p) => p.label), ["Status"]);
 
   // Sort by email descending reverses the order.
   const emailOf = (m: ReturnType<typeof buildUsersListModel>, i: number) => (m.table.rows[i]!.cells[1]) as string;
-  const desc = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/admin/users?sort=-email" });
+  const desc = buildUsersListModel({ identities: people, url: "http://x/auth-admin/users?sort=-email" });
   assert.ok(emailOf(desc, 0) > emailOf(desc, 1));
 
   // Edit link points at the per-identity route.
-  assert.match(all.table.rows[0]!.actions![0]!.href!, new RegExp(`/admin/users/${people[0]!.id}$`));
+  assert.match(all.table.rows[0]!.actions![0]!.href!, new RegExp(`/auth-admin/users/${people[0]!.id}$`));
+  assert.deepEqual([all.table.rows[0]!.actions![0]!.icon, all.table.rows[0]!.actions![0]!.label], ["i-edit", "Edit"]);
+});
+
+// The detail page of a `users:read` holder is read-only, so the row action must not promise an edit.
+test("buildUsersListModel: a read-only holder's row action says View, with the same target", () => {
+  const people: Identity[] = [{ id: "u1", traits: { email: "a@x.io" } }];
+  const action = buildUsersListModel({ canWrite: false, identities: people, url: "http://x/auth-admin/users" }).table.rows[0]!.actions![0]!;
+  assert.deepEqual([action.icon, action.label, action.href], ["i-eye", "View", "/auth-admin/users/u1"]);
 });
 
 test("buildUserFormModel: create mode has an editable email + password, no edit actions", () => {
   const m = buildUserFormModel({ csrfToken: "tok.sig" });
   assert.equal(m.title, "New user");
-  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/admin/users");
+  assert.equal(m.form.action, "/auth-admin/users");
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Create user");
   assert.equal(m.form.csrfToken, "tok.sig");
   const names = m.form.fields.map((f) => f.name);
@@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ 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.title, "Edit user");
-  assert.equal(m.form.action, `/admin/users/${id(3)}`);
+  assert.equal(m.form.action, `/auth-admin/users/${id(3)}`);
   assert.equal(m.form.submitLabel, "Save changes");
   const email = m.form.fields.find((f) => f.name === "email")!;
   assert.equal(email.value, "user3@example.com");
@@ -92,6 +100,19 @@ test("buildUserFormModel: edit mode prefills, locks email, and exposes state/del
   assert.equal(buildUserFormModel({ identity: identity(4, { state: "inactive" }) }).edit!.nextLabel, "Reactivate");
 });
 
+test("buildUserFormModel: the title and breadcrumb say New, Edit, or View for a users:read holder", () => {
+  const cases: [Parameters<typeof buildUserFormModel>[0], string, string][] = [
+    [{}, "New user", "New"],
+    [{ identity: identity(3) }, "Edit user", "Edit"],
+    [{ canWrite: false, identity: identity(3) }, "View user", "View"],
+  ];
+  for (const [opts, title, crumb] of cases) {
+    const m = buildUserFormModel(opts);
+    assert.equal(m.title, title);
+    assert.deepEqual(m.breadcrumbs, [{ href: "/auth-admin/users", label: "Users" }, { label: crumb }]);
+  }
+});
+
 test("createIdentityPayload: schema/state/traits, name only when given, password only when set", () => {
   assert.deepEqual(createIdentityPayload({ email: "a@b.c", first: "Ada", last: "Lovelace", password: "" }), {
     schema_id: "default",

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

@@ -0,0 +1,461 @@
+// 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 { buildPaginationModel, 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, grantsNotice, isStale, type PermissionPicker, PERMISSIONS_FIELD, REMOVE_FIELD, removeUndeclaredGrant, REMOVED_NOTICE, SAVED_NOTICE, 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: buildPaginationModel(page, (n) => listHref(state, { page: n }), { label: t("admin.users.pagination"), pageSizes: PAGE_SIZES }),
+    table: listTable(rows, state, sort, t, opts.canWrite !== false),
+    title: t("admin.users.title"),
+  };
+}
+
+function listTable(rows: UserView[], state: ListState, sort: { dir: "asc" | "desc"; field: string } | null, t: Translate, canWrite: boolean) {
+  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}/${encodeURIComponent(u.id)}`, icon: canWrite ? "i-edit" : "i-eye", label: t(canWrite ? "common.edit" : "admin.users.view") }],
+      cells: [
+        { user: { initials: u.initials, name: u.name } },
+        u.email,
+        { badge: { label: t(`admin.users.status.${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.${state.status}`) });
+  return {
+    applyLabel: t("filter.apply"), // an untranslated core key still resolves: the host catalog is the fallback
+    clearHref: ADMIN_USERS_BASE,
+    label: t("admin.users.filter"),
+    pills,
+    rows: [[
+      { label: t("admin.users.searchLabel"), name: "q", placeholder: t("admin.users.searchPlaceholder"), type: "search", value: state.q },
+      { legend: t("admin.users.status.label"), name: "status", options: [
+        { count: total, label: t("admin.users.status.all"), value: "all" },
+        { label: t("admin.users.status.active"), value: "active" },
+        { label: t("admin.users.status.inactive"), value: "inactive" },
+      ], type: "segmented", value: state.status },
+      { type: "spacer" },
+    ]],
+  };
+}
+
+export interface FieldConfig {
+  autocomplete?: string;
+  hint?: string;
+  icon?: string;
+  id: string;
+  label: string;
+  name: string;
+  optional?: boolean;
+  readonly?: boolean;
+  required?: boolean;
+  type?: string;
+  value?: string;
+}
+
+export function buildUserFormModel(opts: {
+  canWrite?: boolean; // false ⇒ a `users:read` holder: show the state, render no write affordance
+  csrfToken?: string;
+  error?: string;
+  identity?: Identity | null;
+  permissions?: PermissionPicker; // editing only — a user that doesn't exist yet can hold nothing
+  recovery?: RecoveryCode;
+  t?: Translate;
+  values?: Partial<UserInput>;
+}) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? ADMIN_EN;
+  const editing = opts.identity != null;
+  const view = editing ? toUserView(opts.identity!) : null;
+  const np = editing ? nameParts(opts.identity!) : { first: opts.values?.first ?? "", last: opts.values?.last ?? "" };
+  const email = editing ? view!.email : (opts.values?.email ?? "");
+  const idPath = editing ? `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(view!.id)}` : ADMIN_USERS_BASE;
+
+  const fields: FieldConfig[] = [
+    { autocomplete: "email", icon: "i-mail", id: "email", label: t("admin.users.field.email"), name: "email", required: !editing, type: "email", value: email,
+      ...(editing ? { hint: t("admin.users.field.emailHint"), readonly: true } : {}) },
+    { id: "first", label: t("admin.users.field.first"), name: "first", optional: true, value: np.first },
+    { id: "last", label: t("admin.users.field.last"), name: "last", optional: true, value: np.last },
+  ];
+  if (!editing) fields.push({ autocomplete: "new-password", hint: t("admin.users.field.passwordHint"), icon: "i-lock", id: "password", label: t("admin.users.field.password"), name: "password", optional: true, type: "password" });
+
+  const canWrite = opts.canWrite !== false;
+  const mode = !editing ? "new" : canWrite ? "edit" : "view";
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ href: ADMIN_USERS_BASE, label: t("admin.users.title") }, { label: t({ edit: "common.edit", new: "common.new", view: "admin.users.view" }[mode]) }],
+    canWrite, // the view drops every write affordance when false; the host already 403s the POSTs
+    edit: editing ? {
+      deleteAction: `${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: t({ edit: "admin.users.edit", new: "admin.users.new", view: "admin.users.viewTitle" }[mode]),
+  };
+}
+
+// ---- 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 /auth-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 /auth-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 /auth-admin/users/new — the empty create form.
+export const usersNewForm = withUser(({ ctx }) => Promise.resolve(formResult(ctx, {})), "write");
+
+// GET /auth-admin/users/:id — the edit form, prefilled.
+export const usersEditForm = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const permissions = await userPermissionPicker(deps, id, undefined, grantsNotice(deps.ctx.url, deps.ctx.t));
+  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, notice?: 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 } : {}),
+    ...(notice ? { notice } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+// POST /auth-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 held = await heldPermissions(keto, subject);
+  const refuse = async (error: string, status: number): Promise<RouteResult> => {
+    const permissions = await userPermissionPicker(deps, id, error);
+    return { ...formResult(ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(ctx), identity, ...(permissions ? { permissions } : {}) }), status };
+  };
+  const diff = grantDiff(ctx.declaredPermissions, held, form.getAll(PERMISSIONS_FIELD));
+  if (isStale(form, ctx.declaredPermissions, held, diff)) return refuse(ctx.t("admin.grants.stale"), 409);
+  // 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(",") });
+    return refuse(ctx.t("admin.grants.selfRevoke"), 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)}?info-msg=${SAVED_NOTICE}` };
+});
+
+// POST /auth-admin/users/:id/permissions/remove — drop one direct grant no installed plugin declares.
+export const usersPermissionsRemove = withTarget(async ({ ctx, keto, revoke, user }, _identity, id) => {
+  const form = (await guardedForm(ctx))!;
+  if (!keto) return unavailable(ctx, ctx.t("admin.capability.keto"));
+  const removed = await removeUndeclaredGrant(keto, userSubject(id), ctx.declaredPermissions, form.get(REMOVE_FIELD));
+  if (removed) {
+    revoke?.(id);
+    ctx.log.info("admin: undeclared user permission removed", { actor: user.id, removed, target: id });
+  }
+  return { redirect: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}?info-msg=${REMOVED_NOTICE}` };
+});
+
+// POST /auth-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) {
+    if (err instanceof KratosError) return refuseForm(deps, identity, id, ctx.t("admin.users.error.save"));
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return { redirect: `${ADMIN_USERS_BASE}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}` };
+});
+
+// POST /auth-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 (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const { ctx, kratosAdmin, revoke, user } = deps;
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST (no fields read)
+  if (id === user.id) return refuseForm(deps, identity, id, ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDeactivate"));
+  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 /auth-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 refuseForm(deps, identity, id, deps.ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDelete"));
+  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 /auth-admin/users/:id/delete — perform it; revoke the gone account's live tokens. Refuses self-delete.
+export const usersDelete = withTarget(async (deps, identity, id) => {
+  const { ctx, kratosAdmin, revoke, user } = deps;
+  await guardedForm(ctx); // CSRF-verify the POST
+  if (id === user.id) return refuseForm(deps, identity, id, ctx.t("admin.users.error.selfDelete"));
+  await kratosAdmin.deleteIdentity(id);
+  revoke?.(id);
+  ctx.log.info("admin: user deleted", { actor: user.id, target: id });
+  return { redirect: ADMIN_USERS_BASE };
+});
+
+// POST /auth-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 400 re-render of the user's form with `error` above it. `usersPermissions` refuses through its
+// own `refuse`, which puts the error in the permissions section instead.
+async function refuseForm(deps: UsersDeps, identity: Identity, id: string, error: string): Promise<RouteResult> {
+  return { ...formResult(deps.ctx, { canWrite: canWriteUsers(deps.ctx), error, identity, ...(await pickerOrNothing(deps, id)) }), status: 400 };
+}
+
+// The picker as a spreadable fragment, so every form re-render keeps 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/auth-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.remove": "Remove",
+  "admin.grants.removed": "Permission removed.",
+  "admin.grants.save": "Save permissions",
+  "admin.grants.saved": "Permissions saved.",
+  "admin.grants.selfRevoke": "You can't revoke your own permissions — ask another administrator, so you can't lock yourself out.",
+  "admin.grants.stale": "These permissions changed while you had the page open, so nothing was saved. The list now shows the current state. Review it and save again.",
+  "admin.grants.undeclaredHint": "These permissions are held here, but no installed plugin declares them, so the list above can't change them. A plugin may still check one without declaring it.",
+  "admin.grants.undeclaredLegend": "Permissions no installed plugin declares",
+
+  "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.error.duplicate": "A group with that name already exists.",
+  "admin.groups.error.selfLockout": "This change would lock you out of {{permissions}}, which you hold through this group. Ask another administrator to make it.",
+  "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": "Send the user this link and code. They open the link and enter the code to set a new password (generate a fresh code if it has expired):",
+  "admin.users.recovery.link": "password-reset link",
+  "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",
+  "admin.users.view": "View",
+  "admin.users.viewTitle": "View user",
+};
+
+export type AdminMessages = typeof messages;
+
+export default messages;

examples/plugins/auth-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.remove": "Ta bort",
+  "admin.grants.removed": "Behörigheten är borttagen.",
+  "admin.grants.save": "Spara behörigheter",
+  "admin.grants.saved": "Behörigheterna är sparade.",
+  "admin.grants.selfRevoke": "Du kan inte återkalla dina egna behörigheter — be en annan administratör, så att du inte låser ute dig själv.",
+  "admin.grants.stale": "Behörigheterna ändrades medan du hade sidan öppen, så ingenting sparades. Listan visar nu aktuellt läge. Granska den och spara igen.",
+  "admin.grants.undeclaredHint": "Behörigheterna innehas här, men ingen installerad plugin deklarerar dem, så listan ovan kan inte ändra dem. En plugin kan ändå kontrollera någon av dem utan att deklarera den.",
+  "admin.grants.undeclaredLegend": "Behörigheter som ingen installerad plugin deklarerar",
+
+  "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.error.duplicate": "Det finns redan en grupp med det namnet.",
+  "admin.groups.error.selfLockout": "Ändringen skulle låsa ute dig från {{permissions}}, som du har genom den här gruppen. Be en annan administratör att göra den.",
+  "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": "Skicka länken och koden till användaren. Användaren öppnar länken och anger koden för att sätta ett nytt lösenord (skapa en ny kod om den hunnit gå ut):",
+  "admin.users.recovery.link": "länk 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",
+  "admin.users.view": "Visa",
+  "admin.users.viewTitle": "Visa användare",
+};
+
+export default messages;

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

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+// 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/auth-admin/plugin.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// Admin example plugin: the Users / Groups / OAuth2-clients screens for running the system. Copy
+// this folder to plugins/auth-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, groupsPermissionsRemove, groupsRemoveMember } from "./admin-groups.ts";
+import { pluginSettingsList } from "./admin-plugin-settings.ts";
+import { usersCreate, usersDeleteConfirm, usersDelete, usersEditForm, usersList, usersNewForm, usersPermissions, usersPermissionsRemove, 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: "0.5.0", // 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),
+    users("POST", "/users/:id/permissions/remove", usersPermissionsRemove),
+    // 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),
+    groups("POST", "/groups/:name/permissions/remove", groupsPermissionsRemove),
+    // 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/auth-admin/views/client-detail.ejs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   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", { client: model.client, created: model.created, csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken, del: model.delete, secret: model.secret });
+  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,

examples/plugins/auth-admin/views/clients.ejs

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 <%#
   OAuth2 clients admin list: apps that log in *through* us (Hydra). Same building blocks as
-  the Roles screen, around the shell, backed by live Hydra OAuth2 clients (admin-clients.ts).
+  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);
-  const actions = '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="/admin/clients/new"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>Register client</a>';
+  // 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("/auth-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,

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

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   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, csrfToken: model.csrfToken, del: model.delete, error: model.error, group: model.group, members: model.members });
+  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,

examples/plugins/auth-admin/views/groups.ejs

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
   const filters = include("partials/filter-bar", model.filterBar);
   const table = include("partials/data-table", model.table);
   const pager = include("partials/pagination", model.pagination);
-  const actions = '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="/admin/groups/new"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>Add group</a>';
+  // 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("/auth-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,

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

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<%#
+  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/auth-admin/views/partials/client-form-body.ejs

@@ -10,20 +10,20 @@
 <% if (locals.error) { -%>
 <%- 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("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("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/auth-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/auth-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/auth-admin/views/partials/group-form-body.ejs

@@ -10,16 +10,16 @@
 <% if (locals.error) { -%>
 <%- 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("partials/field", form.nameField) %>
     <div class="field">
-      <label for="member">First member</label>
+      <label for="member"><%= t("admin.groups.firstMember") %></label>
-      <span class="select"><select id="member" name="member" required><option value="" disabled<% if (!form.selectedMember) { %> selected<% } %>>Choose a member…</option><% form.memberOptions.forEach((o) => { %><option value="<%= o.value %>"<% if (form.selectedMember === o.value) { %> selected<% } %>><%= o.label %></option><% }) %></select></span>
+      <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">A group exists once it has a member; add more after creating it.</span>
+      <span class="field-hint"><%= t("admin.groups.firstMemberHint") %></span>
     </div>
     <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/auth-admin/views/partials/permission-picker.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<%#
+  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, baseline, choices, empty, error, field, hint, inheritedNote, legend, notice, pending, readOnly, submit, undeclared }).
+
+%>
+  <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.notice) { -%>
+<%- include("partials/alert", { text: permissions.notice, tone: "pos" }) %>
+<% } -%>
+<% 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 { -%>
+    <%# The fragment brings the card, and the notice in it, into view on a long page. %>
+    <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(permissions.action + '#permissions-h') %>">
+      <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrfToken %>">
+      <input type="hidden" name="baseline" value="<%= permissions.baseline %>">
+      <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>
+<% } -%>
+<% } -%>
+<% if (permissions.undeclared) { const u = permissions.undeclared; -%>
+    <h3 class="card-title" id="undeclared-h"><%= u.legend %></h3>
+    <p class="cell-muted"><%= u.hint %></p>
+    <ul class="plain-list" aria-labelledby="undeclared-h">
+<% u.names.forEach((name) => { -%>
+      <li>
+<% if (u.remove) { -%>
+        <form method="post" action="<%= localeHref(u.action + '#permissions-h') %>">
+          <input type="hidden" name="_csrf" value="<%= csrfToken %>">
+          <input type="hidden" name="<%= u.field %>" value="<%= name %>">
+          <span class="cell-muted"><%= name %></span>
+          <button class="btn btn-danger" type="submit"><%= u.remove %><span class="sr-only"> <%= name %></span></button>
+        </form>
+<% } else { -%>
+        <span class="cell-muted"><%= name %></span>
+<% } -%>
+      </li>
+<% }) -%>
+    </ul>
+<% } -%>
+  </section>

examples/plugins/auth-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, link }   shown after a recovery code is generated; link is the URL of the flow the code was minted on, the only flow that accepts the code
+    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="<%= recovery.link %>"><%= t("admin.users.recovery.link") %></a></span><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/auth-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/auth-admin/views/user-form.ejs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   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", { edit: model.edit, error: model.error, form: model.form, recovery: model.recovery });
+  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,

examples/plugins/auth-admin/views/users.ejs

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
   const filters = include("partials/filter-bar", model.filterBar);
   const table = include("partials/data-table", model.table);
   const pager = include("partials/pagination", model.pagination);
-  const actions = '<a class="btn btn-primary" href="/admin/users/new"><svg class="ico ico-sm" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#i-plus"/></svg>Add user</a>';
+  // 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("/auth-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,

examples/plugins/scheduling/README.md

@@ -10,20 +10,29 @@ 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 admin example plugin does.)
+  `?offset`, and render `pagination.ejs` with `paginate()` and `buildPaginationModel()`, 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` /
+- **All three route gates** — the Overview is `public` (anyone), "My shifts" is `session` (any
-  `scheduling:write`; the whole "Scheduling" section is invisible to anyone without the grant.
+  signed-in visitor, showing only rows assigned to them), and "Shifts" is gated on `scheduling:read` /
+  `scheduling:write`; a leaf whose gate a visitor fails is invisible in the menu.
+- **Ownership joined on the identity id** — "My shifts" asks the upstream for `assigneeId=ctx.user.id`,
+  the opaque subject id, and renders the row's separate `assignee` display name. An email address is
+  user-changeable and can be reassigned to someone else, who would then inherit those rows.
+- **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).
 
@@ -34,9 +43,14 @@ Your backend must expose two routes; the plugin treats any non-2xx as a recovera
 
 | Route | Request | Success | Response body |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `GET /shifts` | `Accept: application/json` | `200` | JSON array of `{ id, title, assignee, start, end }` (all strings; missing fields coerce to `""`) |
+| `GET /shifts` | `Accept: application/json`, optional `?assigneeId=<id>` | `200` | JSON array of `{ id, title, assignee, assigneeId, start, end }` (all strings; missing fields coerce to `""`). With `assigneeId`, only that person's rows |
 | `POST /shifts` | JSON body `{ title, assignee, start, end }` | `2xx` | ignored (the plugin POST-redirect-GETs back to the list) |
 
+`POST /shifts` carries the assignee as a **display name only**, so a shift created through this
+plugin's form belongs to nobody and surfaces on no one's "My shifts" — don't go hunting for it
+there. Resolving a name to an identity id needs a directory this demo has none of; a real backend
+does that join at create time and stores the `assigneeId` alongside the name.
+
 Domain rules (overlap, capacity, time ordering) live in your backend — reject with a 4xx and the
 form re-renders. The plugin only validates that `title` and `assignee` are non-empty.
 
@@ -46,6 +60,8 @@ 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 the shift list once they hold the `scheduling:read` permission in Keto (and
-to create). The one-command bootstrap grants both to the demo admin, so the seeded
+`scheduling:write` to create). The one-command bootstrap grants both to the demo admin, so the seeded
-`admin@plainpages.local` can use it immediately.
+`admin@plainpages.local` can use it immediately. "My shifts" needs no grant at all — signing in is
+its whole gate; it lists the rows this demo upstream holds against the signed-in visitor's id, and
+the demo's seeded rows belong to three made-up people, so a freshly seeded admin sees it empty.

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

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// 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.mine.empty": "No shifts are assigned to {{email}}.",
+  "scheduling.mine.title": "My shifts",
+  "scheduling.nav.mine": "My shifts",
+  "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.mine": "See my shifts",
+  "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 +1,38 @@
+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.mine.empty": "Inga pass är tilldelade {{email}}.",
+  "scheduling.mine.title": "Mina pass",
+  "scheduling.nav.mine": "Mina 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.mine": "Visa mina pass",
+  "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

@@ -2,46 +2,63 @@
 // 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 "#plugin-api";
+import { definePlugin } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
-import { assertHttpUrl, createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, newShiftForm, overview, READ, SCHEDULING_PATH, SHIFTS_PATH, WRITE } from "./shifts.ts";
+import { createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, MINE_PATH, myShifts, 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). Configure via env; the dev compose points it at a tiny mock (examples/shifts-upstream).
+// stateless). Its URL is a declared setting, so it is resolved and validated before onBoot hands it
-const upstreamUrl = process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"] ?? "http://shifts-upstream:4000";
+// over — which is after this manifest is built, hence the getter.
-const upstream = createUpstream(upstreamUrl);
+let upstreamUrl = "";
+const upstream = createUpstream(() => upstreamUrl);
 
 export default definePlugin({
-  apiVersion: "1.0.0", // the host contract this was built against — a literal, never HOST_API_VERSION
+  apiVersion: "0.5.0", // the host contract this was built against — a literal, never HOST_API_VERSION
 
-  // onBoot runs after discovery, before the server listens: validate the plugin's own config so a
+  // onBoot runs after discovery, before the server listens — where a plugin receives its resolved
-  // typo'd SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM fails the boot loudly instead of degrading every request later.
+  // settings. A malformed URL already failed the boot by then; the host validated the declared type.
-  hooks: { onBoot: () => assertHttpUrl(upstreamUrl, "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM") },
+  hooks: { onBoot: ({ settings }) => { upstreamUrl = settings.upstream; } },
 
-  // Merged into the global menu + filtered per user. "Overview" is `public`, so the "Scheduling"
+  // 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: "Overview", public: true },
+      { href: SCHEDULING_PATH, id: "scheduling:overview", label: "scheduling.nav.overview", public: true },
-      { href: SHIFTS_PATH, id: "scheduling:shifts", label: "Shifts", permission: READ },
+      { href: MINE_PATH, id: "scheduling:mine", label: "scheduling.nav.mine", session: true },
+      { href: SHIFTS_PATH, id: "scheduling:shifts", label: "scheduling.nav.shifts", permission: READ },
     ],
     icon: "i-cal",
     id: "scheduling",
-    label: "Scheduling",
+    label: "scheduling.nav.section",
+    public: true, // the header gates nothing; each child names its own gate, and an empty header is dropped
   }],
 
-  // Tokens this plugin introduces (docs + Keto seeding). Namespaced `<id>:<action>`.
+  // Roles this plugin introduces (docs + Keto seeding). Namespaced `<id>:<action>`.
   permissions: [
-    { description: "View shifts", token: READ },
+    { description: "View shifts", name: READ },
-    { description: "Create and edit shifts", token: WRITE },
+    { description: "Create and edit shifts", name: WRITE },
   ],
 
-  // Mounted under /scheduling; `permission` gates before the handler runs. The overview is `public`
+  // Also offered in the profile dropdown above Sign out, since the page is the visitor's own.
-  // (anyone may reach /scheduling, signed in or not); the rest need a role.
+  profileMenu: [{ href: MINE_PATH, icon: "i-cal", id: "scheduling:profile-mine", label: "scheduling.nav.mine", session: true }],
+
   routes: [
     { handler: overview(), method: "GET", path: "/", public: true },
+    { handler: myShifts(upstream), method: "GET", path: "/mine", session: 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/public/scheduling.css

@@ -4,3 +4,9 @@
 .scheduling-page .table-wrap {
   margin-top: var(--space-3, 0.75rem);
 }
+/* Inset what sits directly in the pane by --pad-x, as the filter bar, table and pager already are. */
+.scheduling-page > p,
+.scheduling-page > .alert,
+.scheduling-page > .btn {
+  margin-inline: var(--pad-x);
+}

examples/plugins/scheduling/shifts.test.ts

@@ -2,28 +2,31 @@ 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 "#plugin-api";
+import { englishTranslator, GuardError, Log, type PageChrome, type RequestContext, type RouteResult, type User } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import enUS from "./i18n/en-US.ts";
 import {
-  assertHttpUrl, buildFormModel, createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, newShiftForm, overview, readInput,
+  buildFormModel, createShift, createUpstream, listShifts, myShifts, 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; user?: User; 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,
+    assetHref: (href) => href, chrome: CHROME, declaredPermissions: [], declaredSettings: [], user: opts.user ?? null, locale: "en-US", localeHref: (href) => href, locales: ["en-US"], log: new Log("none"), params: {},
-    roles: opts.roles ?? [], url, user: null, verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
+    query: url.searchParams, req, res: {} as ServerResponse, permissions: opts.permissions ?? [], t, url,
+    verifyCsrf: opts.verifyCsrf ?? (() => true),
   };
 }
 
 const SHIFTS: Shift[] = [
-  { assignee: "Avery Kline", end: "12:00", id: "1", start: "08:00", title: "Morning desk" },
+  { assignee: "Avery Kline", assigneeId: "019bdc1a-3f27-7c41-9a6e-2b1d4f8e05a3", end: "12:00", id: "1", start: "08:00", title: "Morning desk" },
-  { assignee: "Blair Mora", end: "17:00", id: "2", start: "12:00", title: "Afternoon support" },
+  { assignee: "Blair Mora", assigneeId: "019bdc1a-4a83-7de2-8f05-6c93a71be4d8", end: "17:00", id: "2", start: "12:00", title: "Afternoon support" },
 ];
 const fakeUpstream = (over: Partial<ShiftsUpstream> = {}): ShiftsUpstream => ({ create: async () => {}, list: async () => SHIFTS, ...over });
 
@@ -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", () => {
+test("the manifest declares its upstream as a URL setting the host validates", async () => {
-  assert.doesNotThrow(() => assertHttpUrl("http://shifts-upstream:4000", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"));
+  const manifest = (await import("./plugin.ts")).default;
-  assert.doesNotThrow(() => assertHttpUrl("https://api.example.com/v1", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"));
+  assert.deepEqual(manifest.settings?.map((s) => s.key), ["upstream"]);
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("not a url", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*valid URL/); // unparseable
+  assert.equal(manifest.settings?.[0]?.type, "url"); // so a typo'd URL fails the boot, not every request
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("shifts-upstream:4000", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*http/); // missing // → parsed as a bogus scheme
+  assert.equal(manifest.settings?.[0]?.default, "http://shifts-upstream:4000"); // the dev compose's mock
-  assert.throws(() => assertHttpUrl("ftp://host/x", "SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM.*http/); // wrong scheme
+  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 () => {
+test("the client re-reads its base URL, so onBoot can bind it after the manifest is built", async () => {
-  const prev = process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"];
+  let baseUrl = "http://first:4000";
-  process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"] = "nope://bad"; // read at import time below
+  const seen: string[] = [];
-  try {
+  const http = (async (url) => { seen.push(String(url)); return new Response("[]", { status: 200 }); }) as typeof fetch;
-    const manifest = (await import("./plugin.ts")).default;
+  const upstream = createUpstream(() => baseUrl, http);
-    assert.equal(typeof manifest.hooks?.onBoot, "function");
+  await upstream.list();
-    assert.throws(() => manifest.hooks!.onBoot!(), /SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM/); // bad upstream → boot fails loud
+  baseUrl = "http://second:4000";
-  } finally {
+  await upstream.list();
-    if (prev === undefined) delete process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"];
+  assert.deepEqual(seen, ["http://first:4000/shifts", "http://second:4000/shifts"]);
-    else process.env["SCHEDULING_UPSTREAM"] = prev;
-  }
 });
 
 // ---- upstream client (fetch injected) ----
@@ -62,23 +63,23 @@ test("createUpstream.list fetches /shifts, asks for JSON, and maps the rows", as
   const http = (async (url, init) => {
     seen = String(url);
     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 });
+    return new Response(JSON.stringify([{ assignee: "A", assigneeId: "019bdc1a-5b6e-7a90-b3c7-84f01d2ea9b6", 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" }]);
+  assert.deepEqual(shifts, [{ assignee: "A", assigneeId: "019bdc1a-5b6e-7a90-b3c7-84f01d2ea9b6", 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 () => {
+test("listShifts renders the upstream rows; q filters; canWrite reflects the permission", async () => {
-  const r = asView(await listShifts(fakeUpstream())(fakeCtx({ roles: ["scheduling:write"] })));
+  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"]);
@@ -112,16 +113,23 @@ 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 (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 () => {
+test("overview renders a public page for anyone, and its CTA names the best gate the visitor passes", 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
+  assert.equal(anon.data["signedIn"], false);
 
-  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
+
+  // Signed in but ungranted: the page must not invite them to sign in again.
+  const member = asView(await overview()(fakeCtx({ user: { email: "m@example.test", id: "01a06091-baa3-7a1f-9c62-0e3ab6d2f5c1", permissions: [] } })));
+  assert.equal(member.data["canRead"], false);
+  assert.equal(member.data["signedIn"], true);
+  assert.equal(member.data["mineHref"], "/scheduling/mine");
 });
 
 // ---- create handler ----
@@ -170,3 +178,38 @@ test("buildFormModel marks title/assignee required and attaches field errors", (
   assert.equal(title.error, "needed");
   assert.equal(fields.find((f) => f.name === "start")!.required, undefined);
 });
+
+// ---- the session-gated page: the visitor's own rows ----
+
+test("my shifts scopes the upstream read by the visitor's id, and names them in the empty state", async () => {
+  const user: User = { email: "Blair.Mora@example.test", id: "01a06091-baa3-71f4-a068-4879972979ff", permissions: [] };
+  const mine: Shift = { assignee: "Blair Mora", assigneeId: user.id, end: "22:00", id: "3", start: "17:00", title: "Evening on-call" };
+  let asked: { assigneeId?: string } | undefined;
+
+  const upstream = fakeUpstream({ list: async (opts) => { asked = opts; return [mine]; } });
+  const r = asView(await myShifts(upstream)(fakeCtx({ url: "http://localhost/scheduling/mine", user })));
+  assert.equal(r.view, "mine");
+  assert.deepEqual(asked, { assigneeId: "01a06091-baa3-71f4-a068-4879972979ff" }); // the id, never the address
+  const table = r.data["table"] as { emptyText: string; rows: { name: string }[] };
+  assert.deepEqual(table.rows.map((row) => row.name), ["Evening on-call"]);
+  assert.match(table.emptyText, /Blair\.Mora@example\.test/); // an empty page still says whose it is
+
+  // `requireSession` narrows `ctx.user` from `User | null` to `User` — the one part of the route's
+  // `session: true` guarantee the contract cannot state in the handler's type.
+  await assert.rejects(async () => { await myShifts(fakeUpstream())(fakeCtx()); }, GuardError);
+});
+
+test("my shifts degrades to the reason alone when the upstream is down, claiming nothing about what is assigned", async () => {
+  const user: User = { email: "Blair.Mora@example.test", id: "01a06091-baa3-71f4-a068-4879972979ff", permissions: [] };
+  const down = fakeUpstream({ list: async () => { throw new UpstreamError("down", 503); } });
+  const r = asView(await myShifts(down)(fakeCtx({ url: "http://localhost/scheduling/mine", user })));
+  assert.match(String(r.data["error"]), /scheduling service/i);
+  assert.deepEqual((r.data["table"] as { rows: unknown[] }).rows, []); // mine.ejs drops the count + table while `error` is set
+});
+
+test("my shifts drops a row the upstream returned that is not the visitor's", async () => {
+  const user: User = { email: "Blair.Mora@example.test", id: "01a06091-baa3-71f4-a068-4879972979ff", permissions: [] };
+  const theirs: Shift = { assignee: "Avery Kline", assigneeId: "019bdc1a-3f27-7c41-9a6e-2b1d4f8e05a3", end: "12:00", id: "9", start: "08:00", title: "Not mine" };
+  const r = asView(await myShifts(fakeUpstream({ list: async () => [theirs] }))(fakeCtx({ url: "http://localhost/scheduling/mine", user })));
+  assert.deepEqual((r.data["table"] as { rows: unknown[] }).rows, []); // a backend ignoring the scope must not leak through this page
+});

examples/plugins/scheduling/shifts.ts

@@ -5,17 +5,25 @@
 // 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 (README.md → Local dev & test story).
 
-// One import from the host's #plugin-api barrel — the stable author surface (see README.md → Building plugins).
+// One import from the host's @plainpages/plugin-api barrel — the stable author surface (see README.md → Building plugins).
-import { can, CSRF_FIELD, GuardError, type PageChrome, parseListQuery, readFormBody, type RouteHandler, tracedFetch } from "#plugin-api";
+import { can, CSRF_FIELD, englishTranslator, GuardError, type PageChrome, parseListQuery, readFormBody, requireSession, type RouteHandler, type Translate, tracedFetch } from "@plainpages/plugin-api";
+import enUS from "./i18n/en-US.ts";
+
+// 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 MINE_PATH = "/scheduling/mine"; // the visitor's own shifts — a session is the whole gate
-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;
-  assignee: string;
+  assignee: string; // display name, rendered in the table
+  assigneeId: string; // who the shift belongs to — an opaque id, the same one `ctx.user.id` carries
   end: string;
   start: string;
   title: string;
@@ -40,37 +48,30 @@ export class UpstreamError extends Error {
 
 export interface ShiftsUpstream {
   create(input: ShiftInput): Promise<void>;
-  list(): Promise<Shift[]>;
+  // `assigneeId` scopes the read at the source, which is where an ownership rule belongs (README →
-}
+  // Three tiers of "may I?"); without it the caller would hold everyone's rows to render one page.
-
+  list(opts?: { assigneeId?: string }): 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, 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 {
+// `baseUrl` is read per call: the plugin's settings arrive on onBoot, after the manifest that binds
-  const base = baseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "");
+// these handlers has already been built.
+export function createUpstream(baseUrl: () => string, fetchImpl: typeof fetch = tracedFetch): ShiftsUpstream {
+  const base = (): string => baseUrl().replace(/\/+$/, "");
   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",
       });
       if (!res.ok) throw new UpstreamError(`create shift failed (${res.status})`, res.status);
     },
-    async list() {
+    async list(opts = {}) {
-      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base}/shifts`, { headers: { accept: "application/json" } });
+      const query = opts.assigneeId == null ? "" : `?${new URLSearchParams({ assigneeId: opts.assigneeId })}`;
+      const res = await fetchImpl(`${base()}/shifts${query}`, { headers: { accept: "application/json" } });
       if (!res.ok) throw new UpstreamError(`list shifts failed (${res.status})`, res.status);
       const data: unknown = await res.json();
       return Array.isArray(data) ? data.map(toShift) : [];
@@ -82,63 +83,68 @@ const str = (v: unknown): string => (typeof v === "string" ? v : v == null ? ""
 
 function toShift(raw: unknown): Shift {
   const r = (raw ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
-  return { assignee: str(r["assignee"]), end: str(r["end"]), id: str(r["id"]), start: str(r["start"]), title: str(r["title"]) };
+  return { assignee: str(r["assignee"]), assigneeId: str(r["assigneeId"]), end: str(r["end"]), id: str(r["id"]), start: str(r["start"]), title: str(r["title"]) };
 }
 
 // ---- 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",
+      label: t("scheduling.filter.label"),
-      pills: opts.q ? [{ label: "Search", remove: SHIFTS_PATH, value: opts.q }] : [],
+      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",
+      caption: t("scheduling.shifts.title"),
-      columns: [{ label: "Shift" }, { label: "Assignee" }, { label: "Start" }, { label: "End" }],
+      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-cal", id: "title", label: t("scheduling.field.title"), value: v.title ?? "" }),
-        field({ icon: "i-user", id: "assignee", label: "Assignee", value: v.assignee ?? "" }),
+        field({ icon: "i-user", id: "assignee", label: t("scheduling.field.assignee"), value: v.assignee ?? "" }),
-        field({ id: "start", label: "Start", type: "datetime-local", value: v.start ?? "" }),
+        field({ id: "start", label: t("scheduling.field.start"), type: "datetime-local", value: v.start ?? "" }),
-        field({ id: "end", label: "End", type: "datetime-local", value: v.end ?? "" }),
+        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 +161,10 @@ 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.title) errors["title"] = t("scheduling.validation.title");
-  if (!input.assignee) errors["assignee"] = "Assign the shift to someone.";
+  if (!input.assignee) errors["assignee"] = t("scheduling.validation.assignee");
   return Object.keys(errors).length ? errors : null;
 }
 
@@ -173,25 +179,69 @@ export function listShifts(upstream: ShiftsUpstream): RouteHandler {
       shifts = await upstream.list();
     } catch (err) {
       ctx.log.warn("scheduling upstream unreachable", { error: String(err) }); // plugin logging via ctx.log
-      error = "Couldn't reach the scheduling service — try again shortly.";
+      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" });
+}
+
+export function myShifts(upstream: ShiftsUpstream): RouteHandler {
+  return async (ctx) => {
+    const user = requireSession(ctx);
+    let shifts: Shift[] = [];
+    let error: string | undefined;
+    try {
+      // Join on the id, never the email: an address is user-changeable and can be reassigned to
+      // someone else, which would hand them the previous holder's rows. The re-filter is
+      // defence-in-depth: a backend that ignores an unknown query param would answer with everyone.
+      shifts = (await upstream.list({ assigneeId: user.id })).filter((s) => s.assigneeId === user.id);
+    } catch (err) {
+      ctx.log.warn("scheduling upstream unreachable", { error: String(err) });
+      error = ctx.t("scheduling.upstream.list");
+    }
+    return { data: buildMineModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, email: user.email, ...(error ? { error } : {}), shifts, t: ctx.t }), view: "mine" };
+  };
+}
+
+export function buildMineModel(opts: { chrome: PageChrome; email: string; error?: string; shifts: Shift[]; t?: Translate }) {
+  const t = opts.t ?? EN;
+  return {
+    breadcrumbs: [{ label: t("scheduling.mine.title") }],
+    chrome: opts.chrome,
+    count: t("scheduling.shifts.count", { count: opts.shifts.length }),
+    ...(opts.error ? { error: opts.error } : {}),
+    table: {
+      caption: t("scheduling.mine.title"),
+      columns: [{ label: t("scheduling.table.shift") }, { label: t("scheduling.table.start") }, { label: t("scheduling.table.end") }],
+      emptyText: t("scheduling.mine.empty", { email: opts.email }),
+      rows: opts.shifts.map((s) => ({ cells: [{ rowHeader: { text: s.title } }, s.start, s.end], name: s.title })),
+    },
+    title: t("scheduling.mine.title"),
+  };
 }
 
 // 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,
+      mineHref: ctx.localeHref(MINE_PATH),
+      shiftsHref: ctx.localeHref(SHIFTS_PATH), // a plugin carries the visitor's locale onto its own links
+      signedIn: ctx.user !== null,
+      signInHref: ctx.localeHref(`/login?return_to=${encodeURIComponent(ctx.localeHref(SHIFTS_PATH))}`),
+      title: ctx.t("scheduling.overview.title"),
+    },
     view: "overview",
   });
 }
@@ -202,13 +252,13 @@ 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);
+    const errors = validate(input, ctx.t);
-    if (errors) return { data: buildFormModel({ chrome: ctx.chrome, errors, values: input }), status: 400, view: "shift-new" };
+    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/mine.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<%#
+  Scheduling · the visitor's own shifts (reference plugin).
+  Data: chrome, title, breadcrumbs, count, table, error?
+%><%
+  const navHtml = include("partials/nav-tree", { nodes: chrome.nav });
+  const tableHtml = include("partials/data-table", table);
+  const alertHtml = locals.error ? include("partials/alert", { text: locals.error, tone: "neg" }) : "";
+-%>
+<%- include("partials/shell", {
+  body: '<div class="scheduling-page">' + alertHtml + (locals.error ? '' : '<p class="shift-count">' + count + '</p>' + tableHtml) + '</div>',
+  brand: chrome.brand,
+  breadcrumbs,
+  csrfToken: chrome.csrfToken,
+  nav: navHtml,
+  styles: ["/public/scheduling/scheduling.css"],
+  theme: chrome.theme,
+  title,
+  user: chrome.user,
+}) %>