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cproudlock
e98e15259e Unpick one site's conventions from the shipped bundle, and bind the launch-path
check to the file it actually runs

Two clusters the five-agent review found. Both are about a product that another
plant has to be able to install.

ADR-015: the shipped monitor bundle was the originating plant's fleet
convention frozen into product seed.

  The business policy was seeded as "RPCA Shopfloor App Monitors". RPCA is that
  plant's facility designator, the row is source='shipped', and the API refused
  to rename it - so every adopting site would carry another plant's label at the
  top of its policy list forever. 0007 now seeds the neutral name, and 0010
  renames it on installs that already stamped 0007, guarded so it cannot collide
  with a policy a site made itself. Downgrade is one-way on purpose: putting
  another site's designator back is not a state worth reaching.

  Which PC type the bundle attaches to was the literal 'Shopfloor PC'. A plant
  whose type is "Shop Floor Workstation" silently got no shipped monitors at
  all, and one using that name for something else got all of them. It is a
  setting now, defaulting to the seeded name so nothing changes here, and a
  blank value attaches the bundle to nothing - the right neutral answer for a
  site that does not want it.

  Shipped rows refused every edit, including isactive and launchpath. A plant
  whose eDNC is on D:, or that runs no UDC, could not correct the path or switch
  the monitor off, and then carried permanent false drift for it. ADR-015 allows
  seed data BECAUSE a site can edit it afterwards. Paths and the active flag are
  now editable; kind and displayname stay fixed, because that pair is the
  identity 0007's bundle matches on.

  Also corrected two false claims in 0007's docstring: the policy tables belong
  to the computers plugin, not the core baseline, and a guarded no-op does NOT
  reconcile later - Alembic stamps the revision either way, so the bundle would
  simply never seed.

LaunchPathPolicy was purely lexical. GetFullPath is string normalization that
never touches the disk, so the root check constrained the NAME while File.Exists
and CreateProcess followed reparse points to somewhere else. A junction under a
writable directory in an approved root - creating one needs no privilege, only
write access to the parent, and vendor trees under Program Files are not
reliably locked down - turned WebUI monitor-edit rights into code execution as
the console operator. It now resolves the real target, leaf and directory chain
both, and re-checks THAT against the roots, rejecting if resolution fails.

Alternate data streams passed the whole policy on net8.0: an interior colon no
longer throws in GetFullPath, so "readme.txt:payload.exe" reported an .exe
extension, passed the root check, and existed. Rejected explicitly now.

Six tests added for the shipped-row and pctype behaviour. The Core project
compiles clean. The launch-path change has NOT been exercised against real
junctions, ADS or 8.3 names - that needs the win11 VM, and per the reviewer it
wants a planted-violation suite there rather than my say-so.

Still open from the review: monitor revocation does not take effect until agent
restart, ActionPicker is keyboard-inoperable, the lightbox has no focus trap,
one attached monitor grants generic any-target process control, and screenshots
are retained unencrypted in the user profile.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 15:44:17 -04:00
cproudlock
88a683dad3 Act on the five-agent review of the wilm import
Findings the reviewers verified, fixed here. The larger cluster they found is
NOT fixed and is listed at the end.

Frontend. reportImageUrl is called from the template, so it ran on every render
with no in-flight guard: a report whose fetch was pending was re-requested, and
because each resolution reassigns the map the whole grid re-rendered and
re-fired the rest, costing up to N-squared requests for N thumbnails. Two blobs
resolving for one key orphaned the first object URL where revoke could not
reach it, and a failure was never recorded so a broken image retried forever.
Guarded, deduplicated, failures remembered.

Three CSS variables did not exist, so their hardcoded fallbacks always won:
--bg-alt (the "No screenshot" tile, near-black in light mode), and
--warning-text/-bg/-border (dark khaki on a dark modal). Replaced with real
tokens. The DEV badge's literal #c62828 is var(--danger).

Installer and launcher. The generated site installer ran docker compose with no
-p, so the project name defaulted to the package folder - which carries the
version. Installing the next version created a new project with new empty
volumes and the site came up looking wiped, old data stranded under the old
project. Pinned to shopdb-<channel>.

Start-ShopDBDev deleted any existing -TargetDir that lacked a .git, recursively
and without asking. For a script handed round as "save it anywhere and run it",
a mistyped -TargetDir pointed at Documents would have destroyed it. It now only
reclaims a directory that is empty or carries this launcher's own marker, and
refuses otherwise.

Dev secrets came from Get-Random, which is System.Random: a 32-bit seed, and all
four values off one stream, so recovering one recovers the rest. They sign JWTs
for a stack a pilot may point at real imported data. CSPRNG now, and the API
port binds to loopback like the DB rather than every interface.

Two of my own from earlier in this session. The operator-report size check sat
below request.form, and the first access to that parses and spools the whole
multipart - so it ran after the thing it prevents. Moved above. And the channel
remap missed build-channel-installer.ps1 entirely, where it set BOTH channels to
main: a "stable" package built from the trunk, the exact mislabel the remap was
for. stable now resolves the newest v* tag.

Also removed a zero-byte docs/ShopDB-Planner-Tasks-v2.csv that rode in.

NOT FIXED - needs a decision, and it is the biggest thing the review found.
Migrations 0006/0007 freeze the originating site's fleet convention into
product seed: a shipped policy literally named "RPCA Shopfloor App Monitors",
a hardcoded 'Shopfloor PC' type deciding who gets the shipped watch-list, and
shipped rows the API refuses to edit or deactivate - including their launch
paths. A site whose eDNC is on another drive cannot correct it and gets
permanent false drift. Those are stamped migrations, so this gets harder to
undo at every install. See the review notes before anyone upgrades a second
site through 0006-0007.

Suite 2314 passing, frontend 316, all three PowerShell files parse.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 15:33:48 -04:00
cproudlock
b5540e631c Merge the wilm endpoint-monitor and channel-distribution work into main
Six commits from wilm-import: the squashed import, route documentation, the
channel remap onto our tag-and-trunk model, the project map, parallel test
support, and the four smaller review findings.

Merged rather than cherry-picked: the published mirror rewrites hashes, so the
commits do not apply one at a time against our history even though the squashed
diff applies clean.

Scope: product

# Conflicts:
#	docs/PROJECT-MAP.md
2026-09-02 15:19:55 -04:00
cproudlock
28bf7ea1bf Regenerate the project map for the imported plugins and tests
Scope: product
2026-09-02 14:26:10 -04:00
cproudlock
2e42972f44 Map the image channels to how this repo ships, and disarm auto-publish
The channel work assumed the branch model it was written against: upstream,
main is a release branch and dev-be is the trunk. Neither holds here. main IS
our trunk - 212 commits past v0.11.3 - and a release is a tag (ADR-007). dev-be
does not exist at all, so the edge half would never have fired and the launchers
would have cloned a missing branch.

Taken literally it would have published our unreleased trunk to every site as
:stable, which is the opposite of what the word promises to someone who has no
way to check.

Remapped throughout:

  tag v*  -> :stable   the thing that was actually released
  main    -> :edge     the trunk, DEV badge lit

publish-images.yml keys the channel on github.ref_type = tag rather than on a
branch name, so the mapping cannot silently drift back. Start-ShopDBDev.ps1,
dev-bootstrap.ps1 and build-channel-installer.ps1 resolve stable to the newest
v* tag via git ls-remote --sort=-v:refname, warning and falling back to main if
a repo has no tags yet. DEV-BUILD-TEST.md follows.

The push: trigger is commented out. Automatic publishing waits on someone
confirming the GHCR package exists under this owner and deciding who may pull
it; workflow_dispatch works meanwhile. Turning it on is one uncomment.

All three scripts parse clean under pwsh, and the tag-selection expression was
run against this repo rather than eyeballed. Per the standing rule, the runtime
paths still want a pass in the win11 VM before anyone leans on them.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 14:16:24 -04:00
cproudlock
56ed89bb7b Document the ten new endpoint routes and undo the stray re-indent
Two of the three things holding the wilm import out of main.

The monitor CRUD, the two resolver reads and the three operator-report routes
had no entry in docs/api-inventory.json, so test_api_inventory_parity failed.
The gate cannot run on the published mirror - the test ships but its data file
is scrubbed, and it skips on the file's absence - which is why the branch that
added the routes never saw it. Cost lands here at promotion time instead.

/api/endpoints is registered both with and without a trailing slash and both
forms are served, so both are described rather than guessing which one counts.
Spec regenerated: 353 paths, 504 operations.

plugins/endpoints/plugin.py had a contiguous run of continuation lines shifted
by one space. Python accepted it and git diff -w showed nothing, but it put
deletions in a diff that is otherwise purely additive. Restored; the file now
differs from the published main by additions only.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 13:49:54 -04:00
cproudlock
3587a35ad6 Regenerate the project map
Test count had drifted from the tree. The map is generated; a stale one fails
scripts/gen_project_map.py --check in CI.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 12:17:24 -04:00
cproudlock
27b2817fd7 Import the wilm endpoint-monitor and channel-distribution work
Everything on origin/wilm that is not on the published main, applied as one
change because the published history has rewritten hashes: per-commit
cherry-pick conflicts against our main even though the squashed diff applies
clean.

Contents: endpoint monitor catalog + policy attachment + warn-only drift
reconciler, operator issue reports from the tray, agent launch-path allowlist,
and the GHCR channel-image distribution path for dev workstations.

NOT READY FOR main. Open items:
  - 10 new routes are absent from docs/api-inventory.json, so
    test_api_inventory_parity fails. That gate SKIPS on the published mirror
    (the test ships, its data file is scrubbed), which is why wilm never saw it.
  - dev-bootstrap.ps1 and Start-ShopDBDev.ps1 hardcode the ge-aero GitHub org.
  - plugins/endpoints/plugin.py carries a whitespace-only re-indent.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 10:05:44 -04:00
cproudlock
2feb569686 Rename Metrics to Monitors and move it second
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"Metrics" promised numbers. The tab holds tracked services, tracked processes
and network interfaces - things being WATCHED and their current state, only
one of which is a measurement. Monitors is what the panels actually are, and
it matches the word the agent's own config already uses for them.

Moved to second, ahead of Software. What is being watched on this box is the
question asked right after "what is it", and well before its application
inventory - which is reference data somebody goes looking for deliberately.

Tab order is now Details, Monitors, Software, Activity.

Contract 0.29.0 keeps its number. It is unreleased, so the group vocabulary it
introduces is still being settled and nothing can yet depend on the old name.
Both the server and the client fall back to 'details' for a group they do not
recognise, so a site that deploys these halves out of step gets a misplaced
card rather than a missing one.

Scope: product
2026-08-31 15:21:46 -04:00
cproudlock
2122c3b45c Tab the PC detail page, and let a panel say which tab it belongs to
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The page had grown to roughly ten cards in one flow, and three more surfaces
were wanted on it: installed software, live metrics, and the service controls.
Stacking those into the same column would have buried what the page is for.

Tabs were mocked and rejected on 2026-08-28, on the grounds that the strip
duplicated the sidebar and cost hero space. That objection is answered by
where the strip sits: the hero and the triage band stay above it and never
move, so "is this machine OK" is still answered without a click, and the strip
partitions the detail underneath rather than navigating anywhere.

WHY A PANEL DECLARES ITS OWN GROUP

Most cards on a detail page are not the page's. They arrive through the
ADR-010 get_asset_panels hook, so a page that sorted panels into tabs by
knowing their ids would defeat the hook it is built on. Panels now carry an
optional group instead, and the page only knows the five group names.

Resolution happens server-side, in the asset-panels route, so that an absent
or misspelled group becomes 'details' before the client ever sees it. The
client renders known groups only; an unrecognised value that survived to it
would be a panel that exists and is displayed nowhere. Contract 0.28.0 ->
0.29.0, additive - every existing plugin keeps working untouched, and the
endpoints status panel is deliberately left ungrouped so the default path is
exercised by a shipped plugin and not only by tests.

A tab is offered only when something fills it. An empty tab reads as broken
rather than as "this site does not collect that", so the strip is built from
the groups that actually returned data, and a tab that disappears on refetch
falls back to Details rather than leaving the page blank.

AssetDetailTabs is core, not a PCDetail component: machines, printers,
network devices and measuring tools all have the same shape, and the shared
asset-detail shell they need starts here.

Scope: product
2026-08-31 14:24:16 -04:00
cproudlock
df083776b3 Offer the search box to whoever can actually search
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The sidebar box was drawn for anyone signed in, on the reasoning that
offering it to a signed-out reader gives them a control that can only
answer 401. That stopped being the right test when the guest role became
able to hold assets.view: the box was hidden from exactly the visitor the
grant was reopened for, and a guest could reach search only by typing
/search?q= by hand.

The client cannot decide this. Its hasPermission getter reads the signed-in
user's permission list and a guest has no user at all, so asking it about a
guest answers no for everyone. get_navigation already had the problem and
already solved it by letting the server decide, so capabilities does the
same thing and reports what the CALLER holds.

It reports booleans about the caller and never what the guest role holds in
general, so it tells an anonymous reader nothing the rendered page does not.
Public because it is the pre-login call that decides whether the box is
drawn at all.

Members who lack assets.view now lose a box that only ever 401'd for them.
On a failed call the box stays hidden rather than falling back to the old
signed-in test, which would put it back in front of those same members.

Scope: product
2026-08-31 09:56:38 -04:00
cproudlock
d9eb7a74db Regenerate the project map after promotion
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2026-08-31 09:06:25 -04:00
cproudlock
dbc43162c5 Pin the approved content digest on an endpoint command
Delivery descriptors for run_script and update_app are resolved when the
agent claims a command, not when an operator queues it, and the command
row recorded no digest: the enqueue path resolved the descriptor purely
to validate it and threw the result away.

So what an operator approved and what an endpoint runs were two separate
lookups against mutable content, minutes or hours apart. Anyone able to
replace a script body or an installer package could do so in the gap.
The claim then re-resolves, the descriptor faithfully describes the new
bytes, the agent verifies correctly, and it runs as LocalSystem. The
audit trail names the operator who queued the original.

The gate on the verb and the gate on the payload were also different
grants: pushing needs endpoints.deploy, but replacing what gets pushed
needs only applications.edit.

pinnedsha256 records the digest as it stood at enqueue, and the claim
refuses a descriptor that has moved, failing the push with an audit row
instead of shipping it. Null for actions that deliver no content, and
for rows queued before this migration, which claim as before. A
descriptor that vanished entirely is not treated as tampering: that path
already sends the command through undescribed so the agent fails closed.

Separately, a result may now only finalize a command that is actually
running. That needs no agent change and closes two things: reporting on
a command that was never claimed, and overwriting a recorded failure
with a success.

The agent now sends its hostname on the result callback so the server
can check it owns the command it is finalizing. The shared collector key
does not say who is calling, so without it any agent can post a result
for any command id. The server treats the parameter as optional for
agents that predate this and enforces it when present, so there is no
flag day. This is a floor, not a fix: only a per-endpoint credential
makes the caller's identity provable, and that is tracked separately.

The .NET side is unbuilt here and needs a build plus a win11 VM run.

Scope: product
(cherry picked from commit d64b7122ab)
2026-08-31 09:06:25 -04:00
cproudlock
ccd8221adf Key the client address on the connection, not a header the caller sends
client_ip() read the first X-Forwarded-For hop unconditionally. The
login rate limit and the account lockout are keyed on that value and the
audit log records it, so rotating the header per request bought an
unbounded budget and an untraceable trail.

This walked around TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT, which exists to decide exactly
this. The app leaves ProxyFix off by default and says why, ten lines of
comment away: ProxyFix trusts X-Forwarded-*, a client can send those
itself, and the login limiter is keyed on the address. Then client_ip
read the header anyway, so the stated protection never applied.

Resolution is now from remote_addr, which ProxyFix has already filled
from the header wherever a proxy is genuinely configured. Both cases end
at the same trustworthy source, and the port still comes off because ARR
forwards clientip:port and ProxyFix passes it through verbatim.

geenforce and tools had each hand-rolled the same mistake for their own
limiters. Rather than duplicate security-relevant logic a third time,
client_ip and strip_port join the shopdb.api surface (contract 0.28.0).
geenforce's _trusted_client_ip, which already refused the raw header for
its IP allowlist, is untouched and was the model for this.

The stability table was also missing rows for 0.26.0 and 0.27.0.

INSTALL-WINDOWS-IIS.md never mentioned TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT, so a site
installed from it runs behind IIS with the setting at 0: every request
looks like it came from IIS, the whole site shares one rate-limit
bucket, and the audit log records the proxy for every action. It now
says so, and says not to set it when nothing is in front.

Three test modules simulated separate callers by setting
X-Forwarded-For, which is the header a real attacker rotates to escape
the limit. One of them, test_client_ip_prefers_forwarded_first_hop_
stripped, asserted the defect outright. The suite could not have caught
this. They now drive REMOTE_ADDR, with a regression guard that forging
the header buys nothing.

Scope: product
(cherry picked from commit 7260244b7e)
2026-08-31 09:06:25 -04:00
cproudlock
5f27f81e88 Clear the review blockers on the merged wilm work
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A multi-agent review of the merged branch produced 29 findings that survived
adversarial verification. This clears the blockers and the four worth fixing
before it reaches main. The design held up well: path-traversal defence on all
four serving routes is clean, the agent's SHA-256 check fails closed, enqueue
authority is proportionate and audited, and no site literals or credential leaks
in the new C#.

THE TESTS NEVER RAN

pytest.ini sets testpaths = tests, so plugins/endpoints/tests/ was collected ZERO
times. Fifty-five lines of delivery assertions were dead code, and run directly
five of them failed. plugins/printedparts/tests/ had been invisible for longer.

That is the worst shape a gap can take: the suite is green, the coverage is
imaginary, and the collector auth on a download route could be deleted without
anything going red.

Both files moved under tests/. tests/test_no_hidden_tests.py now fails if a test
file appears anywhere pytest will not look; it caught a staged copy inside the
installer bundle on its first run, and was verified by planting a violation.

The five failures were stale expectations, and they split by cause. His: the
applications panel made six panels where his test said five, and 'applications'
belongs in KNOWN_PAYLOAD_KEYS now that it is persisted - his own test contradicted
his own feature. Ours: we renamed the events card to activity, moved the
fleet-wide cards to endpoints.fleet, and made the list route a bare route('')
which Flask rejects unless the blueprint is mounted under a prefix.

FOUR FIXES

The snapshot table's key was a 32-bit autoincrement on a table rewritten
wholesale every check-in, so it climbs at (endpoints x apps) per report and
exhausts on MySQL. Widened while the table is unreleased. Widening it broke every
insert on SQLite, which only autoincrements a column typed exactly INTEGER
PRIMARY KEY, so it carries a dialect variant - and nothing caught either fault,
because no test inserted into that table at all. One does now.

Ingest truncated displayname but not displayversion or publisher. On strict MySQL
an over-long registry value fails the whole check-in transaction, so one machine
with a malformed Uninstall entry goes silent entirely. SQLite does not enforce
lengths, so the suite would never have shown it.

update_app's version: branch pinned AppVersion.sha256, but that route resolves the
version to its APPLICATION and serves application.installpath - so the digest
described an artifact the route never sends, and where it was null the agent had
nothing to verify and failed open. It now pins the file actually served.

The same branch ended the delivery URL at the id, so an MSI arrived with no
extension and could not be routed through msiexec. It carries the filename now.

Agent packaging moved off require_role('admin') to a new endpoints.agentpackage
permission. The generated ZIP carries a live collector key, so this is a heavier
grant than deploying to one endpoint - and a role cannot be given to one person
for one job the way a permission can.

Full suite 2231 passed (2198 before, plus the 22 that never ran and 11 new),
frontend 314.
2026-08-30 17:17:13 -04:00
benjamin.baker
1fa005eb8a Green up
Tracking docs/openapi.json (so the app can serve the spec at runtime) makes docs/ exist on the published GitHub mirror, which defeated the skipif(not DOCS.is_dir()) guard in the docs publish/version tests: they then ran against a prose-less checkout and failed on CI. Key the skip off docs/*.md prose instead, matching the canonical published-checkout definition in scripts/check-gates-ran.sh.

Also: the OpenAPI generator emitted a trailing-slash path (/api/docs/), which a strict proxy like IIS treats as a redirecting resource a subpath-mounted client cannot follow; normalise trailing slashes in _norm_path and correct the committed spec. And allow docx (python-docx) as an undeclared import: it is used only by scripts/docs/generate_docx.py, a developer tool that never runs on a deployed site.
2026-08-30 15:19:35 -04:00
cproudlock
7a8acbbcb5 Regenerate the project map after promotion
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2026-08-30 11:12:09 -04:00
cproudlock
13c46af5ce Rebuild the dashboard around what needs a person
The board was one card per source in a fixed grid, and both halves of that hurt.

Every source got the same small box whatever it had to say. Warranties showed 5
of 50 behind "and 45 more"; the crash card truncated at 4; a one-row card sat
beside a four-row card and left a hole. Nothing had room, which is the complaint
that started this: not enough space to relay the data.

And a box per source flattened priority. An enforcement failure and a warranty
notice looked equally urgent because each owned a card, while the largest type
on the page belonged to counts that are true every day and need nobody.

WHAT THE PAGE IS NOW

A severity rollup, one worst-first queue of everything that needs a person, and
a row of context beneath it.

The queue merges every critical and warning row and sorts them, so reading order
is work order. It is full width, which is where the room came from. Rows are
capped per source, because fifty expiring warranties must not bury two crashed
PCs, and what did not fit is named per source with a link to it - a bare "and 45
more" that leads nowhere is worse than saying nothing.

The rollup counts ROWS, not cards, and filters the board in place rather than
navigating away, so the counts and the rows cannot disagree.

Severity, position and permission were already declared per card and already
sorted on. The old layout threw that away; this only stops it.

WHAT WENT, AND WHY IT SHOULD NOT COME BACK

Four asset tiles plus an "All assets" tile: machines + PCs + printers + network
IS all assets, so the page showed a total beside its own addends at the same
weight. It is now a line under a rule, where a total belongs.

The printer strip. It carried the printer count a third time - the tile row and
"Total Printers" were already the same number - and "Online" equalled total, so
three tiles held one fact. A genuinely low cartridge already reaches the queue
through the printers-supplies card, which is the moment anyone wants it.

Three cards whose whole job was to display 0.

Recent Devices: the largest block on the page, listing five machines that were
all "In Use" with business unit "TBD". Recency is not a reason to look at
something.

CONTRACT 0.26.0: 'shortname'

Cards may declare a short label for their rows in the merged queue. Their
'title' is written as a heading - "Endpoints with crashes or shutdowns" - and as
a row badge it ran wider than the hostname it qualified, putting the badge
rather than the asset at the start of every line. CSS-truncating the title was
tried first and was worse: four consecutive rows reading "ENDPOINTS WITH CR..."
say nothing at all. Optional and defaults to the title, so a plugin that does
not declare one is unaffected. Additive field, minor bump.

ALSO: "silent 1 days"

A meta suffix is written for the plural case and the card cannot know the value.
One row saying it was a shrug; the merged queue puts every quiet endpoint on one
screen, so it said it five times in a column and read as broken. Now singularised
at exactly 1, on the first word, keeping what follows: "1 event (48h)", "silent 1
day". The test asserting ' ms' survives is what caught the first version turning
it into ' m'.

DashboardRow.vue is extracted because the queue and the context panels render
the same row, and the map tooltip, link fallbacks and chips are too easy to get
subtly different in a second copy.

Verified on screen against live data. Full suite 2178 passed, frontend 301.
2026-08-29 21:05:48 -04:00
cproudlock
70e909054f Document the endpoints plugin in the catalogue
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docs/PLUGINS.md listed sixteen of the seventeen bundled plugins. The missing one
was endpoints - the newest, and the one another site is most likely to ask
about, since it is the Fleet console and the live panels on a PC detail page.

The row records the two things that are not guessable from the name: it depends
on computers because an endpoint is telemetry ABOUT a PC asset rather than a
second record of it, and its four permissions are split deliberately. Read is
grantable to guests by the .view suffix rule; fleet, command and restart are
not, and the plugin declares no override, so the command channel cannot be
opened to anonymous callers by ticking a box.

Ingest is called out as NOT being a route here - agent reports arrive on the
generic collector route under a service token scoped collector.ingest.endpoints.
Somebody looking for the ingest endpoint in this plugin will not find one.

applications/ stays absent on purpose: it has no manifest and no plugin.py, so
per the manifest-less rule it is core frontend surface that always ships, not a
plugin a site can choose.
2026-08-29 18:29:11 -04:00
cproudlock
b8fc2e9e33 Upgrade the eight shipped dependencies carrying advisories
scan_sbom.py reported 50 advisory matches against shipped components, 16 of them
at or above HIGH. This clears all of them: the scan now reports 0 shipped
findings and the gate passes.

  pyjwt             2.12.1  -> 2.13.0
  idna              3.13    -> 3.19
  axios             1.13.2  -> 1.20.0   (29 advisories)
  postcss           8.5.6   -> 8.5.26
  dompurify         3.4.11  -> 3.4.14
  nanoid            3.3.11  -> 3.3.18
  follow-redirects  1.15.11 -> 1.16.0
  form-data         4.0.5   -> 4.0.6

Every one is an in-major bump inside a range the manifests already allowed, so
this is a lockfile refresh rather than a migration. The Python side was compiled
with --upgrade-package for each name so nothing else moved; the diff is two
version lines and their hashes.

nanoid is worth recording: it is transitive under postcss at ^3.3.11, and its
advisories are fixed on both the 3.x and 5.x branches. 3.3.18 is the fix that is
actually reachable.

The declared floors for axios and dompurify were raised to the versions in the
lockfile. They were ^1.6.0 and ^3.4.11, which still nominally admitted the
vulnerable range - npm resolves to the highest match so an install was never
going to pick one, but the manifest should state the minimum safe version rather
than rely on that.

axios 1.20 adds optional proxy-agent support, which pulls https-proxy-agent and
agent-base into the tree. Both are Node-only and neither reaches the browser
bundle; the build was checked for them. The main chunk grew 256kB to 271kB
(85.7kB to 90.5kB gzipped) from the rest of the axios delta.

The PyJWT entry in the allowlist was removed rather than kept. It stopped
matching the moment the upgrade landed, and an allowlist that accumulates
entries for advisories that no longer apply is one nobody rereads. The reasoning
is preserved as the worked example in docs/DEPENDENCY-SECURITY.md.

Verified: full suite 2161 passed, frontend 273 passed, build clean,
npm audit --omit=dev reports 0 vulnerabilities.
2026-08-29 17:42:35 -04:00
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1cc2a6b782 Recommend the smallest upgrade that clears an advisory, not the highest
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The rollup took the highest fix version across a component's advisories. That
is wrong whenever an advisory is patched on more than one release branch.

nanoid is the case that exposed it. Both advisories against it are fixed on two
branches - 3.3.16 and 5.1.16, 3.3.18 and 5.1.6 - and the rollup recommended
5.1.16 with a MAJOR warning. But nanoid is transitive, pulled in by postcss at
`^3.3.11`, a range no 5.x release can satisfy. The recommendation was not merely
a bigger job than necessary, it was unreachable: the actual target is 3.3.18, a
patch inside the existing range.

Per advisory the target is now the lowest published fix above the version in
use; per component it is the highest of those, since one upgrade has to satisfy
every advisory against it. Fixes on older branches are skipped rather than
offered as a downgrade - axios advisories list 0.30.x fixes that would have been
a downgrade from 1.13.2.

This also gives the MAJOR label meaning. It now fires only when no fix exists on
the current branch, rather than whenever some branch happened to be higher.
2026-08-29 17:24:37 -04:00
cproudlock
c4e2db4755 Route the dependency-security doc from START-HERE
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START-HERE routes by the question somebody arrived with, and 'are we exposed to
this CVE' had no entry - the SBOM was only mentioned in the Windows update doc,
which is not where anybody asking that would look.
2026-08-29 17:20:57 -04:00
cproudlock
794bb4668f Add vulnerability scanning on top of the SBOM
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The SBOM was generated and installed onto every server, and nothing read it.
"Are we exposed to this advisory" was still a person going and looking, which
meant it happened when somebody remembered to.

scripts/scan_sbom.py queries OSV.dev by purl - no account, no API key, no agent,
no vulnerability database to maintain on a box that cannot reach the internet.
The SBOM is already the input OSV wants, so this is a lookup against what
shipped rather than a second scan of the tree that could disagree with it.

Three decisions worth recording:

Shipped and build-only findings are both reported, but only shipped ones can
fail a build. Two thirds of the components here are build tooling the SBOM
already marks scope 'excluded', and the highest-severity match in the whole tree
today is a CRITICAL against the test runner. A gate that fails a release over
that trains everybody to bypass it, and then it catches nothing.

Severity is taken from the advisory, never derived. Where there is only a CVSS
vector the report says UNKNOWN, which is shown and never gates. A guessed score
is worse than an honest gap because somebody would act on it.

The allowlist is a record rather than a mute button: each entry carries the
reason, the accepter, the date, and what would invalidate the reasoning. The
first entry is a worked example - a PyJWT algorithm-confusion advisory that
needs both mixed algorithm families and a raw JSON JWK as the key, and this
application configures neither.

The report ends with a per-component upgrade rollup, since that is the part
somebody acts on. A target on a different major version is labelled rather than
listed beside patch bumps as though the two cost the same.

Current state: 8 shipped components have fixes available, none of them
exploitable through a path this application opens today.
2026-08-29 17:18:58 -04:00
cproudlock
0baed4cc80 Close the gaps against the design: critical tile, filters, policy card, action placement
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Four things the mockup showed and the first cut did not have.

FLEET
  - A 'with critical events' tile, from the stability route that existed and
    nothing called. Clicking it narrows to rows whose health is not ok - client
    side, because the health rollup is assembled per row after pagination, so
    it narrows the PAGE rather than the fleet. Worth knowing before the count
    is read as fleet-wide.
  - PC type and Location filters. The list route already accepted both; there
    was simply no control. Both use listAll, not list: perpage is clamped to
    100 server-side, so a long location list would lose its tail in a dropdown
    while still looking complete.
  - The machine cell shows number and name together where they differ, so
    '3105 Okuma' rather than a bare number.

PC DETAIL
  - A Policy card, contributed by the computers plugin. It matters because the
    effective policy already narrows the command allowlist, so without it the
    reason a control is unavailable on a given PC is written down nowhere.
    Provenance, so it sits in the reference column, not the triage band.

    Its route returns an EMPTY field list rather than the feature-gate 404 when
    policies are disabled. The panel contract hides a card with no fields, so
    it disappears on sites that have not enabled the feature - a 404 would have
    rendered a broken card on most of them. That was flagged in the design
    review as a snag; this is the fix.

  - Refresh Status and Restart Computer moved out of the page header into the
    triage band. They act on the MACHINE; Print Label, Edit, Retire and Back to
    List act on the RECORD, and mixing them put the most consequential button
    on the page - it halts whatever machine the PC serves - between printing a
    sticker and editing a form. In the band it sits beside the liveness chip
    and the machine it would take down.

    The band takes them through an 'actions' slot rather than knowing about PC
    verbs, so a measuring tool can put 'Calibrate' there without the core
    component learning anything about computers.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, gates green, spec at 333 paths.
2026-08-28 23:00:25 -04:00
cproudlock
414a7243d7 Merge events and commands into one Activity feed, and lead with live state
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Two changes to the PC page, both about what a responder meets first.

LIVE STATE FIRST. The contributed panels moved to the head of the card flow.
The grid is a two-column FLOW (column-count, with display:contents on the
column wrappers), so a card cannot be pinned to a side and only document order
decides where it lands - putting the panels first fills the left column with
endpoint status, services, processes, interfaces and activity, and leaves
identity, hardware, network and location to the right. Panels still self-order
among themselves by declared position and still self-hide when no plugin
answers for the asset type.

ONE ACTIVITY FEED replaces the Recent events card. Events and commands answer
the same question - what happened to this box - and reading them as two lists
meant interleaving by eye. GET /api/endpoints/asset/<id>/activity merges them
newest-first, capped at 15. Both are keyed by assetid, so it is two indexed
reads and a merge sort rather than a join, and it renders through the existing
ADR-010 list renderer with no bespoke frontend work. A failed command is marked
critical, because that is the row somebody needs to notice. Not collapsed by
default, unlike the card it replaces.

The core AuditLog is deliberately NOT a third source: its rows carry the action
as the entity name and the asset only inside a details string, so including it
would mean parsing prose to find out which machine a row belongs to.

Requester names are withheld from callers who cannot themselves issue commands,
via caller_holds. A read-only viewer - a guest, on a site that grants this
panel - gets the history without a roster of who restarted what, and the lookup
is skipped entirely rather than fetched and discarded. requestedby holds a user
ID, so names resolve through one batched query, not one per row.

Verified on dev telemetry: a queued command shows as 'Collect now / Pending by
admin' above the Windows events, ordered by time.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming/contract/parity gates green,
spec regenerated at 332 paths.
2026-08-28 22:34:59 -04:00
cproudlock
54f0857e13 Split the fleet roster from per-endpoint reads, and stop offering controls nobody can use
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Twelve endpoints routes shared one permission, which made a reasonable policy
impossible to express. A site that wants signed-out visitors to see live status
on a PC page had to hand them the entire fleet - including every logged-in
username on the floor - because the per-asset panels and the fleet-wide list
were gated on the same string.

endpoints.fleet now gates the list and the three dashboard routes.
endpoints.view keeps the per-asset reads: status, services, processes,
interfaces, events, command history.

The name is load-bearing. guest_grantable_permissions() opens any '.view' or
'.read' permission to the guest role, so calling this one 'endpoints.fleet'
rather than 'endpoints.fleetview' is what keeps the roster off the public
surface while per-asset telemetry stays grantable. Verified both ways.

Also: the services panel emitted Start/Stop row actions to every reader,
because row_actions_for() never consulted the caller. Clicking was always
refused server-side, so nothing was exploitable, but showing a read-only viewer
controls over a shop-floor PC is the wrong signal - and it stops being cosmetic
the moment a site grants that panel to guests.

That needed a contract addition rather than a local check: caller_holds() on
shopdb.api answers whether THIS caller holds a permission without refusing the
request, which is the complement to require_permission for a surface that
serves everyone but should only offer what the caller can act on. Guests are
included, since a signed-out visitor holds whatever the guest role was granted.
Reaching into shopdb.utils.authz instead would repeat the ADR-002 violation the
contract gate caught earlier in this branch. Contract 0.24.0 -> 0.25.0.

DEPLOYMENT: endpoints.fleet is a new permission. Run 'flask seed permissions'
and grant it to the roles that should keep seeing the Fleet page. Until then
that page is admin-only, since admins bypass every check - a safe direction,
but not an automatic one.

Full suite 2124 passed, naming and contract gates green, map and spec
regenerated.
2026-08-28 21:14:27 -04:00
cproudlock
af42ba3589 Register the endpoints list without a trailing slash, and stop hiding its errors
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An endpoint reported telemetry correctly for hours while the Fleet page showed
"No endpoints found". The PC detail page displayed its panels the whole time, so
ingest was plainly working; only the list was empty.

The list route was the one route in 331 paths registered with a trailing slash:

    @endpoints_bp.route('/', methods=['GET'])      ->  /api/endpoints/

The browser client calls it without one, so Flask answered a 308 redirect to an
ABSOLUTE url. On dev that resolves and nobody notices. Behind the IIS subpath it
cannot: with no ProxyFix, Werkzeug builds that Location from the scheme and host
it believes it has, so it emitted http:// and dropped the /shopdb prefix. A
browser will not follow an https page to http, the request failed, and the
page's catch block rendered the empty state.

Every other route in the plugin worked throughout, because none of them carries
a trailing slash - the detail panels call /endpoints/asset/<id>/status and were
never redirected. Detail works, list empty is the signature of this bug.

Registered as '' now, so the rule is /api/endpoints. That is what
CONTRIBUTING.md's API section spells and what every other list route in the
product already did. The inventory and the generated spec are updated to match.

Also here:

  - tests/test_core/test_no_redirecting_routes.py fails the build if any /api
    rule is registered with a trailing slash and strict slashes. Verified by
    planting the violation: it named the offending route, then passed once
    reverted. It takes the shared app fixture rather than building its own
    application - doing that rebinds SQLAlchemy and leaves the NEXT module
    without tables, which showed up as three unrelated "no such table: settings"
    failures visible only in a full run.

  - The Fleet page now renders "Could not load endpoints (HTTP nnn). This is a
    failed request, not an empty fleet." A list that reports a 403 and an empty
    fleet identically is what made this take as long as it did.

  - TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT (default 0) applies ProxyFix when set. Off by default on
    purpose: it makes X-Forwarded-* trusted, and a client can send those itself,
    while the login rate limit and account lockout are keyed on the client
    address. Set it to 1 on an instance behind IIS.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming and docs gates green.
2026-08-28 17:48:06 -04:00
cproudlock
ae800772d1 Make the dev MySQL 5.6 index-prefix requirement actually reachable
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The printers observedqueues migration failed with error 1071 on a 5.6 dev
server whose file format was still Antelope. The unique index it needs is
(hostname, queuename), two utf8mb4 VARCHAR(255) columns, which is 2040 bytes
against a 767-byte cap.

The compiler hook in shopdb/utils/mysql_charset.py was already emitting
ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC, which raises that cap to 3072. What is easy to miss is that
Antelope makes 5.6 IGNORE the row format and build a Compact table with a
warning rather than an error, so the tables look created and keep the old limit.
docs/DEPLOY.md has required innodb_large_prefix plus Barracuda for pre-5.7
servers all along; nothing pointed a developer hitting 1071 at it.

So the troubleshooting row that said 'use MySQL 8 for dev' now gives the fix,
names the silent Compact downgrade, and says such tables stay capped until they
are rebuilt with ALTER TABLE ... ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC.

DATABASE_URL also gains ?charset=utf8mb4, which DEPLOY.md already requires and
this environment did not have.
2026-08-28 16:17:51 -04:00
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784964c907 Bring the wilm branch into main: endpoints plugin, agent, policies, CSV import
Ports the corporate-GitHub wilm branch onto main, keeping the two branches
separate. Thirteen upstream commits arrive with their authorship intact; the
review fixes and the portability work below are on top.

What arrives:

  endpoints plugin  - a ShopDB agent reporting endpoint state, telemetry,
                      services and interfaces, with a command channel the agent
                      long-polls. Ingest stays on the generic collector route
                      (ADR-006); the agent key is a UI-managed single-scope
                      token whose revocation is an instant kill switch.
  computers policies - Configuration and Business Policies (RMM-style), scope
                      trees validated at write time, actions checked against
                      the endpoints command allowlist. Feature-gated: every
                      route 404s while the setting is off, so enabling it can
                      never half-expose the surface.
  asset CSV import  - templates, a collector script carrying the site path, and
                      a validate-then-commit import. A plugin can own a virtual
                      column plus a post-write row hook, which is how a PC's
                      machine number becomes a controls link without a
                      hand-built relationships sheet.
  agent/            - the Windows agent and its installer.

Contract 0.21.0 -> 0.24.0, additive throughout: register_import_hook (0.22),
mint/list/revoke_service_token (0.23), collector_authorized (0.24). The stability
table had no rows for any of them and now does.

MySQL 5.6 portability. The branch stored three policy columns as sa.JSON, the
only JSON columns in the product, and 5.6 has no JSON type: the migration failed
with a bare syntax error near the word JSON. They are TEXT now, through a
JSONText type decorator, so all seventeen call sites still read and write dicts.
The convention elsewhere is already TEXT (guides.blocksjson,
geenforce.manifestjson).

Review fixes carried on top:

  - six policy GETs were jwt_required(optional=True), which authenticates a
    caller without checking anything; they require computers.view now, and six
    redundant jwt_required decorators are gone
  - the agent installer took a default BaseUrl and CollectorKey, so a mistyped
    run silently pointed an endpoint at the wrong instance; both are mandatory
    and a non-https BaseUrl throws unless -AllowInsecureHttp is passed
  - a committing CSV import wrote no audit row

Documentation: the 34 new routes are described in docs/api-inventory.json, which
is hand-maintained on purpose, and the generated spec now covers 331 paths and
477 operations across 22 surfaces. DEVELOPMENT-SETUP's 1071 troubleshooting row
said "use MySQL 8 for dev" and now gives the actual fix, including the trap that
5.6 downgrades ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC to Compact with a warning instead of an error.

Full suite 2123 passed, vitest 260 passed, all seventeen plugin chains migrate
clean on MySQL 5.6 and the naming, docs, parity and read-surface gates are green.
2026-08-28 16:17:17 -04:00
cproudlock
8953ce8210 Ticking a section off crosses out the section
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It struck the heading and left everything underneath looking untouched, which
is the opposite of what somebody ticking "this section is done" means. The
strike now covers every block under that heading, down to the next heading of
the same or higher rank - so a top-level section takes its sub-sections with
it.

That needed the rank, and the HTML importer was throwing it away: h2, h3 and h4
all arrived as a flat 'heading', so a parent heading had no children to cross
out. It was the visible half of a real loss - a converted article kept its
words and lost its shape. Headings now carry their level and render at it, and
a guide written before this reads as flat, exactly as it did.

Code blocks, tables and images inside a finished section fade but are not
struck. A line through a command makes it unreadable, and re-reading the
command is usually the reason to look back at a step already done.

The five imported guides were re-imported so they carry their structure.
2026-08-27 15:42:46 -04:00
cproudlock
afce24379c Reading anything needs a permission
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A sweep of the URL map found 165 GET routes that answered anybody, with no
token at all: the whole asset inventory, every machine, PC, printer and network
device, the USB checkout history and who is holding which drive, the staff
directory with its photographs, every core report. Guest access had been argued
about one feature-flag at a time while the front door stood open.

Each of those now carries the read permission it belongs to. That also makes
the guest role mean something: a site can open exactly the reads it chooses,
and nothing follows by accident.

Thirty-three endpoints stay public, and each is named with its reason rather
than left to be inferred: the app shell and its bootstrap, the settings
allowlist (the handler already filters an anonymous caller down to branding and
a few keys), images fetched by <img src> which carries no Authorization header,
what a display kiosk renders before anybody signs in, the parts and USB kiosks,
the client scripts that run as SYSTEM before a user session exists, and a
secure-send link whose unguessable token IS the authorisation.

tests/test_core/test_public_read_surface.py is the standing gate, the companion
to the mutating-route sweep that has guarded writes for months. A new public
read fails CI until somebody adds it to that list in front of a reviewer. Four
further reads need a login but no permission, because the handler decides from
who you are - your own user record, your own API tokens, the role catalogue the
grid renders - and the same test proves each still refuses an anonymous caller.
Verified not vacuous by ungating one route and watching the sweep name it.

The employees plugin gained employees.view; the directory is names, SSOs,
photographs and reporting lines, and it had no permission of any kind.

Around ninety tests asserted payload shapes against endpoints that answered
anybody. They are about what the answer says, not about who may ask, so they
are signed in now rather than the gate being loosened. The ones that assert an
anonymous caller is refused were left exactly as they were.
2026-08-27 14:26:06 -04:00
cproudlock
2331c03664 Tick a guide's sections off as you work through it
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Only checklist items could be ticked, which answers "what have I done" but not
the question a long procedure actually raises: where was I. Somebody looks away
to do the thing the guide asked for and looks back at a wall of text.

Every step and every heading now carries a checkbox while reading. Ticking one
strikes it through and fades it rather than hiding it, because somebody
scanning back up the page has to still be able to read what they did. The
number is struck through with it, but the step's own "Step 3" label is not -
that is the address of the thing, not part of what was done.

Headings count, not just steps. A guide converted from an HTML article often
has fifty headings and no steps at all, and those are exactly the guides long
enough to lose your place in. That also means the card's "N steps to tick"
stops reading as a broken feature on a guide that is entirely tickable.

Reading only, as the checklists already were: in the editor a tick would be an
edit, and an author clicking around their own draft would quietly change what
the next reader sees as done. Progress stays per browser and per version -
shopfloor PCs share a login, so one technician's ticks must not greet the next
person on that bay, and step 4 of version 3 is not step 4 of version 2.
2026-08-27 13:02:24 -04:00
cproudlock
151d7c4f44 Anyone not signed in holds the guest role
Whether somebody with no account may see something was being answered one
feature at a time: a securesend_allow_guests setting, an enable flag per kiosk,
and very nearly a third for guides - each with its own settings page, its own
vocabulary and its own hand-written branch inside a route. Every one of them
answered a permissions question, and this app already administers permissions
per role.

So a caller with no token is not nobody: they hold the seeded `guest` role.
require_permission consults it when there is no identity, which is the entire
mechanism. The role is seeded holding NOTHING, so an upgrade opens no door; a
site opens one by ticking a box in the same grid it uses for every other role,
and closes it the same way. Revocation is read on every request rather than
cached, because taking guest access away is what somebody does the moment they
realise what they opened, and it has to bite immediately.

The redundant @jwt_required() above require_permission is gone from 184 routes.
It was belt-and-braces before; now it is actively wrong, because it refuses a
request with no token before the permission check can have an opinion, so a
grant would appear to do nothing.

What a guest may hold is bounded. Any .view or .read permission is grantable.
A WRITE has to be blessed by whoever owns it, through the new
get_guest_grantable_permissions hook (contract 0.21.0), and Secure Send is the
only case that exists: sending a password to a vendor is the one write this
product means to offer somebody who never signs in. Everything else is refused
by the API and greyed out in the grid rather than warned about - a checkbox
that quietly makes deleting an asset anonymous is not a warning anybody reads
twice. A guest write records no creator: the trail says when and from where,
never who, and that is the reason for the bar.

GE-Enforce and Slides gained read permissions so they can be opened to guests
without handing out the manage right. Their read routes accept either through
require_any_permission, so nothing an existing manager could reach has moved.

The navigation endpoint now returns only what the caller can actually reach.
Without that a signed-out visitor gets a sidebar of the whole app where every
link bounces off the login page, which reads as a broken site rather than as a
closed door. A nav item may name several permissions; holding any one is
enough, which is what GE-Enforce and Slides need now that a viewer and a
manager hold different strings.

Two things this found on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy, so
`current_user is None` is False for a request with nobody behind it - harmless
under a required JWT, an AttributeError the moment verification became
optional. And an image pasted into a guide before its first save was never
attached to it, so it was visible to editors and invisible to every reader;
saving now attaches it, and `flask guides fix-images` repairs what is stored.

The guides guest setting written earlier today is gone. Granting guides.view to
the guest role replaces it, which is the point.
2026-08-27 12:51:58 -04:00
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8531559f22 A guide can be carried to another site
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Guides are written on one site and needed on all of them, and the sites that
matter are air-gapped from wherever the writing happens. Until now a procedure
was stranded in the database it was typed into: the HTML importer could rebuild
one from its original article, but anything authored in the editor had nowhere
to go.

flask guides export writes one .guide.json per guide, with every image the
blocks reference carried inside it as base64. One file on purpose - a bundle
that needs its images copied alongside it is a bundle that will eventually
arrive without them. flask guides import reads them back, a directory at a
time, and refuses anything that is not a bundle before it writes a row rather
than half-importing a stray .json sitting in the same folder.

What travels is the content: title, summary, tags, blocks, images. What does
not is ids, revision history, authorship and publication state, because those
belong to whichever database issued them - an imported guide starts as a draft
at revision 1, owned by whoever ran the import. The SLUG does travel: it is the
address somebody pastes into a work order, and the same guide should answer to
the same name on every site.

--replace updates the guide already carrying that slug instead of creating a
second one, which is how a corrected guide is re-shipped. It drops the stored
images first: the incoming bundle is the whole truth for that guide, and a
guide re-shipped monthly would otherwise accumulate orphans nothing points at.

Bundles refuse a version they are too old to read rather than importing the
parts they recognise. A newer site's guide is not a guide this one can be
trusted to render.

Proven by round-tripping a five-guide export back into the same site, including
one carrying two PNG screenshots, and reading it in a browser.
2026-08-27 11:46:50 -04:00
cproudlock
c8efadefba An HTML article can become a guide
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A site adopting this app arrives holding procedures already written: styled
HTML pages that get mailed around, opened off a share, and edited by whoever
still has the file. Those pages are exactly what a guide is for, and retyping
one into the editor is how a good procedure stays on a share forever.

flask guides import-html reads the page and produces blocks. It recognises the
vocabulary those pages actually use - a step box with its own number, an alert
in one of three colours, a code block with a copy button, a checkbox list, a
table with a header row - and maps each to the block that already renders it,
lifting embedded images into guideimages so a document stops carrying its
screenshots as base64. Page furniture goes: the header, the footer, and the
table of contents a guide builds for itself from its own headings.

The conversion is lossy on purpose. Colour, fonts, width and nested layout are
dropped, because storing blocks rather than markup is what makes dark mode,
printing and tickable steps work at all. So an import is always a DRAFT and the
default is a dry run that reports what it would produce and writes nothing.
Blocks go through the same validator the API uses: an import must not be able
to store something the editor could not have produced.

The parser is tolerant, because real articles are not well-formed. An unclosed
<p> is normal HTML and the browser closes it at the next block element; without
the same rule one unclosed tag swallows the rest of the article into a single
paragraph, which is what it did before the test caught it.

Proven end to end against four real articles, including one carrying two PNG
screenshots, read back in a browser.
2026-08-27 11:27:19 -04:00
cproudlock
f59aca5a1b USB check-in / check-out audit, as a report rather than a paged list
CMMC removable-media tracking is an audit obligation, and answering "who had
this drive, and when" meant paging through the check-in/out list by hand.
GET /api/usb/reports/audit returns the events - a take and a return are separate
rows, because a count cannot answer the question an audit actually asks - with
summary figures riding along for the people who only want the shape of it, and
a CSV for the people who want it in a spreadsheet.

The window is named rather than a day count: today, last month, six months, a
year, all time. Nobody should have to work out that a year is 365.

Both directory modes answer in one voice. The external path reads the
cmmc_usb checkinoutlog; self-hosted expands one usbcheckouts row into its two
ends, so a returned drive is distinguishable from one still out, and the window
filter runs in SQL against either end of the loan - a drive taken before the
window and returned inside it is a check-in the window has to show. Rows come
back from the mode-specific half; the CSV, the summary and the response shape
are built once in the route.

Ordering is total in both modes. Timestamp alone ties for two events in the same
second, and the same query then returns them in a different order each run,
which reads as the log being unstable.
2026-08-27 10:20:21 -04:00
cproudlock
95ad4f1ef3 Docs: the USB kiosk, its endpoints and why the list costs a badge
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Changelog, the plugin table, the three kiosk endpoints in the API inventory,
and regenerated openapi.json / PROJECT-MAP.
2026-08-27 08:14:02 -04:00
cproudlock
90c3c3102b Docs: guides in the indexes, the stalest-kind rule, and the changelog
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Guides was shipped without an entry in PLUGINS.md or START-HERE, so a site
adopting the product had no way to find out it exists.

BACKUP-KINDS.md described a host's badge as coming from the most recently
confirmed kind. It has not worked that way since the fleet report was reworked:
the freshest revision per (host, kind) is taken, and then the STALEST of those
kinds decides, because reporting the freshest would let a healthy NTLARS backup
mask a part-marker capture that stopped a month ago. Stalest among kinds that
can be JUDGED - a kind never confirmed is unmeasurable, not stale, and treating
it as the worst value made a host with a working backup show no badge at all.

The backups row also still advertised UDC and CMM kinds that do not exist.

api-inventory, openapi.json and PROJECT-MAP regenerated.
2026-08-26 15:06:20 -04:00
cproudlock
580c0d0c80 Record the tab title and Guides packaging fixes in the changelog
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cproudlock
bd0e9695e5 Document the guides API, and move Guides beside Slides
The repo already enforces that every served route appears in
docs/api-inventory.json, and the guides endpoints did not - so the parity test
was failing. They are now listed with auth, params and a working example each,
beside knowledgebase because the two get read for the same reason.

docs/GUIDES.md covers what the inventory cannot: the block schema and why it is
blocks rather than HTML, the id rule that makes a tick rememberable, what the
server refuses and why validation happens at the door, the working-copy /
revision / published-pointer split that stops a live procedure changing under
somebody following it, and a worked example of creating and publishing a guide
from a script.

It also states plainly what does not exist yet - no importer, orphaned images
never pruned - and what converting existing documents will actually be like:
structured HTML and Markdown map onto block types nearly one for one, while a
plain-text runbook lands as paragraphs and needs marking up by hand afterwards.
Generated ids have to stay stable across re-imports, or every re-import resets
readers' progress.

Guides moves to position 8 in the sidebar, beside Slides, rather than down among
the reference lists in Information. A guide is something somebody goes and does
something with, not a catalogue they look things up in.
2026-08-26 12:39:42 -04:00
cproudlock
6106f4c5f4 Stop shipping duplicate vendors, models and operating systems
The seed catalog is what a new site inherits, so its duplicates propagate.
Removed the four space-stripped twins it carried: vendor 'DellInc.', model
'OptiPlex7080', and operating systems 'MicrosoftWindows10Enterprise' and
'Windows10', each of which had a correctly spaced original already present.

'OptiPlex5000' was NOT a duplicate - no spaced twin existed - so it was
renamed to 'OptiPlex 5000' rather than dropped, matching every sibling in the
list. Its vendor moved to 'Dell Inc.', which this site treats as the one
canonical Dell.

Vendors 53 to 51, models 128 to 127, operating systems 14 to 12. Verified
afterwards: no exact duplicate rows, no near-duplicates, no orphaned
model-to-vendor or supply-to-model reference.
2026-08-24 14:49:31 -04:00
cproudlock
7fb6bdba07 Regenerate the project map for the new script tests
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cproudlock
5f915310c9 Point the lab's reference table at main too
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The header stopped claiming the deleted feat/printedparts-plugin branch; its
"where to look" table at the bottom still did.
2026-08-24 14:07:09 -04:00
cproudlock
90da0a1c09 Write down the plugin nobody documented, and stop pointing at a deleted branch
PLUGINS.md listed 14 of the 15 bundled plugins. `backups` had no row: the
per-asset configuration backups the collector takes off shopfloor machines,
kind-pluggable, with view and download as separate permissions because a .reg
is a restorable artifact. Added, with the pointer that separates it from
BACKUP-RESTORE.md, which is the database and a different subject.

PLUGIN-LAB-PRINTEDPARTS said the finished implementation lives on branch
feat/printedparts-plugin. That branch was deleted in the v0.8.0 cleanup; only
the 17 lab-stage tags survived, and they are enough. Says so now, and warns
that the tags are a record of contract 0.11-0.13 rather than today's
conventions. Its manifest example carried core_version >=0.12.0 against a
shipped >=0.16.0.

The printer-assignment proposal still said the client script is not built. It
shipped and released, across v0.11.3 and v0.12.0, and the collector half that
contradicted the assigned-vs-observed split was retired in adc7ef4.

PROJECT-MAP regenerated for the test count.
2026-08-24 14:05:24 -04:00
cproudlock
7b79a444b8 Scaffold a plugin's frontend into the plugin, so it can be pruned
`flask plugin new` wrote views to frontend/src/views/<name>/ and a route file
to frontend/src/router/routes/<name>.js. Every one of the 16 bundled plugins
keeps its frontend in plugins/<name>/frontend/ instead, staged into
.plugins-staged by stage-frontend.mjs and aggregated into routes.gen.js.

It was not visibly broken, which is why it lasted: the router still globs
./routes/*.js during the Phase 4 dual-location transition, so a scaffolded
plugin's pages loaded. What a new plugin author silently lost was ADR-013 lean
builds. Pruning works off the staged tree, so a frontend in the core tree
cannot be excluded from a site build, and deleting the plugin strands its
views behind.

The templates for the correct layout already existed; only the output paths
were wrong. Also fixed the imports they carry: core imports now use the @
alias (@/api, @/components/...), which resolves both before and after staging,
where the previous ../../api was correct only in the old location. Sibling
views stay relative and travel with the route file.

frontend_dir is gone from scaffold_plugin. There is no second output tree to
point at, and a plugin developed in its own repo now gets the same frontend as
a bundled one rather than being skipped.

Proven end to end: scaffolded a throwaway plugin, confirmed it stages, builds
real chunks, and that SITE_PLUGINS=network prunes it, which is what the old
layout could not do.
2026-08-24 14:05:15 -04:00
cproudlock
adc7ef43f9 Stop the collector being able to set a printer assignment
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The printer feature rests on one rule: a collector report is OBSERVED state and
never ASSIGNED state. If a drifted bay's own state can become what it is told to
install, enforcement stops meaning anything, because a bay that installed the
wrong printer makes itself right simply by reporting it.

_sync_printer_links broke that rule. It ran on every collector PC push and, when
the payload carried defaultprinter or printers, wrote defaultprinter and
connectedto rows from the report - defaultprinter being one of the two types
_reconcile_edges is meant to own alone, from authenticated routes a human calls.

It was recorded as dormant. It was not. The collector schema ADVERTISED both
keys and the example client in COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md set
$payload['defaultprinter'], so the documentation was recruiting callers for it -
while the same document, under "Observed is not assigned", promised that nothing
on this path writes a usesprinter or defaultprinter row. The document
contradicted itself and the code followed the wrong half. Nothing in the fleet
armed it, because the first-party reporter never sent those fields, but any
third-party client written from the docs would have.

Retired the function, its _sync_one helper and the now-unused
PRINTER_LINK_ORIGIN label, and removed both keys from the schema.

IGNORED, NOT REJECTED. Unknown payload keys are not validated, so a client
written against the old docs keeps pushing successfully and only its printer
keys stop doing anything. The response warns, naming the keys and pointing at
POST /api/collector/printers for reporting queues and seed-from-observed for
adopting them. Dropping them in silence would leave an integrator believing
assignments were still being written, which is a worse failure than the one
being fixed.

The docs were the larger half of this. The schema table rows are gone, the
"PC -> printer relationship sync" section is replaced by a note saying what
happens now to anyone still sending the keys, and the example client no longer
enumerates Win32_Printer at all - it points at Report-PrintersToShopDB.ps1,
which posts to the observed endpoint and posts NOTHING on a failed enumeration,
since an empty list would erase the host's rows.

test_collector_printers.py pinned the old behaviour, so it now pins the
opposite: the keys create no relationships, the push still succeeds and says
why, a payload without them stays quiet, a human-made default survives a report
naming a different printer, and the schema no longer offers the keys.
2026-08-24 11:25:02 -04:00
cproudlock
ad9210b84a Write down the tool that was built, not the one that was tabled
Secure Send shipped on 21 August and nothing outside the code caught up. The
roadmap still listed it under Deferred as "tabled", and gave as the reason that
the tools plugin is browser-only by design with get_blueprint and get_models
both empty - which stopped being true in the same day's commits that gave it a
blueprint, a table, a migration chain, a permission and a setting. A reader
following the roadmap would have concluded the feature does not exist.

The generated API docs were fine: api-inventory.json and openapi.json both
carry /api/tools/secrets, so the contract gates did their job. What was missing
was every word written for a person, and that is the half where the security
properties live.

docs/SECURE-SEND.md is the new page. The parts worth having in prose rather
than inferring from the code: that a lost secret is lost to everybody including
an administrator, which is the same property as "a compromised database yields
nothing" seen from the other side; that the 4096-character limit is the entire
server-side enforcement, because a server that cannot read what it holds cannot
have an opinion about content, so raising it turns a password tool into an
unaudited file transfer; that redeeming is a POST because preview prefetch in
chat and mail clients would otherwise spend a one-view secret before the
recipient ever sees it; and that somebody should send a link to themselves
through their own mail or chat client and confirm the key survives after the #
before a real credential goes through it, because a product that rewrites links
can strip the fragment and nothing on this side can help.

securesend_allow_guests was in the database, on a settings page, and in no
document. It is now in CONFIG.md with what it actually does - an unauthenticated
write endpoint, rate limited per address, failing closed - rather than only its
one-line description.

Also corrected along the way: site_base_url was documented as scheme + host
while the code deliberately tolerates a subpath in it, and the bundled plugin
table in PLUGINS.md had no row for tools at all.

Still missing after this: PLUGINS.md has no row for backups either.
2026-08-24 08:37:25 -04:00
cproudlock
d4b49b91b4 Move secure send into Tech Tools, where somebody would look for it
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9845867 gave it its own plugin because Tech Tools is browser-only and this needs
storage. That was the right reading of the code and the wrong answer for the
person using it: Tech Tools is where you go for a utility, and a tool nobody can
find is a tool nobody uses.

So Tech Tools now has a blueprint, a table and a migration chain where it had
none. Its docstring and manifest say why, because "every tool here runs in the
browser" was load-bearing documentation and is no longer true.

WHAT MOVED
  /api/securesend       -> /api/tools/secrets
  securesend.create     -> tools.secrets
  securesend0001baseline -> tools0001securesend
  PLUGIN_TABLE_OWNERS, EXPECTED_HEAD_REVISION, EXEMPT_ENDPOINTS, the universal
  profile and the api-inventory surface all follow it.

THE OLD "NO BACKEND" TEST IS NARROWED, NOT DELETED. It asserted
get_blueprint() is None, which is the sort of guard that gets removed when it
becomes inconvenient. It now asserts the blueprint serves EXACTLY the three
secret routes, with their methods - so a future tool that quietly grows an
endpoint or a table has to edit this test, and therefore make the decision on
purpose rather than by drift.

Asserting methods rather than paths also pins the detail this design turns on:
redeeming is POST-ONLY. Chat and mail clients prefetch GET urls to build
previews, and a preview that could redeem would consume a one-view secret before
its recipient opened the link. Previously that was a comment; now it fails a
test.

UNINSTALLING THE OLD PLUGIN COULD NOT BE DONE WITH THE PLUGIN TOOLING. `flask
plugin uninstall securesend` loads a plugin before uninstalling it, so a plugin
whose directory has been deleted cannot be removed by the command that manages
plugins - the registry entry had to be edited by hand. Worth fixing separately;
it is the same registry-versus-code divergence the device work hit from the
other side.

MIGRATING A CHAIN THAT HAS ALREADY RUN needs the old table and its version row
dropped first, because the relocated chain has no stamp and tries to create a
table that exists. Only relevant to anyone who installed securesend during the
hour it existed - it did reach the publication repo in 4242028 - and the fix is
DROP TABLE securesendsecrets plus DROP TABLE alembic_version_securesend before
running plugin upgrade-all.

1829 tests green. Still backend only: there are no pages yet, so nothing here is
reachable by a person.
2026-08-21 14:17:57 -04:00
cproudlock
98458672eb Hand somebody a password without leaving it in a chat window
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The habit this replaces is pasting a credential into Teams, where it stays until
someone deletes the conversation. Tabled on 2026-08-21 pending a decision about
scope; the decision was text only, so this is the half that survives it.

BACKEND ONLY. There is no page yet, so nothing here is reachable by a person.

TEXT, NOT DOCUMENTS, and that shapes everything. Dropping files removed the
export-control question entirely - a password is not technical data - along with
blob storage, size and MIME handling, and the need to authenticate the recipient
so a document fetch could be pinned to a name.

TWO DOORS. Creating needs a login AND securesend.create: anonymous creation
would be an untraceable way to move data out of a system that otherwise records
who did what, and the creator is the only person these rows can ever name.
Reading needs neither, because the recipient usually has no account here and the
link is handed over on a call - the unguessable token IS the authorisation,
which is why it is 128 bits of randomness and why the row is spent on first read.

REDEEMING IS A POST, and that is the detail that would have broken this in
practice. Teams, Outlook and Safe Links prefetch GET urls to build previews and
scan for malware, so a GET that redeemed would let a preview window consume a
secret before its recipient ever saw it. The GET route that remains reports only
whether a link is still live, so the read page can say "opening this will
destroy it" without spending the only view to find out.

THE SIZE LIMIT IS THE WHOLE ENFORCEMENT. The key lives in the URL fragment,
which browsers never transmit, so the server holds ciphertext it cannot read and
cannot tell a password from a page of a drawing. MAX_CIPHERTEXT is therefore not
a tuning knob: raising it quietly turns this into the document transfer it was
scoped not to be. The refusal says what the limit is FOR, because somebody
hitting it is usually trying to send a file and the answer is a different tool.
Line counts, file signatures and refusing a pasted file belong in the browser,
guide an honest person, and are bypassable by anyone willing to POST directly.

NOT ENUMERABLE. Missing, expired and spent all answer identically - telling them
apart would confirm to anyone holding a guessed token whether it ever named
anything. A spent or expired row is deleted on the way past rather than waiting
for a sweeper, because it has no reason to keep its ciphertext.

Its own plugin rather than a Tech Tool: that plugin is browser-only by design,
and this needs storage, expiry and a view counter. Not an asset extension
either, so no assetid and no asset type - the scaffold assumes one and it was
removed.

FOUND BY ITS OWN TESTS: expiryhours=0 returned 201. `int(x or DEFAULT)` treats
an explicit zero as absent, so "expire immediately" silently became "expire in a
day". A caller who sends a number is now told when it is not allowed rather than
quietly given a different one.

BEFORE ANYONE RELIES ON THIS, test that your link rewriter preserves URL
fragments: create a secret, send the link to yourself in Teams, click it from the
message, and check the key is still after the #. If Safe Links strips it the
secret is unrecoverable and the server cannot help, which is the point of the
design. The fallback is passphrase mode, worth building only if that test says so.

Three product gates caught what a new plugin has to declare, and each was right
to: the route-parity gate wanted the endpoints described in api-inventory.json,
the lean-build guard wanted the plugin listed in the universal profile the
released installer builds from, and the authz sweep wanted the public redeem
route named in EXEMPT_ENDPOINTS with a reason. That last one matters most - a
mutating route that answers an unauthenticated caller is a decision somebody has
to write down, not a default, and reading a secret is a mutation because it
spends it.
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cproudlock
5001aedcf9 Offer a spelling on every list, not just the global search
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Correction only helped on the global search page, and people search from the
list they are already on. Extending it turned out to be a shape question rather
than a volume one: thirty routes take a search parameter across a dozen files,
so carrying a suggestion in each of their responses is a large change today and
one more thing every future plugin author has to remember.

So the suggestion moved to ITS OWN ENDPOINT, /api/search/suggest, which any page
can call after rendering no rows. A page that has not adopted it shows nothing,
which is exactly what it showed before - nothing breaks by omission.

The plumbing lives in useListQuery, which already owned the search term, so a
list needs three lines: take `suggestion` and `reportCount` from the composable,
call reportCount(rows.length) after a fetch, and drop SearchSuggestion into the
empty state it already has. A list that never calls reportCount never offers a
suggestion.

Wired: global search, machines, printers, PCs, network devices, measuring tools,
knowledge base, vendors. NOT wired, deliberately: the type and reference lists
(machine types, PC types, VLANs, subnets, operating systems and the rest), which
are small controlled vocabularies nobody typo-searches, and USB, whose empty
state has a different shape and wants doing by hand rather than by pattern.

TRAP FOUND WHILE WIRING IT, and left commented in every page: applying a
suggestion by calling setSearch alone updates the box and the URL and does NOT
reload the list. setSearch only syncs the URL, and the watcher that would reload
is suppressed because search.value already holds the new term - the same trap
the global search page documents in performSearch. Each page calls its own load
function directly.

The composable guards a stale answer arriving after a newer search was typed,
never offers back the word that was typed, and swallows its own errors: a search
that found nothing is already the answer, and failing to improve on it is not
worth an error in front of anyone.

The route-parity gate caught the new endpoint being served without an entry in
docs/api-inventory.json, which is hand-written on purpose; added, and the spec
regenerated from it (283 paths, 418 operations). That regeneration also carries
the openapi version to 0.12.0, left over from the release.
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