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cproudlock
99c40ae7c3 Say WHICH critical event, and stop the feed hiding it
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Reported from production: health showed '418 critical' while the ten most
recent events were all info. Both were true, which is the problem.

The health rollup counts critical events in a 48h window; the activity feed
shows the fifteen most recent events of ANY severity. A box that logged 418
service timeouts overnight and ordinary logons since produces exactly that
pair - a page contradicting itself with no way to tell why.

Two fixes.

The rollup now names the DOMINANT event instead of totalling: 'Service timeout
x418' rather than '418 critical'. Counting by event id costs nothing (one more
GROUP BY column) and turns a number into a lead. This is the same reasoning
that made health a phrase rather than a score; it stopped one step short.

The activity feed now fetches the newest criticals separately and merges them,
and keeps up to five of them when trimming to the cap. They hold their place in
time but survive the cut, so what health is reporting always appears in the
feed that exists to explain it.

Verified against the reported shape: 20 service timeouts two hours old under 12
newer logons. Before, the feed was fifteen logons; now it carries five critical
rows and health reads 'Service timeout x20'.

Worth noting the underlying signal is real - several hundred criticals on one
endpoint in 48h is a box crash-looping or a service failing on a retry cycle.
The display was hiding it, not inventing it.

Full suite 2124 passed, naming and parity gates green.
2026-08-28 23:41:59 -04:00
cproudlock
b1b9cdda72 Add bulk actions to the Fleet list, with a confirmation that names machines
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Select endpoints, then Collect now or Restart across the selection. Restart is
gated on endpoints.restart, both are re-checked server-side.

The confirmation names the MACHINES, not just the hostnames:

    Restart 2 computer(s)?
    GJX9B2Z3ESF, HOST-7
    This STOPS the machines these PCs serve:
      DT Office

A dialog listing eight hostnames tells an operator nothing about what they are
about to halt, and that is the whole consequence of the action on a shop floor.
Where no machine is recorded it says so, because 'none listed' and 'we did not
check' are different things at 6am. Only possible now the Machine column exists.

A 409 is reported as a SKIP, not a failure. The queue permits one command in
flight per endpoint, so a bulk action across eight PCs where two are already
busy says '6 queued' and '2 skipped - a command is already in flight'. Folding
those into an error count would make a working button look broken.

Selections clear on every reload: the rows they referred to may not be on the
new page, and acting on an invisible selection is how bulk tools surprise
people.

No per-row buttons. They were built first, and a tenth column on a nowrap table
pushed itself off the edge - selecting one row costs a single click and leaves
one command path instead of two.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming gate green.
2026-08-28 23:16:24 -04:00
cproudlock
057cee1f02 Match the Fleet tile radius to the global card
The tiles were 6px while .card is 0.25rem, which left Fleet marginally rounder
than every other page. The global card treatment is a separate decision and has
been deferred; until it is made, this page should look like the rest of the app
rather than half-way to a mockup.
2026-08-28 23:03:29 -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
0f9ffdb2f1 Put the 6am answers at the top of the PC page, and stop saying things twice
Adds a shared triage band to the PC detail hero: is it alive, what stops
without it, how do I reach it.

'Serves machine' is the reason it exists. On a shop floor a PC matters because
a machine stops without it, and that fact was buried in the generic
relationships card at the bottom of the page. Both edge directions are read,
deduplicated, and filtered to assets typed 'machine' - production holds
reciprocal rows, so reading one direction shows the link on half the pages and
not the other half.

The band is a CORE component, not a PCDetail block. Five asset detail pages
already rebuild the same hero and grid independently, which is how they drifted
apart; machines, printers and network devices can drop this in rather than
growing a sixth copy. Liveness is passed in rather than fetched, because only a
plugin that collects telemetry can answer it and a site may not have one.

The status chip's verdict comes from the SERVER: /api/endpoints/<id> now
returns the same reporting/quiet/never it computes for the fleet list. The
quiet window is a site setting, so a threshold guessed in the browser would
disagree with the Fleet list about the same endpoint the moment a site changed
it.

Two cards removed from the body:

  - Remote Access duplicated the band's chips. It is what a responder clicks
    first, so it belongs above the fold, once.
  - Status was worse than duplication. It reads the COMPUTER RECORD, while the
    endpoint panel beside it reads live agent telemetry, and on an
    agent-managed PC the record fields sit empty - so the page rendered 'Last
    Reported: Never' a few inches from live telemetry saying otherwise. It now
    renders only when that record actually holds something, which is the case
    on sites running the asset-report script instead of the agent.

Verified against dev telemetry: band shows 'Reporting, 1 h ago', the machine it
serves, and its access chips; both duplicate cards are gone.

vitest 260 passed, naming/contract/parity gates green.
2026-08-28 22:21:22 -04:00
cproudlock
4c43c4e1ba Fix the Fleet tile and health colours in dark mode
Two colour bugs on the same page, both invisible in light mode.

A button does not inherit color the way it inherits font, so the plain
Endpoints total rendered in the browser default black on the dark theme's card.
The coloured tiles set their own color, which is why only that one showed it.

The coloured ones were wrong too, just less obviously: dark mode redefines
--success and --warning to bright variants but leaves --success-dark and
--warning-dark tuned for a white background, so those numbers and the health
pills came out dark green and dark amber on a dark blue card.

Scoped to the stamped [data-theme="dark"] rather than a prefers-color-scheme
query, matching the note in style.css: the theme store always stamps the
attribute, and a bare media query leaks dark styling into light mode on a
dark-OS machine.
2026-08-28 22:15:09 -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
4ef22b6579 Make the Fleet list answer the question it exists for
The fleet list showed hostname, user, uptime, CPU, memory and last-reported,
sorted by last-reported descending. Two of those columns have never held a
value, and that sort floats the healthiest endpoints to the top and buries the
ones somebody needs to act on.

What a shop-floor fleet view is actually for is which MACHINE stops if a PC is
dead, so that is now a column. Both edge directions are checked, deduplicated,
and constrained to assets typed 'machine' - without that last filter the column
filled up with office locations that happen to carry a controls edge.

Also here:

  - Sorted WORST FIRST: never reported, then quiet, then reporting. Expressed
    as a sortable SQL rank rather than a label applied after the fact, so the
    order survives pagination.
  - Health rollup as a PHRASE, not a score: 'eDNC stopped', '2 critical'. A
    percentage does not tell an operator what to do.
  - Filters for status, PC type, location and business unit; a sort parameter
    (the route accepted none); and search widened from hostname alone to asset
    number and the machine number a PC serves, which is how people actually
    look a bay up.
  - CPU and Memory columns dropped. The agent declares those fields and has
    never assigned them, so they rendered '-' on every row.
  - A summary strip wired to the dashboard routes, which existed and which
    nothing called.

Two bugs found while building it:

The health rollup first read a 'running' boolean, but service rows carry a
STATE STRING and the vocabulary varies by source, so every service would have
reported as stopped. The panel and the rollup now share one _service_running()
helper; two copies of that rule would drift.

The summary counted quiet as total - reporting, which folded never-reported
endpoints in with quiet ones. Those are different failures - an enrolment or
key problem versus a machine that went down - so 'never' is counted separately.

Per-page batching for machines and critical-event counts: three queries per
page rather than two per row.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming and contract gates green.
2026-08-28 21:00:35 -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
2aea2bd818 File the Fleet nav item under Assets, beside the PCs it describes
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The endpoints plugin declared a section of its own, so the sidebar rendered a
one-item 'Fleet' group at the bottom, below Information, far from the PCs the
view is about. Its own docstring said it belonged just after PCs, and its
position (16, against PCs at 15) already said so too; only the section
disagreed.

Filed under assets, which puts it directly under PCs. The now-empty fleet
section is removed from NAV_SECTIONS - an unused section is an invitation to
file something else there.
2026-08-28 16:20:28 -04:00
cproudlock
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
dd3db50460 Secure Send hands over a message, not a bare URL
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A link on its own invites being pasted onto text that is already in the chat
box, and every chat client turns the selection into the link's caption. The
secret then travels as the visible message with the secure link wrapped around
it, protecting nothing.

This is not hypothetical. Six LAPS passwords went out that way in production -
machine names and passwords as the caption, the correct /s/<token>#<key> URL
underneath, doing nothing at all.

Copy message puts a whole sentence on the clipboard: what the link is, how many
opens it has, when it expires, and then the URL. A sentence has nowhere to
attach itself - pasted into an empty box it is a message, pasted over a
selection it replaces it rather than decorating it. Plain text on purpose; a
rich-text flavour is exactly what would let a secret ride along as markup.

The success card now says to delete the password from the chat box before
pasting. The existing hint explains that the key cannot be recovered, which is
true and does not stop anybody pasting the password itself.

Nothing about the link was wrong and nothing about it changed: the URL carries
the token, the key rides in the fragment the browser never sends, the plaintext
is dropped the moment it is sealed, and redeeming stays a POST so a preview
cannot spend it.
2026-08-28 11:39:21 -04:00
cproudlock
5e7e39a24c Share a code by link instead of by instructions
Sending somebody a label meant sending a screenshot and a list of settings to
retype, and they would get one of them wrong. Copy share link hands them a URL
that reopens the generator with the content, the label, the copy count and
every layout value that was actually changed.

The whole payload rides in the fragment. A fragment is never transmitted, so it
does not reach Flask, it is not in the IIS log, and the proxy between them never
sees it - which matters because the content is usually an asset number or a
serial, and those have no business scattered through logs. It is NOT secrecy:
the link sits in a chat message and in browser history, and anyone holding it
can read the content. Secure Send exists for the case where that matters, and
the note under the box says so.

Only values that differ from a first-time visitor's defaults are carried, so
the link stays short enough to paste into a chat box; a shared link then wins
over the recipient's own saved settings, because somebody following one is
asking to see THAT code rather than their own last one. An unknown key is
ignored rather than refused, so a link made by a newer version still opens on
an older one. The picture is never carried - a data URL runs to megabytes.

Values are coerced back to the type the field holds. Everything arrives from a
URL as a string, and a nudge of 0 plus '2' is '02'.

Proven end to end: a link made in one browser, opened in a clean context with
no saved settings, rendering the same code.
2026-08-28 11:28:06 -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
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03a1151a5a Tech Tools is reachable by the people it was built for
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Every tool on that page is usable without an account, on purpose - the routes
carry no requiresAuth and say so - and Secure Send is the one write this
product offers a guest. The sidebar entry still never appeared for them: it
named no permission, so the filter that decides what a signed-out visitor may
see had nothing to go on and dropped it.

The plugin had no read permission to name, only tools.secrets, so it gains
tools.view: reaching the page at all. The tools themselves run in the browser
and touch no data, which is why this is about whether the entry appears rather
than about what anybody can read.

The item names either right. Somebody granted only Secure Send needs the entry
that leads to it, and a manager who holds neither still does not see it.
2026-08-27 15:12:07 -04:00
cproudlock
4e59fe30b2 A nav item says which permission its page needs
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The sidebar hides what the caller cannot reach - that is what makes it useful
to a guest, and what stops a member with a sparse role being offered links that
can only answer 403. It reads the permission off the nav item to decide.

Only four items ever declared one. Machines, PCs, Printers, Network, USB,
Knowledge Base, Notifications, Calendar, Dashboard, Map, Applications and
Reports declared nothing, so the filter had nothing to go on: granting the
guest role machines.view opened the API and left the sidebar empty, which reads
as the grant not working.

Every item now names its read permission - in the plugins, in the core
navigation endpoint, and in the frontend's fallback list, which is what renders
when the endpoint is unreachable and would otherwise disagree with it.
2026-08-27 14:50:52 -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
cproudlock
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
de3ca70592 Every report offers to email itself, and a long drive name stays in its card
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POST /api/reports/email has always taken any {columns, rows} from any caller,
but the Email report button existed on the toner and warranty pages only - not
because those reports are special, but because they happen to be their own
routed pages and the reports page had no button at all. It is now beside Export
CSV for every report the page can build a table from, which is all of them:
plugin reports through their declared columns, core reports through the flat
list they return, and the asset inventory summary by flattening its three
tables into one with the grouping named in a column. Presentation-only fields -
a status colour, a link id - are left out; a column of hex codes is worse than
no column. The shapes live in a module with tests rather than in the view.

The button is now hidden without reports.export on all three pages. Offering
somebody a button that can only answer 403 is worse than not offering it.

Separately, on the USB kiosk a long drive name pushed Take or Return out
through the side of its card, leaving a drive nobody could press. The name is a
flex item and so defaulted to min-width:auto, keeping its full intrinsic width;
it now yields, wraps mid-word for the serial-style names that carry no spaces,
and clamps its description to two lines so one long name cannot make every card
in the row tall. The locker line is never clipped - it is how somebody finds
the drive.
2026-08-27 10:55:33 -04:00
cproudlock
605dd6cb1b Kiosk: find a free drive by typing, and use the width of the panel
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A cabinet of thirty drives was one long column to read through. The free list
now filters from a search box and lays out in as many columns as the panel is
wide - four on a wall display, two on a tablet, one on a phone - while the
steps that hold a single control stay narrow, because stretching one input
across a 24 inch screen reads as a broken page.

A drive is found by its id, by what is written on it, or by where it lives. The
words can arrive in any order, and "locker" is part of what is searched, so
"locker engineer" finds the engineering locker - that is how people say it out
loud. Filtering is client-side: every free drive is already on the screen, and a
round trip per keystroke on a wall panel would be worse than no filter at all.
The matcher lives in its own module with tests rather than inside the view.

The box takes focus as the picker opens so somebody can simply start typing,
and it is cleared when the kiosk resets - the next person at the cabinet must
not inherit a filter and conclude there are no drives left.

Also: both this view and the guides blocks coloured muted text with a
`--textmuted` variable this app has never defined. The browser dropped the
declaration, so every hint, subtitle and locker line was rendering at full
strength. The variable is `--text-light`.
2026-08-27 10:35:11 -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
add310e4e9 USB kiosk: drive lists in two columns, in the order the labels read
The kiosk was a single column of full-width rows top-aligned on the page, so a
cabinet of a dozen drives meant scrolling a wall panel, and the page itself
scrolled - which takes the "Your drives" heading off screen and leaves somebody
looking at a list with no idea whose drives they are. The lists now sit in a
grid that fills the width and scroll INSIDE themselves against a bounded
height, with the panel centred as one block the way the parts kiosk beside it
already is. Two kiosks on the same floor that sit differently on their screens
read as two different products.

Drive ids sorted as text, which puts USB-10 ahead of USB-3. Compared with a
numeric collator so the list runs in the order the labels on the drives read.
2026-08-27 10:20:03 -04:00
cproudlock
37a82c2650 Somewhere to actually turn the USB kiosk on
The kiosk page tells an administrator to enable it in Settings under USB. That
place did not exist - the setting was reachable only through the API or a shell,
which is the same trap the backups plugin shipped with. A settings page and a
catalogue card, so the instruction leads somewhere.
2026-08-27 09:25:46 -04:00
cproudlock
21e66c6749 Network devices: manage buttons where every other asset keeps them
Machines, PCs, printers and measuring tools all carry Print Label / Edit /
Retire / Back to List in a page header. A network device had no header at all:
Edit was tucked inside the hero title row, and Print Label and Delete sat in a
bar at the very bottom of the page, past every card. Managing one meant looking
somewhere different from every other asset type.

They move to the standard header. The bottom bar is removed rather than left as
a second copy, and the two delete handlers collapse into one - the route is a
soft delete, so it is called Retire here as it is everywhere else, and the
confirm says what is kept.
2026-08-27 09:25:45 -04:00
cproudlock
933740aae4 Guide editor: real arrows, drag to reorder, add a section where it goes
Four things people kept tripping over.

The move controls were a literal ^ and v character. They are arrows now.

Sections can be dragged. The handle is a grip in the block bar, not the block
itself: making the whole container draggable swallows text selection inside its
own textarea, so you could no longer select a word to bold it.

The type palette lived once, at the bottom of the entire guide. Adding a step in
the middle meant adding it at the end and walking it up one press at a time.
There is now an insert point in every gap - and at the end, so there is one way
to add a section rather than two.

Linking to another guide or a KB article meant knowing its slug or id by heart.
A picker searches both by title and writes the markdown link at the cursor. It
offers published guides only - never send a reader to a draft - and it stores an
in-app path rather than an absolute URL, so the link survives the site being
reached by another hostname or mounted under a subpath. The knowledge base is a
separate plugin that a site may not have installed; its absence costs nothing
but its results.
2026-08-27 09:25:45 -04:00
cproudlock
2ad2bd1b90 Sidebar sections are DECLARED, not guessed from a position number
The section headings were derived from position ranges: 10-29 became Assets,
30-49 became Information. A number is for ORDER; it was never a statement about
meaning, and using it as one meant a plugin landed in whichever bucket its
number happened to fall in.

That is how USB Devices - an asset - came to sit under Information beside
GE-Enforce and Tech Tools, and 3D Parts with it. Nobody chose that. It also
meant two plugins picking the same number silently reordered each other:
Warranties and Guides both held 8, the tie broke on plugin load order, and
Guides rendered under Warranties rather than under Slides where it was asked to
go. Warranties moves to 9.

Each nav item now names its section and the renderer groups by what was
declared. An item with no section stays in the unlabelled group at the top,
which is the safe default: it appears, it is simply not filed.

Assets gains USB Devices and 3D Parts. GE-Enforce and Tech Tools move to a new
Fleet section - they are neither assets nor reference material, and calling them
Information was only ever an artefact of their position numbers.

Also: sorting used `position || 99`, and 0 is falsy in JavaScript, so Dashboard -
the only item that uses 0 - sorted to the end of its own group.
2026-08-27 09:25:27 -04:00
cproudlock
7c47ae1f7c USB kiosk: take and return a drive without a ShopDB login
The people who actually take USB drives are standing at the cabinet, and most
of them have no account here. Check-out and check-in were gated behind a login
that was not doing much anyway: both modes already attribute the action to a
scanned BADGE rather than to the signed-in user, so the login was gating the
screen, not the record.

/usb-kiosk is a full-screen touch page modelled on the parts kiosk, off unless
a site sets usb_kiosk_enabled - every route 404s until then, rather than 403,
so a disabled kiosk does not advertise that there is a door here. It works
against the self-hosted tables or an existing cmmc_usb database.

THE LIST IS THE TRADE. These drives carry no barcode, so unlike the parts kiosk
there is nothing to present and the screen has to offer a list - which exposes
more than a scan-first design, where you had to already hold a drive to learn
anything. So the list is not anonymous: an SSO comes first and must resolve to
a real person before any drive is named, which is the same bar taking a drive
already had to clear. It is a POST so the badge stays out of proxy access logs.
The main screen shows the caller's own drives, what is free, and a COUNT of
everything else; holders of other people's drives appear only behind a second
deliberate tap, so nobody reads the whole cabinet off a wall panel in passing.

A badge that resolves to no employee is REFUSED, unlike the signed-in route
which creates the user row. A checkout nobody can trace to a person defeats the
tracking, and at a kiosk there is no operator standing there to vouch for it.

Returning somebody else's drive asks first and then records the badge that was
SCANNED, so the log says who actually handed it back. That is the honest record
and it needs no change to a schema this app does not own. Refusing a mismatch
outright is a setting but not the default: a drive left behind by somebody on
leave would otherwise be unreturnable at the kiosk, which just moves the problem
to a person with a login.

The authz sweep caught these writes, twice - once for the two mutations and
again for the two list endpoints. Both are exempted with the reasoning written
out beside the parts-kiosk entry rather than silenced. The list endpoints are
POSTs that change nothing.

Verified by driving the real page: SSO on the keypad, tap Take, database moves.
2026-08-27 08:14:02 -04:00
cproudlock
a9289ee670 printedparts 0003 was an unguarded ALTER, and no test could see it
Unlike its twenty siblings it ran a bare add_column plus create_index, so
`flask plugin upgrade-all` failed with "duplicate column name: gagelabtag" on
any database whose tables were built by create_all and stamped nowhere - and a
chain stops at its first error, so 0004 never applied either.

The index is guarded by COLUMN SET rather than by name: create_all names indexes
by SQLAlchemy's convention and the migration by this repo's, so a name-keyed
guard would have added a second index over the same column instead of skipping.

The test that should have caught it was restricted to plugins whose whole chain
is a single baseline, on the reasoning that a longer chain meets a second
problem - an ALTER whose column is already present - that guarding a create_table
does not fix. True, but the conclusion was wrong: the answer is to guard the
ALTERs too, not to stop testing the chains that have them. It now covers every
post-cutover chain, and was confirmed to fail against the unguarded migration
before the guard went in.
2026-08-26 15:06:11 -04:00
cproudlock
dffa2082be Backups: stop storing credentials, and fix a dedup chain that never matched
The NTLARS/DNC registry carries an FTP password in cleartext and it was stored
verbatim. That put it in the backuprevisions table, on the revision panel which
renders values, and in the download route which hands back a ready-to-import
.reg - so anyone holding backups.view could read it off a web page.

Redaction happens at PARSE, so the secret never reaches the database at all.
Redacting on display would have left it at rest and one query away.

What is deliberately NOT done is dropping the value silently. This codec already
refuses to discard an unparseable value, precisely because a backup that looks
complete and restores a machine with a setting missing is the worst outcome. A
redacted value keeps its name, is listed in the projection, and renders as a
COMMENT naming what must be set by hand. Emitting a placeholder as the password
would produce a machine that looks restored and cannot connect, and the
technician would go debugging the network.

scripts/redact_backup_secrets.py scrubs revisions recorded before this, dry run
by default. It leaves contenthash alone: the hash identifies the configuration a
bay reported, so rewriting it would make every bay's next post look like a
change and insert a duplicate revision across the fleet.

Separately, sourcehostname is now normalized at ingest. samesource() maps '' to
IS NULL for the query while the insert stored the raw '', so rows written by a
client posting an empty hostname could never match their own next post: every
post inserted, the table grew without bound, and the history filled with
identical entries nobody could read. Whitespace did the same thing more quietly.
2026-08-26 15:06:04 -04:00
cproudlock
cebb3e9e44 Guides: make images render, and stop drafts leaking to readers
Images were a broken icon for every user. The stored URL was bound straight
to <img src>, and a plain image request carries no Authorization header while
this app keeps its JWT in one, so every fetch was a 401. They are now fetched
through the API client, which also fixes the stored '/api/...' path under a
subpath mount where the API is not at /api at all. A failed image says so in
words rather than rendering as a broken icon, and the editor's own thumbnails
go through the same path - an author needs to see the screenshot they pasted.

Revision and image routes gated on their parent guide. Both were gated on
guides.view alone, and revision ids are sequential, so being able to read one
guide was enough to walk the ids and read every unpublished draft on the site -
the opposite of what docs/GUIDES.md promises. An image in a PUBLISHED guide
still serves to any reader; one that only appears in a draft does not.

The guide list, the tag chips and search now match the PUBLISHED text rather
than the working copy. Matching the working copy handed readers a hit on
wording that is not in the page when they open it.

The slug no longer follows the title. It was regenerated on every save that
carried a title and the editor autosaves every three seconds, so fixing a typo
in a heading silently moved the URL and broke exactly the pasted links the
stored slug exists to protect.

publish() now aborts when the pre-publish save failed. It ran regardless, so
the author saw "Published version N" while readers got the previous revision.

Link rendering: text is escaped before formatting, so a captured URL arrives
carrying entities and was escaped a second time - every multi-parameter
ServiceNow and SharePoint link opened with &amp;amp; in it. Emphasis could also
reach inside an href, and '//host' passed as an in-app link when the browser
reads it as off-site.

Tests are now HTTP-level. The draft-invisibility rule lived entirely in routes
that no test executed, which is how three of them shipped serving drafts.
2026-08-26 15:04:09 -04:00
cproudlock
dba8fc6071 Let somebody retire an asset without an API call
Five of the seven asset types had no way to take a record out of ShopDB from
the interface. Network devices and 3D printed parts had a button; machines,
PCs, printers and measuring tools did not, so a scrapped tool stayed in every
list and report until somebody went to the API.

The endpoints were already there and already correct. Every one of these
DELETEs sets asset.isactive = False and nothing more, so the record leaves the
lists while its calibration history, backups and relationships stay exactly
where they were.

Called "Retire" rather than "Delete" for that reason: the two existing buttons
say Delete, which reads as destruction of a record that is in fact kept and can
be restored by setting isactive back. The confirm says so too, because the
question somebody needs answered before clicking is whether the history goes
with it.

The button is guarded on the record having loaded, on the two pages whose
action row renders before the fetch resolves - measuring tools showed Retire
beside a hidden Edit while the tool was still loading, which would have called
delete with an undefined id.

printersApi had no delete method at all; added.

USB is deliberately left out. It retires through a status column in the
external CMMC database rather than isactive, has its own /retire endpoint, and
needs its own decision about what retiring means there.
2026-08-26 13:51:16 -04:00
cproudlock
ed5d64fa3e Name the record in the browser tab, not just the section
Every detail page read "West Jefferson ShopDB - Machine". Two tabs on two
different machines were indistinguishable, a bookmark said nothing about what
it pointed at, and a link shared into Teams previewed as the section rather
than the thing.

The router cannot fix this alone: afterEach runs before the view has fetched
anything, so it only ever knows the KIND of page. So a detail view names its
record once the record arrives, and both writers go through
composables/pageTitle.js.

THE ORDERING IS THE WHOLE PROBLEM. The router awaits the site settings to build
the "<facility> ShopDB" prefix, so on a cold load it finishes AFTER a view that
fetched quickly and would overwrite the good title with the generic one. The
route's fullPath is claimed before that await, and the generic write stands
down when a record title already belongs to the route being landed on. The
reverse case is handled too: a view that names its record BEFORE the facility
name arrives composed against the placeholder prefix, so the late resolve
rewrites it rather than leaving "ShopDB - CSF16" on a site called West
Jefferson. Both are pinned by tests, because both fail only under timing.

Covers machines, PCs, printers, network devices, subnets, measuring tools, USB
devices, printed parts, applications, employees, knowledge base articles and
guides. Printers reuse the page's own displayTitle, which already discards the
literal name "NONE" a discovered queue can carry, so the tab and the heading
agree.

A record with no usable name, or one that failed to load, keeps the section
name: "Machine" beats "Machine 4192" for somebody scanning a row of tabs.
Long names are cut at a word boundary - knowledge base articles are named with
a whole sentence of description, which a browser otherwise truncates mid-word.

Reports gained meta.title, which the router already supported and nothing used.
That also fixes "Pc Relationships", which the name-derived spelling produced.
2026-08-26 13:13:30 -04:00
cproudlock
e2a226e8b0 Let Guides reach a site, and reach core the way every plugin must
Two faults the guides plugin shipped with, both caught by gates that were
already there.

deploy/site-profile-universal.json never listed `guides`. That file is the
profile the released Windows installer is built from, so the wizard would not
have offered Guides at all - and worse, `flask plugin prune-schema` drops the
tables of any plugin absent from the profile at provisioning (ADR-014). A site
installing the next release would have had its guides table dropped.

plugins/guides/models/guide.py imported shopdb.core.models.base directly.
Plugins reach core only through shopdb.api or shopdb.plugins.base (ADR-001),
and shopdb.api already re-exports BaseModel, so this is the same symbol by the
supported path.

The suite was red on main because of these two; it passes again.
2026-08-26 13:13:16 -04:00
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
2c016de59e Guides answer the search box, and proofing catches what spellcheck cannot
A guide was invisible to global search. Core search has a hardcoded block per
domain rather than a hook, so a new plugin stays unreachable until someone adds
one - which is the same shape as the gap this test file already documents for
USB devices and printed parts: records with a list page, labels in the world,
and no way to find them from the search box.

Guides are searched by title, summary, tags AND body. The body matters more here
than elsewhere: people look for a procedure by something written halfway down it,
not by a title they never read. PUBLISHED ONLY - a draft is deliberately
invisible to readers, and search is exactly where that rule leaks if nobody
writes it down. The test proves it with a draft sharing a tag and a body word
with a published guide, so a missing filter would show up as a ride-along.

PROOFING catches what a spellchecker cannot, because none of these are spelling:
a smart quote in a command so it will not run, a checklist item with no text so
a step is silently missing, a heading left with nothing under it after a
reorganise, an image with no alt text, a TODO published by accident. Warnings,
never blocks - somebody publishing at 14:40 with one empty bullet should be
told, not stopped, and a procedure that exists imperfectly beats one nobody
wrote.

The smart-character issue reports once per block with a one-click fix, rather
than once per offending character: an opening and a closing quote are one
problem, and listing both makes the panel look like it is nagging.

The character table itself is written as escapes. The style gate forbids
non-ASCII in source, and a file whose job is detecting smart quotes cannot
contain any - which the gate caught, correctly.
2026-08-26 11:27:10 -04:00
cproudlock
a52437b40b Make writing a guide less like operating an editor
Seven changes, all aimed at the same thing: think about the procedure, not
about blocks.

Live preview beside the editor, rendered with the SAME component readers get,
so what an author sees is what will be published - a separate preview
implementation would drift within a month.

Formatting buttons wrap the selection, so nobody needs to know the markup is
Markdown. New blocks and pasted images land AFTER the block being worked on
rather than at the bottom of the document, which removes the scroll-back that
made adding a screenshot mid-guide annoying.

Enter in a list makes the next item and focuses it, the way every other list in
every other tool behaves; backspace on an already-empty item removes it and
steps back up. Typing a ten-item checklist no longer needs the mouse.

Templates, because the blank page is the real barrier to somebody writing a
procedure down at all. The shapes are lifted from the KB articles the team
already writes, so guides written here read like the ones written before them.

Autosave on a three-second debounce with an honest status line, safe precisely
because the server dedups on content - an autosave that changed nothing writes
no version. Leaving with unsaved work now asks first.

CLIPBOARD: the code block no longer writes to the clipboard. A page that
programmatically copies a shell command is the exact shape of a ClickFix attack,
where malware plants a command in your clipboard and talks you into pasting it
into Run - and uBlock Origin blocked ours, correctly, because it was writing
PowerShell on click. The button now SELECTS the code and says to press Ctrl+C:
same convenience, decision back with the person, and nothing for security
tooling to object to.

AUTOCORRECT is on for prose and off for code and table cells. A code block that
autocorrects produces a guide telling somebody to run a command that does not
work - smart quotes replacing a straight one, an autocapitalised cmdlet - and it
still LOOKS right to the author. The person at the bay gets the syntax error.
2026-08-26 11:16:19 -04:00
cproudlock
cc1f8ff9fd Print a guide light, whatever the screen theme is
Printing a dark-mode page lays a full page of toner down for the background and
knocks the text out of it in white. On a shopfloor printer that is a cartridge
for a handful of guides, and the result is harder to read than the plain
version. Somebody would have found this the expensive way.

The theme tokens are redefined for print only, in an unscoped block because
overriding them has to reach :root. Every guide element already renders through
those variables rather than literal colours, so this is a dozen lines instead of
a rewrite - the same discipline that made dark mode work without dark-mode code.

Backgrounds are dropped rather than printed grey: a callout is identified by its
rule and its heading, which cost nothing. Checkboxes print EMPTY even where they
are ticked on screen, because a printed guide is a worksheet somebody carries to
the bay, and one person's progress is not part of the procedure. The footer
gains the print date beside the version, so a stale copy pinned to a noticeboard
can be spotted.

Also corrects the model and migration found by running this against a real
database rather than SQLite: BaseModel contributes createddate, modifieddate and
isactive to every table and the migration never created them, so the first read
failed on unknown columns; the model had also declared duplicate timestamps on
top, now removed with the API field names kept stable. And the slug is 191
characters, not 300 - it is UNIQUE-indexed, MySQL caps an index key at 767
bytes, and utf8mb4 is 4 bytes per character.
2026-08-26 11:07:06 -04:00
cproudlock
38d1e367fc Guides: write a procedure in ShopDB, not beside it
The knowledgebase plugin is a link registry - a description, a URL and some
keywords pointing at a document held somewhere else. That leaves the documents
themselves as HTML files on a share: no search, no history, no way to know
whether the copy pinned to a noticeboard is current, and no way for a technician
to tick off where they are.

A guide is stored as an ordered list of typed blocks rather than a blob of
HTML, because three of the four things this feature exists for depend on it. A
tickable step needs a stable id to be remembered; dark mode needs semantic
markup rather than pasted colours; and print needs to know where a step begins
so it does not split one across a page. Free HTML gives none of that and lets
pasted styling fight the theme.

Inline text is a restricted Markdown subset - bold, italic, inline code, links,
line breaks - escaped BEFORE formatting, so nothing an author pasted can reach
the DOM as markup. No fonts, sizes or colours: emphasis is semantic and the
theme decides how it looks. That is what makes a guide written next year match
one written today, and dark mode work without an author thinking about it.

DRAFTS AND VERSIONS. The guide row is the working copy; every save that changes
something writes an immutable revision; and a separate pointer says which
revision READERS get. Without that pointer, editing a live procedure changes it
under a technician who is halfway through following it. Publishing promotes an
existing revision rather than snapshotting, so a publish with unsaved edits
cannot ship a version nobody reviewed. Restoring writes a new revision with old
content, so the record of what people were told in between survives.

Saves dedup on a content hash covering title, summary, tags and blocks, so an
autosave that changed nothing writes no version - otherwise the history fills
with identical entries and hides the three edits that mattered.

Progress lives in the browser, not the database: shopfloor PCs share a login, so
per-user ticks would show one technician's progress to the next person on that
bay, which reads as "already done". Keyed by guide and version, because step 4
of version 3 is not step 4 of version 2.

Five permissions, and the split between edit and publish is the point: a
technician can write a procedure up while somebody else decides it is fit for
the floor. create-without-edit works too - an author may edit their own guide
until it is published, after which other people are following it.
2026-08-26 10:24:26 -04:00
cproudlock
28af92aaec An unmeasurable backup must not hide a working one
CI caught this: judging a host by its stalest kind treated a never-confirmed
revision (lastseenat NULL) as the worst case, so it won. The verdict for a NULL
confirmation is tri-state None, which renders as NO BADGE - so a host with a
healthy ntlars backup and one backfilled row showed nothing at all. Hiding a
working backup is the one thing that badge must never do.

A NULL confirmation is not stale, it is unmeasurable. The stalest kind is now
chosen among kinds that can actually be judged, which is the rule staleness.py
already applies: a chain becomes measurable the first time its PC posts and says
nothing until then. If every kind is unmeasurable the host still reports which
kind it has, with a None verdict and no badge.

The test that caught it pinned the old newest-wins behaviour, which part markers
made wrong; it now pins stalest-measurable-wins and keeps its NULL clause, which
was right all along and is what found the bug.

Also worth recording how it was missed: the change was verified against
test_geenforce_reporting.py and test_backups.py, and this assertion lives in
test_geenforce_publish_gate.py, which was never run.
2026-08-26 10:07:51 -04:00
cproudlock
500f7d6ad6 Give the backups plugin a settings page, and show where a snapshot is
The plugin shipped five settings and no page for any of them. The core settings
catalog is a hardcoded list a plugin cannot extend, so backups_shareroot and the
collection interval were reachable only through the API or a flask shell on the
server - which is not a configurable setting in any useful sense, and it is how
today went: the setting simply was not there to set.

The page is contributed the ADR-010 way rather than by editing core - a card
from get_settings_cards plus a route in the plugin's own routes.js, both of
which disappear when the plugin is disabled. Filed under Machines, next to
Machine Types, because that is where the assets these back up live.

It also states the two things the settings do not say for themselves: that
health is judged on when a backup was last CONFIRMED rather than when it last
changed, and that retention prunes database revisions only - files on the share
stay, so enabling it on a share-backed kind leaves orphaned snapshot
directories.

Snapshot paths are now shown as full UNC text in both places: a Snapshot row on
the Marker Contents card, and the existing path on the history page, which
gains a copy button. Deliberately NOT a link - browsers refuse to navigate from
an https page to file://, so a clickable path looks actionable and silently
does nothing, which is worse than no link. Copy, then paste into Explorer.

The path comes off the revision, never composed from the configured share root:
a snapshot written before the layout changed still lives where it was put.
2026-08-25 14:53:04 -04:00
cproudlock
ee208808f4 Judge a PC's backup by its stalest kind, not its newest
Until part markers, a PC reported exactly one backup kind and "newest revision
wins" was the same thing as the truth. A marker bay reports two: ntlars for the
machine's DNC settings, partmarker for the controller's patterns.

With newest-wins, the daily ntlars post keeps the badge green while the marker
backup has been failing for a month. The failure shows only on that marker's
asset page, which is not where anyone looks to find out something stopped - and
"is this still being checked" is the one question this badge exists to answer.

So a host is green only when everything it backs up is current, and the badge
names the kind that is not. Freshest revision per kind first, because
lastseenat only ever moves on the newest revision of a chain; judging every row
would report a healthy, frequently changing config as permanently stale.

Known consequence, and the right direction to err: a device retired from a PC
leaves its last revision behind, so that host stays stale until the revision is
pruned. It complains about a backup that genuinely is not running rather than
staying quiet about one.

The dashboard card needed no change - it already lists every stale chain
independently, so a stale partmarker chain was never hidden there.
2026-08-25 13:56:52 -04:00
cproudlock
512cc9be76 Let a share-backed backup say what is in it
A 'share' kind keeps its bytes on the file share and gives ShopDB only a hash
and a UNC path. That is right for an opaque vendor file, but it means the app
cannot answer the question a tech actually arrives with - what does this part
marker hold, and which pattern disappeared last month. Reading the share from
the app server is not an option: the download routes refuse to mount it on
purpose, because a permissions slip there becomes an unexplained empty panel.

So the collector now accepts an optional manifest alongside the hash: the
index, not the content. Names, sizes, per-file hashes, and the marking system
each pattern was authored for. Advisory throughout - a client that sends none
behaves exactly as before, and dedup still keys on contenthash.

The marker asset gains a Marker Contents card built from it: counts by type,
the controller family, and a diff against the previous snapshot in the same
source chain. Removed files are named rather than counted, because "1 removed"
only tells someone to go and look. Files edited in place are named too - the
file set can be identical while the content hash moved, and reporting no
change there would contradict the reason the revision exists.

The manifest is deliberately NOT covered by contenthash, which attests the
bytes on the share. A client that starts describing itself therefore posts an
unchanged hash, so a no-op backfills a manifest the row does not yet have -
otherwise the card would appear only on markers that had recently changed, and
stay hidden on every healthy one. The same no-op refreshes sharepath, so a
snapshot that moved on the share stops being pointed at where it used to be.

Manifests are validated at ingest rather than at render: a malformed one would
otherwise become the latest revision and fail every view of the asset page
until the content next changed, outliving the client bug that caused it.

sharedir() for the marker kind is overridden to the layout the site actually
uses, so what ShopDB displays and validates matches what the collector writes.
2026-08-25 13:06:49 -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
24435e6359 Let the warranty search find a machine number
Reported: the warranty page cannot be searched by machine number.

It was there to be found. _related_machine puts the machine's number in the
payload, and it does so for a stated reason - a shopfloor PC is bought,
warranted and replaced as a PC, but it is FOUND by the machine it drives, and
nobody walks the floor looking for an asset number. The table renders it as a
chip. The filter looked at vendor, service level, service tag and asset number,
and never at the machine. So the one identifier the feature was designed around
was the one thing the search box could not match.

This is how a field list goes wrong: a column was added to the table and not to
the filter, and nothing connects the two. Moved the field list into
warrantySearch.js so a test can see it, following controllingPc.js and
labelPages.js. Machine name is searched as well - somebody who knows the bay by
"the Makino" should not have to look up its number to find its warranty.

The specs also pin the case that made the old inline version fragile: a covered
asset whose machine is null, which is every printer and any PC nobody has linked
yet, must not throw. And a missing field must not match: String(undefined) is
'undefined', so a naive coercion makes a search for "und" hit every row with an
empty vendor.

Not changed, worth knowing: the covered asset's NAME is still not searched, only
its number. That looks like the same omission, but it is a wider change than the
report - the placeholder has always said "asset" without saying which half - so
it is left for a deliberate decision rather than folded in here.
2026-08-24 09:52:05 -04:00
cproudlock
b96637e1a1 Let a baseline meet a table that is already there
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Reported: `flask plugin upgrade-all` failed the tools plugin with "table
securesendsecrets already exists".

Every post-cutover baseline emitted a plain op.create_table. That is correct
only while a table's existence and its plugin's Alembic stamp can never
disagree, and they can. Anything that builds tables from the models -
db.create_all(), which `flask db-utils create-all` calls - creates them and
stamps nothing. A run that creates a table and then fails before its stamp
commits leaves the same split, and re-running is the obvious thing to try. In
both cases upgrade-all meets existing tables with an unstamped chain and the
create is fatal.

Nothing caught it because the migration test DROPS the post-cutover tables
db.create_all() built before running upgrade-all. That arranges the one state
where an unguarded create works, and never the state the report came from. The
new test is the same sequence with the drop removed for the plugin under test.

create_table_if_missing and create_index_if_missing are in alembic_template.py
next to create_plugin_tables, which had the idempotency rule right and turns out
to be called by nobody - its docstring claimed every 0001 used it. Fixed the
docstring rather than rewiring the baselines onto it, because the reason they
hand-write their DDL still stands: the helper's per-plugin MetaData cannot
resolve a foreign key to a core table at CreateTable-compile time.

INDEXES ARE MATCHED ON COLUMNS, NOT NAME, and that distinction matters. The two
creators disagree about names - db.create_all() takes SQLAlchemy's default
convention (ix_securesendsecrets_token) and a baseline spells it the way this
repo's naming rules require (ixsecuresendsecretstoken). A name-keyed guard would
have called the index missing and added a second one over the same column, which
MySQL permits with a warning, so every affected site would have quietly grown
duplicates. The test asserts no table ends up with two indexes over the same
columns.

Applied to all nine table-creating plugin migrations, not just the tools
baseline that was reported: the four later migrations that create tables have
the same exposure, and geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and backups are
the same defect waiting for a different site.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT FIX. It makes a baseline idempotent, not a whole chain. A
longer chain can still meet an ALTER whose column is already present -
printedparts adding gagelabtag to a table create_all built at head is the case
that showed up while testing. Guarding every op one at a time is the wrong
answer to that; a database built from the models is already AT head and its
chains want stamping rather than replaying, and there is no `flask plugin stamp`
today. Left alone deliberately rather than half-built, and the new test is
scoped to single-baseline plugins so it does not pretend otherwise.
2026-08-24 09:28:37 -04:00
cproudlock
de3c5aa562 Stop re-creating a controlling-PC link that was already there
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Reported: moving machine 3016 on the map and saving answered "this
relationship already exists" and refused the save.

The map had nothing to do with it. Every save of the machine form re-POSTed the
controlling-PC link, and the server was right to refuse it - the row was already
active, and assetrelationships is unique on (source, target, type). Any edit to
a machine that has a controlling PC hit this; a position change is just the one
somebody happened to be making.

The form asked the wrong question. It used "do I know the existing link's id" as
a stand-in for "is there an existing link", and read that id from
rel.assetrelationshipid - a key the API has never emitted. to_dict serialises
column names and the column is relationshipid, so the read was undefined on
every load while controllingPcId was populated from the same relationship. The
two answers disagreed, and the disagreement was invisible: undefined is not an
error, it is just a falsy id.

That single conflation caused both failures. Saving anything re-created the
link, and CLEARING the controlling PC did nothing at all, because "no selection
and no known id" reads as "nothing to do" - so removing a machine's controlling
PC silently kept it. Only the first of those was reported, and the second is the
one somebody would have trusted.

Fixed by making the LOADED PC the authority on whether a link exists, with the
relationship id used only to delete a row. If that id ever goes missing again
the worst case is a link that cannot be removed, never a duplicate create.

The decision moved to controllingPc.js as a pure function so it could be pinned
by tests, following labelPages.js. Unchanged is now explicitly no-op rather than
delete-then-create: re-linking a machine to the same PC opens a window where it
has no controlling PC at all, and resolve_asset_position walks that edge, so a
failure between the two calls would drop the machine's inherited position along
with its link. The specs also cover a select handing back '42' against an API
that gave 42, which would make an untouched link look like a swap and reach the
same duplicate POST by another route.

Not the printer assignment, which was the first guess: PrinterAssignmentPicker
makes no relationship calls, and its save is wrapped in a catch that only logs,
so it cannot surface an error from this form at all.
2026-08-24 08:42:50 -04:00