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The publishability gate caught internal tooling names and developer paths but
nothing site-specific, so roughly sixty leaks reached the wiki: the site name in
ten documents, real fleet hostnames in the collector and GE-Enforce examples, an
internal database name through the whole import guide, imaging-share paths, and
a maintainer's username as the Deciders line of every ADR and inside a generated
curl example.

None of it is a security matter on an air-gapped fleet. It matters because these
pages are read by engineers at other plants, and a document that names one site
throughout reads as that site's notes rather than a product's documentation -
which is exactly what it then gets treated as.

Examples now use neutral hostnames, the site is "the reference site" where the
distinction carries meaning, and ADRs are decided by "ShopDB maintainers". The
gate carries all of these patterns, so the next one fails a build.

Two documents leave docs/ because they were never written for an outside reader.
PROJECT-REVIEW.md is an internal health memo pinned to a commit from July, whose
headline finding (an untracked playbook) has since been fixed - it is history,
and git holds it. PILOT-DEPLOY.md is one site's own cutover runbook, complete
with a "re-measure before publishing" placeholder; it moves next to the loader
it belongs to, in scripts/site_imports/wjf/.

ADR-015 is AMENDED rather than rewritten. Its enforcement section still said
report-only and its backlog still listed hardcodes that are now cleared, which
left the record contradicting itself. The amendment says what changed and why
the report-only period ended; the original text stays, because what the decision
looked like when it was taken is the part worth keeping.

Also corrects llms.txt's response envelope, which had errors at the top level
and pagination at meta.total. Both are nested one deeper, so anything written
against that description read undefined on every error it tried to handle.
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# ADR-014: Schema-lean per-site builds (retire cross-plugin FKs, lift plugin tables)
- Status: ACCEPTED
- Date: 2026-07-19
- Deciders: ShopDB maintainers
- Relates to: ADR-008 (per-plugin migration ownership), ADR-013 (plugin catalog + lean per-site builds), ADR-001 (asset model)
## Context
ADR-013 delivered lean per-site builds for plugin CODE (backend tree + frontend
bundle carry only chosen plugins). One residual was left, explicitly deferred:
the DATABASE. The core Alembic baseline (68b3947ae14f) creates EVERY table,
including ~30 plugin-owned tables (PLUGIN_TABLE_OWNERS). Each plugin's own
baseline is a stamp-only no-op (the core chain already made its tables, per
ADR-008). So a lean site that omits a plugin still creates that plugin's tables,
empty and unused.
The deferral cited a blocker: "the computers-owned installedapps table FKs
machines.machineid while computers declares no dependency on machines; reversing
the cutover would introduce undeclared hard deps or drop FKs; neither is
decided." Investigation refined this:
The cross-boundary foreign keys into the machines plugin table are ALL held by
DEAD legacy tables/columns that predate the asset model (ADR-001) and the
per-plugin cutover (ADR-008), and are queried nowhere in the codebase:
- `machinerelationships` (child/parentmachineid -> machines) - superseded by
`assetrelationships`. No model, no query.
- `printerdata` (machineid -> machines) - the pre-cutover printers table,
superseded by the printers plugin. No model, no query.
- `installedapps` (machineid -> machines) - a standalone machine-app link table;
the live relationship is `computerinstalledapps` (FK to computers only). The
standalone table has no model, no query.
- `communications.machineid` (-> machines) - a legacy column on the core
communications table (which is now assetid-based). Not read anywhere.
No LIVE plugin table hard-FKs another plugin's table. computerinstalledapps FKs
only computers.computerid (intra-plugin). So the blocker is dead cruft, not
live design.
## Decision
Two phases, both leaving existing databases correct.
### Phase 1: retire the dead cross-boundary cruft - ALREADY DONE
Investigation found this is already accomplished by existing migrations:
`7a01_adr001_position_contract` and `7c01_drop_legacy_machine` drop
`machinerelationships`, `printerdata`, `installedapps`, and
`communications.machineid` (with its FK). The current schema (verified on the
dev database) has none of them. So the cross-plugin FK blocker ADR-013 cited no
longer exists in the live schema - only in the baseline's transient
create-then-later-drop. No new migration is needed for Phase 1.
Precedent: ADR-001 dropped a cross-plugin FK the same way
(usbcheckouts.machineid -> machines became a soft sentinel).
### Enabling change (executed now): idempotent create_plugin_tables
`shopdb/plugins/alembic_template.py:create_plugin_tables` now skips any table
that already exists (inspects the bind first) instead of raising. This is the
mechanism Phase 2 needs: a plugin anchor can create its tables on a fresh lean
install AND be a safe no-op on an existing database that already has them from
the pre-cutover core baseline. Correct and inert regardless of Phase 2 (no
current caller creates against a populated schema). Verified against the
plugin-migration suite.
### Phase 2 (executed): prune not-installed plugin tables after upgrade
Two mechanisms were weighed to make a lean site's database carry only
core + chosen-plugin tables:
- **Relocate** (rejected): pull every plugin-table create/alter out of the core
chain into the plugin baselines, so the core chain never creates a
not-installed plugin's table. Measurement killed this: plugin tables are
created and altered across ~15 released core migrations (baseline plus 7c04,
7d05, 7d08, 7d13, 7d15, 7d16, 7d17, ...), not just the baseline. Because the
whole core chain runs before any plugin chain, removing a table's create from
core while a later core migration still alters it breaks FULL installs too, so
relocation means surgically rewriting ~15 released migrations - the highest
blast radius in the project - for a purely cosmetic gain (the omitted tables
are empty and the lean CODE build already never loads the plugin).
- **Prune-after-upgrade** (chosen): leave the entire core chain untouched. Add
`flask plugin prune-schema`, which drops the tables of every plugin in
PLUGIN_TABLE_OWNERS that is not installed on this site. Run once at deploy,
after `flask db upgrade` and `flask plugin upgrade-all`. Same end state
(core + chosen tables) with near-zero blast radius: no released migration is
edited, and an existing full site is unaffected because it never runs the
command.
`prune-schema` drops by table name (no plugin-code import), so it works on a
lean image where the omitted plugin's directory is absent. It is a dry-run by
default and refuses to drop a table that holds rows unless `--force`, so a
misfire on a populated site cannot silently delete data. Because the core chain
seeds a few plugin reference tables (e.g. 7d05 inserts default access
protocols), initial lean provisioning uses `--force` - at that point the tables
hold only migration-seeded defaults, before any site data exists.
The idempotent `create_plugin_tables` (enabling change above) is what lets a
lean site later ADD an omitted plugin: its anchor recreates the pruned tables.
Verified end to end on MySQL: fresh full install (86 tables) then prune is a
no-op; fresh lean install (machines + printers) then prune drops the other 19
plugin tables, leaving core + chosen; second prune is a no-op; the non-empty
guard refuses without `--force`. Four SQLite regression tests pin the behavior
(tests/test_plugin_prune_schema.py), running in the backend CI job via the real
CLI runner: drop-only-not-installed, full-site no-op, refuse-non-empty, and
force-drops-non-empty.
## Consequences
### Positive
- A lean site's database contains only core + chosen-plugin tables, with no edit
to any released migration (near-zero blast radius).
- The cross-plugin FK blocker ADR-013 cited is gone (dead cruft, dropped by
existing migrations), so plugin schemas are already FK-independent.
- Adding an omitted plugin to a lean site later just works: the idempotent
anchor recreates its tables.
### Negative / risk
- prune-schema is destructive by nature; the row-count guard + dry-run default +
required `--force` for non-empty tables contain that. It is a deploy-time
provisioning step, not something to run casually on a live populated site.
- A lean fresh install still transiently creates then drops the omitted plugins'
tables (the core chain builds them, prune removes them). Harmless and one-time
at provisioning; the trade for not touching the released baseline.
## Implementation
- Phase 1: nothing to do - the dead cross-boundary FK objects were already
dropped by existing migrations `7a01_adr001_position_contract` and
`7c01_drop_legacy_machine`; verified absent on a fresh full MySQL upgrade.
- Enabling change: `create_plugin_tables` made idempotent
(`shopdb/plugins/alembic_template.py`).
- Phase 2: `flask plugin prune-schema` (`shopdb/plugins/cli.py`), dry-run by
default, `--yes` to execute, `--force` for non-empty tables. Deploy order:
`flask db upgrade` -> `flask plugin upgrade-all` -> `flask plugin prune-schema
--yes --force`. Regression tests in `tests/test_plugin_prune_schema.py` (run in
the backend CI job).