Windows editors love to prepend a BOM, and a bare JSON.parse then dies
with an "Unexpected token" pointing at an invisible character - in the
SDK CLIs (dev/validate/entry/submit) and, worse, server-side: a BOM in
an author repo travels through pack into the artifact and fails
discovery and registry install. Strip it at every manifest/JSON read
(readJsonFile in the SDK, parseJsonText in the installer).
Round out the author experience so the loop is create -> dev -> release/submit
without hand-work or a round-trip through registry review.
- `dev`: run a plugin locally with a real request loop and hot reload — no full
TREK. Injects a ctx that enforces the manifest's granted permissions (an
ungranted call throws, so you catch a missing grant), backs db:own with a real
SQLite file (node:sqlite), serves routes under /api and page/widget UI at /ui,
and reloads on save. Dependency-free (node:http + built-ins).
- `preflight`: run the registry CI checks locally over the network (tag->commit,
manifest parity, artifact sha256/size, native scan, README quality gate) so a
green run predicts a green CI.
- `submit`: fork TREK-Plugins, branch off current main, write/merge the entry,
push, and open the PR — the last manual publishing step, automated.
- `keygen`/`sign` + `--sign` on entry/release/submit: dependency-free Ed25519
author signatures over the artifact bytes, verified 1:1 against the server's
TOFU check. Fills authorPublicKey + signature and guards against a key change.
- `create` gains an interactive wizard (id/type/author/permissions) and flags.
- README + Development/Publishing/Permissions wikis document the new flow.
24 tests pass (sign round-trips through a server-shaped verifier; zip reader;
scaffold options; entry signing + key-change guard).
Maurice