A freshly scaffolded plugin could not load anywhere: the npm package is
ESM-only (no require condition in its exports map), so the scaffold's
require('trek-plugin-sdk') threw ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED under
`trek-plugin dev` - and the runtime injection the wiki promised for the
plugin child never existed, so a packed plugin (node_modules stripped)
crashed with MODULE_NOT_FOUND after a real install.
- plugin child: inject a frozen {definePlugin, PLUGIN_API_VERSION} shim
for require('trek-plugin-sdk'); subpaths fail with a pointed error
- trek-plugin dev: inject the exact same shim, so a fresh scaffold runs
with zero npm install and dev parity with production holds
- npm package: ship a real CommonJS build (dist/cjs + require export
conditions) so the installed package also requires cleanly on Node 18+
- create: scaffold a package.json (type commonjs, SDK as devDependency,
npx scripts); print resolvable `npx trek-plugin-sdk ...` hints
- wiki: package.json in the scaffold tree + publishing checklist, and
document the zero-install dev flow
Every plugin now runs in its own forked child process with a scrubbed env
(no JWT_SECRET, no db path, nothing inherited). It talks to TREK only over a
JSON-RPC channel, and the host's capability router registers ONLY the methods a
plugin's granted permissions unlock — so an ungranted call is unreachable, not
merely refused. The plugin's own data lives in a separate sqlite file it can
never open directly; core reads (trips/users) go through membership-checked,
column-projected host methods; ws broadcasts are force-namespaced.
- protocol/envelope: the wire types + method→permission map (pure, shared by
host and the isolated child)
- host/rpc-host: the capability router = the enforcement point (dispatch,
BAD_PARAMS / PERMISSION_DENIED / RESOURCE_FORBIDDEN / UNKNOWN_METHOD)
- host/plugin-data: the per-plugin sqlite file (db:own), guarded against
ATTACH/PRAGMA escape, idempotent migrations
- host/create-rpc-host: wires the router to the real db/websocket (host-only)
- runtime/plugin-sdk + plugin-host-entry: the child bootstrap + definePlugin
ctx; turns each ctx call into an RPC, never imports a privileged module
- supervisor: spawn on activate, heartbeat/reap, crash backoff + auto-disable,
graceful shutdown — a plugin crash/OOM/hang can never reach the Nest loop
- paths: code/data layout, dist-vs-tsx child entry resolution
Nothing is wired into activation yet (that's the next slice); exercised by unit
tests for the router/sdk/data and an integration test that forks a real child.
Maurice