Three coordinated changes that share the same files. Common theme:
convention beats exception. Where the codebase had a bespoke wire shape
or a special-case route, replace it with the generic shape every other
client already speaks.
== Listing protocol ==
GET / Accept: application/json used to dispatch to a bespoke
ServeProjectList handler returning {name, url, title} per project — a
shape that diverged from every other directory's listing.FileInfo
response. Now:
- listing.FileInfo gains an optional `title` field (read from each
directory's own .zddc title:). Generic clients (landing, browse)
read the same shape from every URL.
- appfs.ListDirectory emits a virtual `.zddc` entry (is_dir:false,
virtual:true) when no on-disk file exists at that path and the
caller asked for ?hidden=1. Opens an editable view of the cascade
defaults; PUT-saving its bytes materialises a real file.
- The bespoke GET / JSON branch in cmd/zddc-server/main.go is gone.
The bare-root landing serve is Accept-gated: HTML requests get the
landing tool (project picker), JSON requests fall through to
ServeDirectory and get the generic listing.
- landing's fetchProjects filters the new generic shape (is_dir,
strip trailing slash) — same pattern fetchParties already used at
/<project>/archive/.
== Form editor retirement ==
`<dir>/.zddc.html` was a server-rendered form for editing per-directory
.zddc files (~900 LOC across zddceditor.go, zddchandler.go, zddc_assets.go).
Browse's YAML/CodeMirror editor (with .zddc-schema lint) already edits
the same files via the generic file-API. Two ways to edit the same data
is exception, not convention.
- Delete zddceditor.go, zddchandler.go, zddc_assets.go and tests.
- `/<dir>/.zddc.html` → 302 redirect to `/<dir>/?file=.zddc` (browse
opens the .zddc in its editor pane).
- /.profile/zddc/* namespace deleted (REST API + assets sub-route).
- Profile page's "Editable .zddc files" list links to browse.
- ServeZddcFile's 405 message + virtual-body comment point at the
browse URL instead of the dead form.
== Admin elevation (Principal model) ==
Sudo-style: admins are treated as normal users by default; opting into
admin powers is per-request and gated by a `zddc-elevate=1` cookie.
- zddc.Principal{Email, Elevated} replaces bare-email arguments on
IsAdmin / IsSubtreeAdmin / CanEditZddc. The signature change makes
the elevation gate compiler-enforced at every admin call site —
audit-fragility is gone. The empty-email short-circuit is no longer
load-bearing for elevation; Principal.gate() is the explicit check.
- handler.ACLMiddleware derives Elevated per request: bearer tokens
are implicitly elevated (CLI clients can't toggle a cookie); browser
sessions elevate only when zddc-elevate=1 is set. PrincipalFromContext(r)
is the one-call-per-site bundling helper.
- Every admin-check call site updated to pass a Principal.
- /.auth/admin (forward_auth target for the dev-shell IDE) explicitly
bypasses elevation with a synthetic-elevated Principal — different
cookie scope than zddc-server origin, documented inline.
- AccessView gains CanElevate (elevation-independent "does this email
have admin authority anywhere?") so the header toggle can render
itself for an un-elevated admin who hasn't opted in yet.
- ServeProjectList is removed; ProjectInfo + EnumerateProjects stay
for the profile page's server-rendered project list.
- MatchAppHTML stays — still used by main.go to route <dir>/<tool>.html
URLs to the apps subsystem when no real file exists.
- Test helpers carry Elevated=true by default (matches the
pre-elevation default; tests for the un-elevated gate use the
explicit form).
Go tests pass across all 14 internal packages. Browse + every other
tool rebuilds clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a UI checkbox next to the existing Sort dropdown that surfaces
hidden entries when ACL would otherwise allow read. Default off
(matches today's filtered behavior). On toggle, browse re-fetches
the current directory with ?hidden=1 and re-renders.
┌─ browse toolbar ─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Sort: [Name (A→Z) ▾] ☐ Show hidden │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Server-side surface:
- internal/fs/tree.go ListDirectory gains an `includeHidden bool`
parameter. The .-prefix filter (previously hard-coded) now also
drops _-prefix entries (matches dispatch's reserved-prefix guard)
and honors the new flag.
- internal/handler/directory.go reads `?hidden=1` from the request
and threads it through.
- cmd/zddc-server/main.go dispatcher relaxes its dot-prefix and
_-prefix guards for GET/HEAD when `?hidden=1` is set, so clicking
a hidden entry's link works. `_app/` (apps cache) stays
unconditionally reserved — those bytes must go through the apps
resolver. Writes to hidden paths stay blocked (the file API has
its own segment check that the flag does NOT relax).
- internal/listing/listing.go: signature parity (the lower-level
helper that's used by tests + non-cascade listing paths).
Security model unchanged: the ACL chain on the parent dir is the only
real gate. Whoever can read the dir can see its contents — toggling
"Show hidden" just stops the client-side filter from masking
.-prefixed and _-prefixed entries. Hidden paths today:
• <dir>/.zddc ACL YAML — already exposed via /.profile/zddc
• <dir>/.converted/<base> cached MD→DOCX/HTML/PDF, same sensitivity as source
• <root>/.zddc.d/tokens/ per-token metadata; filename = sha256(token)
so not bearer-usable. Default root ACL
restricts to admins; matches /.tokens UI.
• <root>/.zddc.d/logs/ access logs; same admins-only audience
• <root>/_app/ cached upstream tool HTML (public)
• <root>/_template/ install.zip scaffolding (public)
None of these contain bearer credentials or secret material that the
existing ACL doesn't already gate. The walls are still the cascade.
The shared/nav.js stage strip previously hardcoded four stages
(archive/working/staging/reviewing) with their labels and target
URLs baked into the file. Operators couldn't add a fifth stage or
rename "Working" to "In-Progress" without forking shared code.
Now cascade-driven end-to-end:
Server-side:
listing.FileInfo gains a Declared bool field. fs.ListDirectory
stamps Declared=true on every entry whose name matches the
cascade's ChildrenDeclaredAt(parent) — both real on-disk dirs
and virtual canonical injections. Bugfix in the same patch:
virtualCanonicalFolders was passing the relative dirPath to
ChildrenDeclaredAt (which expects absolute); now passes absDir.
Client-side:
shared/nav.js fetches the project root's JSON listing on
DOMContentLoaded, filters to declared+is_dir entries, sorts by
canonical workflow order (archive → working → staging →
reviewing, then any extras alphabetically), and renders the
strip. Labels read e.display_name → falls back to titleCase(name).
Hardcoded FALLBACK_STAGES kicks in only on fetch failure
(offline / file:// / non-zddc-server backend). Rendered
immediately so the strip appears without flicker, then the
cascade-fetched list replaces it once available.
Effect:
Project-3 (which has display: { archive: "Records",
working: "In-Progress", ... } in its .zddc) now shows
"Records · In-Progress · Outbox · Pending Responses" in every
tool's strip. Project-1 still shows "Archive · Working ·
Staging · Reviewing". No code change to render either; the
cascade decides.
Tests:
- tests/nav.spec.js relies on the mock server returning HTML at
every URL, so the fetch fails over to fallback stages — the
test renders the same Archive/Working/Staging/Reviewing labels
it always did, with no test changes needed.
- All 248 Playwright + all Go tests green.
Remaining client-side hardcode: archive/js/source.js +
archive/js/app.js's mode detection. Phase 4d.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Final consumer migration. The Go-coded lists that previously encoded
the ZDDC convention all defer to the .zddc cascade now.
Schema added:
available_tools: [tool1, tool2, ...] concat-union across cascade;
tools not in the union are
denied auto-route at that path
auto_own_fenced: true|false generated auto-own .zddc
carries inherit:false (private
to creator)
Lookups added:
AvailableToolsAt(root, dir) union of available_tools across cascade
IsToolAvailableAt(root, dir, tool)
AutoOwnFencedAt(root, dir) leaf-only
Cascade semantics finalised (per field):
default_tool → leaf→root walk (parent applies to descendants)
available_tools → leaf→root union (each level adds; baseline at root)
auto_own → leaf-only (creating THIS dir specifically)
auto_own_fenced → leaf-only (same)
virtual → leaf-only (THIS dir is virtual, not subtree)
Consumers migrated:
apps.DefaultAppAt → zddc.DefaultToolAt
apps.AppAvailableAt → zddc.IsToolAvailableAt (+ landing special)
EnsureCanonicalAncestors → AutoOwnAt + AutoOwnFencedAt
fs.ListDirectory empty-list fallback → zddc.IsDeclaredPath
fs.virtualCanonicalFolders → zddc.ChildrenDeclaredAt
dispatcher canonical-folder branches → unified into one
cascade-declared block
Hardcoded helpers REMOVED (dead code):
apps.inAncestorWithName
zddc.autoOwnDepthMatch / isAutoOwnDepthMatch
Hardcoded lists kept as data sources for the cascade walker but
no longer drive routing logic:
ProjectRootFolders / PartyFolders / AutoOwnCanonicalNames /
VirtualOnlyCanonicalNames / IsProjectRootFolder / IsArchivePartyFolder /
IsArchivePartyMdlDir — all still defined; only `ProjectRootFolders`
is used by special.go's IsProjectRootFolder. The rest are dead.
Dispatcher unified: the previously-two branches (per-party folder vs
project-root folder) collapse into one cascade-declared-path block
that handles the slash/no-slash convention uniformly:
- no-slash, default_tool=tables → ServeTable (default-MDL fallback)
- no-slash, default_tool set → apps.Serve(tool)
- no-slash, no default_tool → 302 to slash form
- slash, any → ServeDirectory empty-list fallback
The IsDir branch's switch also un-hardcoded — any cascade tool is
served (not just the legacy 3 names), so e.g. /Project/archive/<party>
/incoming (no slash) now serves classifier directly rather than 302'ing
to the slash form.
defaults.zddc.yaml populated with the canonical convention as the
recipe. Operators edit it (or override per-directory on disk) to
change any behaviour — no Go code changes required.
Browse drag-drop scope (working/staging/incoming) is the one remaining
client-side hardcoded regex; cascading that requires the cascade JSON
to be served to the client, which is its own Phase 4 piece.
Tests updated for the new no-slash mdl URL convention (landing MDL
card test) and no-slash stage URLs (nav strip test). All 248
Playwright + all Go tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three coupled fixes:
1. landing MDL card: Open button now navigates to /<project>/archive/
<party>/mdl (no trailing slash) so the tables tool loads. The
slash form would route to browse instead, which is not what users
want when they click "Open MDL".
2. zddc-server canonical-folder fallback extended to
archive/<party>/{mdl,incoming,received,issued}. New
zddc.IsArchivePartyFolder() recognises any of the four party
folders at depth 4. fs.ListDirectory returns [] for missing
on-disk variants (mirroring the project-root behavior added in
commit 3fc3717); the dispatcher routes slash forms to
ServeDirectory and the no-slash mdl form to ServeTable, with
non-mdl no-slash forms 302'ing to the slash form.
So /Project-N/archive/<party>/incoming/ now lands on an empty
browse listing rather than 404 when nobody has dropped files yet.
3. Fixture seeded with 3 files per party under incoming/ — naming
intentionally NOT in transmittal-envelope form, so classifier
(loaded automatically by browse's grid mode at /incoming/
per the URL-driven view convention) has something to rename.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
User report: project root listings showed both "Archive" (PascalCase on
disk) and "archive (empty)" (lowercase virtual) — confusing duplicates.
This sweep:
1. Test fixture migrated to lowercase canonical folder names.
tests/data/test-archive.sh now creates archive/, received/, issued/
on disk. Three projects also get human-friendly .zddc titles
("Wabash Industrial Refit — Phase 1", etc.), and Project-3 carries
a display: override demonstrating the new map. Party names
(PartyA/B/C) stay unchanged — non-canonical.
2. New .zddc display: schema. Maps a child entry's on-disk name to a
human-friendly label. The on-disk name stays canonical (lowercase
for project-root folders); only the rendered label changes. Match
is case-insensitive. Example:
display:
archive: "Records"
working: "In-Progress"
No upward cascade — a parent .zddc doesn't relabel grand-children;
each directory sets display: on its own children.
3. listing.FileInfo gets a DisplayName field. fs.ListDirectory reads
the directory's .zddc display map and stamps DisplayName per entry.
The field is omitempty so listings without overrides stay
byte-identical to before.
4. Virtual canonical project-root folders (archive/working/staging/
reviewing) are now emitted by zddc-server (fs.ListDirectory) at any
project root where the on-disk variant is absent in any case. This
replaces the client-side injection in browse and lets the display:
map apply to virtual entries the same way it applies to real ones.
Browse drops its withVirtualCanonicals helper; the loader carries
display_name through from the server's listing.
5. Archive app project picker dropdown shows the .zddc title of each
project (sourced from ProjectInfo.Title in the server's project
list), falling back to the folder name when no title is set. When
they differ, the folder name is rendered in muted mono after the
title for traceability. data-name still carries the canonical
folder name so URL state stays stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two related routing fixes:
1. /<project>/archive/<party>/mdl[/] now follows the slash/no-slash
convention uniformly with the rest of the system:
- mdl (no slash) → tables app (default tool for mdl/)
- mdl/ (slash) → browse (ServeDirectory empty-listing fallback)
Previously the slash form auto-redirected to mdl/table.html, which
forced the user into the table view from any party-folder click and
produced a confusing "Unrecognized table URL" error when the
redirect race-conditioned. tableRowsRedirect now only redirects
when a real on-disk table.yaml exists; the default-MDL virtual case
stays in browse via the convention.
New zddc.IsArchivePartyMdlDir helper recognises the canonical
<project>/archive/<party>/mdl pattern at depth 4 (relative path).
fs.ListDirectory uses it to return [] for the missing-on-disk case
so browse renders the empty workspace cleanly. Test updated
(TestServeDirectoryRedirectsDefaultMdl → TestServeDirectoryDefaultMdlNoRedirect).
2. <dir>/.zddc URLs now work at every directory depth.
The dispatcher previously 404'd anything beginning with a dot
(except /.archive and /<dir>/.zddc.html). New IsZddcFileRequest +
ServeZddcFile handlers carve out the raw .zddc leaf so an operator
can navigate to /Project-1/archive/PartyA/mdl/.zddc and inspect
the rules effective at that depth.
Semantics:
- Method: GET / HEAD only. Writes go through the existing admin-
gated form at <dir>/.zddc.html (unchanged).
- ACL: parent directory's read permission gates access; 404
(not 403) is returned to non-readers so existence isn't leaked.
- On disk: file bytes served verbatim with
Content-Type: application/yaml and X-ZDDC-Source: file:<rel>.
- Virtual: when no file exists at this level, a synthetic
placeholder body is returned with a YAML-comment cascade
summary so the reader sees exactly what rules apply here from
ancestors. X-ZDDC-Source: virtual:zddc distinguishes it.
The virtual body parses as valid YAML (`{}` after the comments) so
downstream tooling that consumes the URL isn't confused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous fix in fs.ListDirectory was insufficient — main.go's
dispatcher calls os.Stat(absPath) before reaching ServeDirectory,
and 404s on the missing path before the listing code ever runs.
Symptom: GET <project>/working/ on a fresh project still returned
"Not Found" despite the read-side fallback being committed.
Add the same fallback at the dispatcher level: when os.Stat returns
NotExist AND the URL ends with "/" AND the path matches
IsProjectRootFolder, fall through to ServeDirectory rather than
404. ServeDirectory's ACL check + ListDirectory's empty-listing
behavior take it from there.
Separately, fs.ListDirectory now initializes its result slice to
make([]listing.FileInfo, 0) instead of `var result []listing.FileInfo`,
so the JSON encoder emits "[]" rather than "null" for empty
listings — clients (browse, archive) expect an array and choke on
null.
New test TestDispatchEmptyCanonicalProjectFolders covers the four
canonical names (archive/working/staging/reviewing) on a project
where none of them exist on disk yet, plus the negative case (a
non-canonical missing path still 404s).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Listing <project>/{archive,working,staging,reviewing}/ when the folder
doesn't exist on disk now returns an empty 200 listing instead of 404.
The stage-strip nav links into these folders unconditionally; without
this fallback, clicking "Working" against a fresh project (where
working/ hasn't been written to yet) lands on a 404 page rather than
a usable empty view.
Mechanism stays consistent with the existing lazy-folder design:
- GET on missing canonical folder → 200 + empty listing (this commit)
- first WRITE under the same path → EnsureCanonicalAncestors
materialises the on-disk folder + auto-own .zddc
reviewing/ stays virtual-only (in VirtualOnlyCanonicalNames); the
fallback just makes its empty listing always renderable. The future
reviewing/ aggregator (recorded in project memory) will replace the
empty listing with the join-computed virtual entries.
The fallback is gated on IsProjectRootFolder — only depth-2 paths
matching one of the four canonical names. Non-canonical missing paths
still 404 (TestListDirectory_NonCanonicalMissing_StillNotFound).
For working/ specifically the synthetic <viewer-email>/ home entry
still fires from virtualUserHomeEntry, so the user sees their own
placeholder even when working/ doesn't exist yet — first write into
that placeholder triggers the lazy-create chain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
URLs are now case-insensitive against the on-disk casing under
ZDDC_ROOT, with a lowercase-wins tiebreak when sibling case variants
exist. File and folder names preserve case on disk — the change is a
pure URL→FS-name mapping; nothing renames anything.
internal/fs/resolve.go ResolveCanonical walks segments left-to-right
under fsRoot. Per segment: try lowercase first (canonical / cheap
lstat fast-path), then exact-case, then readdir+CI scan with the
all-lowercase variant winning the tiebreak. Walk stops at the first
segment that doesn't exist on disk so virtual prefixes (.archive,
.profile, .tokens, .auth) and 404 paths flow through with their tail
preserved verbatim. Path-escape safety check on the resolved abs
path matches the existing safeJoin pattern.
Wired in at the top of cmd/zddc-server/main.go dispatch(), which
rewrites r.URL.Path before any handler runs. Downstream handlers
(plus their existing safeJoin calls and the cascade walker) pick up
canonical case automatically — no per-handler changes. The ACL
cascade benefits from this for free since EffectivePolicy is keyed
by the now-canonical absolute path.
internal/handler/middleware.go AccessLogMiddleware snapshots the
as-typed URL path before the rewrite. The audit log's `path` field
records what the client actually sent; a `resolved_path` field is
added only when canonicalization changed it. Operators reading the
log can see both the raw request and what was served.
Lowercase as the project-wide canonical convention is already
honoured by the auto-created folders in internal/zddc/ensure.go
(working/, staging/, archive/<party>/incoming/) and the server's
own state dirs (_app/, .zddc.d/tokens/, .zddc.d/outbox/,
.zddc.d/logs/). Operators who drop a Mixed-Case-Folder/ on disk
keep that casing — the resolver finds it via the readdir tier.
Performance: the lowercase-first lstat is one syscall on the hot
path. Only mismatches (mixed-case URL where on-disk is also
mixed-case) pay the readdir+EqualFold scan, and Linux page-caches
small-dir readdirs aggressively. Apache mod_speling uses the same
"try then fallback" pattern.
Tests:
- internal/fs/resolve_test.go — 9 unit tests: exact-case,
mixed-case-URL-with-lowercase-on-disk, mixed-case-URL-with-
mixed-case-on-disk, both-cases-exist-lowercase-wins, nonexistent
segment preserves remainder, file-segment terminates walk, escape
rejection, trailing-slash normalization, root.
- cmd/zddc-server/main_test.go TestDispatchCaseInsensitiveURL —
end-to-end through the dispatcher with sibling Archive/ and
archive/ on disk; all four URL casings of the same path serve the
lowercase variant's content (proves the tiebreak fires through
every layer).
- Full Go suite green.
Docs: AGENTS.md gains a "URL handling" subsection in the
zddc-server section; ARCHITECTURE.md security-model table gains a
"URL canonicalization" row.
Out of scope (separate decisions, can revisit if needed):
- ACL glob CI-matching. If .zddc rules use mixed-case URL globs,
they won't match the canonical lowercase URL. Workable today by
writing rules in lowercase. Touches a different package.
- Redirect-to-canonical (303). Server serves under whichever case
the client used; canonicalization is internal. Could 301 to
canonical for SEO/bookmark hygiene as a follow-up.
- Client-mode (proxy/cache). Only master mode is wired so far.
Cache-handler CI lives in internal/cache/cache.go cachePathFor
and is a separate code path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ListDirectory now appends a synthetic <viewer-email>/ entry when the
listed path is exactly <project>/working/ (depth 2, case-fold) and no
real directory there matches the viewer's email under any case.
The entry has IsDir=true and a new Virtual=true flag on
listing.FileInfo (omitempty in JSON so existing clients that don't
know the field continue to render it as a regular folder). A first
write to that path materialises a real folder via the existing
auto-own pipeline (EnsureCanonicalAncestors → WriteAutoOwnZddc),
after which subsequent listings drop the synthetic entry naturally.
Anonymous viewers, listings outside working/, and listings inside a
deeper working/ subdirectory all skip the synthetic entry.
Six tests cover: appears-when-missing, suppressed-when-real-exists
(case-fold), anonymous-no-entry, staging/-no-entry, deep-working-no-
entry, and pre-existing-PascalCase-Working/ still triggers it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an internal access-decision boundary that all handlers go through
instead of calling zddc.AllowedWithChain directly. Two implementations
ship:
* InternalDecider — wraps the existing zddc.AllowedWithChain. The
default. No new dependencies, identical semantics to the legacy
code path. ZDDC_OPA_URL=internal (or unset).
* HTTPDecider — POSTs the canonical OPA wire format
(POST /v1/data/zddc/access/allow with {"input": {...}}, response
{"result": true|false}) over HTTP, HTTPS, or a Unix-domain socket.
For federal customers running their own audited Rego policies
alongside zddc-server. ZDDC_OPA_URL=http(s)://… or unix:///….
External-mode failure semantics: unreachable / non-2xx / malformed
response → fail closed (deny) by default with a WARN log. Operators
who prefer availability over correctness flip with ZDDC_OPA_FAIL_OPEN=1.
The decider is constructed once at startup, plumbed through ACLMiddleware
into the request context. Handlers retrieve it via DeciderFromContext;
non-request callers (fs.ListDirectory, EnumerateProjects, enumerateAccess)
take it as an explicit parameter.
zddc.ZddcFile and zddc.ACLRules gain JSON tags so external Rego authors
get idiomatic input shape (acl.allow, admins, …) instead of Go field
names (ACL.Allow, Admins, …).
Test coverage:
* InternalDecider parity tests against zddc.AllowedWithChain (every
documented cascade scenario: empty chain, leaf-allow-wins, leaf-
deny-beats-parent, leaf-allows-what-parent-denies, deepest-match-
wins, etc.)
* HTTPDecider happy-path test (canonical wire format)
* Fail-closed / fail-open / malformed-response tests
Production binary size unchanged (no new deps; HTTP transport is
stdlib net/http). 11 ACL call sites migrated. End-to-end verified
against the worked-example layout in zddc/README.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ZDDC — Zero Day Document Control. A file-naming convention plus five
single-file HTML tools (archive, transmittal, classifier, mdedit,
landing) and an optional Go HTTP server (zddc-server) with ACL and a
virtual archive index. Self-contained, offline-capable, dependency-free.
See README.md for an overview, AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md for the
build/release/architecture detail, bootstrap/README.md for the
two-level deployment install pattern, and zddc/README.md for the
HTTP server.
