Replace the blanket "block every dot/underscore segment" dispatch guard
with a single reserved namespace, .zddc.d/, which is admin-only at every
depth. Everything else dot-prefixed is now ordinary ACL-governed content;
a leading dot only hides an entry from listings (UI), not from the ACL.
.zddc.d/ holds the bearer-token store, so it must stay closed even under a
broad operator grant (e.g. `*: rwcd`). The path-tree cascade has no
match-this-name-at-any-depth rule, so .zddc.d/ is gated by segment name via
a hard rule that overrides operator ACLs — on reads in dispatch (404,
existence-hidden) and on writes in authorizeAction (403 defense-in-depth
for direct callers). Token validation is unaffected: it reads
.zddc.d/tokens directly from the filesystem in ACLMiddleware, before the
HTTP-layer gate.
The segment match is case-insensitive (strings.EqualFold): ZDDC_ROOT may
sit on a case-insensitive filesystem (SMB/CIFS/Azure Files) where .ZDDC.D
resolves to the same dir, so a write to a case-varied path — e.g. a MOVE
destination header that skips dispatch's canonical case-folding — must not
slip past the gate and plant a forged token. The dispatch gate also runs
BEFORE the raw .zddc view so the reserve's own cascade
(/<dir>/.zddc.d/.zddc) is existence-hidden rather than leaked by
ServeZddcFile. Regression tests cover both.
To keep all bookkeeping inside the one reserve, relocate the last two
caches under it (both regenerable, no data migration): the apps cache
_app/ -> .zddc.d/apps/ and the per-directory MD-conversion cache
<dir>/.converted/ -> <dir>/.zddc.d/converted/.
New internal/handler/sidecar.go defines ReservedSidecar + the
HasReservedSidecar / ActiveAdminForSidecar predicates used by both the
dispatch read-gate and the write-path gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
availability_test: tools resolve via the peer cascade (classifier on
incoming/working/staging, transmittal on staging, tables on mdl/rsk/ssr).
tree_test: drop the abandoned per-user-home + folder-nav virtual tests;
add an mdl/ cross-party aggregate-listing test; repoint empty-when-missing
to the declared peers.
May 2026 reshape. archive/ is now the only physical project-root
directory; working/, staging/, reviewing/ move from the project root
into each archive/<party>/ folder. Six top-level URLs become virtual
aggregators served via the cascade rather than disk:
ssr/mdl/rsk tables rollups across parties with a
synthesised $party source-party column
working/staging/ browse folder-nav listings of parties with
reviewing non-empty content in the slot; per-party
URLs 302-redirect to archive/<party>/<slot>/
Mkdir at the project root is restricted to `archive` and `_`/`.`-
prefixed system names — virtual aggregator names and ad-hoc folders
return 409.
Plan Review hardcodes the scaffold convention (archive/<party>/
{reviewing,staging}/<tracking>/); the pre-reshape
on_plan_review.{reviewing_root,staging_root} cascade keys are dropped.
document_controller is now subtree-admin of every archive/<party>/
(not of project-root working/staging/ as before), so per-party
lifecycle slots inherit admin authority through the cascade.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Releases publish only two things per tool now: a current-stable
canonical symlink and an immutable per-version file. No more channel
mirrors (_stable/_beta/_alpha) and no more partial-version pins
(_v<X.Y>, _v<X>) — those were debt from a release model that never
matched the project's actual usage.
The `./build beta` verb stays, but narrowed: it's an internal SHA
snapshot for the BMC dev chart pipeline (chart's appVersion pins to
"<X.Y.Z>-beta-<sha>" and the chart Dockerfile fetches that SHA from
git). No public artifact on /srv/zddc/releases/. The embedded/* +
chore commit produced by `./build beta` is the actual snapshot.
`./build alpha` is removed entirely.
build/build-lib.sh:
- Drop alpha verb; narrow beta verb to embedded regen + chore commit
- promote_release: stable cut writes <tool>_v<X.Y.Z>.html + <tool>.html
symlink + <tool>.html.sig companion symlink; beta is a no-op
- promote_zddc_server: same shape — per-version binary +
per-platform canonical symlink (zddc-server_<plat>) + .sig symlink
- write_zddc_server_stub: singular; emits per-version stubs +
one canonical zddc-server.html for current stable
- Delete _promote_channel, verify_channel_links, _channel_is_active
- Seed-from-live now copies only per-version files + .sig + pubkey.pem
(the canonical symlinks get rewritten by this cut; old layout files
get cleaned by deploy's --delete-after)
- build_releases_index: dropdown simplified to "latest stable +
pinned versions"; channels-explainer section removed; tool cards +
CTA URLs point at canonical <tool>.html / zddc-server_<plat>;
composer emits "stable" sentinel for `apps:` entries
- Fix the acl:{allow:[...]} footgun in the apps_pubkey example
apps.go:
- isValidChannelOrVersion: accept only "stable" + exact X.Y.Z
(drop alpha/beta and partial pins v0.0/v0)
- normalizeChannel: same
- Resolve URL composition: stable → canonical <prefix>/<app>.html
(no _stable_ suffix), exact-version → <prefix>/<app>_v<X.Y.Z>.html
- Tests rewritten to match (beta/alpha replaced with v0.0.4 / stable;
a new TestParseSpec_RejectsLegacyChannelsAndPartialPins locks in
that the removed forms now error)
browse/build.sh: gate promote_release on $is_release like every other
tool's build.sh (longstanding inconsistency that errored under the new
promote_release case-statement).
freshen-channel: deleted (no channels to freshen).
Net: -254 lines, all green on full `go test ./...`. Dev build verified
via `./build` (no-arg) — new label format "v<next>-dev · <ts> · <sha>".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
mdedit/ is gone. Its functionality moved into browse's preview plugin
(browse/js/preview-markdown.js) — YAML front matter editing, outline,
and on-demand DOCX/HTML/PDF download all happen there. Browse is the
default_tool for working/ + reviewing/ as of the previous commit, so
existing URLs of the form /<project>/working land on browse without
operator action.
Removed:
• mdedit/ source tree (Toast UI app, CSS, JS, template, build.sh)
• zddc/internal/apps/embedded/mdedit.html (//go:embed blob)
• tests/mdedit.spec.js + the "mdedit" project in playwright.config.js
• mdedit entries in zddc/internal/apps/embed.go (//go:embed, var,
switch case in EmbeddedBytes)
• "mdedit" in zddc/internal/zddc/validate.go AppNames + the matching
error-message app list
• "mdedit.html" branch in zddc/internal/apps/handler.go MatchAppHTML
• mdedit case in tests (handler_test.go, validate_test.go,
zddchandler_test.go) — test fixtures now use browse/classifier
• mdedit from build (per-tool build.sh loop, tool-list literals,
composer cards) and shared/build-lib.sh ZDDC_RELEASE_TOOLS
• mdedit from freshen-channel's tool list and usage banner
• mdedit-specific paragraphs in AGENTS.md and ARCHITECTURE.md;
Markdown Editor section in ARCHITECTURE.md rewritten to point at
browse/js/preview-markdown.js
• mdedit from CLAUDE.md, README.md, zddc/README.md tool lists
Historical mdedit_v*.html / mdedit_v*.html.sig files in
/srv/zddc/releases/ on the deploy host are immutable history — they
stay where they are. The next ./build release cut will simply not
produce new mdedit_v* artifacts.
Flip default_tool from `mdedit` to `browse` (which now ships a Toast UI
markdown editor plugin in its preview pane) at:
• paths."*".paths.working
• paths."*".paths.working.paths."*" (per-user homes)
• paths."*".paths.reviewing
available_tools at those levels drops `mdedit` and adds `browse` next
to `classifier`. Operator overrides per .zddc cascade still work; only
the embedded baseline changes.
Test fixtures updated:
• lookups_test.go — DefaultToolAt assertions for working/+reviewing/
• availability_test.go — AppAvailableAt + DefaultAppAt for working/+
reviewing/+per-user home
• main_test.go — dispatch route asserts "ZDDC Browse" (was "ZDDC
Markdown"); Apps cascade fixture swaps mdedit
for browse so the live route fetches the right
embedded HTML
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>
Two pieces:
1. Lookup helpers walk chain.Levels from leaf back to root. The
"parent applies to descendants unless overridden" cascade rule
means a working/ default_tool=mdedit propagates to deep paths
like working/alice@example.com/notes/sub/deep without anyone
declaring it at every level. AutoOwnAt and VirtualAt follow the
same walk; explicit false at a descendant can override an
ancestor's true (*bool semantics).
2. apps.DefaultAppAt delegates to zddc.DefaultToolAt. The hardcoded
switch on parts[1] (archive→archive, staging→transmittal,
working→mdedit, reviewing→mdedit, mdl→tables) and its case-
sensitivity quirks now live in defaults.zddc.yaml. Operators can
override any of these per-directory with an on-disk .zddc; no
code change required.
Semantic improvement: archive/<party>/incoming previously defaulted
to "archive" (because parts[1]=archive and the switch didn't look
deeper). The new convention routes it to "classifier" — incoming/ is
the bulk-rename surface, not a record browser. Updated
availability_test.go to reflect.
All other DefaultAppAt cases — including case-fold (Archive/MDL),
mdl override, reviewing virtual, project root returning "", random
non-canonical names returning "" — produce bit-identical output.
Two new tests in lookups_test.go cover the propagation:
- TestDefaultToolAt_PropagatesToDescendants
- TestAutoOwnAt_DescendantCanDisable
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
