ZDDC
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The bwrap engine + OCI engine that lived in internal/convert/runner.go
both leak isolation policy into Go code. Replaced with a single image-
side wrapper that drop-in-shadows pandoc and chromium-browser on PATH.
zddc-server's only contract with the image is now "exec.Command(name,
args) gets you that tool's behavior" — sandboxing, resource caps, and
namespace setup live entirely in shell scripts shipped by the image.
Architecture:
- zddc/runtime/zddc-cgroup-init runs at container start. cgroup v2's
"no internal processes" constraint forbids a cgroup from having both
children and processes; the init script moves PID 1 into a child,
enables +memory +pids in subtree_control, then exec's zddc-server.
Best-effort: degrades cleanly to "no resource caps" if cgroupfs
isn't writable.
- zddc/runtime/zddc-sandbox-exec is the per-call wrapper, symlinked
from /usr/local/bin/{pandoc,chromium-browser}. Creates a transient
cgroup v2 (memory.max + pids.max), then bubblewrap-sandboxes the
real binary at /usr/bin/<name>: --unshare-all, --ro-bind /usr,
--proc /proc, --tmpfs /tmp, --clearenv. Caller's scratch dir comes
in via ZDDC_SCRATCH env and is bind-mounted at the SAME path so
absolute paths round-trip unchanged.
Go simplifications (~250 lines net deletion):
- Runner interface: Run(ctx, binary, stdin, scratchDir, cmd) — no
ToolSpec, no mount list, no engine concept. Single localRunner
implementation; bwrapRunner + containerRunner both deleted.
- health.Probe just looks up pandoc + chromium on PATH; Capabilities
drops engine kinds.
- Convert.go: ToHTML/ToPDF write to a per-call scratch dir under
TMPDIR and pass absolute paths; the wrapper bind-mounts the dir.
No more "/tpl" / "/pdf" mount-point indirection.
- Config drops --convert-pandoc-image, --convert-chromium-image,
--convert-engine, --convert-podman-socket (OCI engine gone) and
--convert-cpus (CPU caps don't apply in the new model — wall-clock
+ memory + pids is the cap set). Defaults raised to match the new
caps the user authorized: mem 512→1024 MiB, pids 100→256,
timeout 30→60 s.
Image:
- zddc/runtime.Containerfile builds the production runtime image
(alpine + bubblewrap + pandoc + chromium + font-noto). Two
COPY statements pull in the wrapper scripts; ln -s symlinks the
shadow names.
- bitnest dev image mirrors this layout under /var/lib/zddc-dev-build/.
Container privilege required:
- Nested bwrap needs the outer container to permit user + mount
namespace creation + MS_SLAVE on root. The default seccomp +
AppArmor profiles block all of these. Quadlet adds:
--cap-add=ALL
--security-opt=seccomp=unconfined
--security-opt=apparmor=unconfined
--security-opt=unmask=ALL
Helm chart sets the equivalent via securityContext (capabilities.
add: SYS_ADMIN, seccompProfile.type: Unconfined, appArmorProfile.
type: Unconfined). Trade-off documented in AGENTS.md: zddc-server
RCE now has near-root power within the container, but the bind-
mount layout still bounds blast radius; bwrap is the real boundary
between zddc-server and untrusted markdown.
Tests: convert_test.go fully rewritten for the new Runner signature.
Drops TestBwrapArgs_* (functionality moved out of Go) and
TestImageTag (no more image refs). All 15 Go test packages green.
Verified live on bitnest: pandoc --version round-trip exits 0
through the wrapper; MD→DOCX produces a valid Word 2007+ file
end-to-end.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| .forgejo | ||
| archive | ||
| browse | ||
| classifier | ||
| form | ||
| helm | ||
| landing | ||
| pandoc | ||
| shared | ||
| tables | ||
| tests | ||
| transmittal | ||
| zddc | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| AGENTS.md | ||
| ARCHITECTURE.md | ||
| build | ||
| CLAUDE.md | ||
| deploy | ||
| dev-server | ||
| freshen-channel | ||
| LICENSE.txt | ||
| package.json | ||
| playwright.config.js | ||
| README.md | ||
| SECURITY.md | ||
Zero Day Document Control (ZDDC)
The Universal Distributed Filing Cabinet
ZDDC is an information management convention plus a small set of single-file HTML tools. Every deliverable's filename encodes its tracking number, revision, status, and title; every transmittal folder is date-prefixed and self-describing. A plain shared folder becomes a fully searchable, auditable archive — no server, no database, no software required to read it.
The name "Zero Day Document Control" comes from the convention itself — adopt it on day zero of a project, with no setup time. The tools are optional interfaces around the structure; the structure works without them.
For end users: https://zddc.varasys.io/ introduces the project, links to all tool channels (stable / beta / alpha), and prints copy-paste shell snippets to install on a self-hosted deployment.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Archive Browser | Browse, search, and filter a project archive folder. Group by transmittal, export selections as ZIP. |
| Transmittal Creator | Self-contained HTML transmittal records with SHA-256 checksums and optional digital signatures. |
| Document Classifier | Spreadsheet-like bulk-renamer that copy/pastes with Excel and writes back to disk. |
| Form Renderer | Schema-driven *.form.yaml editor — every form spec auto-mounts an editable form at <name>.form.html. |
| Tables | Sortable, filterable, in-place-editable grid view over a directory of YAML rows; click a row → edit in the form renderer. Auto-mounts on any directory containing a table.yaml. |
| Browse | File-tree navigator with previews and an in-place markdown editor (YAML front matter, outline, server-side DOCX/HTML/PDF download); the everywhere-available companion to the Archive Browser when you want plain folder navigation rather than tracking-number aggregation. |
| Landing | The project picker served at the deployment root of a zddc-server. |
Each tool is published in three channels (stable, beta, alpha) as static files served from https://zddc.varasys.io/releases/. Local use: download a .html file from releases/ and open it in a browser. Server use: run zddc-server — the current-stable build of every tool is baked into the binary at compile time, so a fresh deployment Just Works with zero config. Which tool a directory URL serves is driven by the .zddc cascade: a baked-in defaults.zddc.yaml (dump it with zddc-server show-defaults) declares, per folder, default_tool (the no-slash form — archive under archive/, transmittal under staging/, browse under working/+reviewing/ (browse hosts the in-place markdown editor), classifier under incoming/, tables at archive/<party>/mdl, landing at root) and dir_tool (the trailing-slash form; defaults to browse); operators override at any level. A .zip file is also a navigable directory (GET …/Foo.zip/), and GET /dir/?zip=1 streams an ACL-filtered zip of a subtree. Override the tool source per-directory by writing an apps: entry in any .zddc file (channel/version/URL/path) — fetched once and cached in <ZDDC_ROOT>/_app/ — or drop a real .html file at any path.
File-naming convention
The full specification — filename format, tracking numbers, revision rules, status codes, folder naming, and the transmittal workflow — lives at https://zddc.varasys.io/reference.html.
Quick example: 123456-EL-SPC-2623_A (IFR) - Specification For Switchgear.pdf
Build & develop
git clone https://codeberg.org/VARASYS/ZDDC.git && cd ZDDC
./build # dev build of every tool (writes to dist/ only)
sh archive/build.sh # iterate on one HTML tool
./build alpha # lockstep alpha cut for all nine artifacts
./build beta # lockstep beta cut
./build release # lockstep stable, coordinated next version
./build release 1.2.0 # lockstep stable at explicit version
npm install && npx playwright install chromium && npm test # tests
./dev-server start # cache-busting HTTP on :8000
Authoritative build/release docs are in AGENTS.md. Architecture notes (single-file rationale, JS module pattern, security model) are in ARCHITECTURE.md. zddc-server (optional Go HTTP server with ACL and a virtual archive index) is in zddc/README.md. Example Helm charts for deploying zddc-server (production + dev) are under helm/.
Contributing
ZDDC is an open source project hosted on Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/VARASYS/ZDDC. Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests welcome.
ZDDC is designed for zero configuration to start and minimal configuration overall — feature proposals are filtered through that lens.
License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Free to use, modify, and distribute, including commercially, under the terms of the license. Provided "as is" without warranty.