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bedad9e222 MUL-6485: isolate hosted plugin surfaces (#7329)
* feat(plugins): host plugin artifacts, bind installs to immutable versions

A plugin used to be a URL. The manifest was frozen at install, but the surface
script was fetched from the author's server every time a panel opened, with no
integrity check — so an administrator consented to a manifest while the browser
ran whatever that host served that day, inside the scopes already granted. The
author's uptime was our uptime, every panel open leaked the reader's IP and
"who read which issue" to the author, and publishing at all required a public
HTTPS domain, which is why the repo's own deploy-sentinel example never ran.

The author now uploads an artifact bundle and Multica stores it:

- plugin_package / plugin_package_version / plugin_package_file. A version is
  insert-only, and the (package_id, version) unique index is what makes
  immutability a database rule rather than a convention.
- An installation names one version. Publishing another changes nothing for a
  workspace until an administrator upgrades, which is a second consent.
- The bundle is validated once, at publish: the manifest parses, every file it
  declares is present and loadable, and a surface entry with a top-level import
  is refused with the line named. That failure used to surface months later in
  a reader's browser.
- The host inlines the surface script into the document it generates, so the
  CSP names no remote script origin at all. `connect-src 'none'` now means it:
  a surface with no net: scope cannot reach anywhere, including its author.
- Install-by-URL is gone rather than kept alongside. Two paths would make "is
  this code frozen?" depend on how the plugin was installed.
- MULTICA_PLUGIN_DIR stays the development channel, but publishes an ordinary
  immutable version instead of being a second render path; re-publishing an
  unchanged version lands as `+dev.N`.

Hook endpoints and MCP servers remain on the author's own infrastructure.

Migration 376 drops existing installations: they name a source URL that is no
longer a concept, and the code they would run was never published here.
plugins_v1 has never left its feature flag and holds no production data — the
same call migration 344 made.

Closes MUL-6469

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): serialize publish/install/delete, correct the isolation claim

Review of #7321 found five problems. Four are fixed here; the fifth is real,
needs its own design pass, and is now tracked and described honestly in the code
instead of claimed away.

Migration prefix collision. main took 376 for agent_task_durable_work_dir while
this branch was open, so `migration prefix 376 is reused` failed backend-tests.
Rebased and renumbered the six migrations to 377-382.

TOCTOU between delete and install/publish. Relationships are application-owned
by repository policy, so nothing made "the version this installation names still
exists" true across statements: `delete counts zero installs` -> `install reads
the version` -> `delete commits` -> `install commits` left an installation whose
panel 404s forever, and a publish racing a delete left a version whose package
row was gone. Publish, install and delete now hold a (workspace, plugin key)
advisory lock for their whole transaction, and delete counts installations
inside it. Both interleavings have regression tests that reproduce the bug with
the lock removed.

Failed publishes moved package state. upsertPackage ran before the version
transaction, so a republish that lost the unique index had already renamed the
package, and a first publish that failed afterwards left a plugin with zero
versions. It now runs inside the same transaction.

The top-level import check was wrong in BOTH directions. It read line prefixes,
so it missed `  import x` and `/* c */ import x` — and it refused a valid file
whose template literal contained the word at a line start, which is ordinary in
a surface that renders code samples. A refusal blocks a publish with no way
around it, so that false positive was the worse half. Replaced with a scanner
that skips comments and string/template literals; where it is imprecise it is
imprecise safely (`/` always reads as division), so a mistake can only cost a
detection, never invent one.

Sandbox self-navigation is NOT fixed. `sandbox="allow-scripts"` permits `_self`
navigation by design, no shipped CSP directive covers it, and contentWindow is
unchanged across it — so a hostile artifact can still reach its author once and
hand the replacement document the bridge port. Closing it needs an embedder
frame-src policy or a handshake a navigated document cannot complete; both are
decisions of their own. What lands here is damage control, labelled as such: the
generated document beacons on pagehide from a listener the plugin cannot detach,
and the embedder drops the bridge and unmounts the frame. The "a surface cannot
reach its author" wording is removed from the SDK README and the tests.

Closes MUL-6469
Refs MUL-6485

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* feat(plugins): isolate hosted surfaces (MUL-6485)

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* feat(plugins): host plugin artifacts, bind installs to immutable versions

A plugin used to be a URL. The manifest was frozen at install, but the surface
script was fetched from the author's server every time a panel opened, with no
integrity check — so an administrator consented to a manifest while the browser
ran whatever that host served that day, inside the scopes already granted. The
author's uptime was our uptime, every panel open leaked the reader's IP and
"who read which issue" to the author, and publishing at all required a public
HTTPS domain, which is why the repo's own deploy-sentinel example never ran.

The author now uploads an artifact bundle and Multica stores it:

- plugin_package / plugin_package_version / plugin_package_file. A version is
  insert-only, and the (package_id, version) unique index is what makes
  immutability a database rule rather than a convention.
- An installation names one version. Publishing another changes nothing for a
  workspace until an administrator upgrades, which is a second consent.
- The bundle is validated once, at publish: the manifest parses, every file it
  declares is present and loadable, and a surface entry with a top-level import
  is refused with the line named. That failure used to surface months later in
  a reader's browser.
- The host inlines the surface script into the document it generates, so the
  CSP names no remote script origin at all. `connect-src 'none'` now means it:
  a surface with no net: scope cannot reach anywhere, including its author.
- Install-by-URL is gone rather than kept alongside. Two paths would make "is
  this code frozen?" depend on how the plugin was installed.
- MULTICA_PLUGIN_DIR stays the development channel, but publishes an ordinary
  immutable version instead of being a second render path; re-publishing an
  unchanged version lands as `+dev.N`.

Hook endpoints and MCP servers remain on the author's own infrastructure.

Migration 376 drops existing installations: they name a source URL that is no
longer a concept, and the code they would run was never published here.
plugins_v1 has never left its feature flag and holds no production data — the
same call migration 344 made.

Closes MUL-6469

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): serialize publish/install/delete, correct the isolation claim

Review of #7321 found five problems. Four are fixed here; the fifth is real,
needs its own design pass, and is now tracked and described honestly in the code
instead of claimed away.

Migration prefix collision. main took 376 for agent_task_durable_work_dir while
this branch was open, so `migration prefix 376 is reused` failed backend-tests.
Rebased and renumbered the six migrations to 377-382.

TOCTOU between delete and install/publish. Relationships are application-owned
by repository policy, so nothing made "the version this installation names still
exists" true across statements: `delete counts zero installs` -> `install reads
the version` -> `delete commits` -> `install commits` left an installation whose
panel 404s forever, and a publish racing a delete left a version whose package
row was gone. Publish, install and delete now hold a (workspace, plugin key)
advisory lock for their whole transaction, and delete counts installations
inside it. Both interleavings have regression tests that reproduce the bug with
the lock removed.

Failed publishes moved package state. upsertPackage ran before the version
transaction, so a republish that lost the unique index had already renamed the
package, and a first publish that failed afterwards left a plugin with zero
versions. It now runs inside the same transaction.

The top-level import check was wrong in BOTH directions. It read line prefixes,
so it missed `  import x` and `/* c */ import x` — and it refused a valid file
whose template literal contained the word at a line start, which is ordinary in
a surface that renders code samples. A refusal blocks a publish with no way
around it, so that false positive was the worse half. Replaced with a scanner
that skips comments and string/template literals; where it is imprecise it is
imprecise safely (`/` always reads as division), so a mistake can only cost a
detection, never invent one.

Sandbox self-navigation is NOT fixed. `sandbox="allow-scripts"` permits `_self`
navigation by design, no shipped CSP directive covers it, and contentWindow is
unchanged across it — so a hostile artifact can still reach its author once and
hand the replacement document the bridge port. Closing it needs an embedder
frame-src policy or a handshake a navigated document cannot complete; both are
decisions of their own. What lands here is damage control, labelled as such: the
generated document beacons on pagehide from a listener the plugin cannot detach,
and the embedder drops the bridge and unmounts the frame. The "a surface cannot
reach its author" wording is removed from the SDK README and the tests.

Closes MUL-6469
Refs MUL-6485

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): harden surface validation and error reporting

* fix(migrations): renumber plugin package migrations

* fix(plugins): validate classic surfaces and reset failures

* fix(plugins): refresh issue-scoped surface launches

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* feat(plugins): isolate hosted surfaces (MUL-6485)

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): refresh issue-scoped surface launches

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): make surface termination event-driven

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* feat(plugins): isolate hosted surfaces (MUL-6485)

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): refresh issue-scoped surface launches

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

* fix(plugins): make surface termination event-driven

Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>

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Co-authored-by: Lambda <lambda@multica.ai>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
2026-08-23 13:47:06 +08:00
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@multica/plugin-sdk

What a Multica plugin surface imports.

import { multica } from "@multica/plugin-sdk";

const ctx   = await multica.context.get();
const issue = await multica.issue.get();
await multica.issue.comment({ body: "hello" });
const note  = await multica.storage.user.get("note");
multica.ui.resize(320);

What a surface is

One script in a sandboxed iframe.

Bundle this SDK and everything else your surface needs into a single file. There is no module graph: you publish an artifact, Multica stores it and serves your entry inside a generated document on its dedicated plugin-content origin. There is no path back to the author's server and no top-level module graph for a bare import to resolve against. Publishing refuses an entry that has one rather than letting it fail later in a reader's browser.

The frame is mounted with sandbox="allow-scripts" and not allow-same-origin, so it has an opaque origin. Consequences worth knowing before you write one:

  • No browser storage. localStorage, sessionStorage and cookies all throw or are empty. Use multica.storage — it is server-side, scoped per workspace or per member, and survives the frame.
  • Origin: null on your own requests. If your surface calls your backend directly, that backend must accept a null origin in CORS.
  • A CSP you did not write. Multica generates the response and derives connect-src from the net: scopes in your manifest. Declare every host you intend to reach; with no net: scope your surface cannot issue a network request at all, including back to your own origin, which is no longer in the policy now that Multica serves your code. net: is an exact host, so declare net:api.example.com separately from net:example.com.

Publishing

Zip the manifest with every file it names and upload it in Settings → Plugins. You need no server of your own for the frontend; hook endpoints and MCP servers are still yours to run.

A published version is immutable. Installing binds a workspace to one version, and publishing a new one changes nothing there until an administrator upgrades — so what they approved on the consent screen is what their browsers run.

What you can do, and what bounds it

Every call becomes a message to the host, which performs it on the signed-in user's own session. Two limits apply at once:

  1. the scopes the workspace admin granted your plugin, and
  2. what that particular user could already do themselves.

So a member without access to an issue gets a 404 through your surface too, and a scope the admin declined is a 403 that names it. Errors are MulticaPluginError with a status mirroring HTTP.

A comment you post is authored by the user, recorded as having been made through your plugin. It does not run @mention trigger dispatch — a surface cannot start agent runs as a side effect of posting text.

Theme

The host pushes design tokens over the private port and again on every theme switch, and the SDK writes them as custom properties on :root. Use var(--foreground), var(--background), var(--border), var(--radius) and friends and your surface will look native without shipping a stylesheet.

multica.ui.onThemeChange(fn) if you need to react in JS.

Sizing

The frame does not auto-size. Call multica.ui.resize(px) after your content settles; the host clamps the value.