* 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> --------- Co-authored-by: Lambda <lambda@multica.ai> Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
Hello Panel
The reference Multica plugin: one issue_panel surface that exercises every
part of the Action API a v1 surface can reach.
It is also the fixture the surface end-to-end tests run against, so keep it boring — it should demonstrate the contract, not the framework of the week.
What it shows
multica.context.get()— who is looking and which issue the panel is onmultica.issue.get()— reading the issue behindissues:readmultica.issue.comment()— a write that lands as the user, marked with the plugin (via_plugin_id), behindcomments:writemultica.storage.user— per-member state behindstorage:usermultica.ui.resize()— asking the host for the height it actually needs
Running it
Zip this folder — the manifest plus every file it names — and upload it in Settings → Plugins. You need no server of your own: Multica stores the artifact, serves the panel script from it, and binds your installation to that one immutable version.
ui/main.js is one file with no import. That is the contract, not a
simplification for the example: Multica serves the entry inside one generated
document with no module graph, so a bare module specifier has nowhere to
resolve. Bundle your dependencies in.
While you are iterating, MULTICA_PLUGIN_DIR publishes straight from disk
instead of asking you to zip and upload after every edit. It still produces an
ordinary version — re-publishing an unchanged version number lands as
1.0.0+dev.N — so a panel always runs code somebody consented to.
Note on scopes
This plugin declares no net: scope, so its surface gets
connect-src 'none' — it literally cannot send data anywhere. Everything it
does goes through the host bridge, which is the point.