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82a50e5e04 fix(engagement): the trigger manifest was stale, and its check was crying wolf
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Two defects, and the second is why the first survived a whole phase.

The manifest is stale. `engagement-triggers.json` embeds `moduleApiVersion`
deliberately -- "a stale manifest needs to know which API's rules produced it"
-- and Phase 7 (website#189) bumped MODULE_API_VERSION to 1.10.0 without
regenerating it. The committed file has said 1.9.0 ever since. One line, and
regenerating is the whole fix.

The check could not be believed. Both the test and the `--check` CI gate
compared bytes, and this repo is developed on Windows under core.autocrlf=true,
so git checks the committed LF blob out as CRLF and the comparison then calls an
unchanged manifest stale. That failure fires on every Windows checkout, says "a
trigger declaration changed", and is "fixed" by regenerating a file whose
content was already correct.

So the one check that exists to be believed had been failing for a reason
everyone had learned to write off as environmental -- including me, twice: the
Phase 7 PR recorded it as a pre-existing CRLF failure, and the Phase 8 PR
repeated the claim. It was neither pre-existing nor CRLF. A check that cries
wolf is a check nobody reads, and the genuine staleness underneath it went
unnoticed for exactly that reason.

Line endings are now normalised on both sides, which is the convention
routeManifest.js and routeManifest.test.js already use one file along -- that
pair had clearly hit this and been fixed; the engagement pair never was. What is
being asserted is that the committed manifest describes the same declarations,
and a line ending is not a declaration. Policing the encoding is .gitattributes'
job, not this check's.

Verify

- The check is still LIVE, proved by breaking it deliberately: with the content
  changed the gate exits 1; with only the line endings changed it exits 0. That
  is the whole point of the fix, so it is not taken on trust.
- `npm test` under the TAP reporter: 1950 tests, 1877 pass, 0 fail. That is
  pristine `edge`'s 1950/1876 plus the one test this repairs.

A harness note, disclosed rather than buried

The default (spec) reporter intermittently reports a FILE-level failure with all
of that file's subtests passing, no assertion, and no diagnostic beyond 'test
failed'. It named a different unrelated file on each of four runs
(requireInternalKey, routeManifest, eventAuthorize, totp) and the TAP reporter
shows zero failures over the same suite. It appears to be a reporter artifact
under concurrency rather than a failing test, but it correlates with this branch
(4/4) against pristine edge (0/2) on the same machine state, which I could not
explain and am not claiming to have. Worth its own look; it does not indicate a
product defect and no assertion fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 02:43:53 -05:00
cfd1cb3c3c feat(engagement): let a module ship its own templates and rules (Phase 11b)
Phase 11a declared 24 triggers and stopped where the plan said it would. Standing
11b up found that the next sentence — "24 rules, all enabled = 0; bespoke template
bodies" — described work with no mechanism to land in: templateSeeds.js and
coreRules.js are core files with core arrays in them, and there was no
registerTemplates or registerRules anywhere in registries.js.

So a module could say what an event's payload was and could never say what the
mail should read like. That is tolerable for one trigger and not for a catalogue,
and it is decisive once the bodies carry domain prose core must not contain (§5.2).

Adds api.registerEngagementSeeds({ templates, ruleGroups }) — MODULE_API 1.9.0.
The module supplies data; core keeps seedOne's customized skip, its seed_version
comparison and the block registry's validation, which is the whole argument for a
registry over the ctx.query a module already holds: a copy of any of those living
outside engagement/ would drift the first time core improved the original, and the
drift would surface as a mail somebody already received.

The two halves behave differently, deliberately:

  - Templates re-ensure on every boot, so a bumped seedVersion reaches every
    deployment except the ones where an operator edited that row.
  - Rule groups are ONE-SHOT, each under its own settings guard — re-ensuring
    would resurrect a rule an operator deleted and reset one they enabled. This is
    11a's seed-key finding stated as an API rather than as a warning: a rule
    appended to an existing group reaches fresh installs only, and one that must
    reach stamped deployments takes a new group key.

Three prohibitions, each a shipped mistake that would only surface as mail: a
seeded rule is always enabled = 0 (Q3's invariant, ignored rather than refused so
a typo cannot take a module offline at boot); a module may not mark a template
protected; and a rule may only name its own trigger ids and its own or core's
template keys, with template keys namespaced because the key column is UNIQUE.

Runs from modules/lifecycle.js boot() rather than seedDefaults(), and that is
forced rather than chosen: server.js seeds before it requires app.js, and
requiring app.js is what runs the loader — at the moment core seeds, no module has
registered anything. Placed after the installed_modules reconcile (so a disabled
or failed module is skipped) and before the onBoot dispatch (so a module warming a
cache may assume its rules exist).

16 new tests; 1549 core tests green; check:modules clean.

Refs docs#/ENGAGEMENT.md Phase 11b decision 7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 00:46:15 -05:00
1d4cd4adae feat(engagement): the admin ceiling and core's news.post emitter (Phase 11a)
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Core's half of ENGAGEMENT.md Phase 11a: the two decisions the org lead settled
before any code that land in core rather than in module-uo. Pairs with
Module-uo#22 and docs#194.

## Decision 1 -- a seventh ceiling, `admin`, as a child of `staff`

Phase 11's operator-facing triggers (uo.audit.staff_action, uo.economy.milestone,
uo.world.saved) are described as admin-audience everywhere, and the narrowest
value the lattice had was `staff` -- which ceilings.js defines as admin, editor
AND moderator. Ceilinging them there would have let an operator save a rule that
mails the staff audit digest to every moderator in it.

`admin` is the ONLY genuine refinement in the tree -- every admin is staff, which
is exactly the containment every other pair of branches lacks -- so it is a child
rather than a seventh leaf, and permits/meet/meetAll needed no change beyond the
new PARENT entry.

**The one non-obvious consequence, and the reason for ROLE_CEILINGS.**
notificationChannelPrefs' `visibleTo` asked `item.ceiling !== 'staff'`. That was
correct while `staff` was the only role-gated value, and the day `admin` arrived
it would have silently published every admin-ceilinged id -- the staff audit
digest, the economy thresholds -- to every player's preferences screen by name.
It now reads a TABLE (`ceilings.reachableBy`), so a ceiling added without an entry
fails closed instead. An EDITOR is the viewer that tells the two rules apart, and
the new tests use one.

MODULE_API_VERSION -> 1.8.0 on both halves. Additive: every declaration valid
under 1.7.0 is valid now and no stored value changes.

## Decision 5 -- 7.1 Q9: news.post gets an emitter, and it REPLACES the tickle

`news.post` has been a declared payload contract with no caller since Phase 2, so
a rule naming it could never fire. utils/newsNotify.js is the caller;
announceIfNewlyPublished now calls it instead of pushDispatch.publish, gated on
the same enqueueIfNeeded job id -- the single "newly published news" transition
signal, not re-derived.

**News push therefore stops on upgrade** until an operator enables the seeded
rule. That is the org lead's decision, taken over keeping the raw call beside the
emit "for one release": an exception with a deadline nobody owns, which Phase 6
already refused for Teams. The Rules screen gains a second migration notice
naming news, and Phase 13's release note carries it as an upgrade step.

**The seed needed its own one-shot key, and this is the trap worth recording.**
`engagement_team_rules_seeded` is already stamped on every deployment that has
booted since Phase 6, and the guard reads its presence -- so appending news to
RULES would have seeded it on fresh installs only, and on exactly the upgrades
that lose their raw push, never. One key per seed GROUP is now the rule;
seedGroup() is the shared implementation and seedCoreRules() is what boot calls.

Also fixes news.post's `postUrl` example, which named `/news/<slug>` -- a path
App.jsx does not mount. An example is what the template editor previews and
test-sends with, so a wrong one is a preview that looks right and a mail that is
not. It is `/site/news`, the list, which is what the Discord and town-crier
announcements have always linked.

1550 tests pass (16 new), 327 client tests pass, client builds, check:modules
clean -- core still names no module identifier with module-uo now registering 24
UO-named triggers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-31 20:33:02 -05:00
563199a096 feat(modules): event triggers, audiences and the ceiling lattice (engagement Phase 2)
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The contract half of the engagement system: a module (and core) can DECLARE an
event with a payload contract and fire it. Nothing delivers yet — `emit`
validates, logs and stops, and Phase 4 replaces that log line with the engine.

`api.registerEventTriggers` and `api.registerAudiences` ride the existing
stage()/apply() validate-then-commit discipline, so a registrant that throws
halfway leaves nothing behind. `ctx.events.emit` is fire-and-forget and binds
the owner from the calling module — a module fires its own triggers and no one
else's. `ctx.inbox.push` is present and throws until Phase 7, the shape 1.6.0
settled on for a member that arrives a phase late.

MODULE_API_VERSION 1.7.0 on both halves. Additions only; module-uo's
`coreApi: "^1.3.0"` still resolves.

Three design decisions, approved by the org lead before any code:

ONE NAMESPACE for trigger ids and notification-stream ids (ENGAGEMENT.md §7.2,
against the recommendation in the text). A trigger is a payload contract
attached to an id that may also carry a subscription toggle, so an id has
exactly one owner across both facets, checked in both directions. Core's five
trigger ids ARE its five stream ids, so the same-owner upgrade case is
exercised on every boot rather than only by a module. It keeps
notification_channel_prefs single-keyed in Phase 3, where two namespaces would
have forced a `kind` discriminator into its primary key.

Two knock-on effects appeared only once it was implemented. The id grammar had
to be RELAXED to admit `_` inside a segment — §4.3's own worked example is
`uo.house.idoc_warning`, and two grammars over one namespace would mean an id
legal as a trigger and illegal as the stream it is the same event as. And the
seven grandfathered `uo.*` ids had to share their legacy allowlist with
triggers, because under one namespace `idoc.warning` is a single id. The push
catalog is untouched either way: allStreams() still serves the stream facet
only, so the shipped Android client sees exactly what it saw before.

THE CEILING LATTICE (G24), which the plan named everywhere and defined nowhere.
It is containment, not size: everyone ⊃ authenticated ⊃ {subscribers, members,
staff, owner}, with the four leaves mutually incomparable. The flat total order
the plan's wording invites would let a `staff`-ceilinged trigger be given an
`owner` audience — a rule that mails cheat detection to the player it detected.
Fewer people is not less exposure. Two incomparable ceilings have no meet at
all, so a composition is refused rather than guessed; union-widens is the
intuitive implementation and it is the wrong one.

`kind: 'event' | 'scheduled'` is declarable now and no evaluator exists (§7.1
Q6). Registration accepts `scheduled` and emit refuses to fire one, so `kind`
means something from the moment it can be written rather than from the moment
it is honoured.

Also: `GET /admin/engagement/{triggers,audiences}`, served from the registries
rather than a table so an uninstalled module simply stops appearing;
`npm run engagement:manifest` plus its CI `--check`, the twin of the route
manifest, because renaming a variable breaks stored templates silently, at send
time, in mail someone already received.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:40:28 -05:00