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# Surfaces
Dynamic surface lifecycle. Core surfaces are registered at startup.
Extension surfaces are uploaded by admins and served from the
`surface_registry` table.
## User Endpoints
### List Enabled Surfaces
```
GET /surfaces
```
Returns enabled surfaces with minimal nav info (no `source` or `enabled`
fields — these are admin concerns).
```json
{
"surfaces": [
{ "id": "chat", "title": "Chat", "route": "/" },
{ "id": "editor", "title": "Editor", "route": "/editor" },
{ "id": "hello-dashboard", "title": "Hello Dashboard", "route": "/s/hello-dashboard" }
]
}
```
**Auth:** Authenticated.
## Admin Endpoints
### List All Surfaces
```
GET /admin/surfaces
```
Returns all surfaces including disabled ones. Each entry is a full
[Surface Registry Object](#surface-registry-object).
```json
{
"surfaces": [
{ "id": "chat", "title": "Chat", "manifest": {...}, "enabled": true, "source": "core", "installed_at": "...", "updated_at": "..." },
{ "id": "hello-dashboard", "title": "Hello Dashboard", "manifest": {...}, "enabled": false, "source": "extension", "installed_at": "...", "updated_at": "..." }
]
}
```
**Auth:** Platform admin.
### Get Surface
```
GET /admin/surfaces/:id
```
Returns full surface details including manifest.
**Response:** A single [Surface Registry Object](#surface-registry-object).
**Errors:**
- `404` — surface not found (or store error).
**Auth:** Platform admin.
### Install Surface
```
POST /admin/surfaces/install
Content-Type: multipart/form-data
```
Field: `file` — a `.surface` or `.zip` archive (zip containing
`manifest.json` + static assets). The manifest declares `id`, `title`,
`route`, required data loaders, scripts, and CSS.
**Size limit:** 50 MB.
**Manifest validation:** `id` and `title` are required.
**Errors:**
- `400` — no file, wrong extension, too large, invalid zip, missing or
invalid manifest, missing `id`/`title`.
- `409` — surface ID conflicts with an existing core surface.
**Auth:** Platform admin.
### Enable / Disable
```
PUT /admin/surfaces/:id/enable
PUT /admin/surfaces/:id/disable
```
Disabled surfaces redirect to `/` and hide from navigation.
**Undisableable surfaces:** `chat` and `admin` cannot be disabled
(returns `400`).
**Errors:**
- `400` — attempting to disable `chat` or `admin`.
- `404` — surface not found.
**Auth:** Platform admin.
### Delete Surface
```
DELETE /admin/surfaces/:id
```
Removes the surface, its DB row, and its extracted static assets.
Core surfaces cannot be deleted.
**Errors:**
- `400` — attempting to delete a core surface.
- `404` — surface not found.
**Auth:** Platform admin.
**Defense-in-depth:** The store layer also enforces
`WHERE source = 'extension'` on delete, so even if the handler check
were bypassed, core surfaces are protected.
## Surface Registry Object
```json
{
"id": "hello-dashboard",
"title": "Hello Dashboard",
"manifest": { "route": "/s/hello-dashboard", "scripts": [...], "css": [...] },
"enabled": true,
"source": "core|extension",
"installed_at": "...",
"updated_at": "..."
}
```
## Internal Store Methods
The `SurfaceRegistryStore` interface exposes methods beyond what the
HTTP API uses directly:
- `Seed(ctx, id, title, source, manifest)` — upserts a surface at
startup. Does **not** overwrite the `enabled` flag (admin toggle
survives restarts). Called by the page engine's `SeedSurfaces()`.
- `ListEnabled(ctx) → []string` — returns IDs of all enabled
surfaces. Used by the page engine for nav rendering
(`EnabledSurfaceIDs()`), not exposed via HTTP.
## Page Routes
Extension surfaces are served at `/s/:slug` via `RenderExtensionSurface()`.
The page engine does a runtime DB lookup — no server restart needed after install.
Static assets are served from `/surfaces/:id/` (nginx location block in
both unified and split deployment). In unified mode, the Go server
handles this route with path-traversal protection. In split deployment,
nginx serves directly from `/data/surfaces/`.
## Surface Archive Format
A `.surface` file is a **zip** archive containing:
```
manifest.json — required (must have "id" and "title")
js/ — optional (extracted to /data/surfaces/{id}/js/)
css/ — optional (extracted to /data/surfaces/{id}/css/)
assets/ — optional (icons, images, etc.)
```
The archive may have a single top-level directory prefix (e.g.,
`my-surface/manifest.json`) — the installer strips it when locating
`manifest.json` and when extracting `js/`, `css/`, and `assets/`
directories. Files outside these directories (e.g., `script.js` at
root) are not extracted.
See [EXTENSION-SURFACES.md](../EXTENSION-SURFACES.md) for the full
authoring guide including manifest schema, platform API, and CSS
custom properties.