Every plugin import now counts as a host call (reply_len, reply_read and set_output were free), and bytes copied out of or into the plugin's memory spend fuel, reserved before the copy or allocation, including when call overhead is set to zero. Fixes#192.
The log byte budget test from #216 runs with the default fuel, since copying a megabyte of log bytes is itself charged now.
Plugin log lines are admitted before guest memory is copied: a line over 8 KiB, more than 1,000 lines or more than 1 MiB of log bytes in a run fails the run with a limit error, and the same budgets bound what is forwarded to the host logger. Fixes#191.
- **Installed plugins survive a crash.** Importing, installing, updating or removing a plugin, and a
plugin changing its settings, now sets `Runtime::unsaved`; at the end of each frame the app hands
the preferences to a new `Services::save_prefs`, and the desktop app writes `state.json` at once
(temporary file + rename, the same atomic write the quit path uses, now shared). Nothing waits for
quit any more.
- **The UI never waits on the network.** New `Session::start_background(id, params)`: the command
runs as usual until it makes a server request; the request goes out on the link's own thread
(`LiveLink::background`, implemented by the desktop `NetLink` with one short-lived thread per
request) and the command stops; when the answer arrives (`Event::Net`, taken by `live_poll`, which
the network's waker already triggers) the command runs again from the start on the file it
started on, answered from the answers so far, until it needs no new request. All server requests
go through one funnel (`Session::net`), so `plugin.directory.*`, `library.publishToServer`,
`library.add` (links), `library.usage` and library fetches work this way without being split.
A re-run of `library.publishToServer` caches the library it actually sent (a fresh copy differs
in its time and, on a first publish, its id). One job per command; `cancel_background` drops a
late answer.
- **UI:** `FigApp::run_background(ctx, id, params, done)` with a boxed completion. Manage plugins >
Browse shows "Fetching from the server..." with Cancel instead of Browse; the install confirmation
shows "Installing..." with Cancel and stays open until the download is in (an error leaves it open
to retry); row buttons wait during an install; closing the window cancels. Assets > Libraries:
Publish to server shows "Publishing..." + Cancel, Show usage and pasting a team library link show
"Fetching from the server..." + Cancel. No polling repaints: the window draws again when the
answer's waker fires; pending state is a scan of a short Vec, no per-frame allocation.
- **Programmatic callers are unchanged:** MCP, CLI, control channel and scripts still run the same
commands synchronously (and the browser link, which has no background requests, too).
- New string "Installing..." (en/es); docs: plugins.md (immediate saves, Browse/Install never wait),
server.md (team library requests never wait).
The part of gap 15 that doesn't need video, from the public documentation of prototype triggers, plugins/widgets and prototype expressions.
- **Controller buttons on key/gamepad triggers.** A key trigger's key can be a controller button: `Gamepad A` ... `Gamepad Home`, the standard gamepad layout's 17 buttons (face buttons by position, shoulders, triggers, View/Menu, stick presses, d-pad, Home). The engine keeps its input-agnostic model (a key trigger with a key name; `figcraft_doc::proto::GAMEPAD_BUTTONS`, `gamepad_button`, `is_gamepad_button`, `uses_gamepad`). The interaction editor gets a Controller menu beside the key field; the trigger list shows the button's own name.
- **Reading controllers.** A new `Services::gamepad_held()` (bitmask of held buttons; default none). The player polls it only while the presented prototype has a controller trigger and the window has the focus (about 30 times a second), plays each press once (held buttons don't repeat), and fires the first matching key/gamepad trigger on the screen like a key.
- Desktop, Windows: Windows.Gaming.Input (Xbox-compatible controllers) through the `windows` crate the app already depends on (one more feature flag, `Gaming_Input`; no new crate).
- Browser: the Gamepad API through `web-sys` (features `Gamepad`, `GamepadButton`, `GamepadMappingType`; standard-mapped controllers only).
- macOS, Linux, FreeBSD: no controllers yet (documented gap).
- Control channel: `ui.input {events: [{gamepad: "A" | "Gamepad A" | 0}]}` presses a button in the prototype playing (presenter, else preview pane); an error when nothing plays.
- **REST import** maps controller triggers (`device` other than `KEYBOARD`) to the button at the code's standard-layout index instead of skipping them; two buttons at once or an unknown code is skipped with a warning (`.fig` goes through the same path).
- **Widgets react to clicks in a presented prototype.** A click on a widget's clickable part in the presenter or the preview pane (when no interaction on the layer takes it) calls the plugin back through the canvas's own callback with the same sandbox limits, on the player's copy of the file (`widgets::click_on`, a scratch session holding the copy and the installed plugins): the widget changes in the prototype only, the file and its undo history stay untouched, restarting starts the widget over. Failures (plugin missing or failing) toast; toasts now also show over the full-window presenter.
- **Variable mode lookups.** Lookups (`accent[Dark]`, `mode(Theme)`), set-variable-mode affecting later expressions in the same interaction, and every operator the documentation lists already held; they are now behaviour cases. New `proto.evaluate {expression | expr, id?}` (MCP and agents) computes an expression where a layer's interaction would run, without changing anything. No other cheap expression gap found: every documented operator (numbers, text join, booleans, comparisons, negation, mode lookup) already existed.
- Docs: prototyping-parity (new rule rows, features, revision), target-app-parity area 13 and totals, ROADMAP, gaps.md gap 15, roadmap.md M5, mcp.md, plugins.md, control-protocol.md.
Dependencies: none added. Windows uses the existing `windows` 0.62 dependency with the `Gaming_Input` feature; the browser uses the existing `web-sys` with three more features. The usual Rust controller library (gilrs) was not taken: its Linux backend links the system's libudev (a C library, needing headers on CI and the FreeBSD job), which breaks the pure-Rust rule.
A self-hosted plugin directory, with no third-party service: `figcraft-server` keeps plugin bundles,
the app browses, installs and updates from it, and `figcraft-cli` publishes to it.
- **Bundles** (`figcraft_plugin::bundle`): a plugin's manifest, module and up to 32 plain-named
assets in one uncompressed, length-prefixed binary form (nothing can expand beyond the bytes
sent). Its SHA-256 names it. `Bundle::decode` never allocates beyond its input and refuses
trailing bytes; `Bundle::check` parses the manifest (refusing a plugin API this build doesn't
run), requires a version of 1-4 numbers, compiles the module without running it (only the
sandbox's imports allowed) and checks asset names (no paths, no dot files, no Windows device
names, unique ignoring case). Manifests gain an optional `author`.
- **Protocol**: a new connection kind next to managing and team-library connections:
`OpenPlugins {key}` then `Plugins {list | fetch | publish | unpublish}`. Browsing needs no
credential; publishing and unpublishing need the server key (a wrong key is refused). Older
servers refuse the connection and the app says the server has no plugin directory. The protocol
version is unchanged; old clients are unaffected.
- **Server** (`apps/figcraft-server/src/directory.rs`): `<data>/plugins/index.json` plus
`<data>/plugins/<sha256>.bin`, so no publisher-chosen name reaches the file system. Every publish
is checked in full and must be a newer version; caps `max_plugins` (versions, 0 turns it off),
`max_plugin_mb` (<= 32), `max_plugins_mb`. Fetches re-hash the file before sending (a damaged
bundle is never sent) and share a download budget (~32 MiB/s) so a flood is refused, not queued.
Damaged index entries are skipped and reported, never deleted; an unreadable index lists nothing
and refuses writes until the operator fixes it. Operator moderation:
`figcraft-server plugins [list]` and `plugins remove ID [--version V]` (offline or through the
running server). Logs name ids and versions, never keys.
- **App**: Plugins > Manage plugins gets Installed / Browse tabs. Browse lists a server's plugins
(version, author as typed, size, access) with a search; nothing is fetched until Browse is
pressed. Install / Update open a confirmation listing the permissions asked for, the source and
the SHA-256; only its button downloads. The download must match the listed SHA-256 (and the one
shown), then is checked like an imported plugin before anything is written. Installed plugins
live per user under `<settings>/FigCraft/Plugins/<hash of id>/` and run in the same sandbox;
Remove deletes the folder.
- **Commands**: `plugin.directory.list {server?, query?}`, `plugin.directory.install {id, version?,
confirm, server?, sha256?}` (refused without `confirm: true`; never opens a dialog),
`plugin.directory.publish {path | plugin, server}`, `plugin.directory.unpublish {id, version?,
server}`. `ui.set {pluginsTab, pluginConfirm}` on the control channel.
- **CLI**: `figcraft-cli plugin publish FOLDER --server ws://host:port/` with the key from
`FIGCRAFT_SERVER_KEY` (or `?key=`), never printed.
- Docs: plugins.md (directories, publishing, commands, manifest), server.md (operating the
directory: access, checks, caps, moderation, backups, security), collab-protocol.md, mcp.md,
cli.md, control-protocol.md, target-app-parity area 18 and Ecosystem, ROADMAP, roadmap.md M11,
gaps.md gap 6. Plugins & widgets 55%/32% -> 60%/35%, 10-30 h -> 8-26 h.
Widgets for FigCraft's own WebAssembly plugins (plugin API 3; API 1 and 2 plugins run unchanged), plus the panel tail.
- **Widgets.** A manifest with `"api": 3, "widget": true` makes a widget plugin. Plugins > Widgets (or `widget.insert {plugin, x?, y?}`) puts its widget on the page: the plugin is called with `widget: {id, state, event}` and hands back a description through the new `widget_render` import (`{state?, root}`: frames with auto layout, text, rectangles, ellipses and images it carries as base64). FigCraft validates the description (4 MB, 256 layers, 16 deep, finite numbers within ranges, hex colours, text length and control characters, a 16 KB state, images 1 MB each / 2 MB together / 4096 px a side) and builds it as a frame whose layers are locked, so the widget moves as one layer.
- **Clicks.** A plain click with the Move tool on a part the plugin named as a `target` (the cursor turns into a pointing hand there; quick repeated clicks each count) calls the plugin back in a fresh, metered sandbox (same fuel, memory and call limits as runs; nothing kept between calls, so the state and the click alone decide the result) as one undo step, and the widget is redrawn. Dragging moves it; Shift/Cmd/Alt clicks only select. Agents use `widget.click {id, target}` and `widget.list`.
- **State in the document.** The plugin id and the state live in the widget's own layer data (`figcraft.widget*`), so widgets survive save and reload, duplicate/copy and paste (the copy is a widget of its own), undo/redo, export (the built layers draw) and live sessions (synced like any layer data). No plugin can write `figcraft.widget*` data or call `widget.*`; a callback can only rebuild its own widget, and touches other layers only through the commands its manifest permits. A widget whose plugin is missing stays as drawn.
- **Example.** `plugins/examples/counter`: a counter between - and + buttons (read access, no assets). The SDK gained `Input::widget` and `render_widget`.
- **Panel tail.** Panels of several plugins are open at once, side by side (`plugin.ui` without an id returns the one opened last); a colour field's swatch opens FigCraft's colour picker beside the plugin's window (the plugin hears of the colour when a drag ends; also for parameters forms). Swatch grid's palette panel gained a label colour field.
- Docs: plugins.md (ABI v3, widget description, commands, limits), mcp.md, target-app-parity area 18, ROADMAP, gaps gap 6, roadmap M11; Spanish labels for the new commands.
Plugin ABI v2: a plugin can show a panel (text, number, checkbox, select, colour, list, notes, buttons) rendered with FigCraft's widgets, react to events with its state kept between calls (each editing callback one undo step, full sandbox limits on every call), and store per-plugin settings (64 KB). plugin.ui / plugin.event / plugin.close drive panels from the CLI and MCP; v1 plugins run unchanged. The Swatch grid example gains a Palettes panel that remembers the last palette.
Components (or sets) can be linked per language to a real code component (import path, name, and a template whose {prop} and {prop ? "a" : "b"} placeholders take the instance's property values, escaped per language). Dev Mode's Inspect panel shows the connected snippet with its import for instances, a Connect to code editor with live preview, and read-only plugins. Links export to and import from figcraft.connect.json.
Sandboxed WebAssembly plugins whose API is the command registry:
- figcraft-plugin (new crate, L2): the figcraft-plugin.json manifest
(menu commands with parameters, read/write access, command allowlist)
and the sandbox: wasmi (pure Rust, no JIT, also in the web build) with
fuel metering, a memory cap, no WASI and seven host functions (call,
selection, reply_len, reply_read, log, notify, set_output).
- Engine: plugin.list / plugin.import / plugin.remove / plugin.run,
plugins.runLast (Alt+Cmd+P; Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P on Windows/Linux) and
plugins.manage. A run is one undo step (Session::grouped, which
command.batch now uses too) and is rolled back when it fails. Files,
other documents, the undo history, dialogs and plugins are off limits;
read-only plugins can't change the document. Installed plugins live in
the preferences; development plugins re-read their module every run.
- UI: installed plugins in the Plugins menu, a parameters form drawn
from the manifest, Manage plugins, Plugins > Development > Import
plugin from manifest.
- plugins/: a no_std Rust SDK and two example plugins (Tidy names,
Swatch grid), built for wasm32 by `cargo xtask plugins` (part of
`cargo xtask wasm`).
- Docs: docs/plugins.md (manifest, permissions, limits, ABI, SDK),
docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, README, ROADMAP, parity.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sir Clangington III.
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