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feat: first class plugin discovery, loading and isolation - #52
Adds first-class plugin discovery, loading, and isolation to the AuthKit plugin contract and host pipeline: swappable discoverer/loader interfaces (G1), declarative PluginManifest read before load, a pre-load compatibility gate (IsEnabled, MinHostVersion), per-plugin collectible AssemblyLoadContext isolation, deterministic dependency ordering, host-side disable, discovery caching, and two-moment logging, with the validator extended and running automatically in the loading flow.
adds IPluginDiscoverer (IAsyncEnumerable<DiscoveredPlugin>, manifest read without activating) and IPluginLoader (LoadAsync constructs without activating, no compatibility decisions) — both swappable via the host pipeline
adds PluginManifest record mirroring the A1–A13 metadata (incl. Tags/Priority/IsEnabled/Capabilities/MinHostVersion/DependsOn), read from plugin.json / plugin.manifest / manifest.json before any assembly loads
gate rejects HostVersion < MinHostVersion (SemVer 2.0.0, prerelease and build-metadata semantics, no warn-only); disabled plugins skip quietly; PluginManifest never inherits IAuthKitPlugin
manifest/instance consistency (Id/Name/Version/IsEnabled/set-equal Capabilities/MinHostVersion/DependsOn) is a hard failure; duplicate Ids rejected deterministically
host-internal PluginLoadResult (Loaded / SkippedDisabled / Rejected / Invalid with reasons) for startup diagnostics, deliberately not part of the contract
PluginLoadContext: one collectible AssemblyLoadContext per plugin; sharing wins by rule (explicit contracts → already-loaded → host application directory), only private deps resolve from the plugin dir — host DI identity (e.g. Core.IJwtKeyStore, Interceptor) always unifies
validator runs automatically in the pipeline after isolation, before activation; violations reject the plugin as Invalid with an error log
new LifecycleRule in the validator tool (hosted-service integrity, defined pipeline position, member-named violations) alongside Metadata, Registration, SecuritySchemes, Middleware, and Health rules
DependencyGraph: Kahn topological sort (ready set by Priority asc → RegistrationOrder asc, never re-sorted); unknown ids and cycles are startup errors; dependents of unavailable plugins rejected as dependency-unavailable with transitive propagation
EffectiveIsEnabled (manifest anded with Plugins:{id}:IsEnabled, host may disable but never re-enable) checked at the gate before ordering — disabled plugins are never ordered, isolated, or loaded
IPluginDiscoveryCache + file implementation (manifests + fingerprints + schema version, never runtime objects; stale/corrupt = miss), wired in Program.cs
two-moment logging: Discovered … at discovery, Loaded/Skipped/Rejected/Invalid with reasons at outcome
Dockerfile generates DevTokens/DevTools manifests after publish via AuthKit.ManifestGenerator
PluginContractValidator passes end to end: [PASS] DevTokens, DevTools, ExamplePlugin, Shield
full pipeline verified against staged publish output of all 4 real plugins (4 loaded, 0 issues); docker compose up loads 4/4 with discovery cache hit on restart
Result
Plugins are discovered via manifest before load, gated, isolated per load context, ordered by dependencies, and validated automatically — with every outcome observable in logs and PluginLoadResult.
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@src/Plugins/Solutions/ExamplePlugin/Endpoints/ExampleEndpoints.cs:
- Around line 26-28: Add the example.read authorization requirement to the
/example/hello endpoint registered by MapGet; keep the SecuritySchemeAttribute
metadata so the route both requires the policy and selects the credential
scheme.
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The change adds a manifest-based plugin loading pipeline with compatibility checks, dependency ordering, isolated load contexts, discovery caching, and contract validation. It also updates the example plugin, manifest-generation build steps, tests, and plugin decision records.
Changes: Plugin loading
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Summary
Discovery, manifests, and metadata cache src/Plugins/Abstractions/Contracts/Discovery/*, src/Host/Plugins/Loading/DirectoryPluginDiscoverer.cs, src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Manifest/*, src/Host/Plugins/Loading/FilePluginDiscoveryCache.cs, tests/Host/PluginDiscoveryTests.cs
Discovery contracts represent candidates and metadata caching. The directory discoverer reads manifests without loading assemblies. The file cache stores discovery metadata and fingerprints, and the tests cover discovery, manifest validation, and cache behavior.
The default loader constructs plugin instances in per-plugin collectible load contexts. Loading contracts and result types represent loaded plugins and non-loaded candidate outcomes. The previous loader implementation is removed.
The pipeline applies manifest checks, duplicate-ID handling, compatibility gating, dependency ordering, loading, and post-load validation. The host entry point configures the discovery cache. Tests cover ordering, gate outcomes, failures, caching, and logging; the ADRs document the discovery, isolation, ordering, and caching decisions.
The service-collection configuration overload now uses AuthKitPluginContext; unsupported overloads fail with InvalidOperationException. Consistency checks compare manifest and instance identity fields, and the contract validator adds lifecycle checks.
Example plugin and manifest generation src/Plugins/Solutions/ExamplePlugin/*, AuthKit.slnx, Dockerfile, tests/Host.IntegrationTests/AuthKit.Host.IntegrationTests.csproj
The example plugin implementation is split across configuration, endpoint, health, lifecycle, pipeline, and security files. The solution, Docker build, and integration-test setup add manifest-generator projects and generate plugin manifests.
Confirm or fix the Shield project reference before merging so the Host tests can build. Strengthen the cache test to detect a regression in plugin-root containment.
Security architecture risk: High · up to 0d0d3
The new discovery cache can authorize plugins outside the configured plugin directory. Anyone able to supply or modify an accepted cache entry and its referenced assembly could execute code with the host’s authority. Compatibility checks remain effective, but dependency isolation does not sandbox plugins. Deployment permissions determine practical exploitability.
Retained concerns
High · security · observed: The new cache promotes persisted locations into executable-plugin authority without preserving configured-root containment or host-instance ownership. A principal able to provide a valid cache entry and matching assembly outside the plugin root can reach in-process construction; ordinary freshness and compatibility checks do not prevent this.
Medium · security · inferred: The new reject-and-continue lifecycle does not establish execution containment. The loader constructs the entire eligible batch before dependency-failure propagation and instance validation, so a subsequently rejected dependent has already executed its constructor. Rejection removes it from returned integration results but provides no rollback of constructor effects. Unlike the former contract-validation path, validation failure now permits startup to continue. Security impact depends on plugin side effects; no harmful constructor was established.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The independently attackable input is discovery-cache content plus a referenced loadable assembly. Successful redirection reaches the consuming host process with its deployment identity and available permissions. Other consumers sharing the same cache path may also be exposed; tenant, data-store, environment and fleet scope cannot be bounded without deployment evidence.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — The retained finding is supported by the source trace: an accepted cache entry supplies a location and matching fingerprint; the pipeline skips root-scoped discovery; the loader derives the entry DLL from that location and invokes its constructor. Exploitation requires control over accepted cache content and suitable assembly bytes. Anonymous HTTP reachability is not established.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Fingerprints, schema checks, compatibility gates and manifest consistency provide freshness and acceptance controls, not authorization of the cached source location. AssemblyLoadContext provides dependency identity separation rather than security sandboxing. In-process plugin authority existed before this PR; the cache adds a new route into that authority.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Pre-load unavailable dependencies propagate rejection before construction. Failures discovered during loading or instance validation propagate only after batch construction. Cancellation is checked between loader candidates, but the inspected flow has no rollback of already executed constructors; repeated runs construct fresh instances.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Keep discovery caching non-authoritative: bind cache identity to the canonical plugin root and host instance, protect cache storage with explicit ownership, and validate resolved candidate locations against the authorized root before loading. Fingerprints should remain freshness checks, not substitutes for source authorization.
proposed — Interleave dependency construction and validation so failed prerequisites prevent dependent construction. Define side-effect and cleanup ownership for rejection and cancellation. If untrusted plugins are supported, use a process and permission boundary rather than relying on collectible assembly contexts.
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The PR does not meet all coding requirements. [#27] The pipeline treats a manifest-less candidate as Invalid and PluginLoader documents that every directory must have a manifest. The linked issue …
For [#27], retain a manifest-less legacy loading path and apply only post-activation checks that require runtime metadata. For [#28], preserve the AssemblyLoadContext when producing the host-facing LoadedPlugin, or return the contract `…
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IAuthKitPlugin.Configuration.cs removes the existing ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection, IConfiguration) overload, and PluginConfigurationInvoker changes the behavior to throw when the new ove…
Keep the configuration-overload removal in a separate change, or retain the existing overload and its dispatch behavior unless a directly linked requirement establishes that the removal is necessary.
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The title clearly summarizes the main changes: plugin discovery, loading, and isolation. It is concise and related to the pull request objectives.
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The PR does not meet all coding requirements. [#27] The pipeline treats a manifest-less candidate as Invalid and PluginLoader documents that every directory must have a manifest. The linked issue requires a legacy fallback for plugins without manifests. [#28] DefaultPluginLoader attaches LoadContext to the abstraction LoadedPlugin, but PluginLoadingPipeline projects it to Host.Plugins.Loading.LoadedPlugin, which has no LoadContext; the host result therefore does not expose the required context. [#29] The pipeline sorts candidates by Location during duplicate handling and then uses that order as RegistrationOrder, so a custom discoverer’s registration order is not preserved. Cache hits log only an aggregate cache message and do not emit per-plugin discovery outcomes.
Resolution
For [#27], retain a manifest-less legacy loading path and apply only post-activation checks that require runtime metadata. For [#28], preserve the AssemblyLoadContext when producing the host-facing LoadedPlugin, or return the contract LoadedPlugin directly. For [#29], retain the original discovery index while resolving duplicate IDs, use that index for tie-breaking, and emit the required per-plugin discovery log entries on cache hits.
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IAuthKitPlugin.Configuration.cs removes the existing ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection, IConfiguration) overload, and PluginConfigurationInvoker changes the behavior to throw when the new overloads are absent. The linked issues require discovery, loading, isolation, validation, ordering, disable handling, caching, and logging. They do not require this unrelated breaking configuration-contract change.
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Keep the configuration-overload removal in a separate change, or retain the existing overload and its dispatch behavior unless a directly linked requirement establishes that the removal is necessary.
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Review comments at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/DependencyGraph.cs:
- Line 86: In the dependency sorting logic that checks node.DependsOn, use the
same OrdinalIgnoreCase comparer as the other ID lookups so case differences do
not leave dependents un-emitted. Before returning order, verify that its count
matches nodes.Count and throw InvalidOperationException if any accepted plugin
was not emitted.
Review comments at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/FilePluginDiscoveryCache.cs:
- Around line 52-72: Update FilePluginDiscoveryCache to include the plugins root
path and a fingerprint of its sorted subdirectory names in the persisted cache
state. In TryGetAsync, return a miss when either differs from the current root
before checking stored entries, so an empty cache also invalidates when plugins
are added; update StoreAsync and the cache schema to persist the new state.
Review comments at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Gate/CompatibilityGate.cs:
- Line 68: Update the boolean decision in CompatibilityGate so a present
Plugins:{id}:IsEnabled value enables the plugin only when it parses as true;
treat unparseable values as disabled, preserving the existing behavior for valid
true and false values.
Review comments at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Manifest/PluginManifestReader.cs:
- Around line 74-80: Update PluginManifestReader.Normalize so null Capabilities,
Tags, or DependsOn collections are treated as empty during normalization, while
preserving the existing case-insensitive comparer for Capabilities.
Review comments at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Pipeline/PluginLoadingPipeline.cs:
- Around line 155-158: Update the structural preload validation flow to retain
readable IDs of structurally invalid manifests and include them in knownIds
before DependencyGraph.Validate. This lets dependency validation treat those
plugins as known but unavailable, rejecting only their dependents.
Review comments at @src/Host/Program.cs:
- Around line 30-32: Update the discoveryCachePath fallback to use a host-owned
location instead of the shared temporary directory, while preserving the
configuration override. In FilePluginDiscoveryCache or the PluginLoadingPipeline
cache-hit path, reject cached locations outside the configured pluginsPath
before they reach DefaultPluginLoader.
Review comments at @tests/Host/AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj:
- Line 30: Resolve the missing project reference in AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj by
adding the Shield project or updating the reference to Shield.csproj’s actual
repository path. Keep the reference because StageShield requires Shield.dll.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
The cache never detects new plugin directories, so new plugins are not discovered.
TryGetAsync only re-fingerprints the locations that were stored. It never checks whether the plugins root has changed. Two cases fail:
An operator adds plugins/new-plugin/ after a cached run. Every stored fingerprint still matches, so the cache returns a hit. The pipeline does not call the discoverer, and the new plugin is never loaded.
The plugins root did not exist on the first run. The discoverer returns zero candidates, and StoreAsync writes an empty entry list. The empty foreach then counts as a hit on every later start. The host runs with zero plugins until someone deletes the cache file by hand.
This breaks the ADR-032 claim that "any input change ... invalidates". Include the plugins root in the cached state. For example, pass pluginsRootPath to the constructor. Store the root path and a fingerprint of the sorted subdirectory names. Return a miss when either one differs.
🐛 Proposed direction
-public sealed class FilePluginDiscoveryCache(string cacheFilePath, ILogger logger) : IPluginDiscoveryCache+public sealed class FilePluginDiscoveryCache(string cacheFilePath, string pluginsRootPath, ILogger logger) : IPluginDiscoveryCache
{
- private const int SchemaVersion = 1;+ private const int SchemaVersion = 2;
...
- if (stored is null || stored.FormatVersion != SchemaVersion)+ if (stored is null+ || stored.FormatVersion != SchemaVersion+ || !string.Equals(stored.RootPath, Path.GetFullPath(pluginsRootPath), StringComparison.Ordinal)+ || stored.RootFingerprint != RootFingerprint(pluginsRootPath))
return Miss();
...
- private sealed record CacheFile(int FormatVersion, List<CacheEntry> Entries);+ private sealed record CacheFile(int FormatVersion, string RootPath, string RootFingerprint, List<CacheEntry> Entries);++ private static string RootFingerprint(string root) =>+ Directory.Exists(root)+ ? Convert.ToHexString(SHA256.HashData(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(+ string.Join('\n', Directory.GetDirectories(root).Order(StringComparer.Ordinal)))))+ : "absent";
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Review comment at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/FilePluginDiscoveryCache.cs around
lines 52 - 72:
Update FilePluginDiscoveryCache to include the plugins root path and a
fingerprint of its sorted subdirectory names in the persisted cache state. In
TryGetAsync, return a miss when either differs from the current root before
checking stored entries, so an empty cache also invalidates when plugins are
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A null collection in a manifest crashes discovery instead of producing a DiscoveryError.
The manifest JSON comes from the plugin directory, so its shape is not trusted. A manifest such as {"Id":"x","Name":"X","Version":"1.0.0","Tags":null} deserializes with Tags == null. The same applies to "Capabilities": null and "DependsOn": null. When that happens, Normalize throws:
[.. manifest.Tags] throws NullReferenceException.
new HashSet<string>(null, ...) throws ArgumentNullException.
The catch filter on Line 66 does not catch either exception. The exception leaves DirectoryPluginDiscoverer.DiscoverAsync and stops PluginLoadingPipeline.RunAsync. One bad plugin directory then stops host startup. This breaks the documented rule that discovery "Never throws for a single bad directory".
Treat a null collection as empty during normalization.
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Review comment at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Manifest/PluginManifestReader.cs
around lines 74 - 80:
Update PluginManifestReader.Normalize so null Capabilities, Tags, or DependsOn
collections are treated as empty during normalization, while preserving the
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A dependency on a plugin with an invalid manifest stops host startup. It should reject only the dependent.
knownIds is built only from deduplicated. Step 2 drops plugins whose manifests fail structural validation, even when their Id is readable. Example: plugin a has Tags: [" "], and plugin b has DependsOn: ["a"]. DependencyGraph.Validate treats a as an unknown plugin and throws InvalidOperationException, so the whole host fails to start.
Two sources say this case should reject only the dependent:
The step 6 comment says dependents of invalid plugins are rejected as dependency-unavailable.
ADR-031 says structural problems "reject only the offending plugin as Invalid".
If you add the IDs of structurally invalid manifests to knownIds, step 6 marks them unavailable, because they are not in indexed.
🐛 Proposed fix
// 2. Structural preload validation (manifests only, no assemblies loaded).
var structurallyValid = new List<DiscoveredPlugin>();
+ var invalidIds = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
...
var reason = $"Invalid manifest for plugin '{manifest.Id}': {string.Join("; ", errors)}";
+ if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(manifest.Id))+ invalidIds.Add(manifest.Id);
issues.Add(new PluginLoadIssue(candidate.Location, manifest.Id, PluginOutcome.Invalid, reason));
...
var knownIds = deduplicated
.Select(candidate => candidate.Manifest!.Id)
+ .Concat(invalidIds)
.ToHashSet(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
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Review comment at @src/Host/Plugins/Loading/Pipeline/PluginLoadingPipeline.cs
around lines 155 - 158:
Update the structural preload validation flow to retain readable IDs of
structurally invalid manifests and include them in knownIds before
DependencyGraph.Validate. This lets dependency validation treat those plugins as
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<verification_comment> Bind cached plugin locations to the configured plugin root. The cache defaults to a shared temporary file. On a cache hit, PluginLoadingPipeline accepts cached candidates without rerunning directory discovery or checking pluginsPath. FilePluginDiscoveryCache checks only the fingerprint at each cached Location. A local user with write access to the shared temporary directory can provide a matching cache entry for a DLL they control, which DefaultPluginLoader then loads and instantiates. Different hosts with different plugin roots can also consume each other’s cache entries.
Use a host-owned cache path and reject cached locations outside the configured plugin root.
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Review comment at @src/Host/Program.cs around lines 30 - 32:
Update the discoveryCachePath fallback to use a host-owned location instead of
the shared temporary directory, while preserving the configuration override. In
FilePluginDiscoveryCache or the PluginLoadingPipeline cache-hit path, reject
cached locations outside the configured pluginsPath before they reach
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git diff --name-status dac22fda257180a9e30c67c09442c5720e452ab4 0d0d336a26cb11fb8cd87b387bed6b3cebb1e990 -- tests/Host/AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj ':(glob)**/*Shield*'2>&1||trueprintf'%s\n''--- head test project ---'
git show 0d0d336a26cb11fb8cd87b387bed6b3cebb1e990:tests/Host/AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj 2>&1||trueprintf'%s\n''--- Shield project paths at head ---'
git ls-tree -r --name-only 0d0d336a26cb11fb8cd87b387bed6b3cebb1e990 | grep -iE '(^|/)shield[^/]*\.csproj$|/shield/.*\.csproj$'||trueprintf'%s\n''--- Shield project paths at base ---'
git ls-tree -r --name-only dac22fda257180a9e30c67c09442c5720e452ab4 | grep -iE '(^|/)shield[^/]*\.csproj$|/shield/.*\.csproj$'||trueprintf'%s\n''--- solution references at head ---'
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Fix the unresolved Shield.csproj project reference.
AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj references a Shield.csproj file that does not exist in the reviewed head or the merge base. This causes the test project build to fail before the Shield-dependent tests can run. Add the missing project or update the reference to its actual repository path. Do not remove the reference while StageShield still requires Shield.dll.
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Review comment at @tests/Host/AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj at line 30:
Resolve the missing project reference in AuthKit.Host.Tests.csproj by adding the
Shield project or updating the reference to Shield.csproj’s actual repository
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- use case insensitive comparer in dependency graph topological sort and assert completeness
- detect added/removed plugin root directories and enforce root containment in discovery cache
- safely treat unparseable Plugins:{id}:IsEnabled configuration as disabled
- handle null collections in manifest reader without throwing NullReferenceException
- retain known IDs from structurally invalid manifests to prevent startup crash on dependents
- use host owned path fallback for discovery cache to prevent CWE-377
- include manifest generator projects in solution to fix Release build and CI test runs
Cache_LocationOutsideRoot_IsMiss does not test the root-containment check.
The test stores a Location of Path.Combine(outsideRoot, "evil"). The test never creates that directory. In FilePluginDiscoveryCache.TryGetAsync, the Directory.Exists(entry.Location) check returns false for this path. The method then returns a miss for that reason, not because of the containment check. If someone removes the containment check, this test still passes.
This check guards against cached locations that point outside the configured plugin root. Create the directory so that the fingerprint matches and only the containment check can cause the miss.
💚 Proposed fix
- var candidate = new DiscoveredPlugin- {- Location = Path.Combine(outsideRoot, "evil"),- Manifest = Manifest("test.evil"),- };+ var evil = Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(outsideRoot, "evil")).FullName;+ WriteManifest(evil, "test.evil");++ var candidate = new DiscoveredPlugin+ {+ Location = evil,+ Manifest = Manifest("test.evil"),+ };
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Review comment at @tests/Host/PluginPipelineBehaviorTests.cs around lines 416 -
435:
Update Cache_LocationOutsideRoot_IsMiss to create the outside-root plugin
directory and write its manifest before storing the candidate, ensuring the
cached location exists and its fingerprint matches so the miss exercises the
root-containment check.
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@src/Plugins/Solutions/ExamplePlugin/Endpoints/ExampleEndpoints.cs:
- Around line 26-28: Add the example.read authorization requirement to the
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- Around line 416-435: Update Cache_LocationOutsideRoot_IsMiss to create the
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Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
#!/bin/bash# Inspect host-wide authorization and the example route.
rg -n -C 4 'MapAppEndpoints|RequireAuthorization|SecuritySchemeAttribute|FallbackPolicy|UseAuthorization|example\.read' src/Host src/Plugins/Solutions/ExamplePlugin
Repository: AuthKits/AuthKit.Server
Length of output: 7381
Script executed:
#!/bin/bash# Read the full credential extractor to see how it handles endpoints that declare a scheme but carry no key.
sed -n '1,200p' src/Host/Security/Middleware/ApiKeyCredentialExtractor.cs
echo"----- auth defaults and header references -----"
rg -n -F -e 'AddAuthentication' -e 'SetDefaultPolicy' -e 'DefaultAuthenticateScheme' -e 'DefaultChallengeScheme' -e 'DefaultScheme' -e 'X-Example-Api-Key' -e 'ExampleApiKeyAuthenticationHandler' -- src/Host src/Plugins/Solutions/ExamplePlugin ||test"$?" -eq 1
Repository: AuthKits/AuthKit.Server
Length of output: 6525
Require the example.read policy on /example/hello.
The route carries only SecuritySchemeAttribute metadata, so a GET without X-Example-Api-Key returns the greeting. The metadata selects a credential scheme. It does not require authorization. The example.read policy is defined but not applied to this route. The remarks on MapEndpoints describe the route as protected, which misleads developers who copy this reference pattern.
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Add the example.read authorization requirement to the /example/hello endpoint
registered by MapGet; keep the SecuritySchemeAttribute metadata so the route
both requires the policy and selects the credential scheme.
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Summary
Adds first-class plugin discovery, loading, and isolation to the AuthKit plugin contract and host pipeline: swappable discoverer/loader interfaces (G1), declarative
PluginManifestread before load, a pre-load compatibility gate (IsEnabled,MinHostVersion), per-plugin collectibleAssemblyLoadContextisolation, deterministic dependency ordering, host-side disable, discovery caching, and two-moment logging, with the validator extended and running automatically in the loading flow.Discovery Contract (G1–G3, #27)
IPluginDiscoverer(IAsyncEnumerable<DiscoveredPlugin>, manifest read without activating) andIPluginLoader(LoadAsyncconstructs without activating, no compatibility decisions) — both swappable via the host pipelineDiscoveredPlugin(Manifest+ opaqueLocation+DiscoveryError) and contractLoadedPlugin(Manifest+PluginType+Instance+LoadContext)PluginManifestrecord mirroring the A1–A13 metadata (incl.Tags/Priority/IsEnabled/Capabilities/MinHostVersion/DependsOn), read fromplugin.json/plugin.manifest/manifest.jsonbefore any assembly loadsHostVersion < MinHostVersion(SemVer 2.0.0, prerelease and build-metadata semantics, no warn-only); disabled plugins skip quietly;PluginManifestnever inheritsIAuthKitPluginId/Name/Version/IsEnabled/set-equalCapabilities/MinHostVersion/DependsOn) is a hard failure; duplicate Ids rejected deterministicallyPluginLoadResult(Loaded/SkippedDisabled/Rejected/Invalidwith reasons) for startup diagnostics, deliberately not part of the contractIsolation and Validation (G4–G6, #28)
PluginLoadContext: one collectibleAssemblyLoadContextper plugin; sharing wins by rule (explicit contracts → already-loaded → host application directory), only private deps resolve from the plugin dir — host DI identity (e.g.Core.IJwtKeyStore,Interceptor) always unifiesInvalidwith an error logLifecycleRulein the validator tool (hosted-service integrity, defined pipeline position, member-named violations) alongside Metadata, Registration, SecuritySchemes, Middleware, and Health rulesOrdering, Disable, Cache, Logging (G7–G10, #29)
DependencyGraph: Kahn topological sort (ready set byPriorityasc →RegistrationOrderasc, never re-sorted); unknown ids and cycles are startup errors; dependents of unavailable plugins rejected as dependency-unavailable with transitive propagationEffectiveIsEnabled(manifest anded withPlugins:{id}:IsEnabled, host may disable but never re-enable) checked at the gate before ordering — disabled plugins are never ordered, isolated, or loadedIPluginDiscoveryCache+ file implementation (manifests + fingerprints + schema version, never runtime objects; stale/corrupt = miss), wired inProgram.csDiscovered …at discovery,Loaded/Skipped/Rejected/Invalidwith reasons at outcomeDockerfilegenerates DevTokens/DevTools manifests after publish viaAuthKit.ManifestGeneratorValidation
dotnet buildcompletes with zero errorsPluginContractValidatorpasses end to end:[PASS]DevTokens, DevTools, ExamplePlugin, Shielddocker compose uploads 4/4 with discovery cache hit on restartResult
Plugins are discovered via manifest before load, gated, isolated per load context, ordered by dependencies, and validated automatically — with every outcome observable in logs and
PluginLoadResult.Closes #27
Closes #28
Closes #29
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