AGENTS.md

# SourceBans++ — agent guide

Conventions and workflow for AI agents and human contributors. Read
[`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md) first if you need a tour of the
codebase; this file is the cheatsheet.

## Stack at a glance

- `web/` — PHP 8.5 panel (Smarty 5, PDO/MariaDB, vanilla JS). Entry:
  `web/index.php` (pages) and `web/api.php` (JSON API).
- All classes in `web/includes/` live under `Sbpp\…` namespaces (e.g.
  `Sbpp\Db\Database`, `Sbpp\Auth\UserManager`, `Sbpp\Log`,
  `Sbpp\Api\Api`, `Sbpp\View\AdminTabs`). The legacy global names
  (`Database`, `CUserManager`, `Log`, `Api`, …) are preserved as
  `class_alias` shims for procedural code that hasn't been migrated;
  new code uses the namespaced names. The only remaining global-namespace
  class in `web/includes/` is `LightOpenID` (third-party in
  `Auth/openid.php`). See "Namespacing" under Conventions for the full
  per-class table.
- `game/addons/sourcemod/` — SourceMod plugin sources (`.sp`).
- `docker/` + `docker-compose.yml` + `sbpp.sh` — local dev stack.
- `web/install/` — installer wizard self-hosters run on every fresh
  install (the dev stack seeds the DB out of band via `docker/db-init/`,
  so the wizard isn't exercised locally). Live code; modernize and
  extend like anything else under `web/`. As of #1332 the wizard
  rides the panel's V2.0 chrome (typed `Sbpp\View\Install\*View`
  DTOs + Smarty templates under `web/themes/default/install/`) and
  carries a vendor/-missing recovery surface (`web/install/recovery.php`)
  for git-checkout / partial-upload installs.
- `web/updater/` — upgrade runner self-hosters hit on every panel
  upgrade. Wrapper code (`Updater.php`, `index.php`, `store.json`) and
  the numbered migration scripts under `web/updater/data/<N>.php` are
  both live and both modernization-friendly. The one practical wrinkle:
  if you're changing what an already-shipped `<N>.php` *does* (different
  SQL, different defaults), land it as a new `<N+1>.php` so fresh and
  upgraded installs converge — see "Updater migrations" below.

## Keep the docs in sync

The docs are part of the codebase. Update them in the same PR as the
code change — never as a follow-up. CI doesn't gate this; it's on you.

| When you …                                                  | Update                                                |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Add/rename/remove a top-level subsystem in `web/includes/`  | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (Web panel → Directory layout, and the relevant subsystem section) |
| Change a request lifecycle (page or JSON API)               | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (the lifecycle section + any diagrams) |
| Add an API handler **topic file** (new file in `api/handlers/`) | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (handler list under "Handler registration") |
| Add or rename a DB table, or change the schema substantively | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (Database schema table) + ensure `install/includes/sql/struc.sql` is the source of truth + paired `web/updater/data/<N>.php` registered in `store.json` |
| Add or change a row in `install/includes/sql/data.sql` (e.g. new `sb_settings` key) | Paired migration in `web/updater/data/<N>.php` + register in `web/updater/store.json` (see "Updater migrations") |
| Add or remove a quality gate / CI workflow                  | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (Quality gates) **and** `AGENTS.md` (Quality gates) |
| Change the CLA text, the `web/**` paths filter on the CLA workflow, the allowlist, or the sign-comment phrase | `CLA.md` + `.github/workflows/cla.yml` + `CONTRIBUTING.md` (rationale / how-to-sign) + the "Contributor License Agreement gate" Conventions block in `AGENTS.md`. Sign-comment phrase is duplicated in three places (workflow `if:`, `custom-pr-sign-comment`, CLA.md §10) — keep them byte-identical. |
| Change a `./sbpp.sh` command surface                        | `AGENTS.md` (Dev commands) + `docker/README.md`       |
| Introduce a new convention or pattern (e.g. View DTOs)      | `AGENTS.md` (Conventions) + `ARCHITECTURE.md` if it's an architectural shift |
| Remove a legacy pattern                                     | `AGENTS.md` (Anti-patterns) + `ARCHITECTURE.md` (Legacy patterns being phased out) |
| Change auth, CSRF, or permissions semantics                 | `ARCHITECTURE.md` (the relevant subsystem) + `AGENTS.md` (Conventions) if the rule changes |
| Add a new permission flag                                   | `web/configs/permissions/web.json`, regen API contract; doc only if the **role** of the flag affects conventions |
| Change the local dev stack (Docker, db-init, env vars)      | `docker/README.md` first, link from `ARCHITECTURE.md` if it changes the dev mental model |
| Edit user-facing install/quickstart                         | `docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/quickstart.mdx` (tarball flow) OR `quickstart-docker.mdx` (Docker flow). Keep the `<Tabs syncKey="install-path">` arms in `overview.mdx` + `prerequisites.mdx` consistent across the two paths (the README is a tiny landing page that links to docs — don't grow it back into a manual). |
| Add or change a wizard step (page handler / View / template / shared helper) | `AGENTS.md` (Install wizard convention block) + the "Edit a step of the install wizard" row in "Where to find what" |
| Touch `docker/Dockerfile.prod`, `docker/php/prod-*`, `docker/apache/sbpp-prod.conf`, `docker-compose.prod.yml`, `.env.example.prod`, `docker/caddy/Caddyfile.example`, or `web/health.php` | `AGENTS.md` (Quality gates: `docker-image.yml` row; "Where to find what": the "Build / extend the production Docker image" + "Deploy / configure the production Docker stack" rows) + `docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/quickstart-docker.mdx` (the operator-facing doc) + `docker/README.md` (dev-vs-prod pointer). The `Plugin build specifics` block in AGENTS.md has a sibling `Prod Docker image specifics` block — keep them in sync with the workflow's tag mapping / sign step. The Docker-image gate is **release-only** (fires on `*.*.*` tag pushes + manual `workflow_dispatch` reruns); contributors who edit the Dockerfile / entrypoint MUST run the `docker buildx build` command from the Quality gates row locally before opening the PR — there is no per-PR CI gate to catch a broken image build. |
| Change a user-facing install / upgrade / troubleshooting flow (PHP or SourceMod version requirements, installer wizard steps, `config.php` behavior, `web/updater/` runner output, plugin `databases.cfg` / `sourcebans.cfg` shape, error messages a self-hoster will see) | The relevant page under `docs/src/content/docs/` (the Starlight site published at sbpp.github.io). |
| Add or remove a config knob a self-hoster sets (`config.php` keys, `databases.cfg` fields, plugin convars users tune) | `docs/` page that documents that knob, plus the matching `docs/src/content/docs/updating/*.mdx` page if it's a breaking change between releases |
| Ship a new feature with a self-hoster-visible setup step (Discord forwarder, demos, theming, etc.) | New page or section under the right `docs/` group + sidebar entry in `docs/astro.config.mjs` |
| Publish or amend a project announcement (the admin-only home-dashboard banner) | `docs/public/announcements.json` (Astro publishes it as a static asset at `https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json`). One-file source of truth — don't reach for an admin endpoint, an in-panel composer, or a separate git repo. Schema + sort + expiry rules are in `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/announcements.mdx` (operator-facing) and the "Project announcements feed" Conventions block in `AGENTS.md` (agent-facing). The starter file is `[]` (empty array); the deploy chain (`docs-deploy-trigger.yml`) ships the updated file within minutes of merge to `main`. |
| Add or edit a project sponsor / funding platform / sponsor tier | `docs/src/data/sponsors.json` is the single source of truth. Three top-level keys: `platforms` (`{id, name, url, description?, icon?}` — funding channels), `tiers` (`{id, name, monthlyMinUsd?, description?}` — ordered display tiers), `sponsors` (`{name, url?, logo?, tier?, since?}` — `tier` matches a tier `id`, missing/empty places the sponsor in the "Individual supporters" bucket). The docs `/sponsor/` landing page (`docs/src/content/docs/sponsor.mdx`) renders the file via `docs/src/components/Sponsors.astro`; the topbar heart icon, the per-page footer link, the panel-side footer link (`web/themes/default/core/footer.tpl` — #1417 added a `data-testid="app-footer-sponsor"` anchor pointing at the same `/sponsor/` landing page), and `.github/FUNDING.yml`'s `custom:` URL all point at `/sponsor/`. A future README-injector script will read the same file. Adding a new platform (Open Collective, Patreon, …) is a one-line append to `platforms`; no component / config / template edit required, and no panel release needed (the panel link points at the docs anchor, not at any single platform URL). The docs page is intentionally absent from `astro.config.mjs`'s `sidebar` (reached only via the heart icon + footer + FUNDING.yml). Issues #1416 / #1417. |
| Touch any UI under `web/install/` or the panel chrome that's screenshotted in docs | Run `npm run capture` in `docs/` locally and commit the PNG diff. Maintainers can alternatively apply the `safe-to-screenshot` label after reviewing the PR diff so `docs-screenshots-capture.yml` regenerates the captures (see `docs/README.md` for the security model + label-strip-on-push contract) |
| Touch `web/includes/Export/**`, `web/export.php`, `web/pages/admin.export.php`, `web/includes/View/AdminExportView.php`, or `web/themes/default/page_admin_export.tpl` (the "Full data export" feature) | `AGENTS.md` (the "Full data export" Conventions block + the "Build / extend the owner-only full data export feature" row in "Where to find what" + the "Generate a presigned S3 PUT URL for the panel's Full data export S3 mode" row when the operator workflow changes) + `ARCHITECTURE.md` (the "Data export" subsystem section + the `web/includes/Export/` line in the Directory layout + the `web/export.php` line in the panel-root scripts list) + `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/data-export.mdx` (operator-facing — what's in the bundle, delivery modes, presigned-URL workflows per provider, the security model summary, troubleshooting). The wire-format contract (`null`-for-absent, Steam64-as-decimal-string, unix-seconds, manifest-first) is the load-bearing piece downstream consumers rely on — any change to the JSONL shape or manifest schema bumps `Manifest::FORMAT_VERSION` AND lands a paired downstream-migration note in the operator-facing docs. The forbidden-columns list (`admins.password` / `validate` / `attempts` / `lockout_until` / `servers.rcon` / `settings.smtp.pass` / `settings.telemetry.instance_id`) is hard-coded in `EntityExporter` — relaxing it silently invalidates the manifest's `pii_policy.password_hashes: "never"` attestation; never reach for "let me read the schema and deny dynamically" because a future column addition would slip through that gate. |
| Change panel theme tokens — palette, geometry, semantic colors — in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (the `:root` block or `html.dark` overrides) | Mirror the change in `docs/src/styles/sbpp.css` so the docs site stays visually consistent with the panel. Same PR. (Fonts intentionally not mirrored — see #2.) |

Quick rules:

- If you removed a file or renamed a directory, grep both docs for the
  old path and update the references.
- If a rule in this file no longer matches the code, the rule is wrong
  — fix the rule (or delete it) in the same PR as the code change.
- Keep `ARCHITECTURE.md` descriptive ("how it works") and `AGENTS.md`
  prescriptive ("what to do / not do"). When in doubt, the actionable
  one-liner goes here; the explanation goes there.
- The "Where to find what" table at the bottom is the cheap index — add
  a row whenever you create a new file an agent might need to locate.
- If your change affects a self-hoster — what they install, how they
  upgrade, what they configure, what error message they see — the docs
  change ships in the same PR. The docs are part of the codebase now;
  treat them like code. Run `npm run capture` in `docs/` locally to
  regenerate screenshots when the install / panel chrome moved (or wait
  for a maintainer to apply the `safe-to-screenshot` label and let
  `docs-screenshots-capture.yml` do it from CI), and panel theme-token
  changes mirror into `docs/src/styles/sbpp.css` so the two surfaces
  stay visually aligned.

## Dev commands (`./sbpp.sh`)

Run from the repo root. All commands are idempotent.

```sh
./sbpp.sh up                       # build + start (panel at :8080, admin/admin)
./sbpp.sh down                     # stop, keep volumes
./sbpp.sh reset                    # stop + drop ALL volumes
./sbpp.sh status                   # ps
./sbpp.sh logs [svc]               # tail (svc: web|db|adminer|mailpit)
./sbpp.sh shell [svc]              # bash in svc (default web; svc=db opens mysql)
./sbpp.sh mysql                    # mariadb client on the dev DB
./sbpp.sh composer <cmd>           # composer in the web container
./sbpp.sh exec <cmd...>            # arbitrary command in the web container

# Quality gates (mirror CI exactly)
./sbpp.sh phpstan [args]           # static analysis (level 5 + dba)
./sbpp.sh test [args]              # PHPUnit on sourcebans_test DB
./sbpp.sh ts-check                 # tsc --checkJs over web/scripts
./sbpp.sh composer api-contract    # regen scripts/api-contract.js
./sbpp.sh e2e [args]               # Playwright E2E suite (lazy npm install + chromium browser)

# DB
./sbpp.sh db-dump [file]           # mysqldump to host
./sbpp.sh db-load <file>           # pipe a dump into the dev DB
./sbpp.sh db-reset                 # drop the DB volume + re-seed
./sbpp.sh db-seed [args]           # populate dev DB with realistic synthetic data
                                   # --scale=small|medium|large (default medium),
                                   # --seed=<int> (default pinned in code, deterministic).
                                   # Re-login required after each run (login_tokens truncated).
./sbpp.sh rebuild                  # --no-cache rebuild of the web image
```

URLs after `up`: panel `http://localhost:8080` (admin/admin), Adminer
`:8081`, Mailpit `:8025`, MariaDB exposed on host `:3307`.

The web container bind-mounts `./web`, so PHP edits land on the next
request — no restart. Restart only when:

- `composer.json` changed → `./sbpp.sh composer install`
- anything in `docker/` changed → `./sbpp.sh rebuild`

## Parallel stacks (subagents / multiple worktrees)

`docker-compose.yml` ships hardcoded `container_name`s (`sbpp-web`,
`sbpp-db`, `sbpp-adminer`, `sbpp-mailpit`) and lets `docker compose`
derive the project name from the cwd basename. Every worktree of this
repo has the same basename (`sourcebans-pp`), so two `./sbpp.sh up`
invocations from different worktrees collide on **container names** (Docker
rejects the second one), **host ports** (default `8080` / `8081` / `8025`
/ `1025` / `3307`), **and the project's named volumes** (`dbdata`,
`vendor`, `cache`, `smarty`) — they'd silently share/corrupt each
other's DB state.

If you're a subagent (or a human) running in a worktree alongside another
stack, drop a worktree-local `docker-compose.override.yml` that scopes
the project name, container names, and host ports to this worktree.
`docker compose` auto-loads it on top of `docker-compose.yml` and the
file is gitignored so it never sneaks into a PR:

```yaml
# docker-compose.override.yml — parallel-stack scaffolding for this worktree.
name: sbpp-task-1109                # unique project name → unique volumes/network

services:
  web:
    container_name: sbpp-1109-web
    ports: !override
      - "${SBPP_WEB_PORT:-8189}:80"
  db:
    container_name: sbpp-1109-db
    ports: !override
      - "${SBPP_DB_PORT:-3416}:3306"
  adminer:
    container_name: sbpp-1109-adminer
    ports: !override
      - "${SBPP_ADMINER_PORT:-9189}:8080"
  mailpit:
    container_name: sbpp-1109-mailpit
    ports: !override
      - "${SBPP_MAILPIT_UI_PORT:-10189}:8025"
      - "${SBPP_MAILPIT_SMTP_PORT:-1134}:1025"
```

- The suffix (`1109` here) and host-port offsets are arbitrary — pick
  a free range tied to the issue/PR/task you're working on so two
  parallel agents don't collide on each other's overrides either.
- `./sbpp.sh up` / `phpstan` / `test` / `mysql` continue to work
  unchanged; `sbpp.sh` shells out to `docker compose` which composes
  both YAMLs.
- **Tear down before deleting the worktree.** `./sbpp.sh down` (or
  `reset`) removes the named containers/volumes; otherwise they leak
  and you'll discover orphan `sbpp-task-*_dbdata` volumes weeks later.

## Quality gates

CI runs six gates on every PR. Match them locally before opening one.
A seventh gate (the production Docker image) runs **only on release
tag pushes** — see the row's note + the `Prod Docker image specifics`
block below for the rationale and the contributor-side responsibility.

| Gate           | Local                                | CI workflow            |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------- |
| PHPStan        | `./sbpp.sh phpstan`                  | `phpstan.yml`          |
| PHPUnit        | `./sbpp.sh test`                     | `test.yml`             |
| ts-check       | `./sbpp.sh ts-check`                 | `ts-check.yml`         |
| API contract   | `./sbpp.sh composer api-contract`    | `api-contract.yml`     |
| Playwright E2E | `./sbpp.sh e2e`                      | `e2e.yml`              |
| Plugin build   | `bash game/addons/sourcemod/scripting/scripts/resolve-plugin-version.sh` then `(cd game/addons/sourcemod/scripting && spcomp -i include sbpp_*.sp)` | `plugin-build.yml`     |
| Prod Docker image (release-only) | `docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -f docker/Dockerfile.prod .` | `docker-image.yml` (tag pushes + `workflow_dispatch` only — no per-PR run; contributor MUST run the local command before merging Dockerfile / entrypoint changes) |

PHPStan specifics:

- Level 5 (bumped from 4 in #1101). Raise one step at a time; never
  jump 5 → 7 in one PR.
- Baseline at `web/phpstan-baseline.neon`. Regenerate **only** when a
  real fix removes an entry or when bumping the level:

  ```sh
  ./sbpp.sh phpstan --generate-baseline=phpstan-baseline.neon
  ```

- `staabm/phpstan-dba` introspects the live MariaDB to type-check raw
  SQL. Set `PHPSTAN_DBA_DISABLE=1` to skip when working offline; CI
  sets `DBA_REQUIRE=1` so credential drift fails loudly.

PHPUnit specifics:

- Tests run against a dedicated `sourcebans_test` DB so they never
  stomp dev data.

  ```sh
  ./sbpp.sh test --filter=SomeTest
  ./sbpp.sh test tests/api/AccountTest.php
  ```

- API contract snapshots live under `web/tests/api/__snapshots__/`. CI
  asserts byte-for-byte. When you intentionally change a handler's wire
  format, regenerate them in the same PR:

  ```sh
  UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=1 ./sbpp.sh test
  ```

- The action-to-permission matrix is locked in
  `web/tests/api/PermissionMatrixTest.php`. **Adding or renaming an
  action in `_register.php` requires a matching row there** — the
  cross-check fails the build otherwise. Use `Api::actions()` if you
  ever need to enumerate the live registry from another test.

ts-check specifics:

- Runs `tsc --noEmit --checkJs` against the `.js` files in place using
  `// @ts-check` + JSDoc. No `.ts` sources, no bundler. `npm install`
  inside the container is lazy on first run; `web/node_modules/` never
  ships.

API-contract specifics:

- `web/scripts/api-contract.js` is a checked-in source file (like a
  lockfile), not a build artifact. Release tarballs ship it; self-hosters
  need no codegen step.
- CI fails on `git diff` after regeneration. Always commit the
  regenerated file in the same PR as the PHP change.

Playwright E2E specifics:

- Suite location: `web/tests/e2e/` with its own `package.json`
  (separate from PHPUnit; PHPUnit owns `web/composer.json` /
  `web/package.json`).
- DB: `sourcebans_e2e` (parallel to `sourcebans_test`). Reset between
  specs via `truncateE2eDb()` (truncate + re-seed); full
  install only on global setup. The shim
  `web/tests/e2e/scripts/reset-e2e-db.php` reuses
  `Sbpp\Tests\Fixture` so the fixture stays single-source.
- Cross-process resets are serialized via a MySQL named lock in
  `Sbpp\Tests\Fixture::truncateAndReseed` (per-DB scope, 30s timeout).
  `reset-e2e-db.php` runs in a fresh PHP process per spec, so the
  truncate→seed pair has to be atomic across processes — without the
  lock two callers can race and the second hits
  `1062 Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY'`. Don't reach around it.
- CI runs **`workers: 1`**. The suite shares one DB (`sourcebans_e2e`),
  and even with the truncate-and-reseed lock above making *resets*
  atomic, two workers running simultaneously means worker B's reset
  can wipe table state out from under worker A's in-flight test
  (missing rows → 404, missing admin row during a reseed window →
  `forbidden / No access`, etc.). Until each worker has its own DB,
  parallelism here is unsound. Don't bump `workers` back up without
  shipping per-worker DB isolation.
- Flake tolerance is **off**: `retries: 1` in CI **plus**
  `failOnFlakyTests: true`. A spec that fails first try and passes on
  retry counts as a real failure — the retry exists so
  `trace: 'on-first-retry'` produces diagnostic artifacts, not as a
  release valve. If a real flake creeps in, fix the underlying race
  (the truncate-and-reseed lock and `workers: 1` above are the
  canonical examples) instead of weakening the gate.
- Auth: storage state minted once per run by
  `fixtures/global-setup.ts` against the seeded `admin/admin` user.
  The login spec is the **one** exception that drives the form
  itself — every other spec inherits the storage state.
- Selectors must use #1123's testability hooks (`data-testid`,
  `[data-active]`, `[data-loading]`, `[data-skeleton]`, ARIA roles,
  `<html class="dark">` for resolved theme). Never CSS class chains;
  never visible text as the *primary* selector. `hasText` filters
  are fine to disambiguate when the primary selector matches more
  than one node (e.g. multiple toasts).
- axe (`@axe-core/playwright`) threshold is **critical**. Use
  `expectNoCriticalA11y(page, testInfo)` from `fixtures/axe.ts`;
  do NOT downgrade the threshold to make tests green — file a
  follow-up against the underlying #1123 testability patterns.
- `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` is set globally via
  `playwright.config.ts`. Animations should never gate visibility;
  if a test needs a `setTimeout`, the chrome's missing a terminal
  attribute (see `_base.ts`). The CSS side honours the same media
  query — `theme.css` carries a `@media (prefers-reduced-motion:
  reduce)` global rule that collapses every `animation-duration` /
  `transition-duration` to ~0ms (#1207). Without that guard the
  drawer's `slide-in` keyframe would still run for 250ms inside
  the test browser and a `boundingBox()` read right after
  `[data-drawer-open="true"]` settles can land mid-translateX,
  off the viewport. Don't gate animations on JS state machines;
  let the CSS guard handle it.
- `./sbpp.sh e2e --grep @screenshot SCREENSHOTS=1` produces the
  per-PR screenshot gallery. The
  `web/tests/e2e/scripts/upload-screenshots.sh` wrapper pushes the
  PNGs to the `screenshots-archive` orphan branch under a per-PR
  subdirectory and prints the markdown table to comment on the PR.

Plugin build specifics:

- Path-filtered to `game/addons/sourcemod/scripting/**` plus the
  workflow file itself, so a PR that only touches `web/` or docs
  doesn't pay for a SourcePawn round-trip. PRs that touch a plugin
  source — `.sp`, `.inc`, or anything nested like
  `sbpp_admcfg/sbpp_admin_groups.sp` — fire the gate.
- Compiles **only the top-level `.sp` files** (shallow `*.sp` glob
  in `scripting/`). Sub-files like `sbpp_admcfg/sbpp_admin_groups.sp`
  and `sbpp_admcfg/sbpp_admin_users.sp` are `#include`d by their
  parent (`sbpp_admcfg.sp` line 49-50) and don't compile standalone;
  using a recursive `**/*.sp` glob would surface phantom failures.
- Pinned to SourcePawn `1.12.x` via `rumblefrog/setup-sp@master` —
  same compiler version `release.yml`'s build-plugin step uses, so
  the gate exercises exactly what the next release tag will
  compile. Bumping the floor (e.g. to 1.13.x) requires updating
  `release.yml` in the same PR; the two must stay in lockstep.
- Loop continues on individual failures and emits one
  `::error file=…::` annotation per broken plugin so a PR that
  breaks more than one (#1378's auto-DB-reconnection rewrite of
  `sbpp_sleuth.sp` AND `sbpp_checker.sp` together is the canonical
  multi-file shape) sees every error in one CI run instead of
  fix-push-fix-push round-trips.
- No local `./sbpp.sh` wrapper. The dev stack doesn't ship spcomp
 (it's not relevant to panel work), so plugin contributors install
 spcomp themselves and run the literal command from the table
 above (the `resolve-plugin-version.sh` step first — release CI sets
 `SBPP_RELEASE_VERSION` from the tag; local builds fall back through
 `web/configs/version.json` → `git describe` → `dev`). Untouched-plugin
 PRs: trust the gate.

Prod Docker image specifics:

- **Trigger surface is deliberately narrow: tag pushes + manual
  `workflow_dispatch` only.** No `push: branches: [main]`, no
  `pull_request:`. A multi-arch (amd64 + qemu-emulated arm64) build
  is the most expensive job in this repo's CI matrix (~8-15 minutes
  per run); pre-narrow this workflow ran on every push to main AND
  every PR touching a long path filter, burning a disproportionate
  share of the project's free Actions minutes for floating `:main` /
  `:sha-<short>` tags that nobody pulls (self-hosters all pin to
  released semver tags per the docs). The image surface is small +
  stable — runtime-affecting changes (Dockerfile, entrypoint, schema
  files, init bootstrap, health.php, trust-proxy + telemetry hooks)
  always ship behind a release tag, so verifying-at-tag is sufficient
  AND well-aligned with when self-hosters actually pull a new image.
  The trade-off the project explicitly accepts: a Dockerfile /
  entrypoint regression that landed via a green PR isn't caught by
  CI until the next `*.*.*` tag push. **Contributors who edit any
  file the runtime image bakes in (Dockerfile, entrypoint, php.ini,
  Apache conf, sb-db.php, health.php, schema files, init bootstrap,
  Auth/Host.php, Telemetry.php) MUST run the literal `docker buildx
  build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -f docker/Dockerfile.prod .`
  command from the Quality gates table locally before opening the
  PR — the local command IS the per-PR gate.**
- Multi-arch (linux/amd64 + linux/arm64) via `docker/setup-qemu-action@v3`
  + `docker/setup-buildx-action@v3`. The arm64 leg runs under qemu
  on the amd64 GitHub-hosted runner — roughly 2x build time vs
  native, acceptable for the release-only publish cadence.
- Tag mapping via `docker/metadata-action@v5`: `X.Y.Z` tag → `:X.Y.Z`
  + `:X.Y` + `:X` + `:latest`. `:latest` is gated on
  `startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')` so a `workflow_dispatch`
  from a non-tag ref can't accidentally claim it. There are no
  rolling `:main` / `:sha-<short>` tags — see the table in
  `docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/quickstart-docker.mdx`
  for the operator-facing tag list. A `workflow_dispatch` from a
  non-tag ref produces an empty tag set and `docker push` fails
  loudly (the documented "rebuilding a non-released ref isn't a
  meaningful operation" gate).
- Sigstore cosign signs each tag against the immutable digest
  (`<image>@<digest>`, not the mutable `<image>:<tag>`) in keyless
  / OIDC mode. The job-level `id-token: write` permission is what
  enables the OIDC token request; without it cosign can't get a
  Fulcio cert and signing fails closed. Verifiers pin both the
  identity (workflow path) and the issuer (GitHub Actions OIDC
  endpoint) — see `docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/quickstart-docker.mdx`
  for the canonical `cosign verify` command. The cosign step is
  always-on (no PR exemption is needed — PRs don't trigger the
  workflow at all under the tag-only contract).
- No local `./sbpp.sh` wrapper. The dev stack doesn't ship a way
  to invoke `docker buildx` from inside the dev container itself
  (no Docker-in-Docker), and the prod image build is a host-side
  workflow. Contributors verify a local build with the literal
  command from the gates table.

## Conventions

### Namespacing

Every class in `web/includes/` lives under a `Sbpp\…` namespace
matching its directory. PSR-4 autoloads from `web/includes/` →
`Sbpp\` (`web/composer.json` autoload-psr-4 mapping). The shape:

| Class                                    | Role                                  |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| `Sbpp\Db\Database`                       | DB access (PDO wrapper)               |
| `Sbpp\Auth\UserManager`                  | session / user-state (was `CUserManager`) |
| `Sbpp\Auth\Auth`                         | login flow                            |
| `Sbpp\Auth\Host`                         | hostname helper                       |
| `Sbpp\Auth\JWT`                          | token encode/decode                   |
| `Sbpp\Auth\Handler\NormalAuthHandler`    | password login handler                |
| `Sbpp\Auth\Handler\SteamAuthHandler`     | Steam OpenID login handler            |
| `Sbpp\Security\CSRF`                     | CSRF token helpers                    |
| `Sbpp\Security\Crypto`                   | password / token crypto               |
| `Sbpp\Log`                               | audit log                             |
| `Sbpp\Config`                            | settings cache                        |
| `Sbpp\Api\Api`                           | JSON API dispatcher                   |
| `Sbpp\Api\ApiError`                      | structured API error                  |
| `Sbpp\View\AdminTabs`                    | edit-* Back-link mounter (empty tabs) |
| `Sbpp\View\AdminNavCatalog`              | Pattern A section catalogs for the main-sidebar accordion (#1490) |
| `Sbpp\View\BrandLogo`                    | `template.logo` resolver with `is_file()` fallback to `images/favicon.svg` — single source for the navbar + login chrome brand-mark renders; rejects path-traversal + null-bytes + the v1.x default (case-insensitive); fail-closed on missing `SB_THEMES` |
| `Sbpp\View\Toast`                        | server-side toast emitter (`emit(kind, title, body, ?redirect)` — replaces v1.x `ShowBox(...)`) |
| `Sbpp\View\*`                            | view DTOs (page-level + partials)     |
| `Sbpp\Servers\SourceQueryCache`          | per-`(ip, port)` on-disk cache around the xPaw A2S probe (#1311) |
| `Sbpp\Servers\RconStatusCache`           | per-`sid` on-disk cache around the RCON `status` command (#PLAYER_CTX_MENU) |
| `Sbpp\Upload\UploadHandler`              | shared file-upload handler (size + extension allowlist + filename sanitiser) for the three popup upload pages |
| `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer`              | admin-authored Markdown renderer      |
| `Sbpp\Mail\Mail` / `Sbpp\Mail\Mailer` / `Sbpp\Mail\EmailType` | `Mail::send(...)` entry point + Symfony Mailer SMTP wrapper + email-type enum |
| `Sbpp\Version`                           | three-tier `SB_VERSION` resolver (tarball JSON → git → `'dev'`) |
| `Sbpp\Util\Duration`                     | minute-count humanizer for `sb_settings` token-lifetime echoes |
| `Sbpp\Util\PlayerName`                   | hostile-input-shaped player display-name sanitiser for the `?name=` smart-default arm (#1440) |
| `Sbpp\PHPStan\SmartyTemplateRule` (+ `Sbpp\PHPStan\SbppSyntaxErrorInQueryMethodRule` / `SbppPrefixAwareReflector` / `SbppNullReflector` under `web/phpstan/`) | bespoke PHPStan rules + DBA reflectors for the codebase |

Legacy global names (`Database`, `CUserManager`, `Log`, `Api`, …) are
preserved as `class_alias` shims for procedural code that hasn't been
migrated yet. The aliases are registered eagerly via the
`require_once` chain at the top of `web/init.php` (and
`web/tests/bootstrap.php` / `web/phpstan-bootstrap.php` for the
analyser-side surfaces) so the global name resolves before procedural
code references it — `class_alias()` is a runtime call the autoloader
can't trigger on a global-name lookup. New code uses the namespaced
names directly:

```php
use Sbpp\Db\Database;
use Sbpp\Auth\UserManager;
```

The only remaining global-namespace class in `web/includes/` is
`LightOpenID` (`Auth/openid.php` — documented third-party exception
also excluded from PHPStan via `phpstan.neon`'s `excludePaths`). The
backed enums (`LogType`, `LogSearchType`, `BanType`, `BanRemoval`,
`WebPermission`) also stay in the global namespace by design — they're
typed wrappers around `:prefix_*` column letter codes / bitmasks
rather than subsystem entry points, and their call sites read more
naturally without a `use` chain (see "Backed enums for column-typed
fields" below).

Issue #1290 phase B. A follow-up PR will burn the `class_alias` shims
as call sites adopt the namespaced names; until then, NEVER add a new
top-level `class Foo {}` in `web/includes/` (see "Anti-patterns").

### Database

- Access goes through `Sbpp\Db\Database` (`web/includes/Db/Database.php`,
  PDO wrapper). The legacy global `Database` alias keeps existing call
  sites working.
- Tables use `:prefix_` literals (`SELECT … FROM \`:prefix_admins\``);
  `Database::query()` rewrites the placeholder. Never inline the prefix.
- Pattern: `query` → `bind` → `execute` / `single` / `resultset`.
- ADOdb was fully removed (commit `b9c812b2`). **Do not reintroduce it.**
- Each named placeholder (`:name`) inside one query needs as many
  `bind()` calls as occurrences. The panel runs PDO with
  `PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false` (`Sbpp\Db\Database::__construct`
  — set at #1124 / motivated by #1167 so `LIMIT '0','30'` stops
  tripping MariaDB strict mode). Under native prepares the MySQL
  driver expands every `:name` occurrence into its own positional
  `?` slot in the prepared statement, so reusing `:sid` twice and
  `bind(':sid', …)` once leaves the second slot unbound and
  `execute()` raises `SQLSTATE[HY093] Invalid parameter number`
  (#1314). Pre-#1124 emulated prepares masked this by client-side
  string substitution at every occurrence. Either rename each
  occurrence (`:sid` + `:sid_inner`) and `bind()` each, or pass the
  values via the `resultset(['sid' => …, 'sid_inner' => …])` array
  shortcut — both shapes are equivalent. The `:prefix_` literal is
  not a real PDO placeholder; it's a substring that
  `Database::setPrefix()` replaces before `prepare()`, so reuse
  there is harmless. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/SrvAdminsPdoParamTest.php` pins both the
  contract (single-bind on a reused name throws `HY093`) and the
  page-level fix (`admin.srvadmins.php` renders without raising).

### PHP 8.5 idioms (post-#1289 floor bump)

The codebase floor is PHP 8.5. Beyond native types and constructor
promotion, four 8.4/8.5 features are documented here (#1290 phase K):
two adopted today (`#[\NoDiscard]`, the pipe operator), two declined
for now (property hooks, asymmetric visibility — neither has a paying
candidate in the current codebase):

- `#[\NoDiscard]` (PHP 8.5) on methods whose return value is the
  meaningful signal: `Api::redirect()` (the redirect envelope is the
  navigation; `Api::redirect(...);` without a `return` silently no-ops),
  `CSRF::validate()` (running the check and ignoring the verdict is
  the textbook bug shape this attribute exists to catch). New methods
  whose return is the only meaningful output should carry the
  attribute too. `Database::execute()` is a strong future candidate
  but adopting it requires a paired sweep of every legacy
  `$db->execute();` discard across `web/updater/data/*.php`,
  `web/pages/*.php`, and `web/api/handlers/*.php` (≈40 runtime sites
  the static gate can't see through `$GLOBALS['PDO']` / `$this->dbs`)
  — tracked as a follow-up in issue #1294.
- Property hooks (PHP 8.4) for computed / lazy / validated
  accessors. None currently in use — the codebase's getter methods
  (`UserManager::GetAid()`, `GetProperty()`, etc.) are simple
  delegators where a property hook would add call overhead without
  paying for itself. Reach for hooks when you have actual compute
  inside the getter (lazy DB lookup, derived value caching, value
  validation on set). For plain stored data, `public readonly` is
  the right shape.
- Asymmetric visibility (PHP 8.4): `public private(set) X $foo;`
  for properties that need to be written more than once internally
  but read-only externally. None currently in use —
  `public private(set) readonly X $foo;` is indistinguishable from
  plain `public readonly X $foo;` (the engine enforces single-write
  in both shapes), so reach for `private(set)` only when there's a
  concrete multi-write internal flow. For plain "single-write,
  externally read-only", `public readonly` is the right shape.
- Pipe operator `|>` (PHP 8.5) for multi-step value transformations
  that read better left-to-right than as nested function calls. The
  `IntroRenderer` chain is the canonical site:
  `($raw ?? '') |> strval(...) |> IntroRenderer::renderIntroText(...)`.
  Pipe is best when each step takes ONE argument and is named (no
  ad-hoc `fn() => f($x, ...)` lambda noise); reach for it only when
  the form is obviously clearer than the nested-call shape.

  **Precedence pitfall**: `|>` binds tighter than `??`, `?:`, `=`,
  and the boolean `&&` / `||` / `and` / `or`. When chaining a
  coalesce, parenthesize the LHS: `($raw ?? '') |> strval(...)`,
  NOT `$raw ?? '' |> strval(...)` (the latter parses as
  `$raw ?? ('' |> strval(...))` and silently never coerces when
  `$raw` is non-null).

### Native types over docblocks

Every method signature in `web/includes/` that PHP can express
natively uses native parameter and return types — `int $x`, `?array`,
`mixed`, `int|false`, `: void`, `: never`. Docblocks (`@param` /
`@return`) survive ONLY when carrying refinement PHP can't express
(generic shape like `list<array{slug: string, name: string}>`,
template variable hints for the SmartyTemplateRule).

Use `?T` for nullable types, `T|U` for unions, `?T = null` for
nullable optional parameters with a `null` default. Methods that
return nothing get `: void`; methods that unconditionally exit
(`header() + exit()`, `throw`, `die`) get `: never`.

Issue #1290 phase A finished this across the legacy core
(`CUserManager`, `Database`, `Log`, `Auth`, `JWT`, `CSRF`, `Crypto`,
`Api`, `ApiError`, `AdminTabs`, `Theme`, `Mailer`, the auth
handlers, `Config`, `Host`, `system-functions.php`,
`SmartyCustomFunctions.php`, `page-builder.php`). New code follows
the same convention by default; the only legitimate `@param` /
`@return` survivors carry refinements PHP can't express.

### Null-into-scalar discipline (PHP 8.5+)

`web/composer.json` requires `php >= 8.5`, so PHP's
"`Deprecated: <fn>(): Passing null to parameter #1 of type string`"
surface (introduced in PHP 8.1) is active. PHP 9 will turn it into a
`TypeError`. Every
`strlen` / `trim` / `substr` / `preg_match` / `mb_strlen` / etc.
call against a value that can be `null` at runtime needs one of
two idiomatic shapes (#1273):

- **Coalesce** when null is semantically "absent" — e.g. a `$_POST`
  / `$_GET` / `$_SESSION` / `$_SERVER` lookup the form may have
  omitted:

  ```php
  if (strlen($_POST['password'] ?? '') < MIN_PASS_LENGTH) { … }
  $name = trim((string) ($_POST['name'] ?? ''));
  ```

- **Cast** when the value should always be a string but the type
  system can't see it (most often a nullable `:prefix_*` row column,
  or a `mixed`-returning helper like `CUserManager::GetProperty`):

  ```php
  if (strlen((string) $row['ban_ip']) < 7) { … }
  $steam = trim((string) $userbank->GetProperty('authid', $aid));
  ```

- Never `if (!is_null($x) && strlen($x) > 0)` — verbose and the
  conditional reads worse than the coalesce.
- `phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules` + `phpVersion: 80500` is the
  static gate; `Php82DeprecationsTest` (PHPUnit) is the runtime gate
  for the bits PHPStan doesn't see (excluded paths like
  `includes/Auth/openid.php`, runtime values that look non-null to
  the type system but actually aren't).
- `web/includes/Auth/openid.php` is excluded from PHPStan and is
  third-party-shaped: cast at function inputs (entry points) so the
  diff stays bounded; never sprinkle `(string)` at every internal
  call.
- Replacing nullable `:prefix_*` columns with `NOT NULL DEFAULT ''`
  would also clear the deprecation, but it's a paired schema
  migration with a separate semantic change ("no IP" vs "empty IP")
  — file separately, not as part of a deprecation sweep.

### Dev DB seeder (`./sbpp.sh db-seed`)

`./sbpp.sh db-seed` populates the dev DB (`sourcebans`) with a deterministic,
realistic synthetic dataset across bans, comms, servers, admins, groups,
submissions, protests, comments (per-type: B / C / S / P), notes, banlog,
the audit log, AND demo evidence files (rows + on-disk files under
`SB_DEMOS`). Use it when you need the panel surfaces (banlist, dashboard,
drawer, moderation queues, audit log, "Review Demo" download flow) to
render with real-looking data instead of empty states. Acceptance audits
and screenshot work both depend on it.

- Lives at `web/tests/Synthesizer.php` (`Sbpp\Tests\Synthesizer`); CLI
  driver at `web/tests/scripts/seed-dev-db.php`. Both are dev-only —
  the synthesizer refuses any `DB_NAME` other than `sourcebans`, so
  `sourcebans_test` / `sourcebans_e2e` stay untouched and the E2E
  suite (which builds its own rows per spec) is unaffected.
- Idempotent: every run snapshots the filenames currently referenced
  by `:prefix_demos` BEFORE the TRUNCATE wipes the table, executes
  the truncates (preserving `sb_settings` / `sb_mods` from `data.sql`),
  unlinks the snapshotted files AFTER (so rows + files drop visibly
  together from the panel's POV — closes a transient pre-fix window
  where rows pointed at files that had just been removed), re-seeds
  the CONSOLE + `admin/admin` rows, then inserts the new synthetic
  dataset (rows AND on-disk demo payloads). The wipe scope is the
  set of filenames currently in `:prefix_demos`; anything else in
  `SB_DEMOS` (the tracked `.gitkeep`, manual panel uploads, a dev's
  SDK demoviewer working copy) survives untouched. `./sbpp.sh
  db-reset` carries a sibling cleanup that strips MD5-named
  basenames from `web/demos/` (those rows vanished with the DB
  volume so they'd otherwise be permanent orphans).
- Deterministic given a fixed `--seed` — `mt_srand($seed)` pins PHP's
  RNG so two devs hit the same names/reasons/timestamps AND so
  `array_rand` picks the same parent IDs for demo attachment across
  runs. Demo filenames ride `md5(seed|demtype|demid)` so re-seeds
  round-trip identically and the next run's cleanup pass finds +
  unlinks the prior set cleanly (filenames stay 32-char lowercase
  hex, indistinguishable from `UploadHandler::handle()`'s
  `renameToHash` output). Default seed is `Synthesizer::DEFAULT_SEED`
  (pinned in code).
- Three tiers: `--scale=small` (30 bans + 15 demos, fast iteration),
  `medium` (default, 200 bans + 80 demos), `large` (2000 bans + 800
  demos for pagination / perf). Comment budget per scale fans
  exactly 60% Ban (`B`) / 20% Comm (`C`) / 10% Submission (`S`) /
  10% Protest (`P`) (medium → 120/40/20/20); demo budget fans
  exactly 80% ban-attached (`B`) / 20% submission-attached (`S`)
  (medium → 64/16). Counts are exact (no rejection-sampling
  shortfall) — `insertDemos()` uses `array_rand` for unique picks
  upfront. The splits give each surface enough rows to render
  without leaving the moderation-queue detail cards empty.
- Demo payloads are opaque ~1 KiB text blobs carrying the synth
  marker + parent ID, served verbatim by `getdemo.php` with
  `Content-Type: application/octet-stream`. They won't replay in the
  SDK demoviewer (would need a real Source-engine demo binary);
  they DO exercise the panel's "Review Demo" download chrome end-to-end
  (link → 200 → file download with `Content-Disposition`). On-disk
  files land in `web/demos/`, which is gitignored alongside the
  production demo-upload directory (the panel's `UploadHandler` writes
  there too with `renameToHash: true`) so synthetic and real-production
  uploads share one storage shape.
- Do NOT reach for this from `Fixture::truncateAndReseed()` (the e2e
  hot path) — those two diverge by design. The synthesizer is for
  manual dev / screenshot work; the e2e fixture stays minimal so each
  spec controls what rows it needs.
- Anti-pattern: extending `data.sql` with synthetic rows (it's the
  fresh-install seed and would force a paired updater migration for
  every change) or shipping the seeder in a release tarball (the
  refusal guard is the safety mechanism; see `seed-dev-db.php`'s
  docblock for the full risk model).

### Updater migrations

Every change to `web/install/includes/sql/data.sql` (new `sb_settings` row,
new seed) **and** every schema change in `struc.sql` needs a paired
migration in `web/updater/data/<N>.php`, registered in
`web/updater/store.json`. `data.sql` is consulted **only on fresh installs**;
the updater scripts are how existing panels catch up. Adding a row to
`data.sql` alone silently breaks every upgraded install — the two halves
of the diff ship together or not at all.

- Pick `<N>` as the next integer above the current max key in
  `store.json`. Numbers are historical, not semantic.
- Keep migrations **idempotent**: `INSERT IGNORE`, `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS`,
  `ALTER TABLE … ADD COLUMN` guarded by an existence check. The runner
  has no rollback — re-running must be a no-op.
- Use the `:prefix_` placeholder. Never inline the prefix.
- Defaults in the migration must match the defaults in `data.sql` so
  fresh and upgraded installs converge to the same state.
- The script is `require_once`'d inside the `Updater` instance scope, so
  `$this->dbs` is in scope; PHPStan can't see this, so prefix each
  `$this->dbs` call with `// @phpstan-ignore variable.undefined`. See
  `web/updater/data/802.php` and `803.php` for the canonical shape.
- Modernizing an already-shipped `<N>.php` is fine when the script's
  *effect* doesn't change — typed signatures, `array()` → `[]`, swapping
  helper calls, etc. The thing to watch for is **substantive behavior
  changes** to a shipped script (different SQL, different defaults, new
  side effects): a fresh install on `data.sql` never runs the updater
  while an upgraded install already ran the old version, so the two
  silently diverge. Land that kind of change as a new `<N+1>.php` that
  converges the divergence forward. The wrapper (`Updater.php` /
  `index.php` / `store.json`) carries no such constraint.

### JSON API

- Endpoints live in `web/api/handlers/<topic>.php`, registered in
  `web/api/handlers/_register.php`.
- Each handler is a pure `function(array $params): array`.
- To surface a structured error, `throw new ApiError($code, $msg, $field?, $http?)`.
- To navigate, `return Api::redirect($url)`.
- The dispatcher enforces auth: any non-public action requires a
  logged-in user; declare additional checks via the `$perm` /
  `$requireAdmin` args of `Api::register()`.
- After editing a handler's name, perm mask, or `@param`/`@return`
  docblock, regenerate the contract:

  ```sh
  ./sbpp.sh composer api-contract
  ```

- **Do not** add new functions to `sb-callback.php` (removed) or reach
  for xajax (removed).
- **SteamID inputs**: ALWAYS gate `SteamID::toSteam2($raw)` (or any
  other `SteamID::*` conversion that calls `resolveInputID` internally)
  with an explicit strict-shape `preg_match` check first, and throw
  `ApiError('validation', '…', '<field>')` on the fail branch.
  `SteamID::resolveInputID()` throws a generic `\Exception` for
  unrecognised input shapes; without the gate that exception escapes
  the handler and the dispatcher's `Throwable` fallback wraps it as a
  generic `server_error` envelope (HTTP 500), which is unhelpful both
  to the client-side `r.error.field` branching AND to operators
  triaging a "the form silently broke" report (#1420). The pattern:

  ```php
  $rawSteam = trim((string)($params['steam'] ?? ''));
  if ($rawSteam === '') {
      throw new ApiError('validation', 'You must type a Steam ID or Community ID', 'steam');
  }
  if (!preg_match(SteamID::HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX, $rawSteam)) {
      throw new ApiError('validation', 'Please enter a valid Steam ID or Community ID', 'steam');
  }
  $steam = SteamID::toSteam2($rawSteam);
  ```

  `SteamID::HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX` (#1423 follow-up #4) is the single
  source of truth the per-handler `preg_match` calls consume — see
  `api_comms_add` / `api_bans_add` / `api_admins_add` for the
  canonical reference shape. The constant's docblock spells out the
  contract: byte-for-byte symmetry with the form template's
  `pattern="STEAM_[01]:[01]:\d+|\[U:1:\d+\]|\d{17}"`, the load-bearing
  `D` modifier (without it `STEAM_0:0:1\n` slips past the gate and
  500s on `toSteam2()`), and the deliberate asymmetry with
  `ID_PATTERNS` (bracketless Steam3 `U:1:N` is excluded from the
  handler gate — it stays a library-side convenience for the
  conversion path but isn't an accepted panel-input shape because
  the form template's `pattern` doesn't accept it either). Don't
  hand-roll a copy of the regex literal at the handler call site —
  the pre-#1423-follow-up-#4 hand-rolled copies silently missed the
  `D` modifier, producing the newline-bypass class. The client-side
  native validation in the corresponding form template uses the
  matching `pattern="STEAM_[01]:[01]:\d+|\[U:1:\d+\]|\d{17}"` (HTML's
  `pattern` attribute is implicitly anchored `^…$`, so the PHP
  regex carries explicit `^…$`); the browser-native popover is the
  UX-first gate that fires BEFORE the IIFE calls `sb.api.call`; the
  server-side `preg_match` is the load-bearing security gate for
  curl-driven / third-party-theme callers that bypass it.

  The pre-#1420 `SteamID::isValidID($raw)` was structurally unsafe
  — the bundled helper's regexes were unanchored with loose character
  classes (`STEAM_[0|1]:[0:1]:\d*` — the `|` inside `[...]` is a
  literal pipe, not alternation, the missing `^`/`$` anchors left
  them as substring matchers, and `\d*` accepted zero digits).
  Three concrete bypass shapes the loose gate accepted:
   - `'STEAM_0:0:'` (empty Z) passed `isValidID` AND round-tripped
     through `toSteam2()` unchanged, storing an invalid SteamID in
     `:prefix_admins.authid` / `:prefix_bans.authid` /
     `:prefix_comms.authid`.
   - `'asdfSTEAM_0:0:123'` (substring-embedded suffix) passed
     `isValidID` AND `toSteam2()` returned the input verbatim
     (the resolveInputID switch matched the SteamID branch via
     substring, then re-extracted via the same regex which returned
     the full input string), corrupting downstream SourceMod admin
     matching and the panel's per-row UI.
   - `'asdf 76561197960265728 garbage'` (embedded 17-digit Steam64)
     passed `isValidID` AND `toSteam2()` emitted a corrupt canonical
     form (`'STEAM_0:0:-38280598980132864'` — negative Z from the
     parser eating the surrounding bytes during numeric conversion).

  The library tightening landed in #1423 follow-up #1: a shared
  `SteamID::ID_PATTERNS` constant carries the four accepted shapes
  with `^…$` anchors, the `D` modifier (strictly anchors `$` to
  end-of-string, closing the `STEAM_0:0:1\n` newline-bypass
  sibling), `[01]` character classes, and `\d+` quantifiers; both
  `isValidID()` and `resolveInputID()` consume the same table so
  they cannot drift. The per-handler `preg_match` documented above
  is now true defence-in-depth (the two layers agree on the
  accepted shape) — KEEP both. Reaching for `SteamID::isValidID()`
  alone as the server-side gate is fine after the library fix; the
  per-handler regex stays in `api_comms_add` / `api_bans_add` /
  `api_admins_add` as the load-bearing structural-shape contract
  (the JSON wire is hostile-input-shaped; the library is one
  refactor away from someone "simplifying" the shared table back
  to a loose form, and the defense-in-depth means that refactor
  doesn't re-open the bypass class). Regression coverage for both
  layers: `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationTest.php` pins
  the library's shape contract (every bypass above is asserted as
  rejected, the new `HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX` constant's `D`-modifier
  + bracketless-Steam3-rejection contract is pinned by
  `testHandlerStrictRegexIsExposedAndCarriesDModifier` /
  `testHandlerStrictRegexAgreesWithIdPatternsOnAcceptableShapes` /
  `testHandlerStrictRegexRejectsBracketlessSteam3` /
  `testHandlerStrictRegexRejectsNewlineBypass`, the OpenID
  regex tightening in `SteamAuthHandler` is pinned by
  `testSteamAuthHandlerOpenIdRegexAcceptsOnly17DigitsStartingWith7`,
  and the install wizard's regex is pinned by
  `testInstallWizardSteamIdRegexCarriesDModifier`);
  `web/tests/api/CommsTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShape`
  + `BansTest.php` + `AdminsTest.php` pin the handler-side
  `ApiError('validation', …, 'steam')` envelope (each test now
  includes the `STEAM_0:0:1\n` / `[U:1:1]\n` / `76561197960265728\n`
  newline-bypass cases as #1423 follow-up #4 regression guards);
  `web/tests/api/BansTest.php::testAddIpTypeKeepsValidatedSteamOfRecord`
  pins the #1486 IP-type Steam-of-record contract (valid Steam input
  is kept alongside the IP, no Steam input writes empty, garbage +
  non-trimmable malformed shapes — mid-string `\n` — are rejected with
  a `validation` envelope on the `steam` field BEFORE any row is
  written, while a trailing-newline `STEAM_0:0:1\n` trims to a valid
  `STEAM_0:0:1` and is kept; the shape gate still runs on the IP-type
  branch so a junk value can't 500 or get stored); the
  kickit / blockit
  `SteamID::compare()` pre-`isValidID()` gate is pinned by
  `KickitTest::testKickPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedSteamId` /
  `testKickPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedIp` and
  `BlockitTest::testBlockPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedSteamId`.

  **Page-handler form-POST surfaces** (`page.submit.php`,
  `admin.edit.{ban,comms,admindetails}.php`,
  `admin.bans.php`'s `importBans` branch) carry the same
  convert-before-validate bug class as the JSON handlers, but the
  failure mode is different: the converter's
  `Exception('Invalid SteamID input!')` escapes the page handler
  unhandled, the chrome's `PageDie()` never fires, and the user
  gets a generic 500 page render instead of the inline per-field
  error message on the form. The fix shape is symmetric to the
  JSON-handler one but the error-surfacing differs by surface:
   - `admin.edit.{ban,comms,admindetails}.php` push the validation
     error into the existing `$validationErrors[]` / `$errorFields[]`
     array and re-render the form via the page-tail script (Option
     B per "Add a confirm + reason modal" — matches the established
     pattern for empty / duplicate / invalid SteamID, and preserves
     the operator's raw input on the bounce so they see exactly
     what they typed and can correct the typo without re-typing
     everything else).
   - `admin.edit.ban.php` ON IP-TYPE bans keeps a *validated* Steam
     ID-of-record when the operator filled both fields (#1486 — parity
     with `api_bans_add`'s IP-type branch), and writes the schema's
     `NOT NULL default ''` empty string when the Steam ID field was
     left blank. Enforcement stays IP-only (the SourceMod plugin
     matches an IP ban on the `ip` column alone), so the stored authid
     is inert plugin-side; it exists so the ban detail / banlist can
     show which account the IP belonged to. The validate-before-convert
     gate is still load-bearing: a non-empty Steam ID is run through
     `SteamID::isValidID()` BEFORE `toSteam2()` so a garbage value
     bounces with `$validationErrors['steam']` (raw input preserved on
     the bounce, same as the Steam-branch typo path) instead of
     escaping the converter as a 500 page render. Pre-#1486 the branch
     hard-cleared `$_POST['steam'] = ''` regardless of input, dropping
     a SteamID the operator deliberately typed; #1486 reversed that to
     keep-when-valid. (The older `82e8c3d2` "canonicalise on IP-type"
     nit had a worse shape still — it stored a *canonicalised* SteamID
     but failed to suppress the raw-on-invalid case; #1486's
     validate-then-convert ladder fixes both.)
   - `page.submit.php` doesn't call `SteamID::toSteam2()` at all —
     it stores the raw user-input verbatim in `:prefix_submissions`
     and the moderation queue resolves the canonical form on
     accept. The library tightening (follow-up #1) closes the bypass
     here without any handler edit; the template-side strict
     `pattern="…"` is the front-line defense.
   - `admin.bans.php`'s `importBans` branch validates each
     `banid <duration> <STEAMID>` line via `SteamID::isValidID()`
     BEFORE `toSteam2()`, skipping (and counting) malformed lines
     instead of throwing. The pre-fix abort-on-first-bad-line shape
     left the operator with no signal as to which line broke or
     how many of the preceding inserts committed (no transaction
     wrapper). The success toast now carries the skipped-line
     count alongside the imported count. Note: no transaction
     wrapper is in place — partial commits are still possible.
     The skipped-count surfaces in the success toast string so the
     operator gets actionable feedback; full atomic-import work
     (transaction + per-line audit trail) is a sister follow-up.
   - `SteamID::compare($a, $b)` (used by `api_kickit_kick_player`
     / `api_blockit_block_player` to per-player-match A2S
     responses) routes through `toSteam64()` and throws on
     invalid input. Pre-#1423-follow-up-#4 the iframe handlers
     reached `compare()` with the operator-controlled `$check`
     value unvalidated — a hostile caller (or a typo'd deep-link
     URL) reliably 500'd the iframe; the loop renderer had no way
     to tell "no match" apart from "your input was garbage".
     Gate `$check` with `SteamID::isValidID()` (Steam-type) or
     `filter_var(FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)` (IP-type) BEFORE the
     `compare()` call and surface the structured `not_found`
     envelope the iframe expects on the fail branch.

  The validate-before-convert order is THE structural contract:
  call `SteamID::isValidID($raw)` first, surface the error on the
  fail branch, ONLY THEN call `SteamID::toSteam2($raw)`. With the
  library tightening from follow-up #1 every input that passes
  `isValidID()` is guaranteed to round-trip through `toSteam2()`
  without throwing, so the per-handler `try/catch` defensiveness
  that some pre-fix code accidentally relied on (`empty()` short-
  circuits in `to()`, etc.) is no longer needed. Don't ship a
  `try/catch (Exception)` around `toSteam2()` as a substitute for
  the upstream gate — it papers over the bug class without fixing
  the underlying ordering and weakens the contract on the next
  refactor. Regression coverage:
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationOrderTest.php` static-
  shape-pins the validate-then-convert order across every page
  handler. The form templates also carry the same
  `pattern="STEAM_[01]:[01]:\d+|\[U:1:\d+\]|\d{17}"` +
  actionable `title="…"` as the JSON-flow add-form templates so
  the browser-native popover surfaces the same error message
  pre-flight.

### CSRF

- Required on every state-changing form/JSON call.
- In templates: `{csrf_field}`. In page POST handlers:
  `CSRF::validate(...)` or `CSRF::rejectIfInvalid()` (the dispatcher
  also accepts the token via the `X-CSRF-Token` header — `sb.api.call`
  sets it automatically).

### Public auth surfaces: response-shape uniformity (no user enumeration)

Any **publicly-reachable, unauthenticated** endpoint whose code path
inspects `:prefix_admins` (or any other per-account row) MUST return a
**response envelope whose shape, kind, title, and body are byte-for-byte
identical** across the matched / unmatched / mail-failed / other-server-
error branches. A user-visible differential — different error code,
different toast `kind`, different title, different body wording — is a
**user enumeration oracle**: a hostile visitor can hit the endpoint
once per address, read the envelope back, and conclude whether the
address has an admin account on this panel. That's #1456's bug class
on the password-recovery flow (`api_auth_lost_password`); the rule
generalises to every future surface that takes an identifier and looks
it up against admin state.

The contract:

- **All success / not-found / mail-failed / transient-error branches
  return the SAME envelope.** Use a single helper function (see
  `_api_auth_lost_password_generic_response()` for the reference
  shape) and call it from every reachable branch. Don't `throw new
  ApiError('not_registered', …)` on the miss branch — that branches
  the wire shape AND the painted toast on a per-account signal.
- **Operator-side toggles ARE OK to surface.** Returning
  `ApiError('disabled', …)` when `config.enablenormallogin` is off
  is fine: the value is the same for every caller regardless of
  what email they tried, so it doesn't reveal any per-account
  signal. The matching page-handler guard must 302 away on the
  same toggle so the form is never rendered, but curl-driven
  callers reaching the JSON dispatcher get the structured `disabled`
  envelope.
- **Body copy stays neutral.** Don't write "a reset email has been
  sent to your address" (leaks: existence) or "no account was found
  for that address" (leaks: non-existence). Write the conditional
  ("if that email is registered, …, please check your inbox and
  spam folder") — the wording is identical across every branch.
- **Audit-log discipline mirrors the response.** Log mail failures
  / transient SMTP errors so an operator can diagnose them
  (`Mail::send` already logs the underlying transport exception
  via `LogType::Error`; the handler adds a paired entry that
  pins the *action* that triggered the failure). Do NOT log the
  miss branch — anonymous visitors get to write to `:prefix_log`
  once per request would let a hostile actor flood the audit
  table at request-rate; AND the log entries would themselves be
  a side-channel into "this is an unknown email" visible to
  anyone who can read the audit log.

  Residual log-DoS surface (documented, NOT closed by #1456):
  the matched-branch SMTP-failure path emits a log entry per
  call. An attacker who knows a single registered email AND
  catches the panel with broken SMTP can hammer the endpoint
  to flood `:prefix_log` (and, as a side effect, roll the
  legitimate user's outstanding `validate` token on every
  request, invalidating any reset link in flight). Closing that
  channel cleanly requires a per-(IP × email) rate limiter the
  panel doesn't currently have. The pragmatic mitigation today
  is the implicit one — SMTP failures should be rare on a
  healthy deployment, and the audit-log table is acceptably
  sized for the access pattern — but the surface is a tracking
  follow-up; do not depend on it remaining quiet under attack.
- **DB writes only happen on the matched branch.** Never UPDATE
  or INSERT a row keyed on an attacker-supplied identifier when the
  identifier didn't match — that's both a write amplification
  vector (DoS the DB by hammering with random emails) AND would
  leak via row-count / mtime / WAL traffic. The matched branch
  performs the legitimate write (e.g. rolling the `validate` token);
  the unmatched branch returns the generic envelope immediately.
- **SMTP only fires on the matched branch.** Never email an
  attacker-supplied address when no row matched — that turns the
  endpoint into an open mail relay / spam gun (any visitor can use
  the panel to send mail to any address). The generic envelope
  lies to the user in the missed-branch case ("If that email is
  registered, a link has been sent" → it wasn't, but they don't
  get told), which is the intended behavior.

**Caveat: response-time differential remains.** The matched branch
performs a DB write + an SMTP round-trip; the unmatched branch
returns immediately. A determined attacker can still enumerate by
timing the round-trip — registered addresses take longer because
they reach the SMTP layer. Closing the timing channel requires
either a background-worker queued send (out of scope — the panel
has no worker) or a deliberate "pad the miss with a fake SMTP
delay" approach (brittle in practice: the matched-branch latency
varies with the SMTP server's mood). The response-shape uniformity
above is the load-bearing fix because it closes the trivially-
exploitable channel that motivated the issue (a hostile visitor
reading the painted toast title); the response-time leak is a
documented residual risk that requires its own follow-up.

Reference shape: `web/api/handlers/auth.php`
(`api_auth_lost_password` + `_api_auth_lost_password_generic_response`).
Regression guards: `web/tests/api/AuthTest.php`
(`testLostPasswordResponseIsIdenticalForKnownAndUnknownEmail` is
the canonical "byte-for-byte identical" assertion) +
`web/tests/api/__snapshots__/auth/lost_password_generic.json` (the
locked wire-format) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/lostpassword-toast.spec.ts`
(the chrome-side parity test — same painted toast for known +
unknown emails).

**Sibling surfaces still in scope for follow-up:** `api_auth_login`
in `web/api/handlers/auth.php` ALSO branches its `Api::redirect()`
target on per-account signals — empty-password vs. unknown-user vs.
locked-account each redirect to a different `?m=…` flag on the
login page, which the page handler then surfaces as different toast
titles. The concrete oracle: POST `{username: 'admin', password: ''}`
returns `?p=login&m=empty_pwd` (known user, empty-password
short-circuit at `api_auth_login` line 50-52 runs BEFORE
`NormalAuthHandler` so `attempts` is not incremented); POST
`{username: 'doesnotexist', password: ''}` returns
`?p=login&m=failed` (unknown-user short-circuit at line 41-43,
never touches `:prefix_admins` at all). That's a one-request-per-
username enumeration channel, no DB writes, no lockout
interaction — the `attempts` counter only gates the password-
attempt branch downstream, so the lockout-after-5 gate provides
**no** protection against this surface (the gate fires on
`NormalAuthHandler` failures, which the empty-password branch
returns before reaching). Sized similarly to the pre-#1456
`api_auth_lost_password` leak; tracked as a follow-up to #1456.
Do not silently introduce a NEW public auth surface with the same
branching shape — every new endpoint added here goes through the
response-uniformity contract above.

### Permissions

- Web flags live in `web/configs/permissions/web.json`; `init.php`
  defines each as a global PHP constant (`ADMIN_OWNER`, `ADMIN_ADD_BAN`, …).
- SourceMod char flags live in `web/configs/permissions/sourcemod.json`.
- `CUserManager::HasAccess(flags)` accepts either form;
  `Api::register()` forwards whichever was registered.
- In JS, reference perms as `Perms.ADMIN_*` from the autogenerated
  contract — never raw integers.

### Backed enums for column-typed fields

Where a `:prefix_*` column carries a small fixed set of values
(letter codes for log types, integer kinds for ban types, the
varchar removal-type tag, the integer bitmask for web permissions),
use a backed enum to wrap the on-disk type:

- `LogType: string` — letter codes (`'m'`, `'w'`, `'e'`) — matches
  `:prefix_log.type enum('m','w','e')`.
- `LogSearchType: string` — `advType=` query param tags
  (`'admin'` / `'message'` / `'date'` / `'type'`); the enum carries
  the WHERE-fragment builder so `Log::getAll()` / `Log::getCount()`
  no longer carry parallel `switch ($type)` blocks.
- `BanType: int` — wraps `:prefix_bans.type tinyint`
  (`Steam=0`, `Ip=1`).
- `BanRemoval: string` — wraps the ban / comm removal-type column
  (`:prefix_bans.RemoveType varchar(3)` / `:prefix_comms.RemoveType
  varchar(3)`: `Deleted='D'`, `Unbanned='U'`, `Expired='E'`).
  String-backed because the column is `varchar(3)` on disk —
  the enum's job is to mirror the on-disk type.
- `WebPermission: int` — wraps the integer bitmask flags from
  `web/configs/permissions/web.json` (mirrors `init.php`'s `define`d
  `ADMIN_*` constants — both shapes coexist for backward
  compatibility).

The on-disk schema is unchanged; the enum is purely a PHP-side
wrapper. At every SQL bind site, always pass `$enum->value` (not the
enum case itself) so the dba plugin and the underlying PDO see the
column-typed primitive. `enum('m','w','e')` / `varchar(3)` columns
get `string` values; `int` columns get `int` values; this is the
contract.

For variadic permission masks,
`WebPermission::mask(WebPermission::Owner, WebPermission::AddBan)`
returns the integer bitmask. The `HasAccess()` signature is
`WebPermission|int|string $flags` to keep both the modern
enum-passing shape and the legacy
`HasAccess(ADMIN_OWNER | ADMIN_ADD_BAN)` shape working. Single-flag
checks read naturally as `HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)`;
multi-flag checks go through `WebPermission::mask(…)`. The
`int|` and `string|` arms keep working for dynamic-value sites
(`HasAccess($mask)` where `$mask` was assembled at runtime, or
`HasAccess(SM_RCON . SM_ROOT)` for SourceMod char flags) and for
the `ALL_WEB` rolled-up bitmask which deliberately stays out of the
enum.

`LogType` / `LogSearchType` / `BanType` / `BanRemoval` /
`WebPermission` all live in the global namespace under
`web/includes/` (not `Sbpp\…`). They're loaded by `require_once` in
`init.php` + `tests/bootstrap.php` so they're available before
`Log.php` / `CUserManager.php` reference them. Issue #1290 phase D.

### Frontend (`web/scripts/`)

- Vanilla JS only — `// @ts-check` + JSDoc on every file.
- DOM helpers and the `sb` namespace live in `sb.js`. Use
 `sb.$idRequired(id)` when a missing element is a programmer error;
 `sb.$id(id)` returns `HTMLElement | null` and must be narrowed.
- For new code, prefer typed selectors
 (`document.querySelector<HTMLInputElement>(...)`) over `SbAnyEl`.
 `SbAnyEl` is intentionally permissive for legacy form-element access.
- API calls go through `sb.api.call(Actions.PascalName, params)` — never
 string literals.
- **Do not** reintroduce MooTools, React, or a runtime bundler.
 Self-hosters install by unzipping the release tarball.

### Button class chains (`class="btn btn--ghost btn--icon"`)

Every `<button>` / `<a>` chrome affordance that pulls the panel's
button styling MUST carry the base `btn` token alongside any
`btn--*` modifier:

- `class="btn btn--primary"` ✓
- `class="btn btn--ghost btn--icon"` ✓
- `class="btn btn--secondary btn--sm"` ✓
- `class="btn--ghost btn--icon"` ✗ — no `btn` base; `<button>`
 falls back to UA-default chrome (visible grey 1px-border pill).

Only `.btn` carries the load-bearing `background` / `color` /
`border` / `display: inline-flex` / `padding` / `height`
declarations — every modifier (colour or sizing) sets CSS
custom properties + (for `.btn--sm` / `.btn--icon` / `.btn--xs`)
adds a thin layer of geometry on top, but nothing applies the
chrome without `.btn`. Order: base first, modifiers after. Pinned
by `web/tests/integration/ButtonClassChainTest.php` (#1448);
canonical anti-pattern entry under "Anti-patterns" with the
user-reported regression details.

The same rule applies to button strings emitted at runtime by
`web/themes/default/js/theme.js`'s
`renderDrawerBody()` / `renderDrawerLoading()` /
`renderToast()` / `renderNotePane()` paths — the gate scans
`*.js` too, so a copy-paste of the pre-#1448 broken shape into a
new chrome surface fails CI at PR time.

### Loading state on action buttons (`window.SBPP.setBusy`)

Every action button that fires `sb.api.call(...)` from a click handler
without an immediate page navigation MUST flip to a busy state for the
duration of the in-flight call. Pre-fix the confirm modals
(`#bans-unban-dialog`, `#comms-unblock-dialog`, `#admins-delete-dialog`)
read as frozen for 100-1000ms between the click and the response —
users instinctively double-clicked "to make it work" and queued
duplicate requests until the post-response `disabled` flag landed.

The contract:

- `window.SBPP.setBusy(btn, true)` runs BEFORE the `sb.api.call(...)`
 leaves the page (so the disabled flag lands on the first paint of
 the click).
- `setBusy(btn, false)` runs on every non-navigating response branch
 (success that flips state in-place, error toast, validation reject)
 so retries are possible. The success-then-navigate path can leave
 the button busy because the new paint resets the DOM.
- The helper (defined inside `web/themes/default/js/theme.js`'s IIFE
 and re-exposed via `window.SBPP.setBusy`) sets three things on the
 button: `data-loading="true"` (drives the CSS spinner), `aria-busy="true"`
 (announces to AT users), and the native `disabled` flag (the
 load-bearing gate against double-clicks). All three are the
 contract; do NOT split them.
- The visual spinner lives in `theme.css` under the
 `.btn[data-loading="true"]` rule and its `::after` donut + the
 `sbpp-btn-spin` keyframe. The CSS hides the button's content
 (`color: transparent !important` for text, `visibility: hidden`
 for icon children) but keeps the layout width locked so there's
 no shift between idle and busy. `cursor: progress` and
 `pointer-events: none` are the visual gate; `disabled` is the
 load-bearing one.
- Inline page-tail scripts inside `.tpl` files define a local
 `setBusy(btn, busy)` wrapper that delegates to `window.SBPP.setBusy`
 when present and falls back to `btn.disabled = busy` otherwise. The
 fallback keeps the double-click gate working on third-party themes
 that strip `theme.js`; the spinner naturally disappears with the
 missing CSS, which is the right degradation (no fake spinner on a
 theme that hasn't opted in).
- `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` is the documented exception to
 the chrome's global animation reset (#1362). The reset in `theme.css`
 (the `*, *::before, *::after` block — see the matching note under
 "Disable the chrome's slide-in / fade animations" in "Where to find
 what") still pins every `animation-duration` to ~0ms for the chrome
 surfaces where motion-of-state is the contract (drawer slide-in,
 toast slide-in, chevron rotation). The spinner is the load-bearing
 exception: it's essential feedback — without rotation the donut
 reads as a decorative ring, not as in-progress feedback — and WCAG
 2.3.3 Animation from Interactions explicitly exempts essential
 motion. The CSS rule next to the spinner declaration carries a
 paired `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .btn[data-loading="true"]::after { animation-duration: 0.6s !important; animation-iteration-count: infinite !important; } }`
 block that wins on specificity over the universal `*::after`
 reset. Pre-#1362 the spinner froze under reduced motion (the v2.0
 RC1 regression that motivated the per-rule override); don't
 reintroduce the freeze. The regression guard in
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts`
 launches a fresh context with `reducedMotion: 'reduce'`, samples the
 rendered `transform` of `.btn[data-loading="true"]::after` at multiple
 frame boundaries, and asserts the matrix VALUE CHANGES across samples
 (the only Playwright-tractable way to assert a CSS animation is
 actually running).

Adding a new action button that fires `sb.api.call`:

1. Define the button with `class="btn btn--*"` so it picks up
 `--btn-color` (the spinner's border colour).
2. In the inline `<script>` (or in a `web/scripts/*.js` page-tail
 file), add the local `setBusy(btn, busy)` wrapper.
3. Call `setBusy(submitBtn, true)` immediately before the
 `sb.api.call(...)` line.
4. Call `setBusy(submitBtn, false)` in every non-navigating branch
 of the `.then`. The simplest shape is the canonical
 `page_comms.tpl` / `page_bans.tpl` confirm-dialog flow.
5. For drawer surfaces (Notes pane add/delete in `theme.js`),
 reach for the module-scope `setBusy(...)` directly — same
 helper, no wrapper needed.

The regression guards are paired:

- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/action-loading-indicator.spec.ts` stalls
 the `Actions.CommsUnblock` route via `page.route`, asserts
 `data-loading="true"` + `aria-busy="true"` + `disabled` on the
 submit button during the in-flight window, releases the route,
 and confirms the row flips in-place. The second test in the file
 proves the disabled gate blocks a double-click by counting the
 number of `Comms.Unblock` requests that reach the stall (exactly
 one).
- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts`
 (#1362) launches a fresh browser context with
 `reducedMotion: 'reduce'` (so the suite's global
 `contextOptions: { reducedMotion: 'reduce' }` doesn't mask the
 spec — the project default already runs with reduce, so we need
 a control case too), and a sibling context with
 `reducedMotion: 'no-preference'`. Each context injects a
 `[data-loading="true"]` button into a panel page, samples
 `getComputedStyle(btn, '::after').transform` at multiple frame
 boundaries, and asserts the matrix VALUES CHANGE across samples.
 This is the only Playwright-tractable way to assert "the
 animation is actually running" — checking
 `animationDuration === "0.6s"` would catch the CSS-rule
 regression but not, say, a future `animation-play-state: paused`
 sneaking in via a parent rule.

### User-facing text style (panel UI + docs)

Every string the operator reads in the panel or on the docs site
follows three rules:

- **No emdash (`—`).** Use a comma, period, parentheses, or split
 the sentence. The character is hard to type on most keyboards
 and reads as AI-generated padding to many contributors. Hyphen
 (`-`) is fine; en-dash (`–`) is fine in numeric ranges only.
- **Terse.** One thought per sentence. Trim filler clauses
 (`as you can see`, `please note that`, `it's worth mentioning`).
 If a sentence can lose half its words and keep its meaning, lose
 them.
- **Don't over-explain.** Trust the operator. Say what they need
 to do; skip the rationale unless it changes the action. The
 docs page can carry one paragraph of context per section, not
 three.

Applies to:

- Panel UI text in `web/themes/default/**/*.tpl` (toast titles +
 bodies, button labels, form help text, empty-state copy, alert
 banners, install-wizard chrome).
- User-facing strings emitted from PHP page handlers
 (`\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit(...)` titles + bodies, `echo` output,
 inline `<div>` banners, error-page text).
- Docs prose under `docs/src/content/docs/**/*.{md,mdx}` (any
 page rendered to sbpp.github.io).

Does NOT apply to:

- `AGENTS.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `CLA.md`,
 `docker/README.md`, `docs/README.md` (contributor-facing).
- PHP / JS / Smarty code comments and docblocks.
- Audit-log entries (`Log::add(...)` bodies are diagnostic, not
 UX surface).
- Test names, fixture data, snapshot bodies, and other
 contributor-facing strings.

Reach for the rewrite shape, not the strip-and-leave shape: an
emdash usually marks a clause that's either a parenthetical
(swap to parens), a continuation (period + new sentence), or
filler (delete the clause).

### Server-side toast emission (`Sbpp\View\Toast::emit`)

PHP page handlers that need to surface a toast (success / error
confirmation) to the user — either as the only signal on a
GET-fallback path or alongside a `PageDie()`-rendered chrome
footer — emit through `Sbpp\View\Toast::emit($kind, $title, $body,
?$redirect, ?$duration_ms)`. Single source for the wire format the
chrome's `flushPendingToasts` consumer in
`web/themes/default/js/theme.js` reads on `DOMContentLoaded`.

Lifted at #1403 from the inline `emitSubmitToast()` helper in
`page.submit.php` after an audit found six PHP page handlers
(35 sites total) still echoing raw `<script>ShowBox(...)</script>`
blobs from server-side branches. `ShowBox` lived in
`web/scripts/sourcebans.js`, deleted at #1123 D1 (v2.0.0) — every
legacy caller silently threw `ReferenceError` and (worse, when the
handler ran upstream of `PageDie()`) suppressed the template body
too, leaving the user on a literally blank white page. The
marquee user-reported regression: `?p=lostpassword` success path
silently emailed the new password while showing nothing to the
user, leading to "I clicked Reset Password three times because
nothing happened" double-submits that burned three validation
tokens. See the matching Anti-patterns entry for the full repro.

Wire format (`$kind` ∈ `'info' | 'success' | 'warn' | 'error'`;
`redirect` and `duration_ms` are both optional — see "Redirect
coalescing" and "Duration semantics" below for the contract on each):

```html
<script type="application/json" class="sbpp-pending-toast">
{"kind":"success","title":"Password reset","body":"...","redirect":"?p=login"}
</script>
<script type="application/json" class="sbpp-pending-toast">
{"kind":"error","title":"Ban NOT Deleted","body":"...","duration_ms":0}
</script>
```

- `<script type="application/json">` is parsed as text content;
  the browser does NOT execute it. CSP-friendly (a future
  `script-src 'self'` policy would reject inline executable
  shapes outright). Sibling pattern to the `palette-actions`
  blob in `core/footer.tpl` (#1304); single source for "embed
  structured data the chrome consumes at boot".
- Class, not id: multiple `Toast::emit(...)` calls in the same
  response stack cleanly — the chrome iterates the full set.
  No `data-testid` on the wire-format block by design — a
  multi-emit response would emit several blocks with the same
  testid and Playwright's `getByTestId(...)` strict mode rejects
  multi-match. E2E specs anchor on the painted
  `[data-testid="toast"]` element (set by `showToast` after the
  chrome JS picks up the blob) or the painted role attribute
  (`[role="alert"]` for `kind === 'error'`, `[role="status"]`
  otherwise — see "ARIA role contract" below); wire-layer specs
  probe the response body directly for
  `class="sbpp-pending-toast"`.
- `body` is plain text — `theme.js`'s `escapeHtml` escapes it
  before inserting into the DOM. HTML tags surface as visible
  literal text; convert at the call site with the canonical
  `preg_replace` shape (see `page.protest.php` /
  `page.submit.php` for the reference). NEVER reach for `nofilter`
  on a `Toast::emit` body — the chrome side is the single
  escape contract, and the wire-format JSON encoder is the
  load-bearing escape for everything else.

Encoder flags (`Sbpp\View\Toast::emit`'s `json_encode` call):

```
JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR
| JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE
| JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT
```

- The four `JSON_HEX_*` flags hex-escape every `<>&'"` so the
  blob cannot break out of its `<script>` wrapper regardless of
  caller payload (a `</script>` in `body` is encoded as
  `\u003C/script\u003E`).
- `JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE` is the load-bearing
  fault-tolerance flag. Player names on `:prefix_bans.name` /
  `:prefix_comms.name` (interpolated into the toast body on the
  GET-fallback unban / unmute / delete paths in `page.banlist.php`
  / `page.commslist.php`) CAN carry malformed UTF-8 — historical
  Latin-1-on-utf8 truncation shape from pre-#1108 / #765 installs
  whose plugin-side insert path wrote bytes the post-#1108
  utf8mb4 migration did not retroactively repair. Without this
  flag `JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR` raises `JsonException` on every such
  row and the user gets a 500 instead of the unban confirmation
  — and worse, the unban / delete SQL has ALREADY committed by
  the time `Toast::emit` fires, so the audit log shows the action
  succeeded while the operator sees a server error. With this
  flag the offending bytes substitute to U+FFFD (the Unicode
  REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) and the toast paints. Well-formed
  payloads are unaffected.
- `JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR` surfaces other malformed input loudly
  instead of silently emitting `false` (which `echo` would
  render as the empty string — invisible regression vector).

Redirect coalescing (FIRST wins; suppressed by persistent toasts):

`$redirect` is optional. When passed, `theme.js`'s
`flushPendingToasts` honours it AFTER the toasts paint, with a
~1500ms post-paint settle delay so the user can read what just
happened before the navigation lands. If several `Toast::emit`
calls in the same response carry a redirect, the FIRST one wins
(`if (redirectTo === null && typeof data.redirect === 'string'
&& data.redirect !== '') redirectTo = data.redirect;`). In
practice a single request never emits more than one redirect —
the GET-fallback paths in `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php`
/ `admin.edit.comms.php` all bounce back to the same list page
regardless of the success/error branch — but FIRST-wins is the
safer default if a future caller emits a sibling toast first.
The 1500ms settle is a fixed constant in `theme.js`'s
`flushPendingToasts`; long-form bodies that need more reading
time should NOT carry a redirect (the user is leaving the page
anyway, the post-redirect surface can re-surface the same toast
if persistent).

Persistent + redirect mutual exclusion (#1409): when ANY toast in
the drained queue carries `duration_ms: 0` (persistent), the
chrome SUPPRESSES the redirect setTimeout entirely — the
auto-navigation would otherwise tear down the toast ~1500ms after
paint, defeating the whole point of the persistent semantic
(operator never gets to read or dismiss it). The call-site
contract is to pass `null` for `$redirect` when emitting
`duration_ms: 0`; the chrome's whole-drain inhibit is
defence-in-depth so a future caller forgetting that rule
doesn't silently regress to broken UX. Both halves of the
contract ship together (the static gate in
`ToastEmitRegressionTest::testNotStarBranchesPassPersistentDurationMs`
asserts the call-site half; the chrome-side inhibit is exercised
end-to-end by `toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts`); neither half
is sufficient on its own. Whole-drain (not per-block) inhibit:
if a mixed queue carries persistent + non-persistent toasts, the
non-persistent toasts still paint with their auto-dismiss
timers, but the redirect is gated on the user's explicit X-click
on the persistent toast. (No in-tree caller emits a mixed queue
today; the contract is conservative for future surfaces.)

Duration semantics (#1409, default bumped to 6000ms in #1444):

`$duration_ms` is optional and OMITTED from the wire format when
the caller didn't pass an override — the chrome's `showToast`
falls through to its `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION` constant
(`6000` in `theme.js` post-#1444; was `4000` in the v2 RC chrome
— the bump addressed the user-reported regression "notification
appear top right and disappears very quickly" in issue #1444 by
landing in the modern industry sweet spot, sitting alongside
Bootstrap 5 Toast's 5000ms default and Material Design's
~5500ms snackbar guideline for medium-length messages). Three
values are meaningful:

- `null` (default) — omit the field. The toast auto-dismisses
  after `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION` (~6000ms post-#1444). The
  right choice for every routine info / success / warn
  confirmation.
- `0` — persistent. The chrome does NOT schedule an auto-dismiss
  timer at all; the only way the toast disappears is the user
  clicking the X button. Reserved for severe-error
  "this destructive operation FAILED and the operator must
  acknowledge before moving on" branches. The five canonical
  call sites are the NOT-* (capital NOT) branches in
  `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php`:
  - `page.banlist.php` — "Player NOT Unbanned", "Ban NOT Deleted"
  - `page.commslist.php` — "Player NOT UnGagged" (ungag failure),
    "Player NOT UnGagged" (unmute failure), "Ban NOT Deleted"
- `> 0` — explicit override in milliseconds. Currently no in-tree
  caller uses this; the contract exists so a future surface
  (e.g. a long-form Markdown-rendered toast) can lengthen the
  read window without resorting to persistent display.

Negative values are programmer error — the helper throws
`\InvalidArgumentException` rather than silently coercing.
The "Fail closed" instinct applies: a negative arrival means
the caller's arithmetic is broken; coercion would mask the
bug AND silently flip the toast to persistent (the
worst-of-both outcome).

`SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION` lives in `theme.js`'s TOASTS
block — single source for the chrome-side default. Don't
mirror the literal `6000` into other tests or call sites;
reference the PHP-side `null` default and trust the chrome.
The default is a constant the project doesn't tune lightly
— #1444 bumped it from 4000ms to 6000ms after a user
reported "notification appear top right and disappears
very quickly", landing within the industry-norm 5000-6000ms
band. The matching E2E spec (`toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts`)
hardcodes timing thresholds derived from this constant; any
future tweak MUST update both halves in the same commit
(see the spec's docblock for the lockstep rationale). The
counter-direction is "Passing duration_ms = 0 for routine
info / success toasts" (Anti-patterns) — don't reach for
`0` to dodge the timer on casual confirmations.

The consumer-side gate in `flushPendingToasts` is
`typeof data.duration_ms === 'number'`. A hostile / malformed
payload sending a string or boolean must NOT pass through
unchecked — `showToast` would then schedule
`setTimeout(..., "0")` (Number-coerced to 0, auto-dismisses
immediately) or `setTimeout(..., true)` (coerced to 1ms).
The typeof gate keeps the chrome's behaviour deterministic
regardless of upstream noise; the encoder side already
enforces an `int|null` PHP type so the only way a non-number
lands on the wire is a hand-rolled malformed payload.

Pause-on-hover / pause-on-focus (#1444):

The auto-dismiss timer in `showToast` pauses when the mouse
hovers the painted toast OR keyboard focus lands inside it,
and resumes (from where it paused — NOT from the original
full duration) when the user leaves the toast. The pair of
contracts that make this work:

- **Mouse arm**: `mouseenter` and `mouseleave` listeners on
  the toast element. `mouseenter` clears the dismiss
  `setTimeout` and records `remainingMs = duration - elapsed`.
  `mouseleave` schedules a fresh `setTimeout` for
  `remainingMs`.
- **Keyboard arm**: `focusin` and `focusout` (the BUBBLING
  pair — `focus` / `blur` don't bubble, so a tab landing on
  the inner X button wouldn't fire them on the outer toast
  element). Same pause / resume math as the mouse arm.

Why both arms: the issue (#1444) was the user couldn't get
a screenshot of the notification. The 4000ms → 6000ms bump
covers the "I missed it entirely" case, but even 6s is
tight for a screenshot (the user has to find the screenshot
shortcut). Pause-on-hover gives the user unlimited time to
read or capture; pause-on-focus extends the same affordance
to keyboard / screen-reader users who Tab into the toast
(they get the same "let me read this without scrambling"
escape hatch the mouse user gets via hover).

**Independent `hovered` and `focused` state** (#1444 review
M-1): the pause/resume helpers track each input modality
separately. `resumeIfIdle()` only restarts the dismiss
timer when BOTH `hovered` AND `focused` are false.
Collapsing them into a single "is the timer paused?" signal
silently breaks multi-modal users: someone using mouse +
keyboard simultaneously who tabs to the X button, then
hovers in to read, then moves the cursor off while keeping
focus on the X — the toast would auto-dismiss out from
under them even though they're clearly still engaged.
Real users hit this (Windows Narrator + mouse, JAWS + mouse,
anyone running two input devices). Don't simplify the
helpers back to a single-signal model.

**Pause math runs on `performance.now()`** (#1444 review
m-4): monotonic time. `Date.now()` (wall-clock) would
clamp `remainingMs` to 0 after an NTP step-forward, a
laptop suspend/resume mid-hover, a daylight-savings
transition, or virtualisation clock skew — the next
resume would schedule `setTimeout(..., 0)` and the toast
would dismiss on the next tick. `performance.now()` is
the right tool for measuring elapsed durations; the
`Math.max(0, ...)` clamp stays defensively but is no
longer the load-bearing fix.

**X-button click cancels the timer explicitly** (#1444
review m-3): `showToast` wires a per-toast click handler
on the `[data-toast-close]` button that clears the
in-flight timer and detaches the pause/resume listeners
BEFORE removing the element. Without the explicit
teardown, the click's focus-shift fires `focusout` on
the (now-detached) toast, which calls `resumeIfIdle()`
and schedules a fresh `setTimeout` whose closure pins
the detached subtree until the timer fires (~remainingMs
of transient memory per X-click; the eventual
`el.remove()` on a detached node is a no-op so it's a
code smell more than a leak). The document-level
`data-toast-close` delegate stays as defence-in-depth
for third-party themes that strip the per-toast wiring.

Persistent toasts (`duration_ms: 0`) skip the hover hooks
entirely — there's no timer to pause, and adding the
hooks would be dead code. The chrome's `if (durationMs >
0)` guard wraps the entire pause/resume scaffolding for
the same reason. Don't reach for "let's add focus-pause
to persistent toasts too" — the X-button is the only
escape hatch on a persistent toast by design (#1409), and
focus-pause without an auto-dismiss timer is a no-op.

Regression guard: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/toast-hover-pause.spec.ts`
covers both the mouse arm (hover for 7500ms — past the
6000ms default — assert visible; unhover, wait 6500ms,
assert dismissed) and the keyboard arm (focus the X
button, same timing dance, assert pause / resume work).

The contract has the same lockstep relationship with
`SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION` as the persistent-toast spec
does: bumping the default ALSO requires bumping the spec's
hover-wait threshold above the new default — see the
spec's docblock for the math.

ARIA role contract (#1409 review):

The painted `[data-testid="toast"]` element carries a
kind-aware `role` attribute:

- `role="alert"` for `kind === 'error'` (assertive — screen
  readers INTERRUPT the current announcement to surface the
  toast).
- `role="status"` for every other kind (`info` / `success` /
  `warn` — polite; the announcement waits for the user to
  finish what they're listening to).

The distinction matters most for the persistent error toasts
(`duration_ms: 0`): a polite `role="status"` announcement on
a "destructive action FAILED, you MUST acknowledge before
moving on" toast can be silently missed by a screen-reader
user who's focused elsewhere — exactly the population least
likely to notice the visual chrome change. `role="alert"`
maps to the W3C ARIA spec's `aria-live="assertive"`
semantic, which is the canonical answer for "this is
serious and the user needs to know NOW". Apple HIG,
Material Design, and Bootstrap all converge on the same
error/non-error split.

The role is set on the painted DOM element by `showToast`
in `theme.js` — `el.setAttribute('role', kind === 'error'
? 'alert' : 'status')`. The wire-format `<script>` block
deliberately carries no role attribute (it's not a live
region; the chrome's painted element is the announcement
target). E2E specs that anchor on `role="status"` would
miss error toasts under the kind-aware shape; use
`[data-testid="toast"]` as the kind-independent anchor and
filter by `data-kind="error"` if the spec specifically
wants the error variant.

PHP-side call site:

```php
\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit('success', 'Password reset', 'Email sent.', '?p=login');
PageDie();

// Severe-error: persistent toast (`duration_ms: 0`) so the
// operator has to acknowledge before it disappears. `$redirect`
// MUST be `null` — persistent + redirect are mutually exclusive
// per "Redirect coalescing" above. The page handler continues
// rendering the underlying surface (no PageDie() here) so the
// operator stays on a valid page while reading the toast.
\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit(
    'error',
    'Ban NOT Deleted',
    "The ban for '" . $name . "' had an error while being removed.",
    null,
    0,
);
```

Always FQN — no `use Sbpp\View\Toast;` shim per call site, no
`class_alias` to a global name. The FQN call shape is what the
`ToastEmitRegressionTest` static gate keys on; legacy procedural
code adopts the FQN at the same time it adopts every other
`Sbpp\...` namespaced API.

Always pair with `PageDie()` (or `exit`) when the handler's
"render the page body" path is no longer meaningful (e.g. the
form's input failed validation; a "not found" SELECT returned
no row). Pre-#1403 the legacy `<script>ShowBox(...)</script>`
shape carried its own `window.location` navigation that beat
the page render to the user's eyeballs; post-lift the toast
honours the redirect via the helper's 4th arg + the 1500ms
settle, so a "the SELECT returned no row, the form template
will dereference false" branch MUST `PageDie()` to cut the
render before the borked form skeleton paints. See the
`admin.edit.comms.php` "block not found" branch for the
canonical reference shape.

Regression guards:
- `web/tests/integration/ToastEmitRegressionTest.php` — static
  grep against `web/pages/*.php` (PHP page handlers only; the
  template-side `<script>ShowBox(...)` regression is sister
  #1402's surface), wire-format contract, JSON-escape contract,
  UTF-8-substitute contract, FIRST-wins-redirect contract,
  `duration_ms` contract (omitted by default, included when set,
  rejects negatives, JSON-escape guarantees preserved when
  present, the 5 NOT-* call sites in `page.banlist.php` /
  `page.commslist.php` still pass `duration_ms: 0`),
  "every audited page still calls Toast::emit" call-site
  contract.
- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/lostpassword-toast.spec.ts` (the
  marquee user-reported regression — drives the success +
  error branches end-to-end, asserts the password-reset email
  lands in mailpit AND the chrome footer renders AND the toast
  paints), `protest-toast.spec.ts`, `banlist-getfallback-toast.spec.ts`,
  `commslist-getfallback-toast.spec.ts`, `admin-edit-comms-toast.spec.ts`,
  `toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts` (#1409 — drives a NOT-*
  branch's wire-format payload through the chrome and asserts
  the toast is STILL visible past the default ~6000ms window
  post-#1444; the X-button dismiss is the only way out).

### Loading state on drawers + lazy panes (`.skel` shimmer)

Two drawer surfaces fire a JSON action between user-click and
content-paint and need a visible loading indicator over that window
(otherwise the chrome reads as blank for the 100-1000ms the request
takes to resolve):

- **Initial drawer open** — `loadDrawer(bid)` in
  `web/themes/default/js/theme.js` fires `Actions.BansDetail`. Until
  the envelope returns, the drawer paints `renderDrawerLoading()`:
  a `[data-testid="drawer-loading"]` header with `aria-busy="true"`
  + `aria-label="Loading player details"` wrapping `.skel` shimmer
  rows tagged with `[data-skeleton]`. The `#drawer-root` element
  also carries `data-loading="true"` so the `_base.ts` page-load
  waiter (and the existing `responsive/drawer.spec.ts` /
  `flows/ui/player-drawer.spec.ts` assertions) gate on the same
  terminal marker.
- **Lazy pane activation** — clicking History / Comms / Notes for
  the first time fires `bans.player_history` / `comms.player_history`
  / `notes.list`. The panel placeholder is `renderPaneSkeleton()`:
  the same `.skel` shimmer rows wrapped in
  `[data-pane-empty][aria-busy="true"]`. The panel itself carries
  `data-loading="true"` for the duration of `loadPaneIfNeeded(tabId)`.

The contract:

- The `.skel` CSS rule lives in `theme.css` (linear-gradient + the
  `shimmer` keyframe + dark-mode override). The class name is
  `.skel` (singular) — NOT `.skeleton`. Pre-fix
  `renderDrawerLoading()` used `class="skeleton"`, which had no
  matching rule, so the shimmer divs rendered with zero background
  and the drawer read as "just blank" for the entire `bans.detail`
  window.
- `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` is the documented exception
  for the shimmer (#1362, same shape as the spinner). The global
  reset in `theme.css` would otherwise pin
  `animation-duration: 0.001ms !important` +
  `animation-iteration-count: 1 !important` on every selector,
  freezing the shimmer at its 100% keyframe and leaving a static
  gradient that reads as a permanent layout placeholder — not as
  "loading". The shimmer is essential feedback (WCAG 2.3.3
  Animation from Interactions); the `.skel` rule in `theme.css`
  carries a paired
  `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) { .skel { animation-duration: 1.4s !important; animation-iteration-count: infinite !important; } }`
  block that wins on specificity over the universal `*` reset. The
  regression guard
  (`web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts`)
  samples `getComputedStyle(.skel).backgroundPositionX` at multiple
  frame boundaries and asserts the values change across samples —
  the only Playwright-tractable way to prove "the shimmer is
  actually sliding". Pre-#1362 the shimmer froze under reduced
  motion (the v2.0 RC1 sister regression to the spinner's freeze);
  don't reintroduce the freeze. The chrome's *motion-of-state*
  surfaces (drawer slide-in, toast slide-in, chevron rotations)
  continue to honour the global reset correctly — only essential
  motion (spinner + shimmer) is exempt.
- The drawer header skeleton blocks carry `[data-skeleton]`
  (terminal marker for the page-level waiter — they live under
  `#drawer-root[data-loading="true"]`, so they cycle in/out
  cleanly when `bans.detail` resolves). The lazy-pane skeleton
  blocks do NOT carry `[data-skeleton]`: the panel parent starts
  with the `hidden` attribute, but `[data-skeleton]:not([hidden])`
  only checks the matched element's own attribute. A nested
  `[data-skeleton]` block inside a hidden tabpanel would still
  match the selector and stall every page-load wait that runs
  AFTER the drawer opens.
- Use `[data-pane-empty]` as the testability hook for the
  lazy-pane skeleton; the `refreshNotesPane` reset path already
  resets the panel innerHTML with the same helper so the visual
  contract is symmetric across initial-activation and
  post-mutation refreshes.

The regression guard is `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/drawer-loading-indicator.spec.ts`:
it stalls `bans.detail` via `page.route`, asserts the skeleton
header is visible, the `.skel` block paints a `linear-gradient`
background (the computed-style probe is the regression catch for
the `class="skeleton"` typo — the missing rule leaves
`background-image: none`), releases the route, and confirms the
drawer flips to `renderDrawerBody`. The second test stalls
`bans.player_history` and asserts the History pane's
`renderPaneSkeleton()` paints the same shimmer rows.

### Anti-FOUC theme bootloader (`core/header.tpl` `<head>` script)

Light/dark theme is keyed off the `dark` class on `<html>`, with
`:root` declaring the light tokens and `html.dark` overriding to the
dark tokens. The persisted preference lives in
`localStorage['sbpp-theme']` (the `THEME_KEY` in `theme.js`); values
are `'light'` / `'dark'` / `'system'`, and `'system'` resolves
against `prefers-color-scheme: dark` at boot.

`theme.js` (loaded from the document tail via `core/footer.tpl`) is
the load-bearing path for user interactions — the toggle click and
the matchMedia listener for OS-preference changes mid-session. But
its boot-time `applyTheme(currentTheme())` is NOT what should land
the dark class on first paint: by the time `theme.js` executes, the
parser has finished `<body>` and the browser has already painted the
entire body in light mode (the `:root` defaults). The class flip
then triggers a full repaint the user perceives as a white flash +
content flicker on every page navigation (#1367).

The fix is a tiny inline blocking `<script>` in `<head>` of
`core/header.tpl`, ABOVE the `<link rel="stylesheet">`, that mirrors
`applyTheme(currentTheme())`'s dark-resolution logic: same
`THEME_KEY`, same default (`'system'`), same `mode === 'dark' || (mode
=== 'system' && matchMedia(...).matches)` predicate, and only ADDS
the class (light is the `:root` default, so removing would be a no-op
anyway). It runs synchronously before the body parses, so the very
first paint lands in the user's chosen mode.

The bootloader writes TWO attributes on `<html>`:

- `class="dark"` mirrors the *resolved* theme. `:root` carries
 light tokens; `html.dark` overrides to dark. Tests and CSS read
 this for "what's actually painted".
- `data-theme-pref="light|dark|system"` mirrors the *preference*
 verbatim (the localStorage value). The theme toggle's tri-state
 icon CSS (`theme.css` `.theme-toggle__*`) gates on this so the
 button shows the right sun / moon / monitor placeholder for the
 *choice* — NOT the resolved theme — before `<body>` parses
 (#1185 follow-up). Pre-followup the icon CSS gated on `html.dark`
 so "system" mode was visually indistinguishable from whichever of
 light/dark the OS resolved to.

The contract:

- The bootloader lives in five template surfaces today (#1367 +
 #1438): `web/themes/default/core/header.tpl` (the panel chrome's
 `<head>`, every `index.php?p=…` render); `page_kickit.tpl` and
 `page_blockit.tpl` (the two iframe-routed surfaces under
 `pages/admin.kickit.php` / `pages/admin.blockit.php` that ship
 their own self-contained `<head>` rather than riding the chrome);
 `page_uploadfile.tpl` (the popup window opened by
 `pages/admin.upload{demo,icon,mapimg}.php` via `window.open(...)`
 from a dark-mode-aware parent admin page); and `updater.tpl` (the
 standalone wizard rendered by `web/updater/index.php` on every
 panel upgrade — logged-in admin context, body uses
 `background:var(--bg-page);color:var(--text)` directly). All five
 positions place the script inside `<head>` immediately above the
 stylesheet link. The script is parser-blocking + synchronous, so
 the class is guaranteed to be set before `<body>` parses
 regardless of where in `<head>` it lives, but pinning it just
 above the stylesheet makes the "this resolves the CSS cascade"
 intent obvious.
- The iframe-routed surfaces are reachable two ways: as `<iframe
 src="pages/admin.kickit.php?…">` embedded inside the post-Ban /
 post-Block success dialogs (legacy `sb.message.show` chrome on
 the default theme), AND as TOP-LEVEL navigations from the public
 Servers page's right-click context menu's "Kick player" item
 (`web/scripts/server-context-menu.js` builds the href directly
 to `pages/admin.kickit.php?check=…`). The latter is the
 user-reported #1438 path: a dark-mode operator right-clicks a
 player → picks Kick → the browser navigates to the chromeless
 kickit template rendered as a full-page document → without the
 bootloader the page paints stark white because `<html>` never
 gets the `dark` class. The blockit iframe is `display:none` in
 `page_admin_comms_add.tpl` today (operator never sees it), so
 the dark-mode bug doesn't visibly affect blockit — but it ships
 the bootloader for parity so a future "make blockit visible" or
 "add a Block context menu item that navigates directly to
 blockit" doesn't silently regress.
- The script is a self-contained IIFE wrapped in `try/catch`:
 `localStorage` throws on private-mode iframes / SecurityError,
 and `matchMedia` is missing on very old browsers. In either
 failure mode the bootloader silently falls through to light
 (matching `theme.js`'s defensiveness).
- The bootloader does NOT write to `localStorage` — `theme.js`
 still owns persistence (its boot-time `applyTheme()` writes the
 resolved mode back). The bootloader is read-only on the
 persisted state. The iframe templates DON'T load `theme.js` at
 all (they only pull `api-contract.js` / `sb.js` / `api.js` —
 the JSON dispatcher surface), so the bootloader IS the entire
 theme-resolution path on those pages; the user's persisted
 preference is read-only there and the chrome-side preference
 write (via theme.js's boot or the toggle click) is what feeds
 the iframe's read.
- The bootloader uses `var` (not `let`/`const`) and avoids
 optional chaining / nullish coalescing. The script runs in the
 earliest realm setup phase; any syntax error means the whole
 body would paint in light first. Strict ES5 keeps the surface
 area defensive (theme.js itself uses ES6+, but theme.js failing
 is recoverable — the bootloader failing is the FOUC bug).
- Logic must stay SEMANTICALLY equivalent to
 `applyTheme(currentTheme())` in `theme.js` (minus the
 `localStorage.setItem(...)` write — theme.js owns persistence),
 AND BYTE-equivalent across all five bootloader copies (after
 whitespace normalization). The "semantically equivalent" part
 carries the bootloader's three intentional defensive deltas vs
 theme.js: it adds a `window.matchMedia &&` null check, the
 outer `try/catch` swallows both `localStorage` and `matchMedia`
 errors, and it uses `var`/no optional chaining for ES5-strict
 parser tolerance. The "byte-equivalent across copies" part is
 enforced by `IframeChromeAntiFoucBootloaderTest`'s
 `testBootloaderBodiesAreEquivalentAfterNormalization` —
 whitespace is normalized, but everything else must match
 byte-for-byte. If `theme.js` ever changes the resolution rule
 (e.g., adds a `'high-contrast'` mode), all five bootloader
 copies have to mirror the change in the same PR or the first
 paint silently desyncs from the user's persisted preference,
 AND two sibling pages painted from the same `<a>`-click resolve
 different themes on first paint.

Regression guards (two halves):

- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/theme-fouc.spec.ts` covers the
 chrome bootloader (`core/header.tpl`). The spec uses
 `page.route` to intercept and STALL the `theme.js` network
 request, then asserts the state of `<html>`'s class list WHILE
 theme.js is held — i.e. the bootloader is the only thing that
 could have set the class. The contract: dark-pinned mode must
 read `class="dark"`, light-pinned mode must NOT, and system +
 emulated OS-dark (via `colorScheme: 'dark'` on a fresh
 `chromium.newContext()`) must read `class="dark"` via the
 matchMedia branch. Releasing the route then lets theme.js boot
 normally so the post-load shape is asserted too. This is the
 only Playwright-tractable way to prove "the bootloader did it,
 not theme.js" — checking `readyState === 'loading'` was tried
 and fails because `addInitScript` runs before
 `document.documentElement` exists.
- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/iframe-anti-fouc.spec.ts` (#1438)
 covers the kickit + blockit iframe templates. Simpler shape
 because neither template loads `theme.js` — there's no
 parallel path that could set the class, so a plain
 `page.goto(KICKIT_URL)` + `toHaveClass(/dark/)` is sufficient.
 The same three branches (dark / light / system-with-OS-dark)
 are exercised, plus a blockit-parity branch so the two
 templates stay in lockstep.
- `web/tests/integration/IframeChromeAntiFoucBootloaderTest.php`
 (#1438) is the static-grep gate. It asserts every required
 bootloader fragment (`localStorage.getItem('sbpp-theme')`,
 `|| 'system'`, `setAttribute('data-theme-pref', m)`,
 `matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches`,
 `document.documentElement.classList.add('dark')`) appears in
 all five template files (`core/header.tpl`, `page_kickit.tpl`,
 `page_blockit.tpl`, `page_uploadfile.tpl`, `updater.tpl`),
 that the bootloader precedes `<link rel="stylesheet">` in each
 (so a slow stylesheet response can't push the class-flip behind
 first paint), that the bootloader bodies are byte-equivalent
 across all five copies after whitespace normalization (so an
 edit that updates only one copy's resolution logic fails the
 gate — drift between copies means a user navigating between
 sibling pages sees the theme flicker mid-flow), and —
 defensively — that NO `*.tpl` file under `web/themes/default/install/`
 carries the bootloader (the documented exemption below — the
 install wizard runs against an unconfigured panel with no
 `localStorage` to read). Catches drift edits that update one
 bootloader copy and forget the others, OR "let's mirror the panel
 chrome" sweeps that try to add the bootloader to the wizard
 without also adding a paired theme toggle.

The install wizard (`web/install/_chrome.tpl`) does NOT carry the
bootloader. It runs against an unconfigured panel with no
logged-in user and no `theme.js` chrome at all — there's no theme
toggle to gate, so `localStorage['sbpp-theme']` is never set
during install. The wizard inherits the `:root` light defaults,
which is the documented behavior; do NOT add the bootloader there
without a paired theme toggle in the wizard chrome.

### Templates + View DTOs

- Pages are rendered via typed view-model DTOs in `Sbpp\View\*`
  (`web/includes/View/`), not ad-hoc `$theme->assign(...)` chains.

  ```php
  use Sbpp\View\HomeDashboardView;
  use Sbpp\View\Renderer;

  Renderer::render($theme, new HomeDashboardView(
      dashboard_text: (string) Config::get('dash.intro.text'),
      // … every variable the template consumes …
  ));
  ```

- One View per `.tpl`, keyed by its `TEMPLATE` constant. Public readonly
  properties match the template's variables.
- The `SmartyTemplateRule` PHPStan rule (`web/includes/PHPStan/SmartyTemplateRule.php`)
  cross-checks each concrete view's properties against the template
  tree. Include-expanded templates (e.g. `page_dashboard.tpl` pulls in
  `page_servers.tpl`) need the outer view to declare the union of both
  templates' variables.
- Pages that render multiple templates build one View per template and
  call `Renderer::render` for each.
- Templates with non-default delimiters (currently `page_login.tpl`,
  `page_blockit.tpl`, `page_kickit.tpl`, and
  `page_admin_servers_rcon.tpl` using `-{ … }-`) override
  `View::DELIMITERS`. `page_youraccount.tpl` was on this list before
  #1123 B20 rewrote it in standard `{ }` delimiters; do NOT regress
  it back to `-{ … }-` without a paired edit here.

### Install wizard (`web/install/`)

Self-hoster install surface; runs BEFORE the panel's
`web/init.php` bootstrap. Lifecycle (#1332):

1. `web/install/index.php` — entry. Requires `init.php`
   (paths-only), runs the "panel already installed?" guard
   (`already-installed.php`, #1335 C2), checks `vendor/autoload.php`
   for the recovery short-circuit, then requires `bootstrap.php`
   (Composer + Smarty) and dispatches via `includes/routing.php`.
2. `web/install/init.php` — paths-only bootstrap. NEVER
   touches `vendor/`. Defines `IN_INSTALL`, `PANEL_ROOT`,
   `PANEL_INCLUDES_PATH`, etc. The recovery surface relies on
   this being load-bearing-free of Composer dependencies.
3. `web/install/already-installed.php` — pure inline HTML + CSS
   "panel-takeover prevention" guard (#1335 C2). Loaded after
   `init.php` (so `PANEL_ROOT` is in scope) but BEFORE the
   vendor/-autoload check, so the surface is independent of
   Composer for the same defensiveness reason as `recovery.php`.
   `sbpp_install_is_already_installed(PANEL_ROOT)` returns true
   when `config.php` exists; the rendering helper emits a 409 +
   inline HTML page that links the operator back to `/` (already-
   installed panels boot from there) and explains how to
   reinstall (delete `config.php` first). Same shape as
   `recovery.php` (no `Sbpp\…`, no Smarty, no `vendor/`); the
   sister-guard on the panel runtime side is in `web/init.php`.
4. `web/install/recovery.php` — pure inline HTML + CSS surface
   served when `vendor/` is missing. Serves `503` + the
   "download a release zip OR run `composer install`"
   instructions. Self-contained; never extend it with code
   that needs Composer (the whole point is that it works
   without it). Direct visits with vendor present 302 to
   `/install/` (#1335 m1).
5. `web/install/bootstrap.php` — Composer autoload + the
   subset of the panel's eager-load chain the wizard needs
   (`Sbpp\Db\Database` only) + a Smarty instance configured
   with the panel's default theme dir.
6. `web/install/pages/page.<N>.php` — per-step page handlers.
   Each builds a `Sbpp\View\Install\Install*View` DTO and
   calls `Sbpp\View\Renderer::render($theme, $view)` against
   the install Smarty instance. Step → handler mapping lives
   in `web/install/includes/routing.php`.

Conventions for new wizard work:

- New step → new `web/install/pages/page.<N>.php`, new
  `Sbpp\View\Install\Install<Step>View`, new
  `web/themes/default/install/page_<step>.tpl`. Wire it into
  the dispatcher's `match` and bump `step_count` on every
  view's constructor (the progress stepper reads it).
- The wizard reuses the panel's `theme.css` design tokens
  (button / input / card / typography) but ships its own
  install-only inline CSS in `_chrome.tpl` (`.install-shell`,
  `.install-alert`, `.install-pill`, `.install-grid`,
  `.install-table`, …). Don't grow `theme.css` for
  installer-only chrome — the panel runtime never renders
  these.
- **`.install-alert--*` / `.install-pill--*` colour palette must
  clear WCAG AA Normal Text (≥ 4.5:1) on the corresponding
  light-tint background.** The colours land in the inline
  `<style>` block of `_chrome.tpl` and are pinned to the Tailwind
  900-tier (`#14532d` green-900 / `#1e3a8a` blue-900 / `#78350f`
  amber-900 / `#7f1d1d` red-900) — every variant clears AAA
  (~8:1). Pre-#1435 the wizard used the 700/800-tier
  (`rgb(21, 128, 61)` / `rgb(30, 64, 175)` / `rgb(133, 77, 14)`
  / `rgb(153, 27, 27)`) and the success alert failed AA at
  ~4.46:1, presenting to operators as "dark green text on light
  green box, hard to read" (`web/themes/default/install/_chrome.tpl`
  comment block tracks the maths). Tweaks to either the text
  colour or the rgba bg alpha must keep the effective contrast
  above 4.5:1; `web/tests/integration/InstallChromeContrastTest.php`
  is the static + arithmetic gate (asserts the post-fix literals
  ship AND computes the actual WCAG ratio for every variant). The
  `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` block in `_chrome.tpl` only
  swaps text colours (not bgs) because the surrounding chrome's
  `var(--bg-page)` / `var(--*-bg)` tokens don't `@media`-switch on
  the install wizard — theme.css owns those swaps under `html.dark`
  only, and the wizard has no theme.js / no toggle / no logged-in
  user to bootloader against. Full OS-dark support would require
  `@media`-swapping every token theme.css owns, which is out of
  scope for the contrast-fix surface.
- Forms POST natively (`<form method="post" action="?step=N">`).
  No JS-driven navigation. Vanilla JS is allowed only as a
  page-tail script for client-side validation hints — and the
  form's native `required` / `pattern` attributes must be the
  load-bearing gate, with JS as the UX polish. **Don't add
  `novalidate`** to a wizard form: it switches off the native
  pre-submit checks and silently shifts the load to the JS
  handler, which then has to re-implement empty / short / pattern
  / type-mismatch behaviour the browser already does for free
  (and the JS coverage tends to drift behind, leaving server-side
  bounces that wipe sensitive fields like passwords on re-render).
  The canonical cross-field-validation shape, when you genuinely
  need one (the only example today is the admin form's password-
  match check on step 5), is: keep native validation on, hook
  `submit`, run the cross-field check there, surface failures via
  `setCustomValidity(...)` + `reportValidity()` + `e.preventDefault()`,
  clear customValidity on the field's `input` event so the popover
  doesn't keep firing after the user fixes the value
  (`web/themes/default/install/page_admin.tpl` is the reference).
- The wizard runs OUTSIDE the panel's `core/header.tpl` chrome
  because it has no logged-in user, no DB on step 1, no
  `Config::get`, and no `$userbank` — anything that depends on
  the panel's chrome JS (theme.js, palette, lucide.min.js,
  drawer) is unavailable.
- Carry state between steps as **hidden POST fields**, never
  `$_SESSION`. The wizard runs against an unconfigured panel —
  there's no DB to anchor a session against until step 4
  applies the schema, and the operator may abandon the install
  half-way (so a session would silently leak credentials into
  the host's tmp dir).
- Successful POST validation followed by data-forwarding to
  the next step uses the canonical handoff template
  (`page_handoff.tpl` + `InstallDatabaseHandoffView`): a
  noscript-friendly auto-submit form that re-POSTs the
  validated data to `?step=<next>` (302 can't carry POST).
- CSRF is **off** for the wizard. There's no logged-in user yet —
  CSRF tokens have nothing to bind to in the multi-user sense, and
  the pre-install attack surface is intrinsically limited (anyone
  who can reach `/install/` can also overwrite files via the same
  upload channel they used to deploy the panel). The window for
  this surface is the install itself: two paired guards close
  the loop on either side once the wizard finishes:
   - **Panel runtime side** (`web/init.php`): the install/ +
     updater/-presence guard refuses to boot if either directory is
     on disk. Pre-#1335 this guard exempted `HTTP_HOST == "localhost"`,
     which was a panel-takeover path on any panel reachable via a
     `localhost` Host header (port-forward, SSH tunnel, ngrok,
     Cloudflare Tunnel) — that exemption is gone (#1335 C1). The
     replacement escape hatch is the explicit `SBPP_DEV_KEEP_INSTALL`
     constant; see "Dev-only escape hatch" below.
   - **Wizard side** (`web/install/index.php`): the
     "panel already installed?" guard refuses to start the wizard
     when `config.php` exists. Pre-#1335 the wizard had no such
     gate — combined with C1 (or any operator who simply forgot to
     delete `install/`), this was a complete panel-takeover path
     (#1335 C2). The guard surface lives in
     `web/install/already-installed.php` (pure inline HTML + CSS,
     same shape as `recovery.php`).
  Steps 3-6 instead defend against direct-POST
  bypass of step 2's input validation by re-running the same
  validation at the top of every handler — `sbpp_install_validate_prefix`
  on `prefix` (and step 6's `amx_prefix`) is the single source of
  truth, called eagerly so a forged hidden-field POST short-circuits
  to `?step=2` BEFORE any SQL runs (#1332 review).
- **Dev-only escape hatch** (`SBPP_DEV_KEEP_INSTALL`): the docker
  dev stack bind-mounts the worktree (which carries `install/` +
  `updater/` from git) into the panel's web root, so the post-#1335
  guard would refuse to boot the dev panel. The constant is the
  explicit opt-in: defining it tells `sbpp_check_install_guard()`
  to skip the presence check (the same way `IS_UPDATE` does for
  the updater itself). The constant is loud-named so a
  production-side define is visibly wrong; the panel's release
  tarball has no path to set it; only `docker/php/dev-prepend.php`
  (auto-prepended on every request inside the dev container via
  `auto_prepend_file`) actually defines it. Production panels MUST
  NOT define this constant. Reaching for `HTTP_HOST` magic on
  either side of the guard is an anti-pattern (see Anti-patterns).

### Permission display surfaces

When a page surfaces the user's **own** permission flags back to them
(currently `page_youraccount.tpl`'s "Your permissions" card), do NOT
render a flat list of `BitToString()` output — group by category via
`Sbpp\View\PermissionCatalog::groupedDisplayFromMask($mask)` so the
section reads:

```
Bans            Servers
- Add Bans      - View Servers
- …             - …

Admins          Groups          Mods            Settings
…               …               …               …
```

The categories live in `PermissionCatalog::WEB_CATEGORIES` (Bans /
Servers / Admins / Groups / Mods / Settings / Owner — order matters,
it's the render order). Adding a new flag to
`web/configs/permissions/web.json` requires a paired addition to one
of these categories; `PermissionCatalogTest::testEveryAdminConstantBelongsToExactlyOneCategory`
fails the gate otherwise so a new flag isn't silently invisible on
the account page.

`Perms::for()` (the permission **gate** snapshot) and
`PermissionCatalog` (the permission **display** structure) are two
different surfaces — don't conflate them. `Perms::for` is what page
Views consume to gate `{if $can_add_ban}`; `PermissionCatalog` is
what the rare display-the-user's-flags-back-to-them surfaces consume.

### Filtered chrome navigation surfaces (sidebar + palette)

Two chrome surfaces ship the user a list of "where you can go from
here" entries:

- The sidebar (`web/pages/core/navbar.php` → `core/navbar.tpl`) — the
 vertical nav on the left of every page.
- The command palette (`web/includes/View/PaletteActions.php` →
 `<script id="palette-actions">` in `core/footer.tpl` →
 `theme.js`'s `loadNavItems()`) — the Ctrl/Cmd-K dialog's "Navigate"
 section (#1304).

Both **must filter against the same per-(user, permission) gates**.
Anything else leaks admin entries to logged-out / partial-permission
users; clicking such an entry lands them on the "you must be logged
in" / 403 surface and the chrome reads as broken (#1304 is the
audit issue).

The contract for either surface:

- Public entries (Dashboard, Banlist, Servers) are always shown.
- Public entries that ride a `config.enable*` toggle (Comm blocks /
 Submit / Appeals) are dropped on installs that disabled the
 surface — both surfaces honour the same toggle.
- Admin entries are gated via `HasAccess($mask | ADMIN_OWNER)` so
 owners see everything and per-flag holders see only what they
 can actually use.
- A `null` userbank (CSRF reject path / unhandled-error path
 reaches the chrome before auth) is treated identically to
 logged-out — fail closed.

When adding a new entry to either surface, add the matching entry
to the other in the same PR. The catalog files live next to each
other (`web/pages/core/navbar.php` for the sidebar,
`web/includes/View/PaletteActions.php` for the palette) for exactly
this reason; the two regression suites
(`web/tests/integration/PaletteActionsTest.php` and the existing
navbar coverage in `web/tests/integration/LostPasswordChromeTest.php`)
are the gates.

`web/includes/View/PaletteActions.php` is the only PaletteActions
catalog — never reintroduce the pre-#1304 hardcoded `NAV_ITEMS`
array in `theme.js`. The wire format from the server to the JS
client is the JSON blob's `{icon, label, href}` triple — never
expose the raw `permission` mask to the client (the gate is
server-side, full stop).

### `nofilter` discipline

Smarty auto-escape is on globally (`$theme->setEscapeHtml(true)` in
`init.php`). `{$foo nofilter}` is the escape hatch. Every use is a load
bearing assertion that the value is already safe HTML, so:

- Each `{$foo nofilter}` (or `{$foo|nofilter}`) needs a Smarty comment
  immediately above it explaining **why** the value is safe to drop in
  raw. One-line format:

  ```smarty
  {* nofilter: <one-line reason — what built it, why no user input flows in unescaped> *}
  {$foo nofilter}
  ```

  A foreach block emitting many sibling `nofilter` items can share one
  annotation if the comment explicitly covers the block (e.g. `each
  *_link below is CreateLinkR-built …`).
- If you can't write a one-liner that's true, the value isn't safe —
  fix the upstream PHP (escape on store, or rebuild without `nofilter`)
  rather than papering over it. Admin-controlled display text that's
  meant to be rich rendering goes through `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer`
  (CommonMark, `html_input: 'escape'`, `allow_unsafe_links: false`); see
  the `IntroRenderer` row in "Where to find what".

### Cross-repo JSON contracts (`web/includes/Telemetry/schema-1.lock.json`)

When the panel sends or receives a structured payload that's
**defined in a sibling repo** (currently only the telemetry contract
with [sbpp/cf-analytics](https://github.com/sbpp/cf-analytics)), the
canonical schema is **vendored** as a byte-identical lock file
under `web/includes/<subsystem>/` and consumed via a thin reader
class (e.g. `Sbpp\Telemetry\Schema1`). The reader exposes a
`payloadFieldNames(): list<string>` static — the recursively-flattened
leaf field set — and is the single source of truth for the
**extractor parity test** that asserts the panel's payload builder
(`Telemetry::collect()`) and the schema agree on the field set in
BOTH directions (`assertSame` after sort). Drift in either direction
(extractor without schema slot, or schema slot without extractor)
fails the build.

The field list is NOT mirrored into any human-readable doc — the
schema lock file is the source of truth, and anyone who wants the
field-by-field breakdown reads it. Don't reintroduce a markdown
mirror (the old `TELEMETRY-FIELDS-START` / `TELEMETRY-FIELDS-END`
README block + paired `TelemetryReadmeParityTest`) — it was pure
duplication of the schema with a parity test paying for the drift
risk it created.

Manual sync only — a `make sync-<subsystem>-schema` target pulls
the upstream lock file via curl and overwrites the vendored copy;
no scheduled auto-PR workflow. The parity test gates the result.

When a future subsystem grows a similar cross-repo JSON contract,
follow this shape: vendored Draft-7 JSON Schema lock file + reader
class + extractor parity + manual `make sync-…` target.

### Project announcements feed (`Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher`)

Anonymous, opt-out-by-default daily fetch of project news + security
advisories from a JSON file the maintainers publish at
`https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json`. The dashboard renders
the freshest non-expired entry as a slim disclosure strip between
the stat cards and the recent-activity panels — visible only to
logged-in admins. Same opt-out shape, lifecycle, and never-fail-the-
request contract as `Sbpp\Telemetry\Telemetry` — the two share the
"daily background tick fired from `register_shutdown_function` after
the response flushes" pattern.

The contract:

- **Source of truth** is in this repo at
  `docs/public/announcements.json` (a JSON array sorted newest-first;
  Astro publishes everything under `docs/public/` as a static asset
  at the docs site root, proven by `favicon.svg`). Maintainers ship
  announcements via PRs against this file — full review, full git
  history, no separate CMS or admin endpoint. The
  `.github/workflows/docs-deploy-trigger.yml` workflow lands the
  updated file at `https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json` within
  a few minutes of merge to `main`.
- **Schema** per entry: `id` (string ≤64 chars, **required**),
  `title` (string, **required**), `body_md` (optional CommonMark),
  `url` (optional `http(s)://` only — javascript:/data: are rejected
  at the parser), `published_at` (optional ISO-8601 or unix int —
  drives sort order), `expires_at` (optional, drops the entry from
  the cache once past). The parser drops malformed / expired /
  duplicate-id entries and surfaces the first valid one to the
  dashboard.
- **Lifecycle** (mirrors `Telemetry::tickIfDue`): page render reads
  the cache only — never blocks on the network. A
  `register_shutdown_function([AnnouncementFetcher::class, 'tickIfDue'])`
  registered at the tail of `init.php` fires on every panel + JSON
  API request; the 24h TTL gate inside the body keeps the actual
  outbound call to at most one per install per day. On FPM,
  `fastcgi_finish_request()` flushes the response BEFORE the
  upstream call so the user's TCP socket closes first.
- **Cache shape** (mirrors `system.check_version`'s
  `_api_system_release_save_cache`): atomic tempfile + `rename()`
  write under `SB_CACHE/announcements.json`, persisted as the raw
  upstream body verbatim (parsing happens at read time so the
  on-disk file is byte-identical to what the upstream served — easier
  to triage a "wrong content rendered" report). Stale-while-error:
  if the upstream call fails, the previous cache stays served
  indefinitely until a successful fetch overwrites it. The cache
  mtime is the TTL anchor, so a flapping upstream costs one fetch
  attempt per 24h regardless of request volume.
- **Wire layer**: 5s combined connect+read timeout, 256 KiB hard cap
  on the response body (enforced by the stream wrapper's `length`
  parameter AND re-asserted post-read so a future swap of the read
  layer doesn't bypass the limit), `User-Agent: SourceBans++/<ver>
  (announcements)` mirroring `system.check_version`. No query
  parameters, no cookies, no tracking pixels — the GET is a plain
  static-file fetch. The PHP stream wrapper exposes a single
  `timeout` knob covering both legs; if a future cURL-based reshape
  arrives, split into 3s connect + 5s total like the telemetry
  fetcher does and add paired tests for both legs.
- **Scheme guard**: `resolveUpstreamUrl()` only returns the
  configured URL when it starts with `http://` or `https://`.
  Anything else (`file://`, `php://`, `phar://`, `data://`, … —
  every stream wrapper `file_get_contents` honours by default)
  short-circuits to the empty-string air-gap branch. The
  operator-overridable constant means even a misconfiguration
  shouldn't be able to land arbitrary local files in the cache; the
  scheme guard is the defence-in-depth that closes the gap.
- **Air-gap escape hatch**: `define('SB_ANNOUNCEMENTS_URL', '')` in
  `config.php`. The `if (!defined(...))` gate in `init.php` lets the
  operator override before the default fires; an empty string short-
  circuits `tickIfDue()` before it flushes the response or touches
  the network. There is no in-panel toggle by design — the JSON
  feed is intentionally low-frequency + audit-friendly, so the only
  sensible "off" position is the documented config.php-side
  escape hatch in `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/announcements.mdx`.
- **Surface gating**: the page handler in `web/pages/page.home.php`
  short-circuits to `null` for anonymous + non-admin viewers
  (`$userbank->is_admin() ? AnnouncementFetcher::latest() : null`);
  the template (`page_dashboard.tpl`) gates the entire `<aside>`
  block on a truthy `$announcement` so the strip never paints for
  visitors who can't act on the content.
- **Markdown rendering**: `body_md` goes through
  `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer::renderIntroText()` (CommonMark with
  `html_input: 'escape'` + `allow_unsafe_links: false`). The
  rendered HTML lands on the `Announcement` DTO as `body_html` and
  the template emits it with `{nofilter}` — the only "this is
  already safe HTML" exit point the panel supports. Reach for any
  other Markdown renderer here and you re-open the #1113-class
  stored-XSS vector. See "Admin-authored display text" below for
  the contract this inherits.
- **Test override**: `AnnouncementFetcher::_setHttpFetcherForTests`
  swaps the upstream call with a closure that returns the canned
  body (or `null` to simulate failure). Mirrors
  `Sbpp\Servers\SourceQueryCache::setProbeOverrideForTesting`.
  Production never sets it.

Regression guards:

- `web/tests/integration/AnnouncementFetcherTest.php` — cache shape,
  atomic write, stale-while-error, body-cap enforcement, TTL gate,
  expired-entry filter, malformed-JSON rejection, IntroRenderer
  integration (literal `<script>` in body_md is escaped), URL
  scheme rejection (javascript: dropped), duplicate-id de-dup,
  newest-by-published_at sort.
- `web/tests/integration/HomeDashboardAnnouncementTest.php` — the
  page handler's gate. Three tests: admin + populated cache yields
  the announcement, anonymous + populated cache yields null,
  admin + cold cache yields null. Process-isolated render with
  a stub Smarty (mirrors `Php82DeprecationsTest`) so the
  `HomeDashboardView`'s `announcement` property gets captured
  without rendering the actual `.tpl`.
- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/dashboard-announcement.spec.ts` —
  end-to-end: `[data-testid="dashboard-announcement"]` mounts when
  the cache is seeded, the disclosure expands on click, the body
  paints the IntroRenderer-rendered HTML, the external link carries
  `target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"`, axe-core passes.
  Anonymous-storage-state arm asserts the strip never paints. The
  cache-seeding shim is `web/tests/e2e/scripts/seed-announcements-e2e.php`
  (shell-out via `seedAnnouncementsE2e` in `fixtures/db.ts`); each
  test cleans up via `clearAnnouncementsCacheE2e` in `afterEach` so
  sibling specs don't bleed.

The starter `docs/public/announcements.json` ships as `[]` (empty
array) so the panel renders "no announcement" until the maintainers
land an entry. This validates the deploy chain end-to-end before
any real content goes out — same shape `Sbpp\Telemetry\Schema1`'s
lock file uses (file shape pinned by tests, content can change
freely).

### Full data export (`Sbpp\Export\*`)

Owner-only, synchronous, one-shot streamed ZIP bundle of every row
in the database plus every uploaded demo. Reachable at
`?p=admin&c=export`; the actual streaming work lives at panel-root
in `web/export.php` because the wire format is binary
(`Content-Type: application/zip`) and doesn't fit the JSON API
dispatcher's `Content-Type: application/json` contract — same shape
as the long-standing `web/exportbans.php` (public ban-list export)
and `web/getdemo.php` (single demo download).

Subsystem shape: five classes under `Sbpp\Export\*`
(`ManifestBuilder` / `EntityExporter` / `BundleWriter` /
`S3PresignedUploader` / `ExportError`) plus the `Manifest` DTO, the
`web/export.php` entry point, the `web/pages/admin.export.php` page
handler, the `Sbpp\View\AdminExportView` DTO, and the
`web/themes/default/page_admin_export.tpl` form template.

The contract:

- **Synchronous, in-request execution.** No queue, no background
  worker, no FPM-only `fastcgi_finish_request()` trickery — the
  request stays open for the full duration of the export. The
  panel is shared-host-friendly first; reaching for a worker
  daemon would close that door for the majority of self-hosters.
  Shared-host hardening on the entry point is the three-pronged
  triplet: `@set_time_limit(0)` (no max-execution-time abort),
  `@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M')` (the writer streams, so the
  resident set stays bounded; the bump is for the SELECT cursors
  + the in-flight DEFLATE compression workspace), and
  `ignore_user_abort(true)` (a client disconnect mid-stream must
  NOT tear down the script — the audit-log entry needs to land
  even on the abort path). The `@` guards a host with
  `disable_functions = set_time_limit,ini_set` from injecting
  warning text into the streamed response body.
- **Two delivery modes (deliberately asymmetric).** The asymmetry
  is structural — `zip` mode streams straight to `php://output`
  with `flushAfterEntries=true` so the browser's download progress
  bar moves in real time, while `s3` mode builds to a tempfile
  under `SB_CACHE/exports/<bundle_id>.zip` and then PUTs the
  finished file in a second cURL call. The reason for the
  asymmetry: presigned S3 PUT signatures bind a specific
  `Content-Length` value (and the spec rejects chunked-transfer-
  encoded PUTs), so the bundle has to fully materialise before the
  upload knows its size. The shutdown function registered BEFORE
  the build wipes the tempfile even when a mid-build fatal
  escapes — `if (is_file($tmp)) @unlink($tmp);` covers the
  normal-exit + uncaught-Throwable + client-abort cases uniformly.
- **Manifest-first contract.** `BundleWriter::write()` emits
  `manifest.json` as the FIRST ZIP entry via `addFile()` BEFORE
  any entity stream or demo file lands. A downstream consumer
  can short-circuit the bundle to read just the PII policy / row
  counts by parsing one central-directory entry. The contract is
  pinned by `ExportBundleWriterTest`'s `statIndex(0)['name'] ===
  'manifest.json'` assertion; the writer's structure is what makes
  the assertion stable, NOT alphabetical ordering of the entity
  list (which would land `admins.jsonl` first if you trusted
  ordering alone).
- **Zip64 enabled; per-mode caps.** The `ZipStream` is constructed
  with the v3.x default (`enableZip64: true`); the previous
  "No ZIP64" stance is gone (Windows 10+ Explorer, macOS Archive
  Utility, every cloud console previewer, every CLI `unzip` since
  ~2008 all handle Zip64 reliably — the consumer-compatibility
  argument no longer holds in practice). The cap is now
  **mode-conditional**, not ZIP-format-conditional:
  - **Direct ZIP download** (`mode=zip`): no cap. Streams to
    `php://output` over an arbitrarily long connection; the only
    structural limit is whatever the operator's network / browser
    tolerates.
  - **S3 presigned PUT** (`mode=s3`): hard cap at
    `Manifest::MAX_S3_PUT_BYTES = 5 * 1024**3` (5 GiB) minus
    `SAFETY_MARGIN_BYTES = 64 * 1024**2`. The 5 GiB number is
    structural to the S3 API — every S3-compatible provider
    (AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, Wasabi) rejects
    single-PUT uploads above 5 GiB and requires multipart upload
    above that, which is a fundamentally different flow than
    presigned single-PUT. Above the cap the operator's only
    sensible options are "switch to direct ZIP download" or
    "prune data and retry".
  The `BundleWriter` constructor takes an `?int $capBytes`: `null`
  means "no cap, never throw" (zip mode); non-null is enforced as
  the running compressed-byte total grows (s3 mode). The s3-mode
  pre-flight in `ManifestBuilder` flags `$manifest->exceeds_cap`
  upfront so the entry point can short-circuit BEFORE launching the
  build AND the writer re-checks the running total per-entity
  (defence-in-depth against pre-flight undershooting). The
  manifest's `cap_bytes` / `exceeds_cap` field names are
  preserved (no `FORMAT_VERSION` bump) but redefined to refer
  specifically to the S3 PUT cap — on a direct-ZIP-download
  bundle they remain informational rather than gating anything.
- **JSONL wire contracts (uniform across every entity).** The
  contracts are: `null` for absent values (never `""`, never an
  omitted field — consumers can iterate `Object.keys()` confident
  the set is stable per entity); timestamps as unix-seconds
  integers (every `int(11) created` column gets `(int)`-cast,
  every `datetime` column routes through `strtotime`); Steam64 IDs
  as decimal STRINGS, not JSON numbers (Steam64 exceeds
  `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` and silently round-trips wrong through
  any consumer using double-precision floats; `authid_steam2`
  preserves the legacy `STEAM_X:Y:Z` shape alongside); source PKs
  renamed to `id` (`admins.aid` → `id`, `bans.bid` → `id`, etc.);
  JSON encoder flags ALWAYS include `JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE`
  (player names on `:prefix_bans.name` / `:prefix_comms.name` can
  carry malformed UTF-8 from the pre-#1108 / #765 Latin-1-on-utf8
  truncation shape — without the flag the export 500s mid-stream
  on a hostile-historical row, same load-bearing reason `Toast::emit`
  carries the flag). The contracts are wholesale documented in
  `EntityExporter`'s class docblock; new entity additions inherit
  the entire set.
- **Forbidden columns are hard-coded.** `EntityExporter`'s class
  constants `FORBIDDEN_ADMIN_COLUMNS`, `FORBIDDEN_SERVER_COLUMNS`,
  and `FORBIDDEN_SETTING_KEYS` enumerate every value the bundle
  MUST NEVER carry: `admins.password` (bcrypt hash),
  `admins.validate` / `admins.attempts` / `admins.lockout_until`
  (live session credentials), `servers.rcon` (RCON password), and
  the `settings` rows with key `smtp.pass` (SMTP credential) or
  `telemetry.instance_id` (deliberately panel-local). The filter
  applies at the SQL `SELECT` / `WHERE` layer so the values never
  reach PHP memory; the unit tests assert by grep that the values
  literally don't appear in the JSONL output. The list is
  intentionally pre-encoded — NEVER reach for "let me read the
  schema and deny dynamically", because a future column addition
  would silently slip through that gate. The manifest's
  `password_hashes: "never"` PII attestation is operator-facing
  and load-bearing on this contract.
- **Owner-only.** Every PII category the panel knows about is in
  scope (admin emails, IP addresses, every Steam ID, every unban
  reason, every admin-authored comment, every note). A partial-
  permission admin who could export everything is functionally an
  owner, so granular delegation isn't meaningful. Deliberately
  deferred to a future version when downstream consumers have
  asked for a use case the current shape doesn't cover. The
  gate's defence-in-depth shape is THREE layers: (1) page-builder
  routes `?p=admin&c=export` to `admin.export.php` ONLY for
  callers holding `ADMIN_OWNER`; (2) `admin.export.php` re-checks
  via `CheckAdminAccess(ADMIN_OWNER)`; (3) `web/export.php`'s
  entry-point checks `$userbank->HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)`
  immediately after the CSRF gate and lands a `LogType::Warning`
  row in the audit log on the deny branch so a triage flow can
  find the attempt. The chrome-side filtering on navbar +
  PaletteActions hides the entry from non-owners but is UX gating
  only — the load-bearing security gate is the entry point.
- **No new permission flag.** `ADMIN_OWNER` only.
  `web/configs/permissions/web.json` is UNTOUCHED; no new
  `Perms.*` member, no `api-contract.js` regen, no new
  `WebPermission` enum case. The reasoning matches "Owner-only"
  above — the feature's PII surface is the full panel dataset,
  and a granular flag whose holder can export everything is
  indistinguishable from `ADMIN_OWNER` itself.
- **No schema change.** V1 is one-shot — every export starts from
  a fresh pre-flight pass. No `:prefix_exports` table, no
  scheduled-job state, no persistent in-DB tracking. The audit
  log (`Log::add(LogType::Message, 'Data Export', ...)` on
  success, `LogType::Error` on failure) carries the durable
  record per attempt: acting admin's `aid`, the mode (`zip` vs
  `s3`), the bundle's UUIDv4, the estimated + actual byte counts,
  and the `ExportError::code()` on the failure branch. No paired
  updater migration ships with this subsystem.
- **No JSON API handler.** The entry point at `web/export.php` is
  a top-level streaming script with a binary wire format (`Content-Type:
  application/zip`); the JSON API dispatcher's contract is JSON
  envelopes, with no extension point for streaming binary. Reaching
  for a JSON handler that returns a download URL was considered
  and rejected because the download URL would itself need to land
  on a panel-root streaming script (the same problem one indirection
  removed). The pattern is symmetric to `exportbans.php` and
  `getdemo.php`; future binary-wire features land at panel-root
  too.
- **Error handling.** The entry point catches ONLY `ExportError`
  — anything else (a real DB outage, a memory exhaustion, a
  regression in the writer) propagates to the dispatcher's generic
  500 so the stack trace lands in the audit log via the project's
  error handler. Catching `\Throwable` blanket would mask real
  bugs behind a generic "export failed" toast. The supported
  `ExportError` codes are class constants (`CAP_EXCEEDED`,
  `S3_PUT_FAILED`, `PRESIGN_INVALID_SCHEME`,
  `PRESIGN_INVALID_URL`, `DISK_WRITE_FAILED`, `DISK_FULL`) so
  call sites can't typo a string literal; `web/pages/admin.export.php`'s
  `sbpp_admin_export_describe_error()` `match` table maps each
  code to an operator-readable toast body.
- **Persistent error toast on the redirect-back branch.** The
  page handler's `?result=error&code=<code>` arm emits via
  `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit('error', 'Export failed', ..., null, 0)`
  — `duration_ms: 0` (persistent) with `$redirect: null` per the
  Toast contract. Destructive operations that failed mid-flight
  carry potential cleanup work for the operator (a stale tempfile,
  an upstream charge), and the operator MUST acknowledge before
  moving on. The success arm emits a non-persistent confirmation
  via the default chrome timing — routine success doesn't need
  the X-click acknowledgement. See "Server-side toast emission"
  earlier in this file for the full contract.
- **S3 scheme guard is unconditional.** `S3PresignedUploader`
  refuses `http://` URLs server-side regardless of caller — the
  bundle carries the full panel PII dataset; cleartext transit
  for that workload is unsupported. The form template's
  `pattern="^https://[^\s]+$"` HTML5 attribute is the UX-first
  gate; the server-side `parse_url` + scheme check is the
  load-bearing security gate. URL parse failures raise
  `PRESIGN_INVALID_URL` BEFORE any network call fires.
- **No `try/catch (\Throwable)` around the entry point body.**
  Per the "Error handling" entry above. The only legitimate
  catches in the entry point are the two specific `ExportError`
  catches (pre-flight, mid-build) — both surface the error code
  to the redirect URL and the audit log. Anything else
  intentionally falls through to the dispatcher's 500.

Test override: `S3PresignedUploader::_setHttpTransportForTests(?callable
$transport)` swaps the cURL call with a closure that receives
`(string $url, string $localPath, int $size): array{http_code: int,
body: string}` and returns the shape the production path produces.
Mirrors `Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher::_setHttpFetcherForTests`
+ `Sbpp\Servers\SourceQueryCache::setProbeOverrideForTesting`.
Production code never sets it; integration tests use it to pin the
wire-layer contract without spinning up a real S3 endpoint.

Regression guards:

- `web/tests/unit/EntityExporterTest.php` — per-entity contract:
  `FORBIDDEN_*` columns never appear in the JSONL, SteamID
  conversion produces decimal strings, `comms.mute_kind` enum,
  partial-removal `state` derivation across the
  `BanType × BanRemoval` matrix, empty-entity yields no lines,
  the `null`-for-absent contract, the `log.level` derivation,
  the unix-seconds timestamp contract.
- `web/tests/unit/ManifestBuilderTest.php` — cap math constants
  (`MAX_S3_PUT_BYTES`, `SAFETY_MARGIN_BYTES`), UUIDv4 shape
  (regex + version + variant nibbles), bundle ID uniqueness
  across builds, `created_at` is integer unix seconds,
  `pii_policy` block presence + every required field,
  `format_version = 1`, `toJson()` output shape.
- `web/tests/integration/ExportBundleWriterTest.php` — full
  export against the test fixture. Asserts the manifest-first
  contract (`statIndex(0)['name'] === 'manifest.json'`),
  manifest's `row_counts.<entity>` equals the literal
  newline-separated line count in `entities/<entity>.jsonl`,
  every demo entry's compression method is `ZipArchive::CM_STORE`,
  every JSONL line parses as a JSON object with an `id` field,
  no SteamID appears as a JSON number (grep for
  `"authid":\s*\d+`), every timestamp field is integer,
  forbidden column values never appear in the bundle (grep for
  bcrypt hash patterns / `rcon` password values / `smtp.pass`
  values / `telemetry.instance_id` values).
- `web/tests/integration/AdminExportPermissionTest.php` — the
  static-shape permission gate: the navbar entry, the
  PaletteActions entry, the page-builder route, the page
  handler's `CheckAdminAccess` call, and the entry-point's
  `HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)` check all key on
  `ADMIN_OWNER`. Catches a future "let me sneak this through
  on a partial flag" refactor at PR time.
- `web/tests/integration/AdminExportRuntimePermissionTest.php`
  — the runtime-primitive gate: `CSRF::validate()` returns the
  expected verdict on the canonical valid + invalid + empty
  token cases; `CUserManager::HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)`
  returns the expected verdict for an owner / non-owner / no-
  session caller; the `SourceMod root char alone` case doesn't
  grant `WebPermission::Owner` (defence against a future SM-char
  delegation that would otherwise sneak through). Page-handler
  `require` tests were tried and dropped because PHP's `exit`
  (called by `CheckAdminAccess`) is uncatchable and terminates
  the child process before PHPUnit can serialize results; the
  Playwright spec covers the end-to-end runtime contract
  instead.
- `web/tests/integration/S3PresignedUploaderTest.php` — the
  wire-layer contract via `_setHttpTransportForTests`. Asserts:
  `http://` URL rejected with `PRESIGN_INVALID_SCHEME` (no
  transport call fires), non-URL string rejected with
  `PRESIGN_INVALID_URL`, happy path passes the correct
  `(url, localPath, size)` triple to the transport, success
  codes 200/201/204 don't throw, 403 throws `S3_PUT_FAILED`
  with the response body truncated to 2 KiB in the exception
  message, the byte-stable error code constants stay byte-stable.
- `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/data-export.spec.ts` — end-to-end:
  log in as the seeded `admin/admin` (owner storage state),
  navigate to `?p=admin&c=export`, click the "Export as ZIP"
  submit button (anchored on `[data-testid="admin-export-zip-submit"]`),
  capture the streamed download via `page.waitForEvent('download')`,
  parse the resulting ZIP with `jszip`, assert: zip parses,
  first entry is `manifest.json`, manifest carries
  `format_version: 1` + valid UUIDv4 `bundle_id` + integer
  `created_at` + `row_counts` dict (with `admins >= 1`) + the
  `pii_policy.password_hashes: "never"` attestation. Also
  asserts `GET /export.php` returns HTTP 405 (POST-only
  enforcement). The spec covers the marquee end-to-end shape
  the static + primitive tests can't reach.

### Admin-authored display text (`Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer`)

- Anything an admin types in the panel that we render to other users
  (currently the dashboard `dash.intro.text` setting) goes through
  `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer::renderIntroText()` before it reaches
  Smarty. The renderer wraps `league/commonmark` with
  `html_input: 'escape'` and `allow_unsafe_links: false`, so:
  - Inline HTML is rendered as visible escaped text, not parsed.
  - `javascript:` / `data:` / `vbscript:` URLs are stripped during
    rendering.
- Page handlers pass the **rendered HTML** into the View DTO and the
  template emits it with `nofilter`, with the canonical safety comment
  above the line (see `web/themes/default/page_dashboard.tpl` for the
  reference shape).
- Settings UIs surface a Markdown cheat-sheet link in the help icon.
  **Do not** reintroduce a WYSIWYG editor for these fields; the
  WYSIWYG was the source of #1113's stored-XSS vector.
- A live preview pane (textarea on the left, server-rendered HTML on
  the right) is the canonical UX. Updates POST the textarea value to
  the `system.preview_intro_text` JSON action, which pipes the value
  through the same `IntroRenderer` so the preview matches the public
  dashboard byte-for-byte. The first paint is server-rendered (so the
  page works without JS); the JS-side update only fires on input.
  Reuse this pattern — never call a third-party Markdown renderer
  client-side, as it would diverge from the safe-on-render contract.

### Sub-paged admin routes (`?section=…` routing)

Admin routes that subdivide into a small fixed set of sub-tasks
(servers / mods / groups / settings / **admins** / **bans**)
ride the **`?section=<slug>` URL pattern** instead of stacking all
panes in one DOM. Each section is its own URL — linkable,
back-button-friendly, server-rendered, works without JS — and the
page handler renders exactly one View per request.

#1490 — section chrome lives in the main sidebar accordion
----------------------------------------------------------
Pre-#1490 Pattern A pages mounted a second rail
(`core/admin_sidebar.tpl` via `AdminTabs`) beside the main app
sidebar, which ate ~14rem of content width and duplicated "Add …"
links that already existed as header CTAs. #1490 nests every
section link under its admin category in the **main** sidebar as a
`<details class="sidebar__accordion">`. `Sbpp\View\AdminNavCatalog`
is the single source for those children (navbar + page-handler
routing). Comms and Export stay flat (no children). Do NOT
reintroduce a second admin rail or header Add CTAs that only
duplicate accordion entries.

Reference: `web/pages/admin.servers.php` + `AdminNavCatalog` +
`core/navbar.tpl`. #1239 / #1259 / #1275 established `?section=`
routing; #1490 moved the chrome into the main sidebar.

#1275 — the page-level ToC pattern is removed
---------------------------------------------
Pre-#1275 admin-admins and admin-bans rode a "Pattern B" page-level
ToC — a sticky anchor sidebar that emitted `#fragment` URLs and
scrolled within a single long-scroll DOM. #1275 unified everything
on Pattern A so the URL shape is the **only** sub-route nav
contract on the panel. The `page_toc.tpl` partial, the
cross-template `.page-toc-shell` wrappers, and the
`IntersectionObserver` active-link script are all gone; if you find
any new prose / code that introduces a parallel "page ToC" or
`#fragment` admin nav, it's an anti-pattern (see "Anti-patterns"
below).

Page-handler shape:

```php
$canList = $userbank->HasAccess(ADMIN_OWNER | ADMIN_LIST_SERVERS);
$canAdd  = $userbank->HasAccess(ADMIN_OWNER | ADMIN_ADD_SERVER);

$sections = \Sbpp\View\AdminNavCatalog::sectionsFor('servers');
$validSlugs = array_column($sections, 'slug');
$section = (string) ($_GET['section'] ?? '');
if (!in_array($section, $validSlugs, true)) {
    $section = $canList ? 'list' : ($canAdd ? 'add' : 'list');
}

if ($section === 'add') {
    Renderer::render($theme, new AdminServersAddView(...));
    return;
}
Renderer::render($theme, new AdminServersListView(...));
```

Conventions:

- Default to the FIRST accessible section when `?section=` is
  missing or unknown — never render a blank body.
- Chrome is the main sidebar accordion (`core/navbar.tpl` +
  `AdminNavCatalog`). Nested links use
  `data-testid="nav-admin-<endpoint>-<slug>"` with
  `aria-current="page"` on the active leaf. Category summaries use
  `data-testid="nav-admin-<endpoint>"` and must NOT also carry
  `aria-current` when children exist (#1233).
- Add new sections in `AdminNavCatalog::sectionsFor()` (not inline
  in the page handler). Feature toggles (`config.enable*`) gate
  children the same way AdminTabs used to via the optional `config`
  field (bans protests / submissions / group-ban).
- Each section entry carries an `icon` (Lucide name). Pick icons
  that match the existing vocabulary (`server`, `plus`, `users`,
  `puzzle`, `flag`, `clipboard-list`, …).
- Content templates wrap their body in `.page-section` (1.5rem
  inset + 1400px cap). Pre-#1490 that inset lived on
  `.admin-sidebar-shell`; without the shell each template owns it.
- The `core/admin_tabs.tpl` partial is exclusively the
  **back-link-only** shape for edit-* pages
  (`admin.edit.ban.php`, `admin.rcon.php`, …) which call
  `new AdminTabs([], $userbank, $theme)`. Non-empty `AdminTabs`
  is a no-op; don't reintroduce the second rail via
  `core/admin_sidebar.tpl`.
- Single-section "pages" (e.g. admin.comms.php's "Add a block")
  stay flat category links with no accordion children.
- Sections where two operations form a tight workflow (e.g.
  admin-admins's `search` + admins-list, admin-bans's protests
  current/archive split) consolidate into one section rather than
  splitting on every conceptual boundary. The rule is "one Pattern
  A section per **distinct workflow**, not per heading" — see
  `web/pages/admin.admins.php` for the rationale on the search +
  list collapse and `web/pages/admin.bans.php` for the protests
  /submissions sub-view shape (`?section=protests&view=archive`).
- Sub-views inside a section (e.g. protests current vs archive)
  use a `view=<slug>` query param + a `.chip-row` of real anchors,
  not a JS toggle. The chips are server-rendered with
  `data-active="true|false"` + `aria-selected` and the page
  handler runs only the active sub-view's data path.
- **Feature-disabled stub vs Access-denied ordering (#1421).** When
  a sub-route is gated by BOTH a `config.enable*` toggle and a
  permission flag, the **feature-disabled stub takes precedence**
  over the Access-denied stub: check the toggle FIRST, render the
  "feature disabled in `<setting.key>`" stub if it's off, and only
  fall through to the permission check if the toggle is on. The
  toggle key is operator-actionable (it names the lever they flip
  in Settings > Main); Access-denied hides the fact that the
  feature even exists. Canonical shape: the `protests` /
  `submissions` section handlers in `web/pages/admin.bans.php`
  (the `if (!$protestEnabled)` / `if (!$submitEnabled)` branches
  that run upstream of `if (!$canProtests)` / `if (!$canSubmissions)`).
  The smart-default cascade in the same file mirrors the same
  precedence: toggle-paired arms (`$canProtests && $protestEnabled`)
  run first to prefer a working landing surface, but bare
  `$canProtests` / `$canSubmissions` arms sit AFTER `$canImport` /
  `$canGroupBan` as a last-resort fallback — so a user whose only
  reachable surface is currently toggled off lands on the
  disabled-feature stub, not on `add-ban`'s Access denied. The
  older `group-ban` stub at the tail of `admin.bans.php` checks
  permission before mentioning the toggle (legacy shape, predates
  this contract). Don't "fix" the inconsistency by inverting the
  new stubs to match `group-ban` — invert `group-ban` to match
  the new stubs (out of scope for #1421; tracked as a follow-up).

### Empty states (`first-run` vs `filtered`)

Empty surfaces follow one of two shapes; pick by whether the empty
result is structural (no rows exist anywhere) or filter-induced
(rows exist but the active filter excludes everything):

- **first-run** (no data exists): icon + short title ("No servers
  configured yet") + one-line body explaining what will appear here +
  a primary CTA gated on the appropriate `ADMIN_*` flag (e.g.
  `dashboard-recent-bans-empty-add`, `servers-empty-add`,
  `banlist-empty-add`, `comms-empty-add`). Mark the container with
  `data-filtered="false"`. Read-only streams (e.g. "Latest blocked
  attempts", admin submission/protest archives) get the same card
  layout but **no** CTA — there's no admin action that seeds them.
- **filtered** (data exists, filter excluded everything): icon +
  short title ("No bans match those filters") + one-line body + a
  secondary "Clear filters" CTA that drops the user back at the
  unfiltered route. Mark the container with `data-filtered="true"`.

Surfaces that mix the two (banlist, commslist, audit log) compute an
`$is_filtered` flag in the page handler from the active `_GET` /
session params and branch the entire empty-state block on it; the
View DTO carries the flag. See `page.banlist.php` /
`page.commslist.php` / `page_admin_audit.tpl` for the reference
shapes. Tests anchor on the `data-filtered` attribute (`[data-filtered="false"]`
for the first-run shape, `[data-filtered="true"]` for the filtered
shape) — never on visible copy.

Use the shared `.empty-state` / `.empty-state__icon` /
`.empty-state__title` / `.empty-state__body` /
`.empty-state__actions` classes from `web/themes/default/css/theme.css`
so the visual treatment stays consistent across surfaces. Never
inline an ad-hoc empty state — the unified pattern is what the
audit (#1207) locked in. New CTAs:

- Bind to a `data-testid` per surface (e.g.
  `dashboard-servers-empty-add`, `servers-empty-add`) so E2E specs
  anchor on the contract, not visible text.
- Live behind `{if $can_*}` (the `Sbpp\View\Perms::for($userbank)`
  snapshot) so a user without the relevant `ADMIN_*` flag sees the
  body copy without the link they couldn't follow.

### Responsive desktop-table chrome (container queries + tiered column hiding)

The bans / comms desktop tables ship 9-10 columns. The sidebar
collapses at `<=1023px` so above that it eats 15rem (240px) of
horizontal real estate before the table sees any pixels; add the
p-6 page padding (48px) and even a 1280px viewport leaves the card
with ~975px to paint a row whose natural sum-of-columns is ~1247px.
The shared chrome that handles this:

- **`.table-scroll` wrapper** around every desktop-table list page
  (`page_bans.tpl` / `page_comms.tpl` / admin-side `mod` / `group` /
  `server` lists). Provides `overflow-x: auto` as the runtime
  escape hatch when a row genuinely exceeds the card after every
  other reduction has run, and (post-#1363) the
  `container-type: inline-size; container-name: tablescroll;`
  context that the column-tier rules below key off.
- **Tiered column-hiding classes** on every `<th>` AND matching
  `<td>` so the column hides as a unit (otherwise rows go out of
  alignment):
  - Tier-1 (always visible): the minimum row that answers
    "who, why, what state, what can I do" — Player, SteamID,
    Reason (banlist) / Type+Player (commslist), Status, Actions.
  - **`.col-tier-3`** hides at `@container tablescroll (max-width:
    1500px)`. The wider trio (IP / Length / Banned / Started;
    ~552px combined).
  - **`.col-tier-2`** hides at `@container tablescroll (max-width:
    1200px)`. Server / Admin (~219px combined).
  - Tier-3 hides FIRST despite the lower tier-number because the
    wider trio reclaims more room than tier-2; dropping it first
    is what actually buys back the table's natural width.
- **`.col-length` width cap** (`max-width: 10rem;
  overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;`) because
  `SecondsToString()` builds long strings like
  `"1 mo, 2 wk, 4 d, 8 hr, 19 min, 33 sec"` — six units of
  granularity for one cell. Pair the cap with a `title="…"`
  attribute on the `<td>` so hover / long-press still surfaces
  the full string. The `col-banned` / `col-started` columns
  carry fixed-width ISO timestamps that don't vary per row, so
  they don't need the cap — capping would just emit ellipsis on
  every row without trimming anything meaningful.
- **Page-cap differentiation**: most list pages cap their outer
  wrapper at `max-width: 1400px` (max card ~1352px → tier-3
  always hidden there). Bans / comms specifically lift the cap to
  `max-width: 1700px` (max card ~1652px) so wide-monitor users
  actually see tier-3 columns at viewport `>=1788px`.

Container queries are load-bearing here. Pre-#1363 the tier
breakpoints were viewport-keyed (`@media (max-width: 1535px)`)
and missed the page-cap entirely — a 1920px monitor saw the same
scroll-required layout as a 1535px laptop because both fell into
the "all tiers visible" arm even though the painted card was
identical (1352px, capped by `max-width: 1400px`). Container
queries on `.table-scroll` see the actual painted width of the
card regardless of viewport.

When adding a new desktop-table list page that should ride this
chrome:

1. Wrap the `<table>` in `<div class="table-scroll">`.
2. Tag every column's `<th>` AND matching `<td>` with the right
   tier class — no class means tier-1 always-visible. Be
   conservative: the default is "show everything" and you opt
   in to hiding.
3. If a column's content varies wildly per row (the Length column
   is the canonical example), cap its width with a `.col-<name>`
   rule alongside `text-overflow: ellipsis` and pair with a
   `title="..."` attribute on the cell so the full value stays
   reachable on hover / long-press.
4. The mobile card layout (`.ban-cards` for bans, the comms-list
   equivalent) takes over completely at `<=768px` (`theme.css`
   `.table { display: none }`), so these tier classes only
   collapse the desktop table at intermediate viewports.

Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/banlist-table-columns.spec.ts`
(STATUS / BANNED layout, `.table-scroll` wrapper presence, Remove
button reachability across 1280 / 1440 / 1920px viewports — the
1280 / 1440 cases land in the "tiers hidden" arm and 1920 lands in
the "tiers visible" arm) and
`web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/banlist-ip-column.spec.ts` (which runs
at 1920px so the IP column — tier-3 — is visible). When you add a
new tier-3 column to either list and it relies on visibility for
the spec, target a 1920px viewport, not 1440px.

### Contributor License Agreement gate (`web/**`)

Pull requests that touch `web/**` are gated on a signed Contributor
License Agreement. The web panel is dual-licensable (free under the
Elastic License 2.0 for hobby / community / self-hosted use; separate
commercial licence for game-server hosts offering the panel as a
managed service to third parties — see [`LICENSE.txt`](LICENSE.txt)
and the README "License" section for the contract details), and the
CLA is the mechanism that lets the maintainer relicense future
contributions without contacting every contributor individually.

- Agreement text: [`CLA.md`](CLA.md). Ten sections, ~1 page. Contributor
  keeps copyright; maintainer gets a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide,
  royalty-free, sublicensable licence with the **explicit right to
  relicense under any terms, including proprietary or commercial**
  (§3(b)). Same legal shape as GitLab / Discourse / Plex.
- Workflow: [`.github/workflows/cla.yml`](.github/workflows/cla.yml).
  Uses `contributor-assistant/github-action@v2.6.1`. Triggers:
  `pull_request_target` with `paths: ['web/**', 'CLA.md',
  '.github/workflows/cla.yml']`, plus `issue_comment` for the
  "I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA" sign flow.
  Job-level `if:` gates execution so unrelated comments / non-web PRs
  don't burn action minutes. Permissions: `actions: write`,
  `contents: write`, `pull-requests: write`, `statuses: write` — all
  load-bearing for writing to the signatures branch and posting the
  PR comment / status check.
- Signature storage: orphan branch `cla-signatures` in this repo at
  `signatures/cla.json`. The action creates the branch on its first
  successful run; do NOT precreate it manually. Each entry pins the
  contributor's GitHub login, ID, the PR that recorded the signature,
  and a timestamp.
- Allowlist: the maintainer (`rumblefrog`) plus `*[bot]` (covers
  Dependabot and any future GitHub App bot). The allowlist lives in
  the workflow file's `allowlist:` field — single source of truth.
  Onboarding an additional maintainer means adding their login there
  in the same PR as any docs update naming them.
- Scope is `web/**`. Plugin-only PRs (`game/addons/sourcemod/**`)
  stay GPLv3 and intentionally skip the gate — copyleft already
  blocks quiet relicensing, so layering a CLA on top would only add
  friction. Mixed PRs (web/ + plugins) trigger the gate because of
  the web/ half; one signature unblocks both.
- The sign phrase ("I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign
  the CLA") is duplicated in three places: the workflow's job-level
  `if:`, the workflow's `custom-pr-sign-comment:` field, and the
  CLA.md §10 acceptance section. Keep all three byte-identical — the
  action matches the contributor's comment against
  `custom-pr-sign-comment`, the `if:` matches against the same string
  to gate execution, and CLA.md §10 is what the contributor is told
  to type. Drift between any two silently breaks the signing flow.
- Historical-contributor coverage was the precondition for the
 ELv2 relicense and was resolved by the project's pre-CLA
 contribution audit: every pre-CLA `web/**` contribution of
 substance was authored by `rumblefrog`, who as the project
 maintainer is also the licensor under ELv2. The handful of small
 one-off external PRs from before the CLA workflow landed either
 (a) survived intact through the v2.0 panel rewrite (in which case
 the CLA's §3(b) relicense grant covers them going forward,
 pending sign-off), or (b) were removed during the v2.0 rewrite
 (in which case the question is moot). Future inbound PRs are
 covered by the workflow as designed. Retroactive sign-off for the
 surviving-author set is still an opt-in follow-up but is not on
 the critical path for the ELv2 relicense.

## Anti-patterns (do NOT reintroduce)

- The 17-line legacy SourceBans 1.4.11 attribution header at the
 top of every PHP / Smarty file (the
 `/*****…  Copyright © 2007-2014 SourceBans Team … *****/` block)
 → use the 4-line v2.0 header instead:

 ```php
 <?php
 // SourceBans++ (c) 2014-2026 SourceBans++ Dev Team
 // Licensed under the Elastic License 2.0.
 // See LICENSE.txt for the full license text and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt for attributions.
 ```

 Smarty `.tpl` files use the `{* … *}` shape with the same three
 lines. The 17-line block conflated three problems: it inflated
 per-file overlap percentages in audit tooling (every file looked
 like a 35% match against a 1.4.11 source-tree even when the body
 was 100% v2.0 expression), it shipped two parallel year ranges
 (`2014-2024` and `2014-2026`) with no automated drift gate, and
 it pointed at `creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/` for
 the licence text but the project's actual root license file
 (today `LICENSE.txt`, formerly `LICENSE.md`) is the source of
 truth. The source-of-truth attribution surface for upstream
 lineage (SourceBans 1.4.x, SourceComms, InterWave Studios
 theme.conf, LightOpenID, TinyMCE) is `THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt`.
 The v2.0 rewrite swept all 36 files onto the 4-line shape; the
 license-name + filename swap from CC-BY-NC-SA / `LICENSE.md` to
 ELv2 / `LICENSE.txt` rode the same PR that landed `LICENSE.txt`.
 New files take the 4-line shape from day one. Files with their
 own licence (`web/includes/Auth/openid.php`,
 `web/includes/tinymce/`) keep their original headers.
- Inline `echo '<form action="…">'` HTML blobs at the top of
 admin page handlers (`web/pages/admin.edit.<x>.php`) → build a
 typed `Sbpp\View\AdminEdit<X>View` DTO + `Renderer::render()` a
 Smarty template under `web/themes/default/page_admin_edit_<x>.tpl`.
 The legacy shape interleaved PHP control flow, raw HTML, and
 Smarty expressions in one file (`echo "<form action='?p=admin&c=…'>";`
 followed by `echo '<input ' . $is_owner . '>';`) and silently
 reintroduced XSS surfaces every time a developer forgot to
 `htmlspecialchars()` a user-controlled value. The View DTO →
 template path is auto-escaped by Smarty (`$theme->setEscapeHtml(true)`
 is set in `init.php`); the only escape hatch is `nofilter` which
 carries its own annotation rule (see "`nofilter` discipline" in
 Conventions). The `admin.edit.*` cluster was migrated wholesale
 in the v2.0 rewrite; new edit pages follow the same shape from
 day one.
- `echo '<div id="msg-red">…';` / `echo '<div id="msg-green">…';`
 inline-PHP error / success banners → use Smarty's
 `{if $error}<div class="alert alert--error">{$error|escape}</div>{/if}`
 pattern in the template + a `?string $error` property on the
 View DTO, OR (for form-submission feedback) the page-tail
 `sbpp_admin_edit_emit_tail_script()` helper from
 `web/pages/_admin_edit_helpers.php`, which writes errors into
 named `<id>.msg` divs and fires `window.SBPP.showToast()` on
 success. The legacy `<div id="msg-red">` markup relied on JS
 listeners (`ShowBox()`, `setStyle('display','block')`) deleted
 with sourcebans.js at #1123 D1, so the banner painted as a
 silent invisible div forever. The legacy markup also escaped
 nothing — `echo '<div id="msg-red">' . $username . ' is taken</div>'`
 was a stored-XSS surface for any field that survives validation.
 Migrated wholesale in the v2.0 rewrite. Search anchor for any
 future sweep: `rg "msg-(red|green)" web/`.
- Legacy 1.4.11 JS handler names — `ButtonOver(…)`,
 `ProcessEditAdminPermissions(…)`, `ProcessEditGroup(…)`,
 `ProcessEditMod(…)`, `ProcessEditServer(…)`, `errorScript(…)`
 — referenced from inline `onmouseover="…"` / `onclick="…"`
 attributes on edit-page form inputs → the JS that defined these
 handlers (`web/scripts/sourcebans.js`) was deleted at #1123 D1.
 Every `onclick="ProcessEditAdminPermissions();"` / `onmouseover="ButtonOver('p1')"`
 attribute that survived the deletion was a silent no-op (the
 page rendered, the button looked clickable, the click did
 nothing — not even a console error). The legacy handler names
 are documented here defensively because `rg` searches against
 third-party theme forks may still surface them; the v2.0 rewrite
 removed every reference under `web/themes/default/`, but a fork
 that copy-pasted the templates pre-#1123 D1 will still carry them.
 Wire to `sb.api.call(Actions.PascalName, …)`
 via `data-action` + a page-tail vanilla-JS dispatcher per the
 canonical confirm-modal shape under "Add a confirm + reason
 modal" in "Where to find what".
- `typeof window.<LegacyHelper> === 'function'` guards on a v1.x
 helper inside a v2.0 page-tail handler (e.g.
 `typeof window.ShowKickBox === 'function'` for the kick-on-ban
 surface; `typeof window.TabToReload === 'function'` for the
 post-action page-reload trigger) → both were defined in
 `web/scripts/sourcebans.js`, deleted at #1123 D1 (v2.0.0). The
 `typeof` test silently resolves to `false`, the body of the
 `if` never runs, AND no console error fires — so the surrounding
 success branch falls through to a generic toast while the
 actual side-effect (kick a player, reload the tab) silently
 doesn't happen. This is the worst class of UI regression: the
 chrome reads as success while the load-bearing action never
 fired. The kick-on-ban path was the canonical case (#1441 —
 operators reported "banning doesn't kick" on the v2.0 panel; the
 DB row landed and SourceMod's on-connect check did reject
 subsequent connects, but the player's existing session stayed
 alive until they voluntarily disconnected, often 20-40min later
 on a low-turnover server). The fix shape is the existing
 comms.add → blockit.php iframe pattern (canonical:
 `web/themes/default/page_admin_comms_add.tpl`'s
 `Actions.CommsAdd .then()` handler; mirrored at
 `web/themes/default/page_admin_bans_add.tpl`'s
 `Actions.BansAdd .then()` handler post-#1441): create a hidden
 `<iframe id="srvkicker" style="display: none">` pointing at
 `pages/admin.kickit.php?check=…&type=…` and let the iframe's
 server-side template enumerate enabled servers and fire the
 rcon kick command via `Actions.KickitLoadServers` +
 `Actions.KickitKickPlayer`. Mirror the comms.add structure
 (success branch keeps button busy through a 2s page reload, no
 `setBusy(btn, false)` in that branch). **The URL parameter
 `check=` is symmetric across both surfaces; the JS envelope
 field names are NOT — `r.data.block.steam` on comms.add,
 `r.data.kickit.check` on bans.add — because `api_bans_add` and
 `api_comms_add` chose different envelope shapes. Read the
 server-side response shape FIRST when porting between the two
 branches; the field-name asymmetry is structural API drift, not
 a contract violation.** Regression guard:
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/ban-kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (pins the
 iframe-spawn contract end-to-end — stubs both
 `Actions.BansAdd` AND `pages/admin.kickit.php` at the network
 layer so the spec stays robust under multi-worker DB pressure
 against the shared `sourcebans_e2e` DB, with `toBe(1)` on the
 iframe-request count so a future double-mount regression
 surfaces immediately). The deeper rcon round-trip is exercised
 by `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (#1433 —
 the topbar-context-menu path through the same
 `pages/admin.kickit.php` document) plus
 `web/tests/api/KickitTest.php` (PHPUnit — handler permission +
 malformed-input envelopes). Search anchor for any future sweep:
 `rg "typeof window\.\w+ === 'function'" web/themes/` —
 every such guard is a probable dead-helper trap unless the
 helper is in fact still defined somewhere (e.g.
 `window.SBPP.showToast` from `theme.js`, which IS the live
 contract).
- MooTools `$('id').value` / `$('id').checked` / `$('id').setStyle(…)`
 idioms in inline page-tail scripts → MooTools is gone (deleted
 with sourcebans.js at #1123 D1). Use vanilla DOM:
 `document.getElementById('id').value` /
 `document.getElementById('id').checked` /
 `el.style.display = 'block'`. The `$()` shim happened to no-op
 silently because nothing defined it post-#1123, so old `$('id').value`
 reads returned `undefined.value` → `TypeError`. Page-tail
 scripts inside templates use plain DOM access plus the
 `window.SBPP.showToast` / `setBusy` chrome helpers. The v2.0
 admin.edit.* sweep removed every surviving call site; don't
 reintroduce. (The `sb.$id` / `sb.$idRequired` helpers in
 `web/scripts/sb.js` are the canonical shape for code that ships
 with the panel; inline page-tail scripts can use either shape.)
- The DELETE-then-INSERT loop on
 `:prefix_admins_servers_groups` (and the parallel one on
 `:prefix_servers_groups`) without a transaction wrapper → wrap
 in `Sbpp\Db\Database::beginTransaction()` /
 `endTransaction()` / `cancelTransaction()`. The legacy shape
 (delete every existing row, then insert each new row in a
 separate `execute()`) was non-atomic — a connection drop or
 PHP fatal between the DELETE and the last INSERT would leave
 the admin partially de-assigned, the server partially de-grouped,
 etc. The schema doesn't carry a UNIQUE on the (admin_id,
 server_group_id) / (server_id, group_id) pairs, so collapsing
 to `INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE` would need a paired
 schema migration (tracked as a follow-up). Until then,
 transactions are the contract — see
 `web/pages/admin.edit.adminservers.php` and
 `web/pages/admin.edit.server.php` for the canonical shape.
- Hand-rolled per-page upload handling — `move_uploaded_file($_FILES['x']['tmp_name'], $dst)`
 with manual extension checks, manual `Log::add()` calls, and
 manual `<script>window.opener.<callback>(...)</script>` blob
 emission → use `Sbpp\Upload\UploadHandler::handle()`. The class
 wraps every step (CSRF, permission gate, extension allowlist,
 filename sanitisation via `sanitiseName()`, the `move_uploaded_file()`
 call, the audit-log entry, the success / error popup chrome).
 The pre-v2.0 shape duplicated all of this across the three
 popup upload pages (`admin.uploaddemo.php`, `admin.uploadicon.php`,
 `admin.uploadmapimg.php`) and trusted `$_FILES[…]['name']`
 verbatim — so a `name=../../etc/passwd` upload could escape
 the destination directory on the icon and mapimage paths. The
 sanitiser basenames + strips backslashes + trims leading dots
 to defend the path. New popup-upload surfaces wire through
 `UploadHandler::handle()`; never `move_uploaded_file()`
 directly.
- `class="btn--ghost btn--icon"` (or any other modifier-only chain
 of `.btn--*` classes without the base `btn` token) on a `<button>`
 / `<a>` chrome affordance → always ship `class="btn btn--ghost
 btn--icon"` (base token first, modifiers after). The base `.btn`
 rule in `theme.css` is the load-bearing site that declares the
 `--btn-bg` / `--btn-color` / `--btn-border` / `--btn-bg-hover`
 custom-property defaults AND applies them as `background` /
 `color` / `border` / `display: inline-flex` / `padding` /
 `height` declarations. The colour-modifier rules (`.btn--ghost`,
 `.btn--primary`, `.btn--secondary`, `.btn--danger`) are pure
 custom-property overrides — they set `--btn-bg` / `--btn-color`
 / `--btn-border` / `--btn-bg-hover` and that's all. The sizing
 modifiers (`.btn--sm`, `.btn--icon`, `.btn--xs`) layer geometry
 on top (`width` / `height` / `padding` / `font-size`) but still
 don't carry the load-bearing `background` / `color` / `border`
 / `display: inline-flex` declarations — those live exclusively
 on `.btn`. Without `.btn` in the same class chain the variables
 get set but nothing reads them, so the `<button>` falls back to
 the user-agent default chrome (typically a visible grey
 1px-border pill). The marquee user-reported regression: pre-#1448
 `core/title.tpl`'s mobile burger menu shipped
 `class="btn--ghost btn--icon"`, which on mobile (where
 `[data-mobile-menu]` flips from `display: none` to `display:
 inline-flex` at `<=1024px`) rendered a glaring grey square in
 the top-left of the topbar, fighting the dark theme's near-black
 background (#1448's screenshot). Sister sites swept in the same
 PR: `core/footer.tpl`'s palette `Esc` button (live bug — same
 wrong-chrome shape as the burger button), and the
 `partials/player-drawer.tpl` reference template (documentation
 sync — the live drawer chrome is rendered by
 `web/themes/default/js/theme.js`, which always shipped the
 correct three-class chain). Regression guard:
 `web/tests/integration/ButtonClassChainTest.php` (parser-style
 sweep across `web/themes/`, `web/pages/`, `web/includes/View/`,
 `web/install/`, `web/updater/`, `web/api/handlers/`, AND
 `web/scripts/` + `web/themes/default/js/` for `*.tpl` / `*.php`
 / `*.js` — every `class="..."` attribute carrying a `btn--*`
 modifier MUST also carry the base `btn`). Class attributes
 containing `{` (Smarty-conditional shapes) are skipped — the
 gate doesn't expand templates, so it can't validate which branch
 a given token came from. False negatives are bounded to chains
 with NO base in any branch (e.g.
 `class="{if $x}btn--primary{else}btn--ghost{/if}"`); none in
 the codebase today, would surface as a visible UA-default render
 whenever the conditional path runs.
- `btn.disabled = true` (or any other manual `disabled` flip) inside
 a confirm-modal submit handler or any other action button that
 fires `sb.api.call(...)` from a click handler without an immediate
 page navigation → use `window.SBPP.setBusy(btn, true)` (theme.js)
 with the inline-script local fallback shim. The `disabled` flag is
 the load-bearing gate but it ships without the visual spinner +
 ARIA + reduced-motion contract; users see no feedback during the
 100-1000ms in-flight window and double-click "to make it work",
 queuing duplicate requests until the post-response setter fires.
 See "Loading state on action buttons" in Conventions for the
 contract and the canonical reference shapes
 (`page_comms.tpl` / `page_bans.tpl` / `page_admin_admins_list.tpl`
 confirm dialogs; `page_admin_groups_list.tpl` / `page_admin_groups_add.tpl`
 form submits; `theme.js`'s drawer Notes paths). Regression guard:
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/action-loading-indicator.spec.ts`
 (stalls `Actions.CommsUnblock` via `page.route` and asserts the
 three-attribute busy contract on the submit button + the
 double-click rejection).
- Splitting the `data-loading` + `aria-busy` + `disabled` triple
 (the three attributes `window.SBPP.setBusy` writes) into separate
 setters → reach for `window.SBPP.setBusy` (or the inline-script
 local wrapper that delegates to it). Hand-rolling one of the three
 silently drops one of: the spinner visual, the AT announcement, or
 the double-click gate. The contract is single-source for a reason.
- Removing the `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` per-rule
 override that re-enables the spinner's rotation (the rule next to
 `.btn[data-loading="true"]::after`) OR the matching one on `.skel`
 that re-enables the skeleton shimmer → the global
 `*, *::before, *::after` reset further down in `theme.css` would
 otherwise pin `animation-duration: 0.001ms` +
 `animation-iteration-count: 1` on both selectors and the
 animations silently freeze. That's the v2.0 RC1 paired regression
 that motivated #1362: #1361 shipped the busy contract + the
 `.skel` shimmer surfaces but both inherited the freeze from the
 global reset, so users on Windows 11 with "Show animation effects"
 toggled off — or any other path to a `prefers-reduced-motion:
 reduce` CSS resolution — saw a static donut instead of a spinner
 AND a static gradient instead of a sliding shimmer. Loading
 spinners and skeleton shimmers are both essential feedback: WCAG
 2.3.3 Animation from Interactions explicitly exempts essential
 motion (motion that conveys functionality or information from
 stops being communicated without it), and every major design
 system (GitHub Primer, Adobe Spectrum, Material UI, Bootstrap, …)
 keeps loading indicators animating regardless of motion
 preference. The chrome's *motion-of-state* (drawer slide-in,
 toast slide-in, chevron rotations) honours the global reset
 correctly — the busy spinner and the skeleton shimmer are the
 documented exceptions. Regression guard:
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts`
 samples both the spinner's `getComputedStyle(::after).transform`
 AND the shimmer's
 `getComputedStyle(.skel).backgroundPositionX` at multiple frame
 boundaries under `reducedMotion: 'reduce'` and asserts the
 values change across samples (the only Playwright-tractable way
 to assert "the animation is actually running" — checking
 `animationDuration` would catch the specific CSS regression but
 miss future `animation-play-state: paused` overrides).
- `class="skeleton"` (singular `.skeleton`) on a drawer / lazy-pane
 placeholder block → the CSS rule has always been `.skel`. Pre-fix
 `renderDrawerLoading()` in `theme.js` emitted `class="skeleton"`,
 which had no matching rule, so the drawer header skeleton rows
 rendered transparent and the drawer read as "just blank" for the
 entire `bans.detail` in-flight window. The fix is single-character:
 `class="skel"`. Regression guard:
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/drawer-loading-indicator.spec.ts`'s
 `getComputedStyle(el).backgroundImage` probe (asserts
 `linear-gradient(...)`; the missing rule leaves it at the UA
 default `none`). Same shape applies to any new skeleton surface:
 reuse the `.skel` class from `theme.css`; don't roll a new
 `.skeleton-*` rule.
- Removing the inline anti-FOUC bootloader from `<head>` of any
 of the five template surfaces that carry it —
 `web/themes/default/core/header.tpl` (the panel chrome, #1367),
 `web/themes/default/page_kickit.tpl`,
 `web/themes/default/page_blockit.tpl` (the iframe-routed
 surfaces, #1438), `web/themes/default/page_uploadfile.tpl` (the
 upload popup window, #1438 follow-up), or
 `web/themes/default/updater.tpl` (the standalone updater wizard,
 #1438 follow-up) — "theme.js already does this on boot, why
 does it have to be inline?" → theme.js loads from
 `core/footer.tpl` (the document tail) and runs AFTER the parser
 reaches `</body>`. By that point the browser has already painted
 the entire body in light mode (the `:root` tokens default to
 light), and theme.js's class flip triggers a full repaint the
 user perceives as a white flash + content flicker on every page
 navigation (#1367 — the reporter's exact symptom on the chrome:
 "the page briefly renders in light mode for a split second
 before switching back to dark"). For the chromeless surfaces
 (the four #1438 templates) the bug is worse: those templates
 DON'T load `theme.js` at all (the iframes pull
 `api-contract.js` / `sb.js` / `api.js`, the upload popup pulls
 nothing JS-side, the updater pulls nothing JS-side), so without
 the bootloader there is NO theme-resolution path whatsoever and
 the page paints stark white forever (#1438 — reporter's symptom:
 dark-mode operator right-clicks a player → "Kick player" →
 navigates to a stark-white full-page kickit document; the same
 stark-white-over-dark-parent regression hits the upload popup
 chrome and the post-upgrade updater landing page). The
 bootloader is the inline-script-in-`<head>` pattern every modern
 theme-toggle implementation uses (Tailwind docs, Next.js docs,
 GitHub, Vercel) — it has to run BEFORE the body parses, which
 means it has to be inline (no external `<script src=…>` because
 the network round-trip would defeat the point) and it has to be
 in `<head>` (so the parser reaches it before the body tags).
 Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/theme-fouc.spec.ts`
 (chrome — uses `page.route` to stall the `theme.js` network
 request, then asserts the `dark` class is present or absent on
 `<html>` WHILE theme.js is held; pre-#1367 the dark / system
 arms read `false`, post-fix they read `true`) plus
 `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/iframe-anti-fouc.spec.ts` (#1438 —
 simpler shape because none of the chromeless templates load
 `theme.js`, so a plain `page.goto(URL)` + `toHaveClass(/dark/)`
 is sufficient; covers kickit + blockit + uploadfile with dark /
 light / system+OS-dark / system+OS-light branches) plus
 `web/tests/integration/IframeChromeAntiFoucBootloaderTest.php`
 (#1438 — static-grep gate asserting every required bootloader
 fragment appears in all five template files (`core/header.tpl`,
 `page_kickit.tpl`, `page_blockit.tpl`, `page_uploadfile.tpl`,
 `updater.tpl`), the bootloader precedes `<link rel="stylesheet">`
 in each, the bootloader bodies are byte-equivalent across the
 five copies after whitespace normalization, and NO install-wizard
 `.tpl` carries the bootloader; catches drift edits that update
 one bootloader copy and forget the others).
- Letting the inline bootloader's resolution logic drift between
 any two of the five copies (`core/header.tpl`, `page_kickit.tpl`,
 `page_blockit.tpl`, `page_uploadfile.tpl`, `updater.tpl`) OR
 between any copy and `theme.js`'s `applyTheme(currentTheme())`
 (e.g., adding a new `'high-contrast'` mode to theme.js without
 mirroring in any of the bootloaders, or mirroring in four but
 forgetting the fifth) → the first paint resolves to one mode on
 Surface A, a different mode on Surface B, and theme.js's
 boot-time call (where it runs at all) resolves to yet another
 mode; the user sees flicker on every navigation even with all
 five bootloaders present, AND a sibling pair of pages renders
 mismatched themes (e.g. operator on a dark-mode panel opens the
 upload popup which paints light because its bootloader missed the
 update). The bootloader is the read-only mirror of `applyTheme()`'s
 resolution rule — same `THEME_KEY` ('sbpp-theme'), same default
 ('system'), same dark-resolution predicate. The bootloader's only
 differences are: (1) it doesn't `localStorage.setItem(...)`
 (theme.js still owns persistence); (2) it adds a defensive
 `window.matchMedia &&` null check before calling `matchMedia(...)`
 (handles very old browsers without the API gracefully); (3) the
 outer `try/catch` swallows BOTH `localStorage` errors (private-mode
 SecurityError) and `matchMedia` errors. These three differences
 are intentional defensiveness — they don't change the resolution
 result for any reachable input shape; they prevent the bootloader
 from throwing in environments where theme.js itself would
 partially fail too. Any change to theme.js's resolution logic
 has to land a paired bootloader update in all five template
 copies in the same PR. The integration test
 (`IframeChromeAntiFoucBootloaderTest`) enforces byte-equivalence
 across all five bootloader bodies (whitespace-normalized) AND
 fragment-presence against a list shared with `core/header.tpl`,
 so a drift between any pair fails the build.
- Moving the bootloader to an external `<script src="…">` ("inline
 scripts are smelly, let's externalize") → an external script adds
 a network round-trip BEFORE the bootloader can run, and the
 browser will paint in light mode in the meantime. The whole point
 of the inline shape is that the script's execution is bound to
 parse time, not to network completion. Same reason `<head>` is
 the load-bearing location: a `<script>` at the bottom of `<body>`
 (or `defer`/`async`) wouldn't help. The script is ~10 lines of
 ES5 — well under any "inline scripts are bad for caching"
 threshold.
- `[data-skeleton]` on a placeholder block nested inside a `hidden`
 ancestor (lazy tabpanels, off-screen drawers, collapsed
 `<details>`) → the `_base.ts` page-load waiter blocks until
 `'[data-loading="true"], [data-skeleton]:not([hidden])'` returns
 no nodes. `:not([hidden])` only checks the matched element's own
 attribute, not its ancestors, so a `[data-skeleton]` block inside
 a hidden tabpanel still matches the selector and stalls every
 page-load wait that runs AFTER the drawer opens (silent 30s
 timeout in CI). Keep `[data-skeleton]` reserved for surfaces
 where the marker itself (or its direct container) carries the
 visibility toggle. The lazy-pane skeletons use `[data-pane-empty]`
 + `aria-busy="true"` as the testability hooks instead.
- Top-level `class Foo {}` (global namespace) in `web/includes/`
  → all classes there live under `Sbpp\…` (see "Namespacing" in
  Conventions for the per-class table). The only intentional
  exception is `LightOpenID` in `Auth/openid.php` (third-party,
  also excluded from PHPStan). Issue #1290 phase B. The legacy
  global names (`Database`, `CUserManager`, `Log`, …) still resolve
  because each namespaced file emits a `class_alias(\Sbpp\…\X::class,
  'X')` below the class declaration; a follow-up PR will burn those
  shims as call sites adopt the namespaced names. New code consumes
  the namespaced names directly via `use Sbpp\Db\Database;` etc.
- Removing the eager `require_once` chain at the top of `web/init.php`
  / `web/tests/bootstrap.php` / `web/phpstan-bootstrap.php` "now that
  PSR-4 autoloading exists" → the autoloader fires on the
  **namespaced** name (`Sbpp\Db\Database`); the `class_alias` shim that
  registers the legacy global name (`Database`) is a runtime call
  inside the file. Without the explicit `require_once`, procedural
  code that says `new Database()` triggers an autoload lookup for
  global `Database`, finds nothing (the autoloader resolves the
  namespaced name, not the alias), and dies. The `require_once`
  chain is the bridge that runs the `class_alias` calls eagerly so
  both names resolve from request entry. Drop them only when the
  follow-up PR has burned every legacy global-name call site in the
  codebase. (init.php, phpstan-bootstrap.php, and tests/bootstrap.php
  each load all 14 namespaced legacy classes — Crypto, CSRF, JWT,
  NormalAuthHandler, SteamAuthHandler, Auth, Host, UserManager,
  AdminTabs, Database, Config, Log, ApiError, Api — keep the three
  lists in sync. Asymmetry is the latent regression: a class loaded
  by phpstan-bootstrap.php but not init.php would pass static
  analysis and die at runtime in any code path the autoload hadn't
  already triggered.)
- `@param int $x` / `@return string` docblocks where PHP can express
  the type natively → use the native parameter / return type
  declaration instead. The docblock stays only when the type carries
  refinement PHP can't express (e.g. `list<array{slug: string, …}>`).
  Removed wholesale across legacy classes by issue #1290 phase A.
- Non-`final` classes in `web/includes/` that nothing extends → mark
  `final class`. Same applies in `web/includes/Auth/Handler/` and
  `web/includes/Mail/`. The only intentional non-final / abstract
  class in `web/includes/` is `View` (subclassed by every concrete
  view DTO). Marking final unblocks the JIT's monomorphic-call
  optimization. Issue #1290 phase J.
- `Log::add('m', …)` / `Log::add('w', …)` / `Log::add('e', …)` magic
  letter codes for the log type column → use
  `Log::add(LogType::Message, …)` /
  `Log::add(LogType::Warning, …)` /
  `Log::add(LogType::Error, …)`. The letter still hits the disk
  (the column stays `enum('m','w','e')`); the enum is a PHP-side wrapper so
  the call site reads as intent ("this is a message log entry")
  rather than as a magic char. Same shape for `BanType`,
  `BanRemoval`, `WebPermission`. The static gate is the
  `LogType $type` typed parameter on `Log::add()`; the runtime gate
  is PHP itself rejecting a string at the call site. Issue #1290
  phase D.
- `HasAccess(ADMIN_OWNER | ADMIN_ADD_BAN)` integer-bitmask call
  shape → `HasAccess(WebPermission::mask(WebPermission::Owner,
  WebPermission::AddBan))`. Single-flag checks read as
  `HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)`. Both compile to the same
  integer bitmask under the hood; the enum form documents intent at
  the call site. The `ADMIN_*` `define`d constants from `init.php`
  are preserved for procedural-code back-compat — both shapes
  work. Dynamic-value sites (`HasAccess($mask)` where `$mask` was
  assembled at runtime, or `HasAccess(SM_RCON . SM_ROOT)` for
  SourceMod char flags, or `HasAccess(ALL_WEB)` for the rolled-up
  is-any-web-admin gate) deliberately keep the legacy form because
  the enum doesn't fit. Issue #1290 phase D.4.
- `RemoveType = 'U'` / `'D'` / `'E'` SQL string literals for ban /
  comm removal types in PHP-driven write paths → bind
  `BanRemoval::Unbanned->value` / `BanRemoval::Deleted->value` /
  `BanRemoval::Expired->value` (or pass the case directly through
  `match()` for read-side branching). Inline literals in pure-SQL
  predicates (e.g. `WHERE RemoveType = 'E'` inside cron-style
  `PruneBans`/`PruneComms` UPDATEs that don't take a PHP value) are
  fine — the enum is for "PHP value crosses the wire" sites, not for
  static SQL. Issue #1290 phase D.3.
- `$row['type'] == 0` / `== 1` for ban-type branching →
  `BanType::tryFrom((int) $row['type']) === BanType::Steam` (or
  `=== BanType::Ip`). Same justification as `BanRemoval` above:
  PHP-side branches go through the enum; bare SQL predicates can
  keep `WHERE type = '0'`. Issue #1290 phase D.2.
- `xajax` / `sb-callback.php` → use the JSON API.
- ADOdb → use `Sbpp\Db\Database` (PDO; legacy `Database` alias still
  resolves via `class_alias`).
- Branching the response envelope on a per-account signal in a public
  auth surface (`throw new ApiError('not_registered', …)` on the
  password-reset miss branch, `throw new ApiError('mail_failed', …)`
  on the SMTP-failure branch, "an email has been sent to <user>" on
  the success branch vs. "no account found" on the miss branch in
  the painted toast) → use `_api_auth_lost_password_generic_response`-
  shape helpers that return the SAME envelope across every reachable
  branch. The pre-#1456 shape on `api_auth_lost_password` let an
  unauthenticated visitor enumerate every registered admin email by
  posting one address per request and reading the painted toast
  title back ("Check E-Mail" → registered; "Error" + "not
  registered" → unregistered). The post-fix contract is documented
  under "Public auth surfaces: response-shape uniformity" in
  Conventions; new public auth surfaces fall under the same rule
  from day one. The orphaned snapshots
  (`web/tests/api/__snapshots__/auth/lost_password_not_registered.json`
  and `lost_password_mail_failed.json`) were deleted at #1456 — do
  not re-add them; if a future change needs a non-generic snapshot
  on this surface, the contract has regressed. Closes the
  user-visible channel; the response-time differential between the
  matched (SMTP round-trip) and missed (immediate return) branches
  is documented as a residual risk requiring a separate (background-
  worker / pad-the-miss) follow-up.
- MooTools / React / a runtime bundler → vanilla JS in `web/scripts/`.
- `web/scripts/sourcebans.js` (the v1.x ~1.7k-line bulk file shipping
  `ShowBox`, `DoLogin`, `LoadServerHost`, `selectLengthTypeReason`, …)
  → removed at v2.0.0 (#1123 D1). Page-tail helpers are inlined as
  self-contained vanilla JS per page (see `web/pages/admin.edit.ban.php`
  / `admin.edit.comms.php` for canonical examples); toasts go through
  `window.SBPP.showToast` from the theme JS. The trailing per-row
  `<script>LoadServerHost('SID', …)</script>` echo on the Add Admin
  form (`admin.admins.php`) and the per-group
  `<script>LoadServerHostPlayersList('<sids>', …)</script>` echo on
  the Server Groups list (`admin.groups.php`) survived the v2.0
  cutover and raised one `ReferenceError` per server / per server
  group on every page load with no visible effect (the static `<span
  id="saSID">IP:port</span>` fallback / the literal "Servers populate
  via the legacy LoadServerHostPlayersList hook." placeholder masked
  the symptom).   Both went at #1404 along with the orphan
  `AdminAdminsAddView::server_script` ctor param and the
  `<div id="servers_{gid}">` hydration slot; `DeadJsCallSitesTest` is
  the per-file forbidden-substring gate so a fork pasting back the
  v1.x shape gets caught at PR time. Hydration follow-up for the
  Add Admin per-server access list LANDED at #1405 — it wires the
  per-server checkbox grid onto the shared
  `web/scripts/server-tile-hydrate.js` helper (the same one driving
  the dashboard Servers widget); no new View property, no new JSON
  action, no new cache layer. Sister surface still tracked: #1406
  (Server Groups per-group server cards).
- Raw `<script>ShowBox(...)</script>` (or `<script>showBox(...)</script>` /
  `<script type="text/javascript">ShowBox(...)`) blobs echoed from a
  PHP page handler → use `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit($kind, $title,
  $body, ?$redirect)`. `ShowBox` was deleted at #1123 D1 (v2.0.0)
  — every legacy caller silently threw `ReferenceError: ShowBox is
  not defined` in the modern chrome. Worse, several callers ran
  upstream of `PageDie()` (which renders the chrome footer +
  `exit`s), so the template body was suppressed and the user saw a
  literally blank white page on top of the dropped toast. The
  marquee user-reported regression: an admin requested a password
  reset, the success path silently emailed the new password while
  showing nothing to the user, and the user clicked Reset Password
  three times "to make it work" — burning three validation tokens
  while the actual email already landed in their inbox the first
  time (issue #1403, audit follow-up to #1176). 35 sites swept at
  #1403 across `page.lostpassword.php` / `page.protest.php` /
  `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php` / `admin.edit.comms.php`
  / `page.submit.php` (the lift source). `page.home.php`'s
  `$info['popup']` field went at sister #1404 (dead data; pure
  cleanup, no toast-emit conversion needed). The new helper stashes
  the payload in a `<script type="application/json"
  class="sbpp-pending-toast">` blob the chrome consumes on
  `DOMContentLoaded` — see the "Server-side toast emission" block
  in Conventions for the full contract. Regression guards:
  `web/tests/integration/ToastEmitRegressionTest.php` (static
  grep against `web/pages/*.php` — three variant shapes including
  the `<script type="text/javascript">` form, wire-format / JSON-
  escape / UTF-8-substitute / FIRST-wins-redirect contracts, and
  the "every audited page still calls `Toast::emit`" call-site
  contract) plus the five marquee E2E specs under
  `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/*-toast.spec.ts`. The
  `lostpassword-toast.spec.ts` happy-path test seeds the dev
  stack's mailpit and asserts the password-reset email lands at
  the right address as well as the toast painting.
- Removing `JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE` from `Sbpp\View\Toast`'s
  `json_encode` flags ("we never see malformed UTF-8 in practice")
  → player names on `:prefix_bans.name` / `:prefix_comms.name`
  CAN carry malformed UTF-8 from the pre-#1108 / #765 Latin-1-on-utf8
  truncation shape. The GET-fallback unban / delete paths in
  `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php` interpolate
  `$row['name']` directly into the toast body. Without the
  substitute flag `JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR` raises `JsonException`
  and the user gets a 500 instead of the unban confirmation —
  worse, the unban / delete SQL has ALREADY committed by the time
  `Toast::emit` fires, so the audit log shows the action
  succeeded while the operator sees a server error. Substituting
  to U+FFFD is the correct shape; well-formed payloads are
  unaffected. Regression guard:
  `ToastEmitRegressionTest::testToastEmitSubstitutesMalformedUtf8InsteadOfThrowing`.
- Adding `data-testid="pending-toast"` (or any other `data-testid`)
  to the `<script type="application/json" class="sbpp-pending-toast">`
  wire-format block → `Sbpp\View\Toast::emit` is allowed to be
  called multiple times per response (validation-error spray,
  success + diagnostic warning, …). A wire-format testid would
  collide across emit calls and Playwright's `getByTestId(...)`
  strict mode rejects multi-match. E2E specs anchor on the
  *painted* `[data-testid="toast"]` element (chrome-rendered by
  `showToast` after picking up the blob); for a kind-specific
  anchor use `[data-testid="toast"][data-kind="error"]` (the
  CSS class + dataset attribute the chrome stamps regardless
  of ARIA role) rather than `[role="status"]` (which won't
  match error toasts post-#1409 — they carry `role="alert"`).
  Wire-layer specs probe the response body directly for
  `class="sbpp-pending-toast"`. The class is the consumer
  selector; no additional hooks needed. Regression guard:
  `ToastEmitRegressionTest::testToastEmitWireFormatStaysStable`
  explicitly asserts the wire-format block carries NO
  `data-testid` attribute.
- Passing `duration_ms = 0` to `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit` for routine
  info / success toasts → the persistent flag is for severe-error
  "this destructive operation FAILED and the operator MUST
  acknowledge before moving on" branches (the 5 NOT-* sites in
  `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php` are the canonical
  reference shape). Using it for casual confirmations
  ("Password reset email sent", "Ban added", "Settings saved",
  etc.) creates UI clutter — the user has to click the X button
  on every toast — and trains operators to dismiss reflexively
  without reading, which DEFEATS the purpose of the persistent
  flag the next time it actually matters (operator hits
  "Ban NOT Deleted", reflex-dismisses without reading, and the
  audit-log search five minutes later for "what just happened?"
  comes up empty because the read-the-message-first contract
  was burned through routine overuse). The contract:
  - **Default** (no 5th arg): chrome's `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION`
    (~6000ms post-#1444). The right choice for every routine path.
  - `0`: severe-error branches ONLY. The five NOT-* sites today
    are the entire set; adding a sixth requires the same
    "destructive operation failed mid-flight, audit log already
    committed, operator needs the *why* before the toast
    disappears" justification.
  - `> 0`: explicit override (no in-tree caller today).
  Negative values throw `\InvalidArgumentException` — the
  "Fail closed" pattern AGENTS.md applies elsewhere. Don't
  silently coerce; surface the programmer error.
  Pinned by `ToastEmitRegressionTest::testToastEmitOmitsDurationMsByDefault`
  / `testToastEmitIncludesDurationMsWhenSet`
  / `testToastEmitRejectsNegativeDuration`
  / `testNotStarBranchesPassPersistentDurationMs` plus the
  `toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts` E2E that asserts the
  NOT-* toast survives past `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION`.
- Mirroring the literal `6000` into a new caller or test
  ("the default is 6 seconds, let me hard-code it") → the
  default lives in `theme.js`'s `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION`
  constant — single source. Reference it as `null` on the
  PHP side (`Toast::emit(...)` with no 5th arg) and trust the
  chrome to fill in the value. On the JS-test side, read it
  at runtime from `window.SBPP.SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION`
  (exposed for exactly this lockstep purpose, #1444 review
  M-2) — derive every wait threshold from the read value
  instead of hardcoding `6500` or `5500` or other literal-
  derived numbers. Hardcoded mirrors silently pass for the
  wrong reason when the constant moves: a `await
  page.waitForTimeout(5500)` followed by "still visible"
  passes whether the default is 6000ms OR 8000ms, because
  5500ms is inside both windows. The 6000ms number is one
  reduce-this-to-4000ms tweak away from desynchronising
  every hard-coded mirror (and the bump from 4000 to 6000
  in #1444 is itself evidence that the constant moves over
  time); the chrome's constant + omission-on-wire +
  runtime-exposure is what keeps the contract single-source. The matching consumer-side gate
  (`if (typeof data.duration_ms === 'number') opts.durationMs = data.duration_ms;`)
  is what makes "field absent → use default" work — a future
  refactor that always serialises `duration_ms` (even when
  null) would silently disable the default fall-through path
  on every install whose chrome is still on the typeof-number
  gate.
- Reading `data.duration_ms` from a `<script class="sbpp-pending-toast">`
  block without the `typeof data.duration_ms === 'number'`
  gate (e.g. truthy check `if (data.duration_ms)` or
  unconditional assignment `opts.durationMs = data.duration_ms`)
  → a hostile / malformed payload sending a string or boolean
  must NOT pass through unchecked. `showToast` would then
  schedule `setTimeout(..., "0")` (Number-coerced to 0,
  auto-dismisses immediately) or `setTimeout(..., true)`
  (coerced to 1ms). The typeof gate keeps the chrome's
  behaviour deterministic regardless of upstream noise. The
  encoder side already enforces an `int|null` PHP type, but
  the chrome can't trust the server in this defence-in-depth
  sense; the gate is the contract.
- `setTimeout(() => el.remove(), 0)` instead of skipping the
  timer entirely when `durationMs === 0` → `setTimeout(fn, 0)`
  schedules the callback for the NEXT tick of the event loop,
  not "never". The persistent toast would auto-dismiss after
  ~4ms (the browser-clamped minimum), which is the OPPOSITE
  of what `0` means in this contract. The chrome-side guard
  is `if (durationMs > 0) setTimeout(...)` — `=== undefined`
  arms have already been resolved to `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION`
  by the time the guard runs, so the only path that hits
  `setTimeout` is the explicit positive case.
- Pairing `duration_ms: 0` with a non-null `$redirect` on a
  `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit(...)` call → persistent + redirect
  are mutually exclusive (#1409). The chrome's
  `flushPendingToasts` honours the redirect ~1500ms after
  paint; that auto-navigation tears down the persistent toast
  before the operator can read or dismiss it, defeating the
  whole "needs acknowledgement" semantic the persistent flag
  exists for. The call-site contract is to pass `null` for
  `$redirect` when emitting `duration_ms: 0`; the page
  handler's normal "render the body after the foreach loop"
  flow keeps the operator on a valid surface (no `PageDie()`
  before the toast persists). The chrome ALSO carries a
  defence-in-depth inhibit (`flushPendingToasts` skips the
  redirect setTimeout entirely if any drained block had
  `duration_ms: 0`) so a future caller forgetting the rule
  doesn't silently regress, but the call-site half is the
  primary contract — relying on the chrome inhibit alone
  leaves the wire payload carrying a redirect URL the chrome
  silently throws away, which a code reader would flag as a
  bug (and rightly so). Pinned by
  `ToastEmitRegressionTest::testNotStarBranchesPassPersistentDurationMs`
  (strict regex requires the 4th arg to be the literal
  `null`) and exercised end-to-end by
  `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts`
  (the toast outlasts SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION).
- Uniform `role="status"` on every painted toast regardless of
  kind (the pre-#1409-review shape) → `role="status"` is the
  POLITE live-region role (`aria-live="polite"`) — screen
  readers wait for the user to finish what they're listening
  to before announcing. For routine `info` / `success` / `warn`
  toasts that's the right shape (interrupting a screen-reader
  user for "Settings saved" is rude and disruptive). For ERROR
  toasts — especially the persistent `duration_ms: 0` shape —
  it's wrong: the operator MUST acknowledge before moving on,
  and a polite announcement that's quietly queued behind the
  current task can be missed entirely. Screen-reader users are
  the population least likely to notice a visual change without
  an auditory cue; "the destructive operation failed" hitting
  the speech queue silently doesn't help them. The contract
  (#1409 review Suggested #3) is `role="alert"` for
  `kind === 'error'` (assertive, interrupts), `role="status"`
  for every other kind. Apple HIG / Material Design /
  Bootstrap all converge on the same split; the W3C ARIA
  spec is explicit that `role="alert"` is the answer for
  "interrupt the user with critical info". E2E specs that
  anchor on `[role="status"]` to find error toasts would miss
  them under the kind-aware shape; reach for
  `[data-testid="toast"][data-kind="error"]` as the
  kind-specific anchor instead. The role attribute writes are
  centralised in `showToast` in `web/themes/default/js/theme.js`
  — one branch, single source.
- Hand-rolling a `role="status"` / `role="alert"` attribute on
  a custom toast / banner / live region surface without
  matching the chrome's kind-aware contract → the broader
  rule: assertive (`alert`) is for "user MUST acknowledge
  before moving on" (destructive-operation-failed,
  unrecoverable error, security-relevant event); polite
  (`status`) is for everything else (background status
  updates, routine confirmations, ambient information).
  Choosing the wrong role isn't a visual bug — it's a
  screen-reader user accessibility bug, which is the worst
  kind of regression because the people affected are the
  least likely to be running the test suite. When in doubt,
  follow the chrome's `showToast` shape (error → alert; rest
  → status) for consistency across the panel surfaces a
  screen-reader user navigates.
- `onclick="if (typeof <Helper> === 'function') <Helper>(...)"`
  legacy-helper presence guards in templates (the v1.x sourcebans.js
  defensiveness pattern that survived the #1123 D1 deletion of the
  bulk JS file) AND the unguarded sister shape
  `onclick="<Helper>(...)"` that drops the `typeof` test entirely →
  wire to the JSON API via `data-action` + a page-tail vanilla-JS
  dispatcher per the canonical confirm-modal shape under "Add a
  confirm + reason modal" in "Where to find what". Pre-#1352 the
  trash-can button on `?p=admin&c=admins` carried
  `onclick="if (typeof RemoveAdmin === 'function') RemoveAdmin(...)"`;
  the `typeof X === 'function'` test silently resolved to `false`
  (sourcebans.js was deleted with v2.0.0 — there's no `RemoveAdmin`
  anywhere) so every click was a no-op with no console error / no
  toast / no API call. **Pre-#1397** the trash-can button on
  `?p=admin&c=mods` carried the LOUD sister-shape
  `onclick="RemoveMod(this.dataset.modName, this.dataset.modId);"` —
  no `typeof` guard at all — so every click threw
  `ReferenceError: RemoveMod is not defined` (visible in the browser
  console, but no toast / no API call / no row removal; from the
  operator's POV "Delete just doesn't work"). The guarded shape's
  bug-class is invisible by design (the guard exists precisely to
  swallow the missing-helper case); the unguarded shape is loud but
  equally non-functional — both need the structural fix. There's no
  runtime gate beyond the in-process render tests
  (`AdminsDeleteDialogTest`, `ModsDeleteDialogTest`); every call
  site needs the structural fix. When migrating: drop the inline
  `onclick`, mark the trigger with
  `data-action="<surface>-<verb>"` + `data-<id>` + `data-name` +
  `data-fallback-href`, ship a `<dialog>` for the confirm + optional
  reason field, and a page-tail script that dispatches to
  `sb.api.call(Actions.PascalName, …)`. The `Actions.PascalName`
  shape (NOT a string literal) catches typos at api-contract
  regen time. **#1402** swept the rest of the post-#1397 cluster
  (`ProcessMod`, `ProcessAddAdmin`, `LoadGeneratePassword`,
  `update_server` / `update_web`, `LoadGroupBan` /
  `ProcessGroupBan` / `CheckGroupBan` / `TickSelectAll`,
  `RemoveComment`, `window.opener.icon(...)`,
  `window.addEvent('domready', …)`). Constructive form submits
  (`ProcessMod` / `ProcessAddAdmin`) intercept the form's `submit`
  event, validate, then `sb.api.call(Actions.ModsAdd / .AdminsAdd)`
  per the `page_admin_groups_add.tpl` reference. Multi-step
  chains (`LoadGroupBan` → `Actions.BansGroupBan` →
  `Actions.BansBanMemberOfGroup`) live in a page-tail dispatcher
  next to the surface in `web/pages/admin.bans.php`. The trash-
  can-on-a-comment trigger (banlist / commslist / admin.bans
  protests + submissions) is the rare case where the same
  affordance ships on three sibling pages — that one rides a
  **shared `web/scripts/comment-actions.js` dispatcher** loaded
  from `core/footer.tpl` so the four call sites (page.banlist.php,
  page.commslist.php, admin.bans.php protests, admin.bans.php
  submissions) share one source of truth instead of four inlined
  page-tail blocks. The icon-upload callback (`window.opener.icon(...)`
  emitted by `UploadHandler::handle()`) is wired via a per-page
  `window.icon = function (filename) { … }` block in the parent
  template (`page_admin_mods_add.tpl` + `page_admin_edit_mod.tpl`);
  this is the same shape the demo upload uses (`window.demo` on
  `admin.bans.php` / `admin.edit.ban.php`). Search anchors for the
  cleanup sweep:
  `rg "typeof \w+ === ['\"]function['\"]" web/themes/` for the
  guarded shape, and `rg "onclick=\"[A-Z]\w+\(" web/themes/` for
  the unguarded sister shape.
- `window.addEvent('domready', …)` MooTools DOMready idiom in
  inline page-tail blocks (or any `Element.prototype` /
  `$$('css selector')` / `el.addEvent(...)` MooTools method call)
  → use vanilla `document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',
  function () { … })` or — better, since panel templates render
  the page-tail script AFTER the elements it targets — drop the
  wrapper entirely and run synchronously. MooTools was removed
  with `sourcebans.js` at #1123 D1; every `window.addEvent`
  callsite that survived was a silent no-op (`window.addEvent`
  is undefined, the event listener never registered, the body
  never ran). Pre-#1402 `web/pages/admin.edit.comms.php` shipped
  a `$errorScript` blob wrapping its DOM operations in
  `window.addEvent('domready', ...)`; the validation-error toast
  never painted because the wrapper itself threw. Vanilla DOM
  access (`document.getElementById('id').value` /
  `el.style.display = 'block'`) replaces the `$('id').value` /
  `$('id').setStyle(…)` MooTools idioms in the same sweep — both
  go in one PR per file because the body of the
  `window.addEvent('domready', …)` callback almost always uses
  MooTools `$()` too.
- `web/scripts/contextMenoo.js` / `sb.contextMenu` / global
  `AddContextMenu` → removed at #1306. The vanilla shims were
  back-compat scaffolding for the MooTools-era right-click menu the
  legacy `LoadServerHost` helper wired onto each player row on the
  public Servers page (`page_servers.tpl`). `LoadServerHost` was
  deleted with `sourcebans.js` at #1123 D1 and the v2.0.0
  `page_servers.tpl` rewrite never re-registered the menu, leaving
  the helpers as dead code. **#PLAYER_CTX_MENU** restored the menu
  itself under a new contract: `web/scripts/server-context-menu.js`
  attaches a single `document.addEventListener('contextmenu', …)`
  filtered by `closest('[data-context-menu="server-player"]')` and
  reads SteamIDs from the `data-steamid` attribute on each `<li
  data-testid="server-player">` row that `server-tile-hydrate.js`
  emits. The SteamIDs themselves come from a paired RCON `status`
  round-trip per server cached via `Sbpp\Servers\RconStatusCache`
  (sid-keyed, ~30s TTL, negative-caches failures so an unreachable
  server costs one probe per window). `api_servers_host_players`
  attaches the SteamID side-channel ONLY when the caller holds
  `WebPermission::Owner | WebPermission::AddBan` AND has per-server
  RCON access via `_api_servers_admin_can_rcon` — the action stays
  publicly registered (anonymous viewers still see hostname / map /
  online count); the SteamID surfacing is what's permission-gated.
  The Ban / Block menu items route through the panel-chromed
  smart-default URLs
  (`?p=admin&c=bans&section=add-ban&steam=…&type=0` /
  `?p=admin&c=comms&steam=…&type=0`) so the operator lands on the
  real form with the SteamID pre-populated; Kick is the one
  remaining iframe-routed item (`pages/admin.kickit.php?check=…&type=0&mode=kick`)
  because it's a one-shot RCON command with no persistent panel
  surface to anchor on (#1395 unified Block onto the panel route — pre-fix
  it went to the same iframe surface as Kick which was actually the
  post-`Actions.CommsAdd` rcon fan-out target, NOT a stand-alone
  operator page; hitting it directly rendered chromeless and POSTed
  to a 404). The `&mode=kick` qualifier on the Kick URL is the
  #1439 contract: `pages/admin.kickit.php` reads `$_GET['mode']`,
  allowlists it to `'ban'` (default; the post-ban iframe embed
  inside `admin.bans.php`'s "Ban Added" success dialog never
  supplies the param) or `'kick'` (this context-menu flow), and
  the kickit iframe template + the `api_kickit_kick_player`
  handler branch on the value: the page title swaps between
  "Kick player" and "Ban player", the iframe's post-completion
  redirect lands on `?p=servers` (kick mode) vs `?p=admin&c=bans`
  (ban mode), the handler skips the `:prefix_bans` UPDATE that's
  only meaningful when a ban row exists, and the rcon kick message
  swaps between "You have been kicked from this server" (kick)
  and "You have been banned by this server, check $domain for
  more info" (ban). The pre-#1439 shape (no `mode` param) always
  ran the ban-completion code path, which on the kick-only flow
  surfaced the wrong "you have been banned" message to the kicked
  player and (worse) updated whatever ban row happened to share
  the SteamID with the kicked player — silently mutating
  unrelated admin state. The anti-pattern that stays anti is the
  MooTools-era plumbing — `sb.contextMenu`, `AddContextMenu`, the
  global helpers, the separate `contextMenoo.js` file. Reach for
  the documented data-attribute hooks instead. Don't reintroduce
  the help text without the wiring (`page_servers.tpl`'s hint
  copy is now gated on `$can_use_context_menu` so anonymous
  viewers don't see it).
- `web/install/scripts/sourcebans.js` + `web/install/template/*.php`
  procedural-PHP-template wizard (the v1.x install surface that
  rendered through `header.php` + `page.<N>.php` + `footer.php`,
  pulling MooTools and a wizard-local `sourcebans.js` for `ShowBox()`
  / `$E()` / `$('id')` helpers) → removed at #1332. Every script
  reference was already broken at #1123 D1 (the sister files in
  `web/scripts/` were deleted), so popups / Enter-to-submit shortcuts
  / keyboard nav hints had been silently dead for two minor versions.
  The new wizard renders through typed `Sbpp\View\Install\Install*View`
  DTOs + Smarty templates under `web/themes/default/install/`,
  reuses the panel's `theme.css` design tokens, and uses vanilla JS
  only where strictly necessary (the license-accept checkbox guard
  on step 1, the admin form's cross-field password-match check on
  step 5, and the auto-submit handoff form between step 2 and 3).
  The admin form's empty / short-password / bad-SteamID / bad-email
  cases ride the form's native `required` / `minlength="8"` /
  `pattern` / `type="email"` attrs (no `novalidate`) so the
  browser surfaces the popover before our JS handler runs — only
  password-match is left to the JS guard because it's the one
  validation native HTML can't express. Re-introducing a separate
  JS bundle for the wizard
  is an anti-pattern: the wizard has no logged-in user, no DB on
  step 1, no `Config::get`, and no `$userbank` — it cannot use the
  panel's chrome JS (`theme.js` / palette / command-K), and a parallel
  bundle would diverge from the design-system tokens the wizard
  visually shares with the panel.
- `$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != "localhost"` exemption on the panel
  runtime's install/ + updater/-presence guard → removed at #1335 C1.
  Pre-fix `web/init.php` exempted any panel reachable via a
  `localhost` Host header (port-forward, SSH tunnel, ngrok,
  Cloudflare Tunnel) from the post-install / post-upgrade safety
  check, which was a complete panel-takeover path — anyone hitting
  the panel with a forged Host could re-run the wizard over the
  live install (combined with #1335 C2's missing wizard-side gate)
  and silently bypass the README's "delete `install/` directory"
  step. The guard is now unconditional; the docker dev stack rides
  the explicit `SBPP_DEV_KEEP_INSTALL` constant instead (defined
  by `docker/php/dev-prepend.php` via `auto_prepend_file`). Don't
  reach for `HTTP_HOST` magic on either side of the guard. Don't
  add a `$_SERVER`-driven exemption ("trusted reverse proxy
  network" etc.) — the guard's job is to refuse to boot when the
  install/ + updater/ directories are still on disk; the only
  legitimate dev workflow is the loud-named explicit-define
  escape hatch. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php`.
- Allowing the wizard to start over a panel where `config.php`
  exists → removed at #1335 C2. Pre-fix anyone reaching `/install/`
  after a successful wizard run could walk the entire flow again,
  overwriting `config.php` (when writable), creating a new admin
  account, and re-pointing the panel at a different DB —
  panel-takeover. The wizard now refuses to start when
  `config.php` exists in the panel root, surfacing the
  `web/install/already-installed.php` page (pure inline HTML + CSS,
  mirror of `recovery.php`'s contract) with a link to `/` and
  instructions for the rare "I really do want to reinstall" path
  (delete `config.php` first). Don't introduce a confirm-dialog
  bypass (`?confirm-reinstall=1`, etc.) — the explicit
  delete-`config.php` step is the only safe path because it
  forces the operator to acknowledge the impact before the
  wizard touches any state. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php`.
- Bare-text `die('SourceBans++ is not installed')` /
  `die('Please delete the install directory')` /
  `die('Compose autoload not found')` in `web/init.php` →
  removed at #1335 M1. The CTA on the wizard's done page sends
  the operator straight to `/`, and these die paths emit a stark
  white 200-response with no chrome / no link to docs / no
  explanation — read like a server crash to a non-technical
  self-hoster. The replacements live in `web/init-recovery.php`
  (`sbpp_render_install_blocked_page()`); the missing-config
  case redirects to `/install/` instead of dying. Anti-pattern:
  reintroducing bare-text `die()` for any pre-bootstrap error
  path in `web/init.php` — every such surface is an operator
  failure mode that deserves chrome.
- Surfacing the raw `PDOException` message on the wizard's
  database step → removed at #1335 m4. Pre-fix the wizard
  emitted `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user
  'sourcebans'@'192.168.96.5' (using password: YES)` verbatim
  — gibberish to non-DBAs, plus the IP is the panel-as-seen-by-DB
  internal address (minor information disclosure). The
  `sbpp_install_translate_pdo_error()` helper translates the
  four common error codes (1045 / 2002 / 1049 / 1044) and falls
  back to the raw message for unrecognised codes so debugging
  stays possible. Anti-pattern: surfacing `$e->getMessage()`
  directly to operator-facing error banners.
- Adding a `<FilesMatch>` regex pattern in
  `docker/apache/sbpp-prod.conf` whose alternation matches a
  basename shared by a published browser asset → removed at
  #1419. Pre-fix the union carried `api-contract\..*` (intended
  to shield some never-existed `api-contract.*` config artifact
  at the panel root). `<FilesMatch>` matches the **basename**
  regardless of which directory the URL resolves under, so the
  regex also denied the published `web/scripts/api-contract.js`
  — the chrome JS `core/header.tpl` loads on every page render
  to define the `Actions.*` / `Perms.*` namespaces every
  `sb.api.call(Actions.PascalName, …)` site depends on. The
  panel-runtime symptom under the production Docker image:
  password login spins forever (the form's submit handler
  `e.preventDefault()`s and `setBusy(submitBtn, true)` BEFORE
  `sb.api.call(Actions.AuthLogin, …)` fires; with `Actions`
  undefined the call throws and neither `.then` branch ever
  releases the spinner), and every panel chrome action button
  that drives a JSON action (Notes pane, ban/comm unblock,
  admin/mod delete, group-ban dispatcher, server refresh, …)
  is dead-on-arrival. Steam login is unaffected because the
  OpenID round-trip is server-side redirects with no JS
  dependency on `Actions.*` — exactly the asymmetry the bug
  reporter saw. **The bug only surfaces under
  `docker/Dockerfile.prod` →
  `ghcr.io/sbpp/sourcebans-pp:*`** (the dev compose stack
  uses a different Apache config; tarball installs don't
  ship Apache at all). When extending the deny list, prefer
  `<Files "exact-name">` for root-only configs that have a
  unique basename, or a path-anchored
  `<LocationMatch "^/exact-path$">` block when the basename
  could collide with a published asset. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/ProdApacheConfigTest.php` runs every
  extracted `<FilesMatch>` regex (and every `<Files>`
  exact-name) against every published basename under
  `web/scripts/` and `web/themes/default/js/` — a match
  anywhere fails the build. The local `./sbpp.sh test`
  runner stays symmetric with CI because
  `docker-compose.yml` bind-mounts `./docker:/var/www/html/docker:ro`
  so the test can read the conf from inside the dev
  container.
- `openTab()` JS (and the matching `<button onclick="openTab(...)">`
  chrome on `core/admin_tabs.tpl`) → the JS handler was dropped with
  sourcebans.js at #1123 D1; the buttons did nothing and every pane
  stacked together (#1239). All sub-paged admin routes (servers /
  mods / groups / comms / settings / admins / bans) ride Pattern A
  (`?section=…` routing); see "Sub-paged admin routes" above.
- `page_toc.tpl` / page-level ToC sidebar / `#fragment` anchor
  sub-route nav → removed at #1275. Pre-#1275 admin-admins and
  admin-bans rode a "Pattern B" sticky page-level ToC that emitted
  `#fragment` URLs and scrolled within a single long-scroll DOM.
  Don't reintroduce a parallel pattern: every admin route that
  needs sub-section nav uses `?section=<slug>` + the main sidebar
  accordion (`AdminNavCatalog` / `core/navbar.tpl`, #1490).
- Reintroducing a second admin rail (`core/admin_sidebar.tpl` /
  `.admin-sidebar-shell` / non-empty `new AdminTabs($sections, …)`
  that opens a content column) → removed at #1490. Section links
  live in the main sidebar accordion only. Non-empty `AdminTabs`
  is a no-op; `core/admin_tabs.tpl` is exclusively the back-link
  for edit-* pages.
- Header "Add …" CTAs that only duplicate an accordion child
  (`server-list-add`, `admin-add-cta`, …) → removed at #1490.
  Keep empty-state CTAs (`servers-empty-add`, …) per the Empty
  states convention.
- Inlining settings-style sidebar markup inside templates (the
  pre-#1259 shape: `<div class="grid" style="grid-template-columns:14rem 1fr">`
  followed by an inline `<nav><a class="sidebar__link">…</a></nav>`
  block) → section nav is single-source in `AdminNavCatalog` +
  `core/navbar.tpl`. Page templates render their content body
  (with `.page-section` padding) and nothing else.
- Substantively changing what an already-shipped `web/updater/data/<N>.php`
  *does* (different SQL, different defaults, new side effects) → fresh
  installs (which never run the updater) silently diverge from upgraded
  installs (which already ran the old version). Land the change as a
  new `<N+1>.php` that converges the divergence forward. Pure
  modernization (typed signatures, `array()` → `[]`, helper swaps) that
  preserves the script's effect doesn't trip this — see "Updater
  migrations" above for the per-script contract.
- String literals for action names → `Actions.PascalName`.
- Hardcoding `sb.api.endpoint = './api.php'` (or any other bare
  document-relative path that depends on the URL of the page loading
  api.js) → the iframe-routed surfaces
  (`pages/admin.kickit.php` / `pages/admin.blockit.php`) sit one
  directory deep, so a document-relative `./api.php` resolves
  against the iframe's URL to `/pages/api.php` (404 — Apache doesn't
  rewrite that path) and every kick / block iframe round-trip dies
  silently with a `bad_response` envelope. The iframe templates'
  load handlers `return` silently on `!r.ok`, leaving rows at the
  initial "Waiting…" text forever (#1433 bugs 1 + 2 — kick via panel
  AND kick-on-ban). `web/scripts/api.js` resolves the endpoint
  against `document.currentScript.src` instead — `new URL('../api.php',
  SCRIPT_SRC).href` lands on the panel-root `/api.php` for top-level
  page renders AND iframe contexts AND subdir installs (`https://host/sourcebans/`).
  `document.currentScript` is null inside async handlers / promises,
  so capture the value at IIFE-top before any deferred work.
  Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/ApiJsEndpointResolutionTest.php`
  (static — asserts api.js references `document.currentScript` AND
  `new URL('../api.php'` AND does NOT bind the bare literal to
  `sb.api.endpoint` at construction time) +
  `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (runtime — loads
  `/pages/admin.kickit.php?check=…&type=0`, asserts the
  `KickitLoadServers` POST targets `/api.php` NOT `/pages/api.php`,
  and the iframe rows transition past "Waiting…").
- Loading `web/scripts/api.js` via dynamic injection
  (`document.createElement('script')`, `<script>document.write(...)</script>`,
  async loaders, ES-module `import()`, third-party bundlers) → the IIFE
  reads `document.currentScript.src` at script-load time to compute the
  endpoint URL, but `document.currentScript` is `null` when a script
  is appended programmatically (it's only non-null while the parent
  static `<script>` tag is executing synchronously). With a `null`
  currentScript the `SCRIPT_SRC` constant collapses to the empty
  string and `resolveEndpoint()` falls through to the bare-relative
  `./api.php` fallback — i.e. the exact pre-#1433 regression shape.
  api.js MUST be loaded via one of the three static `<script src="…">`
  tags in the default theme (`core/header.tpl` top-level chrome →
  `./scripts/api.js`, `page_kickit.tpl` / `page_blockit.tpl` iframe
  surfaces → `../scripts/api.js`). A theme fork that wants to lazy-
  load api.js (e.g. defer until first `sb.api.call`) needs to ship
  its own paired endpoint resolver — not reuse the in-tree IIFE.
- `filter_var($address, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)` ALONE for a server-
  address input (`api_servers_add`, `admin.edit.server.php`'s
  `address` field) → the form templates advertise "IPv4 / IPv6 /
  hostname" but the IP-only validator rejects every hostname-shaped
  input with "You must type a valid IP." (#1433 bug 3 — reporter
  could not add `cs.example.com`). The contract is to accept EITHER
  a valid IP OR a valid hostname:
  `filter_var($x, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) || filter_var($x, FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN, FILTER_FLAG_HOSTNAME)`
  on both the JSON dispatcher (`web/api/handlers/servers.php`) and
  the page handler (`web/pages/admin.edit.server.php`). The hand-rolled
  `^[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+$` regex that lived in `admin.edit.server.php`
  pre-#1433 is the sibling anti-pattern: it accepted shapes the IP
  filter rejects (leading hyphens, double dots, IDN-mangled UTF-8)
  AND was looser than `FILTER_FLAG_HOSTNAME`'s real RFC 1035 check —
  the two surfaces silently disagreed on what's accepted. Both now
  share the IP || HOSTNAME filter pair so a value either round-trips
  through Add AND Edit or fails on both. Schema width gate: the
  `:prefix_servers.ip` column is `VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL` (see
  `web/install/includes/sql/struc.sql`), well below RFC 1035's 253-char
  hostname max, so both surfaces ALSO carry an explicit `strlen($ip) > 64`
  validation step that emits a structured `validation` envelope (or
  the page-handler-equivalent `$validationErrors['address']`)
  instead of letting MariaDB strict mode raise `SQLSTATE[22001] 1406
  Data too long for column 'ip'` mid-INSERT — the bare PDOException
  would surface as a generic 500 with no actionable copy AND skip the
  audit-log entry. Bumping the column to `VARCHAR(255)` is a paired
  schema-migration follow-up (out of #1433's scope). Regression
  guards: `web/tests/api/ServersTest.php::testAddAcceptsHostname` /
  `testAddAcceptsFqdn` / `testAddAcceptsBareIPv6` (the `:` characters
  pin the FILTER_VALIDATE_IP arm — `FILTER_FLAG_HOSTNAME` rejects them
  outright, so a bare-IPv6 round-trip can only succeed when the IP
  branch of the OR is wired and exercised) /
  `testAddRejectsAddressExceedingSchemaWidth` /
  `testAddRefusesDuplicateHostnamePort` /
  `testAddRejectsWhitespaceInAddress` (representative of the "fail
  both filters" garbage class — also pinned by
  `testAddRejectsGarbageAddress`).
- Inlining the table prefix → use `:prefix_` and let `Database` rewrite.
- `htmlspecialchars_decode` / `html_entity_decode` on JSON-API params
  (nickname, reason, chat message, …) → the JSON body is raw UTF-8. The
  xajax callbacks used to HTML-encode payloads in transit; the JSON API
  does not, and re-decoding now silently collapses literal `&amp;` and
  double-escapes on re-render (#1108). Store raw, escape on display.
- `utf8` (3-byte alias) for `DB_CHARSET` → always `utf8mb4`. 4-byte
  sequences (emoji, some CJK) otherwise trip `Incorrect string value`
  from the plugin's insert path (#1108, #765).
- Reusing the same `:name` PDO placeholder more than once inside a
  query while calling `bind(':name', …)` only ONCE → the panel runs
  PDO with `EMULATE_PREPARES => false` (default since #1124 / #1167's
  `LIMIT '0','30'` MariaDB regression), so the MySQL driver expands
  every `:name` occurrence into its own positional `?` slot in the
  prepared statement. A single `bind()` leaves the others unbound
  and `execute()` raises `SQLSTATE[HY093] Invalid parameter number`
  (#1314 — `admin.srvadmins.php`'s `:sid` / `:sid` / `bind(':sid', …)`
  shape, which Just Worked under emulated prepares pre-#1124 and
  fataled on every page load post-#1124). Either rename each
  occurrence (`:sid` + `:sid_inner`) and `bind()` each, or pass the
  values via `resultset(['sid' => …, 'sid_inner' => …])`. The
  `:prefix_` literal is rewritten by `Database::setPrefix()` before
  `prepare()`, so reuse there is harmless and stays out of this
  rule. Re-flipping `EMULATE_PREPARES` back to `true` to mask the
  bug is a sibling anti-pattern — it would silently reintroduce the
  `LIMIT '0','30'` trap (`page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php`
  rejected by MariaDB strict mode). See "Database" under Conventions.
- Calling `SteamID::toSteam2($raw)` (or any other `SteamID::*`
  conversion that calls `resolveInputID` internally) on operator-
  controlled input WITHOUT a strict-shape `preg_match` gate first
  → `resolveInputID` throws a generic `\Exception` for unrecognised
  shapes, and the dispatcher's `Throwable` fallback in `Api::handle`
  wraps it as a generic `server_error` envelope (HTTP 500). The
  client-side IIFE in the form template surfaces "Block NOT Added —
  Internal server error" via `r.error.message` instead of the
  pointed "Please enter a valid Steam ID or Community ID" that a
  structured `ApiError('validation', …, 'steam')` would emit. Worse,
  the legacy comms-add path pre-#1420 emitted feedback through
  `sb.message.show` against the v1.x `#dialog-placement` chrome
  shell that the v2.0 theme doesn't render — so the 500 was
  silent (reporter's symptom on #1420: "no notification on
  invalid steamID"). The fix is the explicit `preg_match` gate
  documented under "SteamID inputs" in Conventions; landing it at
  the same time as the form template's native `pattern` attribute
  is what closes the loop end-to-end (the `pattern` is the UX-first
  gate; the `preg_match` gate is the security-first gate; both
  ship together). See `api_comms_add` / `api_bans_add` /
  `api_admins_add` for the canonical reference shape and
  regression coverage in `web/tests/api/CommsTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShape`,
  `web/tests/api/BansTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShapeForType0`,
  and `web/tests/api/AdminsTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShape`.
- Loosening `SteamID::ID_PATTERNS` (the shared `[regex, format]`
  table consumed by both `isValidID()` and `resolveInputID()`) —
  e.g. dropping the `^…$` anchors, dropping the `D` modifier,
  using `[0|1]` instead of `[01]` (`|` inside `[…]` is a literal
  pipe, not alternation), or using `\d*` instead of `\d+`. The
  pre-#1420 shape carried every one of those bugs and the three
  concrete bypasses are documented under "SteamID inputs" in
  Conventions (`'STEAM_0:0:'` empty Z, `'asdfSTEAM_0:0:123'`
  substring-bypass, `'asdf 76561197960265728 garbage'` embedded
  Steam64 → `'STEAM_0:0:-38280598980132864'` on `toSteam2()`). The
  shared-table shape is the single source of truth — both
  surfaces consume it so they cannot drift. A future refactor
  that "simplifies" the table back into per-method `switch (true)`
  blocks re-opens the asymmetry bug-class. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationTest.php::testIdPatternsConstantIsTheSourceOfTruth`
  introspects the constant and asserts every regex stays
  `^…$/…D…` shaped.
- Removing the per-handler strict `preg_match` from
  `api_comms_add` / `api_bans_add` / `api_admins_add` "now that
  `SteamID::isValidID()` is strict too" → both layers ship and
  agree by design (the "defence-in-depth" contract under "SteamID
  inputs"). The library is one refactor away from someone
  loosening `ID_PATTERNS` back to a substring matcher AND the
  per-handler gate exists so that refactor doesn't silently
  re-open the bypass class. Regression coverage for the handler
  half: `web/tests/api/CommsTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShape`
  (+ sibling tests in `BansTest.php` / `AdminsTest.php`).
- Calling `SteamID::toSteam2($raw)` (or any other `SteamID::*`
  conversion that funnels through `resolveInputID`) on a page
  handler's raw POST input BEFORE running `SteamID::isValidID($raw)`
  → the converter raises `Exception('Invalid SteamID input!')` on
  any input that fails the shape check post-#1420 (the library
  tightening from follow-up #1 made the throw stricter). The
  exception escapes the page handler unhandled, the chrome's
  `PageDie()` never fires, and the user gets a 500 page render
  instead of the inline per-field "Please enter a valid Steam ID
  or Community ID" message on the form. The fix is the
  validate-then-convert ladder documented under "SteamID inputs"
  in Conventions: trim → empty-check (separate message) →
  `isValidID()` shape check (separate message) → ONLY THEN
  `toSteam2()`. The pre-#1420 shape silently "worked" because the
  loose library accepted everything; with the tighter library the
  same call shape is a 500-page-render-on-typo waiting to happen.
  Affected surfaces swept at #1423 follow-up #2:
  `web/pages/admin.edit.{ban,comms,admindetails}.php` (the form
  re-render path), `web/pages/admin.bans.php`'s `importBans`
  branch (skip-and-count malformed lines instead of aborting
  mid-file). `web/pages/page.submit.php` doesn't call `toSteam2()`
  at all — the public form stores raw input verbatim, and the
  library tightening + template-side `pattern="…"` close the
  bypass without a handler edit. Regression guard:
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationOrderTest.php` pins the
  validate-then-convert call order across every page handler.
- Wrapping `SteamID::toSteam2($raw)` in `try/catch (\Exception)`
  as a substitute for the upstream `SteamID::isValidID($raw)`
  gate → the catch papers over the bug class without fixing the
  underlying call-order bug. A future refactor of the library
  that swaps the exception shape (e.g. to a typed
  `\InvalidArgumentException`) silently breaks the catch and the
  exception escapes again — back to a 500 page render. The
  contract is "validate first, convert only on a pass" (see
  "SteamID inputs" → page-handler form-POST surfaces); the
  validate-then-convert order is what gives `toSteam2()` its
  cannot-throw guarantee in handler code, so wrapping it in
  `try/catch` is a code smell signalling the upstream gate is
  missing.
- Hand-rolling the strict SteamID-shape regex literal at the
  per-handler `preg_match` call site (the pre-#1423-follow-up-#4
  shape: `preg_match('/^(?:STEAM_[01]:[01]:\d+|\[U:1:\d+\]|\d{17})$/', $raw)`
  — note the missing `D` modifier) → use the single source of
  truth `SteamID::HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX`. The pre-#1423-follow-up-#4
  copies silently missed the `D` modifier; the input
  `STEAM_0:0:1\n` (or any newline-suffixed shape) matched the
  per-handler regex (`$` matches end-of-string OR a final `\n`
  without the modifier) but then FAILED the library's
  `SteamID::isValidID()` / `toSteam2()` (which DO carry the
  modifier post-#1423 follow-up #1), throwing
  `Exception('Invalid SteamID input!')` → `Api::handle`
  `Throwable` fallback → generic 500 envelope. The bug class
  #1420 was supposed to close re-opened by accident on the
  newline shape because the two gate layers drifted on the
  modifier set. The `HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX` constant guarantees
  byte-for-byte sync; a hand-rolled local copy at a future
  handler call site silently invites the same bug. Regression
  guard:
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationOrderTest.php::testJsonHandlersUseSingleSourceOfTruthRegex`
  (asserts every JSON handler invokes `preg_match(SteamID::HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX, …)`
  literally — not a copy, not a concatenation),
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationTest.php::testHandlerStrictRegexRejectsNewlineBypass`
  (asserts the newline shape is REJECTED at the gate),
  `web/tests/api/CommsTest.php::testAddRejectsInvalidSteamIdShape`
  + `BansTest.php` + `AdminsTest.php` (the
  `"STEAM_0:0:1\n"` / `"[U:1:1]\n"` / `"76561197960265728\n"`
  cases pin the wire-side behavior).
- Storing an UNVALIDATED operator-typed Steam ID in
  `:prefix_bans.authid` on an IP-type ban → as of #1486 an IP-type
  ban DOES keep a Steam ID-of-record when the operator fills both
  fields (the schema has always had separate `ip` + `authid`
  columns; enforcement stays IP-only because the SourceMod plugin
  matches an IP ban on the `ip` column alone, so the stored authid
  is inert plugin-side and exists only so the ban detail / banlist
  can show which account the IP belonged to). What stays forbidden
  is storing it WITHOUT the shape gate: the value MUST pass
  `SteamID::isValidID()` (page handler) / `HANDLER_STRICT_REGEX`
  (JSON handler) BEFORE `toSteam2()`, exactly like the Steam-type
  branch. Skipping the gate re-opens two bug classes — (a) a junk
  value (`?type=1&steam=garbage`) escapes `toSteam2()` as
  `Exception('Invalid SteamID input!')` → 500 (the #1420 / #1423
  follow-up #4 class), and (b) a malformed authid lands on disk and
  the drawer / banlist later derive a synthetic `community_id`
  (`STEAM_0:0:0`) off it (#1486's display bug). The right shape is
  the validate-then-convert ladder: empty Steam ID → write `''`
  (nothing recorded); non-empty → shape-gate → `toSteam2()` → store;
  bad shape → `validation` envelope (JSON) / `$validationErrors['steam']`
  bounce with raw input preserved (page handler). Both surfaces
  (`api_bans_add` + `admin.edit.ban.php`) share the ladder so the
  JSON dispatcher and the iframe-routed page handler can't diverge
  on the same logical input. The pre-#1486 shape hard-cleared
  `authid` for `type=1`, silently dropping a SteamID the operator
  deliberately typed; the older `82e8c3d2` "canonicalise on IP-type"
  nit stored a *canonicalised* value but failed to suppress the
  raw-on-invalid path — both are superseded by the gated keep.
  Regression guard:
  `web/tests/api/BansTest.php::testAddIpTypeKeepsValidatedSteamOfRecord`
  (valid Steam input kept alongside the IP, empty input writes
  empty `authid`, garbage + non-trimmable malformed shapes — mid-string
  `\n` — rejected with a `validation` envelope on the `steam` field
  before any row is written, trailing-newline trims to a valid value
  and is kept) +
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationOrderTest.php` (pins the
  validate-before-convert order in `admin.edit.ban.php`).
- Calling `SteamID::compare($a, $b)` (or any other
  `SteamID::*` method that funnels through `toSteam64()` /
  `resolveInputID()`) with operator-controlled input that
  hasn't been gated through `SteamID::isValidID()` first → same
  bug class as the JSON handler convert-before-validate trap,
  different blast radius. `compare()` is used by
  `api_kickit_kick_player` and `api_blockit_block_player` to
  per-player-match the A2S `status` response against the
  operator's target; on any input that fails the library shape
  gate the `toSteam64()` call throws and the iframe's loop
  renderer gets a generic 500 envelope instead of the
  structured `not_found` envelope that says "no match found
  for that target". The iframe can't tell the two apart, and a
  hostile caller posting `?check=garbage&type=0` reliably 500s
  the panel. The fix is a `SteamID::isValidID($check)` gate
  (Steam-type) or `filter_var($check, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)`
  gate (IP-type) BEFORE the `compare()` call site, returning
  the structured `not_found` envelope on the fail branch.
  Pinned by
  `web/tests/api/KickitTest.php::testKickPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedSteamId`
  + `testKickPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedIp` and
  `web/tests/api/BlockitTest.php::testBlockPlayerReturnsNotFoundForMalformedSteamId`.
- Tightening `SteamAuthHandler::validate()`'s OpenID-claimed-ID
  regex to anything OTHER than `7\d{16}+` with the `D`
  modifier (e.g. the pre-#1423-follow-up-#4 shape
  `7[0-9]{15,25}+` without `D`) → Steam in practice always
  returns a 17-digit Steam64 in the `openid_claimed_id` URL,
  and the panel's downstream `SteamID::toSteam2()` carries
  the library-side `^\d{17}$D` gate post-#1423 follow-up #1
  (the symmetry contract). If the regex here loosens (accepts
  16 digits or 18-25 digits, or drops the `D` modifier and
  accepts a trailing `\n`), the input slips past `validate()`
  but then fails the library's gate in `check()`'s
  `toSteam2()` call — the exception escapes the constructor
  unhandled and the operator lands on a 500 mid-Steam-login
  round-trip (silent failure mode — there's no `try/catch`
  here and the chrome's `PageDie()` doesn't run on a callback
  redirect). The 17-digit shape is the contract Steam is on
  record committing to (their OpenID 2.0 endpoint hasn't
  emitted any other shape since 2010); a future Steam-side
  change that emits a different shape surfaces here as a
  clean false return (operator sees the
  `m=steam_failed` redirect) instead of as a 500. The defense-
  in-depth `SteamID::isValidID()` gate in `check()` is the
  second line — both halves of the contract ship together.
  Pinned by
  `web/tests/integration/SteamIDValidationTest.php::testSteamAuthHandlerOpenIdRegexAcceptsOnly17DigitsStartingWith7`.
- Editing `install/includes/sql/data.sql` (or `struc.sql`) without a paired
  `web/updater/data/<N>.php` → upgraded installs silently miss the change.
- WYSIWYG / "rich HTML" editors (TinyMCE, CKEditor, …) for fields stored
  in `sb_settings` and rendered to other users → these fields end up
  emitted through `nofilter` and become a stored-XSS vector for every
  admin with the relevant flag (#1113). Use a plain `<textarea>` and
  pipe the value through `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer` (Markdown). For
  immediate visual feedback, pair the textarea with the live preview
  pane shape from `page_admin_settings_settings.tpl` (calls
  `system.preview_intro_text`, server-renders through `IntroRenderer`).
- Ad-hoc per-page empty-state copy → use the shared `.empty-state`
 layout + the first-run-vs-filtered split documented under
 "Empty states" above. Inconsistent voice and missing CTAs are what
 #1207's empty-state audit caught; future surfaces stay on the
 unified pattern.
- Emdash (`—`) in user-facing text (panel `.tpl`, page-handler
 `Toast::emit` strings, docs `.md` / `.mdx` prose) → split the
 sentence, swap to parentheses, or delete the clause. Per
 "User-facing text style" above. Hyphen / en-dash are fine; the
 emdash specifically reads as filler and is hard to type. The rule
 does NOT apply to contributor docs (`AGENTS.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`,
 etc.) or code comments.
- Verbose user-facing copy that explains the system to the operator
 ("As you can see…", "Please note that…", "It's worth mentioning…",
 multi-paragraph rationale before the action) → say what to do,
 skip the why unless the why changes the action. One thought per
 sentence. Per "User-facing text style" above.
- Markdown-rendering admin display text client-side → use the
  server-side `system.preview_intro_text` action (same `IntroRenderer`
  the public dashboard uses). A bundled JS Markdown library would
  diverge from the safe-on-render contract.
- Adding an in-panel toggle to disable the project announcements
  feed (`?p=admin&c=settings` checkbox, an `admin_announcements`
  permission flag, etc.) → the surface is intentionally narrow
  enough that the only sensible "off" position is the air-gap
  escape hatch (`define('SB_ANNOUNCEMENTS_URL', '')` in
  `config.php`, documented in
  `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/announcements.mdx`). An
  in-panel toggle would suggest the feed is per-instance
  configurable in a way that pairs with admin-authored content; it
  isn't. The maintainers ship the JSON, every operator audits it
  via the public diff history of `docs/public/announcements.json`,
  and the only legitimate per-install knob is "off entirely vs. on".
  See "Project announcements feed" under Conventions for the full
  threat model.
- Reaching for `league/commonmark` (or any other Markdown library)
  directly to render announcement bodies → `body_md` MUST go
  through `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer::renderIntroText()`. The
  renderer wraps CommonMark with `html_input: 'escape'` +
  `allow_unsafe_links: false`, so inline HTML lands as visible
  escaped text and `javascript:` / `data:` / `vbscript:` URLs are
  stripped. A bare `CommonMarkConverter` call would re-open the
  #1113-class stored-XSS surface — admin-authored display text and
  upstream-authored display text both ride the same renderer for
  exactly this reason. The `Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher::buildAnnouncement`
  call site is the load-bearing one; never sidestep it.
- Editing announcements anywhere other than
  `docs/public/announcements.json` (an admin endpoint, an
  in-panel composer, a separate `sbpp.github.io` repo PR, a
  hand-edited `SB_CACHE/announcements.json` on a deployed panel)
  → there is exactly one source of truth, and it's the file in this
  repo. The deploy chain
  (`.github/workflows/docs-deploy-trigger.yml`) lands the file at
  `https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json` within minutes of
  merge; the panel's `Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher::tickIfDue`
  pulls it once per install per day. Hand-editing the cache file on
  a deployed panel is also wrong: the next shutdown hook would
  overwrite it, and the operator's locally-pinned content would
  silently vanish. The single-file shape is the load-bearing
  audit property — every operator can read every announcement that
  has ever been pushed before it lands on their dashboard.
- Removing the eager `register_shutdown_function([\Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher::class, 'tickIfDue'])`
  call at the tail of `init.php` "now that the page handler reads
  the cache directly" → the page handler's `latest()` only reads
  the cache; without the shutdown hook nothing ever populates it.
  The two halves are the same contract: one reads, the other
  writes. Sister anti-pattern to "Removing the eager
  `require_once` chain" — the shutdown hook is the live ledger of
  every background tick the panel runs, and a future reader needs
  to find both halves co-located.
- Discarding the `?array $announcement` property on
  `Sbpp\View\HomeDashboardView` → `SmartyTemplateRule` would
  flag the unused property at static-analysis time, but the
  procedural-handler side (where `Sbpp\View\Renderer::render(...)`
  drops the property onto the Smarty engine) doesn't have a
  static gate — the runtime test
  (`HomeDashboardAnnouncementTest::testHomeDashboardViewCarriesTheAnnouncementProperty`)
  pins the contract for both halves. The dashboard's announcement
  strip gates the entire `<aside>` block on `{if $announcement}`,
  so dropping the View property would silently disable the
  surface without obvious symptoms (the strip just stops
  appearing on every install, including ones with a populated
  cache).
- Unannotated `{$foo nofilter}` → every `nofilter` is an assertion the
  value is safe HTML; without a `{* nofilter: <why> *}` comment above
  it, future readers can't tell whether it's a real escape hatch or a
  copy-paste accident waiting to be exploited (#1113 audit).
- `intval($x)` / `strval($x)` / `floatval($x)` → `(int) $x` / `(string) $x`
  / `(float) $x`. Cast operators are PHP-native, faster, and don't have
  the function-call overhead. Two pitfalls: when crossing a radix boundary
  (`intval($x, 16)`) keep `intval` (cast doesn't take a radix); when
  casting a binary expression, keep the parentheses: `(int) ($a + $b)`,
  not `(int) $a + $b` (cast precedence binds tighter). Issue #1290 phase F.
- `is_null($x)` → `$x === null`. Pure stylistic swap, but the prettier
  shape is `??=` whenever the surrounding code is
  `if (is_null($x)) { $x = $y; }` — becomes `$x ??= $y;`. Excluded:
  `web/includes/Auth/openid.php` (third-party). Issue #1290 phase G.
- `array(…)` literal constructor → `[…]` short-array syntax. PHP 5.4+
  shape; the only reason `array(…)` survived this long was nobody got
  around to it. Excluded: `web/includes/Auth/openid.php` and
  `web/includes/tinymce/**` are third-party. Function signatures using
  `array $x` as a TYPE HINT are unrelated and stay. Issue #1290 phase H.
- `if (…) { return true; } return false;` → `return …;`. Three lines
  collapse to one when the condition itself is the boolean. When
  simplifying a method body this way, add the `: bool` native return
  type in the same commit (phase A pairing per the issue body). Issue
  #1290 phase I.
- `strstr($haystack, $needle)` (when used in boolean context) →
  `str_contains($haystack, $needle)`. PHP 8.0+ shape; `strstr` was
  doing double duty as substring-finder + boolean-existence-checker, and
  the latter is more clearly expressed by `str_contains`. The third-arg
  "before-needle" form (`strstr($haystack, $needle, true)`) stays — that
  one really is asking for the substring, not a bool. Issue #1290 phase E.
- `switch ($x) { case A: return [a, b]; case B: return [c, d]; … }` →
  `match ($x) { 'A' => [a, b], 'B' => [c, d], … }` for value-returning
  switches. `match` is strict-equal (no implicit string→int coercion),
  exhaustive (throws `\UnhandledMatchError` on a miss instead of
  silently falling through), and reads better. Side-effect-only switch
  arms (e.g. `header(); exit;`) stay as a small `if` ladder OUTSIDE
  the match — don't try to cram them into match arms. Issue #1290
  phase C.
- `strlen($_POST['x'])` / `trim($_POST['x'])` / `substr($row['col'], …)`
  on values that can be `null` at runtime → coalesce
  (`strlen($_POST['x'] ?? '')`) when null is "absent", or cast
  (`strlen((string) $row['col'])`) when the value should always be a
  string. PHP 8.1 deprecated this implicit null-into-scalar coercion;
  PHP 9 makes it a `TypeError` (#1273). The static gate is
  `phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules` + `phpVersion: 80500`; the
  runtime gate (for PHPStan-excluded files like `auth/openid.php`) is
  `Php82DeprecationsTest`. See "Null-into-scalar discipline" in
  Conventions for the per-shape idiom.
- Discarded return values from `Api::redirect()` or `CSRF::validate()`
  → these carry `#[\NoDiscard]` (PHP 8.5). The return is the
  meaningful signal — `Api::redirect()`'s envelope IS the navigation
  (callers must `return Api::redirect(...)` so the dispatcher honours
  it), and `CSRF::validate()`'s bool IS the verdict (callers either
  branch on it or use the higher-level `rejectIfInvalid()` helper).
  PHPStan's `method.resultDiscarded` rule fails the build on a
  discarded site. Issue #1290 phase K.1.
- Hardcoded chrome-navigation lists in `theme.js` (the pre-#1304
  `NAV_ITEMS` array shape) → the command palette's "Navigate" entries
  are server-rendered + permission-filtered via
  `Sbpp\View\PaletteActions::for($userbank)` and emitted as a JSON
  blob inside `<script type="application/json" id="palette-actions">`
  in `core/footer.tpl`. theme.js consumes the blob via `loadNavItems()`
  with a fail-empty fallback. The pre-fix array showed `Admin panel`
  and `Add ban` to logged-out / partial-permission users, who got
  bounced off the "you must be logged in" / 403 surface when they
  clicked through (#1304). New chrome-navigation entries land in
  `PaletteActions::entries()` next to the existing rows; never inline
  a parallel hardcoded list client-side. See "Filtered chrome
  navigation surfaces" in Conventions for the per-surface contract.
- `setTimeout` / `waitForTimeout` waits in E2E specs → wait on
  terminal attributes (`[data-loading="false"]` settled, `[data-skeleton]`
  removed) per #1123's "Testability hooks" rule.
- CSS class chains or visible-text *primary* selectors in E2E specs
  → use `data-testid` / ARIA roles per #1123. `hasText` filters for
  disambiguation are fine; "find element by its label text" as the
  whole selector is not.
- Hover-only row-action affordances (`.row-actions { opacity: 0 }`
  flipped to `1` on `tbody tr:hover`) → row-level Edit / Unmute /
  Remove (and equivalent) buttons must be visible by default at
  every viewport. The opacity-on-hover trick was removed from the
  comms list in #1207 ADM-5; it never worked on touch viewports
  (no hover state) and silently regressed discoverability for
  every keyboard / screen-reader user. New surfaces add visible
  buttons in the same shape as `.queue-row` (admin moderation
  queue) or the comms-list desktop table (`web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl`).
- Row-wide `cursor: pointer` on the bare `.table tbody tr` (or any
  other `tbody tr` / `tbody > tr` / `.table tr` / `tr.ban-row` /
  `tr[data-testid="ban-row"]` / `tr[data-testid="comm-row"]` /
  `[role="row"]` selector that lands the cursor on a row scope) →
  the `<tr>` element is NOT a click target on the bans list, the
  comms list, the admin admins / mods / groups / overrides /
  servers tables, the kickit / blockit iframes, the bans-groups
  list, or admin-edit-group / admin-edit-admins-perms. The v2.0
  chrome on those surfaces delegates interaction to specific
  *child* elements: the player-name `<a>` carries
  `[data-drawer-bid]` / `[data-drawer-cid]` / `[data-drawer-href]`
  for the drawer; row-action buttons carry `data-action="…"` for
  delete / unban / unmute / re-apply / copy; the per-row comments
  toggle via its native `<summary>`. The row itself has no click
  handler. Painting `cursor: pointer` on the row falsely
  advertised every pixel as clickable, so users would click on
  dead cells (steam id, IP, reason, status, server, admin,
  length, banned timestamp) and nothing would happen — the
  reporter's exact symptom on #1443. The fix dropped the
  declaration from the bare `.table tbody tr` rule
  (`web/themes/default/css/theme.css`); native cursors on the
  inner `<a>` / `<button>` / `<summary>` elements already paint
  correctly without help, so removing the row-wide declaration
  restored honest affordance ("pointer only where clicking does
  something"). The hover-background rule
  (`.table tbody tr:hover { background: var(--bg-muted); }`) is
  intentionally retained — it's a scanning aid for tracking which
  row the mouse is on, not a clickability claim, mirroring the
  Linear / Notion / GitHub / Vercel data-table convention of
  hover-bg-without-pointer-cursor.

  **The one in-tree surface where the `<tr>` IS the click target**
  is the System Log table (`web/themes/default/page_admin_settings_logs.tpl`).
  Each row carries `onclick="toggleLogRow(this)"` that flips a
  sibling detail row's `hidden` attribute (the template's
  `<p>Click a row to expand.</p>` instruction makes the
  affordance contract explicit). For that case — and any future
  surface that genuinely wires a row-wide click handler — the
  opt-in `.table.table--clickable-rows tbody tr { cursor: pointer; }`
  modifier in `theme.css` is the documented escape hatch. Apply
  it to the `<table>` element (NOT individual `<tr>`s) so it
  composes cleanly with the column-tier classes
  (`.col-tier-2` / `.col-tier-3`) and any future table-scoped
  variant. The System Log row ALSO carries `role="button"` +
  `tabindex="0"` + `aria-expanded` + an `onkeydown` handler that
  dispatches Enter / Space to the same toggle path — bare
  `<tr onclick>` chrome with no role / tabindex / key handling
  is a sibling anti-pattern (the affordance becomes mouse-only,
  excluding keyboard and AT users).

  Regression guards:
  `web/tests/integration/TableRowCursorPointerRegressionTest.php`
  pins five contracts — (1) the bare `.table tbody tr` rule
  carries no `cursor: pointer`, (2) the hover-bg rule survives,
  (3) the `.table.table--clickable-rows tbody tr` opt-in rule
  exists and DOES carry `cursor: pointer`, (4) no OTHER selector
  silently re-applies `cursor: pointer` to any table-row scope
  (the "fail closed" arm catches a future copy-paste from a
  tooltip / popover demo, a search-and-replace mishap, or a
  well-meaning "rows feel clickable, let me make them clickable"
  PR — covers bare `tr`, `tbody > tr` child combinator, attribute
  selectors, ARIA `[role="row"]`), and (5) the System Log
  template sets the opt-in class on its `<table>` AND its rows
  carry the keyboard a11y triple (`role="button"` + `tabindex="0"`
  + `onkeydown` Enter/Space handler) so the regression that
  motivated the opt-in pattern stays caught end-to-end. If a
  future list page genuinely needs row-wide click delegation,
  set `class="table table--clickable-rows"` on the `<table>` AND
  wire a real `<tr>`-level click handler AND ship the same
  keyboard a11y triple AND update the regression test's
  allowlist with the new opt-in variant — never restore the bare
  `.table tbody tr { cursor: pointer; }` shape (it would lie on
  every other table on the panel) and never ship a row-wide
  `onclick` without `role="button"` + `tabindex="0"` + `onkeydown`
  (it would exclude keyboard users from the affordance).
- Viewport-based `@media` queries for hiding `.table` columns
  (`@media (max-width: 1535px) { .col-tier-2 { display: none; } }`
  shape) → use `@container tablescroll (max-width: …)` rules
  against the container context `.table-scroll` carries (post-#1363
  it ships `container-type: inline-size; container-name: tablescroll;`).
  The viewport-keyed predecessors silently missed the page-cap on
  every list page — bans / comms cap their outer wrapper at 1700px,
  most other list pages cap at 1400px, and at viewport `>=1688px` the
  painted card is the same fixed width regardless of how wide the
  screen is. A 1920px monitor saw the same scroll-required layout as
  a 1535px laptop because the viewport breakpoint kept tier-2 / tier-3
  visible at both even though the painted card was identical (1352px
  on the 1400px-capped pages). Container queries on `.table-scroll`
  see the actual painted width and react accordingly. See
  "Responsive desktop-table chrome" in Conventions for the full
  contract; the regression guards are
  `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/banlist-table-columns.spec.ts` (asserts
  Remove button reachability at 1280 / 1440 / 1920px) and
  `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/banlist-ip-column.spec.ts` (asserts the
  IP column — tier-3 — is visible at 1920px).
- Lifting an arbitrary list page's outer-wrapper `max-width` past
  1400px without auditing every column's per-row content cost →
  bans / comms specifically lifted to 1700px at #1363 because (a)
  the columns include the row-actions cell which can't shrink past
  the action-button text labels, and (b) the SecondsToString-built
  Length column is the single biggest contributor to the table
  min-content. The lift only paid off because the column-tier
  hiding migrated to container queries in the same commit so the
  wider card actually surfaces tier-3 columns at viewport
  `>=1788px`. A naive "raise the cap on every list page so users
  with wide monitors see more" loses the value the cap provides
  (line lengths in cell content stay readable; page chrome doesn't
  feel windswept on ultrawide monitors) AND, on pages where the
  column-tier classes were never added (admin reports, audit log,
  etc.), exposes the row to clipping or the in-card horizontal
  scroll the wrapper was supposed to be a safety net for, not a
  primary scrolling surface. The 1700px cap is justified per page;
  most list pages should stay at 1400px.
- Non-wrapping `display: flex` on `.table .row-actions` (the
  pre-#1359 shape: `display: flex; gap: 0.25rem; justify-content:
  flex-end` with NO `flex-wrap: wrap`) → with 3+ buttons carrying
  text labels (Edit / Unban / Re-apply / Copy / Remove on the
  banlist; Edit / Unmute / Re-apply / Remove on the commslist) the
  cell's natural width is ~340-440px on a single line; combined
  with the rest of a 9-10-column list at the default desktop
  viewport (1280px → main ~1000px usable after the sidebar) the
  table's natural width pushes well past the panel even after
  tier-2 / tier-3 columns hide. `.table-scroll`'s `overflow-x: auto`
  then triggers an in-card horizontal scrollbar and the rightmost
  Remove button silently sits off the visible card edge until the
  user discovers the scroll (#1359 — the user-reported regression
  on the banlist after #1354's row-action parity sweep added the
  text labels, but the same shape lurks on commslist too). The
  contract is `flex-wrap: wrap` on the desktop table's
  `.row-actions` so buttons stack onto a second line when there's
  no horizontal room — same shape the mobile `.ban-card__actions`
  (line ~1446) and the mobile `details.queue-row > summary >
  .row-actions` (line ~1351) already use. The cell still carries
  `white-space: nowrap` so each individual button's content stays
  on one line; only the BETWEEN-button gap wraps. Regression
  guard: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/banlist-table-columns.spec.ts`'s
  "Remove button is reachable without horizontal scroll on a
  realistic row" assertion. Don't reach for a different fix shape
  (icon-only buttons, viewport-keyed display: none on individual
  actions, overflow menus) without first asking whether the
  established `flex-wrap` pattern is enough — every existing
  row-action surface in the panel already converges on it.
- Surfacing per-row admin-authored comments behind a silent count
  badge (`<span class="text-xs text-muted">[N]</span>`) without an
  affordance → that's the v2.0 RC regression that wiped per-ban
  comment discoverability after the #1123 D1 sourcebans.js cutover
  deleted the `mooaccordion` inline panel (#BANLIST-COMMENTS).
  The page handlers (`page.banlist.php` line 766 / `page.commslist.php`
  line 734) still build per-row `commentdata`, but a non-interactive
  badge with no visual affordance reads as decorative — users
  reasonably conclude the comments are gone, and the commslist
  case is worse because there's no drawer fallback either. New /
  reworked surfaces with per-row comment data must use the inline
  `<details data-testid="ban-comments-inline">` disclosure shape
  (`page_bans.tpl` / `page_comms.tpl` reference). The drawer's
  `[data-testid="drawer-comments"]` mirror is the secondary surface
  on the banlist; on the commslist it's the only display the public
  table cell offers. Don't reach for a `<button>` that opens the
  drawer "to save bytes" — every row already carries the data
  payload the disclosure renders, so the byte cost is fixed; the
  drawer round-trip is a per-click latency spike for admins
  scanning a list.
- Bare HTML-entity glyphs (`&#9998;` ✎ / `&#10003;` ✓ / `&#8634;` ↺
  / `&#128203;` 📋 / `&#10005;` ✕ / etc.) as row-action button labels
  → use Lucide icons (`<i data-lucide="pencil|check|rotate-ccw|copy|trash-2|x">`)
  with `data-tooltip` + `aria-label` on icon-only buttons
  (`class="btn btn--ghost|secondary btn--icon btn--sm"` inside
  `.row-actions.row-actions--icons`). The bare-entity shape was what
  the v2.0 banlist row-actions cell shipped while the sibling
  commslist row used Lucide icons + text labels — the inconsistency
  read as broken icons / a different app, and screen readers
  announced the glyph code rather than the action. Density chrome
  for banlist / commslist / admin-admins is icon-only + the themed
  `data-tooltip` contract from `sb.js` (admins list is the
  reference). Icons are 14×14 inline-sized
  (`style="width:14px;height:14px"`); Remove puts
  `color:var(--danger)` on the icon, not the button. Pinned by
  `web/tests/integration/PublicBanListRegressionTest::testBanlistRowActionsUseLucideIconsNotEntityGlyphs`.
- `onclick="event.stopPropagation()"` on a `[data-copy]` button →
  the document-level COPY BUTTONS delegate in `theme.js` listens on
  the bubble phase, so an element-level `stopPropagation` silently
  kills it (no toast, no clipboard write, no console error — exactly
  the symptom in #1308 Defect A). The desktop banlist row's drawer
  trigger is the player-name anchor, NOT a row-level delegate, so a
  bubbling click from a sibling button has nothing to confuse. If a
  future row-level click handler is genuinely needed, switch the
  delegate to capture phase (`addEventListener('click', …, true)`)
  rather than re-adding stopPropagation; capture fires top-down
  before any element-level stop can intervene.
- `if (navigator.clipboard) navigator.clipboard.writeText(value);
  showToast({kind:'success', title:'Copied'});` — the unconditional
  success toast lies on plain HTTP / non-secure contexts where
  `navigator.clipboard` is `undefined` (typical self-hoster behind a
  TLS-terminating reverse proxy where the panel sees plain HTTP).
  Same shape, different wreckage: `writeText()`'s Promise can reject
  (permission denied, focus stolen) and the success toast still
  fires. Copy affordances must (1) feature-detect both
  `navigator.clipboard` AND `window.isSecureContext`, (2) chain
  `.then(success, fallback)` on the Promise so a rejection drops
  to a fallback, (3) reach for the `copyFallback()` hidden-textarea
  + `document.execCommand('copy')` shape on either failure path. The
  COPY BUTTONS delegate in `theme.js` is the single source for every
  `[data-copy]` surface; mirror its shape (and `handlePaletteCopyShortcut`
  for the Ctrl/Cmd+Enter palette path) when adding new copy hooks
  outside the document delegate (#1308 Defect B).
- Reason-less, no-confirm unban / unmute / ungag (or any other
  irreversible state-flip on a row) → the JSON action AND the
  legacy GET fallback both must require a non-empty `ureason`,
  and the row's affordance must open a confirm modal that prompts
  for it. v1.x had both safeguards via sourcebans.js's
  `UnbanBan()` / `UnMuteBan()` / `UnGagBan()` helpers; v2.0
  silently accepted `ureason=''` for ~18 months and the audit
  log lost the *why* behind every block lift (#1301). The
  reference shape is `#bans-unban-dialog` / `#comms-unblock-dialog`
  in `page_bans.tpl` / `page_comms.tpl` (see "Add a confirm +
  reason modal …" in "Where to find what"). `Log::add(LogType::Message,
  "Player Unbanned", "$name … Reason: $ureason")` is the
  audit-trail shape — drop the reason in the message, never the
  bare "Player X has been unbanned." that v2.0 shipped.
- Native `required` on the textarea inside a confirm + reason
  `<dialog>` form → use `aria-required="true"` only. The native
  `required` constraint fires the browser's own validation
  popover BEFORE the form's `submit` event reaches our handler,
  swallowing the inline-error UX (the testid we surface for
  empty-reason inline errors stays `hidden` because our
  `e.preventDefault(); showError('Please leave a comment.')`
  path never runs). `aria-required` keeps assistive tech in the
  loop without arming the native gate; the JS submit handler is
  the client-side error display, and the server is the
  load-bearing gate.
- Inert `[data-hydrate="<field>"]` placeholders (or any other
  hydration-target attribute) on a `[data-testid="server-tile"]`
  card without the `web/scripts/server-tile-hydrate.js` script
  include + `data-server-hydrate="auto"` wrapper attribute → the
  cells stay at the em-dash forever, which is exactly the regression
  #1313 fixed on the admin Server Management list. Both card-grid
  surfaces (public + admin) ride the shared helper; new surfaces
  with the same card shape MUST emit the canonical testids
  (`[data-testid="server-{status,map,players,host}"]`) and pull
  the helper rather than copy-paste a fresh inline `<script>` block.
  See "Hydrate server-tile cards…" under "Where to find what" for
  the full selector + container contract.
- Removing `<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no…">`
  from `core/header.tpl` (or the defensive `.drawer a[href^="tel:"]`
  reset in `theme.css`) → mobile Safari + some Android Chromes
  auto-detect colon-/digit-heavy strings like `STEAM_0:0:N`,
  `[U:1:N]`, and IPs as phone numbers and overlay a tap-to-dial
  link with the platform's accent colour (#1207 DET-1: pinkish on
  iOS dark, blueish on Android). The chrome doesn't have a single
  phone number on it; the meta is the canonical opt-out and the
  CSS reset is the belt-and-suspenders for variants that ignore it.
- Re-adding a labelled search input or a visible `Ctrl K` / `⌘K` hint
  to the topbar palette trigger (the `.topbar__search` button in
  `core/title.tpl`) → the labelled shape was a duplicate affordance
  for the same `<dialog id="palette-root">` the ⌘K shortcut already
  opens, and on mobile it broke the topbar (#1207 CC-1, slice 1) and
  on desktop it visibly competed with the palette itself (#1207 CC-3,
  slice 9). The trigger is now icon-only at every viewport, matching
  the sibling theme-toggle's chrome. The `.topbar__search-label` /
  `.topbar__search-kbd` spans stay in the DOM for SR users + the
  Mac glyph swap, but `display: none` everywhere — don't unhide them.
- Moving `<footer class="app-footer">` back outside `<div class="app">`
  (the body-level sibling shape from before #1271's structural fix) →
  `.sidebar` is `position: sticky; top: 0; height: 100vh` and its
  sticky containing block is `.app`. Pulling the footer out leaves
  `.app` `footerHeight` short of the document, so on tall pages the
  sidebar releases at the bottom (brand cuts off) and on barely-tall
  pages where `docHeight - viewport ≤ footerHeight` (the bare-e2e
  `?p=admin&c=audit` shape) the entire scroll range falls inside the
  release phase and the sidebar appears to track the scroll — exactly
  the symptom rumblefrog reported in #1271. The footer must stay as
  the last flex column item of `<div class="main">`. The
  `align-self: flex-start` on `.sidebar` (added by #1278) is
  defensive parity with `.admin-sidebar`, NOT the load-bearing fix —
  a future refactor that puts the footer back outside `.app` will
  silently regress even with `align-self` in place. The regression
  guard is `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/sidebar-sticky.spec.ts`'s
  strict `top===0` assertion at scroll=`document.scrollHeight`.
- Pinning `<aside id="drawer-root">` or `<dialog id="palette-root">`
  inside `<div class="app">` "to be consistent with the footer" → the
  drawer is `position: fixed; right: 0; top: 0; height: 100%`
  (right-pinned panel, NOT full-bleed — `inset: 0` is on the
  separate `.drawer-backdrop`); `<dialog>` promotes itself to the
  top layer when `showModal()`-ed. Both are conceptually top-layer
  overlays — they're not part of the app shell's layout, so they
  belong outside `.app` for the same reason a Linear/Notion modal
  isn't nested inside the page header. The defensiveness reason is
  CSS containing-block scoping: a future refactor that declares
  `transform`, `filter`, `perspective`, `contain: layout`, or
  `will-change: transform` on `.app` (or any descendant in the
  drawer's would-be ancestry) RE-ESTABLISHES THE CONTAINING BLOCK
  for `position: fixed` descendants per CSS Position Module §3.2 —
  the drawer would suddenly be positioned relative to that
  ancestor instead of the viewport, painting at the wrong size /
  in the wrong place. Keeping the drawer as a direct `<body>`
  child sidesteps that landmine. The structural-fix concern that
  motivated #1271 (sidebar's sticky CB short of the document)
  doesn't apply — `position: fixed` removes the drawer from flow,
  so it cannot grow `.app`'s height.

## Where to find what

| Need to …                              | Look at                                                  |
| -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| Understand request lifecycle           | `ARCHITECTURE.md` ("Page request lifecycle" / "JSON API request lifecycle") |
| Edit a docs page or add a new one (the Astro + Starlight site published at sbpp.github.io) | `docs/src/content/docs/<group>/<slug>.md` (or `.mdx` when the page uses tabs / cards / asides — e.g. `getting-started/quickstart.mdx`, `setup/mariadb.mdx`). New pages also need a sidebar entry in `docs/astro.config.mjs` (the `sidebar:` array). Site config + theme tokens live in `docs/astro.config.mjs` + `docs/src/styles/sbpp.css`. The Starlight chrome ships from `@astrojs/starlight`; layout overrides land under `docs/src/components/` (see `ThemeProvider.astro` for the canonical override shape). Local dev: `cd docs && npm install && npm run dev`. CI gates: `.github/workflows/docs-build.yml` (per-PR build), `docs-deploy-trigger.yml` (main → repository_dispatch into sbpp.github.io), `docs-screenshots.yml` (gated on the `affects-ui` label, runs `docs/scripts/capture.mjs`). Source of truth is here; sbpp.github.io is the deploy shell only (#1333). |
| Refresh installer / panel screenshots used in docs pages | `docs/scripts/capture.mjs` (Playwright; `npm run capture` in `docs/`). Output lands under `docs/src/assets/auto/{install,panel}/<stable-slug>.png` so docs pages keep referencing the same path across runs. CI does this automatically on PRs labelled `affects-ui`; locally run after `./sbpp.sh up`. STEAM_API_KEY is the all-zero dummy `00000000000000000000000000000000`. |
| Add a JSON action                      | `web/api/handlers/_register.php` + `web/api/handlers/<topic>.php` |
| Add or audit a publicly-reachable, unauthenticated auth surface (anything in `web/api/handlers/auth.php` or sibling registered as `requireAuth: false`) without leaking per-account state | The reference shape is `api_auth_lost_password` + `_api_auth_lost_password_generic_response` in `web/api/handlers/auth.php` (#1456). All reachable branches MUST return the same envelope; operator-side toggles (e.g. `config.enablenormallogin`) MAY surface as a per-toggle error code because the value is the same for every caller. The pre-#1456 shape branched on `not_registered` / `mail_failed` and let an unauthenticated visitor enumerate registered admin emails one request at a time by reading the painted toast back. See "Public auth surfaces: response-shape uniformity" in Conventions for the full contract (audit-log discipline, DB-write gating, SMTP gating, the documented response-time residual risk) + the matching Anti-patterns entry. Regression guards: `web/tests/api/AuthTest.php::testLostPasswordResponseIsIdenticalForKnownAndUnknownEmail` (byte-for-byte wire assertion) + `web/tests/api/__snapshots__/auth/lost_password_generic.json` (locked envelope) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/lostpassword-toast.spec.ts` (chrome-side parity: same painted toast for known + unknown emails). Sibling surfaces still subject to follow-up (documented under the convention): `api_auth_login` branches its `Api::redirect()` target on per-account state via `?m=…` flags. |
| Resolve / override the JSON-API endpoint URL the client-side `sb.api.call(...)` POSTs to | `web/scripts/api.js` (`resolveEndpoint()` — runs once at script-load, computes `new URL('../api.php', document.currentScript.src).href`). The script lives at `/scripts/api.js` regardless of which page loads it, so resolving `../api.php` against the script's own URL lands on the panel-root `/api.php` for top-level page renders, iframe-routed surfaces (`pages/admin.kickit.php` / `pages/admin.blockit.php`), AND subdir installs (`https://host/sourcebans/` → script at `…/scripts/api.js` → endpoint at `…/api.php`). The endpoint stays writable on `sb.api` so callers can swap it; do not edit the resolver to a bare `'./api.php'` literal — that's the pre-#1433 regression shape that 404s every iframe round-trip (`./api.php` resolves against the iframe's document URL `/pages/admin.kickit.php` → `/pages/api.php`, no such route). **Load via static `<script src="…">` only** — `document.currentScript` is `null` when the script is appended programmatically (`document.createElement('script')`, `<script>document.write(...)</script>`, async loaders, ES-module `import()`), and a null `currentScript` collapses `SCRIPT_SRC` to the empty string and silently falls back to the bare-relative `./api.php` — i.e. the exact pre-#1433 bug. The three static load sites in the default theme are `core/header.tpl` (top-level panel chrome → `./scripts/api.js`), `page_kickit.tpl`, and `page_blockit.tpl` (iframe surfaces → `../scripts/api.js`); a theme fork that wants to lazy-load needs its own paired endpoint resolver. Pinned by `web/tests/integration/ApiJsEndpointResolutionTest.php` (static) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (runtime). |
| Stamp `SB_VERSION` / `MAJOR_REVISION` before compiling SourceMod plugins | `game/addons/sourcemod/scripting/scripts/resolve-plugin-version.sh` → `include/sbpp_version.inc` (included from `sourcebanspp.inc` + `sbpp_checker.sp`). Tiers: `SBPP_RELEASE_VERSION` (release tag in `release.yml`) → `web/configs/version.json` → `git describe` → `dev`. Checked-in `sbpp_version.inc` is the direct-compile fallback. Regression: `web/tests/integration/PluginVersionResolveTest.php`. |
| Validate a server-address input (IPv4 / IPv6 / hostname) on either Add-Server (`api_servers_add`) or Edit-Server (`admin.edit.server.php`) | Shared validator pattern: `filter_var($x, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) \|\| filter_var($x, FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN, FILTER_FLAG_HOSTNAME)`. Both surfaces MUST share the same predicate so a value either round-trips through Add AND Edit or fails on both (#1433); pre-fix the JSON dispatcher ran IP-only while the page handler ran a too-loose hand-rolled `^[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+$` regex. The matching schema-width gate (`strlen($x) > 64`, surfacing as `validation` envelope or `$validationErrors['address']`) is paired with the IP/hostname check because `:prefix_servers.ip` is `VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL` (see `web/install/includes/sql/struc.sql`) — well below RFC 1035's 253-char hostname max, and MariaDB strict mode would otherwise raise `SQLSTATE[22001] 1406 Data too long for column 'ip'` mid-INSERT (generic 500 + no audit-log entry). Bumping the column to `VARCHAR(255)` is a paired schema-migration follow-up. Pinned by `web/tests/api/ServersTest.php::testAddAcceptsHostname` / `testAddAcceptsFqdn` / `testAddAcceptsBareIPv6` / `testAddRejectsAddressExceedingSchemaWidth` / `testAddRefusesDuplicateHostnamePort` / `testAddRejectsWhitespaceInAddress`. |
| Add or rename a permission             | `web/configs/permissions/web.json`, then regen contract  |
| Render a page                          | `web/pages/<page>.php` + `web/includes/View/*View.php`   |
| Add a new edit page in the admin.edit.* cluster (e.g. `admin.edit.<x>.php`) | `web/pages/admin.edit.<x>.php` (the page handler — thin "validate input, build View, render" shape) + `web/includes/View/AdminEdit<X>View.php` (typed View DTO) + `web/themes/default/page_admin_edit_<x>.tpl` (template). Shared helpers live in `web/pages/_admin_edit_helpers.php` (`sbpp_admin_edit_die_with_toast()` for permission / not-found guards, `sbpp_admin_edit_emit_tail_script()` for form-success / validation-error feedback that fires `window.SBPP.showToast()` and writes errors into `<id>.msg` divs, `sbpp_admin_edit_collect_rehash_sids()` for the post-save Rehash Admins step). Anti-patterns to avoid: inline `echo '<form>...'` blocks, `echo '<div id="msg-red">…'` banners, MooTools `$('id').value` reads, legacy JS handler names (`ButtonOver`, `ProcessEditAdminPermissions`, etc.) — all swept as part of the v2.0 rewrite. CSRF gate every POST via `\CSRF::rejectIfInvalid();` after the `isset($_POST['<sentinel>'])` arm. |
| Wire a `window.opener.<callback>(...)` slot on the parent template of a popup file-upload page (e.g. `window.icon`, `window.demo`, `window.mapimg`) | The parent template defines `window.<callback> = function (filename) { … }` inside an inline `<script>` block (use the `{literal}…{/literal}` Smarty guard so `{` / `}` inside the JS body don't trigger Smarty parsing). The function patches the parent form's hidden input (e.g. `document.getElementById('icon_hid').value = filename;`) and any visible affordances (toggle a thumbnail preview, swap a "Choose file" label for the filename). Reference: `web/themes/default/page_admin_mods_add.tpl` + `page_admin_edit_mod.tpl` for the `window.icon` wiring (#1402), and `web/themes/default/page_admin_bans_add.tpl` / `page_admin_edit_ban.tpl` for the `window.demo` wiring. Without this slot the popup emits `<script>window.opener.icon('foo.jpg')</script>` and the call throws `TypeError: window.opener.icon is not a function` — popup never closes, the parent form's hidden input never updates, the uploaded asset is orphaned on disk. The `UploadHandler` emits the call unconditionally; the parent's job is to be ready for it. |
| Add a popup file-upload page (demo / icon / mapimage / new asset type) | `Sbpp\Upload\UploadHandler::handle()` (`web/includes/Upload/UploadHandler.php`). The page handler at `web/pages/admin.upload<x>.php` is a thin wrapper passing the per-page knobs (`permission` mask, `field` `$_FILES` key, `allowed` extensions, `destDir`, `callback` JS function name on `window.opener`, `auditOk` / `auditFmt` / `errorMsg` / `title` / `formName` / `formats` strings, optional `renameToHash` for demo-style randomised filenames). The handler runs CSRF + permission check, sanitises `$_FILES[…]['name']` via `sanitiseName()` (basename + strip backslashes + trim leading dots — defends LFI on the icon / mapimage paths where the filename hits disk), `move_uploaded_file()`s to the destination, calls `Log::add(LogType::Message, …)`, and on success emits the `<script>window.opener.<callback>(...)</script>` blob the parent page picks up. The three reference call sites (`admin.uploaddemo.php`, `admin.uploadicon.php`, `admin.uploadmapimg.php`) are 30-line wrappers; new asset types should match that line budget. Anti-pattern: hand-rolling the move / log / popup-emission sequence per page (the pre-v2.0 shape). |
| Edit a template                        | `web/themes/default/*.tpl`                               |
| Reuse the moderation-queue card layout (admin submissions / protests, mobile-stacked summary rows) | `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (`.queue-row`, `.queue-row__body`, `.queue-row__date` — #1207 PUB-2). Apply by adding `class="queue-row …"` to the outer `<details>` and dropping the inline `flex` / `flex-shrink:0` styles from the summary children. |
| Add visible row actions to a table-rendered admin list (Edit / Unmute / Remove buttons + responsive mobile-card mirror) | `web/themes/default/page_admin_admins_list.tpl` is the density reference: icon-only `<a class="btn btn--ghost btn--icon btn--sm">` / `<button class="btn btn--secondary btn--icon btn--sm">` inside `.row-actions.row-actions--icons`, with `data-tooltip` + `aria-label` (themed tooltip via `sb.js`). Public banlist / commslist (`page_bans.tpl` / `page_comms.tpl`) follow the same chrome on `table table--compact` desktop tables (tighter cell padding + 22px avatars + 1.75rem icon buttons via `.table.table--compact .row-actions--icons .btn--icon.btn--sm`), plus `.ban-card__actions` mobile rows. Wire destructive / state-changing buttons via `data-action="…"` + `data-bid` + `data-fallback-href`; the inline page-tail JS calls `sb.api.call(Actions.PascalName)` and falls back to the GET URL if the JSON dispatcher is absent. Banlist Remove points at the legacy GET handler (`?p=banlist&a=delete&id=…&key=…`) because no JSON `bans.delete` action exists yet. |
| Wire a comment-delete trash icon on any of the four comment-rendering surfaces (banlist, commslist, admin.bans protests, admin.bans submissions) | `web/scripts/comment-actions.js` (#1402). Single document-level dispatcher loaded from `core/footer.tpl` (`<script src="./scripts/comment-actions.js" defer>`) that picks up every `[data-action="comment-delete"]` click, opens a shared `#comment-delete-dialog` `<dialog>` (injected once by the script), then `sb.api.call(Actions.BansRemoveComment, { cid, ctype, page })`. The four call sites emit the trigger with `data-cid="<int>"` + `data-ctype="<B|C|S|P>"` + `data-page="<int>"` (the page number for client-side row-hide / paginator-aware redirect; `data-page="-1"` is the sentinel for unpaginated moderation queues). The `ctype` letter matches `:prefix_comments.type` (B=ban, C=comm-block, S=submission, P=protest); `api_bans_remove_comment`'s `ctype` arm consumes all four. Don't duplicate the dispatcher inline per page — the single mount point is the contract, otherwise a future bug-fix has to land in four places. Do NOT reintroduce `window.confirm()` for this surface. |
| Add a confirm + reason modal for an irreversible row-level action (unban, lift comm block, delete admin, delete mod, …) | `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl` (`#bans-unban-dialog`, `Actions.BansUnban`) and `web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl` (`#comms-unblock-dialog`, `Actions.CommsUnblock`) are the canonical reference (#1301), with `web/themes/default/page_admin_admins_list.tpl` (`#admins-delete-dialog`, `Actions.AdminsRemove`, #1352) and `web/themes/default/page_admin_mods_list.tpl` (`#mod-delete-dialog`, `Actions.ModsRemove`, #1397) as the third and fourth references for the optional-reason variant. Confirm-only delete (no reason field): `#bans-delete-dialog` (legacy GET navigate), `#comms-delete-dialog` (`Actions.CommsDelete`), and `#comment-delete-dialog` (injected by `comment-actions.js`). Never use `window.confirm()` / `alert()` for these row actions. Shape: a `<dialog hidden>` with a `<form method="dialog">` carrying a `<textarea aria-required="true">` (or `aria-required="false"` for the optional-reason variant — see admins-delete / mod-delete; omit the textarea for confirm-only deletes) (NOT the native `required` — that lets the browser block the form submit before our handler runs, swallowing the inline-error UX), a Cancel button, and a Confirm submit button. The page-tail JS opens the dialog via `showModal()` on `[data-action]` clicks, validates the trimmed reason on submit (load-bearing gate is server-side), forwards `ureason` to the JSON action, and on success flips the row in place via the same `flipRowToUnbanned`/`flipRowToUnmuted` helper the legacy single-click flow used (or removes the row outright + decrements the count badge for the admins-delete / mod-delete / comms-delete variants where there's no "now-unbanned" state to render). The legacy GET fallback (`?p=banlist&a=unban&id=…&key=…&ureason=…` / `?p=commslist&a=ungag…&ureason=…`) is the no-JS / hand-edited-URL path; both halves now reject empty `ureason` server-side so the audit log carries the *why*. The admins-delete and mod-delete variants have no legacy GET handler — `RemoveAdmin()` / `RemoveMod()` always went through the JSON dispatcher pre-#1123 D1 — so their `data-fallback-href` lands the operator back at the list page as a graceful no-op when the JSON dispatcher is missing entirely (third-party theme stripping `api.js`); the audit-log "Reason: …" suffix is only emitted when `ureason` is non-empty (vs always-emitted on the bans / comms variants where reason is required). **Do not** put `onclick="event.stopPropagation()"` on the trigger button — `document.addEventListener('click')` is how the dialog opener picks the click up, and stopPropagation would silently swallow it (the action button isn't inside any `[data-drawer-href]` ancestor anyway, so the defensiveness was a copy-paste from the row-name anchor that doesn't apply here). The submit button MUST flip through `setBusy(submitBtn, true)` BEFORE `sb.api.call(...)` leaves the page and clear via `setBusy(submitBtn, false)` on every non-navigating response branch — see "Loading state on action buttons" in Conventions for the contract, the inline-script local wrapper shape, and the regression guard. |
| Emit a toast from a server-side branch (lostpassword reset success, banlist GET-fallback unban result, admin.edit.* not-found guard, …) | `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit($kind, $title, $body, ?$redirect, ?$duration_ms)` (`web/includes/View/Toast.php`). Stashes the payload in a `<script type="application/json" class="sbpp-pending-toast">…</script>` block that `theme.js`'s `flushPendingToasts` picks up on `DOMContentLoaded`. Always FQN at call sites (no `use Sbpp\View\Toast;` shim). The chrome JS renders the body through `escapeHtml`; the PHP JSON encoder uses `JSON_HEX_TAG \| JSON_HEX_AMP \| JSON_HEX_APOS \| JSON_HEX_QUOT \| JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE \| JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR` so a `</script>` in body cannot break out AND malformed UTF-8 in player names (the #1108 / #765 Latin-1-on-utf8 shape) substitutes to U+FFFD instead of throwing. Multi-toast safe: emit calls stack cleanly; the first non-empty `$redirect` wins (chrome navigates ~1500ms after the toast paints so the user can read it). The optional 5th arg `$duration_ms` (#1409) overrides the chrome's `SHOWTOAST_DEFAULT_DURATION` (~6000ms post-#1444; was ~4000ms in the v2 RC chrome) — `null` (default) keeps the chrome timing, `0` makes the toast persistent (no auto-dismiss; user must click the X button), `> 0` is an explicit ms override. The 5 NOT-* destructive-action-failed branches in `page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php` ("Player NOT Unbanned", "Ban NOT Deleted", "Player NOT UnGagged" × 2, "Ban NOT Deleted") pass `0` so severe-error confirmations don't auto-dismiss before the operator finishes reading. Negative `$duration_ms` throws `\InvalidArgumentException` (Fail closed; see "Duration semantics" in Conventions). Persistent + redirect are mutually exclusive (#1409): pass `null` for `$redirect` when emitting `duration_ms: 0` — the chrome's auto-redirect would otherwise navigate ~1500ms after paint, tearing down the persistent toast before the operator can acknowledge it. The chrome ALSO carries a whole-drain inhibit (`flushPendingToasts` skips the redirect setTimeout entirely when any block had `duration_ms: 0`) as defence-in-depth, but the call-site half (`$redirect=null`) is the primary contract pinned by `testNotStarBranchesPassPersistentDurationMs`'s strict regex (which disambiguates the two `Player NOT UnGagged` sites in `page.commslist.php` by body substring + asserts each site's call shape with `assertSame($expected_count, …)`). Painted ARIA role is kind-aware (#1409 review): `role="alert"` for `kind === 'error'` (assertive — screen readers interrupt to surface), `role="status"` for every other kind (polite). Persistent error toasts especially benefit from `alert` because the screen-reader user is the population least likely to notice a visual change without an auditory cue. Pair with `PageDie()` (or `exit`) whenever the handler's "render the page body" path is no longer meaningful — pre-#1403 the legacy `<script>ShowBox(...)</script>` shape carried its own `window.location` and beat the page render to the user; the lifted helper relies on the explicit redirect + the 1500ms settle. See "Server-side toast emission" in Conventions for the full contract (the "ARIA role contract" subsection covers the kind-aware role rationale). Pinned by `web/tests/integration/ToastEmitRegressionTest.php` (static grep + wire-format + JSON-escape + UTF-8-substitute + FIRST-wins-redirect + `duration_ms` omitted/set/negative/escape contracts + the 5 NOT-* call sites pass `duration_ms: 0` AND `$redirect=null` + call-site contract) and the six marquee E2E specs (`lostpassword-toast.spec.ts`, `protest-toast.spec.ts`, `banlist-getfallback-toast.spec.ts`, `commslist-getfallback-toast.spec.ts`, `admin-edit-comms-toast.spec.ts`, `toast-persistent-duration.spec.ts`). The lostpassword spec seeds the dev stack's mailpit and asserts the password-reset email lands at the right address — the marquee user-reported regression from the audit. The persistent-duration spec (#1409, thresholds updated in #1444) drives a NOT-* branch payload and asserts the toast is STILL visible past the default ~6000ms window; its sister regression-guard test drives `window.SBPP.showToast(...)` directly (no page-flow / redirect dependency, post-review reshape) and asserts a routine toast auto-dismisses inside the ~6000-8000ms window so a regression bumping or zeroing the default duration fails loudly. |
| Add a loading indicator to an action button that fires `sb.api.call(...)` without a page refresh | `window.SBPP.setBusy(btn, busy)` (`web/themes/default/js/theme.js`) writes the `data-loading="true"` + `aria-busy="true"` + `disabled` triple atomically; the CSS spinner lives in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` under `.btn[data-loading="true"]` + the `sbpp-btn-spin` keyframe. Inline page-tail scripts inside `.tpl` files define a local `setBusy(btn, busy)` wrapper that delegates to `window.SBPP.setBusy` when present and falls back to `btn.disabled = busy` so third-party themes that strip `theme.js` still gate against double-clicks. Canonical reference shapes: the three confirm-dialog flows (`page_comms.tpl` / `page_bans.tpl` / `page_admin_admins_list.tpl`), the form-submit flows (`page_admin_groups_list.tpl` / `page_admin_groups_add.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_add.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_email.tpl` / `page_youraccount.tpl` / `page_lostpassword.tpl` / `page_login.tpl`), the row-action flows (`page_admin_servers_list.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_protests.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_protests_archiv.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_submissions.tpl` / `page_admin_bans_submissions_archiv.tpl`), and the drawer Notes paths (`theme.js`'s `submitNoteForm` / `deleteNote`). Comment edit on the banlist (`web/scripts/banlist.js`) carries the same pattern for the `sb.api.call(BansEditComment)` round-trip. Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/action-loading-indicator.spec.ts` (stalls `Actions.CommsUnblock` via `page.route`, asserts the busy-attribute triple on the submit button while in flight, releases the route, and confirms the row flips in-place; the second test counts requests to prove the disabled gate blocks a double-click) **plus** `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts` (#1362 — samples `getComputedStyle(::after).transform` at multiple frame boundaries under both `reducedMotion: 'reduce'` AND `'no-preference'`, asserts the matrix values change across samples; catches the v2.0 RC1 regression where the global `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` reset froze the spinner under reduced motion). |
| Add a loading indicator to the player drawer or one of its lazy panes (so the chrome doesn't read as blank while the JSON action is in flight) | `renderDrawerLoading()` (header skeleton for the in-flight `bans.detail`) and `renderPaneSkeleton()` (placeholder for History / Comms / Notes activation) in `web/themes/default/js/theme.js`. Both lean on the `.skel` CSS rule in `theme.css` (linear-gradient + `shimmer` keyframe + dark-mode override + the `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` per-rule override that keeps the shimmer sliding even under reduced motion, #1362). The header skeleton carries `[data-testid="drawer-loading"]` + `aria-busy="true"` + per-block `[data-skeleton]` (terminal markers under `#drawer-root[data-loading="true"]`); the lazy-pane skeleton carries `[data-pane-empty]` + `aria-busy="true"` and deliberately omits `[data-skeleton]` because the panel parent's `hidden` attribute doesn't compose into `[data-skeleton]:not([hidden])` and a nested marker would stall every page-load waiter that runs after the drawer opens. Class name is `.skel` (singular) — NOT `.skeleton`; the pre-fix `class="skeleton"` typo had no matching rule and the shimmer rows rendered as transparent zero-background divs (the user-visible "drawer is blank" regression). Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/drawer-loading-indicator.spec.ts` (stalls `bans.detail` then `bans.player_history` via `page.route`, asserts the skeleton header is visible + the `.skel` block paints a `linear-gradient` background via `getComputedStyle(el).backgroundImage`, releases the routes, and confirms the drawer flips to `renderDrawerBody` / the pane fills with content) **plus** `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts` (#1362 — samples `getComputedStyle(.skel).backgroundPositionX` at multiple frame boundaries under both `reducedMotion: 'reduce'` AND `'no-preference'`, asserts the values change across samples; catches the v2.0 RC1 regression where the global reset froze the shimmer alongside the spinner). |
| Surface unban-reason / removed-by inline on a public-list row (admin-lifted bans / comms — banlist-ureason or commslist-ureason inline) | `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl` + `web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl` (#1315). Reason cell on the desktop table emits a `<div class="text-xs text-faint mt-1" data-testid="ban-unban-meta">` (or `comm-unban-meta` for comms) with "Unbanned by `<admin>`: `<reason>`" when `$ban.state == 'unbanned'` (or `$comm.state == 'unmuted'`); mobile cards mirror with the `-mobile` testid suffix. Always gated on `!$hideadminname` so anonymous viewers under a hidden-admins config don't get the admin name leaked. The `ureason` / `removedby` row fields come from the page handler's existing data path (`page.banlist.php` lines 635-643, `page.commslist.php` lines 626-635) — read-only render, no write-side overlap with #1301 / #1323's unban-reason flow. The commslist surface is higher-priority than the banlist (no drawer fallback on `<tr data-testid="comm-row">`); banlist users have the drawer as the canonical detail view. |
| Re-apply (Reban) affordance on the public banlist for expired / unbanned rows | `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl`. The desktop row-actions cell emits `<a class="btn btn--secondary btn--sm" data-testid="row-action-reapply" href="index.php?p=admin&c=bans&section=add-ban&rebanid={$ban.bid}&key={$admin_postkey}">…<i data-lucide="rotate-ccw">…Re-apply</a>` when `$can_add_ban && ($ban.state == 'expired' \|\| $ban.state == 'unbanned')`. The smart-default block on `admin.bans.php`'s `add-ban` section detects `?rebanid=…` and pre-populates the form via `BansPrepareReban`. Mobile parity (this PR) — the mobile card was restructured from a single wrapping `<a>` to the `page_comms.tpl` shape (`<div data-testid="ban-card">` wrapping `<a class="ban-card__summary" data-testid="drawer-trigger">` + a sibling `<div class="row-actions ban-card__actions">`), so the same Re-apply button surfaces under `data-testid="row-action-reapply-mobile"`. The drawer trigger stays the inner anchor's `data-drawer-href` + `data-testid="drawer-trigger"` so the existing responsive spec selector keeps working. |
| Fan rcon kick / block commands out to every enabled server after a successful `Actions.BansAdd` / `Actions.CommsAdd` (the hidden `<iframe id="srvkicker">` pattern) | `web/themes/default/page_admin_bans_add.tpl` (#1441 — `Actions.BansAdd .then(r => ...)` handler reads `r.data.kickit` and spawns the iframe pointing at `pages/admin.kickit.php?check=<check>&type=<type>`) + `web/themes/default/page_admin_comms_add.tpl` (the older sibling — `Actions.CommsAdd .then(r => ...)` reads `r.data.block` and spawns the iframe pointing at `pages/admin.blockit.php?check=<steam>&type=<type>&length=<length>`). The URL parameter `check=` is symmetric across both surfaces; the JS envelope field names are NOT — bans.add returns `r.data.kickit.check` while comms.add returns `r.data.block.steam`, because `api_bans_add` and `api_comms_add` chose different envelope shapes when the kickit/blockit envelopes were originally added. Always read the server-side envelope shape (`web/api/handlers/bans.php::api_bans_add` / `web/api/handlers/comms.php::api_comms_add`) FIRST when porting between the two branches. The iframe template (`web/themes/default/page_kickit.tpl` / `page_blockit.tpl`) auto-fires `Actions.KickitLoadServers` (or `Actions.BlockitLoadServers`) on `window.addEventListener('load', ...)` which enumerates enabled servers and fans out per-server `Actions.KickitKickPlayer` / `Actions.BlockitBlockPlayer` rcon calls. The iframe is `display: none` — the operator never sees it, but the panel can spawn it from any surface that needs server-side rcon side-effects (the right-click context menu's "Kick player" item navigates to the same `pages/admin.kickit.php` URL as a top-level document instead — see "Add or extend the server-player right-click context menu" row). Don't reach for `setBusy(submitBtn, false)` after spawning the iframe — the success branch keeps the button busy through the 2s `setTimeout` that reloads the parent page (matching `page_admin_comms_add.tpl`'s shape), preventing operators from queuing a second submit while rcon fans out. Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/ban-kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (#1441 — stubs both `Actions.BansAdd` and `pages/admin.kickit.php` at the network layer; asserts the iframe is spawned exactly once with `toBe(1)` on the request count so a future double-mount regression — e.g. a `.then()` chain that resolves twice, a `dispatchEvent` re-firing the submit handler, a `setBusy` gap — surfaces immediately) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (#1433 — exercises the deeper rcon round-trip via the context-menu path) + `web/tests/api/KickitTest.php` (PHPUnit — handler permission gate + malformed-input envelopes). Pre-#1441 the bans-add side carried a `typeof window.ShowKickBox === 'function'` guard pointing at a v1.x helper that was deleted at #1123 D1; the `if` body silently never ran and operators reported "banning doesn't kick" (the canonical "chrome reads as success while the load-bearing action never fired" UI regression — see the matching anti-pattern entry under Anti-patterns). |
| Wrap a public-list legacy advanced-search form (banlist / commslist) in a default-collapsed `<details class="filters-details">` disclosure | `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl` + `web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl` (#1315). The same `.filters-details` rules in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` cover the chrome (summary chevron, `[open]` state, hover bg, focus ring, count badge); the public-list usage adds a `.filters-details__body > form.card` rule that suppresses the inner card framing because the disclosure body wraps a `{load_template file="admin.bans.search"}` (or `…comms.search`) — i.e. a sibling page-render that emits its own `<form class="card">`. The View DTO (`Sbpp\View\BanListView` / `Sbpp\View\CommsListView`) carries a `bool $is_advanced_search_open` set by the page handler from `isset($_GET['advSearch']) && (string) $_GET['advSearch'] !== ''` so the legacy `?advSearch=…&advType=…` URL shim auto-opens the disclosure. Bare `?p=banlist` / `?p=commslist` and simple-bar filters (`?searchText=` / `?server=` / `?time=`) leave it closed so the unfiltered list reaches above the fold. Selectors anchor on `[data-testid="banlist-advsearch-disclosure"]` / `[data-testid="commslist-advsearch-disclosure"]` (the `<details>`) + the `…-toggle` (the `<summary>`) + the `…-active` count badge. The same `.filters-details` chrome was introduced for admin-admins by #1303 — both surfaces share the CSS so a future tweak is single-source. |
| Surface admin-authored per-ban / per-comm comments inline on the public banlist + commslist (`<details data-testid="ban-comments-inline">` / `comm-comments-inline`) | `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl` + `web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl` (#BANLIST-COMMENTS). Both desktop tables wrap the player-name anchor + comment chip in `.ban-player-cell__head` so the collapsed chip sits on the SAME line as the name (icon + tabular-nums count only; `title` / `aria-label` carry "N comment(s)"). The name uses `.ban-player-cell__name` (ellipsis truncate) so the chip never wraps alone; opened details take `flex-basis: 100%` and the body lists each comment below. CSS lives under `.ban-comments-inline*` in `theme.css`. The `nofilter` on comment text is load-bearing (`encodePreservingBr` + URL-wrap). Mobile cards keep a non-interactive count indicator (`ban-comments-count-mobile`). Gate: `$view_comments`. **#1500** also hides comment author/editor when `banlist.hideadminname` is on. Regression: `BanlistCommentsVisibilityTest` + `banlist-comments-visibility.spec.ts`. |
| Filter the public banlist by ban state (`?p=banlist&state=permanent\|active\|expired\|unbanned`) — server-side rowset narrowing for a chip strip | `web/pages/page.banlist.php` (#1352). The `?state=` value is allowlisted (`['permanent','active','expired','unbanned']`, anything else falls through to "All"), composed into the existing `$publicFilterAnd` / `$publicFilterWheren` SQL fragments via the per-state predicates documented inline. **Symmetric defensive shape across the four arms**: `permanent` / `active` BOTH require `RemovedOn IS NULL` (otherwise a pre-2.0 admin-lifted row with `ends > now` would match BOTH `?state=active` AND `?state=unbanned`); `expired` carries THREE arms (`RemoveType = 'E'` post-migration shape + `RemoveType IS NULL AND length > 0 AND ends < now AND RemovedOn IS NULL` for pre-475 installs the prune writer never touched + `RemoveType IS NULL AND RemovedOn IS NOT NULL AND length > 0 AND (RemovedBy IS NULL OR RemovedBy = 0)` for the fork-divergence shape `810.php` pass 2 backfills); `unbanned` carries TWO arms (`RemoveType IN ('D', 'U')` post-migration shape + `RemovedOn IS NOT NULL AND RemoveType IS NULL AND RemovedBy IS NOT NULL AND RemovedBy > 0` for pre-2.0 admin-lifts that `810.php` pass 1 backfills). The `RemovedBy > 0` vs `RemovedBy IS NULL OR = 0` split between unbanned / expired is the **load-bearing distinction** — natural expiry sets `RemovedBy = 0` (PruneBans) or NULL (pre-475); admin lifts set `RemovedBy = <aid>`. The View DTO (`Sbpp\View\BanListView`) carries `string $active_state` + `string $chip_base_link`; the chip strip in `web/themes/default/page_bans.tpl` renders as real `<a href="index.php?p=banlist{$chip_base_link}&state=…">` anchors with `aria-current="true"` (NOT `aria-pressed` — only valid on role=button; axe rejects it on `<a>` as `aria-allowed-attr`) and `data-active="true"` server-rendered on the matching chip — never `<button onclick=…>` (the legacy `web/scripts/banlist.js applyStateFilter` row-hide layer was a client-side filter on top of server-side pagination, so on installs with thousands of bans the unbanned chip silently rendered an empty page 1). The "Hide inactive" toggle is suppressed in the template when `$active_state !== ''` so the two predicates (`hideinactive` is `RemoveType IS NULL`; `?state=expired` / `unbanned` ask for the OPPOSITE) don't visually fight. Pagination URLs preserve `&state=` via `$stateFilterLink`; the per-row state classifier in the same file mirrors the SQL filter (a row pulled in by `?state=unbanned` renders the Unbanned pill, never the legacy mis-classified "Active" pill). The JSON API parity surface is `api_bans_detail` + `api_bans_player_history` in `web/api/handlers/bans.php` — same `isPre2AdminLift` defensive branch so the drawer's detail view + the history pane don't visibly contradict the SQL filter. Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/BanListStateFilterTest.php` (per-state row inclusion / exclusion + chip render contract + suppressed Hide-inactive toggle + symmetric `expired` arm 3 contract), `web/tests/integration/UpdaterBackfillRemoveTypeTest.php` (the migration's idempotency + two-pass cross-contamination contract), `web/tests/api/BansTest.php::testDetailReportsUnbannedForPre2AdminLiftWithRemoveTypeNull` (API parity), `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/banlist.spec.ts` + `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/filters.spec.ts` (mobile chip click navigates + asserts `aria-current` rather than `history.replaceState` + `aria-pressed`'ing). |
| Edit the player-detail drawer (open trigger, tabs, panes, lazy loaders) | `web/themes/default/js/theme.js` (`renderDrawerBody` / `loadPaneIfNeeded`). The drawer handles two focal kinds via `drawerKind` (`'ban'` / `'comm'`): the bans list ships `data-drawer-bid` / `data-drawer-href` on row anchors, the comms list ships `data-drawer-cid`. `loadDrawer({kind, id})` dispatches to `Actions.BansDetail` (bid → `bans.detail`) or `Actions.CommsDetail` (cid → `comms.detail`) and stamps the response into `drawerDetail`. `loadPaneIfNeeded` then keys lazy panes off the focal kind: bans-focal History sends `{bid}` (handler excludes the focal via `BA.bid <> ?`); comm-focal History sends `{authid: drawerDetail.player.steam_id}` (no focal to exclude — different table); bans-focal Comms sends `{bid}` (resolves to authid; no comm to exclude); comm-focal Comms sends `{cid}` (handler excludes the focal cid via `C.bid <> ?` — sister contract to the bans-focal History exclusion so the Overview pane and the Comms tab don't render the same record twice). The Notes tab is admin-only and shared across both focal kinds (keys off `player.steam_id`). |
| Add a comms-list player drawer parity surface (mirror the banlist's `data-drawer-href` row anchor with a comm-focal equivalent) | The desktop `<tr data-testid="comm-row">` and mobile `<div data-testid="comm-card">` rows in `web/themes/default/page_comms.tpl` carry a player-name anchor with `data-drawer-cid="{$comm.cid}"` + `data-testid="drawer-trigger"`. The `href` falls back to a useful no-JS surface (`?p=commslist&id=…` desktop / `?p=commslist&searchText=…` mobile) so the affordance still leads somewhere when JS is off / `theme.js` is stripped by a third-party theme. The drawer JS (`theme.js`'s document `click` delegate at `[data-drawer-bid], [data-drawer-cid], [data-drawer-href]`) routes the click through `keyFromTrigger(trigger)` which returns `{kind: 'comm', id}` for cid triggers; downstream `loadDrawer` dispatches `Actions.CommsDetail` and the renderer branches on `drawerKind === 'comm'` for the header chip ("Comm #N") and the Overview pane's focal-block grid (`[data-testid="drawer-block"]` with `Type` / `Reason` / `Started` / `Ends` rows — vs `[data-testid="drawer-ban"]` on the bans-focal path). The handler is `api_comms_detail` in `web/api/handlers/comms.php` (sister to `api_bans_detail`, same envelope shape modulo `cid` instead of `bid` / `block` instead of `ban` / `'unmuted'` instead of `'unbanned'` in the state vocab — both `api_comms_detail` AND `api_comms_player_history` use `'unmuted'` for `RemoveType IN ('U', 'D')` rows so the drawer's Overview pane and Comms tab don't render contradictory state labels for the same player). Public action; field-level hide-* gating mirrors `bans.detail`. Pill CSS lives next to `.pill--unbanned` in `theme.css` (`.pill--unmuted` carries the same success-bg + emerald colour treatment because admin-lifted is admin-lifted regardless of the focal kind). The drawer JS's `stateLabel()` switch in `theme.js` carries the matching `'unmuted' → 'Unmuted'` arm. Regression guards: `web/tests/api/CommsTest.php` (snapshot + state vocab + lifted-block branch + permanent-block branch + `comms.player_history` cid path with focal exclusion + 404 on unknown cid + lone-focal empty-feed shape) and `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/ui/comms-drawer.spec.ts` (desktop) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/drawer.spec.ts` (mobile — clicking a `.ban-cards [data-testid="drawer-trigger"]` opens the comm-focal drawer, header reads "Comm #N", Type row in Overview pane). The desktop spec mirrors `player-drawer.spec.ts`'s isolation strategy — NO `truncateE2eDb` between tests, unique authids per (subtest × project × worker), and `seedCommOrAccept` / `seedBanOrAccept` helpers that tolerate `already_blocked` / `already_banned` so a Playwright retry on the same worker reuses the existing row. Adding a per-test truncate would only widen the cross-file race window where a concurrent worker's API call lands during another worker's truncate→reseed gap and gets a `forbidden` cascade; the comms-drawer tests are read-shaped (open the drawer, assert the chrome) so authid-namespacing is enough. |
| Render the per-server map thumbnail in the expanded public server card | `web/themes/default/page_servers.tpl` (`<img data-testid="server-map-img" hidden>` slot inside `[data-testid="server-players-panel"]`) + `web/scripts/server-tile-hydrate.js`'s `applyData()` (patches `src` from `r.data.mapimg`, toggles `hidden` on `load` / `error`). The lookup is feature-detected via the testid so the admin Server Management list (which does NOT ship the slot) silently no-ops. The URL itself comes from global helper `\GetMapImage()` in `web/includes/system-functions.php` (falls back to `images/maps/nomap.jpg` when the file is missing); the bundled `nomap.jpg` placeholder ships under `web/images/maps/`. The slot must default to `hidden` and stay hidden on the `error` branch — fork installs without `nomap.jpg` would otherwise paint a broken-image icon. Sizing (#1375): the inline style is `display:block;width:100%;max-width:340px;height:auto;margin:0 auto 0.5rem` — `max-width: 340px` matches the natural source width of the bundled `*.jpg` thumbnails (340×255, ~4:3) so the box never upscales and never exceeds the source dimensions; `height: auto` derives the proportional height from the rendered width so the rendered box matches the source aspect ratio exactly. Pre-#1375 the slot ran `width:100%;max-height:140px;object-fit:cover` which clamped the box to a ~2.86:1 strip on a 28rem card and `object-fit:cover` cropped the middle horizontal band of a 4:3 source — operators perceived the result as "stretched horizontally". Don't reintroduce `max-height` or `object-fit:cover` here; let `height: auto` carry the proportional sizing. Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/ServerMapImageRenderTest.php` (template ships the slot + helper carries the wiring + handler still emits `mapimg`, AND `testMapImgSlotPreservesNaturalAspectRatio` pins the new `max-width: 340px` / `height: auto` shape + the absence of `max-height` / `object-fit`) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/server-map-thumbnail.spec.ts` (runtime visibility under success / 404 / connect-error). #1312 restored this surface after the #1123 D1 redesign dropped the legacy `<img id="mapimg_{$server.sid}">`; #1313 moved the wiring out of the inline `<script>` block into the shared helper; #1375 fixed the squashed aspect ratio. |
| Hydrate server-tile cards with live A2S data (status pill / map / players / hostname / refresh) on the public servers list, the admin Server Management list, the dashboard's Servers widget, the Add Admin per-server access checkbox grid, AND the admin Server Groups list's per-group card stack | `web/scripts/server-tile-hydrate.js` (`window.SBPP.hydrateServerTiles`) — auto-runs on first paint for every container marked `data-server-hydrate="auto"`. Consumed by `web/themes/default/page_servers.tpl` (public, full chrome), `web/themes/default/page_admin_servers_list.tpl` (admin, #1313 — same chrome minus the map thumbnail + players panel), `web/themes/default/page_dashboard.tpl` (dashboard Servers widget, #1375 — hostname slot only, every other testid hook deliberately omitted), `web/themes/default/page_admin_admins_add.tpl` (Add Admin per-server access checkbox grid, #1405 — same minimal-testid shape as the dashboard widget), and `web/themes/default/page_admin_groups_list.tpl` (admin Server Groups card stack, #1406 — one minimal-integration `[data-testid="server-tile"]` per server bound to the group, hostname slot only, same minimal-testid shape the dashboard widget rides). Selector contract per tile: `[data-testid="server-tile"]` outer card + `data-id="<sid>"` + `[data-testid="server-{status,map,players,host}"]` cells + optional `[data-testid="server-{refresh,toggle}"]` / `[data-players-bar]` / `[data-testid="server-players-panel"]` / `[data-testid="server-map-img"]` (every cell beyond `data-id` is feature-detected; the dashboard widget, the Add Admin grid, and the Server Groups card stack all ship ONLY `[data-testid="server-host"]` and the helper no-ops every other branch). Disabled tiles carry `data-server-skip="1"` so the helper leaves them at the server-rendered placeholder; this is single-source contract across every consumer (admin Server Management, admin Server Groups card stack — `page_admin_groups_list.tpl` pairs the gate with a visible `[data-testid="server-disabled-tag"]` "Disabled" pill so the row reads as "bound but disabled" instead of "probe hasn't resolved yet"). The public Server List ALSO renders a page-level `[data-testid="servers-summary"]` paragraph with a nested `[data-online-num]` counter that the helper paints into from `setStatus()` via `updateOnlineCount()`. The summary lives in `page_servers.tpl`'s `<header>` — a SIBLING of the `.servers-grid` `[data-server-hydrate="auto"]` container, NOT a descendant — so `summaryNode()` does a document-wide `document.querySelector('[data-testid="servers-summary"]')` fallback after the descendant-first lookup misses (#1446). The other four surfaces don't render the summary at all and the fallback returns null, so `updateOnlineCount()` no-ops cleanly. Pinned by `web/tests/integration/ServerTileHydrateOnlineCountTest.php` (static gate against the lookup contract) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/servers-online-count.spec.ts` (runtime gate against the counter increment / decrement ladder). Never copy-paste the hydration code into a new template — wire the testids and `data-server-hydrate="auto"` instead and the helper picks the surface up automatically. The dashboard widget, the Add Admin grid, and the Server Groups card stack are all canonical references for "minimal-testid integration": each ships ONE optional testid (`[data-testid="server-host"]`) + the outer `[data-testid="server-tile"]` + `data-id="<sid>"`, and the helper still hydrates the hostname per the same `Actions.ServersHostPlayers` round-trip. The per-surface truncation knob (`data-trunchostname="<n>"` on the wrapping container) is the right place to dial the hostname length per surface — `70` on the full-width public + admin cards, `0` (the "no server-side truncation" sentinel: the cell's CSS `.truncate` does the responsive visual cut so the row shows as much of the name as fits in its column, #1487) on the dashboard widget, and `40` on the Add Admin grid's ~18rem checkbox columns AND the Server Groups card stack so a long hostname doesn't trip `truncate`'s ellipsis prematurely. The helper's `resolveTrunc` forwards a `0` verbatim (its `>= 0` guard deliberately does NOT coerce the sentinel back to the 70 default — a bare `(raw || 70)` would re-cap the hostname and silently reopen #1487), and the server-side `trunc()` treats a non-positive length as "return the full string". The Server Groups stack also ships a `[data-testid="server-host"]`-paired `data-fallback="{ip|escape}:{port}"` attribute the helper re-paints on probe-error (`r.data.error === 'connect'`) — same shape the public Server List ships; the SSR inner-text holds the IP:port literal so the no-JS / cache-cold / helper-missing path stays informative. The per-group `servers` array the template iterates is composed server-side by `web/pages/admin.groups.php` (INNER JOIN against `:prefix_servers` so groups holding dangling `:prefix_servers_groups` rows from deleted servers don't surface broken tiles; `S.enabled` rides the projection so the template's disabled-row gate doesn't need a second query); the View DTO field is `AdminGroupsListView::$server_list[i].servers` (each row shaped `{sid: int, ip: string, port: int, enabled: bool}`) and the integration contract is pinned by `web/tests/integration/AdminServerGroupsServerCardsRenderTest.php` (file-shape) + `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/admin-groups-server-cards-hydration.spec.ts` (runtime stub-resolve-flip + disabled-row probe-skip + dangling-membership INNER JOIN drop). The E2E spec's dangling arm rides a dedicated `web/tests/e2e/scripts/delete-server-e2e.php` shim that deletes a `:prefix_servers` row via raw SQL — bypassing `api_servers_remove`'s cleanup cascade, which would silently clean up the `:prefix_servers_groups` row in the same transaction and make the orphan condition impossible to produce. Pair with `seed-server-group-e2e.php` (which now accepts a per-server `enabled` flag) when extending coverage. The Add Admin grid restored hostname hydration that was silently broken since v2.0.0 / #1123 D1 — the legacy v1.4.11 `<script>LoadServerHost('SID', …)</script>` per-row feeder was deleted with `sourcebans.js`, raising one `ReferenceError` per configured server on every page load. Sister cleanup #1404 dropped the dead feeder + the orphan `$server_script` View property; #1405 is the additive replacement, no new View property + no new JSON action. |
| Tune the server card grid layout (column min-width, mobile single-column collapse) shared between the public + admin Server Management lists | `.servers-grid` rule in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (#1316). Single-source `repeat(auto-fill, minmax(28rem, 1fr))` — both `page_servers.tpl` and `page_admin_servers_list.tpl` apply the class to their grid container instead of an inline `style="grid-template-columns:..."`. The 28rem (448px) min replaced the pre-#1316 20rem (320px) min that packed cards into ~340px columns even on a 31" 4K monitor (both pages cap their content area at 1400px via `.page-section` / inline `max-width:1400px`, so wider viewports got zero benefit from the wider screen — that's the bug #1316 fixed). With the 1rem grid gap factored in: 1280px laptop ≈ 2 cols × ~488px each; 1400px+ desktop ≈ 2 cols × ~668px each. At <=768px the sibling `@media` rule collapses to `minmax(0, 1fr)` (NOT bare `1fr`, which would inflate the track to the card's `truncate`-nowrap min-content and overflow the viewport) so a phone-portrait viewport never overflows horizontally. Don't reach for a different column-min on a per-template basis — the class is the unified knob; theme forks override the rule wholesale. Regression guard: `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/server-cards.spec.ts` walks four desktop viewports (1280/1920/2560/3840) plus iPhone-13-like 390px and asserts both surfaces apply the class, the card width floor is ≥28rem, and the mobile collapse holds. |
| Edit the command palette (icon-only trigger, ⌘K binding, result rows, kbd hints, Ctrl+Enter copy) | `web/themes/default/js/theme.js` (`openPalette` / `closePalette` / `renderPaletteResults` / `applyPlatformHints` / `handlePaletteCopyShortcut`) + `core/title.tpl` (the `.topbar__search` icon button) + the `.palette__row*` rules in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css`. Player rows carry `data-drawer-bid="<bid>"` (bare Enter / click → `loadDrawer`, palette closes itself) + `data-steamid="<steam>"` (`Ctrl/Cmd+Enter` → `navigator.clipboard.writeText` + `showToast`). The kbd glyphs are server-rendered in non-Mac form (`Enter`, `Ctrl`); `applyPlatformHints` swaps `[data-enterkey]` → ⏎ and `[data-modkey]` → ⌘ on Mac/iOS at boot and after every render (#1184, #1207 DET-2). |
| Add or edit a palette "Navigate" entry (the icon-label-href rows the palette renders alongside player results) | `web/includes/View/PaletteActions.php` (`Sbpp\View\PaletteActions::for($userbank)` — catalog + filter). The catalog's `entries()` method declares each entry as `{icon, label, href, permission, config?}`; `for()` drops entries the user can't reach (admin entries gated via `HasAccess` with `ADMIN_OWNER` OR'd in; public entries optionally gated on a `config.enable*` toggle) and emits the public `{icon, label, href}` triple. The filtered list is JSON-encoded by `web/pages/core/footer.php` (with `JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT` so the content can never escape its `<script>` wrapper) and emitted by `core/footer.tpl` inside `<script type="application/json" id="palette-actions" data-testid="palette-actions">`. `theme.js`'s `loadNavItems()` reads + `JSON.parse`s the blob at boot. Pre-#1304 the entry list was a hardcoded `NAV_ITEMS` array in `theme.js` with no permission check, leaking admin entries to logged-out + partial-permission users; the regression guard is `web/tests/integration/PaletteActionsTest.php` (server-side filter) plus `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/ui/command-palette-permissions.spec.ts` (end-to-end blob → DOM contract). |
| Add a "copy this value" affordance to a panel surface (single-source clipboard wiring) | Mark the trigger with `data-copy="<value>"` (`<button type="button">` is the canonical shape; the drawer uses `<button>` inside a `<dd>`, the banlist row uses `<button>` inside `.row-actions`). The document-level COPY BUTTONS delegate in `web/themes/default/js/theme.js` handles every `[data-copy]` site: secure-context callers go through `navigator.clipboard.writeText` with a `.then(success, fallback)` chain, non-secure callers (plain HTTP behind a TLS-terminating proxy) drop to `copyFallback()` — a hidden-textarea + `document.execCommand('copy')` that's the only portable option outside HTTPS (#1308). NEVER add an inline `onclick="event.stopPropagation()"` to a `[data-copy]` button — the bubble-phase stop kills the document delegate (Defect A, #1308). NEVER assume `navigator.clipboard` exists or that `writeText()` resolves — both fall through to the same execCommand fallback (Defect B, #1308). |
| Add admin-only per-player notes | `web/api/handlers/notes.php` (CRUD) — Notes tab is gated by `bans.detail`'s `notes_visible` flag |
| Add or extend the server-player right-click context menu on `?p=servers` (View Profile / Copy SteamID / Kick / Ban / Block Comms) | `web/scripts/server-context-menu.js` (event-delegate menu, single `document.addEventListener('contextmenu')` filtered by `closest('[data-context-menu="server-player"]')`) + `web/scripts/server-tile-hydrate.js` (`renderPlayers()` emits the `data-context-menu` / `data-steamid` / `data-name` / `data-server-sid` / `data-can-ban-player` hooks on each `<li>`) + `web/api/handlers/servers.php` (`api_servers_host_players` attaches SteamIDs via `RconStatusCache::fetch($sid)` only when the caller has `WebPermission::Owner \| WebPermission::AddBan` AND per-server RCON access; `can_ban_player` boolean signals whether to render the kick/ban/block items) + `web/includes/Servers/RconStatusCache.php` (`Sbpp\Servers\RconStatusCache::fetch($sid, $ttl=30)` — per-sid on-disk cache under `SB_CACHE/srvstatus/`, mirrors `SourceQueryCache` shape; calls `rcon('status', $sid, true)` with the silent flag so passive probes don't spam the audit log). The admin hint copy in `page_servers.tpl` + the `<script src="./scripts/server-context-menu.js">` include are both gated on `$can_use_context_menu` (= `Perms::for($userbank)['can_add_ban']`) so anonymous viewers don't pay for either. SteamID3 / SteamID2 → SteamID64 conversion happens client-side (`STEAM_X:Y:Z` → `76561197960265728 + Z*2 + Y`; `[U:1:N]` → `76561197960265728 + N`). **The `player_list` field excludes A2S entries with an empty `Name` (#1396)** — some Source-engine variants and SourceMod plugins emit a "host slot" / "console" stub at the start of `GetPlayers` (`Name = ''`, `Frags = 0`, `Time = 0`) that pre-fix rendered as a phantom `<li data-testid="server-player">` above the first visible player with no `data-context-menu` hooks (the empty name fails the SteamID match gate above). The phantom row was a thin border-bottom strip with a misleading "0 · " meta on the right; users perceived the next real player as "the first player of the list" and right-clicks landing in the phantom row's area silently no-op'd. The filter lives at the same `$name === ''` skip the SteamID-by-name lookup uses, so the JS contract stays simple: every row in `player_list` has a displayable name. Bots, real players whose A2S name didn't match the RCON status output, and anonymous callers still render — the filter is strictly "name is empty string". Ban / Block both route through panel-chromed smart-default URLs (`?p=admin&c=bans&section=add-ban&steam=…&type=0&name=…` consumed by `Sbpp\View\AdminBansAddView::prefill_steam` + `::prefill_name` / `?p=admin&c=comms&steam=…&type=0&name=…` consumed by `Sbpp\View\AdminCommsAddView::prefill_steam` + `::prefill_name` — #1395 brought Block onto the panel route; pre-fix it pointed at `pages/admin.blockit.php` which is the post-`Actions.CommsAdd` rcon-fan-out iframe target, NOT a stand-alone operator page; #1440 added the `&name=` arm so the operator-typed "Display name as it appeared in-game" field doesn't have to be re-typed by hand when the in-game name is right there in the A2S `GetPlayers` response — pre-#1440 the operator had to round-trip "right-click → Ban → form opens with empty nickname → copy name from the row I just right-clicked → paste → submit" which is busywork the menu can save). The JS side URL-encodes the name via `encodeURIComponent` only when the source `data-name` attribute is non-empty (anonymous / bot rows pass through to the form with no nickname pre-fill — operator types it). Both `admin.bans.php` and `admin.comms.php` allowlist the inbound steam shape via the same regex (`STEAM_X:Y:Z` / `[U:1:N]` / 17-digit SteamID64 / dotted IPv4) so a hostile/malformed referrer can't smuggle arbitrary text into the form's `<input value="…">`; the comms `?type=…` allowlist is `{1,2,3}` (Mute/Gag/Silence) with anything else (including the menu's `?type=0` bridging value, sourced from the bans-menu URL shape where 0=Steam ID) treated as "no pre-selection". The `?name=` arm has its own server-side sanitization contract (#1440) centralised in `Sbpp\Util\PlayerName::sanitisePrefill()` (`web/includes/Util/PlayerName.php`) — both page handlers (`admin.bans.php` + `admin.comms.php`) call the helper so the strip set, UTF-8 validation, and codepoint cap stay byte-identical across the two surfaces. The pipeline: `trim` → strip ASCII control chars (`\x00-\x1F`, `\x7F`) + C1 controls (`\x80-\x9F`) + soft hyphen (`U+00AD`) + zero-width space (`U+200B`) + Unicode line/paragraph separators (`U+2028` / `U+2029`) + bidi format/override (`U+202A-U+202E`) + bidi isolate (`U+2066-U+2069`) + BOM (`U+FEFF`) via a single `preg_replace` against `PlayerName::SANITISE_STRIP_REGEX` → `mb_check_encoding('UTF-8')` (drop entirely on malformed UTF-8) → `mb_substr(..., 0, 128, 'UTF-8')` to `PlayerName::MAX_CODEPOINTS` matching the `varchar(128)` schema width of `:prefix_bans.name` / `:prefix_comms.name`. Smarty's global auto-escape handles `<>&"'` at the template `value="{$prefill_name}"` site so a literal `<script>` in the player name surfaces as visible escaped text in the input, not as executed JS. The codepoint-based truncation (NOT byte-based) prevents a UTF-8 multibyte sequence — including 4-byte emoji — from being cut mid-character into invalid bytes that would later trip `mb_check_encoding` on round-trip. The bidi-control strip is the load-bearing defence against right-to-left override (`U+202E`) name-spoofing attacks where a hostile player picks a name like `evil\u202Eadmin` that visually renders as `evilnimda` in the form — pre-strip the operator might submit a ban with what they perceived to be a different name than what's actually stored. The `?name=` arm is intentionally decoupled from the `?steam=` arm: the operator landed on the form to type a ban / block, so the nickname pre-fill survives even when the steam shape fails its allowlist (the operator can still see "this is the player I right-clicked" and then type / paste the correct ID). Kick stays on the iframe path (`pages/admin.kickit.php?check=…&type=0&mode=kick`) because it's a one-shot RCON command with no persistent panel surface to anchor on after firing — the iframe doesn't render a nickname input so it doesn't consume the `&name=` arm. **The `&mode=kick` qualifier on the Kick URL is the #1439 contract.** `pages/admin.kickit.php` reads `$_GET['mode']`, allowlists to `'ban'` (default; the post-ban iframe embed inside `admin.bans.php`'s "Ban Added" success dialog never supplies the param) or `'kick'` (this context-menu flow); `KickitView` carries the value into `page_kickit.tpl`; the iframe template forwards it on every `kickit.kick_player` JSON call; `api_kickit_kick_player` re-validates and branches on the value via `_api_kickit_should_update_ban_sid($mode)`: kick mode SKIPS the `:prefix_bans` UPDATE (`UPDATE :prefix_bans SET sid = :sid WHERE authid = :authid AND RemovedBy IS NULL` for Steam-ID kicks, or the IP-keyed equivalent for IP-type kicks) that's only meaningful when a ban row exists, and emits "You have been kicked from this server" as the rcon kick message instead of "You have been banned by this server, check $domain for more info" (the ban-mode message that pre-#1439 surfaced to every kicked player regardless of intent). The iframe's post-completion redirect also branches on mode — `?p=servers` on kick mode (operator came from the public servers page; landing back on it preserves their context), `?p=admin&c=bans` on ban mode (the established post-ban iframe destination). Pre-#1439 the iframe shipped no mode signal at all, so `api_kickit_kick_player` defaulted to the ban-completion code path — surfacing the wrong rcon message + (worse) silently mutating whatever ban row happened to share the SteamID with the kicked player. The reason kick stays on the iframe path AT ALL is that the operator UX wants "fire-and-forget per-server fan-out across every reachable server"; switching kick to a panel-chromed surface would require a paired form + a permission-mapped multi-server fan-out, which is out of scope for #1439. The integration test (`web/tests/integration/ServerListHintRegressionTest.php`) is the post-restoration contract — it asserts the hint and the JS include both ship for admins and both stay absent for anonymous viewers (the pre-#1306 contract is superseded). Regression guards: `web/tests/api/ServersTest.php` (handler-shape coverage for the SteamID side-channel + the `can_ban_player` flag + the #1396 empty-name filter via `testHostPlayersFiltersEmptyNameEntries` / `testHostPlayersFiltersAllEmptyNameEntries`), `web/tests/integration/RconStatusCacheTest.php` (cache shape + silent-flag contract), `web/tests/integration/AdminBansAddSmartDefaultTest.php` + `web/tests/integration/AdminCommsAddSmartDefaultTest.php` (server-side prefill allowlist, valid / hostile / bare-section round-trips, type-coercion), `web/tests/api/KickitTest.php` (#1439 — `testKickPlayerAcceptsModeKickAndReturnsNoConnectShape` / `testKickPlayerAcceptsModeBanAndReturnsNoConnectShape` / `testKickPlayerCoercesUnknownModeToBan` pin the dispatcher's accept-and-coerce contract; `testBuildKickMessageBranchesByMode` / `testBuildKickMessageCoercesUnknownModes` pin the message-text branching against the public `_api_kickit_build_kick_message` helper that was lifted out of the handler so the message-text contract is unit-testable without a live RCON socket; `testShouldUpdateBanSidBranchesByMode` / `testShouldUpdateBanSidCoercesUnknownModesToBanBehavior` / `testHandlerInvokesShouldUpdateHelperBeforeUpdate` pin the ban-UPDATE gate via the lifted `_api_kickit_should_update_ban_sid` helper — the handler-static guard prevents future inlining of `$mode === 'ban'` checks around the UPDATE), `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/server-player-context-menu.spec.ts` (end-to-end menu open / Ban + Block hrefs both ride the panel route / Kick stays on the iframe route AND carries `&mode=kick` per #1439 / Escape close / no-steamid no-menu / #1396 first-named-player accepts real `mouse.click({button:'right'})` / #1440 name `encodeURIComponent` round-trip), `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/kickit-iframe.spec.ts` (#1439 — `mode=kick: title says Kick, payload carries mode, redirect targets /servers` pins the iframe's three-contract bundle: page title, JSON-payload mode propagation, post-completion redirect target asserted via real `page.waitForURL` against the iframe's 5s redirect timer, not a source-grep that both ternary literals satisfy regardless of mode). |
| Sanitise a player display name received from an operator-controlled URL query parameter (the `?name=…` smart-default pre-fill arm on `?p=admin&c=bans&section=add-ban` + `?p=admin&c=comms`) | `Sbpp\Util\PlayerName::sanitisePrefill(string $raw): string` (`web/includes/Util/PlayerName.php`, #1440). Single source for the strip set + UTF-8 validation + codepoint cap; both page handlers (`web/pages/admin.bans.php` + `web/pages/admin.comms.php`) call it so the contract stays byte-identical across the two surfaces. Pipeline: `trim` → `preg_replace` against `PlayerName::SANITISE_STRIP_REGEX` (ASCII controls `\x00-\x1F` + `\x7F` + C1 controls `\x80-\x9F` + soft hyphen `U+00AD` + ZWSP `U+200B` + line/paragraph separators `U+2028`/`U+2029` + bidi format/override `U+202A-U+202E` + bidi isolate `U+2066-U+2069` + BOM `U+FEFF`) → `mb_check_encoding(..., 'UTF-8')` (drop entirely on malformed input) → `mb_substr(..., 0, PlayerName::MAX_CODEPOINTS=128, 'UTF-8')` to the `varchar(128)` schema width of `:prefix_bans.name` / `:prefix_comms.name`. The bidi-control strip is the load-bearing defence against right-to-left override (`U+202E`) name-spoofing attacks where a hostile in-game name visually renders as a different string in the form's `<input>` than what's actually stored. The codepoint-based truncation (NOT byte-based) handles 4-byte emoji without slicing mid-character. Use this helper for any future operator-controlled query-parameter that pre-fills a `varchar(128) player.name` form field; do not hand-roll a parallel strip regex (the pre-#1440 reviewer-feedback iteration was a duplicated inline `preg_replace` across both page handlers — centralisation is the contract). Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/AdminBansAddSmartDefaultTest.php` + `web/tests/integration/AdminCommsAddSmartDefaultTest.php` (`hostileNamePrefillProvider` covers every codepoint class in the strip regex + 4-byte emoji + invalid UTF-8 + 128-codepoint cap; `testNameWithoutSteamPrefillsNicknameOnly` + `testValidNameWithInvalidSteamPrefillsNicknameOnly` pin the `?name=` / `?steam=` orthogonality contract); `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/server-player-context-menu.spec.ts` (`encodes special characters in the name parameter (#1440)` — end-to-end `encodeURIComponent` round-trip from the menu's `data-name` attribute through the form's rendered `value="…"`). |
| Cache an A2S `GetInfo + GetPlayers` round-trip / add another public server-query handler | `web/includes/Servers/SourceQueryCache.php` (`Sbpp\Servers\SourceQueryCache::fetch($ip, $port, $ttl=30)` — per-`(ip, port)` on-disk cache under `SB_CACHE/srvquery/`, atomic tempfile + `rename()` writes mirroring `system.check_version`'s release cache; both success and failure cache so an unreachable server costs ONE A2S probe per ~30s window). The sibling `Sbpp\Servers\RconStatusCache` (`SB_CACHE/srvstatus/`) follows the same shape for RCON `status` round-trips — used by `api_servers_host_players` to surface per-player SteamIDs to admins (see the context-menu row above). Every public handler under `web/api/handlers/servers.php` (`api_servers_host_players` / `host_property` / `host_players_list` / `players`) goes through this — never call `new SourceQuery()` directly from a handler. The cache stamps user-agnostic data only; the handler stamps per-caller fields (`is_owner`, `can_ban`, the per-call `trunchostname`) on top. Per-tile JS debounce on the public servers page lives in `web/themes/default/page_servers.tpl` (`loadTile()` flips `tile.__sbppLoading` + the Re-query button's `disabled` attr while a probe is in flight, releases both in the success / error tails). The matching JS gate on the toggle button has been the precedent since v2.0.0; #1311 brought the refresh button onto the same shape. Tests: `web/tests/integration/SourceQueryCacheTest.php` (cache shape + coalescing + TTL + invalidation, drives `setProbeOverrideForTesting()` so the assertion is deterministic without UDP) + `testHostPlayersCoalescesRapidRepeatCallsViaCache` / `testHostPlayersNegativeCachesUnreachableServers` in `web/tests/api/ServersTest.php` (handler-shape coverage). E2E: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/server-refresh-debounce.spec.ts`. |
| Render admin-authored Markdown to safe HTML | `web/includes/Markup/IntroRenderer.php` (`Sbpp\Markup`) |
| Write or edit a user-facing string (panel UI text, toast body, docs page) | See "User-facing text style (panel UI + docs)" under Conventions. Three rules: no emdash (`—`), terse, don't over-explain. Applies to `web/themes/default/**/*.tpl`, `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit` titles + bodies, `echo` output from page handlers, and every `docs/src/content/docs/**/*.{md,mdx}` page. Does NOT apply to `AGENTS.md` / `ARCHITECTURE.md` / contributor docs / code comments / audit-log entries / test fixtures. Anti-pattern entries paired under "Anti-patterns". |
| Build / extend the anonymous opt-out daily telemetry payload (#1126) | `web/includes/Telemetry/Telemetry.php` (`Sbpp\Telemetry\Telemetry` — `tickIfDue`, `collect`, `send`) + `web/includes/Telemetry/Schema1.php` (`Sbpp\Telemetry\Schema1::payloadFieldNames()`, drives the extractor parity test) + `web/includes/Telemetry/schema-1.lock.json` (vendored from [sbpp/cf-analytics](https://github.com/sbpp/cf-analytics) — manual sync via `make sync-telemetry-schema`). Tick is registered at the tail of `init.php` via `register_shutdown_function`; on FPM, `fastcgi_finish_request()` flushes the response BEFORE the cURL POST so telemetry never delays a panel page. Slot reservation is atomic (`UPDATE :prefix_settings WHERE CAST(value AS UNSIGNED) <= :threshold`) at the START of the attempt, so a flapping endpoint costs one ping/day, not one ping/request. Audit-log only enable/disable transitions, never individual pings. The in-panel disclosure surface is the help-icon copy in `page_admin_settings_features.tpl`; the upgrade-time disclosure lives in `docs/src/content/docs/updating/1-8-to-2-0.mdx` (no first-login modal). |
| Add or edit a project announcement (the admin-only banner on the home dashboard) | Edit `docs/public/announcements.json` (the source of truth — Astro publishes it as a static asset at `https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json`). Each entry: `id` (≤64 chars, **required**), `title` (**required**), `body_md` (CommonMark, optional — rendered through `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer` so raw HTML is escaped + `javascript:` / `data:` URLs are stripped), `url` (optional `http(s)://` only — non-http schemes rejected at the parser), `published_at` (optional ISO-8601 or unix int — drives the sort order; entries without it sort below dated entries), `expires_at` (optional — the parser drops entries past this timestamp). Sorted newest-first by the panel; convention is to also place the newest entry at the top of the array so reviewers see the most relevant change first. The deploy chain is automatic: a push to `main` that touches `docs/` fires `.github/workflows/docs-deploy-trigger.yml` which lands the file at `https://sbpp.github.io/announcements.json` within minutes. The starter file ships as `[]` (empty array). NEVER write to the cache file (`SB_CACHE/announcements.json`) directly — the panel's shutdown hook owns that path. |
| Add or edit a project sponsor, funding platform, or sponsor tier | Edit `docs/src/data/sponsors.json` (the single source of truth). Three top-level keys: `platforms` (`{id, name, url, description?, icon?}` — the funding channels; GitHub Sponsors today, append Open Collective / Patreon / etc. as they're approved), `tiers` (`{id, name, monthlyMinUsd?, description?}` — ordered list driving the sponsor-roll display order), `sponsors` (`{name, url?, logo?, tier?, since?}` — `tier` matches a `tiers[].id`; missing/empty/unknown places the sponsor in the "Individual supporters" bucket). The component `docs/src/components/Sponsors.astro` renders the file on the canonical `/sponsor/` landing page (`docs/src/content/docs/sponsor.mdx`, `template: splash`, intentionally absent from the sidebar in `astro.config.mjs`); the topbar heart icon, the per-page footer link in `docs/src/components/Footer.astro`, and `.github/FUNDING.yml`'s `custom:` URL all route there. Adding a new platform / sponsor is a one-line append here — no component, config, or template edit needed. Companion issue #1417 will surface the same data on the panel footer; a future README-injector script will read the same file into the main `README.md`'s `<!-- sponsors:start --> ... <!-- sponsors:end -->` markers. The starter file ships with one `platforms` entry (GitHub Sponsors) and empty `tiers` + `sponsors` arrays. Issue #1416. |
| Embed the sponsor roll on a docs page other than `/sponsor/` (e.g. a future docs index hero) | Import `docs/src/components/Sponsors.astro` and render `<Sponsors showPlatforms={false} />` — the component reads `docs/src/data/sponsors.json` and renders just the tier-grouped roll (with the "Individual supporters" bucket) when `showPlatforms` is false. `showEmptyHint={false}` additionally suppresses the "be the first" line when the roll is empty. The component renders its own `<h2>` headings; the embedding page should not add a parallel `## Our sponsors` heading or the chrome doubles. Issue #1416. |
| Build / extend the daily project-announcements feed (banner-side wiring; mirror of telemetry) | `web/includes/Announce/AnnouncementFetcher.php` (`Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher` — `latest()`, `tickIfDue()`, `_setHttpFetcherForTests()`) + `web/includes/Announce/Announcement.php` (the readonly DTO). Tick is registered at the tail of `init.php` via `register_shutdown_function`, gated on a non-empty `SB_ANNOUNCEMENTS_URL` constant (with the `if (!defined(...))` shape so `config.php` can override — empty string is the documented air-gap escape hatch; non-`http(s)://` schemes are also treated as air-gap by `resolveUpstreamUrl`'s scheme guard so a `file://` / `php://` / `phar://` / `data://` typo can't pull arbitrary local files into the cache). Cache shape mirrors `system.check_version`'s `_api_system_release_save_cache` (atomic tempfile + rename under `SB_CACHE/announcements.json`, persisted as the upstream body verbatim; the cache load path also caps the read at 256 KiB so a hostile / hand-edited cache file can't OOM the worker before the post-read size check fires). Wire layer mirrors `system.check_version`'s fetch helper: 5s combined connect+read timeout (PHP's stream wrapper exposes a single knob — split into connect + total only if a future cURL reshape lands), `User-Agent: SourceBans++/<ver> (announcements)`, 256 KiB body cap. The page handler in `web/pages/page.home.php` short-circuits to `null` for anonymous + non-admin viewers; the View DTO `HomeDashboardView` carries `?array $announcement`; the template (`page_dashboard.tpl`) gates the entire `<aside>` block on truthy. Markdown rendering goes through `Sbpp\Markup\IntroRenderer::renderIntroText()` and lands as `body_html` on the DTO — the template emits it with `{nofilter}` per the documented contract. Test override: `_setHttpFetcherForTests(?callable)` mirrors `Sbpp\Servers\SourceQueryCache::setProbeOverrideForTesting`. Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/AnnouncementFetcherTest.php` (cache shape, atomic write, stale-while-error, body-cap, expired-entry filter, malformed JSON, IntroRenderer integration, URL-scheme rejection, dedup, sort), `web/tests/integration/HomeDashboardAnnouncementTest.php` (admin sees / anonymous doesn't / cold cache yields null — process-isolated render with stub Smarty), `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/dashboard-announcement.spec.ts` (end-to-end mount + disclosure expand + `rel="noopener noreferrer"` + axe-clean + anonymous-storage-state arm). E2E cache seeding shim: `web/tests/e2e/scripts/seed-announcements-e2e.php` + `seedAnnouncementsE2e` / `clearAnnouncementsCacheE2e` in `fixtures/db.ts`. See "Project announcements feed" under Conventions. |
| Flip a `:prefix_settings` row (feature toggle) from an E2E spec so the surface under test renders | `setSettingE2e(setting, value)` from `web/tests/e2e/fixtures/db.ts` (#1402). Shells out to `web/tests/e2e/scripts/set-setting-e2e.php` which `REPLACE INTO`s the row — mirror of the `REPLACE INTO sb_settings` shape `BansTest.php` uses to enable `config.enablegroupbanning` for the same reason. Pair with `afterAll(async () => { await setSettingE2e(key, defaultValue); })` because the e2e DB is shared between specs (`Fixture::truncateAndReseed` does NOT reset `sb_settings`). Reference: the group-ban dispatcher spec (`web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/groupban-dispatcher.spec.ts`) flips `config.enablegroupbanning` on in `beforeAll` and reverts in `afterAll`. Don't drive the change through `Actions.SettingsSave` from the spec — that requires CSRF + an Owner-permission + would fan out through `Config::init()` + audit-log writes on every flip, way more moving pieces than the spec needs. |
| Build / extend the owner-only full data export feature (the panel-wide JSONL+demos ZIP bundle download / S3 upload) | Five classes under `web/includes/Export/` + entry point + admin page. `Sbpp\Export\ManifestBuilder` (`web/includes/Export/ManifestBuilder.php`) — pre-flight pass. `build()` produces a `Manifest` DTO carrying row counts + demo byte totals + UUIDv4 `bundle_id` + the `pii_policy` block + the `exceeds_cap` / `cap_bytes` flags (S3-PUT-cap semantics; informational on direct-ZIP-download mode). The cap is mode-conditional and lives in the entry point (`web/export.php`), not in the builder: zip mode is uncapped (Zip64 enabled by default in `maennchen/zipstream-php` v3.x — the consumer-compatibility argument from the original "No ZIP64" stance no longer holds in practice), s3 mode caps at `Manifest::MAX_S3_PUT_BYTES - Manifest::SAFETY_MARGIN_BYTES` (5 GiB minus 64 MiB; structural to the S3 single-PUT object-size limit shared by AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, Wasabi). The s3 arm short-circuits with `ExportError::CAP_EXCEEDED` BEFORE launching the build when `$manifest->exceeds_cap` is true. `Sbpp\Export\EntityExporter` (`web/includes/Export/EntityExporter.php`) — per-entity SELECT + JSONL emission via `Database::iterate()` (no entity in PHP memory). One public method per entity (`admins`, `bans`, `comms`, `log`, `notes`, …). Hard-coded `FORBIDDEN_ADMIN_COLUMNS` / `FORBIDDEN_SERVER_COLUMNS` / `FORBIDDEN_SETTING_KEYS` filter at the SQL `SELECT`/`WHERE` layer — `admins.password` / `validate` / `attempts` / `lockout_until`, `servers.rcon`, `settings` rows keyed `smtp.pass` / `telemetry.instance_id` never reach JSONL regardless of caller. Per-row contracts (uniform across every entity): `null` for absent values (never `""`), timestamps as unix-seconds integers, Steam64 as decimal STRINGS (Steam64 exceeds `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER` and silently round-trips wrong through any consumer using double-precision floats — `authid_steam2` preserves the legacy `STEAM_X:Y:Z` shape alongside), source PKs renamed to `id` where the source's PK is a single column. Per-entity derivations: `comms.mute_kind` (`mute|gag|silence|unknown` from `:prefix_comms.type`), `bans.state` (mirrors `page.banlist.php`'s `BanType×BanRemoval` classifier), `bans.demo_filename` + `bans.demo_size_bytes` (LEFT JOIN against `:prefix_demos`; both `null` when no demo file exists), `log.level` (`message|warning|error` from `LogType`). JSON encoder flags ALWAYS include `JSON_INVALID_UTF8_SUBSTITUTE` — player names on `:prefix_bans.name` / `:prefix_comms.name` can carry malformed UTF-8 from the pre-#1108 / #765 Latin-1-on-utf8 truncation shape; without the flag the export 500s mid-stream on a hostile-historical row (same load-bearing reason `Toast::emit` carries the flag). `Sbpp\Export\BundleWriter` (`web/includes/Export/BundleWriter.php`) — orchestrates. Takes `ZipStream\ZipStream` + `Manifest` + `EntityExporter` + `?int $capBytes` (nullable; `null` = uncapped zip mode, non-null = enforced s3-mode budget). Emits `manifest.json` FIRST via `addFile()` (the manifest-first contract — downstream consumers can read the manifest by parsing one central-directory entry; pinned by `ExportBundleWriterTest::statIndex(0)['name'] === 'manifest.json'`), then iterates entity exporters via `addFileFromCallback()` in deterministic name order, then iterates demos via `addFileFromPath(..., compressionMethod: CompressionMethod::STORE)` (demos are already DEFLATE'd by the Source engine; re-compressing is a CPU tax for no gain). Tracks running compressed-byte total and, when `$capBytes !== null`, aborts with `ExportError::CAP_EXCEEDED` if it exceeds the budget (defence-in-depth against `ManifestBuilder`'s pre-flight estimate undershooting on the s3-mode arm). When `$capBytes === null` (zip mode) the cap check no-ops and the bundle can grow arbitrarily large (Zip64 is enabled by default in the v3.x `ZipStream` constructor). zip-mode runs with `flushAfterEntries=true` (each `flush() + @ob_flush()` after every entry keeps the browser progress bar moving); s3-mode runs with `flushAfterEntries=false` (output is a tempfile, no socket to flush to). `Sbpp\Export\S3PresignedUploader` (`web/includes/Export/S3PresignedUploader.php`) — cURL `PUT` against the operator-supplied presigned URL. Scheme guard is unconditional: `https://` only, `http://` raises `ExportError::PRESIGN_INVALID_SCHEME` before any network call (panel-full PII dataset in flight, cleartext transit unsupported). URL parse failures raise `PRESIGN_INVALID_URL`. cURL uses `CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST='PUT'` + `CURLOPT_INFILE` + `CURLOPT_INFILESIZE` + explicit `Content-Length` header (presigned PUT signatures bind the Content-Length value); `CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT=60`, `CURLOPT_TIMEOUT=0` (no overall ceiling — uploads can be slow). HTTP 200/201/204 success; anything else raises `S3_PUT_FAILED` with the response body truncated to 2 KiB for diagnostics. Test override: `_setHttpTransportForTests(?callable)` mirrors `Sbpp\Announce\AnnouncementFetcher::_setHttpFetcherForTests`. `Sbpp\Export\ExportError` (`web/includes/Export/ExportError.php`) — `final class extends \RuntimeException` carrying the wire-facing code as a `public readonly string $errorCode` (the property is renamed because the parent `\Exception::$code` is `int`-typed and can't be narrowed to a `readonly string`); call sites consume the value via the `code()` accessor. Error codes as class constants (`CAP_EXCEEDED`, `S3_PUT_FAILED`, `PRESIGN_INVALID_SCHEME`, `PRESIGN_INVALID_URL`, `DISK_WRITE_FAILED`, `DISK_FULL`) so call sites can't typo a string literal. Entry point: `web/export.php` (panel-root because binary wire format doesn't fit the JSON API dispatcher's contract — same shape as `web/exportbans.php` / `web/getdemo.php`). POST-only (GET returns HTTP 405 with `Allow: POST`), CSRF-gated, owner-only via `WebPermission::Owner` (deny branch lands `LogType::Warning` in audit log), shared-host hardening (`@set_time_limit(0)` + `@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M')` + `ignore_user_abort(true)`), output-buffer drain + `X-Accel-Buffering: no` + `apache_setenv('no-gzip', '1')`. Mode dispatch via `$_POST['mode']` (`'zip'` streams to `php://output`; `'s3'` builds to `SB_CACHE/exports/<bundle_id>.zip` tempfile + `register_shutdown_function` cleanup hook + `S3PresignedUploader::upload()` + 302 to `?p=admin&c=export&result={success\|error}&...`). Catches ONLY `ExportError` — anything else propagates to the dispatcher's generic 500 so real bugs surface in the audit log via the project's error handler. Page handler: `web/pages/admin.export.php` re-checks `CheckAdminAccess(ADMIN_OWNER)` (defence-in-depth — page-builder route also gates), runs `ManifestBuilder::build()` for counts-only, mounts `new AdminTabs([], $userbank, $theme)` (back-link-only partial, same shape as `admin.email.php`), reads `?result=…&code=…` and emits `\Sbpp\View\Toast::emit` accordingly (success uses default chrome timing; failure uses persistent `duration_ms: 0` + `$redirect: null` so the operator MUST acknowledge before moving on), renders via `Sbpp\View\AdminExportView` + `web/themes/default/page_admin_export.tpl`. Owner-only by design: every PII category in scope (admin emails, IPs, every Steam ID, every unban reason, every comment) means a partial-permission admin who could export everything is functionally an owner; granular delegation deliberately deferred. No new permission flag (`ADMIN_OWNER` only); no schema change (V1 is one-shot per request; the audit log carries the durable record); no JSON API handler (the entry point's binary wire format doesn't fit). Routing wired into `web/includes/page-builder.php` (`'export' => [..., 'permission' => ADMIN_OWNER]`), `web/pages/core/navbar.php` (`'permission' => ADMIN_OWNER`), and `web/includes/View/PaletteActions.php` (`'permission' => \WebPermission::Owner->value`). See "Full data export" under Conventions for the full contract (the per-entity wire-format contracts subsection covers the `null`-for-absent + Steam64-as-string + unix-seconds rules; the lifecycle subsection covers the entry-point + page-handler + toast emission chain). Operator-facing docs at `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/data-export.mdx`. Regression guards: `web/tests/unit/EntityExporterTest.php` (per-entity contracts), `web/tests/unit/ManifestBuilderTest.php` (cap math + UUIDv4 + PII policy + format version), `web/tests/integration/ExportBundleWriterTest.php` (end-to-end bundle against the test fixture — manifest-first, row-count parity, demo entries are STORE-compressed, Steam64 is string not number, forbidden values absent), `web/tests/integration/AdminExportPermissionTest.php` (static-shape permission gate across navbar / palette / page-builder / page-handler / entry-point), `web/tests/integration/AdminExportRuntimePermissionTest.php` (runtime-primitive gate for CSRF + `HasAccess(WebPermission::Owner)` — SourceMod root char alone does NOT grant `WebPermission::Owner`), `web/tests/integration/S3PresignedUploaderTest.php` (wire-layer via `_setHttpTransportForTests` — scheme rejection / URL parse rejection / happy path / 403 → `S3_PUT_FAILED`), `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/data-export.spec.ts` (Playwright end-to-end — admin clicks "Export as ZIP", downloads stream, `jszip` parses, manifest carries `format_version: 1` + valid UUIDv4 + `pii_policy.password_hashes: "never"`; `GET /export.php` returns HTTP 405). |
| Generate a presigned S3 PUT URL for the panel's "Full data export" S3 mode | Operator-side workflow — the panel never generates the URL itself, only consumes it. AWS: `aws s3 presign s3://bucket/key --http-method PUT --expires-in 3600` (the `--http-method PUT` flag is load-bearing — defaults to GET). Cloudflare R2: same `aws` CLI configured against an R2 token + `--endpoint-url https://<account-id>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com`; or `wrangler r2 object put` with `--presign`; or the R2 dashboard's "Generate URL" tool. MinIO: `mc share upload --expire 1h myminio/bucket/key` (note `share upload`, NOT `share download` — distinct presign flavours). The presigned URL is a single-use write credential; use a short expiry (≤1 hour) and never paste the URL into chat / public logs / issue trackers (anyone who sees it can PUT arbitrary content to your bucket until it expires). Operator-facing docs at `docs/src/content/docs/configuring/data-export.mdx` carry the worked examples per provider. |
| Add a cross-repo JSON contract (vendored schema lock + reader + extractor parity test) | `web/includes/Telemetry/Schema1.php` is the reference shape (`payloadFieldNames(): list<string>` over a Draft-7 JSON Schema lock file). Pair with one PHPUnit extractor parity test (collect() vs. lock file in both directions). The schema lock file is the single source of truth — don't mirror the field list into a markdown doc paired with a separate parity test, that pattern was tried for telemetry and removed because the duplication paid for the drift risk it created. Sync via a manual `make sync-<subsystem>-schema` target — no scheduled auto-PR. See "Cross-repo JSON contracts" under Conventions. |
| Display a user's own permission flags grouped by category | `Sbpp\View\PermissionCatalog::groupedDisplayFromMask($mask)` (`web/includes/View/PermissionCatalog.php`). Adding a new flag to `web/configs/permissions/web.json` requires a paired entry in `WEB_CATEGORIES`; `PermissionCatalogTest` enforces it. |
| Resolve the operator-configurable `template.logo` setting to a brand-mark path for the chrome (`core/navbar.tpl` sidebar + `page_login.tpl` sign-in card) | `Sbpp\View\BrandLogo::resolve()` (theme-relative path) and `Sbpp\View\BrandLogo::resolveUrl()` (public URL) in `web/includes/View/BrandLogo.php`. Single source for the fallback ladder: trim → empty? → defaults to `BrandLogo::DEFAULT_PATH` (`images/favicon.svg`, the SourceBans++ shield from the favicon set); leading-`/` strip; reject `..` / `\` / `\0` (path-traversal + null-byte injection); reject the v1.x default `logos/sb-large.png` case-insensitively (defense-in-depth against installs that missed migration 809 — case-insensitive because Windows + macOS filesystems would otherwise let `Logos/SB-Large.PNG` slip through and still resolve to the missing file on Linux-hosted panels); `is_file()` against `SB_THEMES.<config.theme>/<value>` (theme tree on disk) — fall back on miss; otherwise pass through. **Fail-closed on missing `SB_THEMES`**: `themesRoot()` raises `LogicException` if the constant isn't defined (init.php sets it; anything calling `BrandLogo` without `init.php` is a programmer error and must surface loudly rather than silently returning the fallback). The admin Settings page (`page_admin_settings_settings.tpl`) deliberately renders the RAW configured value so operators can see + fix a broken pointer; only the render paths (`core/header.php` + `page.login.php`) consume the resolver. **Silent-fallback indicator** (#1480 review finding 5): the admin Settings page also surfaces a red warning chip (`[data-testid="setting-warning-template.logo"]`) next to the input when the configured value is non-empty AND the resolver is falling back — without this an operator who customised the path has no signal that their customisation is inactive. The indicator is computed in `web/pages/admin.settings.php` as `trim($rawLogo) !== '' && trim($rawLogo) !== BrandLogo::DEFAULT_PATH && BrandLogo::resolve() === BrandLogo::DEFAULT_PATH` and passed to the template via `AdminSettingsView::$config_logo_using_fallback`. Pre-fix the chrome read `Config::get('template.logo')` directly and shipped a broken `<img>` on three reachable input shapes (the v1.x default that never shipped in the v2.0 default theme, empty / null / missing row, custom paths to deleted files). **Paired surfaces (every site that hardcodes a SourceBans++ brand-mark image path)**: (1) `web/install/includes/sql/data.sql` (fresh-install seed for `template.logo`); (2) `web/updater/data/809.php` (upgrade-path forward-conversion from the v1.x default; pinned to `BrandLogo::V1_DEFAULT_PATH` / `BrandLogo::DEFAULT_PATH` literals at the call site); (3) `web/themes/default/core/header.tpl` (favicon `<link rel="icon">` tags — `{$theme_url}/images/favicon.svg` for the panel chrome); (4) `web/themes/default/install/_chrome.tpl` (favicon `<link rel="icon">` + the install wizard's brand `<img>` in the header — `../themes/default/images/favicon.svg`, hardcoded because the wizard runs against an unconfigured panel with no `Config::get`); (5) `web/themes/default/updater.tpl` (the updater wizard's brand `<img>`, hardcoded for the same reason as the install wizard); (6) `web/themes/default/page_admin_settings_settings.tpl` (the inline `<code>` reference in the help-text under the input — informational only); (7) `web/includes/View/LoginView.php` (docblock reference describing the resolver's fallback). If you move the shield to a new path, update (1) + (2) + (3) + (4) + (5) + (6) + (7) AND `BrandLogo::DEFAULT_PATH` in the same PR — and bump (2)'s migration number if the change ships in a release (per "Updater migrations" rules). The install wizard + updater hardcodes (4) + (5) are intentional and stay hardcoded — those surfaces have no `Config::get` available. Regression guards: `web/tests/integration/BrandLogoTest.php` covers every fallback branch + the v1.x-default rejection + leading-slash strip + path-traversal rejection + null-byte rejection + case-insensitive v1.x default rejection + migration 809 literal-pinning + fresh-install seed literal-pinning + valid round-trip. `web/tests/integration/BrandLogoChromeWiringTest.php` pins the wiring of `BrandLogo::resolve()` into `web/pages/core/header.php` (`$theme->assign('logo', …)` ships the resolved value, not the raw `Config::get`) AND `BrandLogo::resolveUrl()` into `web/pages/page.login.php` (the `LoginView::$brand_logo_url` property carries the resolved URL, not the pre-fix `themes/<theme>/<raw>` concatenation), AND covers the admin Settings page's `$config_logo_using_fallback` indicator matrix (6 cases: v1.x default flips warning, deleted file flips warning, valid custom path does not, empty does not, default itself does not, traversal indicator flips warning). |
| Live-preview Markdown in a settings textarea | `system.preview_intro_text` JSON action + `web/themes/default/page_admin_settings_settings.tpl` (`.dash-intro-editor` / `.dash-intro-preview`) |
| Regex-read `theme.conf.php` metadata for the admin Settings → Themes picker (without executing the manifest) | `Sbpp\Theme\ThemeConf` (`web/includes/Theme/ThemeConf.php`) — `parseDefine()` + `sanitizeLink()` / `sanitizeScreenshotFilename()`; wired from `web/pages/admin.settings.php` discovery loop (#1466). JSON theme preview (`api_system_sel_theme`) still `include`s the manifest. Regression: `web/tests/integration/ThemeConfParseTest.php`. |
| Build an empty-state surface (first-run vs filtered, primary/secondary CTAs) | `.empty-state` rules in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` + reference shapes in `page_servers.tpl`, `page_dashboard.tpl`, `page_bans.tpl`, `page_comms.tpl`, `page_admin_audit.tpl`, `page_admin_bans_protests.tpl`, `page_admin_bans_submissions.tpl` |
| Subdivide an admin route into `?section=<slug>` URLs (servers, mods, groups, settings, **admins**, **bans**) | `Sbpp\View\AdminNavCatalog` (`web/includes/View/AdminNavCatalog.php`) owns the section catalogs; `web/pages/core/navbar.php` + `core/navbar.tpl` render them as main-sidebar accordions (`data-testid="nav-admin-<endpoint>-<slug>"`, #1490). Page handlers resolve `?section=` against `AdminNavCatalog::sectionsFor('<endpoint>')` and render one View. `?section=` is the **only** sub-route nav contract. See "Sub-paged admin routes" in Conventions. |
| Render sub-views inside a Pattern A section (e.g. protests / submissions current-vs-archive) | `?view=<slug>` query param + a server-rendered `.chip-row` of real anchors (each carries `data-active="true|false"` + `aria-selected`). Reference: the protests / submissions chip rows in `web/pages/admin.bans.php` (`?section=protests&view=archive` / `?section=submissions&view=archive`). Pre-#1275 the chips called `Swap2ndPane()` — a `web/scripts/sourcebans.js` helper deleted at #1123 D1, leaving them dead — and the page rendered both views simultaneously. The new shape only renders the active view's data path; back/forward and link sharing both work. |
| Lay out admin section chrome in the main sidebar accordion | `.sidebar__accordion` / `.sidebar__children` / `.sidebar__link--child` rules in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (#1490) + the nested `{foreach}` in `core/navbar.tpl`. Active leaf reuses `.sidebar__link[aria-current="page"]`. Do not reintroduce `core/admin_sidebar.tpl` / `.admin-sidebar-shell` as a second rail. |
| Render the trailing "Back" link on edit-* admin pages (the only surface that calls `new AdminTabs([], …)`) | `web/themes/default/core/admin_tabs.tpl` is the back-link-only partial (it still has a defensive `{foreach}` for legacy themes, but `web/includes/View/AdminTabs.php` only routes here when `$tabs === []`). Page handlers like `admin.edit.ban.php` / `admin.rcon.php` / `admin.email.php` call `new AdminTabs([], $userbank, $theme)` and the partial emits the right-aligned Back anchor (`.admin-tabs__back` in theme.css). |
| Add or rename an admin-admins advanced-search filter | `web/pages/admin.admins.php` (filter-building loop + active-filter map for pagination) + `web/pages/admin.admins.search.php` (DTO population + `$active_filter_count` increment for the new slot) + `web/includes/View/AdminAdminsSearchView.php` (`active_filter_*` properties) + `web/themes/default/box_admin_admins_search.tpl` (input + pre-fill). The form is single-submit AND-semantics with a backward-compat shim for legacy `advType=…&advSearch=…` URLs (#1207 ADM-4); cover new filters in `web/tests/integration/AdminAdminsSearchTest.php`. |
| Wrap a filter `<form>` in a default-collapsed `<details>` disclosure (admin-admins advanced search; the public banlist / commslist filter bars are candidates for the same shape per #1303's notes) | `.filters-details` rules in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` + reference shape in `web/themes/default/box_admin_admins_search.tpl` (`<details class="card filters-details" {if $has_active_filters}open{/if}>` with a `<summary data-testid="…-toggle">` carrying the title + chevron + optional "N active" count badge). The View carries paired `int $active_filter_count` + `bool $has_active_filters` properties (#1303); the page handler increments the count once per populated value slot, NEVER per match-mode toggle. The disclosure auto-expands on a post-submit paint so the Clear-filters affordance stays one click away. Visual vocabulary mirrors `core/admin_sidebar.tpl`'s mobile `<details open>` accordion (chevron + `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce` override). |
| Add a shared "1 of these required" badge for an either/or input pair | `web/themes/default/page_submitban.tpl` (`data-required-group="…"` + the inline guard script — vanilla JS `// @ts-check`, blocks submit when both are empty) |
| Bootstrap (paths, autoload, theme)     | `web/init.php`                                           |
| Routing (`?p=…&c=…&o=…`)               | `web/includes/page-builder.php` — unrecognised admin `c=…` returns the 404 page slot via `web/pages/page.404.php` + `Sbpp\View\NotFoundView` (#1207 ADM-1) |
| Resolve the panel version (`SB_VERSION`, `data-version="…"` footer hook) | `web/includes/Version.php` (`Sbpp\Version::resolve()`) — three-tier fallback: `configs/version.json` → `git describe` → the `'dev'` sentinel (#1207 CC-5) |
| Auth / JWT cookie                      | `web/includes/Auth/` (`Sbpp\Auth\*` — `Auth.php`, `JWT.php`, `UserManager.php`, `Host.php`, `Handler/{Normal,Steam}AuthHandler.php`; `openid.php` is third-party LightOpenID and stays in the global namespace) |
| CSRF                                   | `web/includes/Security/CSRF.php` (`Sbpp\Security\CSRF`)  |
| Schema                                 | `web/install/includes/sql/struc.sql`                     |
| Wrap a `:prefix_*` column with a backed PHP enum (log letter codes, ban types, removal-type tags, web permissions) | `web/includes/LogType.php` / `LogSearchType.php` / `BanType.php` / `BanRemoval.php` / `WebPermission.php` (global namespace; loaded by `init.php` + `tests/bootstrap.php`). Pass `$enum->value` at every SQL bind site so the dba plugin sees the column-typed primitive; use `WebPermission::mask(…)` to assemble multi-flag bitmasks for `HasAccess()`. Issue #1290 phase D. |
| Seed `sb_settings` rows for fresh installs | `web/install/includes/sql/data.sql`                  |
| Add a one-off DB upgrade for existing installs | `web/updater/data/<N>.php` + `web/updater/store.json` |
| Test fixtures                          | `web/tests/Fixture.php`, `web/tests/ApiTestCase.php`     |
| Populate the dev DB with realistic synthetic data (banlist > 1 page, drawer history, moderation queues, audit log) | `./sbpp.sh db-seed` → `web/tests/scripts/seed-dev-db.php` (CLI driver) → `web/tests/Synthesizer.php` (`Sbpp\Tests\Synthesizer`). Dev-only: refuses any `DB_NAME` other than `sourcebans` (so `sourcebans_test` / `sourcebans_e2e` stay untouched). Idempotent; deterministic given a fixed `--seed` (default `Synthesizer::DEFAULT_SEED`). Does NOT share plumbing with `Fixture::truncateAndReseed` — the e2e hot path stays minimal. |
| API wire-format snapshots              | `web/tests/api/__snapshots__/<topic>/<scenario>.json`    |
| Action -> permission lock              | `web/tests/api/PermissionMatrixTest.php`                 |
| Trap PHP 8.1 null-into-scalar deprecations at runtime (the bits PHPStan can't see) | `web/tests/integration/Php82DeprecationsTest.php` (#1273) — process-isolated render harness with a stub Smarty + `set_error_handler` that promotes `E_DEPRECATED` / `E_USER_DEPRECATED` to `\ErrorException`. Mirrors the LostPasswordChromeTest stub-Smarty pattern; each test method runs in a separate process because the page handlers declare top-level helpers (`setPostKey()` etc.) that PHP can't redeclare in one process. Add a marquee route here whenever a new high-traffic page handler ships, especially if it reads nullable `:prefix_*` columns or `$_POST` / `$_GET` lookups. |
| Pin the "every `:name` PDO placeholder needs as many `bind()` calls as occurrences" contract under native prepares | `web/tests/integration/SrvAdminsPdoParamTest.php` (#1314) — two methods. `testReusedNamedPlaceholderUnderNativePreparesIsRejected` issues a tiny `SELECT 1 ... WHERE aid = :sid OR aid = :sid` against `Sbpp\Db\Database` with one `bind()` and asserts it throws `HY093`; this is the contract pin (also a regression guard if anyone re-flips `EMULATE_PREPARES` back to `true`). `testAdminSrvadminsPageRendersWithoutPdoException` is the page-level regression guard for the actual #1314 fatal — process-isolated `require` of `pages/admin.srvadmins.php` with `?id=0` asserting no `PDOException` escapes. Mirrors the Php82DeprecationsTest stub-Smarty + process-isolation shape. |
| Pin "dead v1.x JS call sites + their server-side feeders stay deleted" (the `<script>LoadServerHost(...)</script>` / `$data['unban_link']` / `$info['popup']` shapes the v2.0.0 `sourcebans.js` cutover left without a JS landing site) | `web/tests/integration/DeadJsCallSitesTest.php` (#1404) — three methods, 12 assertions. Per-file forbidden-substring map (`page.banlist.php` / `page.commslist.php` / `page.home.php` / `admin.admins.php` / `admin.groups.php`) scanned against the **comment-stripped** source of each handler via `php_strip_whitespace()`, so the cleanup's own `// #1404 — ...` explanatory comments (and pre-existing historical-context comments that name the dead helpers in passing) don't false-fire the gate. The Smarty half (`{$server_script nofilter}`, the `<div id="servers_{$group.gid}">` hydration slot, the "Servers populate via the legacy LoadServerHostPlayersList hook." placeholder copy) is pinned by `testDeadTemplateSidesStayDropped` (also comment-stripped via `{* *}`-regex). The View-DTO side (`Sbpp\View\AdminAdminsAddView::server_script` orphan property) is pinned independently by `testAdminAdminsAddViewDoesNotCarryServerScriptProperty` so the failure points at the View directly instead of cascading through SmartyTemplateRule. Pure file scanning — extends `PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase` (no DB / session / Smarty bring-up). Sister #1402 (rewire dead JS handlers) and #1403 (ShowBox→`window.SBPP.showToast` rewrite) extend the per-file forbidden-substring map as their PRs land. |
| Pin "every `class="btn--*"` modifier carries the base `btn` token" structural contract | `web/tests/integration/ButtonClassChainTest.php` (#1448) — single-method parser-style sweep across `web/themes/`, `web/pages/`, `web/includes/View/`, `web/install/`, `web/updater/`, `web/api/handlers/`, AND `web/scripts/` + `web/themes/default/js/` for `*.tpl` / `*.php` / `*.js`. Strips Smarty `{* … *}` (default delimiters) and `-{* … *}-` (the non-default-delimiter shape used by `page_login.tpl` / `page_blockit.tpl` / `page_kickit.tpl` / `page_admin_servers_rcon.tpl`), PHP comments via `php_strip_whitespace()`, and JS `/* */` + `//` comments. Extracts every `class="…"` / `class='…'` attribute body (negative lookbehind on the `class` keyword skips name-prefixed `data-class=` / `aria-class=` shapes), splits on whitespace, and asserts every chain carrying a `btn--*` modifier also carries `btn`. Class attributes containing `{` (Smarty-conditional shapes) are skipped — the gate doesn't expand templates. Sanity-check assertions guard against `ROOT` / `scanRoots()` typos that would silently scan zero files. Sister gate to `DeadJsCallSitesTest`; same pure-file-scanning shape. The JS-side coverage (`web/themes/default/js/theme.js`'s `renderDrawerBody()` / `renderDrawerLoading()` / toast / Notes-pane delete chrome, plus the `web/scripts/sb.js` legacy `'btn ok'` button factory) is what makes the gate's "panel chrome" coverage actually structural — that file ships seven `<button class="btn btn--ghost btn--icon[ btn--xs]">` strings via runtime concatenation, and the regression guard would be papering over the live bug surface without it. |
| Add an E2E spec                        | `web/tests/e2e/specs/<smoke|flows|a11y|responsive>/...` + `web/tests/e2e/pages/...` |
| Add a route to the screenshot gallery  | `web/tests/e2e/specs/_screenshots.spec.ts` (`ROUTES` array) |
| Tweak mobile (<=768px) chrome layout   | `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` — see the `#1207` `@media (max-width: 768px)` blocks for the canonical shapes (icon-only topbar search, full-width drawer + scroll lock). Sub-paged admin section links live in the main sidebar accordion (`.sidebar__accordion`, #1490); see "Sub-paged admin routes" in Conventions. |
| Hide non-essential desktop-table columns when the card is too narrow to fit every cell without horizontal scroll | `.col-tier-2` (hide via `@container tablescroll (max-width: 1200px)`) and `.col-tier-3` (hide via `@container tablescroll (max-width: 1500px)`) in `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (next to `.table-scroll`). Apply to BOTH the `<th>` AND the matching `<td>` so the column hides as a unit. Tier-3 hides FIRST despite the lower tier-number because the wider trio (IP / Length / Banned / Started, ~552px) reclaims more room than tier-2 (Server / Admin, ~219px). Tier-1 columns are always visible — Player, SteamID, Reason (banlist) / Type+Player (commslist), Status, Actions; the minimum row still answers "who, why, what state, what can I do". The breakpoints are `@container tablescroll (...)` rules — they react to the painted width of `.table-scroll` (which carries `container-type: inline-size; container-name: tablescroll;`), NOT the viewport. This lets the breakpoints see the page-cap (1400px on most lists, 1700px on bans / comms post-#1363) — pre-#1363 the predecessors were viewport-keyed (`@media (max-width: 1535px)`) and a 1920px monitor saw the same scroll-required layout as a 1535px laptop because both painted an identical 1352px card under the 1400px page-cap. `.table-scroll` stays wrapped around the table as the runtime overflow safety net. The mobile card layout (`.ban-cards`) takes over at `<=768px`, so the tier classes only collapse the desktop table at intermediate viewports. Reference: banlist `<th>` row in `page_bans.tpl` (Server / Admin → tier-2; IP / Length / Banned → tier-3); commslist row in `page_comms.tpl` (Server / Admin → tier-2; Length / Started → tier-3). See "Responsive desktop-table chrome" in Conventions for the full pattern. |
| Surface the full reason on a truncated row (banlist Reason column / mobile card reason line / unban-reason inline span) | `title="…"` attribute on the truncated element. The browser's native tooltip fires on hover (desktop) / long-press (mobile) and exposes the un-truncated text; no JS needed. Reference: `page_bans.tpl` desktop reason `<td>` (gates on `!empty($ban.reason)` so empty rows don't get a useless empty `title=""`), the mobile-card reason line, the `[data-testid="ban-unban-reason"]` span, the Server cell, and the matching `[data-testid="comm-unban-reason"]` span on `page_comms.tpl`. Don't use `title=""` empty-string fallbacks — the conditional gate is the contract. |
| Stop mobile browsers auto-linking SteamIDs / IPs as phone numbers | `web/themes/default/core/header.tpl` (`<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no…">` + `<meta name="x-apple-data-detectors">`) and the defensive `.drawer a[href^="tel:"]` reset in `theme.css` |
| Lock page scroll while a modal-style chrome is open | `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (`html:has(#drawer-root[data-drawer-open="true"]) { overflow: hidden; }` — pure-CSS, gates on the same `data-drawer-open` mirror theme.js sets, applies at every viewport so the drawer-open contract is symmetric desktop/mobile per the Linear/Vercel/Notion modal idiom) |
| Keep the main sidebar sticky-pinned across the full document scroll (`<aside class="sidebar">`) | The structural half of #1271 lives in `web/themes/default/core/footer.tpl`: `<footer class="app-footer">` is rendered as the LAST flex column item of `<div class="main">`, INSIDE `<div class="app">`. `.sidebar`'s sticky containing block is `.app`; if the footer were a body-level sibling of `.app` (the pre-fix shape), `.app`'s height would fall short of the document by `footerHeight` and the sidebar would release at the bottom — brand cut off, on barely-tall pages (`docHeight - viewport ≤ footerHeight`, e.g. `?p=admin&c=audit` on the bare e2e seed) the entire scroll range would be in the release phase and the sidebar would track the scroll. Keeping the footer inside `.app` makes the sticky CB extend to the full document. The CSS half (`.sidebar { align-self: flex-start; }` from #1278) is defensive parity with `.admin-sidebar` and is RETAINED but not load-bearing on its own. The footer's `margin-top: auto` (`.app-footer` rule in `theme.css`) is the classic "sticky footer" pattern — pushes the footer to the bottom of `.main`'s flex column on short pages so the credit doesn't float halfway up the viewport. Regression guard: `web/tests/e2e/specs/responsive/sidebar-sticky.spec.ts` asserts strict `top===0` at scroll=`document.scrollHeight` on `?p=admin&c=bans` (the canonical tall page) AND on `?p=admin&c=audit` (the barely-tall page that historically presented the bug most visibly). |
| Disable the chrome's slide-in / fade animations for `prefers-reduced-motion` users | `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` (`@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` global block — see the matching note in "Playwright E2E specifics" / Conventions). The block applies universally to `*, *::before, *::after` and is the right shape for *motion-of-state* (drawer slide-in, toast slide-in, chevron rotation). Two documented exceptions live next to their rules: the busy-button spinner (`.btn[data-loading="true"]::after`) and the skeleton shimmer (`.skel`), both essential feedback per WCAG 2.3.3 — without rotation the donut reads as a decorative ring, without sliding the gradient reads as a permanent placeholder. Each rule carries its own per-rule `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)` override that re-enables the animation with `!important` longhands so specificity wins over the universal `*::after` / `*` reset (#1362). If you ship a new animation, default to honouring the global reset; the per-rule exception only applies to motion that is itself the load-bearing feedback (without it, the affordance is silently broken — not just less lively). Regression guard for both exceptions: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/loading-animations.spec.ts`. |
| Tell the browser to paint native UA surfaces (`<select>` dropdown panels, native scrollbars, `<input type="date|time|color">` pickers, autofill highlighting) in the matching scheme | `web/themes/default/css/theme.css` — the two `color-scheme` declarations on `:root` (`light`) and `html.dark` (`dark`) (#1309). Without these the chrome's dark tokens swap correctly for DOM-rendered surfaces, but anything painted in the browser's top-layer system UI ignores `html.dark` and renders light — most jarring on mobile where the native `<select>` picker full-screens. Regression guard: `web/tests/e2e/specs/a11y/color-scheme.spec.ts`. |
| Apply the persisted theme to `<html>` BEFORE first paint (no FOUC on every page navigation; covers BOTH the chrome and the chromeless `<head>` surfaces — iframes, upload popups, the updater wizard) | Five template surfaces ship the same inline `<script>` block in `<head>`, immediately above `<link rel="stylesheet">`: `web/themes/default/core/header.tpl` (chrome, every `index.php?p=…` render — #1367), `web/themes/default/page_kickit.tpl` and `web/themes/default/page_blockit.tpl` (the two iframe-routed surfaces under `pages/admin.kickit.php` / `pages/admin.blockit.php` that ship their own self-contained `<head>` rather than riding the chrome — #1438), `web/themes/default/page_uploadfile.tpl` (the popup window opened by `pages/admin.upload{demo,icon,mapimg}.php` via `window.open(...)` from a dark-mode-aware parent admin page — #1438 follow-up), and `web/themes/default/updater.tpl` (the standalone wizard rendered by `web/updater/index.php` on every panel upgrade — #1438 follow-up). All five copies read `localStorage['sbpp-theme']` (mirror of `THEME_KEY` in `theme.js`), resolve dark via the same predicate as `applyTheme(currentTheme())`, mirror the preference to `<html data-theme-pref="...">` (drives the theme toggle's tri-state sun / moon / monitor icon CSS in `theme.css` — #1185 follow-up; pre-followup the icon CSS gated on `html.dark` so "system" mode was visually indistinguishable from whichever of light/dark the OS resolved to), and add `class="dark"` to `<html>` synchronously before `<body>` parses. Pre-#1367 theme.js (loaded from the document tail via `core/footer.tpl`) was the only thing flipping the class on the chrome — by then the body had already painted in light mode and the class flip triggered a full repaint the user perceived as a white flash + content flicker on every page navigation. Pre-#1438 the chromeless surfaces had NO theme-resolution path at all — none of them load `theme.js` — so a dark-mode operator right-clicking a player → "Kick player" navigated to a stark-white full-page kickit document; same shape for the upload popup over a dark-mode parent and the updater landing page during a post-upgrade flow. All four bugs are the same shape: the page paints in light because nothing has set the dark class yet. The bootloader's resolution logic must stay byte-equivalent across all five copies (the integration test below enforces whitespace-normalized byte-equivalence — drift between copies means a user navigating between sibling pages sees the theme flicker mid-flow) AND semantically equivalent to `theme.js`'s `applyTheme(currentTheme())` minus the `localStorage.setItem(...)` write (the bootloader is intentionally more defensive — adds a `window.matchMedia &&` null check and a broader `try/catch` — but the resolution rule itself must mirror theme.js, otherwise the first paint resolves to one theme and theme.js's boot-time call resolves to another). See "Anti-FOUC theme bootloader" in Conventions. Regression guards: `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/theme-fouc.spec.ts` (chrome — stalls `theme.js` via `page.route` and asserts `<html>`'s class WHILE theme.js is held, proving the bootloader did the flip; three arms cover dark-pinned / light-pinned / system + emulated OS-dark via `colorScheme: 'dark'` on a fresh `chromium.newContext()`) plus `web/tests/e2e/specs/flows/iframe-anti-fouc.spec.ts` (#1438 — kickit + blockit + uploadfile; simpler shape because none of those templates load `theme.js`, so a plain `page.goto(URL)` + `toHaveClass(/dark/)` is sufficient; six chromium tests cover kickit dark + light + system-OS-dark + system-OS-light, blockit dark, uploadfile dark; the system-OS-light arm specifically guards against the regression mode where the bootloader unconditionally adds `html.dark` regardless of `matchMedia(...).matches`) plus `web/tests/integration/IframeChromeAntiFoucBootloaderTest.php` (#1438 — static-grep gate covering all five template files, asserts every required bootloader fragment appears in each, the bootloader precedes `<link rel="stylesheet">` in each, the bootloader bodies are byte-equivalent across all five after whitespace normalization, and NO `*.tpl` file under `web/themes/default/install/` carries the bootloader — the install wizard runs against an unconfigured panel with no `localStorage` to read; catches drift edits that update one bootloader copy and forget the others). The updater surface is NOT covered by the E2E spec because the dev stack auto-seeds the DB out of band via `docker/db-init/`, so `web/updater/data/<N>.php` migrations are never applied via the runner in dev and hitting `/updater/` raises "Column already exists" on migration 801 — the static-grep integration test is the sufficient gate for that surface (the bootloader mechanism is identical across all five copies, enforced by the byte-equivalence test). |
| Edit a step of the install wizard (chrome, form, schema-apply, admin-create, AMXBans import) | Page handlers under `web/install/pages/page.<N>.php` (1=license, 2=DB details, 3=requirements, 4=schema apply, 5=admin form + final config write, 6=optional AMXBans import). Each handler builds a `Sbpp\View\Install\Install*View` DTO from `web/includes/View/Install/` and renders the matching template under `web/themes/default/install/`. Shared step-handler helpers (prefix validation, raw-PDO probe before instantiating `\Database`, KeyValues quoting, friendly PDO error translation, filesystem-check detail strings) live in `web/install/includes/helpers.php` (`sbpp_install_validate_prefix` / `sbpp_install_open_db` / `sbpp_install_kv_escape` / `sbpp_install_translate_pdo_error` / `sbpp_install_describe_filesystem_check`) — required eagerly from `web/install/bootstrap.php` so every step page has them in scope without its own require. Every step (3-6) re-runs `sbpp_install_validate_prefix` at the top of its handler before any SQL substitution; step 6 also validates `amx_prefix` (operator input on that page itself). The `_chrome.tpl` / `_chrome_close.tpl` partials wrap every step (header + progress stepper + footer); they own the install-only inline CSS (`.install-shell`, `.install-alert`, `.install-pill`, `.install-grid`) since the wizard reuses the panel's `theme.css` design tokens but doesn't pull in the panel's chrome JS (`theme.js`, `lucide.min.js`, command palette, etc. — the wizard has no logged-in user / no Config / no `$userbank`). Steps with per-page tail scripts: step 1 (vanilla JS validating the license-accept checkbox), step 5 (#1335 M3: client-side validation for SteamID format + email shape + password match — saves the round-trip-with-wiped-passwords path on the common form-error case); the handoff template carries an inline auto-submit script. Navigation is plain HTML `<form action="?step=N">` everywhere else. Test-IDs follow `install-<step>-<field>` consistently (#1335 m3 standardised step 2's `install-db-*` shape onto the wider `install-database-*` pattern). Anti-pattern: reintroducing MooTools / `web/install/scripts/sourcebans.js` / `ShowBox()` / `$E()` / inline `onclick="next()"` — every legacy hook is dead post-#1123 D1, the rewrite at #1332 dropped them all (#1332). |
| Tune install-wizard alert / pill colours (`.install-alert--*` / `.install-pill--*`) | Inline `<style>` block in `web/themes/default/install/_chrome.tpl` (#1435). The palette is pinned to the Tailwind 900-tier (`#14532d` green-900 / `#1e3a8a` blue-900 / `#78350f` amber-900 / `#7f1d1d` red-900) on `rgba(_, 0.15)` backgrounds so every variant clears WCAG AAA (~8:1 — well past AA's 4.5:1 floor). The pre-#1435 700/800-tier text on `rgba(_, 0.10)` bg failed AA on the success alert (~4.46:1) and surfaced to operators as "dark green text on light green box, hard to read". The `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` block in the same file ONLY swaps text colours (NOT bgs) — the wizard has no `theme.js` / no toggle / no `html.dark` to ride, so the surrounding chrome stays light regardless of OS preference; swapping bgs would make alerts visually mismatch the rest of the wizard. Full OS-dark support is out of scope (would require `@media`-swapping every token `theme.css` owns). Regression guard: `web/tests/integration/InstallChromeContrastTest.php` — pins the new colour literals AND computes the WCAG contrast ratio for every variant arithmetically (text-on-composite-rgba-bg-over-page-bg) so a future palette tweak that drops below the 4.5:1 floor fails the gate even without the literal swap. The reference value test (`testContrastHelperMatchesReferenceValues`) cross-checks the implementation against a known WebAIM ratio (`#15803d` green-700 on `#f0fdf4` green-50 = 4.79:1). |
| Recover from a missing `web/includes/vendor/` at install time | `web/install/recovery.php` is the self-contained "vendor/ missing" surface — pure inline HTML + CSS, NO Composer / Smarty / `Sbpp\…` dependency (#1332 C3). `web/install/index.php`'s lifecycle is paths-init (`init.php`) → C2 already-installed guard (`already-installed.php`, #1335) → vendor/-check (short-circuit to `recovery.php` if missing) → composer + Smarty bootstrap (`bootstrap.php`) → step dispatch (`includes/routing.php` → `pages/page.<N>.php`). The recovery surface is gated by `file_exists(PANEL_INCLUDES_PATH . '/vendor/autoload.php')` BEFORE any namespaced class is referenced. Direct visits with vendor present 302 to `/install/` instead of always emitting the 503 page (#1335 m1). The release artifact (post-#1332 Workstream A) bundles `vendor/` so this surface is the safety net for git checkouts and partial uploads, never the happy path. |
| Display a friendly error page when the panel boots with `install/` still present, `updater/` still present, or `vendor/` missing | `web/init-recovery.php` (`sbpp_check_install_guard()` + `sbpp_render_install_blocked_page()`, #1335 M1). Pure inline HTML + CSS like `recovery.php`, runs upstream of Composer / Smarty. `web/init.php` calls the helper for all three scenarios; the missing-`config.php` case redirects to `/install/` instead of dying. Pre-#1335 these were three bare `die('plain text')` calls that read like a server crash to a non-technical operator who clicked the wizard's "Open the panel" CTA before completing post-install cleanup. Regression test: `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php`. |
| Refuse to start the wizard over an already-installed panel (panel-takeover prevention) | `web/install/already-installed.php` (`sbpp_install_is_already_installed()` + `sbpp_install_render_already_installed_page()`, #1335 C2). Pure inline HTML + CSS, same shape as `recovery.php`. Loaded BEFORE the vendor/-autoload check from `install/index.php` so the guard is independent of Composer. Sister-guard to the runtime-side `web/init-recovery.php`; both key off `config.php` so the contract is symmetric. Regression test: `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php`. |
| Translate raw `PDOException` connect errors into operator-friendly messages on the wizard's database step | `sbpp_install_translate_pdo_error()` in `web/install/includes/helpers.php` (#1335 m4). Pattern-matches the four error codes a non-technical operator is most likely to hit — 1045 (access denied), 2002 (host unreachable), 1049 (unknown database), 1044 (denied for user on database) — and emits a friendlier translation; falls back to the raw message for unrecognised codes so debugging stays possible. Pre-fix the wizard surfaced `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'sourcebans'@'192.168.96.5' (using password: YES)` verbatim, which is gibberish to non-DBAs and includes the panel-as-seen-by-DB internal IP (minor information disclosure). Regression test: `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php::testPdoErrorTranslationCoversCommonCodes`. |
| Run a stack in parallel with another worktree | Worktree-local `docker-compose.override.yml` (see "Parallel stacks") |
| Local dev stack details                | `docker/README.md`                                       |
| Build / extend the production Docker image (multi-stage build, hardened runtime, entrypoint state machine, healthcheck) | `docker/Dockerfile.prod` (multi-stage: `builder` runs `composer install --no-dev` against `web/`; `runtime` carries pdo_mysql + intl + zip + mbstring + gmp ONLY — no nodejs / npm / git / dev-prepend) + `docker/php/prod-entrypoint.sh` (pure POSIX shell state machine: `*_FILE` secret resolution → DATABASE_URL parse → defaults → Apache config (PORT + mod_remoteip from `SBPP_TRUSTED_PROXIES`) → wait-for-DB → render config.php (only when missing) → first-boot install (schema + data + seed admin from `INITIAL_ADMIN_*` env vars) → headless updater migrations → strip install/ + updater/ from writable layer → ensure writable cache/templates_c/demos → `exec apache2-foreground`) + `docker/php/prod-php.ini` (production OPcache: `validate_timestamps=0`, `display_errors=Off`, `log_errors=On`, errors → `/dev/stderr`, UTC default, `expose_php=Off`) + `docker/apache/sbpp-prod.conf` (denies dotfiles + vendor/ + configs/ + includes/ + install/ + updater/ + cache/ + templates_c/ + config.php + composer.{json,lock}; `RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For` for the trusted-proxy chain) + `web/health.php` (DB-aware unauthenticated healthcheck — `init.php` bootstraps the panel; `$GLOBALS['PDO']->query('SELECT 1')` returns 200 OK or 503 + plain-text reason; Cache-Control: no-store + X-Robots-Tag: noindex). The production image MUST NOT define `SBPP_DEV_KEEP_INSTALL`; the entrypoint's `strip_install_dirs` step is what makes the panel-runtime guard pass instead (#1381). |
| Deploy / configure the production Docker stack (compose, env vars, reverse-proxy) | `docker-compose.prod.yml` (pulls `ghcr.io/sbpp/sourcebans-pp:${SBPP_IMAGE_TAG:-latest}` — NOT a build context; DB port NOT exposed by default; commented `caddy:` service block for opt-in TLS) + `.env.example.prod` (every supported env var grouped by required / recommended / first-boot / optional / advanced; documents the `*_FILE` Docker-secret pattern and the `SBPP_CONFIG_PATH` Docker-secret-mount pattern; uses `${VAR:?...}` compose syntax for required vars so a fresh-deploy operator who forgot `SB_SECRET_KEY` / `DB_PASS` / `DB_ROOT_PASS` gets a useful container-startup error) + `docker/caddy/Caddyfile.example` (one-line `reverse_proxy web:80` + zstd/gzip encode + static-asset cache headers). Three persistent volumes: `dbdata` + `demos` (MUST persist — DB rows + uploaded ban-evidence); `cache` + `smarty` (CAN be ephemeral — rebuild on demand). Operators run `docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d` from a directory carrying both files; upgrades are `docker compose pull && up -d` (image is immutable, entrypoint runs idempotent migrations on every boot, named volumes survive the swap) (#1381). |
| Honour `SBPP_CONFIG_PATH` so config.php can live outside the panel root (Docker-secret mount) | `sbpp_resolve_config_path()` in `web/init-recovery.php` is the single source of truth; `web/init.php` calls it to resolve the require-site. `web/install/already-installed.php`'s `sbpp_install_is_already_installed()` re-implements the env-var read inline (per its self-contained no-Composer docblock) so the wizard-side and runtime-side guards agree on the install-state sentinel path. Pre-#1381 both halves hard-coded the panel-root path; with a Docker-secret-mounted config the runtime would 302-to-/install/ while the wizard would happily start over. Regression tests: `testResolveConfigPathHonorsEnvVar` + `testWizardGuardHonorsConfigPathEnvVar` in `web/tests/integration/InstallGuardTest.php`. |
| Change the Contributor License Agreement (text, scope, allowlist) or how the CLA bot gates `web/**` PRs | `CLA.md` (the agreement text — 10 sections, web/-scoped, explicit relicensing right in §3(b)) + `.github/workflows/cla.yml` (the `contributor-assistant/github-action` workflow — paths filter, allowlist, sign-comment text, custom not-signed PR comment) + `CONTRIBUTING.md` (rationale + how-to-sign for contributors). Signatures land on the orphan branch `cla-signatures` under `signatures/cla.json`; the action creates the branch on its first successful run. The maintainer plus all `*[bot]` accounts are allowlisted by default. See "Contributor License Agreement gate" in Conventions. |