Field report 2026-08-18, Windows host on 0.30: PunktfunkScripting task Running, Playnite and
Steam plugins installed, library empty, and "no logs at all for plugins" — nowhere on the box.
That is by construction, not by accident. The runner's only log door is the log shipper, which
tees console output to `POST /plugins/logs` over the mgmt API; the scheduled task itself had no
console and no file. So every failure that stops the runner reaching the host — LocalService
lost its read grant on plugin-token / native-cert.pem, a moved mgmt bind, a TLS pin miss, a
401 — is exactly the failure the shipper cannot report, and it leaves the same picture:
task Running, plugins never registering, an empty grid, and nothing to send when asked for logs.
`scripting-run.cmd` now redirects the runner's stdout+stderr to
`%ProgramData%\punktfunk\plugin-state\runner.log`, keeping the previous run as `runner.log.1`.
plugin-state is the one directory `plugins enable` makes writable for LocalService, and it
inherits Users-read from the config dir, so the operator can `type` it from any prompt.
Writability is probed with `copy /y nul` first; if the dir is not writable (the task was started
by the installer before `plugins enable` ever ran) the runner starts unlogged as before rather
than not at all. No `goto`: the file is stored LF and cmd's label scan is unreliable there.
The console's empty-Plugins hint (en/de) and the plugin docs now name the file; the log-ship
header no longer claims the task writes no file. Verified by reading only — no Windows box
reachable from here; the cmd semantics used (`copy nul` as a write probe, `if defined` blocks,
leading redirect on `echo`) are the boring ones.
The PunktfunkScripting scheduled task ran operator-installed plugin code
as SYSTEM with -RunLevel Highest — any plugin defect was a full
compromise of the box. The principal is now NT AUTHORITY\LocalService
(minimal privileges, no password to manage, exists at boot, loopback
networking works), registered without RunLevel:
- installer: New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -UserId 'LocalService'
- plugins enable: converges the principal idempotently (migrating tasks
an older installer or a dev box registered as SYSTEM) BEFORE starting,
then grants LocalService read — via icacls, full-System32-path — on
exactly the two SYSTEM/Admins-DACL'd files the runner's connect()
needs: the scoped plugin-token and the TLS-pin cert.pem. Never
mgmt-token. plugins disable revokes the grants; plugins status now
prints the task principal so the migration is verifiable.
- build-scripting.ps1 mirrors the convergence + grants on dev deploys.
The usage text also mentions the new --allow-public-registry gate that
lands with the supply-chain commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ship the management web console and the plugin/script runner across the packaging
matrix, and fix a Linux tray startup crash.
- nix: add punktfunk-web (Nitro SSR on bun) and punktfunk-scripting (Effect runner),
with services.punktfunk.{web,scripting} modules. Both bun node_modules come from
fixed-output derivations pinned to real deps hashes; patchShebangs the web
node_modules so orval/paraglide/vite run in the sandbox. Validated on x86_64-linux
(nix build .#punktfunk-{web,scripting,tray,host} all green).
- punktfunk-scripting now ships for deb/rpm/arch/nix/windows, mirroring the web-console
mechanics (vendored bun on deb/rpm/arch, pkgs.bun on nix; one self-contained
`bun build --target=bun` bundle). Opt-in: host Recommends it, but the systemd --user
unit ships un-started (Windows registers its scheduled task disabled).
- fix(tray): build punktfunk-tray in its OWN cargo invocation on nix/rpm/arch. Cargo
unifies features across one `cargo build`, so co-building the tray with the host pulls
the host's ashpd->zbus/tokio onto the tray's shared zbus and it panics at startup
("there is no reactor running, must be called from the context of a Tokio 1.x
runtime"). Isolated, the tray's zbus stays on async-io. The .deb already did this;
runtime-verified on nix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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