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- RULE-ANCHOR-DRIFT (37): rewrote inline cross-reference links left over
  from before the decisions/questions/rejected subdir split — flat naming
  (questions-architecture.md, questions-process.md, rejected.md) and bare
  same-dir paths that were actually cross-type — to canonical
  subdir-relative form with current slugs. pql resolved these by ID so they
  were never broken to the tooling, only to GitHub anchor navigation.
- RULE-RECORD-SORT (1): reordered decisions/architecture.md D-records to
  strictly ascending (the D-1..D-6 block had been appended after D-41); pure
  block move, line count unchanged, content identical.
- RULE-FILE-OVER-THRESHOLD: deferred (architecture.md 435 > 350; splitting
  would re-churn the anchors just fixed).
- EOF/whitespace and Q↔D backlinks clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 12:50:27 +02:00

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Open Questions — Extensions

Extension API shape, Lua runtime vendoring, manifest schema version.


Q-8: Extension API shape — widgets, subcommands, both?

  • Status: Open
  • Question: Should extensions contribute widgets (panels, tabs, status-bar items), subcommands (CLI verbs), or both? Both is the obvious answer but has a cost in API surface that must be designed carefully to satisfy user/Claude parity (D-6).
  • Context: CLAUDE.md flags this as "decide during Tier 6." builtin.* stubs today contribute widgets + commands + keybindings; the third-party Lua contract has to match.
  • Source: CLAUDE.md "Open questions" footer.

Q-9: Lua runtime vendoring

  • Status: Open
  • Question: Does the Lua supporter tool (D-19) bundle liblua source (build with the binary) or link system liblua (smaller binary, fragile ABI)?
  • Context: ptyc has no deps; Lua is different — it's a whole VM. Bundling is the straightforward choice but locks a Lua version per clide release.
  • Source: 2026-04-21 planning.

Q-10: Extension manifest schema_version:

  • Status: Open
  • Question: What's the manifest schema-version scheme and bump policy? Coupled with Q-5 (IPC wire format) — both want a versioning story.
  • Context: Today's manifests have no schema_version:. Adding one is cheap; the hard part is deciding when we bump.
  • Source: 2026-04-21 planning.