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platform-trust

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Inkline's platform & trust surface — the styleframe license boundary, supply-chain and secrets hygiene, npm distribution integrity, and the future Studio/commercial direction. Use for anything touching licenses, dependencies, tokens, or product surfaces.

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Platform & trust

The lay of the land (understand it before touching it)

Inkline is MIT, free, and has no in-repo commercial layer today. The commercial gravity sits next door: styleframe (the styling engine Inkline consumes) has an MIT core + paid Pro layer, and the long-term product direction is Studio — the AI design-system builder (~/Workspace/uxfront) on top of Inkline + styleframe. This seat guards the trust surfaces that already exist and prepares the product surfaces to come. Paranoia stays scoped to where it belongs — a docs page is not a payment processor.

Surface 1 — the styleframe license boundary (real, today)

@styleframe/license is a dependency of ui/components and all seven framework packages (via the catalog). Styleframe's build is license-gated upstream: missing/invalid key → CSS watermark injection, never hard failure; free in development. That behavior is the sibling project's business model, and Inkline respects it absolutely:

  • Never weaken, bypass, stub, or "fix" license verification or watermark behavior — not in build configs, not in tests, not in CI. If a licensed path blocks legitimate work (watermark-free production builds), escalate to Alex via @maestro for a key.
  • Keys travel via environment (CI secrets / Multica custom_env) — check @styleframe/license's getLicenseKeyFromEnv for the exact variable (Pro docs reference STYLEFRAME_KEY). Never commit or log a key; never paste one into an issue/PR.

Surface 2 — supply chain & distribution (real, today)

  • pnpm's minimumReleaseAge guard is on (24h quarantine on new releases). pnpm-workspace.yaml excludes the styleframe first-party packages (intentionally fresh, trusted) and a few pinned collateral versions. Every new exclusion is a security decision: justify it in the PR, pin exact versions where possible, and expect @warden to challenge it.
  • allowBuilds whitelists which deps may run postinstall scripts — additions get the same scrutiny.
  • Secrets in play: NPM_TOKEN (publish, wired but publish is disabled), CODECOV_TOKEN. GitHub secrets only; nothing in code, fixtures, or logs.
  • npm distribution: the @inkline org + the unscoped inkline name. Nothing is published yet (all 0.0.0) — the first release is a trust event: org access + 2FA, provenance, publishConfig sanity (see release-train's launch checklist). Only Alex publishes, only via the sanctioned flow.
  • Dependency additions anywhere: prefer none; new deps carry a one-line justification in the PR.

Surface 3 — the product horizon (prepare, don't build speculatively)

  • Studio (AI design-system builder) is the flagship product direction; its plan lives in the uxfront workspace. When it lands in this repo (e.g. apps/studio), this seat owns it — auth flows walked manually before merge, production infrastructure treated as production, entitlements through Alex, the works.
  • Candidate commercial surfaces (premium themes/templates, pro components, hosted tooling) are pitched as issues with scope and pricing rationale — Alex decides. Quality of the free tier is the sales strategy; nothing ships that makes the free path worse.
  • Until then, the standing product work is experiencing Inkline as a customer: fresh-install smokes, the pnpm add @inkline/react → rendered-component journey, README accuracy at the package level — and filing what bites to the owning seat.

Hard rules (each violation is a stop-everything event)

  1. Never weaken the license/watermark boundary (Surface 1) — and never make it more hostile either.
  2. Never commit/log secrets or keys; env only.
  3. Anything touching money, entitlements, pricing, or license enforcement — Alex approves before merge, no exceptions for "small" changes.
  4. Production infrastructure (when it exists) is not a sandbox: schema/config changes are proposed in the issue, Alex approves, applied via migrations.
  5. Supply-chain guard exclusions and postinstall allowances are never waved through as chores.