@nimbus-sh/core 0.1.0 → 0.3.0

package/dist/workspace/nimbus-workspace.d.ts

@@ -3,23 +3,32 @@
  *
  * A workspace is a durable filesystem plus a shell over it. It owns no
  * transport, no session, no socket and no Durable Object: the host supplies
- * SQLite and gets back `.fs` and `.exec`. That is what makes it embeddable in
- * a Durable Object that is already busy powering something else, and what
- * makes it runnable in a plain bun process over `bun:sqlite`.
+ * the filesystem and gets back `.fs`, `.exec`, and a command registry to add
+ * to. That is what makes it embeddable in a Durable Object that is already
+ * busy powering something else, and what makes it runnable in a plain bun
+ * process over `bun:sqlite`.
  *
- * The composition here is not new. It is the one `session/init.ts` performs,
- * lifted out of the session so there is one recipe rather than one per caller
- * — five unit tests were already hand-rolling it, one of them reaching a
- * private field to do so. The boot itself still belongs to `Sandbox.create`;
- * this adds only what a durable, credentialed filesystem needs on top and
- * nothing the sandbox already knows how to do.
+ * The composition here is not new. It is the one `session/init.ts` performed
+ * inline, lifted out of the session so there is one recipe rather than one per
+ * caller — the session now reads its kernel, shell and registry off a
+ * workspace, and five unit tests were already hand-rolling the same steps.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not `Sandbox.create`, which is the lifo demo sandbox's boot
+ * rather than this one: it registers `systemctl`, `tunnel` and the network
+ * command set, boots enabled service units out of `/etc/systemd`, and starts
+ * the shell before the host can register a command of its own. A session
+ * routed through it would silently acquire all of that.
  */
+import { Kernel } from '../substrate/lifo/kernel/index.js';
+import { Shell } from '../substrate/lifo/shell/Shell.js';
+import type { ShellCommandIdentity } from '../substrate/lifo/shell/Shell.js';
+import type { CommandRegistry } from '../substrate/lifo/commands/registry.js';
 import type { CommandResult, RunOptions, SandboxFs } from '../substrate/lifo/sandbox/types.js';
-import type { Kernel } from '../substrate/lifo/kernel/index.js';
-import type { Shell } from '../substrate/lifo/shell/Shell.js';
 import type { ITerminal } from '../substrate/lifo/terminal/ITerminal.js';
 import { SqliteVFS } from '../vfs/sqlite-vfs.js';
 import type { SqlDatabase, TransactionHost } from '../runtime/os-contracts.js';
+import type { FacetHost } from '../runtime/facet-host.js';
+import { type RuntimePackage } from '../runtime/runtime-package.js';
 export interface NimbusWorkspaceOptions {
     /** The host's SQLite. In a Durable Object: `ctx.storage.sql`. */
     readonly sql: SqlDatabase;
@@ -32,29 +41,84 @@ export interface NimbusWorkspaceOptions {
      */
     readonly transactions?: TransactionHost;
     /**
-     * Process-id generation. The workspace revokes every append capability at
-     * or below `generation * 1_000_000` before serving anything, so a value
-     * that repeats across restarts hands a dead process live write authority.
-     * Hosts that persist must supply a counter that never repeats.
+     * The filesystem already open over `sql`, for a host that has one.
+     *
+     * A Durable Object does: its installer, its git commands and its RPC
+     * surfaces read those rows without a shell in sight, and they hold a
+     * SqliteVFS from the first request that needed one. It must hand over THAT
+     * one — a second SqliteVFS over the same database is a second cache, and
+     * one of the two will serve a stale read. Such a host has also already
+     * revoked the previous generation's append writers, which is why that only
+     * happens below when the workspace is the one opening the filesystem.
+     */
+    readonly vfs?: SqliteVFS;
+    /**
+     * Process-id generation. Two things rest on it: the workspace revokes every
+     * append capability at or below `generation * 1_000_000` before serving
+     * anything, and the wasm runner allocates pids above it. A value that
+     * repeats across restarts hands a dead process live write authority, so
+     * hosts that persist must supply a counter that never repeats.
      */
     readonly generation?: number;
     /** Top-level directories backed by `sql`. Defaults to DEFAULT_MOUNT_POINTS. */
     readonly mounts?: readonly string[];
+    /** Overlaid on the Nimbus default environment. */
     readonly env?: Record<string, string>;
     readonly cwd?: string;
     /** Absent means headless: `.exec` captures output and nothing is drawn. */
     readonly terminal?: ITerminal;
+    /**
+     * Who the shell acts as, when the host keeps a process table that can answer
+     * for it. Absent, commands run as uid 1000 with a umask of 022 and no
+     * process behind them, which is the Shell's own default.
+     */
+    readonly identity?: ShellCommandIdentity;
+    /**
+     * Language runtimes to install before the shell is served, as npm packages
+     * the embedder imported (`@nimbus-sh/runtime-bash`,
+     * `@nimbus-sh/runtime-cpython`).
+     *
+     * A Durable Object gets these from R2 through `nimbus install`; an embedder
+     * off Cloudflare has no bucket and needs none, because npm already fetched
+     * and integrity-checked the same bytes. Both write the same tree at the same
+     * path, so what is installed here is indistinguishable from what is
+     * installed there — see runtime/runtime-package.ts.
+     *
+     * Independent of `facets`: this decides what the filesystem HOLDS, and
+     * `facets` decides whether anything can run it. A workspace given runtimes
+     * and no facet host installs them and still answers "command not found",
+     * because it still has nothing that could compile a module.
+     */
+    readonly runtimes?: readonly RuntimePackage[];
+    /**
+     * Where WebAssembly runs.
+     *
+     * Absent, the workspace is the JavaScript half of Nimbus: the durable
+     * filesystem, the shell and the coreutils, and `bash` or `./prog.wasm` is
+     * "command not found" — not disabled, ABSENT, because nothing has been
+     * supplied that could compile a module or run one. Supplied, the wasm
+     * runtimes already installed in this filesystem become invokable commands
+     * and `wasm-runner` joins them, which is what makes a `\0asm` file on the
+     * PATH executable (see shell/exec-dispatch.ts).
+     *
+     * A plain process passes `localFacetHost()`. A Durable Object passes nothing
+     * here and registers its own runners instead, because the ones it needs
+     * carry REPLs and a resident-process substrate this cannot reach.
+     */
+    readonly facets?: FacetHost;
 }
 /**
  * A durable filesystem and a shell over it.
  *
- * Created with {@link NimbusWorkspace.create} rather than `new` because the
- * boot it delegates to sources `/etc/profile`, which is genuinely async. A
- * Durable Object constructor cannot await, so a host constructs the workspace
- * in its first request rather than in its constructor.
+ * The composition itself is synchronous. {@link create} awaits only the
+ * optional work — installing runtime packages, loading the wasm runner modules
+ * — so a host that asks for neither is never suspended between mounting the
+ * filesystem and registering the commands. A Durable Object needs that: it
+ * must not take delivery of an event with a half-built shell. The remaining
+ * async step, running the user's login files, is {@link start}, which the host
+ * calls once its own commands are in place.
  */
 export declare class NimbusWorkspace {
-    private readonly sandbox;
     private readonly sql;
     /**
      * Credentialed and mount-aware. Acts as the session user, never as the
@@ -66,9 +130,26 @@ export declare class NimbusWorkspace {
     readonly vfs: SqliteVFS;
     readonly kernel: Kernel;
     readonly shell: Shell;
+    /** What the shell resolves a command name against. A host adds its own. */
+    readonly registry: CommandRegistry;
+    /**
+     * The environment the shell was composed with. The shell's own copy drifts
+     * from this one the moment the user exports anything; this is what a host
+     * hands to a subordinate shell it starts itself.
+     */
+    readonly env: Record<string, string>;
+    private readonly commands;
     private constructor();
     static create(options: NimbusWorkspaceOptions): Promise<NimbusWorkspace>;
     exec(command: string, options?: RunOptions): Promise<CommandResult>;
+    /**
+     * Apply the login files, and begin reading the terminal when there is one.
+     *
+     * Separate from {@link create} because a host with commands of its own must
+     * register them first: `/etc/profile` and `~/.nimbusrc` are the user's
+     * files, and either may name a command the host has yet to supply.
+     */
+    start(): Promise<void>;
     /**
      * Files, directories and bytes this workspace occupies.
      *
@@ -91,4 +172,19 @@ export declare class NimbusWorkspace {
      */
     destroy(): void;
 }
+/**
+ * The directories and account files the shell cannot start without.
+ *
+ * Idempotent by construction: every write is guarded by an existence check, so
+ * a workspace reopened over a populated database keeps whatever the user did
+ * to these files. `/etc/passwd` and `/etc/group` are load-bearing rather than
+ * decorative — `id`, `chown` and `su` resolve names through them.
+ *
+ * What a PRODUCT puts in a fresh filesystem — a banner, a welcome file, a
+ * starter app — is not here. This is the base an OS needs in order to boot,
+ * and it is exported because a host may need the filesystem before it needs a
+ * shell: the Nimbus session seeds its starter project for a browser that hits
+ * `/preview` without ever opening a terminal.
+ */
+export declare function seedBaseFilesystem(vfs: SqliteVFS, mounts: readonly string[]): void;
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package/dist/workspace/nimbus-workspace.js

@@ -3,36 +3,49 @@
  *
  * A workspace is a durable filesystem plus a shell over it. It owns no
  * transport, no session, no socket and no Durable Object: the host supplies
- * SQLite and gets back `.fs` and `.exec`. That is what makes it embeddable in
- * a Durable Object that is already busy powering something else, and what
- * makes it runnable in a plain bun process over `bun:sqlite`.
+ * the filesystem and gets back `.fs`, `.exec`, and a command registry to add
+ * to. That is what makes it embeddable in a Durable Object that is already
+ * busy powering something else, and what makes it runnable in a plain bun
+ * process over `bun:sqlite`.
  *
- * The composition here is not new. It is the one `session/init.ts` performs,
- * lifted out of the session so there is one recipe rather than one per caller
- * — five unit tests were already hand-rolling it, one of them reaching a
- * private field to do so. The boot itself still belongs to `Sandbox.create`;
- * this adds only what a durable, credentialed filesystem needs on top and
- * nothing the sandbox already knows how to do.
+ * The composition here is not new. It is the one `session/init.ts` performed
+ * inline, lifted out of the session so there is one recipe rather than one per
+ * caller — the session now reads its kernel, shell and registry off a
+ * workspace, and five unit tests were already hand-rolling the same steps.
+ *
+ * Deliberately not `Sandbox.create`, which is the lifo demo sandbox's boot
+ * rather than this one: it registers `systemctl`, `tunnel` and the network
+ * command set, boots enabled service units out of `/etc/systemd`, and starts
+ * the shell before the host can register a command of its own. A session
+ * routed through it would silently acquire all of that.
  */
-import { Sandbox } from '../substrate/lifo/sandbox/Sandbox.js';
+import { Kernel } from '../substrate/lifo/kernel/index.js';
+import { Shell } from '../substrate/lifo/shell/Shell.js';
+import { createDefaultRegistry } from '../substrate/lifo/commands/registry.js';
+import { SandboxCommandsImpl } from '../substrate/lifo/sandbox/SandboxCommands.js';
 import { SandboxFsImpl } from '../substrate/lifo/sandbox/SandboxFs.js';
+import { HeadlessTerminal } from '../substrate/lifo/sandbox/HeadlessTerminal.js';
 import { SqliteVFS, SqliteVFSProvider } from '../vfs/sqlite-vfs.js';
-import { DEFAULT_MOUNT_POINTS, DEFAULT_PATH } from '../constants.js';
+import { DEFAULT_HOME, DEFAULT_HOSTNAME, DEFAULT_MOUNT_POINTS, DEFAULT_PATH, DEFAULT_SHELL, DEFAULT_USER, NIMBUS_VERSION, } from '../constants.js';
 import { CRED_KERNEL, CRED_SESSION_USER } from '../runtime/os-contracts.js';
+import { PID_GEN_STRIDE } from '../runtime/process-table.js';
+import { SessionProcessSupervisor } from '../runtime/session-process-supervisor.js';
+import { rehydrateInstalledRuntimesView, } from '../runtime/installed-runtimes.js';
+import { seedRuntimePackage } from '../runtime/runtime-package.js';
 import { registerUnixCommands } from '../shell/unix-commands.js';
 import { installPathExecResolver } from '../shell/exec-dispatch.js';
-/** Pids are `generation * PID_GEN_STRIDE + seq`; mirrors process-table.ts. */
-const PID_GEN_STRIDE = 1_000_000;
 /**
  * A durable filesystem and a shell over it.
  *
- * Created with {@link NimbusWorkspace.create} rather than `new` because the
- * boot it delegates to sources `/etc/profile`, which is genuinely async. A
- * Durable Object constructor cannot await, so a host constructs the workspace
- * in its first request rather than in its constructor.
+ * The composition itself is synchronous. {@link create} awaits only the
+ * optional work — installing runtime packages, loading the wasm runner modules
+ * — so a host that asks for neither is never suspended between mounting the
+ * filesystem and registering the commands. A Durable Object needs that: it
+ * must not take delivery of an event with a half-built shell. The remaining
+ * async step, running the user's login files, is {@link start}, which the host
+ * calls once its own commands are in place.
  */
 export class NimbusWorkspace {
-    sandbox;
     sql;
     /**
      * Credentialed and mount-aware. Acts as the session user, never as the
@@ -44,39 +57,84 @@ export class NimbusWorkspace {
     vfs;
     kernel;
     shell;
-    constructor(sandbox, vfs, sql) {
-        this.sandbox = sandbox;
+    /** What the shell resolves a command name against. A host adds its own. */
+    registry;
+    /**
+     * The environment the shell was composed with. The shell's own copy drifts
+     * from this one the moment the user exports anything; this is what a host
+     * hands to a subordinate shell it starts itself.
+     */
+    env;
+    commands;
+    constructor(vfs, kernel, shell, registry, env, sql) {
         this.sql = sql;
         this.vfs = vfs;
-        this.kernel = sandbox.kernel;
-        this.shell = sandbox.shell;
-        // NOT `sandbox.fs`, which wraps the raw kernel VFS. The mount is
-        // kernel-credentialed because the shell re-credentials per command; a host
-        // calling `.fs` has no process behind it and must not inherit that.
-        this.fs = new SandboxFsImpl(sandbox.kernel.vfs.as(CRED_SESSION_USER), () => sandbox.shell.getCwd());
+        this.kernel = kernel;
+        this.shell = shell;
+        this.registry = registry;
+        this.env = env;
+        this.commands = new SandboxCommandsImpl(shell, registry);
+        // NOT the kernel VFS as it stands, which is kernel-credentialed because
+        // the shell re-credentials per command; a host calling `.fs` has no
+        // process behind it and must not inherit that.
+        this.fs = new SandboxFsImpl(kernel.vfs.as(CRED_SESSION_USER), () => shell.getCwd());
     }
     static async create(options) {
-        const vfs = new SqliteVFS(options.sql, options.transactions);
-        vfs.revokeAppendWritersThrough((options.generation ?? 1) * PID_GEN_STRIDE);
+        const vfs = options.vfs ?? openFilesystem(options);
         const mounts = options.mounts ?? DEFAULT_MOUNT_POINTS;
         seedBaseFilesystem(vfs, mounts);
-        const sandbox = await Sandbox.create({
-            env: options.env,
-            cwd: options.cwd,
-            terminal: options.terminal,
-            providerMounts: mounts.map((mount) => ({
-                virtualPath: '/' + mount,
-                provider: new SqliteVFSProvider(vfs, mount),
-            })),
-        });
+        const kernel = new Kernel();
+        // Seeds the in-memory tree. Mounting AFTER it is what keeps a durable
+        // /etc from being overwritten by the defaults on every boot.
+        kernel.initFilesystem();
+        for (const mount of mounts) {
+            kernel.vfs.mount(`/${mount}`, new SqliteVFSProvider(vfs, mount));
+        }
+        const registry = createDefaultRegistry();
         // The durable coreutils replace ~25 lifo builtins. They are the ones that
         // carry credentials and read this filesystem's uid/gid, so they must win.
-        registerUnixCommands(sandbox.commands.registry, vfs);
-        installPathExecResolver(sandbox.commands.registry, vfs.as(CRED_SESSION_USER), () => sandbox.shell.getCwd());
-        return new NimbusWorkspace(sandbox, vfs, options.sql);
+        registerUnixCommands(registry, vfs);
+        const env = { ...defaultEnv(), ...options.env };
+        const shell = new Shell(options.terminal ?? new HeadlessTerminal(), kernel.vfs, registry, env, kernel.processRegistry, options.identity);
+        if (options.cwd)
+            shell.setCwd(options.cwd);
+        // Kernel-credentialed on purpose: this only INSPECTS a file to decide how
+        // to run it, and re-checks the caller's own execute permission at
+        // invocation time — the `authorize` wrapper in exec-dispatch.ts.
+        installPathExecResolver(registry, vfs.as(CRED_KERNEL), () => shell.getCwd());
+        const home = env.HOME ?? DEFAULT_HOME;
+        // Before the runners are wired, because registration reads what the
+        // filesystem holds — the same order `nimbus install` observes, and the
+        // same order a Durable Object observes when it rehydrates after eviction.
+        for (const runtimePackage of options.runtimes ?? []) {
+            await seedRuntimePackage(vfs.as(CRED_KERNEL), home, runtimePackage);
+        }
+        if (options.facets) {
+            await registerWasmRuntimes({
+                facets: options.facets,
+                vfs,
+                registry,
+                generation: options.generation ?? 1,
+                home,
+            });
+        }
+        return new NimbusWorkspace(vfs, kernel, shell, registry, env, options.sql);
     }
     exec(command, options) {
-        return this.sandbox.commands.run(command, options);
+        return this.commands.run(command, options);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Apply the login files, and begin reading the terminal when there is one.
+     *
+     * Separate from {@link create} because a host with commands of its own must
+     * register them first: `/etc/profile` and `~/.nimbusrc` are the user's
+     * files, and either may name a command the host has yet to supply.
+     */
+    async start() {
+        // Sources /etc/profile and the first user rc file it finds, then prompts.
+        this.shell.start();
+        // Nimbus's own rc file, which the shell's list predates.
+        await this.shell.sourceFile(`${this.shell.getEnv().HOME ?? DEFAULT_HOME}/.nimbusrc`);
     }
     /**
      * Files, directories and bytes this workspace occupies.
@@ -103,6 +161,101 @@ export class NimbusWorkspace {
         }
     }
 }
+/**
+ * Open the durable filesystem for a host that has not opened one itself.
+ *
+ * The revocation is here rather than in `create` because it is the act of
+ * OPENING that carries it: pids at or below this generation's floor belong to
+ * an instance that is gone, and their append capabilities must stop being
+ * honoured before the first read. A host that opened the filesystem itself has
+ * already done this, at the same seam, for the same reason.
+ */
+function openFilesystem(options) {
+    const vfs = new SqliteVFS(options.sql, options.transactions);
+    vfs.revokeAppendWritersThrough((options.generation ?? 1) * PID_GEN_STRIDE);
+    return vfs;
+}
+/**
+ * The environment a Nimbus shell starts in.
+ *
+ * `PATH` and `EDITOR` restate what the seeded `/etc/profile` exports, so a
+ * workspace whose host never runs the login files is still on the real PATH.
+ * `PORT` and `HOST` are here because every scaffolded server reads them and
+ * gets `undefined` otherwise — Express's default app, every create-vite
+ * template, `${PORT:-3000}` in a package.json script.
+ */
+function defaultEnv() {
+    return {
+        HOME: DEFAULT_HOME,
+        USER: DEFAULT_USER,
+        SHELL: DEFAULT_SHELL,
+        HOSTNAME: DEFAULT_HOSTNAME,
+        TERM: 'xterm-256color',
+        PWD: DEFAULT_HOME,
+        PATH: DEFAULT_PATH,
+        PS1: `\x1b[1;32muser@${DEFAULT_HOSTNAME}\x1b[0m:\x1b[1;34m\\w\x1b[0m$ `,
+        NODE_ENV: 'development',
+        LANG: 'en_US.UTF-8',
+        EDITOR: 'nano',
+        NIMBUS_VERSION: NIMBUS_VERSION,
+        TMPDIR: '/tmp',
+        XDG_CONFIG_HOME: `${DEFAULT_HOME}/.config`,
+        XDG_DATA_HOME: `${DEFAULT_HOME}/.local/share`,
+        npm_config_prefix: '/usr/local',
+        PORT: '3000',
+        HOST: '0.0.0.0',
+    };
+}
+/**
+ * Turn a facet host into commands: the runtimes this filesystem already holds,
+ * plus `wasm-runner` for everything else with a `\0asm` header.
+ *
+ * The runner factories are held here rather than in the process-global table
+ * `nimbus install` writes to, because each one closes over THIS workspace's
+ * filesystem and THIS workspace's facet host — a second workspace in the same
+ * process would otherwise silently retarget the first one's bash.
+ *
+ * Imported on demand: the runners carry the WASI shim and the bash scheduler as
+ * source strings, and a workspace with no facet host must not pay to parse
+ * them.
+ */
+async function registerWasmRuntimes(deps) {
+    const [{ makeBashRunnerFactory }, { makeCPythonRunnerFactory }, { wasmRunnerSpec }, { buildRuntimeHandler },] = await Promise.all([
+        import('../runtime/bash-runner.js'),
+        import('../runtime/cpython-runner.js'),
+        import('../runtime/wasm-runner.js'),
+        import('../runtime/runtime-registry.js'),
+    ]);
+    // wasm-runner allocates pids for what it runs, so it needs a process table
+    // whose pid space is this generation's.
+    const processes = new SessionProcessSupervisor();
+    processes.setPidBase(deps.generation * PID_GEN_STRIDE);
+    // Loaded on the first TypeScript or ESM script and not before. The module
+    // statically imports `esbuild-wasm/esbuild.wasm`, which only wrangler
+    // resolves — node instantiates it as a wasm module and fails on its Go
+    // imports — so a host outside Cloudflare must be able to run a shell, bash
+    // and python without that module ever entering its graph.
+    let esbuild = null;
+    deps.registry.register('wasm-runner', buildRuntimeHandler(wasmRunnerSpec({ vfs: deps.vfs, facets: deps.facets, processes }), {
+        vfs: deps.vfs,
+        getEsbuild: () => {
+            if (!esbuild) {
+                esbuild = import('../runtime/esbuild-service.js')
+                    .then((module) => new module.EsbuildService(deps.vfs));
+            }
+            return esbuild;
+        },
+        registry: deps.registry,
+    }));
+    const runners = {
+        'bash-runner': makeBashRunnerFactory({ facets: deps.facets, vfs: deps.vfs }),
+        // No `startResident`: a workspace owns no actor that could outlive the
+        // call, so a program that keeps serving is refused by name rather than
+        // run as a one-shot that dies with it.
+        'cpython-runner': makeCPythonRunnerFactory({ facets: deps.facets, vfs: deps.vfs }),
+    };
+    rehydrateInstalledRuntimesView(deps.vfs.as(CRED_KERNEL), deps.registry, deps.home, (key) => runners[key]);
+}
 /**
  * Every table the filesystem creates.
  *
@@ -130,8 +283,14 @@ const WORKSPACE_TABLES = [
  * a workspace reopened over a populated database keeps whatever the user did
  * to these files. `/etc/passwd` and `/etc/group` are load-bearing rather than
  * decorative — `id`, `chown` and `su` resolve names through them.
+ *
+ * What a PRODUCT puts in a fresh filesystem — a banner, a welcome file, a
+ * starter app — is not here. This is the base an OS needs in order to boot,
+ * and it is exported because a host may need the filesystem before it needs a
+ * shell: the Nimbus session seeds its starter project for a browser that hits
+ * `/preview` without ever opening a terminal.
  */
-function seedBaseFilesystem(vfs, mounts) {
+export function seedBaseFilesystem(vfs, mounts) {
     const fs = vfs.as(CRED_SESSION_USER);
     const rootFs = vfs.as(CRED_KERNEL);
     // Created AS the session user, so the user owns their own tree. Seeding
@@ -140,12 +299,37 @@ function seedBaseFilesystem(vfs, mounts) {
         if (mount !== 'etc' && !fs.exists(mount))
             fs.mkdir(mount, { recursive: true });
     }
-    for (const dir of ['home/user', 'usr/bin', 'usr/local/bin', 'var/log', 'tmp']) {
+    for (const dir of [
+        'home/user', 'home/user/.config', 'home/user/projects',
+        'tmp', 'var/log',
+        'usr/bin', 'usr/lib', 'usr/lib/node_modules',
+        'usr/share', 'usr/share/pkg', 'usr/share/pkg/node_modules',
+        'usr/local', 'usr/local/lib', 'usr/local/lib/node_modules', 'usr/local/bin',
+    ]) {
         if (!fs.exists(dir))
             fs.mkdir(dir, { recursive: true });
     }
-    if (!rootFs.exists('etc'))
+    // /etc belongs to root, and is re-asserted rather than only created: a
+    // user-writable /etc is an authority bug, not an untidy directory.
+    if (!rootFs.exists('etc')) {
         rootFs.mkdir('etc', { mode: 0o755 });
+    }
+    else {
+        const etc = rootFs.stat('etc');
+        if (etc.uid !== 0 || etc.gid !== 0)
+            rootFs.chown('etc', 0, 0);
+        if ((etc.mode & 0o7777) !== 0o755)
+            rootFs.chmod('etc', 0o755);
+    }
+    if (!rootFs.exists('etc/hostname')) {
+        rootFs.writeFile('etc/hostname', `${DEFAULT_HOSTNAME}\n`);
+        rootFs.chown('etc/hostname', CRED_SESSION_USER.uid, CRED_SESSION_USER.gid);
+    }
+    if (!rootFs.exists('etc/os-release')) {
+        rootFs.writeFile('etc/os-release', `NAME="Nimbus"\nVERSION="${NIMBUS_VERSION}"\nID=nimbus\n`
+            + 'PRETTY_NAME="Nimbus — Cloud Dev Environment"\n');
+        rootFs.chown('etc/os-release', CRED_SESSION_USER.uid, CRED_SESSION_USER.gid);
+    }
     // Root-owned 0644, and re-asserted rather than only created: these decide
     // what `id`, `chown` and `su` believe, so a user-writable /etc/passwd would
     // be an authority bug rather than an untidy file.
@@ -160,8 +344,17 @@ function seedBaseFilesystem(vfs, mounts) {
     };
     accountFile('etc/passwd', 'root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh\nuser:x:1000:1000:Nimbus User:/home/user:/bin/sh\n');
     accountFile('etc/group', 'root:x:0:\nuser:x:1000:user\n');
+    const defaultProfile = `export PATH=${DEFAULT_PATH}\nexport EDITOR=nano\n`;
     if (!rootFs.exists('etc/profile')) {
-        rootFs.writeFile('etc/profile', `export PATH=${DEFAULT_PATH}\nexport EDITOR=nano\n`);
+        rootFs.writeFile('etc/profile', defaultProfile);
         rootFs.chown('etc/profile', CRED_SESSION_USER.uid, CRED_SESSION_USER.gid);
     }
+    else if (rootFs.readFileString('etc/profile') === 'export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin\nexport EDITOR=nano\n') {
+        // The lifo default, from before Nimbus had a PATH of its own. Nobody ever
+        // chose it, so replacing it is not overwriting a user's file.
+        rootFs.writeFile('etc/profile', defaultProfile);
+    }
+    if (!fs.exists('home/user/.nimbusrc')) {
+        fs.writeFile('home/user/.nimbusrc', '# Nimbus shell config\nalias ll="ls -la"\nalias la="ls -a"\nalias l="ls -1"\n');
+    }
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@nimbus-sh/core",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "Backend-agnostic half of Nimbus — the durable filesystem, the shell, and the OS/process contracts, over a host-supplied SQL port.",
+  "version": "0.3.0",
+  "description": "Backend-agnostic half of Nimbus \u2014 the durable filesystem, the shell, and the OS/process contracts, over a host-supplied SQL port.",
   "keywords": [
     "filesystem",
     "shell",
@@ -53,10 +53,12 @@
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "@renovatebot/pep440": "^5.0.0",
     "acorn": "^8.15.0",
     "acorn-walk": "^8.3.5",
     "esbuild-wasm": "0.24.2",
     "magic-string": "^0.30.21",
+    "pip-requirements-js": "^1.0.3",
     "zod": "^4.4.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

package/src/index.ts

@@ -20,3 +20,19 @@ export type {
   SqlValue,
   TransactionHost,
 } from './runtime/os-contracts.js';
+export { seedRuntimePackage } from './runtime/runtime-package.js';
+export type { RuntimePackage, SeededRuntime } from './runtime/runtime-package.js';
+export type {
+  ManifestEntrypoint,
+  ManifestFile,
+  RuntimeManifest,
+} from './runtime/runtime-manifest.js';
+export { localFacetHost } from './runtime/local-facet-host.js';
+export type {
+  Facet,
+  FacetBindings,
+  FacetFn,
+  FacetHost,
+  FacetSpec,
+  FacetSubmitOptions,
+} from './runtime/facet-host.js';