rman 1.2.5 → 2.0.0-beta.2

package/core/repository.d.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+import type { RmanConfig } from '../interfaces/rman-config.interface.js';
+import { type DetectedBuiltin } from '../plugins/detect.js';
+import { RmanApplication } from './application.js';
 import { type ConfigScope, type GitScope, type PackageScope, type RepositoryScope } from './config.js';
-import type { LoadedCommand } from './custom-command.js';
 import { Package } from './package.js';
+import type { Platform } from './plugin.js';
+import { Workspace } from './workspace.js';
 export declare class Repository extends Package {
     readonly dirname: string;
     readonly monorepo: boolean;
@@ -10,9 +14,10 @@ export declare class Repository extends Package {
      *  really was. Used by `currentPackage` to scope commands to "the package I'm standing in". */
     readonly cwd: string;
     readonly rootPackage: Package;
+    /** See the `defineProperty` in the constructor - what detection supplied, when it did. */
+    readonly detectedBuiltin?: DetectedBuiltin;
     /** Commands the repository's plugins contributed, loaded during `create` because the workspace
      *  providers they bring are needed before any package can be found. `cli.ts` registers them. */
-    pluginCommands: LoadedCommand[];
     /**
      * Cached repository scope - see `_repositoryScope`.
      *
@@ -36,11 +41,24 @@ export declare class Repository extends Package {
      * for every package that mentions it.
      */
     private readonly _readCache;
-    protected constructor(dirname: string, monorepo: boolean, packages: Package[], 
+    /**
+     * The application this repository belongs to - its services, its technologies, its logger.
+     *
+     * **Non-enumerable**, like `_repoScope` and `_git` beside it: the two things that walk a
+     * repository are `{...pkg}` spreads and the config scope, and an enumerable back-reference to the
+     * whole application would be dragged into both. A `Package` deliberately has no such field at
+     * all; a repository is never spread or serialized, which is what makes this one safe - measured,
+     * rather than assumed.
+     */
+    readonly app: RmanApplication;
+    protected constructor(app: RmanApplication, dirname: string, monorepo: boolean, packages: Package[], 
     /** The directory `Repository.create()` was actually invoked from - unlike `dirname` (the
      *  resolved repository root, possibly several levels up), this is where the user's shell
      *  really was. Used by `currentPackage` to scope commands to "the package I'm standing in". */
-    cwd?: string);
+    cwd?: string, 
+    /** The root directory's own technology, from the same walk that found the packages - so the
+     *  repository and its `rootPackage` agree without either searching the registry again. */
+    platform?: Platform);
     /**
      * The package whose own directory contains `cwd` (the deepest match, so a package nested
      * inside another's directory resolves to the innermost one) - or `undefined` when `cwd` *is*
@@ -60,9 +78,21 @@ export declare class Repository extends Package {
      * dirty, the reference point decides the rest: without `hash`, `committed`
      * means committed but not yet in the upstream branch; with `hash`, `changed`
      * means it differs from that commit. Otherwise a package is `clean`.
+     *
+     * **Keyed by `Package.selector`**, which is what addresses a package - it was `name`, and the two
+     * coincide wherever a technology names its packages. A repository whose does not had every such
+     * package answering to `""`, so one entry stood for all of them.
+     *
+     * **`includeRoot` is opt-in, and the reason is that the root's answer means something different.**
+     * Its directory contains every other package, so the same rule - "does a changed file fall under
+     * this directory" - reports `dirty` for the root whenever *anything* in the repository is dirty.
+     * That is the honest reading of the rule rather than a bug, and it is not what `run --changed`
+     * wants, so only a caller that asked for the root gets it (`rman list`'s table, which shows the
+     * root as the tree's own row).
      */
     listStatus(options?: {
         hash?: string;
+        includeRoot?: boolean;
     }): Promise<Record<string, Repository.PackageStatus>>;
     /**
      * The scope a `${{ ... }}` expression is evaluated against for `pkg`, optionally with the version
@@ -89,13 +119,44 @@ export declare class Repository extends Package {
      * nothing under `getPackages()` is the root, so only its own unmarked config applies.
      */
     /**
-     * Gives every package its `repository` and `parent`, before any config is resolved - a config
-     * expression or a provider may already want to navigate from a package outwards.
+     * Gives every package its `repository`, and hangs the `parent`/`children` tree off the walk that
+     * found them - before any config is resolved, since a config expression or a provider may already
+     * want to navigate from a package outwards.
+     *
+     * **The containment is read from the tree rather than recomputed from paths.** It used to be an
+     * O(n²) sweep comparing every package's directory against every other's and keeping the longest
+     * prefix - which is the same question `Workspace.walk` answers on the way down, asked again
+     * afterwards with the answer thrown away. Two places deriving one relationship is two places to
+     * disagree; there is one now.
+     *
+     * **`parent` is defined non-enumerably, `children` is a plain field**, which is the one asymmetry
+     * here and it is deliberate: a tree is serialized downwards, so `children` has to be walkable and
+     * `parent` must not be, or every `JSON.stringify` is a cycle. The same way `Repository.app` and
+     * `ORIGINS` travel.
      *
      * A repository's own `repository` is itself, which reads oddly and is the honest answer:
      * `Repository extends Package`, so the repository *is* a package of its own repository.
      */
-    protected _linkPackages(): void;
+    protected _linkPackages(tree: Workspace.Node, nodes: Workspace.Node[], packages: Package[]): void;
+    /**
+     * Gives every package the selector a `"[glob]"` block and `--scope` match it by, and refuses two
+     * packages that would answer to the same one.
+     *
+     * **Its own step, before any config is resolved by a selector**, which is the ordering that makes
+     * the rest work: `_resolveConfigs` asks `resolveConfig` for each package *by selector*, so an
+     * address assigned afterwards would be applied to nothing.
+     *
+     * **`name` comes from the unmarked cascade only** - the same read `platform` gets, from the same
+     * cache, for the same reason. A `"[glob]"` block cannot set it (`assertSelectorBlocks` refuses
+     * one) because the glob matches the very thing the block would be setting.
+     *
+     * **Uniqueness is checked, and the cascade is the mistake it usually catches.** `name` cascades
+     * like every unmarked key, so one declaration above two packages gives both the same address -
+     * and the failure would otherwise be silent in the worst way: the config reaches both and
+     * `getPackage` returns whichever came first. The message names both directories, and says the
+     * cascade out loud when the two got it from one declaration.
+     */
+    protected _assignSelectors(rootDir: string, cache: Map<string, RmanConfig>): Promise<void>;
     protected _resolveConfigs(): Promise<void>;
     protected _topoSortPackages(packages: Package[]): void;
     protected _packageScope(pkg: Package, targetVersion?: string): PackageScope;
@@ -131,16 +192,18 @@ export declare class Repository extends Package {
      *    otherwise: the plugins that know what a package is are named in the config file this step
      *    is looking for.
      * 2. **Load the plugins** the root's config names, which registers their workspace providers
-     *    (and their commands, handed on via `pluginCommands` - `cli.ts` registers those).
+     *    (their commands arrive through `.rmanrc "commands"`, which `cli.ts` reads).
      * 3. **Ask the providers** for the layout. None recognizing it means a repository that is itself
      *    the one package.
      *
      * **A repository whose `.rmanrc` names no plugin has no packages beyond itself**, and that is the
      * boundary working rather than failing: `workspaces` in a `package.json` is npm's idea, so it
-     * takes `plugins: ['rman-node']` to be read as one.
+     * takes `plugins: ['node']` - or detection reading the directory as a Node one - for it to be
+     * read as a workspace at all.
      */
     static create(root?: string, options?: {
         deep?: number;
+        app?: RmanApplication;
     }): Promise<Repository>;
     /** Finishes constructing `repo` with the async work a constructor can't do itself - resolving
      *  `.rmanrc`/`.rmanrc.yml`/`.rmanrc.cjs`/`.mjs`/`.js` config (which may need a dynamic `import()`)

package/core/repository.js

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import colors from 'ansi-colors';
 import path from 'path';
 import semver from 'semver';
+import { detectBuiltin } from '../plugins/detect.js';
 import { GitHelper } from '../utils/git.js';
+import { RmanApplication } from './application.js';
 import { createFileScope, createReadScope, DEFERRED_PATHS, interpolateConfig, readDirConfig, resolveConfig, } from './config.js';
 import { Manifest } from './manifest.js';
+import { ORIGINS } from './merge-config.js';
 import { Package } from './package.js';
-import { loadPlugins } from './plugin.js';
+import { loadPlugins, registerPlugin } from './plugin-loader.js';
 import { Workspace } from './workspace.js';
 export class Repository extends Package {
     dirname;
@@ -13,9 +17,10 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
     packages;
     cwd;
     rootPackage;
+    /** See the `defineProperty` in the constructor - what detection supplied, when it did. */
+    detectedBuiltin;
     /** Commands the repository's plugins contributed, loaded during `create` because the workspace
      *  providers they bring are needed before any package can be found. `cli.ts` registers them. */
-    pluginCommands = [];
     /**
      * Cached repository scope - see `_repositoryScope`.
      *
@@ -39,17 +44,40 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
      * for every package that mentions it.
      */
     _readCache = new Map();
-    constructor(dirname, monorepo, packages, 
+    /**
+     * The application this repository belongs to - its services, its technologies, its logger.
+     *
+     * **Non-enumerable**, like `_repoScope` and `_git` beside it: the two things that walk a
+     * repository are `{...pkg}` spreads and the config scope, and an enumerable back-reference to the
+     * whole application would be dragged into both. A `Package` deliberately has no such field at
+     * all; a repository is never spread or serialized, which is what makes this one safe - measured,
+     * rather than assumed.
+     */
+    app;
+    constructor(app, dirname, monorepo, packages, 
     /** The directory `Repository.create()` was actually invoked from - unlike `dirname` (the
      *  resolved repository root, possibly several levels up), this is where the user's shell
      *  really was. Used by `currentPackage` to scope commands to "the package I'm standing in". */
-    cwd = dirname) {
-        super(dirname);
+    cwd = dirname, 
+    /** The root directory's own technology, from the same walk that found the packages - so the
+     *  repository and its `rootPackage` agree without either searching the registry again. */
+    platform) {
+        super(dirname, app, platform);
         this.dirname = dirname;
         this.monorepo = monorepo;
         this.packages = packages;
         this.cwd = cwd;
-        this.rootPackage = new Package(dirname);
+        Object.defineProperty(this, 'app', { value: app, enumerable: false, writable: false });
+        /**
+         * What detection decided for this repository, or `undefined` when it declared its own
+         * technology (or when there was nothing to detect). Carried here because `_resolveConfigs` runs
+         * later and every read of the root's config has to agree with the one decision `create` made.
+         *
+         * Non-enumerable, like `app` and for the same reason: `{...repository}` and `toEqual` both walk
+         * a repository, and bookkeeping that shows up there turns spec failures into diffs about it.
+         */
+        Object.defineProperty(this, 'detectedBuiltin', { value: undefined, enumerable: false, writable: true });
+        this.rootPackage = new Package(dirname, app, platform);
         if (!monorepo)
             this.packages = [this.rootPackage];
         // Config resolution can load a `.rmanrc.cjs`/`.mjs`/`.js` module (dynamic `import()`, always
@@ -94,11 +122,22 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
      * dirty, the reference point decides the rest: without `hash`, `committed`
      * means committed but not yet in the upstream branch; with `hash`, `changed`
      * means it differs from that commit. Otherwise a package is `clean`.
+     *
+     * **Keyed by `Package.selector`**, which is what addresses a package - it was `name`, and the two
+     * coincide wherever a technology names its packages. A repository whose does not had every such
+     * package answering to `""`, so one entry stood for all of them.
+     *
+     * **`includeRoot` is opt-in, and the reason is that the root's answer means something different.**
+     * Its directory contains every other package, so the same rule - "does a changed file fall under
+     * this directory" - reports `dirty` for the root whenever *anything* in the repository is dirty.
+     * That is the honest reading of the rule rather than a bug, and it is not what `run --changed`
+     * wants, so only a caller that asked for the root gets it (`rman list`'s table, which shows the
+     * root as the tree's own row).
      */
     async listStatus(options) {
         const hash = options?.hash;
         const git = new GitHelper({ cwd: this.dirname });
-        const packages = this.getPackages();
+        const packages = options?.includeRoot ? [this.rootPackage, ...this.getPackages()] : this.getPackages();
         const belongsTo = (p, files) => files.some(f => !path.relative(p.dirname, f).startsWith('..'));
         const [dirtyFiles, referenceFiles] = await Promise.all([
             git.listDirtyFiles({ absolute: true }),
@@ -107,11 +146,11 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
         const result = {};
         for (const p of packages) {
             if (belongsTo(p, dirtyFiles))
-                result[p.name] = 'dirty';
+                result[p.selector] = 'dirty';
             else if (belongsTo(p, referenceFiles))
-                result[p.name] = hash ? 'changed' : 'committed';
+                result[p.selector] = hash ? 'changed' : 'committed';
             else
-                result[p.name] = 'clean';
+                result[p.selector] = 'clean';
         }
         return result;
     }
@@ -173,30 +212,96 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
      * nothing under `getPackages()` is the root, so only its own unmarked config applies.
      */
     /**
-     * Gives every package its `repository` and `parent`, before any config is resolved - a config
-     * expression or a provider may already want to navigate from a package outwards.
+     * Gives every package its `repository`, and hangs the `parent`/`children` tree off the walk that
+     * found them - before any config is resolved, since a config expression or a provider may already
+     * want to navigate from a package outwards.
+     *
+     * **The containment is read from the tree rather than recomputed from paths.** It used to be an
+     * O(n²) sweep comparing every package's directory against every other's and keeping the longest
+     * prefix - which is the same question `Workspace.walk` answers on the way down, asked again
+     * afterwards with the answer thrown away. Two places deriving one relationship is two places to
+     * disagree; there is one now.
+     *
+     * **`parent` is defined non-enumerably, `children` is a plain field**, which is the one asymmetry
+     * here and it is deliberate: a tree is serialized downwards, so `children` has to be walkable and
+     * `parent` must not be, or every `JSON.stringify` is a cycle. The same way `Repository.app` and
+     * `ORIGINS` travel.
      *
      * A repository's own `repository` is itself, which reads oddly and is the honest answer:
      * `Repository extends Package`, so the repository *is* a package of its own repository.
      */
-    _linkPackages() {
-        this.repository = this;
-        this.rootPackage.repository = this;
+    _linkPackages(tree, nodes, packages) {
+        /** Non-enumerable everywhere, including on the repository itself - see `Package.repository`.
+         *  `writable` because `import` grafts an external repository's packages onto this one. */
+        const link = (pkg) => {
+            Object.defineProperty(pkg, 'repository', { value: this, enumerable: false, configurable: true, writable: true });
+        };
+        link(this);
+        link(this.rootPackage);
+        for (const pkg of this.packages)
+            link(pkg);
+        /** The walk visits a directory once, so one node is one package and this map is a bijection -
+         *  which is what lets the edges below be read off the tree instead of guessed from paths. */
+        const byNode = new Map(nodes.map((node, i) => [node, packages[i]]));
+        byNode.set(tree, this.rootPackage);
+        for (const node of [tree, ...nodes]) {
+            const pkg = byNode.get(node);
+            for (const childNode of node.children) {
+                const child = byNode.get(childNode);
+                pkg.children.push(child);
+                Object.defineProperty(child, 'parent', { value: pkg, enumerable: false, configurable: true });
+            }
+        }
+        /** `Repository extends Package` while holding a separate `rootPackage` for the same directory,
+         *  so both are truthfully the root - they share the one array rather than each getting a copy
+         *  that could drift. */
+        Object.defineProperty(this, 'children', { value: this.rootPackage.children, enumerable: true });
+    }
+    /**
+     * Gives every package the selector a `"[glob]"` block and `--scope` match it by, and refuses two
+     * packages that would answer to the same one.
+     *
+     * **Its own step, before any config is resolved by a selector**, which is the ordering that makes
+     * the rest work: `_resolveConfigs` asks `resolveConfig` for each package *by selector*, so an
+     * address assigned afterwards would be applied to nothing.
+     *
+     * **`name` comes from the unmarked cascade only** - the same read `platform` gets, from the same
+     * cache, for the same reason. A `"[glob]"` block cannot set it (`assertSelectorBlocks` refuses
+     * one) because the glob matches the very thing the block would be setting.
+     *
+     * **Uniqueness is checked, and the cascade is the mistake it usually catches.** `name` cascades
+     * like every unmarked key, so one declaration above two packages gives both the same address -
+     * and the failure would otherwise be silent in the worst way: the config reaches both and
+     * `getPackage` returns whichever came first. The message names both directories, and says the
+     * cascade out loud when the two got it from one declaration.
+     */
+    async _assignSelectors(rootDir, cache) {
+        const declaredBy = new Map();
+        for (const pkg of [this.rootPackage, ...this.packages]) {
+            const config = await resolveConfig(rootDir, pkg.dirname, cache, undefined);
+            const declared = config.name;
+            if (declared !== undefined && (typeof declared !== 'string' || !declared.trim())) {
+                throw new Error(`"name" takes the selector this package answers to - "${pkg.dirname}" gave ${typeof declared}.`);
+            }
+            pkg.selector = declared?.trim() || pkg.platformSelector();
+            declaredBy.set(pkg, declared !== undefined);
+        }
+        /** The root is left out: a glob never matches it and `"[/]"` needs no name, so it shares an
+         *  address with nobody - see `Package.selector`. */
+        const bySelector = new Map();
         for (const pkg of this.packages) {
-            pkg.repository = this;
-            /** The deepest package that strictly contains it - the root for an ordinary member, an
-             *  enclosing package for a nested one. Longest containing path wins, the same rule
-             *  `currentPackage` uses to resolve "the package I am standing in". */
-            let parent = this.monorepo ? this.rootPackage : undefined;
-            for (const other of this.packages) {
-                if (other === pkg)
-                    continue;
-                const rel = path.relative(other.dirname, pkg.dirname);
-                const contains = !!rel && !rel.startsWith('..') && !path.isAbsolute(rel);
-                if (contains && (!parent || other.dirname.length > parent.dirname.length))
-                    parent = other;
+            const clash = bySelector.get(pkg.selector);
+            if (clash) {
+                const cascaded = declaredBy.get(pkg) && declaredBy.get(clash);
+                throw new Error(`Two packages answer to the selector "${pkg.selector}":\n  ${clash.dirname}\n  ${pkg.dirname}\n` +
+                    `  A selector has to be unique - "[${pkg.selector}]" and \`--scope ${pkg.selector}\` ` +
+                    `cannot mean two packages.` +
+                    (cascaded
+                        ? `\n  Both got it from one cascading "name" declaration above them; declare it in ` +
+                            `each package's own ".rmanrc" instead.`
+                        : ''));
             }
-            pkg.parent = pkg === this.rootPackage ? undefined : parent;
+            bySelector.set(pkg.selector, pkg);
         }
     }
     async _resolveConfigs() {
@@ -208,14 +313,18 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
          * second `rawConfig` copy of every package's config for that one reader; measured identical.
          */
         /**
-         * The root is resolved **with its name**, like every other package, because selectors now speak
-         * to it: `"[/]"` names it and `"[*]"` includes it. It used to be resolved without one, which is
-         * what made `"[*]"` quietly mean "the workspace packages" - `"[ws:*]"` is that, spelled.
+         * **By selector, not by name** - `"[glob]"` matches `Package.selector`, which is the package's
+         * own `.rmanrc "name"` when it assigned one and its platform's answer otherwise. They coincide
+         * for every Node repository; they are not the same question, and `name` was the wrong one to
+         * ask, since a package having one at all is an ecosystem's promise rather than rman's.
+         *
+         * The root passes its own too, although no glob can match it: `"[/]"` is applied on the
+         * strength of the target *being* the root and needs no selector at all (see `resolveConfig`).
          */
-        const rootRaw = await resolveConfig(this.dirname, this.dirname, cache, this.rootPackage.name);
+        const rootRaw = await resolveConfig(this.dirname, this.dirname, cache, this.rootPackage.selector, this.detectedBuiltin);
         this.config = interpolateConfig(rootRaw, this.configScope(this.rootPackage), { skip: DEFERRED_PATHS });
         for (const pkg of this.packages) {
-            const raw = await resolveConfig(this.dirname, pkg.dirname, cache, pkg.name);
+            const raw = await resolveConfig(this.dirname, pkg.dirname, cache, pkg.selector, this.detectedBuiltin);
             pkg.config = interpolateConfig(raw, this.configScope(pkg), { skip: DEFERRED_PATHS });
         }
         if (this.monorepo)
@@ -235,7 +344,7 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
         // than refusing it - so the scope has to survive one too.
         const name = pkg.name ?? '';
         /** Splitting `@scope/name` is npm's convention, not a universal - the provider decides. */
-        const { scope: nameScope, unscopedName } = Manifest.splitName(pkg.dirname, name);
+        const { scope: nameScope, unscopedName } = Manifest.splitName(this.app, pkg.dirname, name);
         const scope = {
             name,
             scope: nameScope,
@@ -383,26 +492,106 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
      *    otherwise: the plugins that know what a package is are named in the config file this step
      *    is looking for.
      * 2. **Load the plugins** the root's config names, which registers their workspace providers
-     *    (and their commands, handed on via `pluginCommands` - `cli.ts` registers those).
+     *    (their commands arrive through `.rmanrc "commands"`, which `cli.ts` reads).
      * 3. **Ask the providers** for the layout. None recognizing it means a repository that is itself
      *    the one package.
      *
      * **A repository whose `.rmanrc` names no plugin has no packages beyond itself**, and that is the
      * boundary working rather than failing: `workspaces` in a `package.json` is npm's idea, so it
-     * takes `plugins: ['rman-node']` to be read as one.
+     * takes `plugins: ['node']` - or detection reading the directory as a Node one - for it to be
+     * read as a workspace at all.
      */
     static async create(root, options) {
         const from = root || process.cwd();
         const rootDir = Workspace.findRoot(from, options?.deep ?? 10);
+        /**
+         * One application per repository, made here unless the caller brought one.
+         *
+         * `runCli` passes its own so that `--log-level` reaches the logger; a spec that only wants a
+         * repository lets this make one, which is also what keeps two repositories in a single process
+         * from sharing anything - the thing that used to need five `clear*()` calls before every test.
+         */
+        const app = options?.app ?? new RmanApplication();
         /** The root's own config, raw: `plugins` is a list of package names, so it needs neither the
          *  package list (which does not exist yet) nor expression interpolation. */
-        const rootConfig = await readDirConfig(rootDir);
-        const pluginCommands = await loadPlugins(rootDir, rootConfig);
-        const layout = Workspace.resolve(rootDir);
-        const packages = (layout?.packageDirs ?? []).map(dir => new Package(dir));
-        const repo = new Repository(layout?.root ?? rootDir, packages.length > 0, packages, from);
-        repo.pluginCommands = pluginCommands;
-        repo._linkPackages();
+        const declared = await readDirConfig(rootDir);
+        /**
+         * **What this repository looks like, when nothing said** - the other half of shipping the
+         * built-ins in the box. See `detectBuiltin`.
+         *
+         * **Two conditions, and the second is the one that is easy to miss.** The config declaring no
+         * `plugins` is not the same as the *repository* having no technology: a programmatic caller -
+         * and every spec in this suite - registers one straight onto the application without writing a
+         * config at all. Guessing on top of that registers a second technology, and the first provider
+         * that recognizes a directory decides whether it holds a package. Measured with only the config
+         * condition: ten specs changed answer, seven of them about config cascading and three about
+         * `publish`'s flags.
+         *
+         * **`platforms`, not `plugins`, and the difference is what detection produces.** What would be
+         * added here is a *platform*, so what must not already be there is a platform - a plugin that
+         * only registers a command says nothing about which directories hold packages, and letting it
+         * suppress the guess would leave a Node repository undetected for having added a command.
+         *
+         * **A root `platform` counts as having said something**, like `plugins: []` does. Detection
+         * exists for a repository that stated nothing; one naming its technology has stated the very
+         * thing detection would be guessing at, and guessing anyway would register a *second* platform
+         * beside the declared one - which then competes for every directory the declaration did not
+         * cover.
+         *
+         * Decided **once**, here, and handed to every read that has to agree - `readDirConfig` has no
+         * business knowing about an application.
+         */
+        const saidSomething = declared.plugins !== undefined || declared.platform !== undefined;
+        const detected = !saidSomething && app.platforms.size === 0 ? await detectBuiltin(rootDir) : undefined;
+        const rootConfig = detected ? await readDirConfig(rootDir, { inject: detected }) : declared;
+        /**
+         * **Said out loud, because a guess the reader cannot see is one they cannot correct.**
+         *
+         * To **stderr**, not through `app.logger`: that writes with `console.log`, and `rman list
+         * --json` has to stay a parseable document on stdout - measured, its output is pure JSON, and
+         * one line of prose in front of it breaks every `| jq`. The same reason `--help`'s degradation
+         * notice goes to stderr. Not at `silent`, where the caller asked for no narration.
+         */
+        if (detected && app.logger.level !== 'silent') {
+            const line = `${detected.name} repository detected (${detected.because}) - ` +
+                `write \`plugins: ['${detected.name}']\` in .rmanrc to state it, or \`plugins: []\` for none.`;
+            console.error(process.stderr.isTTY ? colors.gray(line) : line);
+        }
+        await loadPlugins(app, rootConfig);
+        /**
+         * **Its own cache, deliberately not shared with `_resolveConfigs`'.**
+         *
+         * Both cache `readDirConfig` per directory, and the two reads of the *root* are not the same
+         * read: `_resolveConfigs` passes `detectedBuiltin` as `inject` and this one passes nothing,
+         * since a built-in's contribution has no bearing on which platform a directory declares. The
+         * cache is keyed by directory alone, so one shared map would hand whichever ran first to the
+         * other - and for the root that is a config with or without the whole node built-in merged in.
+         *
+         * The cost is one extra read per directory in the chain, on a repository that is about to read
+         * every one of them again per package anyway.
+         */
+        const platformCache = new Map();
+        /**
+         * **The walk**, which is where the package list comes from now - descending from the root,
+         * asking each directory's own technology where its children are. `Workspace.resolve` asked the
+         * root once, through whichever platform recognized it first; the tree is the shape discovery
+         * actually has, and it is what makes a nested package of another technology findable at all.
+         */
+        const tree = await Workspace.walk(app, rootDir, {
+            deep: options?.deep,
+            declared: dir => declaredPlatformAt(app, rootDir, dir, platformCache),
+        });
+        const nodes = Workspace.flatten(tree);
+        const packages = nodes.map(node => new Package(node.dirname, app, node.platform));
+        const repo = new Repository(app, tree.dirname, packages.length > 0, packages, from, tree.platform);
+        repo._linkPackages(tree, nodes, packages);
+        /** Before `_resolveConfigs`, because a `"[glob]"` block is matched against the selector - so
+         *  the addresses have to be settled before anything is resolved by them. */
+        await repo._assignSelectors(rootDir, platformCache);
+        /** The application is what the plugins registered into a moment ago; from here on it can hand
+         *  out services, which need the repository to work on. */
+        repo.detectedBuiltin = detected;
+        app.attachRepository(repo);
         return Repository._init(repo);
     }
     /** Finishes constructing `repo` with the async work a constructor can't do itself - resolving
@@ -414,3 +603,64 @@ export class Repository extends Package {
         return repo;
     }
 }
+/**
+ * The platform `dir` declares in its cascaded `.rmanrc "platform"`, loaded if it has to be -
+ * `undefined` when the directory declares none, so the walk falls back to its guess.
+ *
+ * **The unmarked cascade only**, which is what `resolveConfig` gives with no package name: a
+ * selector matches a package *name*, and this runs while the packages are still being found - the
+ * name is not known yet, and it is read *from* a manifest whose reader this key decides. So
+ * `"[/]"` reaches the root (its directory is the repository root, which needs no name) and a glob
+ * block contributes nothing here, which is the honest answer rather than a half-applied one.
+ */
+async function declaredPlatformAt(app, rootDir, dir, cache) {
+    const config = await resolveConfig(rootDir, dir, cache);
+    const declared = config.platform;
+    if (declared === undefined)
+        return undefined;
+    if (typeof declared !== 'string' || !declared.trim()) {
+        throw new Error(`"platform" takes a platform's name - ${originOf(config)} gave ${typeof declared}.`);
+    }
+    /**
+     * **An expression is refused rather than read as a literal.** `platform` is consulted before any
+     * package exists - it is what decides what a package *is* - so there is no `pkg` for an
+     * expression to be about, and `interpolateConfig` runs long afterwards. Passed through, a
+     * `${{ }}` here reached the lookup below as the raw text and failed as an unknown platform name,
+     * which sends the reader to check their `plugins`.
+     */
+    if (declared.includes('${{')) {
+        throw new Error(`"platform" cannot be an expression (${originOf(config)}) - it is read while ` +
+            `the packages are still being found, so there is no package for one to be about. Write the ` +
+            `name, and use a package's own ".rmanrc" where the answer differs.`);
+    }
+    const registered = [...app.platforms].find(p => p.name === declared);
+    if (registered)
+        return registered;
+    /**
+     * **A built-in is loaded on the strength of being named**, from any level - `platform: 'node'` is
+     * enough, and it is what a repository holding one Node package among others writes.
+     *
+     * `platform()` and not `contribute()`, and that split is why the two halves exist: what arrives
+     * is the technology alone. Commands and publish targets come from root `plugins`, because they
+     * are repository-wide - a Node package inside a Cargo repository wants npm's manifest read, not
+     * an `rman clean` that would sweep the whole tree.
+     */
+    const { BUILTIN_PLUGINS, builtinPluginNames } = await import('../plugins/builtins.js');
+    const builtin = BUILTIN_PLUGINS[declared];
+    if (builtin) {
+        const platform = builtin.platform();
+        registerPlugin(app, platform);
+        return platform;
+    }
+    const have = [...app.platforms].map(p => p.name).filter(Boolean);
+    throw new Error(`"platform" names "${declared}" (${originOf(config)}), which is not a platform ` +
+        `this repository has. ${have.length ? `Registered: ${have.join(', ')}. ` : 'None is registered. '}` +
+        `rman ships ${builtinPluginNames().join(', ')}; anything else arrives through "plugins".`);
+}
+/** Which file the `platform` key came from, for an error that can be acted on - `mergeConfig`
+ *  records one per key under `ORIGINS`, and a config is merged from a directory's own four forms,
+ *  an `extends` base and one layer per directory before anything reads it. */
+function originOf(config) {
+    const origins = config[ORIGINS];
+    return origins?.platform ? `in "${origins.platform}"` : 'the "platform" key';
+}

package/core/resolve-target.d.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export declare function resolveConfigTarget(target: string, from: string, label:
  * repository cannot resolve it.
  *
  * A globally installed rman's siblings *are* the globally installed packages, so this is what makes
- * `rman ci` work on a fresh clone - the command comes from `rman-node`, and `ci` exists to create
+ * `rman ci` work on a fresh clone - the command came from `rman-node` then, and `ci` exists to create
  * the very `node_modules` the plugin would otherwise have to be found in. Measured: with both
  * installed globally, a clone answered `"plugins" target "rman-node" could not be resolved ... is
  * it installed in this repository?`, which was true and useless.

package/core/resolve-target.js

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export function resolveConfigTarget(target, from, label) {
  * repository cannot resolve it.
  *
  * A globally installed rman's siblings *are* the globally installed packages, so this is what makes
- * `rman ci` work on a fresh clone - the command comes from `rman-node`, and `ci` exists to create
+ * `rman ci` work on a fresh clone - the command came from `rman-node` then, and `ci` exists to create
  * the very `node_modules` the plugin would otherwise have to be found in. Measured: with both
  * installed globally, a clone answered `"plugins" target "rman-node" could not be resolved ... is
  * it installed in this repository?`, which was true and useless.